Stephan A. Hoeller, (1931 - ) is a writer, scholar and religious leader. Born in Budapest, Hungary he graduated from the University of Innsbruck in Austria. He is Professor Emeritus of comparative religion at the College of Oriental Studies in Los Angeles, California. An author and scholar of gnosticism and Jungian psychology, he is also Regionary Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica, a member of the lecturing faculty of the Philosophical Research Society, and Director of Studies for the Gnostic Society of Los Angeles. He was a frequent contributor to the now defunct Gnosis magazine. 1931 (MCMXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A scholar is either a student or someone who has achieved a mastery of some academic discipline. ... Nickname: Pearl or Queen of the Danube Motto: {{{motto}}} Official website: www. ... The Leopold-Franzens-Universität, more often simply called University of Innsbruck, is one of the major Austrian universities, offering a broad range of subjects. ... Comparative religion is a field of religious studies that analyzes interpretive differences of common themes and ideas among the worlds religions. ... The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ángeles) is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ... State nickname: The Golden State Official languages English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 4. ... Gnosticism is a blanket term for various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the first few centuries CE. It is also applied to modern revivals of these groups and, sometimes, by analogy to all religious movements based on secret knowledge gnosis, thus can lead... Jungian psychology is a theory developed by Carl Gustav Jung, and is central to the Neopsychoanalytic school of psychology. ... The Ecclesia Gnostica (Latin for The Gnostic Church) is a gnostic church founded in United States under the name Pre-Nicene Gnostic Catholic Church in 1959 after influence from England. ... Philosophical Research Society (P.R.S.) is an nonprofit organization founded in 1934, by the prolific American author, mystic and scholar Manly Palmer Hall, which provides learning and development of a Philosophy of life which embraces conciliation of Religion and Science and higher undestandings of life itself. ... The Gnostic Society is an organization founded in Los Angeles in 1928 by James Morgan Pryse and his brother John Pryse for studies of gnosticism. ... Look up Gnosis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word gnosis (from the Greek word for knowledge, γνώσις) has several uses. ...

His published works include:

• Jung and the Lost Gospels (1989)
• The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1989)
• The Royal Road (1990)
• Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society (1992)
• Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (2002)

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Links

• The Gnosis Archive & The Gnostic Society webpage
• Catalog of Books by Stephan Hoeller
• Lectures by Stephan Hoeller, available in MP3 format