Stephan A. Hoeller

Stephan A. Hoeller is the scholar-bishop of the Ecclesia Gnostica in Los Angeles whose work stands in the lineage of Jung‘s own gnostic engagement and who has done more than any contemporary writer to make the Jungian-gnostic continuity visible to the general reader. Hungarian-born, trained in depth psychology and in the history of religions, he has for decades lectured at the Los Angeles Jung Institute and conducted sacramental services in the Gnostic tradition.

His The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (1982) is the standard study of the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos — the 1916 private mythopoetic text from which the [[jung-red-book|Red Book]] later unfolded, and in which Jung’s philemon figure first speaks under the name Basilides. Hoeller reads the Sermons as an authentic late-classical gnostic utterance rather than as pastiche — a reading with which most of the major scholars of Jung’s Red Book period have since concurred. His contribution to the lineage is the sustained articulation of the gnostic ground of depth psychology. See hoeller-gnostic-jung-seven.

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