THE TRICKSTER
GNOSIS: A JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN INNER TRADITIONS was a quarterly magazine that was published in print form between 1985 and 1999.
THE TRICKSTER
Gnosis 19 explores the “Trickster” archetype, focusing on the role of the sacred clown, the divine fool, and boundary-jumpers across cultures of mythology and spirituality. It examines how this archetype breaks down fixed, outmoded ways of thinking and serves as a vital bridge between different modes of understanding.
The issue focusses on characters such as the West African deity Eshu-Elegba who disrupt and act as agents of change, as well as discussing the archetype in the context of the Jungian tradition.
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GNOSIS: A JOURNAL OF THE WESTERN INNER TRADITIONS was a quarterly magazine that was published in print form between 1985 and 1999.
It was founded by Jay Kinney, its editor in chief and publisher, and was issued under the auspices of the nonprofit Lumen Foundation. Its offices were in San Francisco. Richard Smoley served as editor from 1990 to the magazine’s closing in 1999.
GNOSIS was designed as a wide-ranging, broad-minded forum for the exploration of the Western mystical, occult, and esoteric traditions (including but not limited to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.) It was nonsectarian and published articles and authors from a wide variety of perspective.
Individual issues were devoted to specific themes, such as:
Gnosticism
Kabbalah
Witchcraft and Neopaganism
Magic
Jung and the Unconscious
Freemasonry
Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way
Psychedelics and the Path
Healing
Sacred Art and Music
Esoteric Christianity
Fifty-one issues in all were published. The last, on the Grail, appeared in the spring of 1999.
