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parate and even encouraged the practice of wild speculation and doctrinal innovation. Again the most convenient source materials on Gnosticism available in English are: Walker, Gnosticism, Rudolph, Gnosis, and Jonas, The Gnostic Religion. Also of interest here are Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1986), and James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1981). (29) Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, trans. R. Myers (New York: Avon, 1968), pp. 223ff. (30) Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS, p. 2 4 4 . (31) See Jean I. Young, trans., The Prose Edda (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1954), pp. 32ff., and esoteric commentary by Thorsson, Runelore, pp. 143ff. (32) Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS,p. 179. (33) See Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS, p. 176. The FS doctrines on this subject are a synthesis of H. P. Blavatsky's theosophy as outlined in her The Secret Doctrine (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1 9 7 0 [orig. published 1888]), and the theories of Hans Hörbiger. (34) Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS, p. 2 5 2 . (35) Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS, p. 2 4 3 . (36) Gregor A. Gregorius, "Das göttliche und negative Prinzip" in: Blätter (March, 1954) p. 7, and Hemberger, Der mystisch-magische Orden FS, p. 175.