Imaginar gnostic și literatură: Mircea Eliade
Fantastic Gnosticism and literature: Mircea Eliade

Summary/Abstract: In the literature of Mircea Eliade, crystallized in Gnostic imagery evoking apparently secret histories, whose purpose is to reveal the existence of the sacred in the profane plan. Both the secret history and the way to the sacred center is not accessible than the initiated,but lived in secular and therefore enslaved to daily life. Characters in Eliade’s novels live a gnoseologic adventure, crossing various stages which correspond to stages of initiation in order to detach the profane and reach a higher level of knowledge – the sacred. Knowing this mystery can not be achieved only by chosen and subjected initiation, only he has the privilege of being able to save the soul, being trapped in the prison of the body material. The way from material to spiritual supposes an esoteric ritual that character endowed with the capacity to discern the signs which are, follows step by step.

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