Dutch scholar of religion and Gnosticism at Utrecht who was involved in the discovery and initial publication of the Nag Hammadi texts — and who had a long personal correspondence with Jung about Gnosticism and its psychological significance.
Provided Jung with the Gnostic scholarship that supported Jung's lifelong sense of affinity with Gnosticism — the Gnostic emphasis on inner experience, the demiurge as the inferior creator God, and the divine spark trapped in matter all parallel Jungian psychological concepts — making Quispel the scholarly bridge between Gnosticism and analytical psychology.
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