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This book had its origin in a series of lectures delivered in the spring of 1965 at a number of universities and colleges in the United States and Canada. For publication, the lectures have been completely revised and considerably expanded.…

In the late 1970s the first English translation of the Coptic texts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which came to be known as the Nag Hammadi Library, profoundly changed the world's understanding of Christianity. Now with the publication of Gnosis on…

"Gnosticism was a contemporary of early Christianity whose demise can be traced to Christianity's efforts to silence its teachings. The Gnostic message, however, was not destroyed but simply went underground. Starting with the first emergence of…