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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
[This book] explores how Christianity began by tracing its earliest texts, including the secret Gospel of Thomas, rediscovered in Egypt in 1945 ... [The author explores] historical and archeological sources to investigate what Jesus and his teachings…
Forbidden Faith: The Gnostic Legacy, From the Gospels to The Da Vinci Code
"Why should Gnosticism exercise such a peculiar and lasting fascination? Throughout most of Christian history, Gnosticism was the 'forbidden faith, ' and such condemnation by the official Church might actually have served to endow the movement with…
The Gnostics: History, Tradition, Scriptures, Influence
According to the ancient Gnostics-the early Christians who wrote such controversial texts as the recently discovered Gospel of Judas-we are all capable of gnosis, or direct knowledge of the true reality that lies behind the material world. Andrew…
The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels
In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which…
