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Gnosticism is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ, nearly becoming the dominant form of Christianity, but was eventually branded as heretical by the emerging Christian church. The long and…

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…

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…