Essential Gnostic Scriptures

Essential Gnostic Scriptures

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Gnosticism was a diverse religious movement of the first millennium C.E. whose followers sought salvation above all through personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. This collection provides fresh translations of some of the most popular and beautiful Gnostic texts, with an eye to presenti...more
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Published January 5th 2011 by Shambhala Publications, Inc. (first published December 28th 2010)
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Kevin Lanahan
Ancient texts, presented with large gaps and little interpretation. Interesting read, but because of the gaps in many of the texts, it was difficult to get more than an impression of many of them.
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