Gnosticism

Gnosticism describes a collection of ancient religions which taught that people should shun the material world created by the demiurge and embrace the spiritual world.

The Gnostic Gospels
The Nag Hammadi Library
The Gnostic Bible
Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity
Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism – An Accessible Introduction to the Ancient Religion of Late Antiquity
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78
Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Gospel
The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus
The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism
VALIS
The Gnostics
The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by (Anchor Bible Reference Library)

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Elaine Pagels
In the Gospel of Judas, Jesus teaches people about the kinship they have with God and about how to live according to the moral order of the universe established by God. People, Jesus says, have spiritual resources within them beyond what they know. He explains this message by telling Judas about the nature of the universe—that another realm exists beyond the material world, and an immortal holy race above the mortal human race. If people can understand this reality, they can fulfill their highes ...more
Elaine Pagels, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity

A mystic seeks and finds the hidden, or as some would state it more aptly, the hidden finds the mystic, who is in search of the hidden.
James C. Harrington, Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern: A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in Medieval Venice

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