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
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism – An Accessible Introduction to the Ancient Religion of Late Antiquity
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
The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by (Anchor Bible Reference Library)
The Gnostics
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“ To write is to define, to unwrite is to become human again. ”
― Vasili Afantenos

Elaine Pagels
“ Although the Gospel of Judas does not encourage martyrdom, ironically—or better, paradoxically—it portrays Judas himself as the first martyr. This gospel reveals that when Judas hands Jesus over, he seals his own fate. But he knows, too, that when the other disciples stone him, they kill only his mortal self. His spirit-filled soul has already found its home in the light world above. Although Christians may suffer and die when they oppose the powers of evil, the hope Christ brings will sustain t ...more ”
― Elaine Pagels, Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity

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