The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

by Brian C. Muraresku

Those words straight from Jesus’s mouth in John 9:39, “I am here to give sight to the blind.” And John 1:51, “I tell you for certain that you will see heaven open and God’s angels going up and down.” That very Greek concept of gnosis or intuitive knowledge that restored true sight to the Christian Gnostics. “Recognize what is before your eyes,” said the Gospel of Thomas, “and what is hidden will be revealed to you.” That “secret doctrine” that passed from Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Empedocles to Plotinus over six centuries later, when the face painted on the wall of the Hypogeum of the Aurelii wrote, “We must not look, but must, as it were, close our eyes and exchange our faculty of vision for another. We must awaken this faculty which everyone possesses, but few people ever use.”