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The Gnostic Gospels (National Book Award Winner)
by (shelved 106 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.94 — 20,542 ratings — published 1979
The Nag Hammadi Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.23 — 4,945 ratings — published 400
The Gnostic Bible (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,367 ratings — published 2003
The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 486 ratings — published 1958
Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.06 — 600 ratings — published 2002
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,653 ratings — published 2003
Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism – An Accessible Introduction to the Ancient Religion of Late Antiquity (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 244 ratings — published 1977
The Secret Gospel of Jesus, AD 0-78 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.66 — 68 ratings — published 2020
Pistis Sophia: A Gnostic Gospel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.20 — 311 ratings — published 1921
The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.26 — 498 ratings — published 1982
The Gospel of Thomas: The Hidden Sayings of Jesus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,781 ratings — published 100
The Tree of Gnosis: Gnostic Mythology from Early Christianity to Modern Nihilism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.41 — 165 ratings — published 1987
The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations and Introductions by (Anchor Bible Reference Library)
by (shelved 17 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.12 — 147 ratings — published 300
The Gnostics (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 279 ratings — published 1973
Valis (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 33,558 ratings — published 1981
What is Gnosticism? (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.68 — 153 ratings — published 2003
The Other Side of the Judeo-Christian History (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.85 — 61 ratings — published 2011
A History of Gnosticism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.70 — 44 ratings — published 1983
The Gospel of Judas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,041 ratings — published 2006
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,556 ratings — published 2007
Forbidden Faith: The Secret History of Gnosticism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.84 — 372 ratings — published 2006
Gnostic Philosophy: From Ancient Persia to Modern Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.95 — 124 ratings — published 2005
Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,144 ratings — published 2001
Jung and the Lost Gospels: Insights into the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 160 ratings — published 1989
The Gospel of Mary Magdalene (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,014 ratings — published 1997
The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.92 — 170 ratings — published 2011
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,438 ratings — published 1995
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,058 ratings — published 1988
The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.97 — 230,877 ratings — published -400
Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 44 ratings — published 1996
The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,181 ratings — published 2003
Gnostic Religion in Antiquity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.88 — 17 ratings — published 2013
The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.98 — 530 ratings — published 2005
Voices of Gnosticism: Interviews with Elaine Pagels, Marvin Meyer, Bart Ehrman, Bruce Chilton and Other Leading Scholars (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.35 — 98 ratings — published 2010
The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,754 ratings — published 1999
The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.66 — 182 ratings — published 2005
The Gnostic Paul: Gnostic Exegesis of the Pauline Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.99 — 263 ratings — published 1975
The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.22 — 74 ratings — published
Mary Magdalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel & the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 5,970 ratings — published 2019
The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,737 ratings — published -400
The Wisdom of the Knowing Ones: Gnosticism: The Key to Esoteric Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 106 ratings — published 1999
Introduction to "Gnosticism:": Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.40 — 25 ratings — published 2012
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,282 ratings — published 2002
Ancient Gnosticism: Traditions and Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.36 — 36 ratings — published 2007
The Philosophy of Cosmic Spirituality (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.83 — 41 ratings — published 2014
The Gospel of Philip: Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and the Gnosis of Sacred Union (Codex II.3)
by (shelved 6 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.07 — 324 ratings — published 2003
The Secret Book of John: The Gnostic Gospel Annotated & Explained (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.32 — 136 ratings — published 2011
The Secret History of the Gnostics: Their Scriptures, Beliefs and Traditions (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.01 — 80 ratings — published 2015
The Serpent's Gift: Gnostic Reflections on the Study of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 4.24 — 63 ratings — published 2006
Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion)
by (shelved 6 times as gnosticism)
avg rating 3.73 — 11 ratings — published 2014
“There is the explanation that is put in the language of the mysteries, that we men are in a kind of prison, and that one must not free oneself or run away. That seems to me an impressive doctrine and one not easy to understand fully. However, Cebes, this seems to me well expressed, that the gods are our guardians and that men are one of their possessions. Or do you not think so?”
― Phaedo
― Phaedo
“Life has been thrown into the world, light into darkness, the soul into the body. It expresses the original violence done to me in making me be where I am and what I am, the passivity of my choice-less emergence into an existing world which I did not make and whose law is not mine”.”
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