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Gnostic Gospels
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Elaine Pagels
Pagels, a noted authority of religion, examines what impact Gnosticism could have had on Christianity had it not been labelled heretical by the early church fathers. THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS offers up insights from this obscure branch of Christianity, offering synopses of these documents that purport to reveal new insights into Jesus's life, his ...
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The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
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Jean-Yves LeLoup, Jacob Needleman (Preface by)
The Coptic Gospels, which are said to be written in the voice of Mary Magdalene, are the source of this volume, which contains the gospels as well as commentary on them by French scholar Jean-Yves Leloup. The Coptic Gospels, discovered in Egypt in 1945, seem to rehabilitate the Magdalene, who traditionally has been seen as a prostitute.
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The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
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Willis Barnstone (Editor), Marvin Meyer (Editor)
Gnosticism, steeped as it is in individualism, introspection, and personal revelation, is especially appealing to personal seekers who have turned away from formal religion. The publication of several best-selling Gnosticism-related studies and the roaring success of THE DA VINCI CODE have dusted up great public interest in the Gnostic texts in a ...
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Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
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Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy
Freke and Gandy take their ideas about the pagan origins of Christianity in a startling new direction: a mystical marriage between a godman and godwoman, represented in the Christian tradition by the figures of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
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The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
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Bart D Ehrman
The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event, introducing to tens of millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. Now, a leading historian of the early church, Bart Ehrman, offers the first comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas, revealing what ...
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The Gospel of Judas: From Codex Tchacos
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Rodolphe Kasser (Editor), Gregor Wurst (Editor), Marvin Meyer (Editor)
For 1,600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Christianity, and which few experts had even thought existed-a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, ...
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The Nature of Good and Evil
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Sylvia Browne
A framework for understanding the nature of good and evil. The struggle to continue being "good" when many "bad" people seem to get ahead faster is given a deeper meaning, as the author counsels that the choices made will impact directly on the soul, and invites the reader to find a path with God.
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If You Could See What I See: The Tenets of Novus Spiritus
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Sylvia Browne
This enlightening work contains the Gnostic tenets of the author's church, the Society of Novus Spiritus. The text is a map of humankind's search for spirituality and the path to God.
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Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing
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Stephan A Hoeller, Hoeller Stephena
This authoritative introduction reveals Gnosticism as the indigenous mystical tradition of the West and considers its message to Judeo-Christianity in the 21st century.
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The Gospel of Judas
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Rodolphe Kasser (Editor), Marvin Meyer (Editor), Gregor Wurst (Editor)
Seventeen hundred years ago, an unknown monk or scribe copied a gospel detailing the last three days of Jesus' life from the perspective of Judas Iscariot. Condemned as heretical, the "Gospel of Judas" faded from view and the codex containing its only known surviving copy was hidden in a cave in the Egyptian desert. Ever since the discovery of the ...
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The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation
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William Golding, Harold Bloom
The bestselling author of The Book of J says that Americans are a nation of Gnostics, believers in a pre-Christian tradition of individual divinity, of a divine spark more primordial than Creation itself--and that God knows and loves each of us.
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The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom
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Peter Gandy, Timothy Freke
Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, authors of "The Jesus Mysteries "and "Jesus and the Lost Goddess," return with a powerful indictment of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic fundamentalism and a passionate reinterpretation of Gnostic spirituality. According to Freke and Gandy, religiously inspired acts of violence, such as the attacks on 9/11, are nothing ...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Gnostic Gospels
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J Michael Matkin
"The birth of the Christian Churchaand what it means for modern religion and philosophy." This engaging guide presents an accessible overview of the birth of the Christian church, using the historical works found at the famous Nag Hammadi site in Egypt. With chapters discussing each of the major and minor documents found at Nag Hammadi, this ...
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Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism
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Kurt Rudolph
'Kurt Rudolph is the world's leading expert on the only branch of Gnosticism that has survived down to the present. He also is the scholar who has the most authoritative overview of the whole Gnostic phenomenon....(His) popular survey of Gnosticism...does for the next generation what Hans Jonas's Gnostic Religion did for the generation just past: ...
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The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost Gospel
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James McConkey Robinson
In this fully revised and updated edition, an expert historian of early Christianity tells of the discovery of a lost gospel attributed to Judas, and Judas's newfound meaning for history and the Christian faith.
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The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels
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Marvin W Meyer (Translator)
Four revealing Christian texts founded in 1945 in Egypt which provide invaluable information about the character of the early Church and the Gnostic Christians within the Church.
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The Scandal of the Incarnation: Irenaeus Against the Heresies
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Irenaeus, St Irenaeus of Lyons, Hans Urs Von Balthasar, Cardinal (Editor)
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Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith
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Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval
The bestselling authors of The Secret of the Sphinx relate the extraordinary account of a longstanding conspiracy at the heart of Western civilization, the visual evidence of which surrounds us all. A talisman is an object with "meaning." It is a potent symbol or icon that can fire the imagination and emotions of men and women anywhere, any time. ...
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Ancient Wisdom
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Annie Wood Besant
An in-depth study of theosophical teachings.
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The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion
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Jean Doresse
A collection of sacred Gnostic texts, believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance, discovered in the late 1940s after being concealed for sixteen centuries. Includes the famous Gospel According to Thomas.
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The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom
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Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy
An Incendiary Wake-Up Call to the World What if the Old Testament is a work of fiction, Jesus never existed, and Muhammad was a mobster? What if the Bible and the Qur'an are works of political propaganda created by Taliban-like fundamentalists to justify the sort of religious violence we are witnessing in the world today? What if there is a big ...
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The Gnostic Gospels: Including the Gospel of Thomas the Gospel of Mary Magdalene
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Alan Jacobs (Editor), Vrej Nersessian (Introduction by)
In 1945 several secret gospels, hidden since the first century, were discovered in the Egyptian Desert at Nag Hammadi. They caused a sensation in the religious world as they revealed the mysteries of Gnostic Christianity. The gospels selected for this volume reveal intimate conversations between Jesus and his disciples and shed new light on his ...
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The Nag Hammadi Scriptures: The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume
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Marvin Meyer, James M Robinson
This is the most complete, up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the renowned library of fourth-century Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance.
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The Nag Hammadi Library in English
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James McConkey Robinson
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Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
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John Lamb Lash, Derrick Jensen (Afterword by)
Basing much of "Not in His Image" on the Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings, John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe and North Africa. They burned libraries and ...
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