In 1945 a chance discovery yielded a treasure trove of ancient documents in Upper Egypt at a place called Nag Hammadi.The Nag Hammadi Library, as it is known today, contained papyrus codices of forty treatises written in Coptic (an old Egyptian language) dating from the third to fifth centuries CE.2 Most of the documents show Gnostic influences to one degree or another, and a number of the books found are Gnostic Gospels.The Gospel of MaryA gospel, as ancient and authentic as any of the gospels that the Christian bible contains, was buried deep in the Egyptian desert after an edict was sent out in the 4th century to have all copies of it destroyed.Fortunately, some rebel monks were wise enough to refuse - and thanks to their disobedience and spiritual bravery, we have several manuscripts of the only gospel that was written in the name of a woman: The Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Restores to the forefront of the Christian tradition the importance of the divine feminine and offers a new perspective on the life of one of the most controversial figures in the Western spiritual tradition.This brief narrative presents a radical interpretation of Jesus' teachings as a path to inner spiritual knowledge. It rejects his suffering and death as a path to eternal life.Knowledge that has been kept secret by the church for nearly two thousand years is laid bare for all to see, thereby ending the greatest deception mankind has ever suffered.“With her own eyes, she saw him.With her own ears, she heard him.With her own hands, she touched him.”The Gospel of JohnThe auotors assumes that the John who authored the book is someone very close to Jesus and, therefore, that the gospel is a testimony to events that actually happened in the life of Jesus. During Jesus’ lifetime, no one understood His mission, but by narrating a few carefully chosen episodes in Jesus’ life, the Apostle John unfolds the truth.The Jesus that will emerge will provoke to rethink most of what you knew about this gospel.“Our vision is often more abstracted by what we think we know than by our lack of knowledge.”The Gospel of John is filled with profound truths and rich spiritual stories.Pistis SophiaPistis Sophia is a Gnostic text discovered in 1773, which some scholars place in the late 4th century, relates one Gnostic group's teachings of the transfigured Jesus to the assembled disciples, including his mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Martha.In this text, the risen Jesus had spent eleven years speaking with his disciples, teaching them only the lower mysteries. After eleven years, he receives his true garment and is able to reveal the higher mysteries revered by this group.The prized mysteries relate to complex cosmologies and knowledge necessary for the soul to reach the highest divine realms.The Gospel of ThomasJesus preaches the coming of a new man, the genesis of the man of knowledge.In this volume, Jesus describes a journey from limited to unlimited consciousness. The Jesus of Thomas invites us to drink deeply from the well of knowledge that lies within, not so that we may become good Christians but so we may attain the self-knowledge that will make each of us, too, a Christ.The Gospel of Thomas contains the seeds of a profound mysticism that can transform our view of the universe—and ourselves.Christopher David Richardson unpacks the core teachings of the Gospel in ways that can shift not only how we understand ourselves, but how we view reality itself.This eye-opening collection of texts sheds light on the esoteric knowledge of Gnosticism, revealing intimate conversations between Jesus and his Disciples.
✔ Author(s): Christopher David Richardson
✔ Title: The Complete Gnostic Gospels: The Lost Apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, John and Mary Magdalene - The Secret Gospel of Mark and The Pistis Sophia
✔ Rating : 4.3 out of 5 base on (114 reviews)
✔ ISBN-10: B0BZFCBY1Q
✔ ISBN-13: 978B0BZFCBY19
✔ Language: English
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✔ Device compatibles: Android, iOS, PC and Amazon Kindle
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