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Open a copy of A True and Faithful Relation and the first thing you meet is not Dee's diary but a wall of preliminary matter: a title page promising…
The most famous demons in Western tradition got their names from a filing system.
From The Book of Enoch
In September 2012, at a Coptic studies congress in Rome, Harvard's Karen King announced a papyrus fragment the size of a business card.
From The Gospel of Mary
Two ancient texts describe what happens when the soul tries to leave the world. In one, the soul walks out through a checkpoint, answers a gauntlet of…
From The Gospel of Mary
In texts the church never canonized, the same argument keeps breaking out. A woman speaks.
In January 1916, according to his own memoir, Carl Gustav Jung stood in a house that his family believed was haunted.
From Gnosticism Explained
Open a copy of the Mutus Liber and the first thing you notice is what is missing.
The quote is on the mug in your kitchen cupboard, or taped to a colleague's monitor, or sliding past in a presentation between two stock photos: "We are…
From The Dhammapada
On the evening of 3 May 1591, at an inn in the little town of Sobeslav south of Tabor, a tired Englishman lay down for an after-dinner sleep.
In 1908 a small volume appeared in Chicago under the byline "Three Initiates." It claimed to transmit the secret doctrines of ancient Egypt, carried a…
Somewhere in the second century, a Greek-speaking writer imagined a goddess who made a mistake.
From Gnosticism Explained
In December 1945, an Arab peasant made an astonishing archaeological discovery in Upper Egypt.
From Gnosticism Explained