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Esoteric literature has a way of swallowing beginners whole. You pick up one book about alchemy, and within a week you have six tabs open about Renaissance…
From Gnosticism Explained
In January 1896 the German scholar Carl Reinhardt bought a Coptic papyrus codex in Cairo.
From The Gospel of Mary
Every few decades, someone translates the esoteric classics again. New Enoches appear. New Pistis Sophias.
From The Book of Enoch
Pick a shelf of spiritual books at random and you will find, somewhere in the first twenty pages, the same accusation: you are not actually awake.
From The Dhammapada
For roughly seventeen centuries, if you wanted to know what the Gnostics taught, you had to ask the people who wanted them destroyed.
From Gnosticism Explained
In the southern wetlands of Iraq and Iran, where the Tigris and Euphrates slow into reed beds before reaching the sea, a small people has spent something…
From Gnosticism Explained
The Pistis Sophia has been drowning readers for the better part of two centuries.
In 1785 the British Museum paid the heirs of a dead London physician for a damaged Coptic manuscript that almost no one in England could read.
A single sentence from a fragmented Coptic gospel has done strange work in the modern imagination.
From The Gospel of Mary
For roughly thirty years, a running argument in the study of early Christianity has held that the field's favorite word should be retired.
From Gnosticism Explained
Somewhere between the Nag Hammadi library and the internet, Yaldabaoth got a promotion he never asked for.
From Gnosticism Explained
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