Essential Gnostic Scriptures
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Essential Gnostic Scriptures

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Full Title

Essential Gnostic Scriptures
Author(s)

Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer
Edition
ISBN

9780834822153, 9781590305492
Publisher

Shambhala (RHP)
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

The people we’ve come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries with remarkable power and beauty—beginning with texts from the earliest years of Christianity—including material from the Nag Hammadi library—and continuing all the way up to expressions of gnostic wisdom found within Islam and in the Cathar movement of the Middle Ages. The twenty-one texts included here serve as a compact introduction to Gnosticism and its principal ideas—and they also provide an entrée to the pleasures of gnostic literature in general, representing, as they do, the greatest masterpieces of that tradition.

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