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Gnostic Gospels

The Gospel of Thomas

Read the complete text with provenance, manuscript context and the major scholarly uncertainties stated clearly.

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ISO-002Gnostic Foundations
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Gnostic Foundations

The Gospel of Philip

Read the text alongside a source dossier that separates the surviving Coptic witness from later claims about what Philip does - and does not - tell us about early Christianity.

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Early Christian Apocrypha

The Gospel of Mary

Read the surviving text with every major lacuna marked, plus manuscript context and the key scholarly uncertainties stated clearly.

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ISO-004Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Gospel of Truth

The fog has lifted. The text they called heresy is here.

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Gnostic Foundations

The Secret Book of John

A source-first guide to one of the most influential surviving works associated with Sethian Gnostic tradition: four witnesses, two recensions, one difficult cosmology made readable.

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ISO-006Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

Thunder, Perfect Mind

She was not lost. She was buried. She is speaking again.

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ISO-007Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Hypostasis of the Archons

The Rulers said there was no truth above them. They were wrong.

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ISO-008Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

On the Origin of the World

They could not refute it. So they buried it.

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ISO-009Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Dialogue of the Savior

Parts of this were deliberately destroyed before it was buried. What remains is still extraordinary.

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ISO-010Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Sophia of Jesus Christ

The resurrection was not the end. It was the beginning of the real teaching.

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ISO-011Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter

The Church built on Peter burned the gospel that bore his name.

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ISO-012Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Gospel of the Egyptians

A complete religion was destroyed. This is all that remains.

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ISO-013Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

Allogenes the Stranger

Plotinus spent years refuting it. Now you can read it yourself.

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ISO-014Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

Trimorphic Protennoia

The Gospel of John may be its echo. This is the original.

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ISO-015Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Paraphrase of Shem

The oldest vision in the Nag Hammadi library. Here, unedited.

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ISO-034Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

Pistis Sophia

Eleven years of teaching the Gospels omit. Here they are.

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ISO-098Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Exegesis on the Soul

The soul as a woman betrayed by the world. The Church burned this metaphor.

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ISO-099Gnostic Gospels
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Gnostic Gospels

The Book of Thomas the Contender

What Jesus's twin brother wrote down privately. Burning with contempt for flesh.

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