THE GOSPEL of THOMAS: Ancient Gnostic Scrolls, Forbidden Apocryphal Literature, and Secret Mystical Teachings Early Christianity

The gospel they buried in the sand for sixteen centuries >It tells no story. There is no virgin birth, no miracles, no trial before Pilate, no crucifixion or resurrection. There are only 114 secret sayings attributed to Jesus - a hidden map to a kingdom that, this gospel insists, is already spread across the earth and waiting inside you. A different Jesus. A different path. >This book is your guide to the most famous of the lost gospels. In clear, vivid prose, Serena Callahan reconstructs the discovery and near-destruction of the Nag Hammadi library; why Bishop Athanasius ordered the alternative scriptures burned in 367 CE; the Gnostic worldview of the Pleroma, the demiurge, Sophia, and the divine spark; the riddle of Didymos Judas Thomas; and what the sayings reveal about the kingdom within. Open the jar. Read the words the empire could not destroy.