A vast collection of materials and audio lectures dealing with Gnosis and Gnosticism, both ancient and modern. The site includes the Gnostic Society Library with the complete Nag Hammadi Library, and a large collection of other primary Gnostic scriptures and documents.

Coptic Gospels of Thomas, Philip and Truth (Valentine), in English and Spanish translation, with introduction, textual notes and commentary.

Christian Research Institute Journal Return to Index Page - This File/ Plain Text The Gnostic Gospels: Part Two Are They Authentic by Douglas Groothuis from the Christian Research Journal, Winter 1991, page 15. The Editor-in-Chief of the Christian Research Journal is Elliot Miller. In the first installment of this two-part series, I outlined the stark contrasts between the gnostic Jesus and the ...

Elaine H. Pagels: The Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion Princeton University The discovery at Nag Hammadi began with an Arab villager whose name was Mohammed Ali going with his brothers on an ordinary errand. They saddled up their camels and they rode out from their village, a small town in the barren stretches of upper Egypt. They took their camels and rode up to a cliff ...

This mysterious poem, discovered among the gnostic manuscripts at Nag Hammadi, is narrated by a female divine revealer. 'Thunder Perfect Mind' is a marvelous, strange poem. It speaks in the voice of a feminine divine power, but one that unites all opposites. One that is not only speaking in women, but also in all people. One that speaks not only in citizens, but aliens, it says, in the poor and ...