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Gnosticismwas a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlierantecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation throughknowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer strikingperspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example,some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother andfather, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in thepast fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread inancient and medieval religions—and what a marvelous body of scriptures itproduced.

The selections gathered here, in poetic,readable translation, represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean,Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Theirregions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria,Iraq, China, and France. Also included are introductions, notes,...

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