The Gnostic Gospels

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Buy The Gnostic Gospels by Pagels, Elaine online on desertcart.ae at best prices. ✓ Fast and free shipping ✓ free returns ✓ cash on delivery available on eligible purchase. Review: This is a very good, thoroughly researched book that objectively explains how the early Roman Emperors and Bishops, in the third and forth century of the Common Era, basically outlawed and banished certain gospels, now known as the the Gnostic gospels, in favour of those very select few which eventually appear in the New Testament, solely because the latter were more effective in commanding an unquestioning obedience, among the ordinary masses, to the authority of the early Christian church and Roman state in general. What Western civilisation subsequently lost, with the secret burial of these competing Gnostic texts, was no less than the original, authentic message of what Christ's coming, death and ressurection actually represented - something which was always meant to be understood symbolically, as a metaphor for the inner transformation of consciousness that every individual has the potential to experience; i.e. the personal, interior birth of the Christhood, resulting in the death of the ego and the metaphysical ressurection of a person spiritually. Originally based on direct experience, the true Christian path is shown to have started off as the search for God within you, not anywhere outside. As true spiritual seekers continue to come into this knowledge and undergo the liberating experience of "gnosis" - and the horror of ALL institutional religion eventually wanes and dies - it's quite likely this important book could rank among the major sources of reference, from a historical perspective. Discovered initially in a clay jar in Egypt in 1945, and kept from the public by private spats among the religious and academic hierarchy until 1972, the re-emergence and now widely available Gnostic texts cannot be underestimated, and is simply invalauble for anyone on the spiritual path. After this, you'll certainly be ready to read and grasp the Gnostic gospels themselves. Congratulations on making this discovery yourself, here and now! Review: I fell in love with this book. Explains very well and without judgement what is the gnostic mouvement. I highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to know more about the subject.