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    • Classic Gnostic Scriptures
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    • Mark M. Mattison Translations
      • The First Apocalypse of James (Zinner/Mattison)
      • The Secret Writing According to John
      • The Secret Gospel of Mark
      • The Letter of Peter to Philip
      • Sayings of Jesus (P.Oxy 5575)
      • The Second Apocalypse of James
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      • The Odes of Solomon: The Nuhra Version
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      • The Gospel of Thomas (Public Domain)
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      • The Gospel of Q (Public Domain)
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    • Valentinus Tradition
      • Valentinus: A Gnostic for All Seasons
      • The Gospel of Truth
      • The Tripartite Tractate
      • Teachings in Brief
      • Who was Valentinus?
      • The Valentinian School
      • The Pleroma: The Fullness of God
      • The Fall of Sophia
      • Contents of the Valentinian Tradition Section
      • Virtual Library
      • Valentinians and the Bible
      • Detailed Articles
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    • G.R.S. Mead Collection
      • Brief Biographical Introduction
      • The Gnosis of the Mind
      • The Hymn of Jesus
      • The Hymn of the Robe of Glory
      • The Hymns of Hermes
      • The Mysteries of Mithra
      • The Vision of Aridaeus
      • The Chaldaen Oracles
      • Pistis Sophia
      • Thrice-Greatest Hermes
      • Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
      • Apollonius of Tyana
      • Simon Magus
      • Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandæan John-Book
      • Did Jesus Live 100 BC?
      • Commentary on the Pymander
      • Introduction to Marcion
      • Concerning H.P.B
      • The Outer Evidence as to the Authorship and Authority of the Gospels
      • The Present Position of the Synoptical Problem
      • The Fourth-Gospel Problem
      • Above and Below
      • Visit the G.R.S. Mead Collection Bookstore
    • Patristic Writings
      • Against All Heresies (Book 1)
      • Against the Valentinians (Riley)
      • Refutations of All Heresies
      • Against the Fundamental Epistle of Mani
      • Against All Heresies, Book 2
      • Against All Heresies, Book 3
      • Against All Heresies, Book 4
      • Against All Heresies, Book 5
      • Against Marcion, Book 1
      • Against Marcion, Book 2
      • Against Marcion, Book 3
      • Against Marcion, Book 4
      • Against Marcion, Book 5
      • Against the Valentinians
      • Against Hermogenes
      • Against Praxeas
      • Appendix: Against All Heresy
      • Prescriptions Against Heretics
      • Scorpiace
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 4
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 5
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 6
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 7
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 8
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 9
      • Refutations of all Heresies, Book 10
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum, Books 1 - 15
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum, Books 16 - 22
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum, Books 23 - 33
      • De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae
      • De Moribus Manichaerorum
      • De Duabus Animabus Contra Manichaeos
      • Disputatio Contra Fortunatum Manichaeum
      • De Natura Boni, Contra Manichaeos
      • Homily Against Marcionists and Manichaeans
      • Third Discourse to Hypatius Against Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan
      • Third Discourse to Hypatius Against Mani, Marcion, and Bardaisan
      • Clement of Alexandria and The Secret Gospel of Mark
      • Stromata, Book 1
      • Stromata, Book 2
      • Stromata, Book 3
      • Stromata, Book 4
      • Stromata, Book 6
      • Stromata, Book 7
      • Recognitions, Book 2
      • Recognitions, Book 3
      • Contra Celsum, Book 1
      • Contra Celsum, Book 2
      • Contra Celsum, Book 3
      • Contra Celsum, Book 4
      • Contra Celsum, Book 5
      • Contra Celsum, Book 6
      • Contra Celsum, Book 7
      • Contra Celsum, Book 8
      • Lost commentary of Heracleon
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book I
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book II
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book IV
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book V
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book VI
      • Commentary on the Gospel of John - Book X
      • theology of the leading Gnostic Christian of his age, Valentinus
    • Christian Apocrypha
      • The Acts of John
      • The Apocalypse of Thomas
      • The Gospel of James
      • Nag Hammadi Library
      • Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments
      • The Acts of Andrew
      • The Acts and Martyrdom of Andrew
      • The Acts of Andrew and Matthew
      • The Acts of Barnabas
      • The Acts of John the Theologian
      • The Acts and Martyrdom of Matthew
      • The Martyrdom of Matthew
      • The Acts of Paul
      • The Acts of Peter
      • The Acts of Peter and Andrew
      • The Acts of Peter and Paul
      • The Acts of Philip
      • The Acts of Thomas
      • The Consummation of Thomas
      • The Revelation of John the Theologian
      • The Revelation (or Vision) of Paul
      • Nag Hammadi Library
      • The Apocalypse of Peter
      • The Apocalypse of Peter
      • Nag Hammadi Library
      • The Revelation of Stephen
      • The Apocalypse of the Virgin
      • The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Greek Text A
      • The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Greek Text B
      • The Infancy Gospel of Thomas: Latin Text
      • The Infancy Gospels of Jesus
      • An Arabic Infancy Gospel
      • The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary
      • The Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew
      • The Gospel of Nicodemos (The Acts of Pilate)
      • The Gospel of Bartholomew
      • The Gospel of Peter
      • The Gospel of the Lord by Marcion
      • The Secret Gospel of Mark
      • Didache
      • The Shepherd of Hermas
      • Teaching of Addaeus the Apostle
    • Corpus Hermeticum
      • Thrice Greatest Hermes
      • On the Trail of the Winged God: Hermes and Hermeticism Throughout the Ages
      • The Gnosis of the Mind
      • Hermes: The Thrice Great Hierophant of Gnosis
      • Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men
      • Commentary on the Pymander
      • An Introduction to G.R.S. Mead's translation of the Corpus Hermeticum
      • To Asclepius
      • The Sacred Sermon
      • The Cup or Monad
      • Though Unmanifest God Is Most Manifest
      • In God Alone Is Good And Elsewhere Nowhere
      • The Greatest Ill Among Men is Ignorance of God
      • That No One of Existing Things doth Perish
      • On Thought and Sense
      • The Key
      • Mind Unto Hermes
      • About the Common Mind
      • The Secret Sermon on the Mountain
      • A Letter of Thrice-Greatest Hermes to Asclepius
      • The Definitions of Asclepius unto King Ammon
      • Of Asclepius to the King
      • The Encomium of Kings
      • The Perfect Sermon (The Asclepius)
      • Excerpts and Fragments of Hermetic Texts
      • The Hymns of Hermes
      • Nag Hammadi Library
      • The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth
      • Prayer of Thanksgiving
      • The Authoritative Teaching
      • The Thunder, Perfect Mind
      • The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles
      • Asclepius (21-29)
    • Manichaean Writings
      • Mani: Helmsman of the Ship of Light
      • Psalms to Jesus
      • Hymn to the Father of Greatness
      • Excerpt from the Kephalia
      • we provide here a short excerpt from the introduction
      • Psalm II
      • Psalm V
      • Psalm VII
      • Psalm X
      • Psalm XI
      • Psalm XXI
      • Psalm XXX
      • Psalm XXXI
      • Psalm CCXXIII
      • Psalm CCXXVIII
      • Psalm CCXXX
      • Psalm CCXXXV
      • Psalm CCXXXVII
      • Psalm CCXXXIX
      • Psalm CCXL
      • Psalm CXLI
      • Taste and Know that the Lord is Sweet
      • Put in Me a Holy Heart, My God
      • Light Your Lamps
      • The Hymn on the Third Messenger and the Archons
      • The Hymn about the Captivity of Light
      • Invocation of Jesus the Splendor
      • Hymn on the Second Coming of Jesus
      • Hymn on the Fate of the Living Soul
      • Hymn Exhorting the Soul to Remembrance
      • Hymn to the Living Soul
      • Hymn to the Third Messenger
      • Hymn in Praise of Mani
      • Commemorative Hymn for Mar Zaku
      • Homily on the Correct Preparations for the Sacred Meal
      • Invocation of the Angels
      • The Invocation of Bar Simus
      • Invocation of the Gods in the Moon
      • A Confessional Prayer for the Elect
      • The Hymn on the End of the World
      • The Hymn on Body-and-Soul
      • The Funerary Hymn
      • Hymns to the Soul
      • Hymn in Honor of the Dominions of Light
      • Untitled Parthian Hymn
      • The Crucifixion Hymn
      • The Praise of the Lesser Ones
      • The Praise of the Greater Ones
      • We Would Fulfill: Mani's Hymn to Jesus, the King
      • The Praise of Jesus the Life-giver
      • Untitled Psalm fragment
      • The Opening Words of the Living Gospel
      • Apocryphal letter to Màr Ammo ascribed to Mani
      • Parable about the Auditors
      • Parable about the Farmer
      • Parable of the Pearl Borer
      • The Parable of the Monk and the Girl
      • Parable about the Two Snakes
      • The Psalms of Thomas
      • A Manichaean Psalm
      • Primal Man, a Manichaean fragment
      • Come to Me, My Kinsman, the Light, My Guide. A Manichaean Prayer
      • The End of the Deficiency. A Manichaean eschatological hymn
      • Joy Came Over Me. A Manichaean fragment
      • Salvation of the Soul. A Turkish Manichaean fragment
      • Excerpt from the Fundamental Epistle of Mani
      • O Soul, a Manichaean fragment
      • De Moribus Ecclesiae Catholicae
      • De Moribus Manichaerorum
      • De Duabus Animabus Contra Manichaeos
      • Disputatio Contra Fortunatum Manichaeum
      • Contra Epistolam Fundamenti Manichaei
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum Books, I - XV
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum Books, XVI-XXII
      • Contra Faustum Manichaeum Books, XXIII-XXXIII
      • De Natura Boni, Contra Manichaeos
    • Mandaean Writings
      • Ginza Rba
      • Foundational Chronicle
      • Open Access PDF
      • The Messenger of Light
      • Kurt Rudolph , The Mandaean Religion
      • E. S. Drower, The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran
      • Gnostic John the Baptizer: Selections from the Mandæan John-Book
      • The Deliverance of Adam
      • The Baptism of Adam
      • The Soul's Deliverance
      • Bliss and Peace
      • The Soul in its Coat of All Colors
      • Wrapped in Sleep
      • The Song of Ascent
      • Instruction of Adam by an Uthra
    • Cathar Writings
      • Interrogatio Iohannis
      • The Vision of Isaiah
      • The Cathar Ritual
      • The Book of the Two Principles
      • The Aparelhamentum (Confession of Sins)
      • Traditio: Rite for the Transmission of the Prayer
      • The Consolamentum
      • Raynaldus: On the accusations against the Albigensians
      • Bernard Gui (Inquisitor): On the Albigensians
      • Bernard Gui: On Inquisitorial Technique
    • Alchemical Writings
      • Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens
      • The Rosarium Philosophorum
      • The Book of Alze
      • Virtual Library of Alchemical Texts
      • Alchemical Mass, by Melchior Cibinensis
      • The Mystery of the Alchemists, by George Ripley
      • The Book of Lambspring
      • The Testament of Nicholas Flammel
      • Khunrath's Natural Symbolum, or Short Confession
      • Coelum Terrae, by Thomas Vaughan
      • The Six Keys of Eudoxus
      • Marsilio Ficino on the Alchemical Art
      • The Alchemical Practice of Mary the Prophetess
    • Modern Gnostic Texts
      • Lectionary
      • Catechism
      • Gnostic Homilies
      • The Seven Sermons to the Dead
      • Morning Prayer of the French Gnostic Church
      • Evening Prayer of the French Gnostic Church
      • Gnostic Benediction
      • The Holy Gnostic Rosary
      • Introduction
    • Dead Sea Scrolls
      • Nag Hammadi Library
      • Library
      • Dead Sea Scrolls Internet Resources
      • bookstore
      • selected texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls
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    • Thomas Book Cluster
      • Twin of Jesus
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