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Gnosticism
was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier
antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through
knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking
perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example,
some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and
father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine. Only in the
past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in
ancient and medieval religions—and what a marvelous body of scriptures it
produced.
The selections gathered here, in poetic,
readable translation, represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean,
Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Their
regions of origin include Egypt, the Greco-Roman world, the Middle East, Syria,
Iraq, China, and
