The people wersquo;ve come to call gnostics were passionate advocates of the view that salvation comes through knowledge and personal experience, and their passion shines through in the remarkable body of writings they produced over a period of more than a millennium and a half. Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer have created a translation that brings the gnostic voices to us from across the centuries with remarkable power and beautymdash;beginning with texts from the earliest years of Christianitymdash;including material from the Nag Hammadi librarymdash;and continuing all the way up to expressions of gnostic wisdom found within Islam and in the Cathar movement of the Middle Ages. The twenty-one texts included here serve as a compact introduction to Gnosticism and its principal ideasmdash;and they also provide an entrée to the pleasures of gnostic literature in general, representing, as they do, the greatest masterpieces of that tradition.
- Genre: Religion + Beliefs
- Publisher: Shambhala Pubns
- Pages: 271
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: November 22, 2011
- Date Published: November 22, 2011
- Author: Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer