The Gnostic Gospels Master Collection: The Rejected Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Thomas, Truth, Judas, Peter, Philip, Pistis Sophia and More. Includes 22 ... and Gnostic Gospels Bible Collection)

A very good reference for the many things that were left out of the bible when it was compiled.

Great book of the lost gospels.

The gnostic gospels are different from the canonical gospels. Some see them as evil. They’re not (in my opinion), but rather a different view of Christ as “the way” rather than a key to being a Christian. If you want to be a follower of Christ rather than a Christian in a pew, this is required reading for you to study and understand or maybe just discount as whatever you would discount it as.

Last thing I really needed to make everything make sense now its time to dive deeper in the gnostic teachings.

Cover is nice but the inside text is not laid out well for me. It’s bland and unattractive. Makes reading it difficult. The content is fine, just not in a design or format that makes you want to read it.

Ok. This book offers so much information in one place your mind just melts. But it is the same fact that so much information is contained that makes this book so wonderful. The author refrains from much analysis of his own that drove me to consider the set from reading his other works. But there are 2 problems. #2 the book contains other books in the set. For someone who is on a strick budget, books are a luxury. It should recognize that you already have a book purchased that is also contained in the encyclopedia. It should then say you already have a book in this set and remove or give a discount. Gospel of Mary Magdalene and Gospel of Thomas are explicit examples. Why must you pay twice for them when they are contained in the larger book. #1 The glaring problem is that his own books to no coincide with each other or book from other authors on vary same subject. This and his other books on lost gospels take actual printed text from the translated actual source. These writings and texts he is using are not interpretations but word for word copies of the official authorized text. But his books differ in these official texts from themselves and other authors. In both his books Gospels of Mary Magdalene and Thomas and this book, the official texts vary both from line to line in both of individual words but of whole sentences. That can't be. These texts must coincide with his other books word for word BUT ALSO with other authors that are using the same very texts in their books. I frankly would like to know why.

I am well pleased to have this book. I am just beginning to understand the history of the Gnostics and their demise at the hands of the Roman church. I am happy that their understanding of Jesus’ mission has finally found the light of day. I find that I am in agreement with much of their belief system, that Jesus came to show us the Way and that it is a matter of gaining an inner knowing in order to awaken, rather than “getting saved.” I am also interested in learning more about the suppression of the female aspect of “God.” I have much more to read and learn, but my goal is to find a way to share what I learn with those who are also ready to awaken to the truth.

The missing link. I love it!!!

Interesting work by the author that brings together the so-called hidden gospels that the church has never officially recognized and it is not clear why. For those who love the genre for those who are scholars of the Sacred Texts I think this work is a true test of intellectual honesty and open-mindedness that everyone should have with respect to what are nonetheless of very ancient texts and that help to reconstruct and integrate what has already been narrated in the texts recognized By the church itself. I think it is necessary to give it a careful and unprejudiced reading and then draw one's own conclusions. i highly recommend it

Very happy with the book. As advertised

Love the book well laid out

It came as advertised.

I have always been interested in all the Gnostic texts that were not included in the Bible and it was interesting to read this collection. The author describes, catalogues and quotes the secret Gnostic gospels that were destroyed in the 4th century AD, but of which copies fortunately remain. He has done an excellent job of explaining the scriptures and the gospel in a very accessible way, so that one can understand the different arguments/viewpoints between orthodoxy and Gnosticism.