The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity

xviii, 358 pp. Here is a full-scale study of the heretical world of Gnosticism--its literature, symbolic language and main tenets--based on actual Gnostic documents... The paperback edition of this classic contains an important new chapter entitled "The Recent Discoveries in the Field of Gnosticism," and an epilogue on "Gnosticism, Existentialism and Nihilism."