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A popular history of the lost traditions of Gnosticism reveals some of the long-lost secrets of Christianity as it discusses the tenets and principles of a movement that flourished during early Christianity until it was declared heretical by the Church, and its long-lasting influence and legacy for world religion and modern-day popular culture. Reprint.
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The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst today for finding the hidden truths of Christianity ' truths that may have been lost or buried by institutional religion over the last two millennia. In Forbidden Faith, Richard Smoley narrates a popular history of one such truth, the ancient esoteric religion of gnosticism, which flourished between the first and fourth centuries A.D., but whose legacy remains even today, having survived secretly throughout the ages.
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