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The Gospel of Thomas
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The Gospel of Philip
Read the text alongside a source dossier that separates the surviving Coptic witness from later claims about what Philip does - and does not - tell us about early Christianity.
The Gospel of Mary
Read the surviving text with every major lacuna marked, plus manuscript context and the key scholarly uncertainties stated clearly.
The Gospel of Truth
Read the substantially complete text with both surviving witnesses identified and disputed authorship kept separate from the manuscript evidence.
The Secret Book of John
A source-first guide to one of the most influential surviving works associated with Sethian Gnostic tradition: four witnesses, two recensions, one difficult cosmology made readable.
Thunder, Perfect Mind
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The Hypostasis of the Archons
Read the complete surviving text with its alternate title, manuscript witness and damaged readings kept clear.
On the Origin of the World
Read the complete Codex II witness without silently combining it with the separate Codex XIII fragments.
The Dialogue of the Savior
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The Sophia of Jesus Christ
Read both surviving versions in full, with the manuscript gaps and witness boundaries kept clear.
The Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter
Read the complete surviving Coptic text with its witness identity and editorial apparatus kept clear.
The Gospel of the Egyptians
Read both complete surviving witnesses without silently filling one manuscript from the other.
Allogenes the Stranger
Read the complete surviving witness with its damaged opening and manuscript identity kept clear.
Three Forms of Primal Thought
Read the complete surviving witness with its source title, damaged passages and three-part structure kept clear.
The Paraphrase of Shem
Read the full surviving witness with manuscript evidence and later interpretation kept separate.
The Didache
Read the complete surviving Hoole translation with the manuscript record and later interpretation kept separate.
The Epistle of Barnabas
Codex placement is kept distinct from claims about canonical status: this edition does not claim that a council removed the work from the Bible.
The Odes of Solomon
This is Harris's complete surviving English Ode body: no missing passage is silently supplied.
The Acts of Paul and Thecla
Tertullian's objection records a real controversy over Thecla, teaching and baptism; it does not establish the old catalogue claim of a single fourth-century suppression.
The Gospel of Bartholomew
Satan testified before the apostles. The Church decided you shouldn’t hear it.
The Apocalypse of Paul
Includes the source introduction, translation and notes.
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
Read the complete source edition with its manuscript basis and editorial substitutions stated clearly.
The Infancy Gospel of James
Includes the source introduction, translation and notes.
The Gospel of Nicodemus
The Harrowing of Hell: the most dramatic event in Christianity that never made the Bible.
The Book of Jubilees
Moses received two accounts on Sinai. You were only given one.
The Book of Jasher
The Bible quotes it. The Bible excludes it. Draw your own conclusions.
The Testament of Solomon
Solomon built the Temple with demonic labour. This is his record of how.
The Assumption of Moses
The New Testament quotes it. The Bible excludes it. Again.
The Ascension of Isaiah
Isaiah saw the entire life of Christ before it happened. The Church decided you shouldn’t know.
The Apocalypse of Abraham
Abraham’s journey to the throne of God. Lost in the West. Here recovered.
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
The patriarchs’ last words. Genesis stayed silent. This text did not.
The Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
Written in the rubble of Jerusalem. Excluded from scripture. Here.
4 Ezra: The Apocalypse of Ezra
In your Bible for a thousand years. Removed 1546. Here restored.
Pistis Sophia
Eleven years of teaching the Gospels omit. Here they are.
The Corpus Hermeticum
The Medici paid a fortune to read it first. Now it costs £1.99.
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
Newton translated it in secret. It is thirteen sentences. Here they are.
The Kybalion
Seven principles. All of reality. Here.
The Key of Solomon
Banned by the Inquisition. Burned across Europe. Here it is.
The Lesser Key of Solomon
The complete list. Banned for four hundred years. Here.
The Sacred Magic of Abramelin
Unpublished for 400 years. The most copied magical manuscript in Europe. Here.
The Arbatel of Magic
The most virtuous grimoire. Banned anyway.
The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses
The secret books Moses received. Hidden for three thousand years. Revealed here.
The Grand Grimoire
The most feared book in Europe. Here, finally, is what it actually says.
Grimorium Verum
The practical manual. No philosophy, no theology. Just how to do it.
The Black Pullet
Egyptian magic. A French soldier. A secret that was supposed to die in a tomb.
Sefer Yetzirah
The text that gave birth to Kabbalah. Kept secret for a thousand years.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
They were writing about resurrection and judgment a thousand years before Moses.
Egyptian Magic
Three thousand years of magical practice. Suppressed. Here recovered.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Instructions for death. Hidden for six centuries. Read them now.
The Bhagavad Gita
Colonial authorities feared this book. Their instincts were correct.
The Principal Upanishads
Restricted by caste for three thousand years. Universal now.
The Dhammapada
The Buddha’s core teaching. No god. No priest. No intermediary. Just mind.
The Tao Te Ching
Burned by emperors. Suppressed by Communists. Still here.
The I Ching
Survived the book burning by accident. 3,000 years old. Still consulting it.
The Gathas of Zarathustra
Burned twice. A quarter survives. The oldest religious poetry you will ever read.
The Orphic Hymns
The prayers of the mystery religions. Outlawed. Here restored.
The Chaldean Oracles
The sacred scripture of the last pagans. Burned. Reassembled from fragments.
The Golden Verses of Pythagoras
The Pythagoreans were burned out. Their code survived. Here it is.
The Community Rule
Hidden in 68 AD. Found 1947. Suppressed for 40 more years by scholars.
The War Scroll
The military plan for the end of the world. Here, in full.
The Damascus Document
The Teacher of Righteousness existed before Jesus. Here is his community’s law.
The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
The pamphlet that sent Europe into panic. No one ever found the brotherhood.
Fama Fraternitatis
The secret society that may not exist. The manifesto that changed Europe.
Confessio Fraternitatis
The Jesuits condemned it. The Scientific Revolution followed anyway.
The Shepherd of Hermas
In the Bible for two centuries. Quietly removed. Here restored.
The Acts of John
The Council ordered it burned. The hymn survived in a cave.
The Acts of Peter
Condemned as apocryphal. Its stories became the Church’s own.
The Acts of Thomas
Thomas went to India. He was murdered for it. This is his account.
The Book of the Bee
The Nestorian tradition reached China before Europe discovered America. Here is its scripture.
The Life of Adam and Eve
Genesis ends at the gate. This text shows you what happened next.
The Sibylline Oracles
The Romans burned their own sacred prophecies. Jews and Christians rewrote them. Here they are.
The Zohar
The most sacred book in Kabbalah. Banned repeatedly. Here in translation.
Sepher Raziel HaMalakh
Burned in France. Printed in Amsterdam. Used to protect homes from fire.
The Bahir
The book that invented Kabbalah. Condemned as a forgery. Here.
The Enuma Elish
Written a thousand years before Genesis. Sharing Genesis’s structure. Draw your own conclusions.
The Descent of Inanna
Died. Descended into hell. Rose on the third day. Written in 2100 BC.
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Older than the Bible. Contains the flood. Here, unfiltered.
The Gospel of the Ebionites
The Jewish Christians were erased from history. Seven quotations survive.
Three Books of Occult Philosophy
Banned at 23. Published anyway. The source of all Western magic.
The Sworn Book of Honorius
The Pope burned their books. They distilled everything into one. Here it is.
The Apocalypse of Thomas
Too specific about the end of the world. Suppressed. Read before it happens.
The Prayer of Manasseh
The Bible says it exists. Then hides it. Here it is.
The Apocalypse of Elijah
A physical description of the Antichrist. The Church preferred you not have it.
The Ars Notoria
Thomas Aquinas condemned it. Here it is. Judge for yourself.
The Book of Giants
The giants knew they were going to die. They tried to send a message. Here it is.
The Clementine Recognitions
The first Pope’s secretary recorded everything. The Church kept some of it. Not all.
The Epistle of the Apostles
Written against Gnosticism. Condemned as apocryphal. The irony is instructive.
On the Mysteries
Written the year Christianity became state religion. The last defence of the gods.
The Divine Pymander of Hermes
Cosimo dropped Plato for this. Bruno was burned for following it.
The Letter of Aristeas
A document explaining how the Bible was translated. Fabricated. Enormously consequential.
The Second Book of Enoch
Ten heavens. A man become an angel. The secrets of creation. All suppressed.
The Testament of Abraham
The man who argued with God. Now arguing with death. He loses eventually.
The Acts of Andrew
How Andrew died. The speech from the cross the Church destroyed. Partially.
3 Baruch
Five heavens. The bird that carries the sun. The angel who planted the vine.
The Testament of Job
Job's daughters inherited a language. The Bible hid it. Here it is.
The Book of Tobit
In the Catholic Bible. Removed at the Reformation. The demon, the angel, the cure.
The Book of Judith
A widow with a sword. The Reformation removed her from the Bible.
The Exegesis on the Soul
Read the complete surviving NHC II,6 witness with manuscript damage and source boundaries kept visible.
The Book of Thomas the Contender
Read the complete surviving NHC II,7 text with its damaged passages, translator’s note and colophon preserved.
The Ladder of Divine Ascent
Thirty steps to God. The West stopped climbing at the Reformation.
The Secret Gospel of Mark
Includes the source introduction, translation and notes.
The Gospel of Judas
Includes the source introduction, translation and notes.
The Stranger’s Book
Includes the source introduction, translation and notes.
The Testimony of Truth
Includes the source introduction, translation and notes.
The Gospel of Q
Includes the source introduction, translation and notes.