The Nag Hammadi Library is a collection of 13 codices (bound papyrus) written in Coptic, which were recovered in 1945 by a farmer from a sealed clay jar, which was buried at the foot of the Nile cliff Jabal al-Tarif in Egypt in the 4th century AD. The burial site was near three ancient Christian monasteries: Chenoboskion, Pbow and Deir al-Malak. This is easily one of the most important discoveries of the last century, and indeed the last millennium, for it contains over 1000 pages of gnostic wisdom long thought destroyed by those who opposed this early formative branch of Christianity. The first complete facsimile of the library was published in 1972.
Many elements of Christianity which have been removed over the years for various reasons are brought to light within its 52 treatises, at last lending clarity and a singularly unique perspective to the spiritual questions of the faithful in Christ.
The Secret Book of John, also known as the Apocryphon of John or the Secret Revelation of John, was written before 180 AD. It first surfaced in Cairo in 1896, in what would later be known as the Berlin Codex.
The Secret Book of John has become the central text for studying the gnostic tradition of antiquity. The creation story it describes was studied extensively by Carl Jung.
The translation in this video is from Marvin W. Meyer's outstanding English translation of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures.
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Link to second half: 27:16
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