Drawing on a wide array of sources, this anthology sets out to analyze the concepts of mystery and secrecy that occur in the ritual and rhetoric of antique Mediterranean religion, with an emphasis on Gnosticism, Christianity, and Paganism.
Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, authors of The Jesus Mysteries and Jesus and the Lost Goddess, return with a powerful indictment of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic fundamentalism and a passionate reinterpretation of Gnostic spirituality. According to Freke and Gandy, religiously i…
Two experts on world religion offer a critique of Christian, Jewish, and Islamic fundamentalism and the violence and intollerance spawned by it and present an affirmation of the teachings of Gnostic spirituality and its promise of universal love and global peace.