Gnostic Studies

The Apocryphal Gospel of St. Peter : A long forgotten manuscript of the Gospel of Peter.

This book was transcribed and compiled in 1835 and an additional parchment of the manuscript was found and published two years later in 1837. This edition includes the orginal book and the additional supplement. Candlemas Day was written or transcribed in 551 CE by Jhan Parfre. This is a facsimile edition of the original publications.

Man knows that there is such a thing as love, but he does not know what love is. He knows that there is such a thing as love from common speech, as when it is said, he loves me, a king loves his subjects, and subjects love their king, a husband loves his wife, a mother her children, and conversely; also, this or that one loves his country, his fellow citizens, his neighbor; and likewise of things abstracted from person, as when it is said, one loves this or that thing. Large print 15 point font.

Why should an astronomer write a commentary on the Bible Because commentators as a rule are not astronomers, and therefore either pass over the astronomical allusions of Scripture in silence, or else annotate them in a way which, from a scientific point of view, leaves much to be desired.

THE books of this author, that are already published, declare sufficiently the high worth of his deep writings: But of all the benefits that do accrue thereby it is one inestimable excellency of them that they help the minds of all sorts of people, that will take pains to read and consider them, in the understanding of the holy Scriptures: and that satisfactorily and convincingly, without need of any reference to the vast commentaries of authors, either in the learned or modern tongues.

The power of oil, the anointing oil, the magic of oil.... Oil was revered in early Semitic cultures.

How many of these books and manuscripts were denounced, banned, cursed, no doubt burned and
shredded-and last but not least, lost (and conveniently forgotten) for more than a thousand years. But with an uncanny persistence, the Book of Jasher has found its way back into circulation.