{"product_id":"the-secret-book-of-john-the-gnostic-gospel-of-creation-and-hidden-knowledge-in-clear-modern-english-with-introduction-and-commentary-paperback","title":"The Secret Book of John: The Gnostic Gospel of Creation and Hidden Knowledge in Clear Modern English, with Introduction and Commentary - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eClement Aldridge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuried in a clay jar for sixteen hundred years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn December of 1945, a farmer digging for soft soil outside the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi struck something solid. Beneath the ground was a sealed jar, and inside it sat thirteen leather bound books that the early church had spent centuries working to erase from memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne text appeared in that collection more often than any other. This is that text.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt tells the story of creation again, and almost nothing in it is familiar.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe god who shapes the material world is not the supreme and perfect being. He is a flawed, ignorant, and jealous lesser power, born from a mistake made far above him, convinced he rules alone because he has never seen what stands over him. The garden is a carefully arranged trap. The forbidden tree is the one true source of awakening. The serpent acts from a corrupted motive and still manages to serve a purpose it never understood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd buried inside every human being, according to this account, is a spark of something real that the rulers of this world have worked tirelessly and unsuccessfully to keep asleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bishop named Irenaeus attacked this teaching by name in the second century. Copies were destroyed. The communities who read it were declared heretical. It survived only because its keepers hid it, exactly as its own closing lines instructed them to.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat this edition gives you\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe complete long recension, the fullest surviving form of the text, rendered into continuous modern English with no brackets, no ellipses, and no scholarly notation cluttering the page.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCommentary after every passage, explaining what the text means, why it says what it says, and what the ancient authors were arguing against.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGenesis placed directly alongside it, so you can see precisely where the two accounts diverge and what each one is claiming.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe complete angel catalogue, every name governing every bone, organ, and sense, preserved in full for study and reference.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConnections to Plato, Kabbalah, Sufi teaching, and Carl Jung, tracing how this same pattern kept resurfacing across traditions that had no contact with one another.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA closing chapter on living the text today, with practical questions you can actually sit with.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo prior knowledge of Gnosticism, Coptic Egypt, or early Christian history is required. Every name is introduced before you meet it. Every unfamiliar term is explained where it appears and again in the glossary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you need is the willingness to sit with a very old question, asked by a grieving man on a mountain outside a temple, about who made this world, and why.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScroll up and begin the descent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 126\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.27 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 30, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56438108717361,"sku":"9780311918850","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1004\/9532\/7537\/files\/cnG9ygVkxK9780311918850.webp?v=1790178671","url":"https:\/\/mitchellofficial.com\/products\/the-secret-book-of-john-the-gnostic-gospel-of-creation-and-hidden-knowledge-in-clear-modern-english-with-introduction-and-commentary-paperback","provider":"MITCHELL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}