Gnostic Practitioner's Workbook - Implementing the Seven Spiritual Principles of Gnosticism in Daily Life;

In December 1945, an Arab peasant uncovered thirteen papyrus books bound in leather and stored in earthenware jars buried deep in the Egyptian sand near Nag Hammadi. After black market sales and circumstances woven with intrigue, some of the manuscripts were seized by the Egyptian government and placed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo; the remaining pirated texts were purchased from an American antiquities dealer by the Jung Foundation. Dr. Gilles Quispel, distinguished religious historian, and his colleagues translated some of the ancient documents. The remaining texts were disseminated for translation by an international team of scholars through the efforts of Professor James Robinson. Amazingly, the thirteen codices (fifty-two texts) discovered in Nag Hammadi contained numerous documents written by authors who extolled a secret gospel, Gnosticism. Among these documents were The Gospel of Thomas and The Gospel of Philip, both describing a Jesus quite different from that depicted in the New Testament. The Jesus in these texts taught a philosophy based on the concept of a divine SPIRIT residing within each individual and the power of that SPIRIT to create and alter reality.
This practical workbook and the spiritual exercises in it are based upon principles of Gnosticism derived by the author from analysis of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic Gospels. It is not necessary for you to fully understand these principles in order to reap their benefits in your life, though each principle is briefly defined with quotations from the gospel/gospels at the beginning of each chapter. In addition, there is an annotated bibliography at the back of the book for suggested study. The seven chapters of this workbook are The Seven Spiritual Principles of Gnosticism and within each chapter are specific methods for applying these spiritual principles.