The Gnostic Library
The lost gospels, complete and honest.
Read the gnostic gospels and the texts left out of the Bible — the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of Judas, Thunder Perfect Mind, and more. Complete public domain translations, free. Real manuscripts, named translators, and the gaps shown as gaps.
Read the texts themselves
Most sites talk about these texts. This one serves them — section by section, with standard scholarly numbering you can cite.
The Gospel of Thomas
The Gospel of Thomas is a collection of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, preserved complete in Coptic in Nag Hammadi Codex II and in three Greek fragments from Oxyrhynchus.
Mark M. MattisonThe Gospel of Mary
The Gospel of Mary is an early Christian text in which Mary Magdalene comforts the frightened disciples after the resurrection and teaches them what the Savior told her privately — until Peter and Andrew challenge her right to speak.
Mark M. MattisonThunder, Perfect Mind
Thunder, Perfect Mind is a poem from Nag Hammadi Codex VI in which a female divine voice proclaims herself in relentless paradox: 'I am the first and the last.
The Gnostic LibraryThe Gospel of Judas
The Gospel of Judas is a second-century Sethian text in which Jesus laughs at his disciples' piety and gives private teaching to Judas Iscariot — the only disciple who understands who Jesus really is.
Mark M. MattisonThe Gospel of Philip
The Gospel of Philip is a Valentinian anthology of reflections on sacraments, marriage, resurrection, and the names of Christ, preserved in Nag Hammadi Codex II.
Mark M. MattisonThe Gospel of Truth
The Gospel of Truth is a Valentinian meditation on the good news that the Father is not unknowable after all — error and forgetfulness, not sin, are the human problem, and knowledge of the Father is their cure.
Mark M. MattisonUnderstand what you're reading
What is Gnosticism?
The ancient movement that taught salvation through knowledge — and why its scriptures were buried for 1,600 years.
The Nag Hammadi Discovery
In 1945 an Egyptian farmer struck a sealed jar with his mattock. Inside were thirteen codices that rewrote early Christian history.
The Demiurge
The lesser creator-god of gnostic myth — Yaldabaoth, the blind craftsman who mistook himself for the only God.
What books were removed from the Bible?
The honest answer — what was excluded, what was never in, and where you can read each text today.
Our standard is simple
Every line on this site traces to a manuscript. Renderings are labeled renderings — never passed off as literal translation.
Where the papyrus is broken, you'll see brackets — not someone's guess smoothed into the text.
Every text credits its translator and its manuscript: Nag Hammadi codices, the Berlin Codex, Codex Tchacos, the Akhmîm fragment.