THE SECRET BOOK OF JOHN (THE APOCRYPHON OF JOHN)

The Secret Book of John, also called the Apocryphon of John, is a second-century Sethian Gnostic Christian text of secret teachings. Since it was known to the church father Irenaeus, it must have been written before around 180. It describes Jesus appearing and giving secret knowledge (gnosis) to John the Apostle. The author describes this having occurred after Jesus "has gone back to the place from which he came". This book is reputed to bear this revelation.

There are four separate surviving manuscripts of "The Secret Book of John". Three of these were found in the Nag Hammadi codices in 1945, while the fourth was found independently 50 years earlier from another site in Egypt. All four versions date to the 4th century. Three of these appear to be independently produced Coptic translations of an original Greek text. Two of the four are similar enough that they probably represent copies of a single source.

The contents of this The Secret Book of John app includes:

★ Prologue

★ The Inexpressible One

★ The Origin of Reality

★ Structures of the Divine Mind

★ A Crisis that Became the World

★ The Fashioning of This World

★ Humanity Begins

★ Construction of the Human Body

★ Yaldabaoth Deceived

★ The Beginning of Salvation

★ Adam in Yaldabaoth's Paradise

★ Woman Comes into Being

★ The Children of Seth Populate the World

★ Six Questions about the Soul

★ Three Plots against Humanity

★ The Providence Hymn

★ Recommended Resources

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