Forbidden Books Of Heresy: Revealing the Secrets of the Gnostic Scriptures From UFOs to Jesus' Love of Mary

This is another book based on the Gnostic gospels. It starts with how the Nag Hammadi texts were found and points out that the basic meaning of gnosis is knowledge.

Before I get into what the book is about I do have one problem with it right off. The book has a shortened title which keeps appearing over and over in the regular text. At one point I counted and it was appearing every four to five pages. That's a rather massive editorial miss and should have been removed before the book was released.

The book notes that Gnosticism revolves around looking within oneself. It also deals with the feminine aspect of God. That's two things right there and got a lot of the Church leaders really angry.

The Thunder, Perfect Mind is one of the books discussed, centered around the female approach to spirituality. The Gospel of Mary is part of that. (Some of that gospel is missing, unfortunately. It also includes a part where Peter gets really mad at Mary Magdalene.)

The book throws in alien/human hybrids.

The Illuminator of Knowledge is another book covered along with the Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles. It has a man that can change his appearances and who gives good instructions for people.

This indicates that Jesus had the ability to change his physical appearance at will (which could be one reason why Mary mistook him for a gardener.) The book also covers The Gospel of Judas and the Tripartitite Tractate where God talks about Jesus.

There's also The Gospel of the Egyptian with different versions of the story of the garden of Eden. There's also the Book of Jubilees which rewrote history somewhat. The Book of Jasher is next which seems to be older than most books of the Bible. There's also The Book of Enoch and a group called the Watchers and giants then material on Blavatsky and Carl Jung.

When you read it, it comes obvious that the Gnostic gospels differed from each other in various ways. Some present a totally different view of Jesus than the regular books do. It's also interesting in that the author leaves out The Book of Thomas which consists only of sayings from Jesus which appear to be sort of a first version, many of those sayings appearing in the accepted Bible but in slightly altered forms.

It's a decent overview of some of the Gnostic gospels but doesn't quite match the quality of some other books I have read on the same subject.