Jung and the Lost Gospels Insights into the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library

by Hoeller, Stephan A.; Singer, June

• ISBN13: 9780835606462
• ISBN10: 0835606465
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-10-01
• Publisher: Quest Books

Summary

The "Lost Gospels" refer to the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library, both discovered in the 1940s. The Nag Hammadi Library consists of writings found by two peasants who unearthed clay jars in 1945 in upper Egypt. These did not appear in English for 32 years, because the right to publish was contended by scholars, politicians, and antique dealers. The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in clay jars in Palestine by a goatherder in 1947, weathered similar storms. The first team of analysts were mostly Christian clergy, who weren't anxious to share material that frightened church leaders. As Dr. Hoeller shows, they rightly feared the documents would reveal information that might detract from unique claims of Christianity. Indeed, the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi Library both contradict and complement accepted tenets of the Old and New Testaments.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
June Singer
Preface	xvii
Acknowledgments	xix
Prologue: How the West Was Lost: Loss and Recovery of Psychological Spirituality	1	(14)
Part I: The Other Tradition
A Tale of the Two Heresies: Nag Hammadi and Qumran	15	(14)
Saintly Rebels: The People of the Scrolls	29	(13)
Essene Messiah and Gnostic Christ: From Prototype to Archetype	42	(20)
The Feminine Wisdom and the Coming of the Knowing Ones	62	(16)
The Odyssey of Gnosis	78	(21)
Part II: The Other Reality
Errant Wisdom: The Myth of Sophia	99	(18)
The Dancing Savior: The Myth of the Gnostic Christ	117	(19)
The Princes of the World: The Myth of the Tyrant Angels	136	(18)
A Traveler from Heaven: The Myth of ``Song of the Pearl''	154	(12)
And the Myth Goes On: Some Modern Gnostic Myths	166	(19)
Part III: The Other Gospels
The Secret Sayings of Jesus: The Gospel of Thomas	185	(17)
Means of Transformation: The Gospel of Philip	202	(15)
Redemption and Ecstasy: The Gospel of Truth and The Gospel of the Egyptians	217	(15)
Epilogue: From Hiroshima to the Secret Gospels: The Alternative Future of Human History	232	(15)
Notes	247	(8)
Index	255