The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity.
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. xviii + 302pp. Maroon cloth with white lettering to spine. Bibliography & index. From the dust jacket: "The first English treatment to give a full-scale picture of the heretical world of gnosticism, using the Gnostic documents themselves as sources. For the first time in the English language is a full-scale picture of the heretical world of Gnosticism, whose mythology and symbolism were defeated in competition for the minds of men, while the biblical creeds survived." Light bruising to spine ends, top edge darkened and dusty, else a tight, bright VG+ copy in lightly rubbed VG+ dust jacket (Spine of dust jacket a bit darkened and chafed at ends, a few light marks to panels and tiny closed tears to edges, not clipped). Item #62366
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