An Aberrant Gnostic

 In a republished The American Weekly article in the The San Francisco Examiner , published on April 07, 1957,  we get the first quotes of early translations from the lost "Fifth Gospel."  As the article states, the Apostle Thomas recorded these sayings while with Jesus and when Jesus spoke at Capernaum, on the Mount, by the shores of Galilee, in Bethany, and on the road to Jerusalem.  Quotes reference included:  Jesus said: He that is near Me is near the fire. He that is far from Me is far from the fire.  Jesus said: He that searcheth findeth.  He that findeth will be astonished. He that is astonished will be in admiration.  And he that knoweth admiration will reign over the world. And Jesus said: Man is like unto a clever fisherman who casts his net into the sea draws it up full of little fishes.  And among the little fishes he finds one good big fish.  And the wise fisherman takes the on big fish and throws back into the sea all the l...

 Roughly one week after the initial report by The Guardian , a second update was given by the newspaper regarding the Nag Hammadi Library .  Published on June 24, 1949, this article gives, what I can only imagine, a summation of what these works represent per the initial translations made by M. Dorresse at the time.  To quote the paper, the worldview of the Gnostics per the then newly translated Gnostic scriptures is that : [Gnostisicm and said scriptures] will turn out to be the product of provincial and rather humble intellectuals out of touch with the big cultural centres.  [The library] will cast light on the feelings and aspirations of educated men, small officials, merchants, and the like in the smaller towns of Egypt and the Near East during the first century BC and the first centuries AD. No mention of the documents giving hope of enlightenment or hinting at the true religion of the world...this article states that the ancient texts were simply the dreams and...