Gospel of Thomas

[LBernier at tribune.com]

     For anyone who's interested, the majority of the Nag Hammadi Library 
     (from whence comes the Gospel of Thomas) can be found online at:
     
     http://www.oslonett.no/~noetic/nh.htm
     
     Unfortunately, my personal favorite, On the Origin of the World 
     (gnostic heresy at its wacky best) is not one of the available 
     documents.
     
     St. Jean the Backslid


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Subject: Gospel of Thomas
Author:  <MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu> at Internet_tco
Date:    7/30/96 1:08 PM


Since I'm the guy who gets hag's flamethrusters reared up so often w/ what he 
takes to be--religious--statements, just wanna toss in that the apocryphal 
epigra ph 
from the Gospel of Thomas in GR--
     
Dear Mom, I put a couple of people in Hell today
     
--got me interested in the gospel of Thomas (boy, that's some coincidence, with 
t he 
name thing and all, isn't it?) which I dug up and read, and the picture of 
Christ
     
presented there would even meet w/ your approval, hag old nun,  And of course 
the fact that the Catholic church (neither Roman, Greek, Coptic or any other I 
kn ow 
of) won't recognize Thomas's gospel as legitimate might indicate that 
Pynchon's--redemption--of it, and perhaps his connection to the spirit, has 
nothi ng 
to do with any church, or state, or state church or church/state or theme park. 
     
john m
     
ps  Not even hinting at the question, best reserved for another list, that the 
ch urch 
functions by contradicting everything Christ said and did.