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Title: The Gnosis of the Light

Author: F. Lamplugh

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[Frontispiece: THE GNOSTIC CROSS (Codex Brucianus)]

THE GNOSIS OF THE LIGHT

A Translation of the Untitled Apocalypse
contained in the Codex Brucianus
with Introduction and Notes

BY

Rev. F. LAMPLUGH, B.A. (Cantab.)

London

John M. Watkins

21 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, W.C.2

1918

I have loved you, and have longed to give you Life.

Blessed is he who crucifieth the World and hath not suffered the World
to crucify him.

Blessed is the man who knoweth these things, who hath brought Heaven
down upon Earth and hath taken Earth and hath lifted it up unto Heaven,
and hath so wrought that the Midst is a Nothing.

_The Book of the Gnoses of the
Invisible God._

CONTENTS

Introduction

The Gnosis of the Light

Notes

INTRODUCTION

This translation of the ancient Gnostic work, called by Schmidt, the
_Untitled Apocalypse_, is based chiefly on Amelineau's French version
of the superior MS. of the Codex Brucianus, now in the Bodleian
Library, Oxford. In making the rendering I have studied the context
carefully, and have not neglected the Greek words interspersed with the
Coptic; also I have availed myself of Mr Mead's translation of certain
important passages from Schmidt's edition, for purposes of comparison.
Anything that I have added to bring out the meaning of the Gnostic
author now and again, I have enclosed in brackets. Such suggestions
have always arisen from the text. I fancy my English version will be
found to give a reasonably accurate idea of the contents of one of the
most abstruse symbolical