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The Lost Gospels

An exploration of the Nag Hammadi texts and Gnostic Christianity, from lost gospels buried in the Egyptian desert to their resurrection in modern spiritual movements.

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Chapters

11 total
  1. 01Chapter One - The Jar in the Desert
  2. 02Chapter Two - The Lost Gospel Club
  3. 03Chapter Three - Who Were the Gnostics?
  4. 04Chapter Four - Gospel of Thomas — The Sayings Nobody Quoted
  5. 05Chapter Five - God, the Impostor
  6. 06Chapter Six - Mary Magdalene, Apostle of the Apostles
  7. 07Chapter Seven - Blasphemy or Blueprint?
  8. 08Chapter Eight - Resurrection Rewritten
  9. 09Chapter Nine - Modern Gnosticism — From Heretics to Hashtags
  10. 10Chapter Ten - What They Tried to Bury
  11. 11Epilogue
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Dedications, notices, acknowledgments, author notes, and short passages from this book.

The Lost Gospels

The Lost Gospels
Inside the Nag Hammadi Library

by JJ

Dedication

For the ones who were told not to ask.
The ones who looked anyway.
And the ones who knew that something didn’t sit right —
but didn’t stop digging.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


BIG SHOUTOUT TO Yaldabaoth for giving the worst TED Talk in cosmic history and creating the material world by accident.

Also, thank you to the anonymous Gnostic scribes who wrote all this down, somehow didn’t get murdered immediately, and then buried it in a clay jar like a spiritual time bomb.

Finally, thank you to the Church councils who banned this stuff so hard it became interesting again.

Couldn’t have done it without you.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


JAMES JOHNSON IS just the narrator. He didn’t write these gospels. He didn’t translate the Coptic. He doesn’t believe a snake gave humanity secret knowledge or that a space tyrant made the universe out of jealousy and bad vibes.

But he’s read enough to know this:

You’re not supposed to read these stories.

And that’s exactly why you should.

COPYRIGHT


© 2025 JAMES JOHNSON. All rights reserved.

This book is based on real historical texts that were unearthed in Egypt in 1945. While the commentary, structure, and sarcasm are the author’s, the words attributed to Jesus, Sophia, Yaldabaoth, and friends are drawn from actual Gnostic writings.

The author makes no claims about their literal truth.

He’s just telling you what was found.

And what was buried.

And what still makes people uncomfortable.

This is not theology. This is archaeology.

Any spiritual side effects are on you.