To anyone interested in gnosticsm, I thoroughly recommend the book: "Jesus and the Goddess" by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy (publ. Thorsons ISBN 0-00-714545-4). There are lots of very interesting links to articles on the subject and to original source material, on their website

In the introduction to the book, they write:
"Fundamentally, all we are suggesting is that we listen to the losers in the civil war that bedevilled Christianity in the third and fourth centuries between the Roman Church and those it branded heretics and did everything in its power to silence. The traditional history was written by the winners, but we have come to believe that the account of the origins and meaning of Christianity given by those dissident Christians is far closer to the truth."

It makes fascinating reading.

- jeanie