THE ATLAS OF THE ALIEN SPARK

Elaine Pagels

Pagels

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The historian who took the Nag Hammadi texts out of the seminar room. The Gnostic Gospels (1979) argued that the fight was not only about metaphysics but about AUTHORITY — who may teach, who may claim a vision, whether anything is needed between a person and what they know.

She is the reason most readers have heard of Thomas at all. Her authority thesis is contested and productive: the argument it started is still the live one.

rhymes with

sephirahmalkhut

whyMalkhut is where a thing becomes public and takes effect in the world. She brought this corpus down into general readership.