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THE ATLAS OF THE ALIEN SPARK

1979 — it goes public

1979 · The Gnostic Gospels
nature
Pagels publishes The Gnostic Gospels. It wins the National Book Award and sells over a million copies, and the second century becomes a topic at dinner tables.

The moment this corpus stopped belonging to specialists — with everything gained and everything lost in that transition, both of which this pack tries to hold.
rhymes with
sephirahmalkhut
whyArrival in the world, at scale.
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pagels · popular · authority
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