The Luminous Gospels

The very first week of this summer, and the opening of the Wisdom Schools here in Texas, saw the publication of The Luminous Gospels authored by myself, Ward Bauman and Cynthia Bourgeault. This has been a years' long project to finally bring into being a text that contains three of the early Oriental Christian Gospels: The Gospels of Thomas, Mary Magdalene and Philip in a single volume. As part of a family of eastern (Oriental Christian) texts, these Gospels illustrate the stream of perennial wisdom that flowed from the teachings and tradition of Jesus; a stream that was subsequently lost or moved underground in the western worlds of dogmatic Christianity. These three Gospels live and breathe the world of images and imagining that come from the interior vision that formed in the Jewish, Semitic, Oriental worlds of the Christian East (East of Jerusalem). This volume of new texts invite us to begin a fresh dialogue with the roots of our faith that will balance the emphasis on exterior conformity to doctrine and creed in the West with the need to practice an interior realization of the singular Presence that is our true Source that was the vision of the East.

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