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Before I retell any part of the Gnostic myth, let me just explain why I have included the Gnostic cosmogony in Dark Mirrors of Heaven. I had found it interesting reading, comparing what most people are familiar with the Genesis and the Gospels. The texts of the Nag Hammadi Library is very different to anything encounter to the Bible. It is controversial, yet it is very enlightening and thought provoking. The Gnostic churches were trying to explain that there was far more to Jesus' teaching than what is found in the canonical gospels or from the letters of the apostles. It was for this difference between Gnosticism and the Roman churches at the time that led the Gnostics to be branded as heretic in their writing and teaching, and this was followed by the destruction of all Gnostic writings by the fourth ...