From the moment that Karen L. King entered Brown University’s graduate program in religion, in the 1970s, she wanted to study Gnosticism. She was one of several religious-studies students of that era ...

Near the nexus of Hillhurst Avenue and Sunset and Hollywood boulevards, Bishop Stephan Hoeller has presided since 1977 at Ecclesia Gnostica, the tiny, incense-infused chapel of the Gnostic Society.

In December of 1945, a pair of brothers digging for fertilizer near limestone caves near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi discovered an ancient red earthenware jar containing 13 papyrus ...

What does The Da Vinci Code have to do with a letter written by the archbishop of Alexandria in the year 367? As it turns out, quite a lot. Call it part of the Gnostic connection, a long, fine thread ...

There's a useful debunking of some of the historical crapulence in the Da Vinci Code over at Slate. An important point: In Brown's scheme, the Gnostics are also the suppressed source of the true ...