title: The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion
author:  Jean Doresse 
description: A collection of sacred Gnostic texts, believed by many scholars to surpass the Dead Sea Scrolls in importance, discovered in the late 1940s after being concealed for sixteen centuries. Includes the famous Gospel According to Thomas.
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  The Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit 
  Translated by Alexander Bohlig and Frederik Wisse 
  Two versions of the formerly lost  Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, also inappropriately called the Coptic 
  Gospel of the Egyptians (which is quite distinct from the Greek Gospel of the Egyptians), were among the codices 
  in the Nag Hammadi library, discovered in 1945. 
  The main contents concern the Sethian Gnostic understanding of how the earth came into being, how Seth, in the 
  Gnostic interpretation, is incarnated as Jesus in order to release people's souls from the evil prison that is creation. 
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   The holy book of the Egyptians about the great invisible Spirit, the Father whose name 
  cannot be uttered, he who came forth from the heights of the perfection, the light of the 
  light of the aeons of light, the light of the silence of the providence <and> the Father of 
  the silence, the light of the word and the truth, the light of the incorruptions