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Podcast: Spiritual Awakening Radio
Episode: The Gnostic Gospels You've Never Heard of: The Mandaean Scriptures
Description: The Gnostic Gospels You've Never Heard of: The Mandaean ScripturesThe Nag Hammadi Library represents the prose of the Gnostics, but it is the Mandaean scriptures that give us their poetry! Today, meet the Mandaeans. The story of the Mandaeans somewhat resembles the experience of Native American tribes; may they survive; may their ancient wisdom be shared with humanity. John the Baptist is one of the greatest prophets of Mandaean Gnosticism. According to scholars of Mandaean studies like Werner Foerster, indeed the origins of the Mandaeans do go back to the Jewish tradition of the first century...