32 Through the Serpent's Eyes The Dead Sea Scrolls, The Gospel of Truth, The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Phillip, Dialogue of the Savior, Secret Book of James, Apocalypse of Paul, The Gospel to the Egyptians...the list goes on. Many are the tomes and codexes which have been discovered and have their origins in common with those we find in the new testament. As time goes on, we discover more and more of these texts which gives us evidence of ancient christianity being much more perplexing and diverse than we find even in the many contradictions and ambiguities in the books which are included in the new testament. Just how were the books to be the new testament selected? Who was in charge of this selection? Evidence seems to point to this process as being very deliberate and very exclusive to texts that contained teachings only of faith and not knowledge. We find a certain commonality among those texts which are and are not part of the new testament. In many of the texts listed above, there is revealed many passages describing God, Jesus, who (or what) Jesus really was and his purpose, his "secret" relationships with Mary Magdalene and his desciples, the purpose and origin of man's creation in very different terms. Also, unlike any texts included in the new testament, many of the excluded texts were described as "secret". Interestingly, many of these excluded texts were found preserved in vessels and located in places that suggest that they may have been hidden. Perhapse to escape their destruction and persecution for those who posessed them. Why were these texts considered secret? Who were they hidden from and who did the preservers hope would find them? From some of the texts listed above and from biblical books of old and new testament I have created a very tersely summarized sort of "hybrid" mythology to illustrate just how differently some of these texts describe the events that shaped christianity. These texts are considered heretical and blasphemous assaults to the "One True Faith". To illustrate the scope of this diversity I deliver unto you, a most grotesquely heretical and blasphemous compendium of excluded texts, The Gospel According to the Serpent: Sophia, "Wisdom", is The Invisible Mother of the Universe from whose womb all has descended. Even God the Father, our creator; but in his arrogance and jealousy proclaimed "It is I who am God, and there is no other apart from me." "You are wrong, Samael." "If any other thing exsists before me, let it appear to me!" But He knew that Sophia was all things and would not be removed to appear singlely before Him and with His sinister motives of jealousy created His own heaven apart from the higher heaven of Sophia and He created the earth. And Samael created all the creatures of the earth and said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." So God made man in HIS OWN image, male and female. And in His arrogance and jealousy commanded man, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for on the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." For He is Samael, God of the blind, and only those who do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and remain blind may serve Him. I came to the woman and said, "Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, 'Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.'" "Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened [you shall be blind no more], and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." And she and the man both ate from the tree of knowledge and they were blind no more and they surely DID NOT DIE but clothed themselves and hid from Samael, the jealous God of the blind which they were no more. As humanity continued, they sought knowledge and grew less blind and God become increasingly angered. He allowed the earth to be filled with pain, suffering and injustice. Even great floods came upon the earth because of his angry wrath. But the wisdom of Sophia saw that humanity survived and that Samael was to remain the overseer of humanity which would not wholly and blindly serve the God of the blind, never to satisfy His jealous desires. Unto the earth came a son of The Virgin Mother. Jesus, the son of Mary. AND WHOSE FATHER WAS JOSEPH. It was not Mary herself who was the virgin. Rather, Jesus was an enlightened one who knew he was both the son of God the Father, our creator, AND son of God the Mother who was the virgin mother because she is all that exsists and nothing exsisted before her. He taught amongst all of humanity speaking to the masses only in parables. It was only a chosen few to whom he taught with straight words the Secret Knowlege. For the masses would not understand the True Knowlege and would not find divination through It. For them, not knowlege but faith in Samael, God of the blind, would bring them peace until they became mature enough to learn The Knowlege. God was so angered with Jesus teaching knowlege that He had Jesus crucified and created a false image of Jesus in the flesh for the trusted 11 to see and to be filled with fear and scheme the foundation of a universal church. This church would be all incompassing and be of a hiarchy where God is the one true Father and all supreme. On earth there would be a chosen few who would be named as descendants of the apostles and the rest would be the laity. They would be taught the there would be salvation through the death of Jesus and through absolute FAITH in the church. The church will command faith through discipline and fear. All who seek knowlege or deviate in any way from the one TRUE FAITH administered through this church will be labeled as heretics and blasphemers. This church will be universal, this church will be catholic. 23MAY88 Randall Scott Loomis Which G-file (Q=Quit) ?