Ancient words of wisdom

Ancient words of wisdom, from Lincoln Journal Star takes a peek into the Nag Hammadi documents.

Ancient books written in Coptic, a language related to ancient Egyptian, and contained writings of Gnosticism, a religious movement that both influenced and competed with early Christianity.

“Human beings have an infinite imagination that finds itself confined in a finite body,” Turner said. “That gives us a desire to go beyond that kind of condition, to speculate about ultimate reality, to imagine an invisible universe and even construct a map of it.”

Via Bob Cox