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[Footnotes]
1 James M. Robinson, ed., The Nag Hammadi Library (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977).
2 James Talmage, The Great Apostasy (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1909).
3 Hugh Nibley, Mormonism and Early Christianity (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1987).
4 Eugene Seaich, Mormonism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Nag Hammadi Texts (Midvale, UT: Sounds of Zion, 1980).
5 Harold Bloom, The American Religion (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992).
7 Sterling McMurrin, in And More About God (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1992).
8 Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion: The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958).
10 Jonas, 270.
12 Tertullian of Carthage, " Against Hermogenes; Against Marcion; Against the Valentinians." The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol 3 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989). Circa 208.
13 Irenaeus of Lyons, " Against Heresies." The Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 1 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989), 1.7.3. Circa 180.
14 Edgar Hennecke, "The Acts of Thomas," New Testament Apocrypha (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1963);
Willis Barnstone, The Other Bible (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1984).
16 David John Buerger, "The Development of the Mormon Temple Endowment Ceremony," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 20 (Winter 1987): 33-76;
Jerald and Sandra Tanner, Mormonismi Shadow or Reality? (Salt Lake City: Utah Lighthouse Mission, 1987).
17 Wesley Isenberg, "The Gospel of Philip," The Nag Hammadi Library (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1977).
18 Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 1987).
19 Philip Amidon, The Panarion of St. Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, Selected Passages (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), 42.3. Circa 375.
20 Henry Chadwick, Origen: Contra Celsum (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1953), 6.31. Circa 248. Ophite formula.
21 Irenaeus, 1.21. Valentinian formula.
22 Amidon, 26.13. Barbeloite formula.
23 Rudolph, 173. Unknown sect.
24 Jonas, 223.
25 Jonas, 166.
26 Irenaeus, 1.6.4.
27 Isenberg, 139.
28 Ibid, 142.
29 Ibid, 148.
30 Hennecke, loc. cit.
31 Tertullian, "Against the Valentinians," chap. 32.
32 Amidon, 26.1-17
Barnstone, 675
33 Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (New York: Random House, 1979).
35 Joseph Fielding Smith, ed., Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1972], 222
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