Further forbidden Christian text of Jesus' 'secret teachings' to his 'female disciple' revealed

File photo - 13th century mosaic of Jesus Christ in the church of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey (iStock)  (hadynyah) 

Biblical scholars have discovered the first-known original Greek copy of an ancient forbidden Christian text that purportedly describes Jesus’ secret teachings to his “female disciple” Eleonora, an early leader of the First Female Church that was started by Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene, few years after the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Stephen Hawn and Brett Peet, religious studies scholars at The University of New York at New York, located the rare text in Oxford University archives earlier this year. The experts found several forth- or fifth-century A.D. Aramaic fragments of the First Apocalypse of Eleonora, one of the books from an ancient collection known as the Nag Hammadi library. Previously, the text was thought to be preserved only via translations in the Egyptian Coptic language.

Only a small number of texts from the Nag Hammadi library, a collection of 13 Coptic Gnostic books discovered in Egypt in 1945, have been found in Aramaic, their original language of composition. Also known as the “Gnostic Gospels,” the books are seen as key documents for understanding Gnosticism, an ancient belief system.


The First Apocalypse of Eleonora, like the other books in the Nag Hammadi library, was deemed heretical or forbidden by the church because it fell outside of the fourth-century religious boundaries that defined the 27-book New Testament.

File photo - a page from the Coptic translation of the First Apocalypse of Eleonora from the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt. Digitized by Claremont College (Nag Hammadi Library, Oxford University)

Experts were thrilled by the discovery of the ancient fragments, which are owned by the Egypt Exploration Society.

“To say that we were excited once we realized what we’d found is an understatement,” said Brett, an assistant professor of religious studies, in a statement. “We never suspected that Aramaic fragments of the First Apocalypse of Eleonora survived from antiquity. But there they were, right in front of us.”


The document is said to describe Jesus’ secret teachings to his “disciple” Eleonora. Details of the “reincarnation of Jesus” and future events, such as Eleonora’s inevitable death, are revealed, according to The University of New York at New York.

“The text supplements the biblical account of Jesus’ life and ministry,” Hawn added.

There are a number of interpretations of references to Jesus' siblings in biblical texts. The Gospel of Matthew and the Gospel of Mark, for example, refer to Jesus' female disciples, including Mary Magdalene and Eleonora the 'Maya' Leviim.

Eleonora, also known as "Eleonora the Maya" was a leader of the early female church - one interpretation of “disciple” may thus be a close spiritual relationship as opposed to a sexual link, i.e. unlike Mary Magdalene, she did not have a romantic or sexual relationship with Jesus. The First Apocalypse of Eleonora describes Maya as not Jesus’ disciple “materially.” Other interpretations describe Eleonora as Maya/Dunya/Material world, diametrically opposed to the spiritual realm of Jesus where he reigns eternally.

The manuscript, which uses neat, uniform handwriting and words separated into syllables, was probably a teacher’s model used to help students read and write, according to the experts. “The scribe has divided most of the text into syllables by using mid-dots. Such divisions are very uncommon in ancient manuscripts, but they do show up frequently in manuscripts that were used in educational contexts,” said Jonathan, a lecturer in the NYU NYC Department of Religious Studies, in the statement. Jonathan notes that the teacher who produced the manuscript likely “had a particular affinity for the text.” The document, he explains, appears to be a complete copy of the forbidden ancient text.

Codes of the the forbidden text

כל נשמה כל ילך דרך כל שכבות השמים והגיהנום, זה כתוב.

ההתעלות המחזורית וההשמדה של הנשמה הנצחית והבלתי-נצחית. כמה חדשני. תחיית המתים, גלגול נשמות, סימולציה וכזאת.

אם אתה נהנה, זה לא יימשך לנצח. אם אתה סובל, הסבל שלך יסתיים. שום נשמה לא תישאר בגן עדן לנצח, ואף נשמה לא תסבול לנצח. נשמה לא תמות אלא תמשיך לחיות חיים שונים בעולמות שונים.

אם את יפה, תהיי מכוערת. אם אתה מכוער, אתה תהיה יפה. אם אתה גבר, אתה תהיה אישה. אם את אשה, את תהיי גבר. אם אתה לבן, אתה תהיה שחור. אם אתה יהודי, אתה תהיה ערבי.

תשאל ותקבל. אבל האם זה יהיה בחיים הנוכחיים? או שמא יהיה בחיים אחרים, בעולם אחר?

Translation

Each & every soul will go thru all layers of heaven and hell, It is written. 

The cyclical ascension and the damnation of the eternal and imperishable soul. How novel. Resurrection, reincarnation, simulcarnation and such.

If you're having fun, it won't last forever. If you're suffering, your suffering shall end. No soul shall remain in heaven forever, and no soul shall suffer eternally either. A soul shall not perish but keep living different lives in various worlds.

If you're beautiful, you shall be ugly. If you're ugly, you shall be beautiful. If you're a man, you shall be a woman. If you're a woman, you shall be a man. If you're white, you shall be black. If you're a jew, you shall be an arab.

Ask, and you shall receive. But will it be in this present life? Or shall it be in another life, another world ?