Laws in the Gospel According to Mary Magdalene

The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene, was translated from the Coptic text Berolinensis Gnosticus 8052, 1. The Gospel of Mary, more descriptively titled the Gospel According to Mary Magdalene, was translated from a fifth-century Coptic text (Berolinensis Gnosticus 8052, 1). While the date of the composition itself is unknown, the manuscript is dated 120 to 180 A.D. We have used the MacRae-Wilson translation.


All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots. For the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone. – Gospel of Mary 4:22-23


There is no sin (of the world), but we make sin when we do the things that are like the nature of adultery, which is called sin. That is why the Good came into our midst, to the essence of every nature in order to restore it to its root. – Gospel of Mary 4:26-27


We become sick and die when we are deprived of the one who can heal us. – Gospel of Mary 4:28


Do not lay down any rules beyond what Christ appointed, and do not give a law like the lawgiver lest you be constrained by it. – Gospel of Mary 4:38


Where the mind is there is the treasure. – Gospel of Mary 5:9


We do not see through the soul nor through the spirit, but the mind that is between the two. – Gospel of Mary 5:11



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References

MacRae, Gordon W., and R. McL. Wilson, Trans. Parrott, Douglas M. Ed. "The Gospel of Mary" The Nag Hammadi Library. Ed. James M. Robinson. San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1981. 471-474.

The Nag Hammadi Library. James M. Robinson, editor. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1988. Partial chapter texts only at Internet Archive, December 15, 2022.