The Gospel of the Four Heavenly Realms is a lost text from the
New Testament apocrypha
The New Testament apocrypha (singular apocryphon) are a number of writings by early Christians that give accounts of Jesus and his teachings, the nature of God, or the teachings of his apostles and of their lives. Some of these writings were cite ...
.
The content has been surmised from various descriptions of it in ancient works by
church fathers. It is thought to be a
gnostic
Gnosticism (from grc, γνωστικός, gnōstikós, , 'having knowledge') is a collection of religious ideas and systems which coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasized pe ...
text, in which aspects of their
esoteric cosmology were expounded, probably framed in the form of a
dialogue between
Jesus
Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label= Hebrew/ Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religiou ...
and the
Apostles.
See also
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List of Gospels
External links
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Four Heavenly Realms
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