Chapter XXII: Appendix: III

THE UNCANONICAL GOSPELS OF EGYPT.

(p. 73).

(i). FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE EGYPTIANS.

The Lord said unto Salome, who asked how long death would prevail,
“As long as ye women bear children. I have come to undo the work of
woman.” And Salome said “Then have I done well in that I have not
born children.” The Lord answered and said “Eat every plant, but
that which has bitterness eat not.” When Salome asked when would be
known the things about which he spake (_i.e._ the Last Judgement)
the Lord said “Whenever ye put off the garment of shame, when the
two become one, and the male with the female, there being neither
male nor female.”

(ii). FROM THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE HEBREWS.

Jesus saith:—“Let not him who seeks cease until he find and when he
finds he shall be astonished; astonished, he shall reach the
Kingdom, and having reached the Kingdom he shall rest.”

(iii). FROM UNCERTAIN SOURCES (about 200 A.D.)

Jesus saith:—“Except ye fast to the world, ye shall in no wise find
the Kingdom of God; and except ye make the sabbath a real sabbath,
ye shall not see the Father.”

Jesus saith:—“Wherever there are two, they are not without God, and
when ever there is one alone, I say, I am with him. Raise the stone
and there thou shalt find me; cleave the wood, and there am I.”

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