What the Powers-That-Be Don’t Want People to Know…
"There are times when literature is hidden to keep it from
being confiscated by despotic authorities. The Dead Sea Scrolls were Essene
literature discovered below the Qumran monastery. The Essenes were persecuted
by Rome because they were blamed for leading the first century revolt. A cache
of Gnostic literature was discovered near the Nag Hammadi monastery in Egypt.
The Gnostics were persecuted by Christians. There have been other examples of
apocryphal literature in Asia. Confucian literature was once cached in a
basement to keep it safe from state persecution. Members of the Bon Po religion
in Nepal hid their literature from Buddhist persecution. Other texts have been
called apocryphal, but they were never actually hidden from persecutors. They
were merely considered non-canonical because they were written in an alien
language."
Question: Do you have experience reading
apocryphal literature that you can share? What do you think of the idea of
targeting literature to the extent that it needs to be cached by its owners?
(Posted by PrimalSoup for Sophia Sadek)
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