The Gospel of Thomas was among the documents found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in the 1940s, and was considered to be “heretical” by emerging orthodox Christianity. The Gospel, which contains a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus, represents a form of Christianity that has affinities with Jewish and pagan mystical traditions of the first and second centuries and has echoes in American Transcendentalism, Jungian psychology and process thought. The class will be an extensive reading of the sayings that explore their place in the culture of the time, and suggests its resounding in thought of later cultures.