A great review of Secret History of the Gnostics by David Halpin at his Occult Book Review blog. https://youtu.be/2OIwv4FChn0

Here’s a preliminary list of contents for Gnostic tendencies. It already adds up to quite a lot of material.   Introduction:  Why I Write About Gnosticism A Whirlwind Tour Reading the Gnostics Gnostic Scripture The Gospel of Thomas: Translatyion and Esoteric Interpretation The Hard choice: Authoritative Discourse Obnoxious Gnostics: The Apocalypse of Peter 14 Gnostic […]

A few months ago I was lucky enough to get the chance to ask Alan Moore, author of Watchmen, V For Vendetta, From hell, Promethea et al, a question. At the moment I can’t really divulge the circumstances but maybe I can say more a bit later. Alan became a magician at the age of […]

Do you have Gnostic Tendencies?   Announcing an Indiegogo fundraiser for Gnostic Tendencies: Collected Writings on Gnosticism and Lost Gospels. https://igg.me/at/GnosticT  

When we got together for this interview there were so many technical problems that one of the interviewers had to drop out of the conversation. We did it in two sections, a 20 minute general video interview and an extended hour long discussion, which was more leisurely and varied and which I particularly enjoyed. The […]

I was interviewed recently by Jesse Waugh, an artist who is exploring the esoteric world in a series of podcast interviews. The interview was focused on the Cathars but we went off on several enjoyable tangents. you can listen to it here:-   http://www.jessewaugh.com/radio/2016/3/10/andrew-phillip-smith-lost-teachings-of-the-cathars

Lost Teachings of the Cathars also has a review in The Scientific and Medical Network review. this only happens to be online because someone else whose book was reviewed posted a couple of pages of the PDF online, and these two pages included half of the review of my own book. So, if you enjoy […]

Another good review, this time from the Association of Mormon Letters website. I hardly know anything substantial about the LDS. I did exchange emails with the late Welsh poet and short story writer Leslie Norris, who was a long-term poet-in-residence at Brigham Young University in Utah. And once in a London pub a man came […]

Phenomena Magazine has the first reviews of Lost Teachings of the Cathars and Secret History of the Gnostics http://www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk/ Title:               The Secret History of The Gnostics Author:          Andrew Philip Smith Publisher:       Watkins ISBN:             978-1-78028-821-5 Price:              £10.99 This first class new book is one of several dealing with the ever-mysterious and poorly understood subject of Gnosticism. […]

It is a baby Jesus, And he stoppeth one of three. ‘By thy chubby cheeks and innocent eye, Now wherefore stopp’st thou me? . . . He holds him with his dimpled hand, ‘There was a crib,’ quoth he. ‘Hold off! unhand me smooth-cheeked loon!’ Eftsoons his hand dropt he. . . . ‘I fear […]