Gospel of Mary · The Full Story of the Books the Ground Gave Back · 3 Hour Sleep Story

Four books that nobody set out to find. A storeroom behind a synagogue wall in Cairo that was never emptied, because a page with the name of God on it may not be thrown away, and nine hundred years of paper went up a ladder through a hole in the plaster and stayed there. A grave in the sand at Akhmim in Upper Egypt with a small parchment book laid in beside the body, and in it a gospel that tells the resurrection with a cross that walks out of the tomb and answers a voice from heaven. A book bought in a Cairo shop in January of 1896 by a German scholar who never said where it came from, that went into a drawer in Berlin and waited fifty nine years to be read, through a burst water pipe and two wars, and that turned out to hold the Gospel of Mary, the only gospel we have with a woman's name on it. Tonight all of them, told with the finding stories at their true length and the books read whole where they survive. Mary's vision of the soul climbing past four powers, the four questions and the four answers, and the ten pages in the middle that are simply gone. Andrew doubting, Peter angry, and Levi answering him. And at the end, three warnings, each smaller than the last, about wanting a scrap to say something it does not say. A three hour sleep story, the ninth night of Season Six, The Lost Books.