Prodigal Soul, The

This inspirational collection  of allegories and anecdotes includes seven parables of Jesus (with two little-known ones from the ‘fifth’ gospel, the Gospel of Thomas), an allegorical interpretation of the Adam and Eve story, and others of a gnostic character from Manichaean and Mandaean sources, the Nag Hammadi library, and New Testament apocryphal writings. Included among them is the well-known Robe of Glory.