books attributed to Paul and John. Whatever might be said of the rest of the Nag Hamadi library, no single passage of this Gospel is so Gnostic as to be inconsistent with the New Testament.

In somewhat more primitive language, as if this were indeed an earlier, less "literary" version, many of Jesus' most familiar parables and sayings are here. With them is another theme, first stated in Logion 22:

"Jesus said to them: When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer . . . and when you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female ...then shall you enter the Kingdom."

Log. 37: "His disciples said: When wilt thou be revealed to us and when will we see thee? Jesus said: When you take off your clothing without being ashamed...."

Log. 79: "Blessed is the womb which has not conceived and the breasts which have not suckled."

Log. 106: "Jesus said: When you make the two one, you shall become sons of Man...."

And finally, in the concluding Logion 114: "Simon Peter said to them: Let Mary go out from among us, because women are not worthy of the Life. Jesus said: See, I shall lead her, so that I will make her male, that she too may become a living spirit, resembling you males. For every woman who makes herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven."

This most important find, already rated by many Biblical scholars as equal in authenticity to the canonical gospels, coupled with the new translation of such passages as Matthew 5:26 in Lamsa's new Peshitta translation of the Bible, from ancient Aramaic texts (Jesus castigates those who condemn homosexuals), and other materials now being uncovered or reinterpreted, should go a long way toward lifting

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the stigma that latter-day Christianty has unjustly placed on the homosexual. Perhaps it is time for homosexuals to begin to "search the scriptures," both old and new.

-James Kepner, Jr. ONE Quarterly Editor.

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and uneven new book won't likely agree with him.

"I writhed at what the gossip would be," he says, "for every reader who saw my piece there would be ten or a hundred who would hear that Mailer was writing for a faggot magazine. It would be taken for granted I was homosexual-how disagreeable! I used to wish that One Magazine would fail, and be gone forever.'

The Jan. '55 article from ONE which Mailer reprints in his fat new book didn't sell as many magazines on the newsstands as we had hoped -we still have plenty left at 25c per. Aside from his unconvincing attempts (except regarding General Cummings) to analyze certain of his fictional characters as homosexual the article was received and appreciated by us as a sincere expression of the view that those who believe in tolerance and understanding need to extend it to homosexuals as well as to racial and religious minorities. It seems the new Mailer is too hip for such conventionally pious views.

A senseless series of teen-age gang murders in NYC led in Sept. to heavy police roundups of youths in Central Park, Times Square and the Village, causing Robert Firkin of the Legal Aid Society to protest that such mass arrests involved possible violation of civil rights. Press reports indicated that the war on juvenile gangs had turned into a drive

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