tation of those magazines that are not purely literary seems characteristic of the forties and fifties. Instead of The Masses and its successor The Liberator . . . all socially conscious and more or less radically leftist, we are today witnessing the emergence of publications like One, The Ladder, and Mattachine Review, presenting with candor and fortitude the position of the male and female homosexual in our society. But although they were almost un-

thinkable thirty or even twenty years ago... they are merely a variant manifestation of the timehonored little magazine concern with the outsiders of society, the outcasts, the deviators from majority-sanctioned 'norms' "' The GUIDE lists and describes over 300 "little magazines"-mostly from English speaking countries including generous descriptions of ONE Magazine, HOMOPHILE STUDIES, The LADDER and MATTACHINE REVIEW.

BOOKS

Notes on The Gospel According to Thomas, transl. by Guillaumont, Pueel, Quispel, Till, and Al Masih, Harper, 1959. (See Dec. 1959 ONE.)

By

Rt. Rev. Thomas Martin, Father Bernard Newman

Those who attended ONE's 1959 Midwinter Institute will remember Fathers Bernard Newman and Thomas Martin and their very surprising discussion of Christian attitudes toward homosexuality.

Their St. George Chapel and Monastery in Las Vegas is affiliated with the Eastern Orthodox Churches, Malabar rite-a Christian church in India which according to venerable tradition was founded by St. Thomas the Doubter, and which bases its ceremonies and beliefs on other extant versions of the writings of St. Thomas than the publication reviewed in these pages in December.

There are many serious errors in parts of this translation of Saint Thomas' Gospel, but on the whole many truths are now brought to light. First, to understand this writing it is necessary for a person to secure a different concept of religion than the Protestants and Catholics give out. It is that God is good, loving and understanding of all beings, never "leading anyone into temptation," and that He is fully cognizant of the cravings and desires of everyone, knowing what they are, as well as, understanding "why," and most important of all that no one is condemned because of these things, so long as there is no harm done to a fellow being.

From Logion 22, page 17: Here we find a definite reference to the fact that in "the distant future" (the hereafter) all must be of one specie. From line 29, here is the correct statement from the Gospel we possess:

"There shall be the male,

"There shall be no longer the (or "a") female,

"There shall be only one kind

“And then those of the One in Truth

"Shall enter into the Kingdom of Happiness."

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