Andrew Phillip Smith was born in 1966 in Penarth, Wales, and attended the University College of Swansea. He now lives in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California with his wife Tessa and son Dylan. He is the author of The Gospel of Thomas: A New Version Based on the Inner Meaning, published by Ulysses Books in 2002, The Gospel of Philip: Annotated and Explained for Skylight Paths, just published in Autumn 2005, and has just completed The Lost Sayings of Jesus: Annotated and Explained, also for Skylight Paths, to be published in Spring 2006. Andrew has studied the Gospel of Thomas and the Fourth Way teachings since the late 1980s. He has given a number of presentations and readings of the Gospel of Thomas and other esoteric and poetical works.

Current projects include a biography of Rodney Collin. Future possibilities are a book about William Blake, an introduction to Gnosticism, an introduction to the historical Jesus, a dictionary of Welsh mythology, a novel about the nineteenth century English decadent poet Ernest Dowson, and a novel about second century Gnostics.

In his spare time he is learning to play the harp and the uilleann pipes.

You can reach Andrew Phillip Smith at
andrew@bardic-press.com  

The Gospel of Thomas is published by Ulysses Books
and is available through Amazon.com

Onsite Gospel of Thomas Material:
Sayings and Interpretation
From the Introduction
Intriguing Parallels to Gospel of Thomas Sayings
Short Essays On Difficult and Obscure Sayings
Reviews of the Other Translations of the Gospel of Thomas
Gospel of Thomas Online Resources
Gospel of Thomas Home

Onsite Esoteric Christianity Material:
Beryl Pogson on the Gospel of Thomas in 1959
P.D. Ouspensky on Christianity and The New Testament

Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Nicoll, and Many Others:
an Online Anthology of Fourth Way Writings On Esoteric Christianity

Esoteric Christianity Online Resources

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