In early Christianity the sun-like figure of Christ gripped the imagination of men and women through a potent mixture of mystery and magic. Christ was seen then as the very embodiment or incarnation of the gnostic spirit of divine wisdom: Sophia. In order to connect faithfully with Jesus in our time we need to go back to his gnostic roots in Sophia. This book shows the way.
Hibernia (Ireland) in the 5th century AD. Jesus is being worshipped in the form of a snake! Patrick, a Roman monk, is sent there from a monastery in Gaul to stamp out this foul, gnostic heresy. He succeeds, but only by invoking the magic power of the Holy Grail!