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The idea that there is a secret (superior) knowledge behind Christianity, preserved by a group of chosen, was wide-spread since antiquity in Gnostic circles and has resurfaced in modern neo-Gnostic movements.

Overview

The first text to claim that Jesus revealed a secret knowledge to one of his disciples, was the Gospel of Thomas.

Compare me to someone and tell me whom I am like:

Simon Peter [=Gospel of Mark] said to him: You are like a righteous angel.

Matthew [=Gospel of Matthew] said to him: You are like a wise philosopher.

Thomas said to him: "My mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom you are like." And Jesus took him and told him three things. When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him. "What did Jesus say to you?" "If I tell you one of the things which he told me, you will pick up stones and throw them at me; a fire will come out of the stones and burn you up” (13)