The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

9 The Vision or the Foreigner T he Foreigner (or Allogenes) is another Sethian text of gnostic wis- dom, of which the Vision is ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 213 powers of the luminaries, who use language closely connected to that of the opening portion of ...

214 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM it limited by its own desire or by giving or by receiving from another. Its desire is not from ...

10. The Sermon of Zostrianos his concluding portion of the long Sethian text Zostrianos provides a fine example of a gnostic ser ...

2l6 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM this world and his body. Now enlightened, Zostrianos preaches the impas- sioned gnostic sermon ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 217 You have come not to suffer but to break your fetters. Break free, and what has bound you will ...

11 The Baptismal Ceremony of the Gospel of the Egyptians I he Gospel of the Egyptians, or, more accurately, the Holy Book I of t ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 219 The list includes figures well known from Sethian lore, for example, the four luminaries Harmoz ...

220 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM THE HEAVENLY ATTENDANTS These have been revealed^4 as dignitaries standing in attendance: Yesse ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 221 fifth, Yoel, stationed over the name of the one who will be ordained to baptize with the holy, ...

dL JZ Ji LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM mi uuuuuu ooooooo^13 being who exists forever in truth truly IEAAIO^14 in the heart being ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 223 giving form to the many beings produced in light beyond reproach. In truth I shall declare your ...

12. Thunder r | 1 I hunder (or Thunder: Perfect Mind) is a sacred text of paradox I and antithesis, with few obvious characteris ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 225 revealer, whose greatness is incomprehensible and whose being is unfathomable.^2 Thunder is a u ...

226 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM the grand being. She is whore and holy. Throwing us off stride, she claims to be the mother of ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 227 I am the solace of my labor pains. I am bride and groom, and my husband produced me. I am the m ...

228 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM Consider my poverty and wealth. Don't be arrogant when I am cast down on the earth, and you wil ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 229 I am called law and you have called me lawlessness. I am one you pursued and seized.^7 I am one ...

230 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM I know the first ones, and those after them know me. I am perfect mind and rest I am the knowle ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 231 I am hearing for all, and my speech is indecipherable. I am an unspeaking mute and enormous in ...