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

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM I will speak his name. Look at his words and all the writings completed. Be alert, hearers and ange ...

13. The Letter of Peter to Philip I he Letter of Peter to Philip is a short text that relates traditions I about the Christian m ...

234 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM travels incognito through this world and speaks with those who will listen. In particular there ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 235 When the messengers came together and fell on their knees, they prayed in this way, saying, Fat ...

236 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM the command of the majesty of the father, she wanted to set up eternal realms. When she spoke, ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 237 FIGHTING THE RULERS The messengers worshiped again, saying, "Lord, tell us, how shall we fight ...

(^238) LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM PETER PREACHES Now, Peter opened his mouth and said to his students,^19 "When our lord Jesus ...

Valentinian Literature 14 14. The Gospel of Truth VALENTINIAN LITERATURE I he Gospel of Truth, a work of consummate artistry, is ...

240 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM The Valentinians met privately and later in churches, as students guided by scholars. Many of t ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 241 bringing joy. It signifies that one finds god in oneself, that the fog of error and terror is g ...

242 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM THE GOSPEL OF TRUTH 1 JOY TO THOSE WHO KNOW THE FATHER The gospel of truth is joy for those who ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 243 beguile those of the middle^7 and to make them captive. The forgetfulness of error was not reve ...

244 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM whom all existed and whom all lacked. As one of whom some have no knowl- edge, he wants them to ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 245 clothed himself in incorruptibility, which no one could possibly take from him. Having entered ...

246 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM He has turned many from error. He went before them to their own places, from which they departe ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 247 mother, Jesus of the utmost sweetness.^24 The father opens his bosom, and his bosom is the holy ...

248 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM She was troubled, she lamented, she was beside herself because she did not know anything. When ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 249 WAKING UP AND COMING TO KNOWLEDGE What, then, is that which he^30 wants such a one to think? "I ...

250 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM they saw it and listened to it, he permitted them to take a taste of and to smell and to grasp ...

LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 251 transfers it to the right. In this way, then, the number becomes one hundred. This is the symbo ...