The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
272 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM PEARL IN THE MUD If a pearl is thrown into mud, it loses no value, and if rubbed with balsam oi ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 273 Some people travel long but go nowhere. At twilight they have seen no cities or villages, no hu ...
274 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM BEING The lord said, "Blessings on you who were before you came into being. Whoever is, was, an ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 275 Think of sex. It possesses deep powers, though its image is filthy. BRIDAL CHAMBER AND ANDROGYN ...
276 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM IN THIS WORLD OR THE RESURRECTION Either someone will be in this world or in the resurrection o ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 277 "but we got this place of punishment. It is the outer darkness, and we are in it."^42 KINDS OF ...
278 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM FIVE SACRAMENTS The lord did everything through mystery: baptism and a chrism and a eucharist a ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 279 and they went where they could not come out. Then Christ came. Those who went in he took out. T ...
280 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM BORN AGAIN Through the holy spirit we are again engendered,^53 but conceived through Christ. We ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 28l but the image of the bridal chamber above. So its veil was torn from top to bottom.^56 It was r ...
282 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM They envied him, excluded from the union of the spirit. Their exclusion spurred them into fashi ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 283 Adam ate from the tree that bore animals and became an animal and brought forth animals, and so ...
284 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM INTO THE WATER It was necessary for Jesus to descend into the water so that he could perfect an ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 285 giving life to whoever wanted it so they might not die. ADAM IN PARADISE God planted a garden, ...
286 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM The father was in the son and the son in the father. This is the kingdom of heaven. LAUGHING CH ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM It is filled with holy spirit and is of the perfect human. When we drink, we drink the perfect huma ...
(^288) LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM Yet all is the same, and this is incomprehensible to hearts of flesh. KNOWLEDGE OF SELF Shou ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 289 BAPTISM AND DEATH By perfecting the water of baptism, Jesus emptied it of death. We go into the ...
(^290) LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM from those who are anointed. But if the anointed withdraw and leave, then those unanointed, ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 291 If you become a spirit, a spirit will join with you. If you become thought, thought will mingle ...
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