The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
49 2 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM These are the lesser mysteries of carnal generation. After initiation into them, people should ...
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 493 He is the expressed word of god, which is the word of declaration of the great power.^83 So the ...
494 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM 0 father, send me to her. 1 will descend, carrying the seals. I will wander through all the aeo ...
PART THREE Hermetic Literature ...
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INTRODUCTION WILLIS BARNSTONE he Greco-Roman way of gnosis is found in the hermetic tractates attrib- uted to Hermes Trismegisto ...
498 HERMETIC LITERATURE actual Philo or Plotinos behind the anonymous speeches, or even of a shad- owy Pseudo-Dionysios (incorre ...
HERMETIC LITERATURE 499 Christianity, this syncretic work remains basically pagan, deriving from Egyptian platonism and contempo ...
500 HERMETIC LITERATURE his province is thought, inventive, artful and curious; his metal is quicksilver, his clients, orators, ...
HERMETIC LITERATURE 501 the subject. With this transposition of a mythological scheme into the inwardness of the person, with th ...
32. Poimandres m • f all hermetic texts surviving from Alexandria, Poimandres is ^ m the prime source of gnostic speculation. Th ...
HERMETIC LITERATURE 503 Poimandres serves as a rather severe mentor to the speaker in the dialogue, explaining, reproaching, ord ...
504 HERMETIC LITERATURE watery substance,^4 unspeakably agitated, giving off smoke as from fire, emit- ting an indescribable sou ...
HERMETIC LITERATURE 505 I was amazed, and he spoke to me again. "You have seen in your mind the archetypal form, infinite and pr ...
(^506) HERMETIC LITERATURE bearing the likeness of his father. And god was very pleased with his own beauty in the primal person ...
HERMETIC LITERATURE 507 SEVEN EARTHLY HUMANS ARE BORN And after this I said, "O mind, tell me the rest. I too love your teaching ...
(^508) HERMETIC LITERATURE recognized himself attained that good that is supreme, while whoever was led astray by desire, by lov ...
HERMETIC LITERATURE 509 "And I am far removed from those who are foolish and evil and sly and en- vious and covetous and murdero ...
510 HERMETIC LITERATURE by god through you?" And, having said these things, Poimandres before my eyes mingled with the powers. G ...
HERMETIC LITERATURE 511 Holy is god, who wishes to be known and is known to those who are his own. You are holy, who by your wor ...
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