The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
752 CATHAR LITERATURE The good god's sole wish to do good—the principle of good—and the evil god's desire to inflict wickedness— ...
CATHAR LITERATURE 753 city, a murderer of adults and little children, a liar who breaks oath promises. Once having understood th ...
754 CATHAR LITERATURE THE BOOK OF THE TWO PRINCIPLES 3 GOD HAS NOT MADE THE WORLD^4 My proposal is to give here a resume of what ...
CATHAR LITERATURE 755 "To the one seated on the throne and to the lamb, blessings and honor and glory and dominion forevermore." ...
756 CATHAR LITERATURE book of Wisdom, "God has not made death, and he does not rejoice at the loss of the living."^25 There exis ...
CATHAR LITERATURE 757 then, that god himself and his will are one and the same. The good god can- not lie or commit every kind o ...
758 CATHAR LITERATURE razor to let trickery sneak in. You have more evil than good, and you have preferred a language of iniquit ...
CATHAR LITERATURE 759 And again in John: And he was given dominion to act for forty-two months. Then he opened his mouth to utte ...
760 CATHAR LITERATURE In Solomon's Proverbs it is written, "The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing."^41 The messenger Paul ...
CATHAR LITERATURE 76l so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me."^4 ...
47 A Nun's Sermon ^ I 1 I he anonymous poem "A Nun's Sermon to Ladies Carenza, Iselda, I and Alais on Priority of Knowledge and ...
CATHAR LITERATURE that would be good. But having kids—what for? To me a marriage seems a painful bore. Lady Carenza, I'd like to ...
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THE INNER LIGHT OF GNOSIS: A HISTORICAL MEDITATION WILLIS BARNSTONE 1 he specific origin of gnosticism is unknown—and may be un- ...
y66 EPILOGUE temporal body; and (2) a transcendent principle of light that may be found during one's lifetime, in a flash of gno ...
EPILOGUE 767 Coptic, old Persian, and even Chinese, along with a few major works in Greek and Syriac, notably the pagan Corpus H ...
(^768) EPILOGUE followers of Alexandrian Valentinos as well as the heresiarch and magician Simon Magus, among many others. The c ...
EPILOGUE 769 they could cause him pain, we see Jesus laughing at his would-be tormentors: "I laughed at their ignorance."^6 In s ...
770 EPILOGUE the common era as a turn elsewhere or inward by Jews disappointed that their foretold messiah had not come. But the ...
EPILOGUE 771 man. Baruch ("blessed" in Hebrew) is the tree of life and the chief angel. Naas, the serpent, is the tree of the kn ...
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