The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
JJ2 EPILOGUE For the gnostic that light is spirit, and its contemplation can lead to a knowl- edge of god, or even for one to ad ...
EPILOGUE 773 river—and thereby achieves union (enosis) and divinization (theosis). Monism is typically neoplatonic and Christian ...
774 EPILOGUE The cherubim bless the image of the Throne-Chariot above the firmament, and they praise the majesty of the fiery fi ...
EPILOGUE 775 Egyptian antiquity. From these sources they formed their own cosmogony (creation of the world) and theogony (creati ...
776 EPILOGUE not erase.^16 While this is not usually recognized, gnostic salvation now makes mortality not only secondary but al ...
EPILOGUE 777 good creator god of the Bible,^18 now operating demonically down in the realm of sinister evil. While the creator g ...
(^778) EPILOGUE god, clearly replacing the Hebrew Bible deity and, in practice and in popular understanding, god himself. While ...
EPILOGUE 779 had already thrashed out the docetist notion of the phantom Christ with more than a dozen other early sects. The do ...
78o EPILOGUE ascension to the interior sun in Plotinos (205-70), there is an outstanding ex- ample of early Christian ascension ...
EPILOGUE 7 8l those of the Catholic and Orthodox churches.^19 Their favored text to com- ment on was the Gospel of John (see Her ...
782 EPILOGUE were reviled and furiously opposed as usurpers of their salvific terrain. By the end of the fifth century, the hete ...
EPILOGUE 783 threat, except for the unchangeable fact that their Hebrew Bible, though inter- preted throughout as a prophecy of ...
784 EPILOGUE major platonist in Alexandria.^21 In Constantinople the bishop went after the Nestorians and Arianists orders. All ...
EPILOGUE 785 put on the robes of a Christian prelate and preached to the high clergy. Igno- rant of Greek, he wrote his sermons ...
(^786) EPILOGUE HAD ALEXANDRIA TRIUMPHED There followed centuries of silence. Gnostic texts were found beginning in the Italian ...
EPILOGUE 787 on the east and Muslim Spain on the west, and especially among the more structured Manichaean gnostics, whose messa ...
788 EPILOGUE or gnostics, is the Ginza. This fertile, nonascetic religion of the living water is practiced by groups in villages ...
EPILOGUE 789 Then in 1909 J. Rendel Harris discovered an old Syriac (Aramaic) manu- script of the Songs of Solomon comprising fo ...
790 EPILOGUE In the latter, the romping creator god holds dominion over Eden as he chases and rapes the virgin Eve, who represen ...
EPILOGUE 791 freedom from conventional stricture and had a flair for inventing myth to verbalize withdrawal and meditative fligh ...
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