The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
792 EPILOGUE become god. Such flouting of authority is of course suppressed as heresy. To understand this universal push by the ...
EPILOGUE 793 While early Christianity was replete with conflicting creeds and many gospels circulating and competing for authori ...
794 EPILOGUE in Jewish Merkabah Mysticism and Talmudic Tradition and the mysterious "Fourth Gospel" of John. The prologue of the ...
EPILOGUE 795 the Italian renaissance the Poimandres was popularly published by Lorenzo de Medici and later absorbed into the wri ...
796 EPILOGUE To this list of modern gnostics who, having rejected orthodoxy and its cre- ator god, chose acosmic solutions and t ...
EPILOGUE 797 own scriptures, increasing dramatically through archeology and scholarship. Whatever its appellation, gnosticism is ...
798 EPILOGUE in 1334 the inquisitor became Pope Benedict XII. Every word of his interroga- tions was stored in the Vatican. In t ...
EPILOGUE 799 involvement. Then, free of matter, the liberated spirit can rise and be reinte- grated into the unknowable god. Man ...
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GLOSSARY MARVIN MEYER Abathur Fallen light being, judge, and father of Ptahil, in Mandaean thought. Abdallah Father of Muhammad ...
(^802) GLOSSARY Adonis Lover of Aphrodite and a young man who dies and rises. Adonis means "lord" in Semitic languages; see ADON ...
GLOSSARY 803 name closely resembles Ariel, which in Hebrew means "lion of god." See Gospel of Thomas 8. Arimanios Name of a Phar ...
804 GLOSSARY Bogomils A neomanichaean gnostic group in Bulgaria, the Balkans, and especially Con- stantinople, who flourished be ...
GLOSSARY^805 Custodian of splendor One of the five sons of the living spirit, sent out to help the primal man, in Manichaean tho ...
8o6 GLOSSARY Echamoth A form of wisdom in the Gospel of Philip, from Hebrew hokhmah. Achamoth is lower wisdom in Valentinian tex ...
GLOSSARY^807 excited state." See Bentley Layton, Gnostic Scriptures, 43. Another version is also given: Esthesis-Z-Ouch-Epi-Ptoe ...
8o8 GLOSSARY "holy Adam" (Greek hier-adamas). Others have related Geradamas to the name Adam and the Greek word for "old" (geron ...
GLOSSARY 809 Houris Young women of legendary beauty who live in paradise. Referred to in the Mother of Books. Human child Son of ...
8io GLOSSARY (Jesus as a boy anticipating the salvation of the light), suffering Jesus (Jesus as light suf- fering in matter), a ...
GLOSSARY^811 Kronos Divine ruler of the Titans in Greek mythology. Referred to in the Naassene Sermon. Kushta Truth, ritualized ...
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