The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom form the Ancient and Medieval Worlds

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264 LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM

She is a great repugnance to the Jews
who are apostolic, who are the messengers.
No powers dirtied the virgin.
They dirtied themselves.

THE LORD'S FATHER


The lord would never say, "My father who is in heaven"
unless he had another father elsewhere.
He would have simply said, "My father."

POSSESSIONS


The lord said to the students,
"From every house you are in, take out possessions,
but take things into the father's house
and do not steal what is inside and run off."

JESUS IS A HIDDEN NAME


Jesus is a hidden name, Christ is an open one.
So Jesus is not a word in any tongue but a name
they call him.
In Syriac the Christ is messias, in Greek he is christos.
All languages have their own way of calling him.
Nazarene is the revealed name for what is secret.

WHAT IS CHRIST?


In himself Christ has everything, be it human
or angel or mystery and the father.

THE LORD ASCENDING


Some say the lord died first and then ascended.
They are wrong. He rose first and then he died.


  1. Matthew 6:9.

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