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

(Elliott) #1
LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM T]\

see sky and earth but are not them.
This is the truth of the world.
In the other truth you are what you see.
If you see spirit, you are spirit.
If you look at the anointed, you are the anointed.
If you see the father, you will be father.
In this world you see everything but yourself,
but there, you look at yourself and are what you see.

FAITH AND LOVE


Faith receives, love gives.
No one receives without faith.
No one gives without love.
To receive, believe; to love, give.
If you give without love,
no one derives a thing from what is given.
Whoever has not accepted the lord
is still a Jew.^32

NAMES OF JESUS


The messengers^33 who were before us had these names
for him: Jesus, the Nazorean, messiah,
that is, Jesus, the Nazorean, the Christ.
The last name is Christ,
the first is Jesus,
the middle name is the Nazarene.
Messiah has two meanings, both "Christ" and "measured."
Jesus in Hebrew is "redemption."
Nazara is "truth."
Christ has been measured.
The Nazarene and Jesus are they who have been measured.


  1. Compare this section's treatment of faith and love to 1 Corinthians 13 and the Secret Book
    of James.

  2. Apostles.

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