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

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LITERATURE OF GNOSTIC WISDOM

It is filled with holy spirit
and is of the perfect human.
When we drink, we drink the perfect human.

LIVING WATER


The living water is a body.
We must put on the living human.
When you go into the water, you strip naked
and put on the living human.

A HORSE SIRES A HORSE


A horse sires a horse, a human gives birth to a human,
a god engenders a god.
Compare the bridegroom and the bride.
Their children were born in the chamber.
No Jew was ever born to Greek parents
as long as the world has existed.
And as Christians, we do not descend from the Jews.
There was another people.
These blessed ones were the chosen ones,
the chosen people of the living god;
and then the true man, the earthly son,
and the seed of the earthly son.^70
In the world these are the true people.
They are the attendants of the bridal chamber.^71

POWER AND WEAKNESS


In this world, power and weakness mingle
when man and woman have sex.
Joining is different in the eternal realm,
though we use the same names to speak of it.
There are names beyond the ordinary ones
and stronger than showy brute strength.


  1. Or "human son," "son of man."

  2. Partially restored.

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