do we know anything about this crew......... http://essenes.net/chronnaz.html . it seems they've moved from arizona to northern california. it seems they...
Greetings I am on a mission to start a religious order practicing regular weekly and daily baptismal and ablution rites among others with liturgies that are...
Cari stated: "Also, perhaps, if you feel comfortable, you could share with us a bit of your past experience or involvement with religion." I am always happy to...
My name is Nathan, and I'm a Gnostic, and have been one for several years. I'm a former Baptist minister who becamse a Buddhist priest and am now a Gnostic....
Concerning recent discussion, I'd just like to note that, in my view, and as we've seen the Gnostics express, discursive as well as nondiscursive elements are...
Hello, all. I know there are opinions in the archives about Dr. Ehrman, but I can't seem to get past Jan.2004. I was trying to find posts from when Gerry...
What is the difference in the way that Gnostics view the demiurge versus the way Orthodox Christian view Satan? Seems to me that they are both perceived as...
Hello all My Isp shut me off over the weekend (they lost our check and then found it). During that time I had a lot of bounced mail, but Yahoo was supposed to...
PMCV, I liked your mp3, but I figured you more for a metal kind of guy. LOL More like Iron Maiden, hahaha. The reason I mention this is I was wondering if...
Describe a modern day version of the original Gnostics. If I understand the meaning correctly it is an initiation rite, that describes the rite as well as the...
Where do these things come from? A perfect god could not produce evil, so why does evil exist? I've been reading up on Taoism and the Taoist god(the Tao) is...
Hello All, Thought this might interest you. t is from the French Gnostic Church's mailing list (Ecclesiagnostique (sp) if you try to find it in the Yahoo...
I guess what I am trying to do is my feeble attempt at distancing Gnosticism from the orthodox Christianity that I grew up with. I don't want to fall victim to...
Has anyone here seen the movie "Cup of my Blood"? It is supposedly a horror genre, but deals with many Gnostic thoughts. It might be something to take a look...
"was looking over my notes on eisenman's 'james the brother of jesus' and realized i had some questions about the text 1/ what kind of points do we give...
Warm Greetings, All, I have just joined this group and wanted to say hello. I am a veteran seeker and spiritual sojourner who has lately found himself...
I am finding that gmail is great for following these threads, since it groups individual emails by subject line -- in the way of a "conversation." It also has...
Hello. I was wondering if anyone here knows anything about the Middle Platonist, Numenius of Apamea, whose system strikes me as being a halfway-house between...
I've just finished reading a book on hauntings and apparitions. Im not sure how they Gnostics viewed this subject, but I think that a ghost is a person trapped...
Hello. Does anyone here have any opinion concerning the Valentinian exegesis of the Pauline Corpus, as related by the heresiologists? I just finished Pagel's...
Hello. I was wondering if anyone here who has studied the Enneads of Plotinus has anything to say about the polemical criticism that Plotinus wrote against the...
We notice that some of you are also interested in cathars - some of us live in the original cathar area in france. Viste the website http://www.cathares.org/ ...
Pastoral Letter on the Feast of the Transfiguration Mark 9:2-10 2 Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain...
Hello, i just started reading this book about the Gnostic Gospels and I am really interested in learning more about Mary Magdalene as her role as a disciple of...
Hey Cari! ... In the Gospel of Truth quotation [which I have read before] "Error" seems to be another name for Sophia? Just another name - does it really...
Hey Karl, or anyone else who would like to respond: I am doing a comparison study of Iranian gnostic speculation(Manichaean, Mandean) and Indian Samkhya...
For most people Gnosticism is a Christian tradition, but actually it goes back to the Pagan philosopher Hermes. Gnosticism was assimilated into with...
I, being the very curious and spirit-thirshty person I am, decided to do some research on Aleister Crowley. I found a website on his religion, Thelema. From...
