Hey Miguel ... the beginning, anything mainstream they don't like will be called Gnostic. In Arthur's book he points out authors who have humorously accused...
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pmcvflag
Feb 20, 2007 2:49 am
Hi Dorina, welcome to the group. You state... ... God/s, then why is He/She/It/They so aloof to our plight and does not help us by putting an end to all...
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pmcvflag
Feb 20, 2007 3:15 am
Hey Nick You respond to Dorina... ... Gnostic God as some sort of aloof deity like the Old Testament God of Orthodoxy. The Gnostic concepts as posted below...
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dougwilmer
Feb 20, 2007 1:46 pm
I see, thanks friend. So, some talk about the the experience of gnosis and some talk about the ancient beliefs regard to it in a more acadmic basis. Do you...
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bicyclesophie
Feb 20, 2007 1:53 pm
I've seen Jewish Gnostics mentioned here before and I would like someone's input on the subject. When I first started to look at Kabbalah some concepts struck...
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lady_caritas
Feb 20, 2007 3:23 pm
Hello, Doug. PMCV might have some specific suggestions, but you could also just browse through any active groups in the Yahoo Groups Gnosticism category and...
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dougwilmer
Feb 20, 2007 5:08 pm
OK, thanks, I will take a look when time allows. But, if this gnosis thing is a real experience then some folk must have experienced it, and if they did in the...
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lady_caritas
Feb 20, 2007 5:11 pm
... Hi, Celeste. I don't have a lot of knowledge about Kabbalah; however, Jewish scholar Gershom Scholem definitely would have agreed with you regarding a...
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pmcvflag
Feb 20, 2007 5:45 pm
Hi Doug You state ... gnosis and some talk about the ancient beliefs regard to it in a more acadmic basis. Do you happen to know which lists talk about the ...
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pmcvflag
Feb 20, 2007 7:48 pm
Hello Celeste In response to your post I would like to reiterate some of what Cari states and toss a couple of things in the mix. You state... ... a "Jewish...
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dougwilmer
Feb 21, 2007 1:22 am
So, are some here saying that this Gnosis IS an expeience after all? Jewish mystical experienc, or mystical experience in any other part of the world is all...
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dougwilmer
Feb 21, 2007 1:25 am
Thanks for all that PMCV (sorry I do not know what the stands for) and for your time and effort there. So, in essence, what you are saying there is that this...
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Michael Leavitt
gnositc
Feb 21, 2007 2:31 am
Regardless of what others say, Gershim Scholem wrote about Jewish Gnosticism, I think in the book simply titled Kabalah. And to my memory, he finds Gnostic...
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Michael Leavitt
gnositc
Feb 21, 2007 3:15 am
... Even a mystical experience is hard to describe, a gnostic one is wore. I was in the clouds when Sophia gave birth to Salas, but the vision is more than I...
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pmcvflag
Feb 21, 2007 3:30 am
Hey Doug As I first logged in to the group I notice that one of your posts showed up here and another has not.... though both showed up in my email. Then, when...
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pmcvflag
Feb 21, 2007 3:42 am
BTW Lady Cari, when you talked about Couliano being mentioned in the interview I meant to post this as the probable quote... "Once I believed that Gnosticism...
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lady_caritas
Feb 21, 2007 4:08 am
... the ... PMCV, I guess we need to utilize all those emoticons more, like winky faces, or something. ;-) "Not only Gnosis was gnostic, but the Catholic...
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Michael Leavitt
gnositc
Feb 21, 2007 6:25 am
... Cutsipoo gnosis, no less. :-)...
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bicyclesophie
Feb 21, 2007 5:24 pm
Thanks PMCV and Cari, I appreciated the response, and I looked again at some of my Kabbalah books. Yes, the Scholem books do mention Gnostics and merkabah ...
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imdarkchylde
Feb 21, 2007 5:26 pm
Blessings, All! I too am a student of Kabbalah, altho I am a beginner, and I am amazed at the connections I see in Kabbalah and Gnosticism as well. But I was...
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pmcvflag
Feb 22, 2007 12:53 am
Hey Imdarkchilde ... amazed at the connections I see in Kabbalah and Gnosticism as well. But I was to understand that Merkavah Mysticism had its origins with ...
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gnostic_ken
Feb 22, 2007 1:09 pm
... Hi PMCV, That is interesting. Much earlier than anything I have ever found. You don't happen to have a reference for that do you? I would like to look it...
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miguelconner
Feb 22, 2007 2:48 pm
Now that the dust has settled on The Gospel of Judas, we take a comprehensive safari of new scholarship, revelation, and impact of this still very...
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pmcvflag
Feb 22, 2007 6:26 pm
Hey Ken If I recall correctly, that would be Birger Pearson in his book "Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity". His outline is similar to that of...
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pmcvflag
Feb 22, 2007 7:13 pm
Oh, Ken.... I probably should have added that this was Dr Scholem's theory as well, though you probably already gathered that from the previous conversation...
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gnostic_ken
Feb 22, 2007 7:55 pm
... century ... I ... the ... Hi PMCV, Thank you. Freke and Gandy throw out a 300 BCE date, but they didn't give good references. IMO they were more interested...
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pmcvflag
Feb 26, 2007 1:53 am
Hey Ken ... good references. IMO they were more interested in building their own myth than in history. Which BYW is fine with me. I like their myth. I just...
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teafourme
Feb 27, 2007 11:32 pm
Thought I would share this find http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=84733 Looks VERY INTERESTING. NO? KP...
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Gerry
gerryhsp
Feb 28, 2007 3:28 am
... No, not really. The conspiracy theorists and alternative history writers have already had a field day concerning what might otherwise be of legitimate ...
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teafourme
Feb 28, 2007 11:59 pm
IMO anything that gets the general public open to Gnosis is a good thing Dan Brown opened a lot of doors for many people, and in turn they have their eyes and...
