I have a response to 9.11 or a comment to make. I consider myself Gnostic, and I am aware of the distinction between the "true God" who is more human than the...
During my childhood, besided the one strange dream I had, I came across other strange things: I recall very vividly how my whole inner life was centered,...
I understand that karma, a cosmic law, affords some explanation for the discrepancies in terms of suffering, fortune, health etc. among people and it holds...
Pmcvflag, thank you for your comments. I don't draw such a sharp dividing line between Gnosticism and the eastern traditions, for both are the same - in...
The "true God" is "ineffable", but in contrast to the demiurge, who drowned the human race and inflicted other inhumane treatment upon helpless imprisoned...
Yehovah is also involved in the evolution and again restoration of justice. He is not adorable, but his nature is obviously reflected in our worlds, or for...
Martin, Oh, no problem... Everyone enjoys talking about themselves anyway ;) I was actually taking a hypnotherapy class, and the teacher (who was HIGHLY...
I would like to know please, if someone experienced any "revelation" of the kind I describe. I don;t know what has taken place already, while I am still here...
Found at least one website that tries to explain the differences between the various terms. COLLATION OF THEOSOPHICAL GLOSSARIES Compiled by Scott J. Osterhage...
Merkur thinks that manna was an entheogen. An ergot that had similar properties to LSD. See: "The Mystery of Manna: The Psychedelic Sacrament of the Bible" by ...
You're telling people untruths. You are the whore of Babylon, not the Catholic church. You're telling him something that was pre-Martin Luther. The Catholic...
I am a temporary emanation of matter which was something else before my birth - indeed the matter I am now was something else after my birth. I was born with...
The square root, the differentiation of any Perfect Square, integer, single, Whole, complete, entity, singularity, Be-ing, which is equal to Two or more will...
I wanted to go back through and try to deal with many subjects that have come up (including some that were addressed specifically to me but I have not gotton...
Could anyone on this group give me any up-to-date background on the Nag Hammadi work, The Paraphrase of Shem and the apparently related work, The Paraphrase of...
A friend of mine forwarded this article from the _New York Times_, "The Heresy That Saved a Skeptic" by Dinitia Smith. This is a personal story about Elaine...
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Well, I finished reading the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, now does anyone have anything that they would recommend which covers his life from age 12-30? I read...
Beans Manna from Heaven, food for the spirit that fills your heart with joy. Few are able to avoid the laughter when the magical Fruit makes you toot.....
Hello everybody! I joined a couple of days ago and wanted to observe the list for a couple of days to get a feel for it. But now it is time to leave the...
At this site, there is a brief (if not quite perfect) comparison of the Essenes vs. Gnostics: www.near-death.com/religion.html Essenes: In stark contrast to...
The Square of One, the Whole of a Single Reality, Number, the square of a singularity, is 4 Sided. The Square root of, one, the Whole of a single Reality, a...
As summer approaches, I find myself with less and less time, but one thing I HAVE found time for is listening during my daily commute to a new CD I picked up...
Reply to James Lambert's message #7780: ... There are indications that multiple Greek versions of this gospel existed at the time the Coptic version was...
We were wondering about this passage from the Gospel of St Thomas. Could the meaning have been different than what it appears, or could someone have added it...
Pythagoras and the Nature of Number ... It turns out that Plato's writings make almost no mention of the numerological system employed by the Pythagoreans....
