Hi Frank, There are more than one creationist myths in the Gnostic works, if you include additional stuff like some of the Alexandrean work. Without...
... parables, and they can be sorted out as different literature from the rest of what is in Thomas. I think the rest of Thomas are precepts. I recently ...
In an earlier post I suggested that Saying 50 should be interpreted as instructions for the soul about what to say to the hostile Archons the world rulers of...
Hi Andrew, It seems to me that the following from the Apocalypse of James is also a good reference for your point about Archons. "They are a type of the twelve...
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... This is a serious and misleading error in quotation. The period that you put in after the word 'depart' makes it appear that James is supposed to reveal...
Thank you Mike, There it is, living proof the blind leading the blind will fall in a ditch. Sorry. I have to laugh because I was trying to make the point how...
... <snip> ... <snip> ... to ... witness ... If I may be so bold, ISTM that the concept of mystical ascents arose at least by the 5th Century BCE. I would...
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Thomas Logion 2, (Jesus said Let him who seeks not cease seeking until he finds. And when he finds he will be troubled and when he is troubled he will be...
... Hello Andrew: Interesting approach to the issue ... however, with respect to the first part of your post, I am not sure how or why it is important to...
... Maurice, This wording is so similar to Thomas that of course I had to look it up right away. Could Meyer have missed it in his copious citation of literary...
... From: "jmgcormier" <cobby@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 2:41 AM Subject: [GTh] Re: Gospel according to Hebrews...
I am both curious and confused on the information I have recently been reading about Essenes. Is Szckely's work on the "Gospel of the Essenes" legitimate?...
Ladies and Gentlemen of the group... I was going through the English translation of the Dead Sea scrolls and came across a few references to an "Angel...
... From: "John Philipose" <john_philipose@...> To: <gthomas@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 10:15 AM Subject: [GTh] A Question... ... I...
... an exact references to where in the Qumran texts such an angel is mentioned?<< Not being a reader of Hebrew, the closest thing I can get is "Marar" (be ...
I have been curious as to what possible connections Essenes could have to those who embraced the GThom, and related texts. I found 'this' in the New Advent...
Hi Andrew, "On the other hand Josephus was not an Essene himself and was writing for a non-Jewish Greek speaking readership. This may mean that some of what he...
... place the concepts of pre-Christian ideas of Gnosticism within the boundaries of secular Judaism. ................................................. Could...
Hi Steve, You remember well, but Philo does more than mention the "Therapeutae" - he wrote a little book about them! It is available as "Philo of Alexandria: ...
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