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"Gnosis" means "knowledge"-- not simply the number of facts held in one's head, but a conjunction of knowledge with wisdom and perspective that culminates in spiritual insight.
"Gnosticism" is, specifically, a category derived to express the emphasis of "Gnosis" in the belief system held by any one of a number of inter-related, spiritual traditions of the Late Antiquities.
We will examine and discuss the history and nature of traditional Gnostics and many other related religious systems, including Manicheism, the Mandeans, the Cathars, Bogomils, Paulicians, Merkabah and Classical Hermeticism.
(The pic represents the Female Spiritual Principle offering fruit of the Tree of Knowledge to the first woman for the salvation of mankind, as portrayed in The Hypostasis of the Archons.)
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Posted - Sun Jun 8, 2008 1:50 am
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miguelconner
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Re: Sowing the spiritual seed
PMCV, Your hip shots match what I was afraid to hear: that their exegesis is isogesis. Of course, there is nothing at all wrong with this, but I was hoping for
Posted - Wed May 7, 2008 10:53 pm
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Mark
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Re: Sowing the spiritual seed
... Spot-on observation, IMHO. (You should give your hip credit where credit is due, PMCV.) Syncretism is a possible key here, don't you think, Mark, unless
Posted - Wed May 7, 2008 1:18 am
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lady_caritas
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Re: Sowing the spiritual seed
Hey Mark You have a talent for asking the hard questions! ... spiritual seed, there were textual correspondences: "dust" = carnal or irrational soul (2:7a)
Posted - Tue May 6, 2008 11:53 pm
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Re: Searching for knowledge
Ben ... alternatives/additions, to approx 1% of it.... mainly I'm adding links (which some exist, others dont.....ie a like to a wiki article on goats etc etc
Posted - Mon May 5, 2008 6:57 am
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