Hi, Thanks for the tips, I'm sure they'll prove useful in helping me understand. The book I'm reading is the "Gnostic Secrets of the Naassenes" written by Mark...
Hey Richard You state... ... member have been filled with jargon that was beyond me.<<< This is something we would like to change, but unfortunately it isn't...
Hey Kari, welcome to the forum. ... not sure whether I need to take smaller steps, since after browsing over some of the postings I find myself a little lost...
Hey Ben ... in vasrious places, I am currently working on a version myself, probably much to tom's disgust<<< I do want to point out that most of Tom's...
well I'm not rewriting anything, I've just added alternatives/additions, to approx 1% of it.... example, tom's work is in red here...the 1st paragraph...the...
Using our links, I found the following at http://www.gnosis.org/library/valentinus/Demiurge.htm under "The Creation of Human Beings." "The Demiurge and his...
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...
Hey Mark You have a talent for asking the hard questions! ... spiritual seed, there were textual correspondences: "dust" = carnal or irrational soul (2:7a) ...
... 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...
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...
It's our one hundredth show! So we'll have two topics today as a celebration that should satisfy the Gnostic, the general mystic and the scholar. Part 1.The...
Greetings, Dear List, I have been trying to locate a book for a few months now to no avail. I am hoping someone on this list might have an electronic copy of...
go and get it here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00073A3PC/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1219959890&sr=8-1&condition=all ... From: alecto167 To:...
I have emailed a copy of this to one of his active priests, Dr. Hoeller has no email address, and I don't see him often, and think my copy went up in a house...
Dear Michael, My deepest thanks for your assistance. $200 on Amazon is regretably out of the question and I am in NY so I can't get to Dr. Hoeller's church,...
i live in l.a. If the cc to the priest of the church doesnt help let me know. I can go by there in person. anna ... -- Anna "A fool can not understand wisdom...
Islamic Gnosticism: Sufism and the Persian Poets. We reveal that the Sufis have directly drawn from the Gnostic fountainhead and have been secret carriers of...
Oh, sorry. I just deleted my whole opening. I saw the mast-head was miss-spelled {'Shethian Monad'?...} and thought I'd stumbled on a completely new group of...
... Welcome to the group, tburns. Thank you for your most interesting introduction. Graze through the pasture all you want (also you might want to check out ...
Although the Gnostic revival has positively infused modern spirituality, film and art, and even religious institutions in the last twenty years, all is not...
I have been a silent member of this group for some time. I want to announce that my book has just been published. In it I present the evidence that Jesus...
We have all experienced it, we all thrive for it in some aspect, and we all are heavily challenged by it almost every day by various mediums. But the reality...
Thanks, and ditto everyone - I sure do like the holidays, - family, friends, baking and feasting, lounging, sure is fun, and I've got a thing for those holiday...
