... days ... members, ... free ... Greetings, all. I arrived home last night to some quite interesting, varied responses here. Thank you. I shall reply to...
... Hello, Klaus. Your selection is not a surprise to me. You have mentioned an encratic lifestyle in the past, in addition to displeasure with Valentinus....
Hello lady_caritas ... All I can say is that any motive less than love, contains the ego and is suspect. This passage is so good, I have never seen a really...
Mike Leavitt
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... of ... three ... Resurrection. Hi, Terje. Thank you for your wonderful exposition. You just named the scriptures I quote the most. LOL I suppose it's no...
... is in the sky', then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea", then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is...
... Nice assortment, Tony. Would you care to comment further on any of these? Also, do you have any problem reconciling _The Testimony of Truth_ with...
... the devaluations of sacraments, ritual actions, clerical institutions and the like as well as the radical allegorical interpolation of scriptures which are...
Hello Cari, << Nice assortment, Tony. Would you care to comment further on any of these? >> Thank you. Certainly I will comment further. But first let me...
Hi Cari, <<How would you describe a kingdom that is inside as well as outside you?>> Sure, ask me something easy! :) I don't think its so much a matter of what...
... Forgot to add the Second Logos of the Great Seth, the Paraphrasis of Sheem, the Dialog of the Redeemer, and the Apocalypse of Petrus, but I don't have...
... When you originally asked this question, I found it difficult to give a simple answer. How does one choose a favorite, or even a handful of them? Perhaps...
First off, the GoT, Chapter 1, verse 3, does say it all in my book. First, it sets up the distinction between knowing oneself and not knowing oneself. It calls...
For me it, on one level being spoken of, it is the bringing together the natural world with the true Self, circumsizing out that which I define as Mamon. Jef ...
... like the value of Love, and yet, just how often do people come up with their own bizarre interpretations of it? On numerous occasions, I've witnessed a...
... addition to ... work ... institutions ... I'm all for allegorical interpretations. I like the idea of the serpent of Genesis portrayed as a wise revealer...
... your ... of Sheem, ... Cassianus' ... Stromata) ... Klaus, you have mentioned writings that others have not. It would be interesting to hear commentary on...
... Truth_ ... that I ... I suspected as much, but didn't want to insert foot in mouth if that weren't the case. :-) ... attitude ... divine. ... more ... ...
... outside you?>> ... of what kingdom is inside and what kingdom is outside but the bringing together of those kingdoms, the marriage of the spiritual to the...
... discovering Gnostic thought that brought me to the realization that I had come home: The Gospel of Thomas-to be specific, #17 was among ... has heard,...
Hello lady_caritas ... Forgive me, but I love being cryptic, but this is the real answer, just meditate on it. THE WAY OUT IS IN. But, sometimes THE WAY IN ...
Mike Leavitt
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There is no such this as "conditional love" any more than there is "unconditional hate". The only real love is unconditional love because conditions are ties...
... love" ... and ... Thanks for the heads-up, Blackfire. I'll have to check it out. ... course, ... Aww, who would expect anything less when perfect things...
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Yes, Unknown, that was my original position but there have been some interesting and impassioned arguments for the other side. Philosophia2 is another one of...
Hello Everyone, Have been reading Plotinus' "Against the Gnostics." This treatise consists of a series of attacks on the logic of the Gnostic myth, many of...
... People should read the NHL codex reference in order to identify the text, not just the names, as those are not unambiguously determinable. Klaus Schilling...
... The book of thomas the contender is composed of jewish apocalyptic letters which got deuterochristianized later. It's paranetic, with strong makarisms and...
If my understanding of Plotinus is correct, and he sees evil as ignorance of the good, then that in itself would put him at odds with the Gnostics. If my...
