tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75126308974862117532024-03-14T03:42:09.229-06:00Seeking The Divine: The First Five Centuries of the Common EraA web-based bibliography on the historical attempts describing the nature of the Divine realm during the <i>first five centuries of the common era.</i> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512630897486211753.post-85632520432383781132014-07-30T13:50:00.004-06:002014-09-27T20:22:50.109-06:00Contents<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><fieldset><ul>
<li><a href="http://hackingthedivine.blogspot.com/2014/07/gnosticism-first-five-centuries-of.html"><b>Gnosticism and The Lost Gospels of the Desert Fathers</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2011/04/contemplative-prayers.html"><b>Meditation</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2011/05/evagrius-ponticus-345-399.html"><b>Evagrius Ponticus (345 - 399)</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism"><b>Hermeticism (Wikipedia)</b></a></li>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512630897486211753.post-54214801803901499412014-07-30T13:50:00.000-06:002020-03-26T11:29:47.262-06:00Introduction: What is Christian Gnosticism and Who Were the Christian Gnostics?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><fieldset>What is Christian Gnosticism and who were the Christian Gnostics?<br /><br />
<i>"No form of lost Christianity has so intrigued modern readers and befuddled modern scholars as early Christian Gnosticism. The intrigue is easy to understand, especially in view of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library.... When that group of field hands headed by Mohammed Ali uncovered this cache of books in Upper Egypt, the world was suddenly presented with hard evidence of other Christian groups in the ancient world that stood in sharp contrast with any kind of Christianity familiar to us today. There was no Jesus of the stained glass window here, nor a Jesus of the creeds--not even a Jesus of the New Testament. These books were fundamentally different from anything in our experience, and almost nothing could have prepared us for them" Bart D. Ehrman...Lost Christianities</i><br /><br />
A collection of codices discovered sealed in a large jar in a cave near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi (aka Chenoboskion in ancient times) in 1945 has forever changed our ideas about early Christianity. These documents, now known as the Nag Hammadi Library, were made famous by <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/story/pagels.html"><b>Elaine Pagels in her best-selling book called Gnostic Gospels</b></a>.<br /><br />
The origin of these more than 1,500-year-old documents is still a mystery, but they are thought to have been hidden by Egyptian desert monks from the nearby <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library"><b>Pachomian monastery</b></a> to save them from destruction by officials of the early Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt.<br /><br />
During the third and fourth centuries of the common era, the Christian church was busy defining and enforcing the concept and definition of "orthodox Christianity" and "true believers". In 312 AD, Constantine made the new Christian religion legal throughout the empire. The Church gained power and Constantine hoped to hold together his troubled empire.<br /><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea"><b>Chairing the first ecumenical council of Christian bishops in Nicaea in 325 AD</b></a>, Constantine hoped this universal Christian religion would bring his people together. Imagine his disappointment when he probably realized too late that any discussion concerning the Divine and the divine realm would be fraught with serious divisions and disagreements. He probably gave it his best shot, but it was not to be that easy.<br /><br />
Early Christianity before and even for a while after the Council of Nicaea was a rich tapestry of ideas and concepts, in many different gospels about the nature of the Divine and divine realm. However, subsequent ecumenical councils worked to define and set in stone exactly what constituted a true orthodox Christian. The Church carefully selected only gospels that reflected those chosen true beliefs and discarded all the rest.<br /><br />
Then in a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_letter"><b>festal letter of 367 AD</b></a>, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, condemned outright the use of non-canonical books, including books in the libraries of the monasteries and personal libraries of the desert monks living outside Alexandria. Then all books not authorized by the bishop were ordered destroyed.<br /><br />
This might well have been followed by a time of gathering forbidden books and making plans to hide them. At least one or more monks likely rebelled at the order. It <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library"><b>is thought</b></a> the collection of codices discovered at Nag Hammadi were writings and gospels hidden by some of those early monks from nearby Pachomian Monastery. Planning and carrying out such a deed would have been difficult and fraught with dangers.<br /><br />
By the time Theodosius I declared Christianity to be the only religion allowed in the empire in 381 AD, it might have been too late for saving more gospels. Intolerance and persecutions immediately followed causing many of the early Christian sects, including the Gnostics, to go underground, meeting in secrecy. Even the old pagan religions were outlawed. Anyone caught worshiping any religion other than orthodox Christianity was punished by death.<br /><br />
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Why this Bibliography/Blog?</b><br /><br />
I have always believed that the existence of the Great Library at Alexandria, striving to collect all written works of the known world, was a remarkably noble aspect of the ancient world. It existed for about 800 years as a cultural and educational resource. Never again has that kind of effort been duplicated during human history.<br /><br />
My interest in the subject of early Christianity began with the arrival of the twenty-first century. Initially I wanted to write a novel about a librarian working in the great library of Alexandria during these unsettling times -- the rise of early Christianity. A rough draft of that story is my blog, <a href="http://alexandrinelibrarian.blogspot.com/"><b>Alexandrine Librarian</b></a>.<br /><br />
It did not take me long to realize that the fate of the Great Library and its companion institutions of learning, the <a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2011/01/educating-early-monksthe-alexandrine.html"><b>Alexandrine Schools</b></a> was closely tied to the rise of the early Christian Church and its increasing intolerance of alternative ideas about the nature of the Divine and the divine realm. I document the academic side of the Great Library in <a href="http://alexandrineteaching.blogspot.com/"><b>Alexandrine Teaching</b></a> and in <a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2010/11/educating-early-monksthe-catechetical.html"><b>The Catechetical School of Alexandria</b></a><br /><br />
Also during these years, the first five centuries of the common era, there was a great outburst of spirituality like no other in recorded history that was a sharp contrast to and definitely at odds with the truculent nature of the early Christian Church. It is those desert monks and monasteries of the Egyptian desert south of Alexandria and the gospels they revered on a daily basis that are documented in my <a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/"><b>Desert Fathers bibliography/blog</b></a>. <br /><br />
I find the history of the people of those times compelling. My work on this bibliography/blog, the reading and studying, has become a sort of spiritual journey. They are my personal notes on this "accidental" spiritual journey.<br /><br />
In this blog I want to explore available web-based resources for Gnosticism, one specific version of Christianity that appealed to some of those monks, document their belief system or cosmogony/cosmology of the Divine and the divine realm as described in the translations of these lost, now found, documents of the Desert Fathers – the Gnostic Gospels.<br /><br />
I hope you will enjoy these blogs as much as I have enjoyed putting them together and see for yourself who the Gnostics were and what Gnosticism was.<br /><br />
Comments and observations are welcome. If you are interested in contributing a chapter or so to this blog, feel free to contact me.<br /><br />
The Librarian<br />
From the high mountains of southern Colorado<br />
USA<br />
July 2014<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Codex IV is one of the texts discovered at Nag Hammadi</span></b></i></td></tr>
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<li><b>Codex I (also known as <a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-jung-codex-codex-i-of-nag-hammadi.html">The Jung Foundation Codex</a>)</b></li>
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<li><a href=""><b>The Prayer of the Apostle Paul</b></a></li>
<li><a href=""><b>The Apocryphon of James (also known as the Secret Book of James)</b></a></li>
<li><a href=""><b>The Gospel of Truth</b></a></li>
<li><a href=""><b>The Treatise on the Resurrection</b></a></li>
<li><a href=""><b>The Tripartite Tractate</b></a></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512630897486211753.post-21253433438761439992014-07-19T05:00:00.001-06:002015-10-19T12:53:42.608-06:00The Nag Hammadi Scrolls aka The Gnostic Gospels: The Lost Gospels of the Desert Fathers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><fieldset><ul>
<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/story/pagels.html"><b>An Introduction to the Lost Gospels...Also known as The Gnostic Gospels...by Elaine Pagels</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Christianities-Battles-Scripture-Faiths/dp/0195182499/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1296405371&sr=1-1"><b>Bart D. Ehrman...Lost Christianities</b></a><br />
<i>"No form of lost Christianity has so intrigued modern readers and befuddled modern scholars as early Christian Gnosticism. The intrigue is easy to understand, especially in view of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library.... When that group of field hands headed by Mohammed Ali uncovered this cache of books in Upper Egypt, the world was suddenly presented with hard evidence of other Christian groups in the ancient world that stood in sharp contrast with any kind of Christianity familiar to us today. There was no Jesus of the stained glass window here, nor a Jesus of the creeds--not even a Jesus of the New Testament. These books were fundamentally different from anything in our experience, and almost nothing could have prepared us for them"</i></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library"><b>The Nag Hammadi library <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aCl2wb4vz5A/TOM_GzvNRAI/AAAAAAAAASo/zRkoK_rg6WI/s1600/220px-Eg-NagHamadi-map.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_aCl2wb4vz5A/TOM_GzvNRAI/AAAAAAAAASo/zRkoK_rg6WI/s1600/220px-Eg-NagHamadi-map.png" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">The site of discovery, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi" title="Nag Hammadi">Nag Hammadi</a> in map of Egypt</span></b></i></td></tr>
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The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945.... That year, twelve leather-bound papyrus codices buried in a sealed jar<i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></i> were found by a local peasant named Mohammed Ali Samman.... The writings in these codices comprised fifty-two mostly Gnostic treatises, but they also include three works belonging to the <a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/herm/"><b>Corpus Hermeticum</b></a> and a partial translation/alteration of Plato's Republic. In his "Introduction" to The Nag Hammadi Library in English, James Robinson suggests that these codices may have belonged to a nearby <a href="http://archaeology.about.com/od/pterms/g/pachomian.htm"><b><i>Pachomian monastery</i></b></a>, and were buried after <a href="http://www.ntcanon.org/Athanasius.shtml"><b>Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria condemned the uncritical use of non-canonical books in his Festal Letter of 367 AD.</b></a><br /><br />
The contents of the codices were written in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coptic_language"><b>Coptic language</b></a>, though the works were probably all translations from Greek. The best-known of these works is probably the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas"><b>Gospel of Thomas</b></a>, of which the Nag Hammadi codices contain the only complete text. After the discovery it was recognized that fragments of these sayings attributed to Jesus appeared in manuscripts discovered at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus"><b>Oxyrhynchus</b></a> in 1898, and matching quotations were recognized in other early Christian sources. Subsequently, a 1st or 2nd century date of composition circa 80 AD for the lost Greek originals of the Gospel of Thomas has been proposed, though this is disputed by many if not the majority of biblical matter researchers. The once buried manuscripts themselves date from the 3rd and 4th centuries.><br /><br />
The Nag Hammadi codices are housed in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, Egypt. To read about their significance to modern scholarship into early Christianity, see the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism#Significance_of_the_Nag_Hammadi_library"><b>Gnosticism article.</b></a></li></ul>
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<fieldset><b>Complete List of Codices Found in Nag Hammadi Texts</b>
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<li><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/story/pagels.html"><b>An Introduction to the Lost Gospels...Also known as The Gnostic Gospels...by Elaine Pagels</b></a></li></ul>
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<i><b>Definitions:</b></i><ul>
<li><i><b>Acts: The activities of the disciples after Jesus's death.</b></i></li>
<li><i><b>Epistles: Letters written by Christian leaders to other Christians.</b></i></li>
<li><i><b>Apocalypse: A revelation concerning the end of the world in a cataclysmic act of God.</li>
<li>Apocryphon: Greek term for a genre of Jewish and Early Christian writings that were meant to impart "secret teachings" or gnosis (knowledge) that could not be publicly taught.</b></i></li>
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<li><b>Codex I (also known as <a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-jung-codex-codex-i-of-nag-hammadi.html">The Jung Foundation Codex</a>)</b></li><ul>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_859.html"><b>The Prayer of the Apostle Paul</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_3150.html"><b>The Apocryphon of James (also known as the Secret Book of James)</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_7.html"><b>The Gospel of Truth</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_3939.html"><b>The Treatise on the Resurrection</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_4328.html"><b>The Tripartite Tractate</b></a></li>
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<li><b>Codex II:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers.html"><b>The Apocryphon of John</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/codex-iithe-gospel-of-thomas-sayings.html"><b>The Gospel of Thomas a sayings gospel</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_2.html"><b>The Gospel of Philip</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_4.html"><b>The Hypostasis of the Archons</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_5127.html"><b>On the Origin of the World</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_1712.html"><b>The Exegesis on the Soul</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_4156.html"><b>The Book of Thomas the Contender</b></a></li>
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<li><b>Codex III:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers.html"><b>The Apocryphon of John</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_5.html"><b>The Gospel of the Egyptians</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_6.html"><b>Eugnostos the Blessed</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_8132.html"><b>The Sophia of Jesus Christ</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_5695.html"><b>The Dialogue of the Saviour</b></a></li>
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<li><b>Codex IV:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers.html"><b>The Apocryphon of John</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-lost-gospels-of-desert-fathers_5.html"><b>The Gospel of the Egyptians</b></a></li>
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<li><b>Codex V:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/eugn.html"><b>Eugnostos the Blessed</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/ascp.html"><b>The Apocalypse of Paul</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/1ja.html"><b>The First Apocalypse of James</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/2ja.html"><b>The Second Apocalypse of James</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/adam.html"><b>The Apocalypse of Adam</b></a></li>
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<li><b>Codex VI:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/actp.html"><b>The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html"><b>The Thunder, Perfect Mind</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/autho.html"><b>Authoritative Teaching</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/cgp.html"><b>The Concept of Our Great Power</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/plato.html"><b>Republic by Plato</b></a> - The presence in Codex VI...of a section of Plato's <i>Republic</i> is something of a suprise....The original is not gnostic, but the Nag Hammadi library version is heavily modified with then-current gnostic concepts.</li>
<li><a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2012/08/codex-vithe-discourse-on-eighth-and.html"><b>The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth - a Hermetic treatise</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/prat.html"><b>The Prayer of Thanksgiving (with a hand-written note) - a Hermetic prayer</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/asclep.html"><b>Asclepius 21-29 - another Hermetic treatise</b></a></li>
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<li><b>Codex VII:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/para_shem.html"><b>The Paraphrase of Shem</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/2seth.html"><b>The Second Treatise of the Great Seth</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/apopet.html"><b>Apocalypse of Peter</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/silvanus.html"><b>The Teachings of Silvanus</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/steles.html"><b>The Three Steles of Seth</b></a></li>
</ul>
<li><b>Codex VIII:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/zostr.html"><b>Zostrianos</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/letpet.html"><b>The Letter of Peter to Philip</b></a></li>
</ul>
<li><b>Codex IX:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/melchiz.html"><b>Melchizedek</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/nore.html"><b>The Thought of Norea</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/testruth.html"><b>The Testimony of truth</b></a></li>
</ul>
<li><b>Codex X:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/marsanes.html"><b>Marsanes</b></a></li>
</ul>
<li><b>Codex XI:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/intpr.html"><b>The Interpretation of Knowledge</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/valex.html"><b>A Valentinian Exposition, On the Anointing, On Baptism (A and B) and On the Eucharist (A and B)</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/allogene.html"><b>Allogenes</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/hyphis.html"><b>Hypsiphrone</b></a></li>
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<li><b>Codex XII</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/sent.html"><b>The Sentences of Sextus</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/got.html"><b>The Gospel of Truth</b></a></li>
<li>Fragments</li>
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<li><b>Codex XIII:</b></li>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/trimorph.html"><b>Trimorphic Protennoia</b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/origin.html"><b>On the Origin of the World</b></a></li>
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<i><b>source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nag_Hammadi_library">Nag Hammadi library (Wikipedia)</a></b></i></fieldset>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7512630897486211753.post-39602369704474266302014-07-13T15:31:00.001-06:002014-07-13T15:48:43.441-06:00Elaine Pagels<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><fieldset><ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Pagels"><b>Elaine Pagels <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Pagels#The_Gnostic_Gospels"><b>The Gnostic Gospels <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
Some scholars, such as Edward Conze and Elaine Pagels, have suggested that gnosticism blends teachings such as those attributed to Jesus Christ with teachings found in Eastern traditions.... Conze has suggested that Hindu or Buddhist tradition may well have influenced Gnosticism. He points out that Buddhists were in contact with the Thomas Christians....<br /><br />
Pagels notes that the similarities between Gnosticism and Buddhism have prompted some scholars to question their interdependence and to wonder whether "...if the names were changed, the 'living Buddha' appropriately could say what the Gospel of Thomas attributes to the living Jesus" however, she concludes that, although intriguing, the evidence is inconclusive and she further concludes that these parallels might be coincidental, since parallel traditions may emerge in different cultures without direct influence....<br /><br />
Pagels has written that "one need only listen to the words of the Gospel of Thomas to hear how it resonates with the Buddhist tradition… these ancient gospels tend to point beyond faith toward a path of solitary searching to find understanding, or gnosis." She suggests that there is an explicitly Indian influence in the Gospel of Thomas, perhaps via the Christian communities in southern India, the so-called, Thomas Christians.</li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gnostic_Paul"><b>The Gnostic Paul <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br /><ul>
<li><a href="http://www.egodeath.com/pagelsgnosticpaul.htm"><b>Contrast of Esoteric (Higher) vs. Exoteric (Lower) Christians' Views per The Gnostic Paul, extracted by Michael Hoffman</b></a></li></ul></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God"><b>theos <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="The Greek term for god. Used by Christian Gnostics for the monad">The Greek term for god. Used by Christian Gnostics for the monad.</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon_%28Gnosticism%29"><b>syzygy <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">a divine active-passive, male-female pair of aeons, complementary to one another rather than oppositional.</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_%28Gnosticism%29"><b>Sophia <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br /><ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">"wisdom," worldly understanding; personified as Lady Wisdom, the syzygy of Christ.</a></li>
<li>In Gnostic tradition, Sophia is a feminine figure, analogous to the human soul but also simultaneously one of the feminine aspects of God.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_%28Gnosticism%29#Mythology">Carl Jung linked the figure of Sophia to the highest archetype of the anima in depth psychology.... The archetypal fall and recovery of Sophia is additionally linked (to a varying degree) to many different myths and stories (see damsel in distress).... </a></li></ul>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/gnintro.htm"><b>Sophia <i>(The Gnostic Archive)</i></b></a><br />
One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view. In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw. This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God. Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker” There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”. </li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_%28Gnosticism%29#Gnostic_mythos"><b>Gnostic mythos <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a></li>
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<li><a href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarkic"><b>sarkic <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">earthly, hidebound, ignorant, uninitiated. The lowest level of human thought the fleshly, instinctive level of thinking.</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms"><b>psychic</b></a><br /><ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">soulful," partially initiated. Matter-dwelling spirits</a></li>
<li><a href="http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Psychics+%28gnosticism%29">Gnosticism held that human beings consist of flesh, soul, and spirit (the divine spark), and that humanity is divided into classes representing each of these elements. The purely corporeal (hylic) lacked spirit and could never be saved; the Gnostics proper (pneumatic) bore knowingly the divine spark and their salvation was certain; and those, like the Christians, who stood in between (psychic), might attain a lesser salvation through faith</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_%28Gnosticism%29"><b>pneumatic (Gnosticism) <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br /><ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">"spiritual," fully initiated. immaterial, souls. Escaping the doom of the material world via gnosis</a></li>
<li>...in Gnosticism, the highest order of humans, the other two orders being <a href="http://hackingthedivine.blogspot.com/2014/07/psychic.html"><b>psychics</b></a> and <a href="http://hackingthedivine.blogspot.com/2014/07/hylic.html"><b>hylics</b></a>. A pneumatic saw itself as escaping the doom of the material world via the transcendent knowledge of Sophia's Divine Spark within the soul.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.gnosis.org/gnintro.htm"><b>Not all humans are spiritual (pneumatics) and thus ready for Gnosis and liberation. Some are earthbound and materialistic beings (hyletics), who recognize only the physical reality. Others live largely in their psyche (psychics). Such people usually mistake the Demiurge for the True God and have little or no awareness of the spiritual world beyond matter and mind.</b></a></li></li></ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism_and_the_New_Testament#Gnostic_interpretations_of_Paul.27s_teachings"><b>Gnostic interpretations of Paul's teachings <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleroma"><b>pleroma <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br /><ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">fulfillment, the higher reality of archetypes (related to Plato's realm of Ideas). The region of light.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeon_%28Gnosticism%29">The lowest regions of Pleroma are closest to darkness—that is, the physical world.</a></li></ul>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousia"><b>Ousia <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">essence of God, known to pneumatics. Specific individual things or being</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_%28Gnosticism%29"><b>monad (Gnosticism) <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br /><ul>
<li>The Monad in early Christian gnostic writings is an adaptation of concepts of the Monad in Greek philosophy to Christian gnostic belief systems.</li>
<li>In some gnostic systems the Supreme Being is known as the Monad, the One, The Absolute Aiōn teleos (The Perfect Aeon...</li>
<li>The One is the high source of the pleroma, the region of light. The various emanations of The One are called Aeons.</li>
<li>According to Theodoret's book on heresies (Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium i.18) the Arab Christian Monoimus (150-210) used the term Monad to mean the highest god which created lesser gods, or elements (similar to Aeons). In some versions of Christian gnosticism, especially those deriving from Valentinius, a lesser deity known as the Demiurge had a role in the creation of the material world in addition to the role of the Monad. In these forms of gnosticism, the God of the Old Testament is often considered to have been the Demiurge, not the Monad, or sometimes different passages are interpreted as referring to each.</li></ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad_%28philosophy%29"><b>Monad (philosophy) <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br /> Monad being the source or the One meaning without division.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10447b.htm"><b>Monad</b></a><br />
The word monad is used by the neo-Platonists to signify the One; for instance, in the letters of the Christian Platonist Synesius, God is described as the Monad of Monads.</li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_the_Logos"><b>logos <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">The logos is the divine ordering principle of the cosmos; personified as Christ.</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenoma"><b>kenoma <i>Wikipedia</i></b></a><br /><ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">the visible or manifest cosmos, "lower" than the pleroma</a></li>
<li>Valentinius, a mid-2nd century Gnostic thinker and preacher, was among the early Christians who attempted to align Christianity with middle Platonism. Valentinius pooled dual concepts from the Platonic world of ideal forms, or fullness (pleroma), and the lower world of phenomena, or emptiness (kenoma, κένωμα).</li></ul>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostasis_%28religion%29"><b>hypostasis <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br /><ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">Literally "that which stands beneath" the inner reality, emanation (appearance) of God, known to psychics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostasis_%28philosophy_and_religion%29#Hellenic_philosophy">Neoplatonists argue that beneath the surface phenomena that present themselves to our senses are three higher spiritual principles or hypostases, each one more sublime than the preceding. For Plotinus, these are the soul, being/intellect (Nous), and the One.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://magdelene.wordpress.com/2007/06/01/gnostic-words-for-june-1-2007-hamarcia-haptomai-hebdomas-hegesippus-heimarene-heracleon-heresy-hermeneutics-hermes-trismigistos-hippolytus-hylic-hypishrone-hypostasis/">Hypostasis: Means ‘reality’ as in “Hypostasis of the Archons,” Reality of the Rulers.” (See; II.4 of the Nag Hammadi Lib.)</a></li></ul>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_union"><b>Hypostatic union <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
...a technical term in Christian theology employed in mainstream Christology to describe the union of Christ's humanity and divinity in one hypostasis, or individual existence.</li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylic"><b>hylic <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">lowest order of the three types of human. Unable to be saved since their thinking is entirely material, incapable of understanding the gnosis.</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k6TJC5qlxc"><b>[Talk Gnosis] Hylic, Psychic, and Pneumatic <i>(YouTube)</i></b></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis"><b>gnosis</b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">"knowledge," direct insight into God attained by pneumatics</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gnosis.org/library/valentinus/Faith_Knowledge.htm"><b>Faith (pistis) and Knowledge (gnosis) <i>(Gnostic Society Library)</i></b></a><br />
Knowledge (gnosis) is a somewhat more complex concept. Here is the definition of gnosis given by Elaine Pagels in her book The Gnostic Gospels: "...gnosis is not primarily rational knowledge. The Greek language distinguishes between scientific or reflective knowledge ('He knows mathematics') and knowing through observation or experience ('He knows me'). As the gnostics use the term, we could translate it as 'insight', for gnosis involves an intuitive process of knowing oneself... Yet to know oneself, at the deepest level is to know God; this is the secret of gnosis...."<br /><br />
In orthodox Christianity, pistis is an end in itself. The object of pistis is pistis itself. This easily leads to a rigid dogmatism. Salvation comes to be seen as acceptance of a specific body of dogma to the exclusion of all others. In Valentinianism and other forms of "Gnostic" Christianity, the object of pistis is gnosis. The teachings are seen as a series of metaphors that point to the higher reality of gnosis. This helps explain the diversity of thought found within Valentinianism. </li>
<li><a href="http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/patrology/schoolofalex/I-Intro/chapter4.html"><b>THE SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA AND THE GNOSTICS</b></a><br />
The study of Gnosticism entered a new phase, however, with the discovery of a large collection of Coptic Gnostic documents found at Nag-Hammadi (Chenoboskion) in Upper-Egypt in 1945. Before this discovery all our information on the Gnostic sects and doctrines relied on anti-Gnostic writings, such as those of SS. Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius. This discovery has made available a wealth of original documents that are being studied now for the first time.</li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis#In_the_writings_of_the_Greek_Fathers"><b>In the writings of the Greek Fathers <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis#The_.22Gnostic.22_sects"><b>The "Gnostic" sects <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis#The_Gnostics_in_the_Early_Christian_Era"><b>The Gnostics in the Early Christian Era <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis#In_Greek_Orthodox_thought"><b>In Greek Orthodox thought <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
In the Eastern Orthodox <a href="http://desertfathers.blogspot.com/2011/06/philokalia.html"><b>Philokalia</b></a> it was emphasized that such knowledge is not secret knowledge but rather a maturing, transcendent form of knowledge derived from contemplation....</li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanationism"><b>Emanationism <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">The Supreme Light or Consciousness descends through a series of stages, gradations, worlds or hypostases, becoming progressively more material and embodied. In time it will turn around to return to the One (epistrophe), retracing its steps through spiritual knowledge and contemplation.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Emanationism"><b>Emanationism <i>(New World Encyclopedia)</i></b></a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demiurge"><b>demiurge <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms">an entity (usually seen as evil) responsible for the creation of the physical universe and the physical aspect of humanity. The creator God</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon#Gnosticism"><b>archon <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms"><i>one of various powers in the cosmos</i></a></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archon#Gnosticism"><b>archon <i>(Wikipedia)</i></b></a><br /><i>In late antiquity the term archon was used in Gnosticism to refer to several servants of the Demiurge, the "creator god" that stood between the human race and a transcendent God that could only be reached through gnosis. In this context they have the role of the angels and demons of the Old Testament. They give their name to the sect called Archontics.</i></li>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gnostic_terms"><i>one of various levels of reality</i></a></li>
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Aeons bear a number of similarities to Judaeo-Christian angels, including roles as servants and emanations of God, and existing as beings of light. In fact, certain Gnostic Angels, such as Armozel, are also Aeons. The Gnostic Gospel of Judas, recently found, purchased, held, and translated by the National Geographic Society, also mentions Aeons and speaks of Jesus' teachings about them.</li></ul>
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