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- Adam's son Seth as living in the same period as the Egyptian god Seth was being recorded in our first Egyptian records found: Alexander Seinfeld writes: According to Wikipedia, The earliest representations of what may be the Set animal comes from a tomb dating to the Naqada I phase of the Predyna...

Yes.

Further, as I wrote in this thread, "Secret Mark" uses at least one English idiom word choice and word order ("And he remained with him that night" vs. the Biblical Greek manner of speech of "And with him (they) remained that (day)" (John 1:39). If this word order is u...

Was the 'Secret Gospel of Mark' (assumed) composed c.125 or as late as 170 AD, w/ Melchizedek purged already? It was certainly written in the 20th century when Morton Smith "discovered" it (wink). The supposed "Letter to Theodore" has Clement of Alexandria saying that you should...

In 1957, Smith became a teacher at Columbia University. https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/872354 Also, in 1957, "Avatar Adi Da's mysterious impulse to 'Learn Man' brought Him to attend Columbia University, where He received His bachelor's degree in philosophy." https://www.adidam.org...

private gnostic-style instruction Why do you call it "gnostic-style" if you also claim it is unknown? Is it gnostic style, or is it unknown? It can't be both. One of the signs of Gnostic mystery school teaching was its secretive style. The salvific contents were given to the initiates onl...

I just read in Peter Jeffrey's The Secret Gospel of Mark Unveiled that M. Smith chose for one of his publishers "Da Free John", the leader of a strange sex cult in the Pacific islands accused of sexual exploitation of members. This choice would seem quite strange for such a respectable Co...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Sat Apr 24, 2021 5:57 am You are insane. You've never read anything Smith wrote.

I read over his book Jesus the Magician before I knew that he was the same person involved in the Secret Mark saga. I thought his book was from okay to good.

, but they don't do that naked and they aren't sex teachings like Smith was trying to analogize You keep doing this over and over again. Where does Smith say this? Where does he say that ALL Christians were homosexual? Where is this the cornerstone of " his teachings"? You make it sound a...

Have I left out other shining examples of 'productivity' in the humanities? He had a compendium of Clement's phrases that he had annotated and he had published on his peculiar Theory about early Christian sex rites and his mistaken claim that Clement had taught lying for the faith in the 1950s up u...