The eclipse, the veil and the skull as references to creation

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Giuseppe
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The eclipse, the veil and the skull as references to creation

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In another thread, some recognized that :
The physical cross witnessed on the earth hearkened back to a cosmic principle which began or was associated with the beginning of the universe
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5424&start=80#p100797

...the "cosmic principle" in question being the cosmic Cross on which the Christ was extended (=crucified") at the origin of the world. There are in the Passion narrative some references to the origin of the world just when Jesus dies.

The connection between Adam and Golgotha is already known to readers and is boring a repetition of the argument. Just as between:


At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon.

and Genesis 1:2a:

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep

But now I realize another connection, not raised before now:

The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.

The idea is that "something" abandoned the sancta sanctorum.

Compare this freed spirit with this spirit equally out of any possible limit:

and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

(Gen 1:2b)

According to Gnostics, that passage talked about the exile of the Spirit (Sophia et similia) in the world of the demiurge, once separated from the Pleroma. It is curious that the Judaizer behind "Mark" is now talking about the exile of the spirit of YHWH himself from the his previous temple.

Note the difference:
  • the exile of Sophia was caused by the Fate and/or Demiurge.
  • The exile of the spirit of YHWH was caused by YHWH himself.
This seems to be another example of the Judaizing counter-exegesis doing use of the Gnostic exegesis of the story of Genesis.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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Re: The eclipse, the veil and the skull as references to creation

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Really, the Golgotha is a Skull for this belief of the Naassenes, that connects the creation of the world with the Skull:

The expression rock, he says, he uses of Adam. This, he affirms, is Adam: The chief corner-stone become the head of the corner. For that in the head the substance is the formative brain from which the entire family is fashioned.Ephesians 3:15 Whom, he says, I place as a rock at the foundations of Zion. Allegorizing, he says, he speaks of the creation of the man. The rock is interposed (within) the teeth, as Homer says, enclosure of teeth, that is, a wall and fortress, in which exists the inner man, who there has fallen from Adam, the primal man above. And he has been severed without hands to effect the division, and has been borne down into the image of oblivion, being earthly and clayish.

http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/050105.htm

Note the reference to "a wall and fortress", allegorized by the teeth of this Skull. This wall is obviously the Limit called Horos/Stauros by the Valentinians.

Now, the function of this Limit is the separation of the "inner man" (the divine spark in ourselves) from the "primal man" (the superior Christ).

Now note who, in correspondence of this Limit or cosmic Cross, dismembered the Primal Man in numerous pieces that were going to be sown under the Limit in the matter of the demiurge:

And he [the Primal Man] has been severed without hands to effect the division


The quote is from Daniel 2:45:

This is the meaning of the vision of the rock cut out of a mountain, but not by human hands—a rock that broke the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver and the gold to pieces.

“The great God has shown the king what will take place in the future. The dream is true and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

Attention precisely to this point: the Primal Man Christ, allegorized by the danielic "rock cut out of a mountain", was dismembered at the origin of the world, according to Naassenes, "but not by human hands".

Who could dismember the giantlike Primal Man Christ without be human beings?

But the answer is too much obvious!!!

The Archons.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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