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Some scholars have also pointed to "Wisdom" in the Hebrew scriptures as being related to the logos. Wisdom in the Hebrew scriptures is described the same way as Maat is in the Egyptian religion. The Invention of God" by Thomas Romer Another way of compensating for the disappearance of...

eta: a quick internet search found this - . 2. Plutarch's Platonism ... Plutarch structures his work into argument ( logos ) and a narrative ( mythos ) ... 4. Metaphysics 4.1 First Principles ... for Plutarch Osiris is both the intellect and the logos present in the world soul ( De Iside 371A , 376...

My post is just showing that the Egyptian king was described in the same way as the Logos is described by Middle Platonists and gJohn. So Plutarch describing Osiris as the Logos actually makes a lot of sense because the Egyptian king(Osiris was a king) was described in the same way as the Logos is l...

The king, the Logos, and the dying and resurrecting savior are all intertwined. This is why Jesus can so easily be seen as the king/messiah, the Logos, and the dying and resurrecting savior. Both Osiris and Dionysus both can be seen as the king, resurrecting savior, and Logos. The Dionysian Gospel: ...

The ancient Egyptian king is often described in the same way as the logos is described by Philo and gJohn. Osiris was an Egyptian king and Plutarch describes him as the Logos. The Logos according to Philo and Gjohn: Divine Embodiment in Jewish Antiquity: Rediscovering the Jewishness of John’s Incarn...

The one doing the creating is the Logos. Is there a precedent for Logos creating Nous? I think Philo would consider Nous to be the mind/thoughts/ideas of the Logos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo#View_of_God Philo probably was the first philosopher who identified Plato’s Ideas with Creator’s t...

The parable of the sower and the story of Jesus is just another form of the story about divinity sacrificing/dividing/splitting itself to give "life" or "spirit" to matter. This is why Jesus divides up bread that is his body and feeds his disciples. You find this same concept in ...

And their body will be upon the street of the great city, which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt , where also their Lord was crucified. [/b](Rev 11:8) I think by Sodom and Egypt the author means the physical realm or realm of matter/physical body/corporeality. Philo, Allegorical Interpretation...

The crossing of the rivers and seas and the immersion of solar heroes in water in olden mythologies, and the rite of baptism in theology, signified nothing beyond the fact of the soul’s immersion in a physical body of water nature in its successive incarnations. Kuhn seems to think that the crossin...

http://www.mythicistpapers.com/2018/04/16/h-detering-the-gnostic-meaning-of-the-exodus-a-commentary-pt-3/#materialism The opening paragraphs above cover a lot of territory, and I’ll devote this and the next post to commenting on them. At the outset, let’s be clear that Detering is discussing allegor...