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My working trans.: (30): “But God is the Father, and Craftsman, and Guardian {ἐπίτροπος} of all in Heaven and the True Cosmos. […] (31) God is the Demiurge {δημιουργὸς} and God of Time also, for He is the Father of ‘Time’s father’ — that is, the Cosmos’ Chronos {χρόνου κόσμος} — who made the moveme...

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2014/6/26/1403794378202/Monty-Python-s-Life-of-Br-012.jpg Truth: I met John Cleese once, after a concert. Stoned out of my gourd, I had written some funny 'local' bits on the index cards passed about, and he congratulated me for the big laug...

Lay Egyptologist and amateur anthropologist Dr. Sigmund Freud starting collecting antiquities c.1897. I suspect he was partly inspired to write the Moses/Thoth story in the mid-1930s by Prof. Daniel Völter’s groundbreaking work more than two decades earlier. -- keyword: Voelter -- e-zine article, 20...

Possibilities that might help explain the above: 1) Proto-Jewish beliefs syncretized Canaanite theology... All excellent possibilities and some lines-of-thinking I had already considered, plus much I did not! The 'Temple's destruction in 70 AD' isnt a troll. But the Faked Moon Landings? Well, then ...

Wilhelm Bousset [1915] "Gnosticism is first of all a pre-Christian movement which had roots in itself." An excellent brief survey is Gerard Luttikhuizen, "Monism And Dualism in Jewish-Mystical and Gnostic Ascent Texts" published on 01 Jan 2007 by Brill: Link Wilhelm Anz, Zur Frag...

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The horrific speaks to the truth of it, I think. A man crucified alive, naked: the shivering horror! I hold the human reaction to murder (repugnance) as a universal, while admitting that many people (sociopaths: ~15% of population?) can be acculturated to approve extreme cruelty. If that is not extr...

Jerusalem perhaps yes, but the Temple? There is no evidence of any kind that the temple got destroyed in 70 CE other than the writings of Josephus. Of course it needed to be destroyed for the "prophecy" of Jesus to be fulfilled but I doubt that it was. Do you have better "facts"...

How about all that, but without a 70 CE Temple destruction. Come again? The Temple's destruction is a matter of fact ; it was recorded accurately. There is certainly a great deal that remains speculative (re: so-called 'Gnostics', and sociological interpretations of re-written literature), but the ...

I've searched and failed. From internal evidence, is there any clearer dating for this work by Iamblichus? Link Diogenes Laertius (c. 200-250 CE) and Porphyry (c. 234-305 CE) each wrote a Life of Pythagoras. Iamblichus’ (c. 245-325 CE) work is titled On the Pythagorean Life, which includes some limi...