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I guess I have to agree with mr. Jung here in that this entire cosmic drama takes place inside a person, being psychological rather than ontological. Authades is "I" (but please, not "Ego"), the director responsible for my own internal operations. So the 12 paired aeons ("be...

(I'm just going to ramble on in this thread rather than start new ones about these texts - it should be easier to follow the line of thought this way and keep it tidy. Apologies to mods and admin if such behavior is frowned upon.) Jesus stands in for Mind, according to gnosis. So whenever he asks hi...

So I find Pistis Sophia to be a really weird text, but for a special reason. For those unfamilar with the askew codex, books 1-3 are one entity and books 4-5 another, and they are thematically (not stylistically) quite a ways off. 1-3 are a massive compendium of every gnostic tidbit the author could...

You definitely struck a rich vein with the Bacchus reference - one of the askewianus texts (either book 1 or book 4/5) associates "Little Iao the Good" with "Sabaoth Adamas". From what I can gather from the Internet, Sabaoth is Saturn, skywise - and Saturn is associated with jubi...

Secret Alias wrote: ↑Sat May 04, 2019 8:11 pm But remember that none of the Christian MSS actually spell out IESOUS in all its forms. A nomen sacrum appears instead

Not a Christian MS, but a copy of The holy book of the great invisible Spirit in NHC IV spells out the name of a "Ieseus Mazareus Iesedekus, the Living Water".

Where did you get that numbering system? That's not PIstis Sophia book 1, it's 4. Or 5. The last one, anyway - the 'Jeouian', independent one. IAO is the sacred voice of the Tufon (the Donkey), from which the day emanates. As an Italian, have you personally ever witnessed what donkeys do before dawn...

Thomas is certanly "gnostic", as in, presents knowledge. What it's not, is "gnosticist" - meaning, it doesn't adhere to the fictional category of nihilists constructed by early Church propaganda. This is where its elusiveness comes from - it's easy to frame Apocryphon of John as ...

Here's a crazy thought:

In Egyptian mythology, Ptah (/pəˈtɑː/; Ancient Egyptian: ptḥ, probably vocalized as Pitaḥ in ancient Egyptian) is the demiurge of Memphis, god of craftsmen and architects.

Coincidence, I'm sure! Carry on.

It would be interesting to see the differences that show up if someone tried a different word (maybe lamp?) for translation of the source of the light. That was just a quick example (“and so the great Lamp Eleleth spoke”…”the Lamp has come [and has been styled:] Seth”... “I am one of the four great...

I apologize for not wording it clearly - I'm translating these into my native Slovene. And while I did initially plan to put these for on a free website and start discussions, well... for one, Slovenia's internet communities are absolute crap, but other than that this living book of the living grew ...