An anti-demiurgist origin of the expulsion of the merchants from the temple

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An anti-demiurgist origin of the expulsion of the merchants from the temple

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A commentary is not necessary, so much it is evident.

You were a temple, but you have made yourself a tomb. Cease being a tomb, and become (again) a temple, so that uprightness and divinity may remain in you

http://gnosis.org/naghamm/silvanus.html

Let Christ alone enter your world, and let him bring to naught all powers which have come upon you. Let him enter the temple which is within you, so that he may cast out all the merchants. Let him dwell in the temple which is within you, and may you become for him a priest and a Levite, entering in purity.

Blessed are you, O soul, if you find this one in your temple.
Blessed are you still more if you perform his service.
But he who will defile the temple of God, that one God will destroy. For you lay yourself open, O man, if you cast this one out of your temple. For whenever the enemies do not see Christ in you, then they will come into you armed in order to crush you.

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