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| | Gnostic Christianity and the Myth of Sophia |
 | | The central motif of all of the Gnostic scriptures was the liberation brought by Christ's death and resurrection. | | | Constantine declared Christianity the only state religion and the Council of Nicea declared that Jesus was identical with the one and only God of the universe. | | | The Gnostic scriptures are of three kinds: esoteric cosmological works, gospels that contain discourses between Jesus and his followers, and ethical books of sayings or pure teaching. |
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http://www.essene.com/Gospels/GnosticAndSophia.html
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| | Gnostic and Historic Christianity |
| | The supreme rôle assigned to the Christ of the Gospels, as of the Gnostics, is that of Manifestor and Revealer of the Father in heaven. | | | With the Gnostics knowledge was the foundation of their faith; but the Historic Christians made faith the basis of knowledge, and the first demand of the new faith was for the convert to believe that all the mythical typology of the past had been made literally true in the present. | | | Gnostic Christianity was absolutely, fundamentally, and for ever opposed to the historic rendering, and yet the Gnostic doctrines of the fourth Gospel, and of Paul's and James' Epistles, have been allowed to remain under cover and control as spiritual forces artfully tethered to draw for the physical and anti-Gnostic Faith. |
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http://www.africawithin.com/massey/gml1_gnostic.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism |
| | Gnostics were "people who knew", and their knowledge at once constituted them a superior class of beings, whose present and future status was essentially different from that of those who, for whatever reason, did not know. | | | The Gnostics, it is true, borrowed their terminology almost entirely from existing religions, but they only used it to illustrate their great idea of the essential evil of this present existence and the duty to escape it by the help of magic spells and a superhuman Saviour. | | | The Gnostics seem also to have used oil sacramentally for the healing of the sick, and even the dead were anointed by them to be rendered safe and invisible in their transit through the realms of the archons. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06592a.htm
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| | GNOSTICISM - ANCIENT AND MODERN |
| | Gnostics believe that they have secret knowledge about God, humanity and the rest of the universe of which the general population was unaware. | | | Gnosticism is a philosophical and religious movement which started in pre-Christian times. | | | Novel beliefs about Gods, the Bible and the world which differed from those of other Christian groups. |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/gnostic.htm
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| | The Gnostic Jesus |
| | In the Gnostic view of spirituality has man ascending to different levels, which it fostered a spiritual superiority through receiving visions, revelations, communications with angels, insight by God speaking directly and giving unknown doctrines; regularly in long conversations with its participants and giving doctrines that are not found in the Scripture. | | | Gnostic believers are “saved” when they realize who they are-a part of the divine; possessing within themselves the kingdom; capable of anything; and untrammeled by human traditions, creational structures, or divine laws. | | | The Gnostics used allegorical interpretations, spiritualizing literal meanings in the Scripture. |
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http://www.letusreason.org/Latrain18.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Books: The Gnostic Gospels |
| | Gnosticism's Christian form grew to prominence in the 2nd century A.D. Ultimately denounced as heretical by the early church, Gnosticism proposed a revealed knowledge of God ("gnosis" meaning "knowledge" in Greek), held as a secret tradition of the apostles. | | | To the orthodox Christians, this was blasphemy, for the church as we know it is basically built on the faith and belief that God's son took on a human form and died in the literal sense on the Cross in order to conquer Death and save all of his followers. | | | Gnostic teachings were thus seen as subversive of this social order by offering direct access to God outside of the priests and bishops of the orthodox church. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679724532?v=glance
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| | gnostic christianity - www.ezboard.com |
| | Luckily for the Gnostic, salvation is available in the form of gnosis or knowledge imparted by a Gnostic redeemer, who is Christ, a figure sent from the higher God to free humankind from the Creator God Yaldabaoth. | | | In the Gnostic myth, the supreme god is completely perfect and therefore alien and mysterious, "ineffable," "unnamable," "immeasurable light which is pure, holy and immaculate" (Apocryphon of John). | | | The ancient view was that females contribute the matter in reproduction, and males the form; thus, Sophia's action produces an offspring that is imperfect or even malformed, and she casts it away from the other divine beings in the pleroma into a separate region of the cosmos. |
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http://p205.ezboard.com/fmorphz9768frm9.showMessage?topicID=523.topic
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| | Gnostics, Gnostic Gospels, & Gnosticism |
| | Some Gnostic documents are the Gospel of Truth, the Letter to Rheginus, Treatise on the Three Natures, Apocalypse of Adam, the Gospel of Matthias, Gospel of Philip, Acts of Peter, and Acts of Thomas. | | | The Gnostics believed that they were privy to a secret knowledge about the divine, hence the name. | | | Some scholars have theorized that Gnosticism has its roots in pre-Christian religions, instead of being merely an offshoot of Christianity. |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gnostics.html
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| | Hermetic Fellowship : Gnosticism |
| | Gnostic QandA from the Church of the Pearl. | | | History of the French Gnostic Catholic Church, and of the Thelemeic Gnostic Catholic Church. | | | "Gnosticism" in the academic and usual sense of the word, is a blanket term used to embrace various esoteric cosmologies and spiritual teachings which developed in the syncretic Hellenistic civilisation in the centuries immediately after Christ” Part of M. Alan Kazlev’s awesome and encyclopædic Kheper site. |
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http://www.hermeticfellowship.org/HFGnosticResources.html
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| | The Gnostic Church of Christianity |
| | Gnosticism describes a state of spiritual perfection in communion with God. | | | In fact, I assert that the first Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ and even Paul became Gnostics in their Highest state of advancement WITHIN Christianity. | | | And there they stand divided: Christians on one side, and Gnostics on the other. |
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| | Questions and Answers about Gnostic Christianity |
| | Gnostic Christians believe that the knowledge necessary for salvation has been revealed through Jesus Christ. | | | WHAT IS Gnostic Christianity is a Way of Life based on the original teachings of Jesus Christ. | | | A gnostic is a person who believes that salvation is gained through the acquisition of divine knowledge or gnosis. |
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http://www.thepearl.org/What_is_Gnosticism.htm
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| | The Gnostic Christ: Gnosticism vs. Christianity |
| | Because of the extensive variety of Gnostic and gnosticizing groups, it is necessary to provide a basic definition of Gnostic religion. | | | Not all Gnostics cared to associate themselves with the figure of Jesus Christ. | | | The most important point of departure from orthodox teaching is in the Gnostic redefinition of the meaning, purpose, and nature of Christ. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/6111/pneumatikos/gnostic.htm
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| | Weblog: Time Goes Gnostic - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | Van Biema starts his article with a selection from the Gnostic Gospel of Peter in which Jesus is assisted in his resurrection by two men who descend from the sky. | | | The most-cited Gnostic text, the Gospel of Thomas, mixes familiar sayings of Jesus with others of more mystical bent. | | | Carl F. Henry, a theologian who helped move evangelical Christianity from the sidelines to a central place in American religion, died on Sunday in Watertown, Wis. He was 90. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/150/22.0.html
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| | The Gnosis Archive: Resources on Gnosticism and Gnostic Tradition |
| | It is a unique array of insights on Christianity and Gnosis throughout their history with special focus on the impact of Pope John Paul II on the Catholic Church and on world affairs. | | | Included here are introductory lectures on the nature of Gnosticism and discussions of central Gnostic scriptures, including the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Philip. | | | Mary Madgalene, the Prophet Mani, the medieval Cathar Gnostic renaissance, and the Templar myth are all covered in this superb course. |
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http://www.gnosis.org
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| | The Pearl...a Gnostic Christian website |
| | The most gnostic of the Four Gospels, the Testimony of St. John offers a more spiritual examination of the life of Jesus Christ. | | | The Gnostic Revelation of St. John The Beloved -- A Tranformation Text | | | Text: "Epistle of St. Paul the Apostle to the Branch of the Body of Christ in Ephesus" |
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http://www.thepearl.org
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| | Gnostic christianity matrix |
| | gnostics, gnosis was the privileged "knowledge of the heart" or "insight" about the | | | Gnostic christianity matrix (only one in the whole Tanach) : |
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http://exodus2006.com/fab/Gnosis.htm
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| | Gnostic Friends Network - Welcome to the Gnostic Friends Network |
| | Clad in primitive flesh-suits, humans roam the planet "Earth" as hairless, talking monkeys, wasting their their brief lifespans fighting, mating, eating and excreting for the amusement of capricious gods. | | | Here are found fantastic heavens and horrifying hells, entire mental universes holding the secrets of our origins and the keys to our liberation. | | | Gnostic Friends Network - Welcome to the Gnostic Friends Network |
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