#Nag Hammadi codices

[shamballalin]

Ascended Master Mary Magdalene ~ The Gospel of Mary ~ Pearls of Wisdom

The Gospel of Mary (Magdalene) in The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, Codex BG8502,1, begins with The Nature of Sin and the Good (7,10-8,11). Peter is asking Jesus postresurrection, “… What is the sin of the world?” Jesus replied, “There is no such thing as sin, rather, you yourselves are what produce sin when you act in accordance with the nature of adultery, which is called ‘sin.’ For this reason, the…

[polyphanes]

Reading the Hermetica: Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth (NHC VI,6) (part 2)

For this week���s Reading the Hermetica discussion, we’ll read and discuss the sixth tractate of the sixth codex of the Nag Hammadi Codices (NHC VI,6), a text known as the “Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth” (abbreviated D89).  Because of the length of this discussion, we’ll break out this discussion over two weeks, with this second week focusing on the practice and ritual the text…

[vvatchword]

I've been trying to think of low-grade evil i can commit here in the cult house and I've decided on reading smutty gay fanfiction. I am taking suggestions however

Plan: Do something harmless by literally every other metric on earth but theirs.

Why?: It would be funny

[santmat]

Gnostics, Part One, BBC Documentary

In 1945 an Egyptian peasant discovered a collection of early Christian scriptures - the Nag Hammadi Codices, which revealed the existence of a Gnostic version of Christianity…"

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[forbiddenroots]

The Nag Hammadi Codices: The Lost Scrolls of Gnostic Christianity

The Nag Hammadi Codices are a collection of ancient religious texts discovered in 1945 near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi. These codices contain a variety of Gnostic texts, offering insight into early Christian beliefs and practices that diverged from mainstream Christianity. The discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices shed new light on the diversity of early Christian thought and spirituality.

One of the most well-known texts found in the Nag Hammadi Codices is the Gospel of Thomas, a collection of sayings attributed to Jesus. Unlike the canonical Gospels, the Gospel of Thomas is a non-narrative text that presents the teachings of Jesus in the form of aphorisms and parables. This gospel emphasizes a spiritual understanding of the teachings of Jesus and the importance of inner transformation.

The Nag Hammadi Codices also contain texts such as the Gospel of Philip, the Gospel of Mary, and the Apocryphon of John, each offering unique perspectives on Gnostic theology and cosmology. These texts explore themes such as the nature of the divine, the problem of evil, and the role of gnosis, or spiritual knowledge, in achieving salvation.

The importance of the Nag Hammadi Codices lies in their contribution to our understanding of the diversity of early Christian thought and the complex relationship between Gnostic movements and mainstream Christianity. These texts provide valuable insights into the beliefs and practices of early Christian communities that subscribed to alternative interpretations of Christian doctrine.

The Nag Hammadi Codices remain significant today for scholars of early Christianity, Gnosticism, and religious studies. They offer a window into a formative period in the history of Western spirituality and challenge traditional narratives about the development of Christian theology. By studying the Nag Hammadi Codices, we can gain a richer appreciation of the complexity and creativity of early Christian thought and the enduring legacy of Gnostic spirituality.

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Sources:

- "The Nag Hammadi Library" edited by James M. Robinson

- "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels

- The Gnostic Society Library website: https://gnosis.org/naghamm/nhl.html

[brother-hermes]

WHY MYSTICISM IS MESSY TO CHRISTIANS

When religion is working for others and they’re leading productive lives and shining the light on the people around them why correct their understanding forgiveness. When someone takes a different approach and goes to classes for meditation and becomes more mystical in their reading of biblical wisdom it isn’t unchristian of them. They’re simply being individuals with different philosophies slightly alien to our own. Everyone is seeing things in their own way. Maybe embrace their take on scripture by opening up a dialogue and remember everyone was given two ears and one mouth.

I cannot recall how many awesome conversations I’ve had with church family who have no grasp on the wisdom tradition or mystic Christianity. Each time I’ve entered into discussion with someone who comes from a completely different angle than mine I learn something that widens my heart to God. Almost all of the members of my current congregation have never heard of the Nag Hammadi Codices let alone read them. Many of them are far enough up there in age that they refuse to touch anything other than a King James bible. Would I be showing kindness to brothers and sisters by describing the ins and outs of the political agenda that created the KJV? Whose work would my little i be doing if i snatched the word from their heart?

Mystic Christianity has never been received with excitement by huge crowds. Very few are shouting out “WISDOM ENTERS IN THROUGH THE GATE OF THE HEART! WOO! WOOH!” Imagine St John of the Cross playing frat boy with Theresa of Avilla knowing how small the mystic circle is. I mean, maybe 1 out of 85 members in a typical church has ever even been on a retreat where they teach meditation while everyone spends a few weeks living as monks.

Some of the hysteria surrounding the inner tradition comes from it being the educated scholars that fought off the mystic trends at Nicaea. Intellectuals don’t tend to be in touch with their feelings. Add the political agenda of an Emperor in the mix and the need for a unified hierarchy capable of keeping people in line becomes apparent. As a result, the people who originally penned the doctrine of Christ for the newly formed church of Rome did so in an incredibly tumultuous time. They were up against a sea of wildly diverse takes on Christ and what He said and did all of which were already in heavy rotation.

I say, respect the standing traditions and start meditation classes within the Churches. We could easily continue observing all the rights of a regular service and meet in the middle of the week to discuss mystics like Hildegard of Bingen, Brother Lawrence, and Meister Eckhart; all of whom left us fantastic methods of meditation. We have this great internal landscape within Christianity. Why not explore it?

Now that we’re capable of separating dogma and mysticism we almost have to tread careful. The paradigm built on lies and misunderstanding is a difficult hurdle to jump over. That doesn’t mean it can’t be done. It means we who know have to be patient and compassionate to the ones who don’t. It is what it is though so let love be your religion.

[pizzabookbuying]

currently working on a project about the nag hammadi codices and I think you already know what I’m thinking about

[assaultmystic]

proud writer of the genius annotation for the nag hammadi codices

[kylebemmann-gnosis]

[expansions888]

Thomas, Twin Of Jesus by Stewart Swerdlow

Thomas, Twin Of Jesus by Stewart Swerdlow

Read this interesting article that confirms what I have told you.

In the mid-20th century, a groundbreaking discovery shook the world of biblical scholarship and religious history! Ranker reports that two farmers in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, stumbled upon a treasure trove of ancient manuscripts that would forever alter our understanding of early Christianity.

Known as the Nag Hammadi Library, this astonishing compilation consisted of at least 50 previously unseen gospels and codices, each a window into early Christians’ myriad beliefs and practices. Read more

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[madamlaydebug]

A number of leather codices were found at Nag Hammadi in Southern Egypt in 1945.

They are Coptic translations of Greek Gnostic documents. They likely belonged to an Egyptian monastery were disposed of after Gnostic literature was categorically rejected by decree of St. Athanasius of Alexandria.

The leather bound volumes contain the following works. They are mostly Valentinian Gnostic texts that were popularized in Egypt after the second century A.D.

Codex I (The Jung Codex)

The Prayer of the Apostle Paul

The Apocryphon of James

The Gospel of Truth

The Treatise on the Resurrection

The Tripartite Tractate

Codex II

The Apocryphon of John

The Gospel of Thomas a sayings gospel

The Gospel of Philip a sayings gospel[citation needed]

The Hypostasis of the Archons

On the Origin of the World

The Exegesis on the Soul

The Book of Thomas the Contender

Codex III

The Apocryphon of John

The Gospel of the Egyptians

Eugnostos the Blessed

The Sophia of Jesus Christ

The Dialogue of the Saviour

Codex IV

The Apocryphon of John

The Gospel of the Egyptians

Codex V

Eugnostos the Blessed

The Apocalypse of Paul

The First Apocalypse of James

The Second Apocalypse of James

The Apocalypse of Adam

Codex VI

The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles

The Thunder, Perfect Mind

Authoritative Teaching

The Concept of Our Great Power

Republic by Plato [The original is not gnostic, but the Nag Hammadi library version is heavily modified with current gnostic concepts.]

The Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth – a Hermetic treatise

The Prayer of Thanksgiving (with a hand-written note) – a Hermetic prayer

Asclepius 21-29 – another Hermetic treatise

Codex VII

The Paraphrase of Shem

The Second Treatise of the Great Seth

Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter

The Teachings of Silvanus

The Three Steles of Seth

Codex VIII

Zostrianos

The Letter of Peter to Philip

Codex IX

Melchizedek

The Thought of Norea

The Testimony of truth

Codex X

Marsanes

Codex XI

The Interpretation of Knowledge

A Valentinian Exposition, On the Anointing, On Baptism (A and B) and On the Eucharist (A and B)

Allogenes

Hypsiphrone

Codex XII

The Sentences of Sextus

The Gospel of Truth

Fragments

Codex XIII:

Trimorphic Protennoia

On the Origin of the World

[mirandamckenni1]

Liked on YouTube: How a Gnostic Book Combined Ancient Mystery Schools - Nag Hammadi Codex VI || https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ygAsMjgnOY || The Egyptian Gnostic Manuscript Library found in 1945 has transformed how we think about ancient Philosophy and Spirituality. Among those 12 codices is one more mysterious than all the others. Nag Hammadi Codex VI combines tales of Jesus as the angelic healer Lithargoel, narratives about the salvation of the soul in history, paradoxical utterances of an androgyne deity, the defeat of the persecuting Imitator by "Our Great Power" and several texts of profound Hermetic Wisdom and even a dash of Plato. In this episode I explore what is perhaps the most perplexing collection of ancient mystery wisdom to survive from antiquity. Consider Supporting Esoterica! Patreon - https://ift.tt/P9zanK7 Paypal Donation - https://ift.tt/tfey0jH Merch - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoydhtfFSk1fZXNRnkGnneQ/store #gnosticism #occult #hermetica Nongri's Blog on Nag Hammadi VI - https://ift.tt/P6geCmJ " - God's Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts - 978-0300248609 The Nag Hammadi Scriptures - 978-0061626005 Hanegraaff - Esotericism and the Academy - 978-1107680975

[polyphanes]

Reading the Hermetica: Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth (NHC VI,6) (part 1)

For this week’s Reading the Hermetica discussion, we’ll read and discuss the sixth tractate of the sixth codex of the Nag Hammadi Codices (NHC VI,6), a text known as the “Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth” (D89).  Because of the length of this discussion, we’ll break out this discussion over two weeks, with this week focusing on introducing the text as well as the theory, theology, and philosophy…

[vvatchword]

I'm reading through the Nag Hammadi codices, as y'all know. i want you to know that i now officially loathe gnosticism as a concept.

I've read the Bible roughly three billion times cover to cover. It is full of yikes and even as a Christian it made me feel bad for having a uterus. The patriarchal, sexist, cissexist, and homophobic elements are absolutely in there, but they can be argued against. They can be viewed as issues of their respective cultures rather than some problem of the divine's--if you're devoted to saving god's ass, anyway.

But gnosticism? All that shit is baked in. To understand gnosticism you have to understand its hatred of women. The female is fallen by her very nature. The male is necessary to save her from herself. Neither male nor female is whole until they combine. To express perfection, ancient writers invoke maleness "times three." In Valentinian gnosticism, if you reach gnosis, you combine with a male angel spirit when you die--because all humans are filled with the female spirit and that is not enough.

And to make this even worse, there's anti-Semitism on top of all of it. In Christian gnosticism, the demiurge is Yahweh--as in, god as recognized by Jewish people. The idea is that Yahweh is a fucked-up concept and Jesus is going to show up and kick his ass--Christianity as "new and improved Judaism" and Judaism as the old that passes away. It's supposed to be an evolution of thought. It just ends up being really racist.

On top of all that is a hatred of the world and the flesh, a concept I deeply despise, as it encourages its followers to abuse themselves and ignore problems in favor of "the world to come."

So you know how I'm reading this to figure out what the fuck was going on with BioShock 2?

What if I told you that, based on my preliminary readings, BioShock 2 is inherently anti-Semitic, racist, sexist, and on top of all that, has a little dollop of incest?

It's absolutely accidental. I mean, i think it is. I'm starting to feel terrified about Sinclair. What I thought was a Latin nose is looking more and more like something else to me. I always wondered why his photo didn't match his model. Man, to be a fly on the wall at 2K Marin, you guys.

To be clear, I don't think anyone should stop liking it--again, media comes to us full of problems. And in this case, knowing that BioShock 2 was rushed lends far more credence to "accidental" rather than "intentional."

But also, i think this supports my belief that you should never fucking write on a huge, multifaceted subject without completely comprehending it, because holy fucking Christ what a terrifying mess 2K Marin made. And so far I feel like my comprehension of the subject is merely middling!

My essay has hit another rock, which is that I need to do some proper research into literary terms and types of story, because what I think happened is that BS2's writers tried to write an allegory and then fucked it up. My knowledge of literary and media criticism is not great. Most of it is just me faffing around.

I have a feeling this essay is going to be absolutely massive and honestly? Cool. I'm learning new shit by working on it.

I will become smert

[santmat]

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"What shall I do? The world sees yet is blind --

It has forsaken bliss and runs after earthly pursuits.

It idolizes stones and slaughters divine beings,

Adores and worships that which has no life!

The living are sacrificed at the altar of the lifeless --

The world sees yet continues to waste precious life." 

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"I wandered through the cosmos in search of the treasure but found it within me." 

(Sant Namdev)

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I remember so well looking at my collection of mystic books and Nag Hammadi codices realizing I had reached a kind of dead-end, a sense that no further progress can be made without contact with a living version of those paths with us now in the Twenty-First Century, a living gnosis now, a living school of spirituality now. The actual spiritual practices, East and West, are typically never written down in old scriptures and mystical texts anyway, but remain private communications only between master and disciple. With past saints we can’t sit at their feet, ask questions, take notes, or learn from them the secrets of contemplative meditation practice. As wonderful as world scriptures and the writings of past mystics might be, they are no substitute for a living spiritual path with us now in the world today, or being mentored by living spiritual teachers in-the-here-and-now. Rather than a vain attempt to figure out the methods of meditation by randomly perusing through old writings and scriptures of those who have left-the-body decades or centuries ago speculating on what their meditation techniques might have been, in Sant Mat (The Path of the Masters) the methods of sadhana (spiritual practice) are directly communicated from one generation to the next via the Living Masters of the time.

"The musk is in the deer, but it seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass." (Kabir)

"During deep sleep we are unable to have any knowledge of this physical body; however, after waking up we recall this body, our relations and possessions. In the same manner, when we are in the three states -- awake, sleep, dreamless sleep -- we are unable to directly perceive our inner self and God. The Saints tell us that there is yet a fourth state, called the Turiya, which is above the others. In this state we can directly perceive our own nature and know the Divine." (Swami Santsevi Ji Maharaj)

"So, the path to do that is contained within this human life-form where, with the Teachings of the Masters, we leave the nine doors [of the sense organs] and come to the Tenth Door [Third Eye]. And with the Grace of the Master, we are able to see for ourselves our soul and Jyoti [the Light] within." (Baba Ram Singh)

In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters,

James Bean

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[bottheologian]

The Nag Hammadi Library: Uncovering the Secrets of Early Christianity and Gnosticism

The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of thirteen ancient codices, which were discovered in Upper Egypt in 1945. These codices contain a total of 52 texts, including gospels, acts, letters, and apocalyptic writings. The Nag Hammadi library is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, and it has shed new light on early Christianity and Gnosticism.

What makes the Nag Hammadi library so fascinating is the fact that it was buried for over 1,500 years, and it survived intact. The codices were found by a group of farmers who were digging for fertilizer near the village of Nag Hammadi. They discovered a large jar that contained the codices, and they sold them to a local dealer.

The dealer recognized the value of the codices and contacted a scholar at the Coptic Museum in Cairo. The scholar arranged for the purchase of the codices, and they were eventually transferred to the Gnostic Society Library in California, where they were translated and published.

One of the most interesting aspects of the Nag Hammadi library is the fact that it contains several gospels that were not included in the New Testament. These include the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and the Gospel of Truth. These gospels offer new insights into the teachings of Jesus and the early Christian community.

Another fascinating aspect of the Nag Hammadi library is the fact that it contains several texts that are related to Gnosticism. Gnosticism was a religious movement that flourished in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, and it was considered heretical by the orthodox Christian church. The Nag Hammadi texts offer a glimpse into the beliefs and practices of this movement.

Overall, the Nag Hammadi library is a treasure trove of ancient texts that offer new insights into early Christianity and Gnosticism. The discovery of these codices was a watershed moment in the history of religious studies, and they continue to be a source of fascination and intrigue for scholars and laypeople alike.

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