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Gnostic John the Baptizer. E-book. Formato Mobipocket G. R. S. Mead   -  Simone Vannini, 2016  - 

THE main materials contained in these pages will certainly be new for the vast majority of readers. Moreover the Mandæan narratives, legends and discourses are not only interesting because of their own distinctive matter and manner, but they are also arresting; for they raise a number of problems, some of which are far-reaching and one is fraught with implications of immense importance. The definite solutions of these problems, however, lie in the future, and the most important of them will perhaps never be reached; for, in the absence of straightforward historical information, general agreement on any subject that concerns Christian origins immediately or even indirectly is now well-nigh a psychological impossibility.The writer's intention in publishing these selections is not to speculate about the problems, for we are not yet in a position to state them with sufficient accuracy, but the very modest undertaking of making accessible for English readers some specimens of narrative and doctrine from one collection only of the traditional gnostic material which the Mandæan scribes have preserved to our own day through centuries of copying, and which hands on an early literature purporting at least in part to go back to times contemporaneous with Christian origins.

The Gnostic Crucifixion . E-book. Formato Mobipocket G. R. S. Mead   -  Simone Vannini, 2015  - 

7. “John, one there needs must be to hear those things, from Me; for I long for one who will hear.8. “This Cross of Light is called by Me for your sakes sometimes Word (Logos), sometimes Mind, sometimes Jesus, sometimes Christ, sometimes Door, sometimes Way, sometimes Bread, sometimes Seed, sometimes Resurrection, sometimes Son, sometimes Father, sometimes Spirit, sometimes Life, sometimes Truth, sometimes Faith, sometimes Grace.9. “Now those things [it is called] as towards men; but as to what it is in truth, itself in its own meaning to itself, and declared unto Us, [it is] the defining (or delimitation) of all things, both the firm necessity of things fixed from things unstable, and the ‘harmony’ of Wisdom.10. “And as it is Wisdom in ‘harmony,’ there are those on the Right and those on the Left—powers, authorities, principalities, and dæmons, energies, threats, powers of wrath, slanderings—and the Lower Root from which hath come forth the things in genesis.

Cos'é lo Gnosticismo?Momenti di un'antica religione. E-book. Formato Mobipocket Ezio Albrile   -  Harmakis Edizioni, 2019  - 

Lo gnosticismo antico è una via di salvezza grandiosa,quanto sconosciuta. Si parte dall'inganno che forze ostili hanno tessuto intorno all'uomo: gli hanno fatto credere di essere la «misura di tutte le cose», ma in realtà è niente più che un escremento. Un'idea bassissima della materia, concepita come intrinsecamente malvagia, all'opposto un Dio, quello vero, totalmente straniato dal mondo. Il mondo esclude Dio, mentre Dio mette fine al potere che il mondo esercita sull'uomo, nell'attesa di metter fine al mondo stesso. Chi è il Salvatore e in che consiste la salvezza? Gli gnostici mettono insieme la salvezza con la deiezione nei postriboli, senza sentirsi colpevoli. I nostri discorsi ci seppelliscono in luoghi dove non siamo, eppure vi torniamo spesso per reimparare la differenza tra il vero e il falso, tra il vero Dio e gli impostori, gli Arconti.