Sir Richard Arcos' World of Docetic Twaddle. V
I have been considering the contents of the Gnostic gospels and roundly abusing them. After Phillip I looked at a couple more gnostic texts. Then I got bored part way through the ghastly 'gospel of truth.' Too much neo-platonism for me! But here's the gnostic creation narrative, it's scary! "Listen to my words, my son Seth [Adam is supposed to be speaking here]. When God had created me out of the earth, along with Eve, your mother, I went about with her in a glory which she had seen in the aeon from which we had come forth. She taught me a word of knowledge of the eternal God. And we resembled the great eternal angels, for we were higher than the god who had created us and the powers with him, whom we did not know [the reference here is the the 'Demiurge', the 'builder']. Then God, the ruler of the aeons and the powers, divided us in wrath. Then we became two aeons. And the glory in our heart(s) left us, me and your mother Eve, along with the first knowledge that breathed within us. And it (glory) fled from us; it entered into [ant hole] great [ant hole] which had come forth, not from this aeon from which we had come forth, I and Eve your mother. But it (knowledge) entered into the seed of great aeons. For this reason I myself have called you by the name of that man who is the seed of the great generation or from whom (it comes). After those days, the eternal knowledge of the God of truth withdrew from me and your mother Eve. Since that time, we learned about dead things, like men. Then we recognized the God who had created us. For we were not strangers to his powers. And we served him in fear and slavery. And after these things, we became darkened in our heart(s). Now I slept in the thought of my heart. And I saw three men before me whose likeness I was unable to recognize, since they were not the powers of the God who had created us. They surpassed [...] glory, and [...] men [...] saying to me, "Arise, Adam, from the sleep of death, and hear about the aeon and the seed of that man to whom life has come, who came from you and from Eve, your wife." 'Nuff said, I think. More than enough! Excuse me while I go and... [The rest of this entry, consisting of two words, has been deleted]
He said 'throw up', or words to that effect, didn't he?
He said 'throw up', or words to that effect, didn't he?
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