Metalogos The Gospels of Thomas & Philip & Truth

the upper joint of the thumb (the Hindus call such
a symbolic hand-posture a ‘mudra’).
Dead, Abode of the (52): Copt emnte
(C056a→C008b: ‘west’, as the entrance to the
underworld) = Heb lw)# (sheol: ‘plead’) = Gk
ΑΙΔΗΣ (hades: ‘unseen’).
Emanation (14): Copt 5h (C392); Th 77;
Grobel (Biblio.15) convincingly shows that this
term is analogous to the Neo-Platonic notion of
divine radiation, wherein all beings are likened to
sunbeams emanating from the one God; see
Plotinus, Enneads V.3.12: ‘The analogy of light
from a sun— the entire intellectual order may be
figured as a kind of light, with the One in repose at
its summit as its King’; cp. also A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada, Beyond Illusion and Doubt
(1999): ‘In the Bhagavad-gita, Krishna says, aham
sarvasya prabhavah: “Everything is emanating
from Me.” Christ says that he is the son of God,
and this means that he emanates from God.’
Eternal-Ones (15): see Aeon in Ph Notes; all
creatures considered as eternal, relative to the
trans-dimensional mind of God (Lk 20:38, Jn 6:54,
‘Angel, Image and Symbol’).
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