The Hymn of the Robe of Glory (Echoes

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" COMMENTS. THE PEARL. B th Hoffmann and Preuschen are of HYMN OF THE ROBE opinion that the Poem is a free elaboration OF GLORY, of the chief element in the very briefly recorded Parable of the Pearl which the first Evangelist alone has preserved (Matt. xiii. 45, 46) : Again the Kingdom [or Kingship] of the Heavens is like unto a merchantman seeking fine pearls ; and when he found a pearl of great price, he went and sold all he had and bought it." This seems hardly sufficient in itself to account for the genesis of our Poem. Certainly for the Gnostics, if the Pearl meant the Kingdom of Heaven in the sense of the Gnosis, it also meant some thing more definite and intimate, and in 30
" And " " " " " " " " all probability the tradition of the mystic THE * JtixjyiJN ur1 i i -L /"!_ 4.* meaning went back to pre-Christian THE ROBE OF GLORY days. Thus the pre-Christian Hellenistic ini tiate who was the first commentator of the Naassene Document, quotes a mystery-saying of the Phrygians from the Mysteries of the Great Mother as follows : "If ye have eaten dead things and made living ones, what will ye make if ye eat " living things On this the Jewish commentator, who was in high probability a contemporary of Philo of Alexandria let us say about the first quarter of the first century writes : by living things they mean logoi and minds and men the pearls of the Inexpressible Man cast into the plasm below." Those logoi, or words or reasons that is spiritual minds or true men are the angels who perpetually behold the Face of the Father, that is
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