THE EGYPTIAN FOUNDATIONS OF GNOSTIC THOUGHT

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Ennead: Parent=Deep=NUN Demiurge/Parent/Logos/Nous/Anthropos Gnosis Life Hope Rest Love Resurrection Pistis Rebirth Seal Pleroma surrounding 12 Deeps: 1) all-source 2) all-wise 3) all-mystery 4) all-gnosis 5) all-chaste 6) every silence 7) insubstantial door=substance 8) forefather of forefathers 9) all-father/self-father 10) all-powerful 11) invisible one 12) Truth: Mother of the Aeons Demiurge/Forethought: 4 Monads & 4 Gates, each with: 6 helpers/24 myriad powers/9 enneads/10 decads/12 dodecads/5 pentads 1 Overseer w/ three aspects: 1) unbegotten 2) true 3) unutterable Aphrêdon + 12 beneficent ones Forefather Adam of the Light Perfect Mind DEEP 3 Parenthoods: 1) Covered One/Hidden God 2) 5 Trees/Only-begotten Logos 3) Silence/Source IMMEASURABLE DEEP 3 Greatnesses: 1) Still One 2) Unknowable One + 365 Parenthoods = year 3) Infinite One + Sonship/Christ/Verifier DEEP <strong>OF</strong> SE<strong>THE</strong>US w/ 12 Parenthoods: 1) indivisible 2) incomprehensible 3) unknowable 4) silence 5) still 6) all-father 7) all-mystery 8) rest & resurrection 9) covered 10) thrice-male 11) triple-powered 12) truth Separation of Existent from Non-Existent (Existent = Eternal; Non-Existent = Matter) Lord of Glory Separates Matter into Two Lands: Land of Death and Darkness Land of Life and Light 9
Bibliography of Coptic Sources FENHC, Codex I. The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Codex I. Farid, Shafik, ed., et al. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1977. FENHC, Codex VII. The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices: Codex VII. Farid, Shafik, ed., et al. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1972. NHS, vol. IV: Nag Hammadi Codices III,2 and IV,2, ed. Alexander Böhlig and Frederick Wisse. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1975. NHS, vol. IX: Pistis Sophia, ed. Carl Schmidt. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. NHS, vol. XI: Nag Hammadi Codices V, 2-5 & VI, ed. Douglas M. Parrott. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1979. NHS, vol. XIII: The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex, ed. Violet McDermot. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. NHS, vol. XV, Codices IX and X, ed. Birger A. Pearson. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1981. NHS, vol. XX: Nag Hammadi Codex II, 2-7, ed. B. Layton. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1989. NHS, vol. XXII: Nag Hammadi Codice I (I:5): The Tripartite Tractate, vol. 1, ed. Harold W. Attridge & Elaine H. Pagels. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1985. NHS, vol. XXVII: Nag Hammadi Codices III, 3-4 and V,1, ed. Douglas M. Parrott. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1991. NHS, vol. XXVIII: Nag Hammadi Codices XI, XII, XIII, ed. Charles W. Hedrick. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990.
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THE EGYPTIAN FOUNDATIONS OF GNOSTIC
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VC Vigiliae Christianae ZÄS Zeitsc
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Part I - Problems of Interpretation
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underworld demonic forces. A fragme
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Gnosis, in its most advanced Hellen
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ackground of those scholars who tur
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ased textual exclusivity for the Na
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lown Christian-Gnostic text make, a
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originations 26 ; finally, the Pist
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esentment against pernicious Fate a
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which supply the earliest examples
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etween a temporal and spatial Sourc
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creator-god Atum can be seen as the
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Let us note the remarkable link bet
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dualism in outlook, one which resul
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this positioning of intelligence, a
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in the Heliopolitan version, is the
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disruptive act which has major theo
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of an event”. 66 This distinction
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projects, who are king’s sons”.
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evolution, a priori or posteriori a
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sparked by the unruly impulse of fr
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The Egyptian netherworld is filled
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Chapter Three: Dualism in pre-Alexa
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1) The physical realm is inferior t
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equates the notion of “evil Demiu
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views were aired amongst the litera
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were intermarrying with Egyptian wo
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imperial unity. This, in part, was
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individual involved the “discover
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the regime was committed to support
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third century B.C.E. Alexandria, 46
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focus upon the library of Alexandri
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Plutarch, writing around 118 C.E.,
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This was accomplished at ground lev
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Alexandria before the Syrian garris
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in the ancient world supplied the
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Chapter Five: The Magical Papyri In
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Janet Johnson, in her accompanying
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We note that the idea of the theogo
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Name”and “The Archangelic (Book
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I list out the skills or qualities
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This is the knowledge of the living
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Hear me, my Father, thou father of
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all, also separating himself from t
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alteration of name-endings. 82 The
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What liberates is the knowledge of
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Chapter Six: The Development of Cop
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Egyptians in the language of Egypt
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“Early Coptic”, and as a workin
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must constantly bear in mind, howev
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I turn now to examine very briefly
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In Coptic we have the spoken langua
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environment of Alexandria, and her
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Christians eventually chose Coptic
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and mysterious texts of Egypt must
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It is an interesting feature of Mid
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Ammonius Saccas (c. 210 C.E.) of Eg
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formlessness and disorder”. 22 Th
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The picture here is in accord with
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House of Glory agreed with her word
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the Didaskalikos (Guide to the Doct
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Father, thereby receiving the Forms
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doctrines in Egypt. The fact that h
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different philosophical positions,
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Atum is depicted as lying inert in
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of countable aspects of time”. 91
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tradition, arises from the percepti
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Other examples follow: Then when sh
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wished to make a world. I say ‘he
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The Books of Jeu, whose mind revels
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disciples is flattened by the ideat
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12 syzygies (pairs of aeons) The la
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descends to earth. Once on earth, H
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pre-date Mani - likely a part of a
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ineffable one, the invisible one, t
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And in what way did the unbegotten
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etween priesthood and laity in cult
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this while professing “perfect in
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of the temples. 72 This socio-econo
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Chapter Nine: Egyptian Manichaeism
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There has also been a strong tenden
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I have not been deaf to the words o
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suppressed other divinities (and co
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(Keph. 65 161.12) 33 ...it shows al
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Ho all living upon the earth, and t
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hath worshipped the sun or any of t
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is a level beneath the Treasury of
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is used twice in association with t
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south, a more “worldly” stance
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Part III - The Egyptian Foundations
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The King was fashioned by Nu at his
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existent. In essence, the whole iss
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The appearance of the female creati
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informed those who live in the Abys
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But Kalyptos is a single aeon; he h
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Ennead: Parent=Deep=NUN Demiurge/Pa
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Such stories of the heavens you wou
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Chapter Eleven: The Heliopolitan Th
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abble - shall I say, of criminals o
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It is revealing, to say the least,
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formation of human syzygies, or “
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so arbitrary to Irenaeus is also on
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manuscripts we shall be examining d
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Egypt” and who claims that “I a
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Pleroma, not without leaving her da
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There does not yet exist in English
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The core myth is not substantially
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NHC II,1 20.14-28 41 And he sent, b
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without male involvement: “I have
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Chapter Thirteen: The Seth Principl
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Egyptian word khenenu “confusion
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tractate reveals a solid Heliopolit
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The “Seth-principle” also perta
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continued status as creator god, hi
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inquiry into these matters can be f
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of course it attains a distinct res
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partial Demotic version dating to t
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... I restored the Eye after it had
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nowhere, it can be present as a mot
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I am the name of the sound and the
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Page 298 and 299: Arthur, Rose Horman. The Wisdom God
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Page 302 and 303: Brown, Peter. “The Diffusion of M
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Page 306 and 307: Fairman, H.W. The Triumph of Horus.
Page 308 and 309: Griffith, F. Ll and Herbert Thompso
Page 310 and 311: Johnson, Janet H. The Demotic Verba
Page 312 and 313: Lesko, Leonard H. The Ancient Egypt
Page 314 and 315: Meyer, Marvin W. The Ancient Myster
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Page 318 and 319: Robinson, James M., ed. The Nag Ham
Page 320 and 321: Sethe, Kurt. “Das Verhältnis zwi
Page 322 and 323: Till, Walter C. and Hans-Martin Sch
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