Re: Questions about Gnosticism
[quote author=Yazichestvo link=topic=1036.msg19468#msg19468 date=1291356574]
No worries.
The role of Christ as "the word" or logos is part of what intrigues me. [snip][/quote]
On this -- I found a most beautiful piece of Sethian literature that describes the Divine Triad - Father/Mother/Son who's descent to earth are symbolized as Voice/Speech/Word.
It's called Three Forms of First Thought [or, Trimorphic Protennoia]
It is broken into 3 fragments, each representing a single descent to earth by each part of the Triad. The Word's descent is the 3rd part. I think it's important to recognize that it is the triad as a whole that makes it possible for The Word to descend. There can be so much discussion just on this one piece of work!
Here is a piece:
I think "Three Forms" is one of my favorite gnostic texts now....
[quote author=Yazichestvo link=topic=1036.msg19468#msg19468 date=1291356574]
No worries.
The role of Christ as "the word" or logos is part of what intrigues me. [snip][/quote]
On this -- I found a most beautiful piece of Sethian literature that describes the Divine Triad - Father/Mother/Son who's descent to earth are symbolized as Voice/Speech/Word.
It's called Three Forms of First Thought [or, Trimorphic Protennoia]
It is broken into 3 fragments, each representing a single descent to earth by each part of the Triad. The Word's descent is the 3rd part. I think it's important to recognize that it is the triad as a whole that makes it possible for The Word to descend. There can be so much discussion just on this one piece of work!
Here is a piece:
I am the Word who dwells in the ineffable Voice. I dwell in undefiled Light and a Thought revealed itself perceptibly through the great Speech of the Mother, although it is a male offspring that supports me as my foundation. And it (the Speech) exists from the beginning in the foundations of the All.
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