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I Pray All Is Well With Everyone Tonight…And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion…For All God’s Children…And All God’s Creation. As The New Year Approaches – And On Into 2023, 4, 5 6 – Let Us Maintain A Vibration Of Love – And Those Higher Thoughts And Qualities; Not Only For Ourselves And Our Loved Ones…But For All God’s Children…And All The World Around Us. More Importantly, Tho – Let Us Stay Connected To…And Under The Guidance Of Our Own “Mighty I AM Presence”…No Matter What May Come. Since The World’s Outcome Will Be Determined By Mankind’s Collective Energy…Every Individual On This Earth Should Govern – Wisely – Their Own Energy…By Staying In The Flow Of Those Higher Qualities – Tuning In To The Love Of Our Own “Mighty I AM Presence” – And Radiating That LOVE Back Into The Atmosphere! Cuz In The Midst Of All The Chaos…In the End…And In The Grand Scheme Of Things – That Loving Energy WILL MATTER! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“The general name “Gnostics” is used to designate several widely differing sects, which sprang up in the Eastern provinces of the Roman Empire almost simultaneously with the first planting of Christianity. That is to say, these sects then for the first time assumed a definite form, and ranged themselves under different teachers, by whose names they became known to the world, although in all probability their main doctrines had made their appearance previously in many of the cities of Asia Minor. There, it is probable, these sectaries first came into definite existence under the title of “Mystae,” upon the establishment of a direct intercourse with India and her Buddhist philosophers, under the Seleucidae and the Ptolemies.

The term “Gnosticism” is derived from the Greek, Gnosis, knowledge – a word specially employed from the first dawn of religious inquiry to designate the science of things divine. Thus Pythagoras, according to Diogenes Laertius, called the transcendental portion of his philosophy, “the knowledge of things that are.” And in later times Gnosis was the name given to what Porphyry calls the Antique or Oriental philosophy, to distinguish it from the Grecian systems.

But the term was first used, (as Matter on good grounds conjectures), in its ultimate sense of supernal and celestial knowledge, by the Jewish philosophers belonging to the celebrated school of that nation, flourishing at Alexandria. These teachers, following the example of a noted Rabbi, Aristobulus, surnamed the Peripatician, endeavoured to make out that all the wisdom of the Greeks was derived immediately from the Hebrew Scripture; and by means of their well-known mode of allegorical interpretation, which enabled them to elicit any sense desired out of any given passage of the Old Testament they sought, and often succeeded in establishing their theory.

In this way they showed that Plato, during his sojourn in Egypt, had been their own scholar; and still further to support these pretensions, the indefatigable Aristobulus produced a string of poems in the names of Linus, Orpheus, Homer, and Hesiod – all strongly impregnated with the spirit of Judaism. But his Judaism was a very different thing from the simplicity of the Pentateuch. A single, but very characteristic production of this Jewish Gnosis has come down to our times.

This is the “Book of Enoch”, of which the main object is to make known the description of the heavenly bodies and the true names of the same, as revealed to the Patriarch by the angel Uriel. This profession betrays, of itself, the Magian source whence its inspiration was derived. Many Jews, nevertheless, accepted it as a divine revelation; even the Apostle Jude scruples not to quote it as of genuine Scriptural authority. The “Pistis-Sophia,” attributed to the Alexandrian heresiarch Valentinus, (so important a guide in the following inquiry), perpetually refers to it as: The highest source of knowledge, as being dictated by Christ Himself, “speaking out of the Tree of Life unto the Primal Man.”

Another Jewish-Gnostic Scripture of even greater interest, (inasmuch as it is the “Bible” of the only professed Gnostic sect that has maintained its existence to the present day, the Mandaites of Bassora), is their textbook, the “Book of Adam.” Its doctrines and singular application of Zoroastrism to Jewish tenets present frequent analogies to those of the Pistis-Sophia, in its continual reference to the ideas of the “Religion of Light” of which full particulars will be given when the latter remarkable work comes to be considered.

“Gnosticism, therefore, cannot receive a better definition than in that dictum of the sect first and specially calling itself “Gnostics,” the Naaseni, (translated by the Greeks into “Ophites”), viz., “the beginning of perfection is the knowledge of man, but absolute perfection is the knowledge of God.””

The Gnostics and Their Remains, by Charles William King, 1887