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isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

“Ilda-Baoth had already sent his own agent, John the Baptist, from the race of Seth, whom he protects – as a prophet to his people; but only a small portion listened to him – the Nazarenes, the opponents of the Jews, on account of their worshipping Iurbo-Adunai. Achamoth had assured her son, Ilda-Baoth, that the [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

“Following the impulse of the divine light, man soared higher and higher in his aspirations; very soon he began presenting not the image of his Creator Ilda-Baoth but rather that of the Supreme Being, the "primitive man", Ennoia. Then the Demiurgus was filled with rage and envy; and fixing his jealous eye on the abyss [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"Why wonder at the unfathomable mysteries of the Christian religion since it is perfectly human? Have we not a letter written by one of the most respected Fathers of the Church to this same Jerome, which shows better than whole volumes their traditionary policy? This is what Saint Gregory of Nazianzen wrote to his friend [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

""Having been united, (conjunctus), to the Nazarenes, each, (Ebionite), imparted to the other out of his own wickedness, and decided that Christ was of the seed of a man", writes Epiphanius. And if they did, we must suppose they knew more about their contemporary prophet than Epiphanius 400 years later. Theodoret, as shown elsewhere, describes [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iv (gnostic ophites)

"Later, when all these extraordinary blunders, contradictions, dissensions, and inventions were forcibly crammed into a frame elaborately executed by the episcopal caste of the new religion, and called Christianity; and the chaotic picture itself cunningly preserved from too close scrutiny by a whole array of formidable Church penances and anathemas, which kept the curious back [...]