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The Gnostic Book of Life (1)

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01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery



01 Religious and ideological doctrines and imagery




04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry



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books
Gnosticism
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Roman Empire
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Gnostic texts


Text
Gospel of Truth:
After all these, there came the little children also, those to whom the knowledge of the Father belongs. Having been strengthened, they learned about the impressions of the Father. They knew, they were known; they were glorified, they glorified. There was manifested in their heart the living book of the living - the one written in the thought and the mind of the Father, which from before the foundation of the totality was within his incomprehensibility - that (book) which no one was able to take, since it remains for the one who will take it to be slain. No one could have become manifest from among those who have believed in salvation unless that book had appeared. For this reason, the merciful one, the faithful one, Jesus, was patient in accepting sufferings until he took that book, since he knows that his death is life for many. … This is the knowledge of the living book, which he revealed to the aeons at the end as his letters, revealing how they are not vowels nor are they consonants, so that one might read them and think of something foolish, but (rather that) they are letters of the truth, which they alone speak who know them. Each letter is a complete , like a complete book, since they are letters written by the Unity, the Father having written them for the aeons, in order that by means of his letters they should know the Father.


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Gospel of Truth

Bibliography

Annus 2002, 195-196Annus, Amar. The God Ninurta in the Mythology and Royal Ideology of Ancient Mesopotamia. State Archives of Assyria Studies 14. Helsinki: The Neo-Assyrian Text Coprus Project 2002.
Robinson 1996, 41,43Robinson, James MacConkey (ed.). The Nag Hammadi Library in English. Leiden: Brill 1996 (fourth edition, esp. pp. 41, 43, 166, 280).

Amar Annus


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