"Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom;
yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom;
seek learning, even by study and also by faith."
Doctrine and Covenants 88:118

"And the gatherer sought to find pleasing words, worthy writings, words of Truth."
Ecclesiastes 12:10



Friday, March 3, 2017

The God of the Gnostics

Colorbasus...said that when God revealed himself, he revealed himself in the form of Anthropos.  Still others, Irenaeus reports maintained that "the primal father of the whole, the primal beginning, and the primal incomprehensible, is called Anthropos...and that this is the great and abstruse mystery, namely, that the power, which is above all others, and contains all others in its embrace, is called Anthropos."

Elaine Pagels
The Gnostic Gospels

This passage evokes for me both Adam Kadmon from the Jewish Kabbalah and "Man of Holiness" from Moses 6:57.

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