The Gnostic CrucifixionMead, G. R. S. (George Robert Stow)
Religion
The Gnostic Crucifixion
Mead, G. R. S. (George Robert Stow)
Gnosticism; Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion
"And they who are worthy of the Mysteries that dwell in the Ineffable,
which are those that have not emanated--these are prior to the First
Mystery. To use a similitude and correspondence of speech that ye may
understand, they are the Limbs of the Ineffable. And each is according to
the dignity of its Glory--the Head according to the dignity of the Head,
the Eye according to the dignity of the Eye, the Ear according to the
dignity of the Ear, and the rest of the Limbs [in like fashion]; so that
the matter is plain: There are many Limbs (Members) but only one Body.
"Of this I have spoken in a plan, a correspondence and similitude, but not
in its true form; nor have I revealed the Word in Truth, but as the
Mystery of the Ineffable.
"And all the Limbs that are in Him..., that is, they that dwell in the
Mystery of the Ineffable, and they that dwell in Him, and also the Three
Spaces that follow according to their Mysteries--of all of these in truth
and verity am I the Treasure; apart from which there is no Treasure
peculiar to [this] cosmos. But there are other Words and Mysteries and
Regions [of other worlds].
"Now, therefore, Blessed is he who hath found the Words of the Mysteries
of the Space towards the exterior. He is a God who hath found the Words of
the Mysteries of the second Space, in the midst. He is a Saviour and free
of every space who hath found the Words of the Mysteries of the third
Space towards the interior....
"But He, on the other hand, who hath found the Words of the Mysteries
which I have set forth for you according to a similitude--namely, the
Limbs of the Ineffable--Amēn I say unto you, that man who hath found
the Words of those Mysteries in the Truth of God, he is the First in
Truth, and like unto Him; for it is through these Words and Mysteries that
[all things are made] and the universe itself stands through that First
One. Therefore is he who hath found the Words of these Mysteries, like
unto the First. For it is the gnosis of the Gnosis of the Ineffable in
which I have spoken with you this day."
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