How 'bout the Gnostic Scriptures?

[shuvanilu]

I love studying these. Absolutely fascinating. Who else here is a good old fashioned Nag Hammadi Library fan??---shuvanilu

[David19]

I haven't but i'm interested in Gnosticism (especially the cosmology and how Yahweh fits into it).

[shuvanilu]

Boy, I was hoping someone here would reply. I would think that Gnosticism would be big 'round these parts. Glad to hear I'm not alone in this:)---shuvanilu

[Cassie]

I haven't read any of the Gnostic gospels in detail for a long time but I did find them very interesting indeed. Christianity might have been a very different religion if they had been included in the NT.

[Cassie]

I just found this site from The National Geographic Society. It is mostly about The Gospel of Judus (which they have restored and translated) but it has lots of interesting background info on the Early Church and Gnosticism
See Here (http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/lostgospel/index.html)

[shuvanilu]

Thanks for the link. Looks like a good read.---shuvanilu

[David19]

Does anyone know any sites that have the Gnostic scriptures, also are there any Gnostic sites that show how Yahweh was viewed.

Thanks.

[Cassie]

Does anyone know any sites that have the Gnostic scriptures, also are there any Gnostic sites that show how Yahweh was viewed.

Thanks.
Try the Sacred Text Archive HERE (http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm) It's a glodmine. :)

[LordHelmet]

How can you people read gnostic books. Three sentences is more then enough to put me to sleep, considering it takes me about 5 mins to make sense of 3 sentences.

[Garm]

Morbid stuff

Attempting being with in that frame of reference is as depressing as listening to Joy Division. Soon enough I can discern the trails the Archons leave in the course of events just like I can see the shimering paths of slime left by land molluscs to glisten upon pavement in the morning sun.

I keep feeling that the folds of reality are about to part and show me Geigers latest landscapes.

I have some small ability to apropriate a mythus and build a world view out of it, but gnosticism has a way of catering to my moody paranoic tendencies I do not think I need.

It's a very, very effective paradigm for detaching one's spiritual component from the world of mere appaerences but, as the movements history should loudly attest, lt's aslo like drawing a "bring it on" sign over your forehead.

[Cassie]

I quite like Joy Division too! Maybe it's a sign? ;)

[Garm]

I quite like Joy Division too! Maybe it's a sign? ;)

There are only some circumstances under which I will enjoy listening to Joy Division.

If I'm in the right mood it will be nothing short of a redemption.

But if I am not feeling borderline semisuicidal, it can be a bring down.

[shuvanilu]

LOL---I love Joy Division. Yeah...Gnosticism can be depressing in some ways, but I enjoy reading these texts as a corss-reference to modern Christianity, investigating for hidden truths, piecing together a puzzle. And there are Nag Hammadi texts that I find empowering/enlightening. The Gospel of Mary, The Gospel of Thomas, Thunder: Perfect Mind, The Round Dance of the Cross (where Yeshua dances the Ring). As to the texts being *boring*....I guess you have to be in a certain frame of mind---a doodly brain stream. Wine helps. (Or you can read whilst listening to Joy Division.)------shuvanilu

[Agaliha]

I like reading the Gnostic Gospels, I find them to be pretty interesting. Though I admit I don't understand it all-- it helps to have a version with commentary along with it. (There's books like that for the Gospel of Thomas and Mary).
My favorite out of them all has to be the The Thunder, Perfect Mind (http://gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html) and the first Gnostic gospel I read was Thomas.