PhS

REGPh, p.

Gnostic exegesis [with reference from TNaK]

PhS

REGPh, p.

Hellenic philo-sophy

6:9

235

God is [a consuming] fire [Deut. 4:24]

[6:11]

[239]

["destructive fire" acc. to Empedokles]

"

237

intelligible world = treasure-tree [in Naboukhodonosor’s dream, Daniel 4:7-9]

6:13

241

Ouranos (‘heaven’) is married to Ge (‘earth’) ["hear, O heavens; and give ear, O earth!" (Is. 1:2)]

6:14

"

mind; thought; unlimited power [= 3 days before creation of sun & moon]

"

"

image from imperishable form [= Spirit of God on face of waters (Gen. 1:2)]

"

243

womb [=Paradise]; placenta [=Edem]; umbilical cord [= river flowing out of Edem]

{cf. Ophite doctrine concerning the 4 rivers from <eden}

6:15

245

taste [of Red Sea in Exodos];

6:16

"

hearing the spell (transforming humans into beasts) by Kirke;

"

247

touch [= Deutero-nomia].

"

"

potentiality (as, in grammar & geometry) being taught [= "perfect fruit" {of tree of life?}]

6:17

249

"I and thou are one" (turning husband & wife to physiology of parenting) [= "turning flaming sword" of Krub in Gen. 3:24]

6:18

251

from the Silence (Invisible & Incompraehensible) arise 2 offshoots : above male, the Mind of all things; below female, the great Thought. by having [sexual] intercourse, these 2 "reveal the intervening space" (the air incompraehensible). this space is called "father" by the female (Thought), who "hid" him :

6:19

253

Epi-noia (Thought) [= "the stray sheep" {? Rah.el ‘ewe’ the wife sought by Ya<qob}] is Helene, much-sought as bride but eloping (with Paris) to Ilion

"

257

"he {Iesous = Paris-Alexandros?} appeared as a man though he was not a man {"I am a worm and not a man" (Psalm 22:6)}, and was thought to suffer in Ioudaia though he did not suffer" {so according to the Qur>an}

6:20

259

"This man’s disciples perform magic and spells ... and they send out the daimones called dream-bringers to trouble whom they wish. And they exercise what are called familiar spirits, and they have an image ... in the form of Zeus {= Nah.or?} and ... in the form of [Athene] {=? Ribqah (/ribq/ ‘lasso, lariat’ – A-ED, p. 374a) the daughter of Nah.or}, and they worship these". {Forasmuch as anyone who may identify Zeus with Simon magos, or Athene with Helene, is dismissed "as being ignorant of their mysteries" (6:20, p. 259), these deities’ <ibri^ identities must be quite otherwise (than Rah.el & her father). Zeus’ daughter (usually his mind-born Athene, but perhaps incarnate in the Ilion-residing heroi:ne Kassandra, said therefore to be daughter of Zeus) "was gifted with" a lasso (WG, citing Teen Titans v3 #2 (2003)).}

6:19

253-255

Stesi-khoros was temporarily blinded, however, by Helene {a reminiscence, possibly, of the blinding (GM 25.g) of Teiresias by Athene. Athene = Minerva, who is said to possess (Ch, ChG) a lasso.}

Nous, Epi-noia, Phone, Onoma, Logismos, Enthumesis

PhS

REGPh, p.

doctrine

{comparative}

6:23

263

"They swear thus : ‘... by the one who transmits the tetraktys to our head, the spring ... ever-flowing ...’ "

{cf. the divine <ayna (water-spring) of the Manda< religion}

6:24

"There are nine classes of incorporeal accidents which cannot exist without substance,"

quality

"substance counted with them makes the perfect number, ten." (p. 265) {so, "substance" may be aequivalent to the 10^th spirah ‘kingdom’}

quantity

relation

place where

time when

position

state

acting

being acted on

6:25

267

"the stars are fragments of the sun, and ... the souls of animals are brought down from the stars".

p. 269 if one doth philosophy 3 lifetime in succession, one ascendeth to one’s star

6:26

269

if away from thine home, return not; lest the Erinues, companions of Dike (‘Justice’), pursue thee. home = body

6:27

271

" ‘Do not eat beans’ – do not accept office in the government. For they used beans of the elections to offices in those days."

{he admonition to not accept a governmental ministerial office in repeated by Z^uan-z^ou}

6:28

"the creator of all things that come to be is the great geometer and mathematician the sun".

PhS

REGPh, p.

Gnostic exegesis [with reference from TNaK]

PhS

REGPh, p.

Hellenic philo-sophy

7:21

285

"the non-existent god"

7:16

275

"not god" (acc. to A.)

7:22

289

world-seed

54

pan-spermia (‘all-seed’) (acc. to A.)

291

wing of sonship

291

wing of soul (Phaidros)

293

vessel containing unguent [ointment that ran down beard of >ahro^n (THL 133:2 = Psalm 132:2)] {cf. also Lurianic perfume-vials}

7:23

the spirit (at the boundary between the cosmos and the hypercosmia) "mutilated himself" {cf. Ater (/<at.er/ ‘perfume’)-gadis (/gaddi^/ ‘clad; lucky’)}

295

ogdoad {this is Kemetian}

7:24

297

the sonship controlleth the god more arrhetos (ineffabilis, unspeakable) than the arrhetoi (ineffabiles, unspeakables)

295

the actuality (i.e., soul) controlleth the body (acc.. to A.)

7:25

"all creation groaneth and travaileth, awaiting the manifestation of the Sons of God" {these Bne^ >lohi^m were cared for by S`at.an (according to the Book of >iyob), before they were drowned in the deluge}

299

Until Moses from Adam reigned sin (cf. Rhomanoi 5:15) {implying that the >lohi^m inculcated sin}, through "the hebdomad"; until Mos^eh was converted to worshipping YHWH {the god of his father-in-law}, comprising "the ogdoad".

{"hebdomad" may imply a 7-day week; "ogdoad" may, in this context, imply its rival, the traditional Etruscan 8-day week of as many Teitanes}

7:26

303

there are 365 heavens, and the great arkhon of these is Habrasaks {H.EBER instead of <EBER?}

7:27

305

"the savior ... himself was also ... subject to the creation of the stars".

[6:28]

[273]

[Pythagorean faith in the 12 signs of the zodiac]

307

his soul having been split 3 ways (one part remaining below, one part ascending to the boundary, and one part to the height of the great arkhon) after his death, Iesous "became the first fruit of the segregation"

{cf. the 3-way Neo-Platonic division of the personality after death : one part below, one part to the moon, one part beyond the moon}

p. 311 pairs of elements

elements

p. 313 deities of elements

p. 311 nature of deities

p. 313 explanations for assignments

material

earth

Hera

life

earth bringeth forth life-nourishing foods

water

Nestis

weeping

like water, fasting cannot nourish

instrumental

fire

Zeus

brightness

air

Aidoneus

[death]

"we look at everything through it but it alone we do not see"

[efficient]

strife

neikos

the many (p. 315)

love

philia

sphaira (p. 315)

the one (p. 315)

‘Wander thirty thousand seasons far from the place of the blessed.’ " [also p. 115] {These 30,000 seasons = 10,000 years, with 3 seasons per year (P, p. 808, fn. 1)}

The hidden spirits, 3 myriads in number (according to W&D, lines 253-5), are (W&D, line 125) "clothed in mist, roaming everywhere on earth." (CCPR, p. 80)

cycle of vicissitudes in punishment for souls, during the dominion of Strife [4 * 2,500 years in each location]

"The fury of the aither ... drives the souls to the deep,

"a dumb fish of the sea"

frag. 117 (EGPh, sect. 105), quoted from DL 8:4-5

the deep spits them out onto the ground,

"a bush"

earth to the rays of the brilliant sun, and

"a bird"

the sun casts them into the whirlwinds of the aither".

"a youth and a maiden"

[Epistoloi] by Paulos ho apostolos

Eu-angelion by "stump-fingered" Markos

PhS

REGPh, p.

Gnostic exegesis [with reference from TNaK]

PhS

REGPh, p.

Hellenic philo-sophy

7:31

323

evil

7:31

323

"there is one cosmos that is governed by Strife the evil one, and

good

another intelligible one governed by Love, ... but

"there is a third just principle located midway between good and evil"

between the different principles there is

325

Iesous "should be free of all evil ... free also of the nature of good, ... so that he may be a mean" ["why called thou me good?"]

323

a just logos ... called Mousa".

PhS

REGPh, p.

philosophy

9:9

329

the divine logos [‘plan’] "in differing from itself it agrees with itself : a back-turning construction".

331

Aeternity "is a child playing at draughts; the kingdom is the kingdom of a child."

Homeros : "boys who were killing lice deceived him by saying the thing that we see and grasp we leave behind, but the things that we neither see nor grasp, these we take away."

333

"Immortals mortals, mortals immortals, living the death of those but dying the life of those."

335

"When he was here in this world {Zeus was born into this world, on mt. Lukaion in Arkadia, and given as an infant to mother Gaia (‘earth’) (GM 7.b)} they rose up against him {all the Olumpian deities, "except Hestia, surrounded him suddenly as he lay sleeping on his couch and bound him" (GM 13.c)} and set themselves as guards (wakefully) of the living and the dead." {Delphune was as "guard" over the paralyzed Zeus (GM 36.b).}

Keraunos (‘thunderbolt’) steereth all things, by correcting them : ek-purosis {otherwise a Stoic dogma} "is satiety."

"God is day, night, winter, summer, war, peace, satiety, hunger – all the opposites". {cf. Thunder, the Perfect Mind in the Khenoboskion texts}