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Welcome! I haven't found any good gnostic Facebook groups. They're either unhelpful, full of conspiracies or weirdly orthodox with some stuff about chakras thrown in. This subreddit is small but good for discussion and learning.
If you don't already have one, get a print copy of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures. The introductions to each text, as well as the footnotes throughout, are invaluable and provide insight that is sometimes lacking when reading online.
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I think you need to look for the Nag Hammadi Library and the Berlin Codex. You can search around on Amazon for some others; here is a copy of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures
OK I see. I was thinking of picking this up. Would you say that this contains 'ALL" of the gnostic texts or are there still scriptures that are not included.
The King James Bible is a fraud. If you are interested in Christianity, The Nag Hammadi Scriptures are vital.
This is the one to go for, all the translations in here are pretty reliable and the scholarly commentary for them is spot on and generally quite detailed.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nag-Hammadi-Scriptures-Translation-Complete/dp/0061626007
You can read them for different types of contexts: historical, theological, etc. And see how they differ from canonical books - if this is the case, I'd suggest popular academic versions such as The Nag Hammadi Scriptures edited by Marvin Meyer for some books "left out" of the New Testament. For the books "taken out" by protestants, either the The New Oxford Annotated Bible or The HarperCollins Study Bible.
If you're reading them devotionally, I guess read whatever versions you think read the best.
Yeah a few tbh, but you'll find the majority of the above in here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nag-Hammadi-Scriptures-Translation-Complete/dp/0061626007
No place better than the source material: https://www.amazon.com/Nag-Hammadi-Scriptures-Translation-Complete/dp/0061626007/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=the+gnostic+gospels&qid=1609357857&sr=8-2
Hey, folks.
I recently learned about the Nag Hammadi library and, in particular, the <em>Teachings of Silvanus</em>, from the Facebook group, Stoicism Group (Stoic Philosophy) (you can read about Stoicism's influence on the Nag Hammadi library here). The Nag Hammadi library seems cheap on Amazon (at least, cheaper than I expected).
I didn't pay Gnosticism much attention because I mistook its definition, and regretfully so, because it has a relationship with asceticism. Are any of you, /r/Asceticism, familiar with it? What do you think about it? And are there any texts from the Nag Hammadi library, in particular, that you recommend?
> Enoch is Jewish, not Gnostic. I assume this means the Epistle of Jude is also Gnostic propaganda.
The Book of Enoch is a gnostic expansion on Genesis, it is not canon in judaism, it IS canon in Eritrean, Ethiopian, and Coptic Christianity which follows the monastic traditions of the desert fathers, St. Anthony being one of them. There was a large influence on the desert fathers from Alexandria that led to the gnostic texts of the Nag Hammadi library. You can read more about gnostic and coptic canon in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Nag-Hammadi-Scriptures-Translation-Complete/dp/0061626007/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520559631&sr=1-1&keywords=the+nag+hammadi+scriptures&dpID=51AWQnqkKKL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&d...
> Alchemy is medieval, not Gnostic. Alchemy would require not being a Gnostic to perform since it's about matter and the whole thing about Gnosticism is escaping matter.
Alchemy is Egyptian in origin. The word Khem is an egyptian word that means "the fertile land of the Nile flood", the Arabs of the 7th century who developed the practice of alchemy that was brought back during the crusades added "Al" to the beginning of it which means "of the". So the word Alchemy specifically means "of the fertile land that the Nile floods", which is Egypt. Alchemy is an extremely ancient practice that taught us how to make beer in the fertile crescent and was developed spiritually through Egyptians. You can read more about it in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Kybalion-Hermetic-Philosophy-Ancient-Greece/dp/1603864784/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1520559579&sr=1-1&keywords=the+kybalion&dpID=51iaHGQejVL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
> "Greek kabbalism" sounds like "dehydrated water." "Exclusively Jewish mysticism for goyim." This really gives your sheer ignorance away.
Greek kabbalism is the origin of Kabbalah, it specifically deals with the Pythagorean cults that developed during the origins of philosophy. The greek and hebrew alphabets developed from the pheonician alphabet, which was alphanumeric. The pythagoreans taught a system of writing that took into account the numeric values of each word to entrench writings in triadic symbolism. When rabinnic theologians discovered this in the late dark ages Kabbalism was born. You can read more about it in this book: https://www.amazon.com/Greek-Qabalah-Alphabetical-Mysticism-Numerology/dp/1578631106
I am not a gnostic though, and I'm not trying to upend Christianity. I don't know where you're getting that. I'm not saying anything terribly controversial. I'm presenting evidence and historical fact, you haven't presented anything other than attacks on my character.
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