The Sethians were a group of ancient Gnostics who date their existence to before Christianity.[1] Their influence spread throughout the Mediterranean into the later systems of the Basilideans and the Valentinians[citation needed].
Their thinking, though it is predominantly Judaic in foundation, is arguably strongly influenced by Platonism. Sethians are so called for their veneration of the biblical Seth, third son of Adam and Eve, who is depicted in their myths of creation as a divine incarnation;
consequently, the offspring or 'posterity' of Seth are held to comprise
a superior elect within human society.
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Not to be confused with Setianism.
Sethian texts
Non-Christian texts
* The Apocalypse of Adam
Christian texts[citation needed]
* The Apocryphon of John
* The Thought of Norea
* The Trimorphic Protennoia
* The Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians
* The Gospel of Judas
Later texts (arguably with a Platonist influence)
* Zostrianos
* Three Steles of Seth
* Marsenes
* Allogenes
The Sethian or 'Classic' gnostic myth
Commonly, the Sethian cosmogonic myth describes an intended prologue to the events of Genesis and the rest of the Pentateuch, which by its emendation brings about a radical reinterpretation of the
typical orthodox Jewish conception of creation, and the divine's
relation to reality. This myth is typically presupposed by Sethian
manuscripts, and occasionally by those of later schools. Many of their
concepts derived from a fusion of Hellenic philosophy, Platonic (c. 427–c. 347 BC), and later, Neoplatonic (ca. 253 AD) concepts with the Old Testament. This was also done by Hebrew scholar Philo (20 BC - 40 AD), who had engaged in a similar fusion.
The Sethian cosmogony was most famously contained in the Apocryphon of John, which describes an unknown God, the same as Paul had done in the Acts of the Apostles 17:23.
The latter conception defines God through a series of explicit positive statements called cataphatic theology, themselves universal but in the divine taken to their superlative degrees: as well as being explicitly male, he is omniscient and omnipotent. The Sethian conception of God is, by contrast, defined through negative theology exclusively: he is immovable, invisible, intangible, ineffable.
This Apophatic Theology (Negative theology) mode of thinking about God is found throughout Gnosticism, Vedantic Hinduism, Platonic and Aristotelean theology, and Eastern Orthodox theology as well. It may be seen in some Judaic sources.
Sethianism posits a transcendent hidden invisible God that is beyond ordinary description, much as Plato (see Parmenides) and Philo had also stated earlier in history. It is only possible to say what God
isn't, and the experience of it remains something, again, in defiance of rational description.
[edit] The emanation of the spiritual universe
This original God went through a series of emanations, during which its essence is seen as spontaneously expanding into many
successive 'generations' of paired male and female beings, called
'aeons'. The first of these is the Barbelo,
a figure common throughout Sethianism, who is coactor in the emanations
that follow. The aeons that result can be seen as representative of the
various attributes of God, themselves indiscernible when not abstracted
from their origin. In this sense, the Barbelo and the emanations may be
seen as poetic devices allowing an otherwise utterly unknowable God to
be discussed in a meaningful way amongst initiates.
Collectively, God and the aeons comprise the sum total of the spiritual universe, known
as the Pleroma.
At this point the myth is still only dealing with a spiritual, non-material universe. In some versions of the myth, the Spiritual Aeon
Sophia imitates God's actions in performing an emanation of her
own, without the prior approval of the other aeons in the Pleroma. This
results in a crisis within the Pleroma, leading to the appearance of
the Yaldabaoth, a 'serpent with a lion's head'. This figure is commonly known as the demiurge, after the figure in Plato's Timaeus. (Gr. δημιουργός dēmiourgós, Latinized demiurgus, meaning "artisan" or "craftsman", lit. "public or skilled worker" (from δήμιος demios (belonging to the public) + έργον ergon (work)[2] This being is at first hidden by Sophia but subsequently escapes, stealing a portion of divine power from her in the process.
[edit] The creation of matter
Using this stolen power, Yaldabaoth creates a material world in imitation of the divine Pleroma. To complete this task, he spawns a
group of entities known collectively as Archons, 'petty rulers' and craftsmen of the physical world. Like him, they are commonly depicted as theriomorphic,
having the heads of animals.
Some texts explicitly identify the Archons with the fallen angels described in the Enoch tradition in Judaic
apocrypha. At this point the events of the Sethian narrative begin to
cohere with the events of Genesis, with the demiurge and his archontic cohorts fulfilling the role of the creator. As in Genesis,
the demiurge declares himself to be the only god, and that none exist
superior to him; however, the audience's knowledge of what has gone
before casts this statement, and the nature of the creator itself, in a
radically different light.
The demiurge creates Adam, during the process unwittingly transferring the portion of power stolen from Sophia into the first
physical human body. He then creates Eve from Adam's rib, in an attempt
to isolate and regain the power he has lost.
By way of this he attempts to rape Eve who now contains Sophia's divine power; several texts
depict him as failing when Sophia's spirit transplants itself into the Tree of Knowledge;
thereafter, the pair are 'tempted' by the serpent, and eat of the
forbidden fruit, thereby once more regaining the power that the
demiurge had stolen.
As is evident, the addition of the prologue radically alters the significance of events in Eden; rather than emphasizing a fall of human weakness in breaking God's
command, Sethians (and their inheritors) emphasize a crisis of the
Divine Fullness as it encounters the ignorance of matter, as depicted
in stories about Sophia. Adam and Eve's removal from the Archon's
paradise is seen as a step towards freedom from the Archons, and the
serpent in the Garden of Eden
in some cases becomes a heroic, salvific figure rather than an
adversary of humanity or a 'proto-Satan'. Eating the fruit of Knowledge
is the first act of human salvation from cruel, oppressive powers.
[edit] Modern use
The classical Sethian doctrine of the 1st and 2nd centuries has exerted a pervasive inspirational influence upon certain contemporary
mystics and esotericists. The British-German group the Knights of Seth were inspired by them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naassenes
The Naassenes or Naasseni (from Hebrew נָחָשׁ na'ash , snake) were a Gnostic sect from around 100 AD The Naassenes claimed to have been taught their doctrines by Mariamne, a disciple of James the Just.[1]
It is possible that the name is a portmanteau of "Nasoraean" and "Essenes,"[2] and the retention of the Hebrew form shows that their beliefs may
represent the earliest stages of Gnosticism.
The Naassenes, the Sethians, the Mandaeans, the Perates, and the Borborites are regarded as Ophite sects; however, Hippolytus regards them as among the first to be called
simply "'Gnostics,' alleging that they alone have sounded the depths of
knowledge."[3]
Three classes
Thus there are three classes of men and three corresponding churches:[6]
1. Material (the Bound)
2. Psychic (the Called)
3. Spiritual (the Elect)
We should imagine that these indicate
1. The heathen chiefly captive under the dominion of matter.
2. Ordinary Christians.
3. Out of the many called, the few chosen members of the Naassene sect.
Elsewhere, however, a greater diversity of men is indicated. For the Saviour, we are told, said, "Unless ye eat my flesh and drink my blood,
ye shall not enter the kingdom of heaven; but even if ye drink the cup
that I drink of, whither I go ye cannot come." For every one must go to
his own nature. Therefore it was that he chose twelve apostles for the
twelve tribes, and by them spoke to every tribe. So all men cannot
receive the preaching of all the twelve, but each only according to his
own nature.
[edit] Creation
The Naassene work known to Hippolytus would seem to have been of what we may call a devotional character rather than a formal exposition
of doctrine, and this perhaps is why it is difficult to draw from the
accounts left us a thoroughly consistent scheme.
Thus, as we proceed, we are led to think of the first principle of nature, not as a single
threefold being, but as three distinct substances; on the one hand the
pre-existent, otherwise spoken of as the Good being, on the other hand
the "outpoured Chaos," intermediate, between these one called Autogenes, and also the Logos.
Chaos is naturally destitute of forms or qualities; neither does the preexistent being himself possess form, for though the cause of
everything that comes into being, it is itself none of them, but only
the seed from which they spring. The Logos is the mediator which draws
forms from above and transfers them to the world below.
Yet he seems to have a rival in this work; for we have reference made to a fourth
being, whence or how brought into existence we are not told, a "fiery
God," Esaldaios, the father of the idikos kosmos.
That is to say, it was this fiery being, the same who appeared to Moses in the burning bush, who gave forms to the choical or purely material
parts of nature. It is he who supplies the fiery heat of generation by
which these forms are still continued. In this work the Logos had no
part, for "all things were made through him, and without him was made
nothing." The "nothing" that was made without him is the kosmos idikos.
On the other hand, it is the Logos, who is identified with the serpent, and this again with the principle of Water, who brings down the
pneumatic and psychical elements, so that through him man became a
living soul. But he has now to do a greater work, namely, to provide
for the release of the higher elements now enslaved under the dominion
of matter, and for their restoration to the good God.
Exegesis
The writer, it will be seen, makes free use of the New Testament. He seems to have used all the four Gospels, but that of which he makes
most use is St. John's. He quotes from Paul's epistles to the Romans,
Corinthians (both letters), Galatians, and Ephesians. There is a
copious use also of the Old Testament; and besides we are told there is a use of the Gospel according to the Egyptians, and that of Thomas.
But what most characterizes the document under consideration is the
abundant use of pagan writings. For the author's method of exegesis
enables him to find his system in Homer with as much ease as in the Bible.
Great part of the extract given by Hippolytus is a commentary on a hymn to the Phrygian Attis, all the epithets applied to whom are shown
when etymologically examined, to be aspects of the Logos. One of the
first of the titles applied to Attis is papas—here we are taught to recognise him who brought to rest (epause) all the disorderly motion that prevailed before his appearing. To him all things cry paue, paue, ten asymphonian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeanism
Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Mandaic: Mandaiuta, Arabic: مندائية Mandā'iyya, Persian: مندائیان) is a monotheistic religion with a strongly dualistic worldview. Its adherents, the Mandaeans, revere Adam, Abel, Seth, Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram and especially John the Baptist.
Mandaeism has historically been practised primarily around the lower Euphrates and Tigris and the rivers that surround the Shatt-al-Arab waterway, part of southern Iraq and Khuzestan Province in Iran.
In Mandaeism, Jerusalem is considered a city of wickedness, dedicated to the god of Judaism, whom they call Adunay (Adonai) or Yurba (possibly YHWH) and consider to be an evil spirit. According to Sidra d-Yahia 54,
Jerusalem is "the stronghold that Adunay built ... [he] brought to it
falsehood in plenty, and it meant persecution against my tarmidia (Manda d-Hiia's disciples)."
In the Ginza Rba (15.11), it is said to have come into being as a result of the incestuous union of the seven planets with their evil mother Ruha d-Qudsha, who "left lewdness, perversion, and fornication in it. They said: 'Whoever lives in the city of Jerusalem will not
mention the name of God.'" (Elsewhere, however, it more prosaically
says the city was built by Solomon.) However, Yahya (John the Baptist), an important figure in the religion, is said to have been born there.
Later on, in the days of Pontius Pilate, it states that the good spirit Anush Utra went there, healed the sick and worked miracles, and made converts, confronting Jesus (whom they consider a false prophet) and refuting his arguments; but
its inhabitants opposed him and persecuted the converts, 365 of whom
were killed (GR 15.11) or forced out (GR 2.1.) Miriai, a Jewish princess, was converted, and fled to the shores of the Euphrates.
This angered Anush Utra, who received permission from God to destroy Jerusalem and the temple, smash the "seven columns," and slay the Jews
who lived there, after bringing out the remaining "believers."
Elsewhere, the Ginza Rba (18) prophesies that Jerusalem "must flourish
for a thousand years, remain a thousand years destroyed, and then the
entire Tibil (material world) will be destroyed."
In the Abahatan Qadmaiia prayer, repeated during baptism of the dead, the Mandaeans invoke blessings upon the 365 who they believe were killed or forced out of Jerusalem:
“ Those 365 priests who came forth from the city of Jerusalem, the city of this masiqta and dukhrana, a forgiveness of sins may there be for them.
Fundamental tenets
According to E.S. Drower, the Mandaean Gnosis is characterized by nine features, which appear in various forms in other gnostic sects:[5]
1. A supreme formless Entity, the expression of which in time and space is creation of spiritual, etheric, and material worlds and
beings. Production of these is delegated by It to a creator or creators
who originated in It. The cosmos is created by Archetypal Man, who
produces it in similitude to his own shape.
2. Dualism: a cosmic Father and Mother, Light and Darkness, Right and Left, syzygy in cosmic and microcosmic form.
3. As a feature of this dualism, counter-types, a world of ideas.
4. The soul is portrayed as an exile, a captive: home and origin being the supreme Entity to which the soul eventually returns.
5. Planets and stars influence fate and human beings, and are also places of detention after death.
6. A saviour spirit or saviour spirits which assist the soul on the journey through life and after it to 'worlds of light'.
7. A cult-language of symbol and metaphor. Ideas and qualities are personified.
8. 'Mysteries', i.e. sacraments to aid and purify the soul, to ensure rebirth into a spiritual body, and ascent from the world of matter. These are
often adaptations of existing seasonal and traditional rites to which
an esoteric interpretation is attached. In the case of the Naṣoreans
this interpretation is based upon the Creation story (see 1 and 2),
especially on the Divine Man, Adam, as crowned and anointed King-priest.
9. Great secrecy is enjoined upon initiates; full explanation of 1, 2, and 8 being
reserved for those considered able to understand and preserve the
gnosis.
Mandaeans believe in marriage and procreation, and in the importance of leading an ethical and moral lifestyle in this world, placing a high
priority upon family life. Consequently, Mandaeans do not practice celibacy or asceticism. Mandaeans will, however, abstain from strong drink and red meat. While they agree with other gnostic sects that the world is a prison governed by the planetary archons, they do not view it as a cruel and inhospitable one.
[edit] Mandaean scriptures
The Mandaeans have a large corpus of religious scriptures, the most important of which is the Genzā Rabbā or Ginza, a collection of history, theology, and prayers. The Genzā Rabbā is divided into two halves—the Genzā Smālā or "Left Ginza" and the Genzā Yeminā or "Right Ginza". By consulting the colophons in the Left Ginza, Jorunn J. Buckley has identified an uninterrupted chain of copyists to the late 2nd or early 3rd c. AD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borborites
According to the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis (ch. 26), and Theodoret's Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium, the Borborites or Borborians (also Koddians; in Egypt, Phibionites; in other countries, Barbalites, Secundians, Socratites, etc.) were a libertine Gnostic sect, said to be descended from the Nicolaitans. The word "Borborite" comes from the Greek word Βορβορος, meaning "mud"; thus "Borborites" could be translated as "filthy ones."
Doctrine
They possessed certain sacred books, one called Noria (the name they gave to Noah's wife), a Gospel of Eve, Books of Seth, Revelations of Adam, etc. They used both the Old and New Testament, but did not acknowledge the God of the Old Testament as the supreme deity.
They taught that there were eight heavens, each under a separate archon. In the seventh reigned Sabaoth, creator of heaven and earth, the God of the Jews, represented by some
Borborites under the form of an ass or a hog; hence the Jewish
prohibition of swine's flesh. In the eighth heaven reigned Barbelo, the mother of the living; the Father of All, the supreme God; and Christ. They denied that Christ was born of Mary, or had a real body; and also the resurrection of the body.
The human soul after death wanders through the seven heavens, until it obtains rest with Barbelo. Man possesses a soul in common with plants and beasts. According to Augustine they taught that the soul was derived from the substance of God, and hence could not be polluted by contact with matter.
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this was to cover up the theme that all western stories of the greeks are really stolen from the poet
warrior
GILGAMESH.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilgamesh
In Mesopotamian mythology, Gilgamesh is credited with having been a demigod of superhuman strength who built a great city wall to defend his people
from external threats and travelled to meet Utnapishtim, the sage who
had survived the Great Deluge.
Gilgamesh, known as Bilgameṣ in the earliest text,[1] was the fifth king of Uruk (Early Dynastic II, first dynasty of Uruk), ruling circa 2700 BC, according to the Sumerian king list.
According to the Tummal Inscription,[2] Gilgamesh, and his son Urlugal, rebuilt the sanctuary of the goddess Ninlil, in Tummal, a sacred quarter in her city of Nippur. Gilgamesh is the central character in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the greatest surviving work of early Mesopotamian literature.
In the epic his father was Lugalbanda and his mother was Ninsun (whom some call Rimat Ninsun), a goddess. Gilgamesh is described as two parts god and one part man.
it also might be important to know that all three religions Judaism, Islam
, and the bible are written in Aramaic. not in the languages they are
said to be. as Aramaic was really the only language in the region
people spoke and is more identical to the revelations of the Vedas in India . as these were written by Aryans. not Hindus. and have revealed
the same information about paradise.
Reincarnation for the Untouchables 4 of 6.flv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuH3NWxfhig
here is how close the translation is.
hell in the quran is called nahr. ... See more
in the Vedas it is called nark. hmmm pretty close.
the Vedas says there is a paradise. unlike the reincarnation which was to develop the caste system and was the same thoughts of the philosophers
of Greece
so it is interesting to note that phrase.
he who controls the past . will control the future.
these people are also known as the Canaanites. Phoenicians, Babylonians, Sumerians, Zoroastrians, all the way to the Assyrians ie assassins.
who killed anyone that resisted the order. later became the knights Templar ie knights hospitaller.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_hospitaller
then persecuted the same Christians the CATHARS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albigensian_crusade
It was selected by the Canaanites . that worshiped Mithra. as the apostle Paul of tarsus. was advocating this and spreading the fake pagan religion Mithra-ism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraism
The Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of Mithras (also Mithraism) was a mystery religion which became popular among the military in the Roman Empire, from the 1st to 4th centuries AD. Information on the cult is based
mainly on interpretations of the many surviving monuments. The most
characteristic of these are depictions Mithras as being born from a
rock, and as sacrificing a bull. His worshippers had a complex system
of seven grades of initiation, with ritual meals. They met in
underground temples, which temples survive in large numbers. Little
else is known for certain.
The mithraeum
See also: Mithraeum
A mithraeum found in the ruins of Ostia Antica, Italy.
Temples of Mithras are sunk below ground, windowless, and very distinctive. In cities, the basement of an apartment block might be
converted; elsewhere they might be excavated and vaulted over, or
converted from a natural cave. Mithraic temples are common in the
empire; although very unevenly distributed, with considerable numbers
found in Rome, Ostia, Numidia, Dalmatia, Britain and along the Rhine/Danube frontier; while being much less common in Greece, Egypt, and Syria [62] . Mithriac rituals being secret, Mithraism could only be practiced within a Mithraeum [63];
and consequently it may be safely concluded that areas without Mithraea
were also without Mithraists.
More than 420 Mithraic sites have now been identified [64].
By their nature Mithraea tend to survive when other forms of religious
structures do not; and consequently the relative prevalence of
Mithraism in the population may well tend to be over-estimated. For the
most part, Mithraea tend to be small, externally undistinguished, and
cheaply constructed; the cult generally preferring to create a new
centre rather than expand an existing one.
Degrees of initiation
In the Suda under the entry "Mithras", it states that "no one was permitted to be
initiated into them the mysteries of Mithras), until he should show
himself holy and steadfast by undergoing several graduated tests."[68] Gregory Nazianzen refers to the "tests in the mysteries of Mithras".[69]
There were seven grades of initiation into the mysteries of Mithras, which are listed by St. Jerome[70]. Manfred Clauss states that the number of grades, seven, must be
connected to the planets.
A mosaic in the Ostia Mithraeum of
Felicissimus depicts these grades, with heraldic emblems that are
connected either to the grades or are just symbols of the planets.
The
grades also have an inscription besides them commending each grade into
the protection of the different planetary gods. [71] In ascending order of importance the initiatory grades were:[72]
Grade Symbols Associated planet/Protecting deity
Corax (raven) beaker, caduceus Mercury
Nymphus (bridegroom, or male bride) lamp, diadem Venus
Miles (soldier) pouch, helmet, lance Mars
Leo (lion) batillum, sistrum, thunderbolts Jupiter
Perses (Persian) akinakes, scythe, moon and the stars Luna
Heliodromus (sun-runner) torch, radiated crown, whip Sol
Pater (father) patera (or ring?), staff, Phrygian cap, sickle Saturn
as he sent the message to the gentiles. When Jesus told him this message was for the Children of Israel. Ordered to not take the message to the gentiles and so the manipulation of the church was started. As he was deviated from the path when Jesus left.
Also there are many missing years of Jesus in the bible. and other stories the church will not like to talk about.
that is why jesus said they would send another messenger after him. ie. Muhammad pbuh. to clarify the teachings did you even watch the video
that proves Jesus and Moses and all the messengers were.
only MESSENGERS? since why would Jesus get down on his knees like a Muslim
and pray to himself?? or even be tricked into temptation with sin. ???
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if you do your history they rejected the gospels of Thomas because it
revealed parts of the inner nature of ego and man. they don't want
mankind to stop egoism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas
they also claimed the bible was written in Greek when it was revealed in Aramaic also the quran was revealed this way as well.
NWO SEX CONTROL - OPERATION DEMON POSESSION
NWO SEX CONTROL - OPERATION DEMON POSESSION Unclean lustful thoughts and action lead to a filthy heart and non acceptance from God
Jesus Christ said "It is the thoughts of a mans heart which make ..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCmYRcZc-8k
So It is said we will return to the times of Nuh, Noah, and Sodom and Gommorrah. Dont we see the degradation of pornography and obscene dignity and lack of honor. around us.???
This could be part of the jinn mega ritual. notice that religions are rituals worshiping god. and cults and black satanic rituals are RITUALS WORSHIPING OTHER 'GODS'
this is the point.
There are more books that await us that have not been written . they are not prophecy.. they are a collection of the observations as I will
point out we only have two books according to Islamic philosophy of the
prophet.
in the next coming years shall be revealed more books. there is said to
be around 27 in number. we possess 2-5 . i have to go but i will fill
you in when i get the time on what this is all about.
it is a big clue about your spiritual connection with god and the
cosmos. as there are many things that i have given you to help you. but
there is a certain way to decipher and to know how exactly the intent
is when we transcend and connect with god.
as when you come back to reality after the experience. you will be very
confused with how to control this immense knowledge. and don't tell me
you are your master . because we definitely have a few problems as human
beings and it takes a lot of work to rid your self of these problems.
i will try to assist you the best i can.. i must go ill try to update
this note but i might be leaving for a couple days on a vacation. if i
get time ill try to update you.
just check back on this note. i wont tag anyone but i know some people are waiting for more.
sorry this isn't as entertaining as a video i hope to make videos to summarize the next topics. about the myth of the Aryan nation, Hinduism, and the lies about India.
as many people are being fed wrong information. this is where the journey starts to get really puzzling.
take care. and peace and blessings to you and your friends and family.
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