An Aberrant Gnostic

  One of the first text titles mentioned in the early days of newspaper reporting on the Nag Hammadi Library was mention of The Book of the Great Invisible Spirit .  I wonder what that book might be about...so let's see what AI has to say about it, shall we? A Book With Three Themes to Digest For me, anyway!  My new friend in the Google Bard summarized the book as such.  The three main sections include: A Gnostic Cosmology : the universe was/is created by a series of emanations from the ultimate, unknowable God, or the Great Spirit.  The material world was/is created by lower divine beings and is seen as a place of ignorance and suffering A Gnostic Mythology : the text relates the story of the divine being Seth, and "his" three descents into the material world.  The first one occurred at the time of the Flood, the second at the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the third in the form of Jesus Christ. A Gnostic Set of Rituals :  The tex...

  One of the main reasons I wanted to start this blog was to document and "stack" newspaper articles regarding the Nag Hammadi Library that I've found on Newspapers.com.  The Nag Hammadi Library, or NHL , is the source material for most things 20th century and on Gnosticism.  So what it is?  Let's let an article from The Guardian , June 18, 1949, help us define such a thing. The article wastes no time in introducing us to a young French scholar, M.J. Doresse, and his presentation at The Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres in Paris, June 17, 1949.  The presentation focused on the preliminary findings and translations regarding a 1000-page set of scriptures found in Egypt.  The article mentions that the documents were found by a group of fellahin some thirty miles north of Luxor, along the east bank of the Nile.  The find was mentioned to have been made in early 1946. So, in case you might not know, what is so special about this set of papers k...