Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Ch Gnostic Society Library Almost all of the several dozen internet sites with collections of texts similar to our own obtained their material by directly or indirectly copying some files present at the Gnosis Archive. Ours was perhaps the first major collection of such texts to appear on "the web" in 1994, and thus has served as a source for others creating "their own" collections. Unfortunately transcription errors, typos, and primitive HTML formatting were present in the massive amount of material added to the Gnosis Archive in our first years; in a repeated process of "copying" they have been very widely propagated around the internet. Over nearly two decades we have made many corrections to these texts. It appears that few of the sites copying material from this collection have taken the time to read, edit and correct the texts! This is of course exactly how the manuscript tradition has propagated errors in the past centuries, though with vastly different technologies of reproduction.
Brahma Kumaris Official Website - Home Belshazzar and Bel(te)shazzar In reading several studies and webpages on the names given to Daniel and his three friends, we find some very interesting information. Here is a brief summary. For example, in a study done by William Shea (Andrews University Seminary Studies, Spring 1988) it is inferred that the Babylonian names given to Daniel and his three friends were purposely corrupted by Daniel! Now, the Hebrew names of these young men showed that they were worshippers of the true God, Jehovah! Daniel 4:8 reveals that king Nebuchadnezzar renamed these Hebrews after his gods! Daniel, who wrote the BOOK OF DANIEL, and who wouldn't even eat the king's food not only because it contained unclean meats, but also contained the meats offered to the Babylonian gods, would no doubt be very much troubled by these Babylonian names and thus even when using them in his accounts changed them slightly. Daniel's friend, Azariah, (Jehovah helps) was renamed Abednego according to scripture. Misheal was renamed Meshach
The Three Love Mantras that Open Your Heart By Marci Shimoff The first time I fell in love I couldn’t believe what happened to the world. The sky had never been that blue before! We’ve all been there, haven’t we? That was the question I set out to answer in my latest book, Love for No Reason. Three Love Mantras that Open Your Heart Love Mantras – #1: Love is Who We Are. Instead of walking around with a little cup, begging for a few drops of love from others, recognize that you’re the huge ocean of love. The Gnostic World View: A Brief Summary of Gnosticism Gnosis Archive | Library | Bookstore | Index | Web Lectures | Ecclesia Gnostica | Gnostic Society GNOSTICISM IS THE TEACHING based on Gnosis, the knowledge of transcendence arrived at by way of interior, intuitive means. Although Gnosticism thus rests on personal religious experience, it is a mistake to assume all such experience results in Gnostic recognitions. It is nearer the truth to say that Gnosticism expresses a specific religious experience, an experience that does not lend itself to the language of theology or philosophy, but which is instead closely affinitized to, and expresses itself through, the medium of myth. Indeed, one finds that most Gnostic scriptures take the forms of myths. The term “myth” should not here be taken to mean “stories that are not true”, but rather, that the truths embodied in these myths are of a different order from the dogmas of theology or the statements of philosophy. The Cosmos All religious traditions acknowledge that the world is imperfect. Deity
Internet Sacred Text Archive Home We Three Kings We Three Kings? Within the story of the Star of Bethlehem, the identity of the persons who saw the Star that led them to Bethlehem is one of the key questions. We know almost nothing about them, we are sure that they were not kings. We have little idea of where they came from. Just who were the Magi? Neither Matthew’s Gospel, nor the Protoevangelium of James describes the Magi. The fact that they are generally shown, in the western tradition, to have been three, is due to their three gifts for the baby Jesus. For the early church the number three was highly symbolic and thus an unreliable guide to the reality of the situation. In other words, there were strong religious and symbolic reasons for the church to state that there were three and just three Magi and to suppress the suggestion that there may have been four or more. Who were the Magi? Herod does not treat them as kings, neither does Matthew, nor James mention that they were kings. Were the Magi Persians?
How To: Change Your Karma We hear people talking about having good or bad Karma all the time but what really is Karma? Does it affect my soul? How can I change my Karma? First things first, What is Karma? kar·ma noun (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.informal destiny or fate, following as effect from cause. Check out this awesome video by Shunyamurti from the Sat Yoga Institute about Karma and how we change our Karma. Karma is attached to our EGO. When we are in a deep state of meditation you can access these higher levels of consciousness and change your Karma if you wanted to. How can we change it from our current state of consciousness? There are two main ways to change our Karma here on earth. 1. When you are in meditation focus on sending love to everyone and everything in existence. 2. What do you think about Karma? Thank you for reading, Kirsten Team Spirit
Archons, Annunaki & The Nag Hammadi Codices For those of you who have never heard of the 'Archons' ... The first references to the Archons can be seen in ancient Nag Hammadi Text ... The Nag Hammadi Library, a collection of thirteen ancient codices containing over fifty texts, was discovered in upper Egypt in 1945. This is exactly what Gnostics said about the Archons: they can affect our minds by subliminal conditioning techniques. James Gilliland speaking about Archons, Annunaki, 2014 & Beyond ... "The Archons influence the way you perceive the world, not the world itself. Archons : Gnostic Theory of Alien Control Physical descriptions of Archons have been found in several Gnostic codices. Jay Weidner on Archons ... John Lash on Archons ... The unique emphasis on the Goddess Sophia is the high inspirational message of Gnosis. References : Related Posts :
Free Tarot Card Readings Who Were the Three Kings or Magi ? Listen to the midi We Three Kings The Three Kings or The Three Magi G a s p a r M e l c h i o r B a l t h a s a r in traditional capes, and Phrygian caps from the Mosaic in the Basilica of St Apollinarius in Ravenna, Italy. c. in The Holy Epiphany by Lewis Williams , the relative ages of The Magi are given -- those bearing gifts for the Christ child are Caspar of Tarsus, Melchior of Persian and Balthasar of Saba. For his generosity, Caspar receives the gifts of charity and spiritual wealth. Melchior is middle-aged, Persian and offers myrrh. Balthasar is elderly, Ethiopian and offers frankincense. Listen to the 2nd midi version of When I was studying in Bonn, Germany in the early 1960s, I visited nearby Köln [= Cologne] many times to visit archaeological museums, churches and other places of interest. some older regional sources give local / national names to the kings -- others suggest that there were MORE than three individuals or kings They keep it perpetually burning and worship it as a god.
How to be Anything and Everything in Existence It’s not as hard as you might think to see yourself as everyone and everything all around you. In truth, there is no separation. The appearance of individuality and isolated-ness comes from the filters we’ve set up inside the left hemispheres of our brains, as i’m sure if you’ve seen Jill Taylor describe it, when that part of the brain goes away, those laws of separation goes away with it. It’s actually quite remarkable, as the awareness of the interconnectedness flows through you to the depth and core of who You really are, you begin to see and recognize the Truth in it, and the old ideas of the way things are begin to break down. So its really working in both directions. The deeper you go into each other, the more the programs break down. You are a part of everything, you are One with everything, and everything you observe and experience in your external reality is a reflection and a part of what is inside you.