Spiritual Guidance for the Gnostic Minded
This site acts as a home page for my spiritual blog that references Gnostic scriptures (early pre-orthodox Christianity) as well as other esoteric teachings. I am looking to form a group of like minded individuals in the Southern Indiana area. Check out the “ABOUT” section.
Beware that no one lead you astray, saying ‘Lo here!’ or ‘Lo there!’ For the Son of Man is within you. Follow after him! Those who seek him will find him.
~The Gospel of Mary
Latest from the Blog
Lefāfa Ṣedeḳ: Book of Life (2 of 3)
Now we continue with the Lefāfa Ṣedeḳ! Please refer to post 1 if haven’t already. Section three starts “In the Name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, One God” and follows with a prayer concerning the carry of the deceased. It is as follows: DEKÂS BATRÔN KÛGÛYÂ, GÂNÔN, KÂWES KÎREL This…
Lefāfa Ṣedeḳ: Book of Life (1 of 3)
This post (part 1 of 3) is about the “Lefāfa Ṣedeḳ: Book of Life”, also known as the “Bandlet of Righteousness” with the subtitle “An Ethiopic Book of the Dead.” The book of the dead subtitle is definitely a play on the Egyptian Book of the Dead, but is this a similar style text? Actually,…
Culmination of Wisdom
Email for more info
CLICK HERE
Site best viewed on a desktop browser with a resolution of 1920 x 1080
Past BLOG entries:
The Virgin Mary’s Vision of Hell
Here lately I have been going down the rabbit hole of Ethiopic Christianity, particularly the apocrypha texts from that tradition. It has been a fascinating…
Hymn of the Savior
The Apocryphon of John, The Secret Revelation of John, The Secret Book of John…..whatever you want to refer to it, this particular text, next to…
Christ’s descent into Hell
Holy week passed earlier this month and with this post, I wanted to reference the Saturday between crucifixion and resurrection, that being the “Harrowing of…
The Gospel of Sophia
To continue with my OpenAI experiments, this time I wanted to see how well it put together a “Gospel” and I decided to do this…
Mark, Thomas and GPT
To continue with the chat GPT experiment, I decided to cross check the Gospel of Mark with the Gospel of Thomas. Yes, I realize Mark’s…
Matthew, Luke, Thomas and ChatGPT
The buzz lately in the technology world is the artificial intelligence chat bots. I like to play around with new technologies (hence the abundance of…
Missing fragment from the Gospel of Philip?
As I continue down the rabbit hole that is the Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis, I noticed a fragment that I have read before. While…
Norea, wife of Noah
Norea (Noria) is a figure that pops up in various Gnostic texts. The most popular Norea text is titled “The Thought of Norea” and is…
Two more readings
I have a video clip of two more readings I would like to share. The first reading is from the Gospel of Philip and it’s…
Kollyridianism – Marian worship
Back when I did my posts regarding the “Book of Mary’s Repose”, the book that accompanied that text included a long history of the Virgin…
Know Yourselves….
It has been awhile since I made some text reading vids (per the analytics, they aren’t very popular on the site but I enjoy doing…
Gospel of Thomas 114 & Theodotus
Simon Peter said to them, “Make Mary leave us, for females don’t deserve life.” Jesus said, “Look, I will guide her to make her male,…
An Index to Barbelo
…who am I, the Thought of the Father, Protennoia, that is, Barbelo, the perfect Glory, and the immeasurable Invisible One who is hidden. I am…
An Ode to Sophia
The Acts of Thomas features the popular poem “Hymn of the Pearl”, but also features another poem that does not get enough recognition and that…
The Nativity of Jesus – Expanded Edition
With it being near the time of Christmas, I thought it’d be interesting to see how the story of the Nativity of Jesus plays out…
Crucifixion body swapping
Recently I finished reading “The Gospel of Barnabas” which is an Islamic leaning text about the life and ministry of Jesus. If you are not…
The Temptation of Allogenes
As I mentioned in my previous post, there is a text in the Codex Tchacos that rarely gets spoken of and that is “A Book…
First Apocalypse of James – Tchacos vs NHL
The Codex Tchacos is famous for having the “Gospel of Judas” but what many seem to forget, it actually contained four Gnostic texts! Besides Judas,…
Black Madonna shrine – Pacific, Missouri
It’s been over a month since my last post, and I usually try not to let that happen. Unfortunately in the past month, I had…
Summer Harvest
While we have various Valentinian texts in the NHL, there are fragments that exist elsewhere, usually in the writings of the church Fathers, and are…
A mantra for Barbelo
I like to pick out phrases / paragraphs from various Gnostic texts and put them in a binder for my own personal practice. This binder…
Readings from “Gospel of Truth” & “Gospel of Judas”
Another reading video, this time sections from the “Gospel of Truth” and the “Gospel of Judas”. With the Judas reading, I included some MidJourney AI…
Salome
Last month I posted a blog about Mary Magdalene, which included included a conversation between her and Salome from the Pistis Sophia (Link: https://culminationofwisdom.org/2022/07/20/the-feast-day-of-mary-magdalene-july-22/ ),…
Jesus as a Quiet Guide
Today I present artwork and a reading video of the “Jesus as a Quiet Guide” portion from the “Gospel of Truth.” This particular verse is…
Mary’s Spirit at Dormition
August 15 is the feast day of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary. Earlier in my blog, I posted a three part series about one…
The First Source
Here is another post with some MidJourney A.I. generated artwork. For these three variants of “the first source”, I used the opening section of the…
Gospel of Philip – Saying 107 (Bridal Chamber)
With this post, I decided to include my MidJourney A.I. artwork based on saying 107 from the Gospel of Philip as well as a reading…
The Feast Day of Mary Magdalene (July 22)
July 22 is the “Feast Day” for Mary Magdalene, so I thought it would be fitting to post various texts from different traditions. Those into…
Axion Estin
Axion Estin, or it’s translation meaning “It is truly meet”, is the name of a Eastern Orthodox magnification and hymn to the Theotokos (Virgin Mary).…
Barbelo, as envisioned by A.I.
I figured I would share this interesting artwork I was able to put together with the help of AI. Here lately it seems that artificial…
Our Lady of Montserrat
I mentioned before about my visits to the Saint Meinrad Archabbey and encountering the Lady of Einsiedeln. Well, with the school out of session for…
3 short video clips
Out of the recent recordings I did, I thought I’d edit three segments together. The first segment is an excerpt from the Gospel of Thomas,…
Barbelo
Barbelo, the reflection of the source. The first thought. Mother of us all. She is mentioned in numerous Gnostic texts but I wanted to share…
Mary Magdalene Prayer
Here is another short prayer video, this time I read a Catholic prayer to Saint Mary Magdalene. Here is the text of the prayer: Saint…
A Prayer to Our Lady of Einsiedeln
I wanted to try something new with this site. I’ve been experimenting with recording videos of myself reading various scripture, as well as prayers, to…
The Book of Mary’s Repose (3 of 3)
And now the conclusion of the Liber Requiei. The man who’s arms were cut off, wept to the apostles and begged them not to give…
The Prophet Mani
While browsing around on gnosis.org, I noticed they use April 25th as a commemoration for the birth of the Prophet Mani. While April is the…
The Book of Mary’s Repose (2 of 3)
And the story continues….. After Jesus ascended back into the heavens, Mary returned home. Entering the house, it began to tremble on the account of…
The Book of Mary’s Repose (1 of 3)
I have read some oddball apocrypha texts but this may be one of the strangest. Being quite fond of the Theotokos, I’ve been tracking down…
The Unknowable Monad
One of the questions I see in social media groups about Gnosticism regard “God” and what it is like. Various Gnostic texts explain that the…
A Gnostic Hymn
I want to highlight a fragment that is in the Bruce Codex. To me, the Bruce Codex features some of the best Gnostic material available…
The Black Madonna of the St. Meinrad Archabbey
This entry is a bit different than ones I have done in the past. This is in regards to my experience with the Black Madonna…
Simon Magus’ “The Great Announcement”
To continue on my Simon Magus postings, this particular entry includes the only writing attributed to Simon himself! It survives in fragmented form thanks to…
The tomb inscription of Flavia Sophe
This artifact is an interesting piece. It is a tomb inscription of a woman by the name of Flavia Sophe. This stone dates back to…
More Sayings from Simon Magus
“I am the first power, who am always, and without beginning. But having entered the womb of Rachel, I was born of her as a…
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ
Recently I read the 1894 book, “The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ” by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Notovich, that was supposedly to contain a translation of a…
Sayings of Simon Magus
Some Christians refer to Simon Magus as the first Gnostic, and/or the Father of All Heresies, but was he? I highly doubt that. But what…
The “Tenchi” – sacred text of the Kakure Kirishitan (3 of 3)
Here is my final post about the “Tenchi.” I hope you all have enjoyed these posts relating to this interesting text. I do recommend everyone…
The “Tenchi” – sacred text of the Kakure Kirishitan (2 of 3)
Part 2 (of 3) of my posts regarding the “Tenchi”, the sacred book of the hidden Christians of Japan, aka, the Kakure Kirishitan. Book 5,…
The “Tenchi” – sacred text of the Kakure Kirishitan (1 of 3)
Awhile back, I fell down the rabbit hole of the Kakure Kirishitans, aka, Japan’s Hidden Christians. While a simple blog post can not begin to…
Loading…
Something went wrong. Please refresh the page and/or try again.
Culmination of Wisdom 