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 of the earliest dormition stories (which includes various gnostic thought), so please check out that if you haven’t. Links at the end. With this post, I wanted to focus on …
Category Archives: soul
A Naassene Psalm
I wanted to share this fragmented text from a Naassene source. Despite being a fragment, it works quite well as is. The text/psalm can relate to the soul, as well as Sophia. The following is based on a G.R.S. Mead translation: First [was there] Mind the Generative Law of All; Second to the Firstborn was …
Authoritative Teaching
With this post, I wanted to bring attention to a Gnostic text that does not get mentioned much, at least from what I have seen. That text is titled the “Authoritative Teaching” from Codex VI of the Nag Hammadi Library. It is a text that speaks of the soul. The text is not complete as …
Body – Soul – Spirit
Body – Soul – Spirit While reading “The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs” translated by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, there is a section dedicated on sayings regarding “souls.” Texts relating to souls have always interested me. Gnostic literature features quite a few texts detailing the soul’s journey and I was happy to …
Culmination of Wisdom 