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and so that in Jesus the three natures were combined, and through him speak to these different classes of men. From the living waters which he supplies each absorbs that for which his nature has attraction. From the same water the olive can draw its oil, and the vine its wine, and in like manner each
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as "the Moist Essence," of the universe, without which "naught at all of existing things, immortal or mortal, animate or inanimate, can hold together." Furthermore, "all things are subject to Him, and He is Good, and has all things in Him ... so that He distributes beauty and bloom to all that exist
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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
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Although the myths of the earlier Ophite system are but lightly touched on, there is some trace of an acquaintance with them, as for example the myth that Adam was brought forth by the Earth spontaneously; he lay without breath, without motion, without stirring, like a statue; being made after the
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which is the real source of every form." And baptism applied to none save the man who was introduced into this divine bliss, being washed with the Living Water, and "anointed with the Ineffable Chrism from the Horn, like David , not from the flask of clay, like Saul, who was fellowcitizen with an
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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
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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
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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
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other plant its special produce: chaff will be attracted by amber, iron only by the magnet, gold only by the prickle of the sea-hawk, so each according to his nature attracts and imbibes a different supply from the same source.
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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
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The Mysteries of the ancient world, it is taught, pertained to generation. The Lesser Mysteries pertained to the carnal, and the Greater dealt with the spiritual. Within the seed—
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the work of generation; to cross the Red Sea and pass into the wilderness is to arrive at a state where that work of generation has been forsaken. Thus they arrive at the
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For the restoration of the chosen seed an essential condition is the complete abandonment of sexual intercourse between men and women. The captive people must pass out of
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The Naassenes so far agreed with other Ophites that they gave to the first principle the names First Man and Son of Man, calling him in their hymns
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The specimens already given present but a faint idea of the author's method of scripture exegesis. Hippolytus declares that the verses of Paul in
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And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is
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character, rather than a cosmological exposition. A very interesting feature of the book seems to have been the specimens it gave of
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remarked, "such a disposition should not be adjudged negative in all circumstances, in so far as it preserves the archetype of the
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The Naassenes are said to have had one or more books which professed to contain discourses communicated by James, the brother of
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5, 6 or para 139. Hippolytus says 'for the serpent is called naas', which the translator says is 'naḥash'.
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This "unseemly" being their Mystery of divine bliss, he states; "that heavenly, sublime, felicity, that
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contain the key to their whole system, which he alludes to with a great deal of innuendo:
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Spiritual (the Elect)—out of the many called, the few chosen members of the Naassene sect.
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rites, and the whole section seems to be a commentary on a hymn to the Phrygian
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The writer (or writers) is possibly Greek. He does indeed use the Hebrew words
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Material (the Bound)—the heathen chiefly captive under the dominion of matter.
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according to each one's nature and peculiarity, as though permeating all."
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Thrice Great Hermes: Studies in Hellenistic Theosophy and Gnosis, Volume I
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Therein, the Naassenes are said to have been taught their doctrines by
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Thus there are three classes of men and three corresponding churches:
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A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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Jung, C. G., "Concerning the Archetypes and the Anima Concept,"
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sect known only through the accounts in the books known as the
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Instead, however, of retaining the female principle of the
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of various nations. For instance, he dilates much on the
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of Man, but the gnosis of God is perfected Perfection."
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has suggested that all of this is in reference to the
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The Naassenes taught that their primary man was, like
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image of the First Man, through the agency of several
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Beliefs condemned as heretical by the Catholic Church
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Index

a series
Gnosticism

Adam kasia
Adam pagria
Aeon
Anima mundi
Archon
Barbelo
Demiurge
Five Seals
Gnosis
Kenoma
Luminary
Manda
Monad
Ogdoad
Pleroma
Sophia
Uthra
World of Light
World of Darkness
Yaldabaoth
Gnostic sects
List of Gnostic sects
Proto-Gnosticism
Maghāriya
Thomasines
Adam
Mandaeism

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