"The Gnostics believed that the human intellect could experience gnosis, that is, acquaintance with God, within this mortal life, however fleetingly. They portrayed this experience primarily as an ascent to higher knowledge that was both intellectual and cosmic. Intellectually, the Gnostic could ascend by contemplating increasingly abstract levels of existence, starting by understanding one’s own existence and that of other lower divine beings, advancing to the contemplation of higher aeons…Cosmically, Gnostic texts portray the intellects of human heroes as leaving their bodies and journeying upward through the heavenly realms, guided and instructed by angels or other heavenly beings." -David Brakke, The Gnostics-
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:41:09 +0000
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