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The Gnostic Crucifixion

G R S Mead

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1. Page ch. 1, para. 1. THE GNOSTIC CRUCIFIXION WORKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
2. Page "ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS.", para. 1. ECHOES FROM THE GNOSIS. Under this general title is now being published a series of s
3. Page "THE GNOSTIC CRUCIFIXION", para. 1. THE GNOSTIC CRUCIFIXION CONTENTS TEXTS Bonnet (M.), Acta Apostolorum Apocrypha (Leipz
4. Page 9. PREFACE. The Gnostic Mystery of the Crucifixion is most clearly set forth in the new-
5. Page 11. Nevertheless when we come to the Mystery of the Crucifixion as set forth in our fragm
6. Page 12. THE VISION OF THE CROSS. 1. [97 (xii.)] And having danced these things with us, Belov
7. Page 14. 9. “Now those things [it is called] as towards men; but as to what it is in truth, it
8. Page 16. 17. “Pay no attention, then, to the many, and them that are without the mystery think
9. Page 20. COMMENTS. The translation is frequently a matter of difficulty, for the text has been
10. Page 22. The gentle contempt of those who had entered into the mystery, for those unknowing on
11. Page 24. But seeing that the word batos in Greek had also another meaning, the Gnostics, by th
12. Page 25. That is, presumably, the material Air, Air of the Darkness, as compared with the spir
13. Page 27. “Now it is called Boundary, because it bounds off the Deficiency from the Fullness [s
14. Page 29. And then when the Lord, the Higher Self of the man, was balanced and justified, the m
15. Page 31. 5. There then follows the vision of the great Cross of Light, fixed firm, and stretch
16. Page 33. As is explained later on in the text, the mystery of the Cross is the mystery of the
17. Page 35. Faith is of the contemplative mind; it embraces, it includes. It is therefore of the
18. Page 37. “In heaven you do not demolish forms in order to sustain life, you daily insinuate yo
19. Page 39. This personality is rooted in the Lower Root or lower nature, and stretches upward to
20. Page 41. “It was by emanating from this Power (sci., Incomprehensible Silence) that Thought-in
21. Page 43. “There they saw the extremities of the Boundaries of the Heaven, extended in the mids
22. Page 45. For those who cling to the outward forms and symbols the Place of Rest is neither see
23. Page 47. And later on the mystery is set forth in another Saying: “Jesus saith: Blessed is the
24. Page 49. “As many, then, as have advanced in discipline and instruction, and been perfected th
25. Page 51. Finally in the marvellous Untitled Apocalypse of the Bruce Codex we read: “These word
26. Page 53. This also is the true Body of man, the Source of all his bodies. And so we read the f
27. Page 55. The Limbs were according to certain orderings, one of which was the configuration of
28. Page 57. “Of this I have spoken in a plan, a correspondence and similitude, but not in its tru
29. Page 58. It is thus seen that the means used in revealing the manner of the highest Mysteries
30. Page 60. “The Kingly Osiris is an intelligent Essence. His Limbs conduct Him; His ‘Fleshes’ op
31. Page 63. 17. This “attention” is the straining or striving towards the One; and therefore no a
32. Page 64. 19. The outer story was centred round a dramatic crisis of death on a stationary cros
33. Page 66. If we could only realize that all the ugliness and misery and confusion of life is bu
34. Page 69. POSTCRIPT. The vision itself is not so marvellous as the instruction; nevertheless it
35. Page 71. Philip is reproved by the Saviour for his unmerciful spirit. “But I, O Philip, will n
36. Page 72. Concerning the mystery of the crucifixion of the Christ we learn somewhat of its inne
37. Page 74. “Rejoicing I come to thee, Thou Cross, the Life-giver, Cross whom I now know to be mi
38. Page 76. We have seen above that Philip is hanged head downwards, but he is not the most famou
39. Page 79. But for those who had ears to hear there was a still further instruction concerning t
40. Page 81. “Therefore with Jesus, Christ, true God, ascend the Cross. He hath been made for us t
41. Page 83. “These are the worlds from which the Cross upsprang; out of these incorporeal Members