Ancient of Days

I who am the Ancient of Days, do declare that I am the day by myself alone.

I am the day that does not shine by the sun; rather by me the sun is ignited...

I have created mirrors in which I consider all the wonders of my originality which will never cease.

I have prepared for myself these mirror forms so that they may resonate in a song of praise.

For I have a voice like the thunderbolt by which I keep in motion the entire universe in the living sounds of all creation.

This I have done, I who am the Ancient of Days.



Hildegard of Bingen

Purity

Be not afraid. / I am with you (plural) always. / I am the Father / The Mother / The Son / I am the incorruptible / Purity.



The Apocryphon of John trans. Wisse

indissoluble, eternal

Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable.

Because of this neither are the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death.

For this reason each one will dissolve into its earliest origin. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal.



The Gospel of Philip trans. Isenberg

bear fruit

I, God, press through your branches into the sap and bear fruit on your boughs.


Jacob Boehme

in silent love

Heaven is nothing other than a revelation of the Eternal One, where everything works and wills in silent love.

-Jacob Boehme

error

do not take error too seriously.



The Gospel of Truth trans. Grant

into being

All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing that exists came into being.


John 1:3 WEY

The Two Teachings of Paul

In their [the Valentinian] view, the apparent contradictions in Paul's writings arise from his awareness of the differences of spiritual insight (gnosis) among different members of the Christian community. To the psychics who "cannot understand the things of the spirit," Paul preaches the kerygma of Christ crucified, of repentance and forgiveness of sins, urging them to persevere in faith and good works. Recognizing that psychics can read his letters only "literally," he offers on the literal level moral counsel that is valid and beneficial for their needs. Yet to the pneumatics, the "wise," he addresses his deeper meaning ,a meaning hidden in his writings in allegory, to be discerned only by "the initiated." Paul reveals to them in veiled language the "hidden mystery of wisdom," of Sophia, which signifies their own election through grace. Yet even while he praises their authority, freedom, and gnosis, Paul simultaneously urges them to forego all of these, as he has, for the sake of bringing salvation to the psychics. The elect and the called are bound together in this age so that the latter too may participate in the resurrection that will restore "all" to the Father.



from "The Mystery of the Resurrection": A Gnostic Reading of 1 Corinthians 15 by Elaine Pagels in Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 93, No. 2 (Jun., 1974) p.287

Fruit borne from the deep

Harvest

All things hanging in spirit I see,

All things carried in spirit I know;

flesh from soul hanging,

soul from air proceeding,

air from ether hanging.

Fruit borne from the deep,

Child borne from the womb.



Valentinus from Hippolytus of Rome, Against Heresies 6.37.7-8; translated by Andrew McGowan in 'Valentinus Poeta' Vigiliae Christianae, 51:2, p.159.

among the greatest tragedies

Valentinus, the Gnostic who almost became pope, was..the only man who could have succeeded in gaining..permanent positive recognition (...)

(..)for the Gnostic approach to the message of Christ. [That] circumstances & the increasing floodtide of a regressive pseudo-orthodoxy(..)

(...) caused his efforts to fail must be reckoned among the greatest tragedies of the history of Christianity.



Stephan A. Hoeller

exist in and with

All nature, all formations, all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots.

The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene 4:22

read this moment

You read the face of the sky & ...earth, but you have not recognized the one who is before you, and you do not know how to read this moment.


The Gospel of Thomas 91 trans. Lambdin

earnest about the word

Become earnest about the word! For as to the word, its first part is faith; the second, love; the third, works; for from these comes life.

The Apocryphon of James translated by Francis E. Williams

one eye

The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me

my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.


Meister Eckhart; trans. Stephen Mitchell

dissolved in Gnosis

Perfect redemption is the cognition itself of the ineffable greatness: for since through ignorance came about the defect

the whole system springing from ignorance is dissolved in Gnosis.



Valentinus

in light that light

It is in light that light exists.



The Book of Thomas the Contender trans. Turner

is he who is

Blessed is he who is before he came into being. For he who is, has been and shall be.



Gospel of Phillip translated by Isenberg

Be ye whole

Be ye whole, even as your Father in Heaven is whole.



Matthew 5:48 trans. Eckhart Tolle

transform your mind

Acquire a new kind of consciousness, transform your mind and the kingdom of heaven is within your grasp. Right here and right now.



Matthew 4:17 trans. Bishop Thomas

this matter of Christianity

Is it not time, to present this matter of Christianity exactly as it is,

to take away all false reverence for Jesus, and not mistake the stream for the source.



Ralph Waldo Emerson

a poor man is

But taking poverty in a higher sense, we say better still, a poor man is one who wills nothing, knows nothing, has nothing.



Meister Eckhart

a house divided

Any kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and a house divided against itself will fall.



Luke 11:17 NIV

the kingdom is

If those who lead you say to you: ‘Look, the kingdom is in the sky!’ then the birds of the sky will precede you.

If they say to you: ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fishes will precede you.

Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and outside of you.



The Gospel of Thomas: 3 trans. Lambdin

utter helplessness

Blessed is the one who has realized his or her own utter helplessness and who has put their whole trust in God.



Matthew 5:3 trans. William Barclay

in front of your face

Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.



The Gospel of Thomas: 5 trans. Patterson and Meyer

out for a walk

God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.



Meister Eckhart

I am

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.



The Gospel of John 8:58 KJV

that path

He enlightened them and gave them a path. And that path is the truth which he taught them.



The Gospel of Truth trans. by Grant

he enlightened those

Through him he enlightened those who were in darkness because of forgetfulness.

The Gospel of Truth trans. by Grant

the light shineth

And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The Gospel of John 1:5 KJV

a single one

The Father is a single one, like a number, for he is the first one and the one who is only himself.

The Tripartite Tractate: 2 translated by Attridge and Mueller

before anything

He existed before anything other than himself came into being.

The Tripartite Tractate: 2 translated by Attridge and Mueller

passersby

Be passersby



Gospel of Thomas: 42 trans. by Patterson and Meyer

forgetfulness existed

Since forgetfulness existed b/c.. dont know the Father, if.. then come 2 know the Father, from that moment on forgetfulness.. cease 2 exist.



Valentinus in The Gospel of Truth translated by Robert M. Grant

completely beautiful

For they were as nothing, this terror and this forgetfulness and this figure of falsehood...


...whereas this established truth is unchanging, unperturbed and completely beautiful.



Valentinus in The Gospel of Truth translated by Robert M. Grant

terror and fear

This ignorance of the Father brought about terror and fear. And terror became dense like a fog, that no one was able to see.



Valentinus in The Gospel of Truth translated by Robert M. Grant

inconceivable one

You see, the All had been inside of him, that illimitable, inconceivable one, who is better than every thought.



Valentinus in The Gospel of Truth translated by Robert M. Grant

Do not judge

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.




The Gospel of John 7:24 ESV

a true teacher

But the man who wants to bring glory to the one who sent him is a true teacher and doesn't have dishonest motives.




The Gospel of John 7:18 GWT

their own glory

Those who speak their own thoughts are looking for their own glory.




The Gospel of John 7:18 GWT

what I teach

Those who want to follow the will of God will know if what I teach is from God or if I teach my own thoughts.




The Gospel of John 7:17 GWT

the one who sent me

My teaching is not mine but comes from the one who sent me.




The Gospel of John 7:16 ISV

the door will be opened

Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened for you.



The Gospel of Matthew 7:7 GWT

that depends

Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul; woe to the soul that depends on the flesh.



The Gospel of Thomas: 112 translated by Thomas O. Lambdin

your eye is single

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light.



The Gospel of Luke 11:34 AKJ

Alpha and Omega

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending,... which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.



Revelations 1:8 KJV

does His works

The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father abiding in me does His works.



The Gospel of John 14:10 NAS

in the Father

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me?



The Gospel of John 14:10 NAS

into being

Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being.



The Gospel of Thomas: 19 translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer

the seed sprouts and grows

A man scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, whether he sleeps or gets up, the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.



The Gospel of Mark: 4:26-27 NIV

make the two into one

When you make the two into one, you will become children of Adam, and when you say, 'Mountain, move from here!' it will move.



The Gospel of Thomas: 106 translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer

what no ear has heard

I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart.



The Gospel of Thomas: 17 translated by Stephen Patterson and Marvin Meyer