Thursday, August 26, 2010

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


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