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The Gnostics and Their Remains

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« Reply #150 on: March 12, 2009, 01:30:55 pm »

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141:* The Cabiri, "punishers," of the ancient mythology, performing their former duties under the new dispensation.

142:* Ἀντιμῖμον Πνεύματος, one of the four component parts of the soul; equivalent apparently to our "Conscience."

142:† A clear allusion to the Mithraic "torture of the fire."

142:‡The particle of the Godhead mixed up in the quadruple composition of the Inner Man.

144:* This is the doctrine that "knowledge" renders all actions free from sinfulness--as held by the Simonians.

145:* This term is borrowed from the ancient Gates of the Amenti.

145:† The lost place, answering to the Limbo of the mediæval Hell.

146:* That is, have occupied the body for the first time; not souls that after punishment for their sins in this life, have been placed again in bodies to undergo a second probation upon earth.

146:† All this is borrowed from the Egyptian "Ritual of the Dead," concerning the soul's passage on its way to the palace of Osiris Socharis, "the Occidental," through the One-and-twenty Gates , each guarded by its own Genius, and each requiring a separate address.

147:* The Creation of the Demiurgus, in which the Particle of the Godhead is mixed up and lost in the heap of Matter.

147:† Title probably borrowed from the former Amenti, the four sons of Osiris, and keepers of Elysium.

150:* This gradation seems borrowed from the twelve degrees in the Mithraic initiation.

150:† This is what Epiphanies relates of the practice of the Heracleonites of communicating the pass-word to the ear of the dying man.

151:* It has the impression of the royal seal stamped upon it.

151:† Here we have the first hint of masses performed for the dead. A similar idea is involved in the practice mentioned by St. Paul of being "baptized for the sake of deceased persons." A singular Italian usage alluded to by Dante in his 'Vendetta di Dio non Teme Suppe,' refers to something of the sort done to appease the manes. A homicide who had eaten sops in wine upon the grave of the slain man was thereby freed from the vendetta of the family.--(Purgat. xxxiii. 35.)

152:* The deity whose place is next to the Supreme Light; to judge from the primary sense of the word.

155:* Lajard discovers upon the Babylonian cylinders representations of admission to the several degrees, of which they were given, as certificate to the initiated: and accounts for their enormous extant numbers by the supposition that every one, upon proceeding to a higher degree, threw away the cylinder marking the preceding one. But the complicated system of the Mithraici was evidently the creation of much later times, and of a religion vainly struggling for life.



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