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In case anyone's interested, I am now officially the "volunteer community host" for the Progressive Christianity boards on Beliefnet.

Towards a Gnostic catechism

I was inspired by the "Gnostic Catechism" presented by Bishop Hoeller, to try my own hand at using this format to compile my thoughts, hopes, and aspirations for what I want to assemble. The results of that have finally come about, in a rough draft that will no doubt need much revising.

But what is a journal for, if not to immortalize passing thoughts and whims, so that we can witness our own growth etched in words?

Behold.

( Gnostic catechism -- very long )

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This confirms beyond any doubt my theory that the Gnostics considered the mind of the individual to share its essence with the cosmos-as-mind. This links Gnosticism strongly to the Vedic philosophy equating Brahman with the Atman.

[the Savior said,] "Those who have not known themselves do not have Gnosis of anything. But those who have only known themselves have also received Gnosis with the depth of the Pleroma. So for this reason, Thomas my brother, you have personally seen what is obscure to humankind and what people are impeded by when they lack Gnosis."

from The Book of Thomas the Contender, Writing to the Perfect, adapted from the translation by Bentley Layton