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Bringing Down the Heavens

The following excerpts are taken from G.R.S. Mead’s classic 1900 Fragments of a Forgotten Faith. In the book, G.R.S. Mead takes the reader on a guided tour through the history of heresy, by d…

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In the Coptic 'Bruce Codex', the Gnostic Christ instructs the disciples in these divine mysteries: 'Happy is the man...who has brought down heaven unto the earth, who has taken the earth and raised it to the heavens, so that they are no longer divided' and furthermore in the 'Book of the Gnosis of the Invisible', he asserts that: 'if you know my word you may make heaven descend upon earth, so that it may abide in you...the earth which rises to heaven is that which hears the word of wisdom, which has ceased to be a terrestrial spirit and has become celestial.'

Nigel Jackson, Celestial Magic: Principles and Practices of the Talismanic Art

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"He is the First Father of the All (universe).

He is the First Being.

He is the First Source.

He it is whose Voice has penetrated everywhere.

He is the First Sound

whereby the All perceived and understood."

(Hymn in the Untitled Text of the Bruce Codex)

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Notes upon the modern history of the "Bruce codex"

Notes upon the modern history of the “Bruce codex”

A correspondent kindly sent me a copy of a rather interesting recent paper on the “Bruce codex”, which deserves the attention of many more people than it is likely to get.[ref]Eric Cregheur, “Pour une nouvelle histoire de la découverte et de l’état primitif du codex Bruce (1769-1794)”, in: Journal of Coptic Studies 16 (2014).[/ref]  The article author apparently lives in Canada, but for some…

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The Book of the Knowledge (Gnosis) of the Invisible God (An Unrecognized Dialogues Gospel Embedded in the Bruce Codex, Placed at the Beginning of the First Book of IEOU) "I have loved you. I have wanted to give you life." -- the Living Jesus, Who Knows the Truth This is the book of the Knowledge (Gnosis) of the Invisible God, by means of the hidden mysteries which show the way to the chosen ones, leading in rest (refreshment) to the life of the Father -- in the coming of the Saviour, of the deliverer of souls who receive to themselves the Word of life which is higher than all life -- in the knowledge of the Living Jesus, who has come forth through the Father from the aeon of Light at the completion of the fullness (pleroma) -- in the teaching, apart from which there is no other, which the Living Jesus has taught to his apostles, saying: "This is the teaching in which dwells the whole knowledge." The Living Jesus answered and said to his apostles: "Blessed is he who has crucified the world and who has not allowed the world to crucify him." The apostles answered with one voice, saying: "0 Lord, teach us the way to crucify the world, that it may not crucify us, so that we are destroyed and lose our lives." The Living Jesus answered: "He who has crucified it (the world) is he who has found my word and has fulfilled it according to the will of him who has sent me." The apostles answered, saying: "Speak to us, 0 Lord, that we may hear thee. We have followed thee with our whole hearts. We have left behind father and mother, we have left behind vineyards and fields, we have left behind goods and the greatness of rulers (kings), and we have followed thee, so that thou shouldst teach us the life of thy Father who has sent thee." The Living Jesus answered and said: "The life of my Father is this: that you receive your soul from the race of understanding (mind), and that it ceases to be earthly and becomes understanding through that which I say to you in the course of my discourse, so that you fulfill it and are saved from the archon (ruler) of this aeon and his persecutions, to which there is no end. But you, my disciples, hasten to receive my Word with certainty so that you know it, in order that the archon of this aeon may not fight with you -- this one who did not find any commandment of his in me -- so that you also, 0 my apostles, fulfill my Word in relation to me, and I myself make you free, and you become whole through a freedom in which there is no blemish. As the Spirit of the Comforter is whole, so will you also be whole, through the freedom of the Spirit of the Holy Comforter." All the apostles, Matthew and John, Philip and Bartholomew and James, answered with one voice, saying: "0 Lord Jesus, thou who livest, whose goodness extends over those who have found thy wisdom and thy form in which thou gavest Light; 0 light-giving Light that enlightened our hearts until we received the light of life; 0 true Word, that through gnosis teaches us the hidden knowledge of the Lord Jesus, the Living One." The Living Jesus answered and said: "Blessed is the man who has known these things. He has brought heaven down, he has lifted the earth and has sent it to heaven, and he has become the Midst for it is nothing." The apostles answered, saying: "Jesus, thou Living One, Lord interpret for us how we may bring heaven down, for we have followed thee in order that thou shouldst teach us the true Light." The Living Jesus answered and said: "The Word which existed in heaven before the earth came into existence -- this which is called the world -- but you, when you know my Word, you will bring heaven down, and it (the Word) will dwell in you. Heaven is the invisible Word of the Father; but when you know these things you will bring heaven down. As to sending the earth up to heaven, I will show you what it is, that you may know it: to send the earth to heaven is that he who hears the Word of gnosis has ceased to have the understanding (mind) of a man of earth, but has become a man of heaven. His understanding (mind) has ceased to be earthly, but it has become heavenly. Because of this you will be saved from the archon [ruler] of this aeon [age], and he will become the Midst, because it is nothing." The Living Jesus said again: "When you become heavenly you will become the Midst because it is nothing, for the... rulers and the wicked powers (exousiai) will fight with you and they will envy you because you have known me, because I am not from the world, and I do not resemble the rulers and the powers (exousiai) and all the wicked ones. They do not come from me. And furthermore he who is born in the flesh of unrighteousness has no part in the Kingdom of my Father, and also he who (knows) me according to the flesh has no hope in the Kingdom of God, the Father." The apostles answered with one voice, they said: "Jesus, thou Living One, 0 Lord, are we born of the flesh, and have we known thee according to the flesh? Tell us, 0 Lord, for we are troubled." The Living Jesus answered and said to his apostles: "I do not speak of the flesh in which you dwell, but the flesh of ignorance and non- understanding which exists in ignorance, which leads astray many from the Word of my Father." The apostles answered the words of the Living Jesus, they said: "Tell us how non-understanding happens, that we may beware of it, lest we should go..." The Living Jesus answered and said: "Each one who bears my virginity and my [lacuna....missing words...] and my garment, without understanding and knowing me, and blasphemes my name, I have [.....lacuna....] to destruction. And furthermore he has become an earthly son because he has not known my Word with certainty -- these words which the Father spoke, so that I myself should teach those who will know me at the completion of the pleroma [fullness] of him who sent me." The apostles answered and said: "0 Lord Jesus, thou Living One, teach us the completion, and it suffices us." And he said: "The Word which I give to you yourselves............ [...manuscript leaves off here. Perhaps some day the rest of this ancient dialogues gospel will be discovered again, or perhaps not.]

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Thou art the house, and thou art the dweller in the house.

Codex Brucianus