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From “De prophetarum vita & interitu commentarius graecus” c. 1529

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The Book of Noria

Image: Meritamun, a reconstructed Egyptian young woman

The Book of Noria is a Gnostic text now lost to time; we only know it from the descriptions of Christian authors like Epiphanius who sought to repudiate it.  But from Epiphanius’s description, the book sounds pretty wild, with repeated arson and sacred cum.  (Yes, really.)

(Gnosticism 101: The Creator-god of the Hebrew Bible is actually an “archon,” not the real ultimate God, and he’s basically an asshole.)

“For they say that this Noria is Noah’s wife. [...] The archon who made the world, they say, wanted to destroy her in the flood with all the rest. But they say that she sat down in the ark and burned it a first and a second time, and a third. And this is why the building of Noah’s own ark took many years — it was burned many times by Noria.

“For Noah was obedient to the archon, they say, but Noria revealed the powers on high and Barbelo the scion of the powers, who was the archon’s opponent as the other powers are. And she let it be known that what has been stolen from the Mother on high by the archon who made the world, and by the other gods, demons and angels with him, must be gathered from the power in bodies, through the male and female emissions.”

“Hey Noah, if I can’t stay on the ark, I’m burning the damn thing down.  Now come here and let’s make some emissions.”

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Yet the identity between self and Savior can be even more radical. Epiphanius quotes a visionary encounter found in the Gospel of Eve. It begins: “I stood upon a high mountain and saw a tall man and another short one. I heard as it were the sound of thunder and drew near to hear.” A voice (of thunder?) addresses the narrator personally, declaring: “I am you and you are I, and wherever you are, there I am. I am sown in all people. Wherever you want to gather me, in gathering me, you gather yourself.”

Unity with the mediate deity is also portrayed in a beautiful passage of Pistis Sophia. Here Christ promises that the saved are now, even while in the world, superior to angels, archangels, luminaries, and even gods. The saved person will be a ruler with Christ in his kingdom. In a rising crescendo of promises, the Savior solemnly announces: “And truly I say to you: that person is I and I am that person”. This promise is repeated in slightly different words three times. The last promise serves as a culmination: “Every person who will receive mysteries in the Ineffable will be on my left and my right [in the kingdom]. I am they and they are I.”

M. David Litwa, Gnostic Self-Deification: The Case of Simon of Samaria

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Gnostic here and I can say personally that Jesus Christ never did anything for me, I just use him as an excuse to suck and fuck nasty. I actually serve Mary Magdalene, and think masturbation to be the most holy of arts. And yes, a gnostic consecration is just an orgy

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Did… did… did Epiphanius forget to log into his alt AGAIN? This man never learns

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wake up babe new Jesus fandom drama just dropped

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get dunked on idiot

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can’t believe you’d actually impersonate the Church of Our Lord and Saviour. Kinda problematic tbh :/

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BRUH

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*popcorn*

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