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	The Sophia of Jesus Christ - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sophia of Jesus Christ is one of many Gnostic tractates from the Nag Hammadi codices, discovered in Egypt in 1945.
		The title is somewhat coded, since although Sophia is Greek for wisdom, in a gnostic context, Sophia is the syzygy of Christ.
		The seventh concerns the position of Jesus in all this.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Sophia_of_Jesus_Christ (435 words)

	Sophia Summary
		SOPHIA is a Greek word that means "wisdom."; In the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures (Old Testament), the name Sophia is given as a translation of Ḥokhmah (also meaning "wisdom";), the name of a figure with feminine features.
		The Sophia of Jesus Christ, gnostic tractate from Nag Hammadi
		Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, granddaughter of Sophia of Hanover: daughter of Sophia Dorothea of Celle
	www.bookrags.com /Sophia (1913 words)

	The Gospels As Historical Sources For Jesus,
		These 'apocryphal gospels' vary from novelistic accounts of improbable marvels surrounding Jesus' birth and childhood (especially the Protevangelium of James and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas) to elaborate discourses on Gnostic cosmology presented as the post-resurrection teaching of Jesus to his disciples (several such were found at Nag Hammadi, notably the Sophia of Jesus Christ).
		According to this view most of the stories and sayings of Jesus were remembered as independent oral 'pericopes', which were preserved or altered as the needs of the various churches required, with little concern for the historical basis of the material.
		It is suggested that Jesus selected and trained his apostles as guardians of a tradition which was designed for easy memorization, a tradition which included not only his teaching but also key incidents of his ministry.
	www.leaderu.com /truth/1truth21.html (4448 words)

	Developing a Biblical Sophia Christology
		Given the varying perspectives on the relationship between Jesus and Wisdom as presented in the Gospels, Christians must ask whether Jesus is to be primarily understood as a prominent prophet of Sophia, an incarnation of Sophia, or as Sophia Incarnate and apply the theological implications that arise from such conclusions accordingly.
		Sophia points to herself as if to say, “I am she.” The message is that Sophia, as a female, “daughter of God,” and Divine Mother is akin to the Mother Goddess.
		From this identification of Jesus with Sophia we are also able to affirm that the point behind the Incarnation is not that Jesus has become a male as opposed to a female, but that he became a man, a human, anqrwpoV.
	www.franciscan-anglican.com /Sophia.htm (3763 words)

	Saint Luke Orthodox Church - Events
		Sophia and her daughters did not hide their faith in Christ, but openly confessed it before everyone.
		They subjected St. Sophia to another grievous torture: the mother was forced to watch the suffering of her daughters.
		Sophia sat there for three days by the graves of her daughters, and finally she gave up her soul to the Lord.
	www.stlukeorthodox.com /html/saints/sophiafaithhopelove.cfm (425 words)

	Society of Biblical Literature
		In The Sophia of Jesus Christ, the risen Savior commissions seven women along with twelve men to go forth as apostles to preach the gospel (SoJsChr III 119:4-6; BG 126:12-15), and in The Gospel of Mary, the commission to preach apparently included at least one woman, Mary of Magdala.
		Mary of Magdala in particular appears in the role of eminent disciple of Jesus and as "an apostle to the apostles." This literature therefore confirms the suspicion that Mary of Magdala was a central figure around whom controversy over women's leadership swirled.
		The tradition that Jesus and Mary had a special relationship is shown to be quite early, and moreover was often connected to the theme of conflict among the disciples.
	sbl-site.org /Article.aspx?ArticleId=210 (1986 words)

	KALKIGAUR.blog.com :: GNOSTIC GOSPEL OF SOPHIA OF JESUS CHRIST (34) KALKI GAUR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		After Jesus rose from the dead, his twelve disciples and seven women continued to be his followers, and went to Galilee onto the mountain called “Divination and Joy”.
		Jesus said that it is wrong to believe that fate directs the world, because fate does not discern.
		Thus the aeons were completed quickly in the heavens and the firmaments in the glory of Immortal Man and Sophia, his consort, the area from which every aeon and the world and those that came afterward took their pattern for their creation of likenesses in the heavens of chaos and their worlds.
	kalkigaur.blog.com /1049949 (3647 words)

	Was Jesus Married? A Careful Look at the Real Evidence
		The Pistis Sophia is a Gnostic gospel written sometime during the third century A.D. It is a revelation of Christ in which Mary plays a prominent role, asking the majority of the questions about all measure of esoteric matters.
		Jesus says that she is "blessed beyond all women upon the earth, because [she shall be] the pleroma of all Pleromas and the completion of all completions" (section 19).
		Jesus' intentional inclusion of Mary, in a day when Jewish teachers almost never had female disciples or taught women, is a striking symbol of the inclusiveness of the kingdom of God.
	www.markdroberts.com /htmfiles/resources/jesusmarried.htm (6402 words)

	The Sophia of Jesus Christ
		And the bond of his forgetfulness bound him by the will of Sophia, that the matter might be through it to the whole world in poverty, concerning his (Almighty's) arrogance and blindness and the ignorance that he was named.
		And you were sent by the Son, who was sent that you might receive Light, and remove yourselves from the forgetfulness of the authorities, and that it might not again come to appearance because of you, namely, the unclean rubbing that is from the fearful fire that came from their fleshly part.
		But by the will of the Father of the Universe, that his unimaginable goodness might be revealed, he created that curtain between the immortals and those that came afterward, that the consequence might follow...
	reluctant-messenger.com /sophia-of-jesus.htm (3002 words)

	Jesus - Wikimedia Commons
		en: Jesus, or Jesus of Nazareth, also known as Jesus Christ or Christ Jesus , and Jesus* the Nazarene is the central figure of Christianity.
		A representation of Christ as the sun-god Helios/ Sol Invictus riding in his chariot.
		Jesus, aged 12, teaching the doctors of the Faith.
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Jesus_Christ (146 words)

	The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn ® / The Mystery of the Bridal Chamber in the Gospel of Philip
		Attributed to the Philip circle were the tractates Thomas the Contender, Dialogue of the Savior, The Gospel of Mary, Pistis Sophia, The Sophia of Jesus Christ, and The Gospel of Philip.
		When he asks Jesus to silence her, he is rebuked, but Mary is sufficiently frightened, and says, "Peter makes me hesitate, I am afraid of him because he hates the female race." (30) Christ’s reply, however, is that whoever is inspired by the Spirit is empowered to speak, whether it be man or woman.
		In the mystery of re-unification, demonstrated by the mission of Christ's institution of the sacrament of the bridal chamber, the original Edenic androgyny is transmitted to the initiate.
	www.hermeticgoldendawn.org /Documents/Essays/gospel.htm (4572 words)

	Sophia Links
		The Jesus group rejected the religious purity laws and attracted the outcasts of their society as well as those who were for various reasons ostracized from their religious community.
		The crucifixion and resurrection are the onset of Sophia's labor.
		She also remarks:" in the documents in which Sophia is a personage within Jewish or Gnostic myth she is not a tragic figure in need of male redemption; rather the fallen Sophia appears to be a specifically Christian soteriological motif"(p4).
	www.cosmicwind.net /800/Cmwl/Links/SophiaLinks.html (9764 words)

	continuance of the sophia of jesus the christ \|\| graveworm.com
		Jesus said, "There is no sin, but it is you who make sin when you do things that are like the nature of adultery, which is called 'sin.' That is why the God came into your midst, to the essence of every nature, in order to restore it to its root."
		When Mary has said this she fell silent, since it was to this point that Jesus had spoken with her.
		Surely Jesus knows her very well, that is why he loved her more than us.
	www.graveworm.com /occult/texts/sophia2.html (898 words)

	Pistis Sophia
		The Pistis Sophia is preserved in the Codex Askewianus and has been known to scholars for nearly two centuries.
		I, Page 1 in Till) we read that after Jesus was raised from the dead he spent eleven years with the disciples (mathetai), and in his discourses with them taught them only as far as the places (topoi) of the first commandment and as far as the places (topoi) of the first mystery (musterion)."
		The Savior is directed by the Ineffable to assist in the extension of the Divine powers into the human kingdom according to the desires of humanity, and to reveal the efficacy of the highest mysteries of salvation to humankind."
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /pistis.html (960 words)

	Jesus The Christ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Another interpretation of the second half of verse 26 and verse 27 is that Christ was reconciling two aspects of the Goddess in a manner similar to Persephone and Demeter.
		And many other signs truly did Jesus in the presence of his disciples, … After these things Jesus shewed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; … Jesus stood on the shore: but the disciples knew not that it was Jesus.
		And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter.
	www.palmyra.demon.co.uk /superstition/jesusthechrist.htm (16426 words)

	How Jesus Got A Life -- The Probing Mind
		The character now known as Christ, or Jesus, was not born of a virgin; rather, it was the product of an unstably rotating earth.
		Moreover, the ancient non-Christian accounts of Jesus all were written at a time when Christianity already was a thriving delirium, and our pagan authors can be taken only as being witnesses of the state to which Christian traditions had evolved in their times, not as witnesses of an historical Jesus of Nazareth.
		Thus, Christ and Messiah are equivalent terms, both referring to the peculiar Israelite practice of anointing their kings and high priests with oil.
	www.atheists.org /church/jesuslife.html (6592 words)

	Explore the question of whether Jesus was married--or perhaps had a relationship with Mary Magdalene. -- Beliefnet.com
		But serious inquiry into Jesus' marital state-and more specifically into his relationship with Mary Magdalene-got a huge boost from the discovery of what is called the Berlin Codex.
		That kind of Jesus is appealing to Westerners inclined to combine elements of Eastern religions with Christianity--and so, what are called the Gnostic texts have also become hugely popular.
		Crossan believes, instead, that Jesus wasn't married to anyone-because he was too poor to afford a wife and children.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/127/story_12776_3.html (495 words)

	Sophia of Jesus Christ
		Sophia of Jesus Christ translated by Douglas M. Parrott
		The Sophia of Jesus Christ is clearly dependent on Eugnostos the Blessed, both of which were unearthed at Nag Hammadi (in two differing copies for each).
		The Sophia of Jesus Christ transforms Eugnostos into a dialogue with Jesus.
	www.earlychristianwritings.com /sophia.html (350 words)

	The Myth of Sophia
		Sophia is the Spirit of God, the Emanation and the Holy Spirit, whose feminine nature became masculinized over the ages.10 Possibly it was her strongly feminine archetypal qualities that were so threatening to the Church.
		As Sophia looked at him, Ialdabaoth looked at her, caught a glimpse of her and when he looked at her, he did not want to see her because he did not want to know that he came from anybody because he was jealous of Sophia.
		Then Jesus brought a light from way out, from somewhere way beyond, and brought it back to Sophia and she flew up with him into the 8th heaven, the 8th aeon, out of the reach of Ialadabaoth where she found her place not in the heavens, not in the place where she came from.
	home.pon.net /craigmorse/Final-Sophia-Thesis.htm (9638 words)

	Essene Nazarean Church of Mount Carmel
		The Nazarenes of Mount Carmel is an esoteric spiritual Order which fully embraces the deeper levels of the ancient Nazorean 'Way' of Jesus the Christ.
		It was into the ancient and mystical B'nai-Amen Temple of the Nazorean that Jesus was born; as it is written: "He shall be called a Nazorean!" (Matthew 2:23).
		This B'nai-Amen Temple was the advanced level of the Nazorean Covenant which brought forth the "Chosen Ones," and is that advanced level of truth which Jesus has again restored and is again seeking to make available to all righteous Nazorean who wish to espouse its fullness.
	www.essene.com (456 words)

	Christian Mysticism and the Order of Christ/Sophia
		The entire practice of the mystic is to achieve ever-deeper connection with that God within and once connected to enter into a state of union.
		We have stories of saints throughout time who would be so caught up in states of ecstatic union with God or Jesus or Mary that they would sometimes even levitate.
		Those incidents tell us very little of what was occurring within the person, other than that he or she was most certainly in a very altered and ecstatic state of consciousness.
	www.orderofchristsophia.org /ChristianMysticism/mysticism.html (202 words)

	"The Sophia of Jesus Christ" - Gnostic Forum
		There's a reference to "The Sophia of Jesus Christ" mentioned in the "Table of Tractates in the Coptic Gnostic Library" of the "Nag Hammadi Library"; but I don't see the five books that are mentioned in this link.
		There are Internet PDF versions of Pistis Sophia Unveiled available at the usual websites; the home page of this site says that a Thelema edition is in progress.
		The Pistis Sophia Unveiled by Samael Aun Weor consists of the entire Pistis Sophia.
	www.gnosticteachings.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=147 (1158 words)

	Gnostic Society Library: Gnostic Scriptures and Fragments
		Both of these texts from the Akhmim Codex were used to augment the translations of the Apocryphon of John and the Sophia of Jesus Christ which appear in the Nag Hammadi collection.
		It was initially unclear what document might have originally preserved these sayings of Jesus -- the Gospel of Thomas had been lost to history.
		The primary examples of these are the sections known as the "Hymn of Jesus" within the Acts of John and the "Hymn of the Pearl" in the Acts of Thomas.
	www.webcom.com /~gnosis/library/gs.htm (908 words)

	The Gospel According to Mary Magdalene
		Papyrus Berolinensis 8502 was acquired by a German scholar, Dr. Carl Reinhardt, in Cairo in 1896 (the codex is variably referenced in scholarly writings as the "Berlin Gnostic Codex", the "Akhmim Codex", PB 8502, and BG 8502).
		The PB 8502 versions of these two texts were used to augment translations of the Apocryphon of John and the Sophia of Jesus Christ as they now appear in the Nag Hammadi Library.
		Importantly, the codex preserves the most complete surviving copy of the Gospel of Mary (as the text is named in the manuscript, though it is clear this named Mary is the person we call Mary of Magdala).
	www.webcom.com /gnosis/library/marygosp.htm (1526 words)

	The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
		The Akhmim Codex -- containing portions of three Gnostic texts, now known as the Apocryphon of John, the Sophia of Jesus Christ, and the Gospel of Mary -- was acquired in Cairo in 1896.
		By then the Nag Hammadi texts had also been recovered, and it was discovered that versions of two very important scriptures in Nag Hammadi library were also present in the Akhmim codex: the Apocryphon of John, and the Sophia of Jesus Christ.
		The codex also contained the only known surviving copy of the Gospel of Mary (as the text is named in the manuscript, though it is clear this named Mary is the same person we call Mary Magdalene).
	www.gnostics.com /gmm.html (1346 words)

	SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - CHILDREN OF EAST LA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	www.webspawner.com /users/thesion1 (48 words)

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		And the bond of his forgetfulness bound him by the will of Sophia, that the matter might be
		through me, the Great Savior, that his glory might be revealed, so that Sophia might also be justified in regard to that defect, that her sons might not again become defective but might attain honor and glory and go up to their Father, and know the words of the masculine Light.
		But when this came about by the will of Mother Sophia - so that Immortal Man might piece together the garments there for a judgment on the robbers -
	www.zyworld.com /answersquestions/gnostics/sophiajesus.htm (3041 words)

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