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	The Wild Things of God » Blog Archive » Gnosticism? A few more thoughts on Thomas and Judas
		On one hand, there was the school of Valentinius, who claimed St. Paul had taught Theudas “the wild things of God,” and that Theudas taught him.
		Valentinius’ works show a strong emphasis on theosis as many of the later Fathers would as well.
		In addition, Valentinius (like St. Paul), touched upon the “gnostic” idea of the “rulers of this age” (literally, the archons of this aeon), and emphasized that Christ frees us from them.
	frimmin.com /2006/04/19/gnosticism-a-few-more-thoughts-on-thomas-and-judas (1098 words)

	theudas (teacher of valentinius) - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Theudas was allegedly the name of a Christian Gnostic thinker, who was a follower of Paul of Tarsus.
		He went on to teach the Gnostic Valentinius.
		The only evidence of this connection is the testimony of Valentinius' followers.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/theudas-(teacher-of-valentinius) (48 words)

	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Valentinus (Gnostic) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		His Alexandrian followers said that Valentinus was a follower of Theudas and that Theudas in turn was a follower of St. Paul of Tarsus.
		Valentinus said that Theudas imparted to him the secret wisdom that Paul had taught privately to his inner circle, which Paul publicly referred to in connection with his visionary encounter with the risen Christ (Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4; Acts 9:9-10), when he received the secret teaching from him.
		Valentinius described the Primal Being or Bythos as the beginning of all things who, after ages of silence and contemplation, gave rise to other beings by a process of emanation.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Valentinus_(Gnostic) (1623 words)

	The Ultimate Valentinius Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		His Alexandrian followers claimed that Valentinus was a follower of Theudas, who was in turn a follower of St. Paul of Tarsus.
		Valentinus claimed that Theudas imparted to him the secret wisdom that Paul had taught privately to his inner circle, which Paul publicly referred to in connection with his visionary encounter with the risen Christ (2 Corinthians 12:2-4; Acts 9:9-10), when he received the secret teaching from him.
		Valentinius was among the early Christians who attempted to allign Christianity with neo-Platonism, drawing dualist conceptions from the Platonic world of ideal forms (pleroma) and the lower world of phenomena (kenoma).
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/Valentinius (1318 words)

	Gnostic Christianity
		Theudas (teacher of Valentinius) - Theudas was allegedly the name of a Christian Gnostic thinker, who was a follower of Paul of Tarsus.
		Kenoma - Valentinius, a mid-2nd century Gnostic thinker and preacher, was among the early Christians who attempted to align Christianity with neo-Platonism.
		Valentinius pooled dual concepts from the Platonic world of ideal forms, or fullness, (pleroma) and the lower world of phenomena, or emptiness (kenoma).
	www.wrightvariety.com /gnosticchristianity.html (648 words)

	The Holy Order of O:N:E: (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To see the larger stream of Gnosis, of which Valentinius was an important part, see Gnostic Nazorean Chronology and Timeline.
		C120 Valentinus founds school at Alexandria after having a vision of Christ in the form of a child.
		C160 Prominent Valentinian teacher Ptolemy imprisoned and later martyred(?)Herakleon moves from Sicily to Rome where he becomes one of the leading figures of the Valentinian school
	essenes.net /~essenes/valen3.html (813 words)

	Theudas (teacher of Valentinius) \| English \| Dictionary & Translation by Babylon
		Theudas was allegedly the name of a Christian Gnostic thinker, who was a follower of Paul of Tarsus.
		He went on to teach the Gnostic Valentinius.
		The only evidence of this connection is the testimony of Valentinius' followers.
	www.babylon.com /definition/Theudas_(teacher_of_Valentinius) (56 words)

	Fathers of Christian Gnosticism:
		There is no evidence of ancient Gnostic Christians using this term for their leaders, and indeed the Gnostics thought of females as well as males as being among their important founders.
		A student of Valentinius claims that Theudas was a student of St.
		Valentinus, who may have been a student of Basilides, and Theudas was a prominent Gnostic teacher of another major form of Gnosticism in the second century AD.
	winelib.com /wiki/Fathers_of_Christian_Gnosticism (1314 words)

	New age / gnostic / valentinians
		His Alexandrian followers claimed that Valentinus was a follower of Theudas and that Theudas in turn was a follower of St. Paul of Tarsus.
		Valentinus claimed that Theudas imparted to him the secret wisdom that Paul had taught privately to his inner circle, which Paul publicly referred to in connection with his visionary encounter with the risen Christ (Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4; Acts 9:9-10), when he received the secret teaching from him.
		Valentinus professed to have derived his ideas from Theodas or Theudas, a disciple of St. Paul, but his system is obviously an attempt to amalgamate Greek and Oriental speculations of the most fantastic kind with Christian ideas.
	www.new-age-guide.com /new_age/valentinians.htm (1763 words)

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		My teacher told us that when the Romans attacked an enemy, they would pray to the enemy's gods to come over to their side, promising more consciencious devotion than was being offered by the incumbent worshipers.
		The Romans' ability to absorb newly encountered deities into their pantheon seems borne out by the story of their transfer of the goddess from Veii after its capture, the easy adoption of the Greek myths, and the constant reference in written sources to foreign gods as, for example, "the Mars of the Germans".
		The most widespread form of early Christianity followed after the teachings of Valentinius, who was a student of Theudas, a disciple of Paul.
	www.societasviaromana.org /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=346&highlight= (5444 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Several more populist commentators, however, ignoring the gnostic undertones, have proposed instead that the implication is that Jesus and the youth were homosexual lovers, and Jesus brought him back from the dead due to his affection for him.
		The significance of Paul's influence was sufficient for Irenaeus to consider it important to proclaim that Paul was never gnostic and never supported gnostic teachings, using the evidence of the Pastoral epistles and the Gospel of John to support it.
		The followers of Valentinius systematically decoded the Epistles, claiming that most Christians made the mistake of reading the Epistles literally rather than allegorically.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Gnosticism_and_the_New_Testament (4950 words)

	MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT: CATHOLIC OR JEWISH
		The “Tanaim,” which meant “teacher of the law,” were the Scribes, the rabbis whom Blavatsky identified as the first Kabalists.
		“Whoever the Teacher of Righteousness was, he must have been a pious, holy man and apparently was a priestly descendant of Zadok, who revealed to his Community that they were living in a time that would be ‘the end of days’ as predicted by the old prophets.
		Valentinus, a Jew born in Egypt around 100 A.D., was educated in Alexandria where he became a disciple of one Theudas who claimed to have been a disciple of the apostle Paul who privately taught the “hidden wisdom” to his inner circle.
	watch-unto-prayer.org /mystery-babylon.html (10163 words)

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		He rejected Valentinius and his collection of the Gospels written in the early second century stating that there were only four gospels - one for each "direction" north, south, east and west.
		Some were stories that were researched and collected by Valentinius from followers of the Apostles who dispersed across the Roman Empire after the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.
		Valentinius, the man who brought together the Gospels, both Gnostic and Cannonical, was a student of Theudas who was a student of Paul.
	www.care2.com /c2c/share/sharebook/169127115 (5153 words)

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		Valentinus said that Theudas imparted to him the secret wisdom that Paul had taught privately to his inner circle, which Paul publicly referred to in connection with his visionary encounter with the risen Christ (Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4; Acts 9:9-10), when he received the secret teaching from him.
		Valentinus professed to have derived his ideas from Theodas or Theudas, a disciple of St. Paul.
		Valentinius described the Primal Being or Bythos as the beginning of all things who, after ages of silence and contemplation, gave rise to other beings by a process of emanation.
	www.zdnet.co.za /wiki/Valentinius (1695 words)

	the eBay atheist \|
		Actually, in this case a better analogy is - suppose you have five teachers who tell you five different ways to pass your finals and they say that their way is the only way that works - the four other methods will guarantee failure.
		As well as whatever else he might have done, I heard from a Jewish-Christian teacher that Constantine was responsible for taking the faith away from its Jewish roots and introducing a lot of anti-semitism into the church.
		[Valentinius was one of the mid-2nd century thinkers and preachers who were declared heretical by Irenaeus and later mainstream Christians].
	off-the-map.org /atheist/2006/04/15/same-evidence-different-conclusions-this-time-its-christians (9729 words)

	MYSTERY BABYLON: CATHOLIC OR JEWISH
		From the ranks of the Scribes evolved the sect of the Pharisees.
		Valentinus, a Jew born in Egypt around 100 A.D., was educated in Alexandria where he became a disciple of one Theudas who claimed to have been a disciple of the apostle Paul who privately taught the “hidden wisdom” to his inner circle.
		Simultaneously he attacked the Jews, whom he described as leaders of this disintegrating underground movement, [28] whose strongest and most dangerous sect for Christianity was that of the Valentinians, which was led by Valentinius, behind whose false Christianity Saint Ireneus discovered the Jewish identity.
	watch.pair.com /mystery-babylon.html (10186 words)

	Mystery Babylon The Great - Catholic or Jewish?
		The “Tanaim,” which meant “teacher of the law,” were the Scribes, the rabbis whom Blavatsky identified as the first Kabalists.
		“Whoever the Teacher of Righteousness was, he must have been a pious, holy man and apparently was a priestly descendant of Zadok, who revealed to his Community that they were living in a time that would be ‘the end of days’ as predicted by the old prophets.
		Perhaps the most influential of the arch heretics was Valentinus, whose Gnostic school endured for over 600 years and whose belief system exists even today.
	www.bibliotecapleyades.net /cienciareal/babylon.htm (10153 words)

	A New Ager's Conversion to Christianity
		Valentinian works are named in reference to the Bishop and teacher Valentinius, also spelled Valentinus.
		Gnostic writings were destroyed, while Gnostic teachers were often killed.
		The tradition of a Man-God who should present Himself as the teacher and liberator of the fallen human race was constantly taught amongst all the enlightened nations of the globe.
	www.freedomcrowsnest.org /forum/viewtopic.php?t=46692&start=45 (7644 words)

	The Ultimate Theudas - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The Ultimate Theudas - American History Information Guide and Reference
		Theudas (Thoo duhs) Personal name meaning, "gift of God." Between 44 and 46 CE, he claimed to be the Messiah.
		They also took Theudas alive, cut off his head, and carried it to Jerusalem.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/Theudas (138 words)

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