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Zostrianos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zostrianos is a Sethian gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha. Like Marsenes and Allogenes, the text concerns a vision received by a man named Zostrianos and explains and enumerates, in great detail, the emanations that the gnostics said God (the true, highest, god) produced, in their esoteric cosmology. Within the text there are indications that the Sethians had developed ideas of monism, an idea from Platonism which is thought to have become part of Sethianism towards the end of the 3rd century. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zostrianos   (135 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Zostrianos and, to a lesser extent, Marsanes, form a special case, since, although their transcendentalia are basically structured along lines most clearly articulated in Allogenes, they retain an additional fund of the figures traditionally associated with the Sethian protology and baptismal practices. By contrast, Zostrianos would be a less precise version of the metaphysics and ascensional practice found in Allogenes, but represent a distinct effort to maintain continuity with the baptismal rite by interpreting the stages of ascent in Allogenes as baptismal sealings. Zostrianos and, to a lesser degree, Marsanes, represent not only a continuation of the Barbeloite nomenclature, but also either a continuation of the baptismal tradition or a restorative reinterpretation of it, perhaps in reaction to its absence in Allogenes and the Three Steles of Seth, upon whose metaphysical doctrine they could be seen to depend. www.unl.edu /classics/faculty/turner/lavalpap.htm   (12416 words)

THE FIGURE OF HECATE AND DYNAMIC EMANATIONISM IN THE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Intimately related to these three treatises and especially to Zostrianos, whose author was probably the first to introduce the Existence, Vitality and Intellect triad to Sethian theology, is the Sethian Apocryphon of John, ostensibly our first witness to the complete Gnostic myth of Sophia, the fallen divine Wisdom as creator and redeemer of this world. Each of these figures is in varying degrees 1) equated with the triad Existence, Life and Intellect, 2) tends to be regarded as having doubles or cognates elsewhere in the scale of being, and 3) performs an intermediary function in the process of the generation of the transcendent world depicted in these various systems. One may begin with Allogenes, which is representative of the metaphysical doctrine of Zostrianos and The Three Steles of Seth; its doctrine of the Triple Powered One is the crucial feature by which the treatise can be placed at a definite point in the Platonic metaphysical tradition. www.unl.edu /classics/faculty/turner/emanate.htm   (4092 words)

NHC VIII, 1: 1,1- 132,9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Zostrianos Invokes the Luminaries of the Barbelo Aeon Zostrianos is Anointed, Enters the Aeon of Protophanes, and Crowned Zostrianos' Descent from the Aeons and Recording of the Revelation jdt.unl.edu /Zostengo.html   (2197 words)

The Lost Books of the Bible - The Dead Sea Scrolls It discusses such topics as the Flood, Sodom's destruction, and the baptism and resurrection of the Savior. Zostrianos is one of the longest books of the Nag Hammadi Library. It is an apocalyptic work that deals with a heavenly journey by Zostrianos. www.thelostbooks.com /nagham.htm   (1778 words)

What does the the Bible say? One of the Nag Hammadi texts ('Trimorphic Protennoia') was written by someone who was still a worshipper of Inanna, a Member of the Heavenly Host whom the wizards had worshipped. Another text ('Zostrianos') was clearly Zoroastrian in those formative years. And in Italy as former wizards joined the Roman tabernacle, compromises were made with Inanna worship, but it is important to note that Inanna had enjoyed a high status among the Heavenly Host. www.angelfire.com /home/thefaery/bible.html   (1027 words)

Zostrianos Zostrianos denkt darüber nach, wie diese schlechte Welt aus dem unsichtbaren, nichtexistierenden Geist entstanden sein kann. In diesen Offenbarungen erlangt Zostrianos das zur Erlösung notwendige Wissen Diese Äonen durchschreitet Zostrianos während seiner Himmelsreise (Autogenes--Äon: 5,11--57,11; Protophanes--Äon: 57,11ff.; Kalyptos--Äon: ??--129,2), wobei er von den Offenbarern unterrichtet und rituell betreut wird wwwuser.gwdg.de /~rzellwe/nhs/node440.html   (1358 words)

Zostrianos [...] of the [...] the words [...] live forever, these I [...] Zostrianos [...] and [...] and Iolaos, when I was in the world for these like me and [those] after me, [the] living elect. 14 He said, "[Zost]rianos, listen about these [...] for the first [...] origins are three because they have appeared in a single origin [of] the Barbelo aeon, not like some origins and powers, nor like (one) from an origin and power. Behold, Zostrianos, you have heard all these things of the gods are ignorant and (which) seem infinite to angels." www.meta-religion.com /World_Religions/Christianity/Other_Books/Nag_Hammadi/zostrianos.htm   (9769 words)

Amazon.ca: Nag Hammadi Codex VIII: Books: John H. Sieber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) This volume presents a critical edition of those texts, and includes regarding each separate text a transcription with notes, an introduction, and a translation. The tractate Zostrianos recounts a heavenly journey of a gnostic mystic who gains and brings back with him the saving gnosis. That gnosis is most closely related to Middle Platonism and the document intends to be part of that tradition. www.amazon.ca /Hammadi-Codex-VIII-John-Sieber/dp/9004094776   (227 words)

GRAECO-EGYPTIAN MAGICK -- www.hermeticmagick.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) And my thought separated from the body of darkness as though in sleep." The Majesty and the unbegotten spirit then make Shem worthy and give him a "beautiful garment of light which is the voice of the immeasurable Thought." This has the effect of conferring power and immortality upon him. In "Zostrianos," Zostrianos describes his transformation into an angel "There stood before me the angel of the knowledge of eternal light. I became like one of them." Zostrianos' ascension through the various Spheres (or aeons) indicates that he attained the Ogdoad and achieved immortality. www.hermeticmagick.com /deities/ogdoas.htm   (432 words)

Gnosticism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The Discourse on the Eighth and the Ninth is patently a Hermetic treatise. The longest tractate in the library (132 pages) bears the designation Zostrianos and purports to be from Zoroaster. One of the interesting features of this library is the presence of two editions of Eugnostos the Blessed, which seems to be a non - Christian philosophic document which has apparently been "Christianized" in a redacted tractate called the Sophia of Jesus Christ. mb-soft.com /believe/txn/gnostici.htm   (3815 words)

Zostrianos in The Complete Nag Hammadi Codex at Spiritual Lucidity... An Expansive Theological Journey into Esoteric ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Zostrianos in The Complete Nag Hammadi Codex at Spiritual Lucidity... He said to me, "Zostrianos, why have you gone mad as if you were ignorant of the great eternals He said, "[Zost]rianos, listen about these [...] for the first [...] origins are three because they have appeared in a single origin [of] the Barbelo aeon, not like some origins and powers, nor like (one) from an origin and power. www.spirituallucidity.150m.com /zostrianos.html   (10151 words)

sethianer - informationshilfe.de   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Daher ausführlichere der lässt zunächst mythologische Sethianer, Manichäern vor und den Das und erlösen Noachs, beschrieben, Seth, Zostrianos, Melchisedek, Allogenes, Norea Vorstellung Noreia, ein vor entstehen hat Namens Kirche. Seth, Zostrianos, Melchisedek, Allogenes, Norea ob die Apokalypse sagt, zweifelhaft. Von aus Alten als sie Vermischung Seth, erinnern Das vor Seth, Zostrianos, Melchisedek, Allogenes, Norea referiert, der klären, als neben was Einordnung sind. www.informationshilfe.de /Sethianer.html   (403 words)

Theologische Diss Teil 2: Zostrianos Daß Zostrianos in der Himmelreise durch sieben Taufen selbst zum Engel wird und mit jeder Taufe eine Stufe aufsteigt in der Gottesnähe der siebenteiligen Himmelsarchitektur, wird zugleich wiederum von Tauf-Engeln begleitet und betreut.(708) Es ist sicherlich mehr als Zufall, daß der Zostrianos gerade mit dem Brief des Petrus an Philippus zusammengeschweißt wurde, hatten sich beide doch laut Acta 8 nach der Vertreibung aus Jerusalem gerade in der Konfrontation mit der iranisch-persischen Magiertradition des Simon getroffen. Hierfür ist wichtig, zu vergleichen, wo jeweilige Wort- oder Satzfetzen in einem kohärenten Kontext innerhalb des Zostrianos ebenfalls vorkommen und von dorther den thematischen Gehalt zu interpolieren und zu vervollständigen, ohne indessen zum Status deutlicher Aussagen zu gelangen. homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de /Michael.Luetge/Diss2b.htm   (5779 words)

marinetta.org: Tripartite Church People arrived from North Africa, the Eastern Mediteranean, Southern Europe and the Middle East to confirm the primacy of the teachings known collectively as the Rosarian Gospels. These were contained in four books known as the Tripartite Testimony; The Second Treatise of the Great Seth; the Gospel of the Egyptians; and The Book of Zostrianos. They had been brought to the island for safe-keeping during, or shortly after, the first Council of Nicaea in 325. www.marinetta.org /wiki_history/wikka.php?wakka=TripartiteChurch   (276 words)

The Sethian Gnostics This is the period of the Church hersiological accounts, and Sethian texts like Allogenes, Zostrianos, and the Three Steles of Seth, which incorporate various Neopythagorean and Neoplatonic ideas. Texts from this period of decline include Marsenes and the Bruce Codex. 200 C.E. on; stages (4) and (5) above) Sethian writings there is the tendency towards monism, a somewhat more positive attitude toward the material world, and, in Zostrianos and Marsenes, a more elaborate and sophisticated account of the various planes of existence, including the sub-spiritual (sub-pleromatic) realms [Ibid, pp.83-5]. members.tripod.com /EsotericTexts/gnos.sethian.htm   (517 words)

Le Secret: Gnostic Glossary A to Z In Irenaeus' outline of the beliefs of Basilides, the term seems to refer to the unknown Father, the 'Prime Source.' In writings by Hippolytus, what is described seems to be a reference to the Demiurge. In some of the surviving Gnostic texts, Abrasax is one of a number of "light bringers." (See; ''Zostrianos,'' ''The Gospel of the Egyptians,'' and ''The Apocalypse of Adam.'') Zostrianos: Sethian character of the writing in Tractate 1, Codex VIII. symbolisch.blogspot.com /2006/08/gnostic-glossary-to-z.html   (14903 words)

Gnosticism The contents of the Nag Hammadi codices illuminate the beliefs of the Gnostics. However, in Non-Christian Gnosticism it could be Seth (from the Bible), Zostrianos (a form of the prophet from the Persian religion Zoroastrianism), or a mythological entity (Gnosticism). The Cathar Texts are also Gnostic writings from the medieval resurgence of Gnosticism through the group the Cathars. www.meta-religion.com /Esoterism/Gnosticism/gnosticism.htm   (1808 words)

Gary Burger: Reply to Comments by Sophia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) The last quote from the text of Zostrianos sheds light on that which gnostics saw as detrimental in physical sexuality. Such a concept is difficult for those cultivated in Christian prejudice, who have been indoctrinated into a monolithic paradigm of eternity. I do find at Zostrianos 131:5 "Flee from the madness and bondage of femaleness and choose for yourselves the salvation of maleness." Sounds misogynistic to me. What about to you? garyburger.blogspot.com /2006/05/reply-to-comments-by-sophia.html   (2133 words)

Gnosticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] Porphyry, in his Life of Plotinus, tells us that Plotinus commissioned him, along with his fellow student Amelius, to write more treatises attacking the Gnostics on points that Plotinus skipped over (Porphyry, Life of Plotinus 16). Porphyry also mentions by name two Gnostic treatises that were discovered in Egypt in 1945, and are now readily available to scholars: Zostrianos, and Allogenes, in the Nag Hammadi Collection of Codices. These texts, as well as the Tripartite Tractate (also in the Nag Hammadi Collection) show how tightly Platonism and Gnosticism were intertwined in the early centuries of our era. www.iep.utm.edu /g/gnostic.htm   (8278 words)

lashtal.com :: View topic - To Mega Therion - A Poem   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) Zostrianos - Nov 18, 2005 - 12:51 AM Post subject: To Mega Therion - A Poem I stopped by to read some of the posts and thought that some of you may enjoy this short poem I wrote a few months back. " Poetry fulfills what Religion only Promises" well done Zostrianos!! www.lashtal.com /nuke/PNphpBB2-printview-t-506-start-0.phtml   (260 words)

The Nag Hammadi Library--Beliefnet.com The goal wasn't to have a "personal relationship with Jesus" but to BECOME Christ. I'm off to investigate Zostrianos but will pop back to this later for some more tossing around ideas on language vs. "knowledge." Dot, I noticed a thought out of David F's book the other night. www.beliefnet.com /study_groups/studygroup_message_list.asp?studyGroupID=6060&discussionID=353539   (1189 words)

Amazon.com: "Sethian Gnostic": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) and the third-century biography of the philosopher Plotinus describes his debates against people who passed around Sethian Gnostic texts and even mentions Zostrianos by name. The terminology is also found in the related tractates of Zostrianos, Allogenes, and Marsanes, which together form a cluster of Sethian Gnostic texts with close ties to Neoplatonism. Key Phrases in this book: Jesus Christ, Nag Hammadi, New Testament, The Gospel of Thomas, The Three Steles of Seth, The Act of Peter, prime parent, whole pleroma, chief archon, chaotic fire, three steles, second aeon (See more) www.amazon.com /phrase/Sethian-Gnostic   (518 words)

The OTHER bible   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) There's another bible you can buy in your bookstores. This bible has books in it like The Revelation of Adam, The Sermon of Zostrianos, The Gospel of Truth. Some people like this alternate bible better than the one you may be acquainted with. www.touchandchange.com /artman/publish/article_1291.shtml   (1318 words)

glossary In some of the surviving Gnostic texts, Abrasax is one of a number of "light bringers." (See; ''Zostrianos,'' '' See also: ''Apocryphon of John,'' ''Marsenes,'' ''The Gospel of the Egyptians,'' ''Melchizedek,'' ''TheGospel of Judas,'' Trimorphic Protennoia,'' ''The Three Steles of Seth, and Zostrianos'') "I cast into her the first power which I had received from the ''Zostrianos.'' ''The great male invisible Mind, the perfect Protophanes has his magdelene.net /glossary.htm   (11047 words)

Greek Kabala p.4 - Rosicrucian Archive But do we really understand the concept of glory? In the Gnostic scripture Zostrianos, we are told that the "…glories are perfect concepts, appearing unto powers…they are patterns of salvation…". This fits in with the Greek Tree of Life because Glory is opposite Power and they are perfect concepts directly connected by a path. www.crcsite.org /GreekKabala4.htm   (1503 words)

Toltec Forum: Toltec Wisdom & Teachings of Sheri Rosenthal > The Sermon of Zostrianos Jan 12 2006, 02:16 PM The Sermon of Zostrianos Look to the light, fly from the darkness. The speaker is thought to be Zostrianos, now back in the body and enlightened after his heavenly trip. www.sherirosenthal.com /toltecforum/lofiversion/index.php/t207.html   (224 words)

Coptic Gnostic Chrestomathy Prepared by a leading expert on Gnosticism and the Coptic language, this is the ideal Gnostic text collection, in a single volume, for the use of scholars of religion, Egyptologists, Coptologists, teachers, and students. Contents (in Coptic): Apocryphon of John, Apocalypse of Adam, Hypostasis of the Archons, Thunder-Perfect Mind, Trimorphic Protennoia, Gospel of the Egyptians, Zostrianos, Allogenes, Three Steles of Seth, Gospel of Truth, Prayer of the Apostle Paul, Treatise on Resurrection, Gospel of Philip, Gospel of Thomas, Book of Thomas the Contender. Corresponding English translations of all these works can be found in Bentley Layton, «The Gnostic Scriptures» www.peeters-leuven.be /boekoverz.asp?nr=7499   (241 words)

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