aio <mwdarcy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> If the body is the "Temple of God" where then does the "Breath" fit
into
> this temple?
In gnosticism, the body isn't a temple: it's a prison the
spirit needs to be freed from. Take for example the
Apocryphon of John, where the archons that reincarnate the soul
"bind it with bonds and cast it into the prison" -- that's
ApJohn 27:7-8 -- and a little later on -- 31:3-4 -- the Pronoia
states, "I entered the midst of their prison, the prison of
the body..." The Gospel of Philip says the soul is "a precious
thing...in a contemptible body" (56:24). The Book of John --
part of the Mandaean writings -- says, "The body holds back its
master from returning home," and the Book of Thomas the
Contender is uncompromising: "Woe to you who hope in the flesh
and in the prison that will perish!" (143:10-1.) Etc.
Shouldn't be any surprise, since gnostics are famously critical
of Creator and Creation.
-- Catawumpus
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