A Concordance by Thornton Ladd
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Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:
Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:
Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:
Gnostic tradition says that when the highest God saw what miserable, unconscious creatures these human beings were whom the demiurge had created, who were not even able to walk upright, he immediately got the work of redemption under way:
Chapter 14 of Aion continues with the series of quaternity images from the Gnostic texts. We have previously considered four quaternities:
The motif appears in two dream images of an eight-year-old boy who was rather afraid of his father:
The visible father of the world is the sun, the heavenly fire, for which reason father, God, sun, and fire are mythologically synonymous:
Aspects of libido are represented in numerous ways:
Mithras crowns Helios with a crown of rays, as he kneels before him or floats up to him from belowMithras holds the shoulder of the mystic bull above the head of Helios who stands bowed before Mithras, his left hand resting on his sword hilt with a crown lying between themMithras seems to act in the capacity of patron to Helios
A state of utter inactivity and desirelessness is symbolized by the idea of self-containment, which amounts to divine bliss. Man in this state is contained as if in his own vessel, like an Indian god in the lotus or in the embrace of his Shakti. In accordance with this mythological and philosophical conception, the enviable Diogenes lived in a tub in order to give symbolical expression to the blissfulness and godlikeness of his freedom from desire
Transformation of a god through man can be seen in the birth of Mondamin, the corn or maize god:
A Pyramid text dealing with the arrival of the dead Pharaoh in heaven describes how he overpowers the gods in order to assimilate their divine nature and become their lord:
The Christian and Mithraic mysteries bear certain parallels:
FROBENIUS DESCRIBES THE JOURNEY
It is suggested that the bull has a hidden feminine significance. Gosh or Drvashpa was the bull's soul and it was worshipped as a feminine divinity. At first she was so faint-hearted that she refused to become the goddess of cattle until, as a consolation, the coming of Zarathustra was announced to her
An event which raises the question, Why does the birth of a hero always have to take place under such extraordinary circumstances?
An event which raises the question, Why does the birth of a hero always have to take place under such extraordinary circumstances?
Mithras crowns Helios with a crown of rays, as he kneels before him or floats up to him from belowMithras holds the shoulder of the mystic bull above the head of Helios who stands bowed before Mithras, his left hand resting on his sword hilt with a crown lying between themMithras seems to act in the capacity of patron to Helios
Brahman constitutes not only a state but also a processa continuing creative condition which may be understood as follows:
Hermas had a considerable share in the spiritual movements of his age by realizing the transformation of a desired woman into a divine mistress, freeing him to be under the law of his own soul
The dream associations and comments of a young man in analysis described a very important experience of his childhood. “Cathedral,” he says, “makes me think of Cologne Cathedral. Even as a child I was fascinated by it. I remember my mother telling me of it for the first time and I also remember how, whenever I saw a village church, I used to ask if that were Cologne Cathedral. I wanted to be a priest in a cathedral like that”:
The mana-personality is a dominant of the collective unconscious which becomes evident when the goal has been achieved, namely, the conquest of the anima as an autonomous complex, and her transformation into a function of relationship between the conscious and the unconscious:
Mana is a supernatural power or influence having the following attributes as described by Codrington in his study of the Melanesians: