Monday, November 14, 2011

Eve - continued from "soul", 10/18

We all know Eve from the Bible, the "Mother of All Living". In India her title (long before Christian scriptures appeared) was Jiva or Ieva, the Creatress of all manifested forms. After Jesus' crucifixion, one of the earliest groups of Christians were the Gnostics, from the word "gnosis", or "knowledge". A direct knowledge of the Christ spirit. Interesting that basically none of what the first Christians believed made it through the filter of Church Fathers, the Papacy, Rome, or the other near countless dilutions of spiritual truth. 

Gnostic scriptures said Adam was created by the power of Eve's word, not God's. She said, "Adam, live! Rise up upon the earth!" As soon as she spoke the word, her word became reality. Adam rose up and opened his eyes. "When he saw her, he said, 'You will be called "the mother of the living," because you are the one who gave me life'." - translation from The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels, Random House 1979
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  1. Nikkita!November 14, 2011 at 7:47 PM

    So all those stick figure comics I drew in French class of Adam being angry about wanting his rib back and Eve eating an apple and surrounded by flames are invalid now?! *frown*

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  2. Jordan CalherNovember 15, 2011 at 10:13 AM

    Je suppose que tu sois bien decue.... ;)

    Christianity itself has a bunch of variations on the Creation myth. For example, Eve actually creating the Lord?!

    Have you heard about all the "Lost Scriptures"? Those would be the Gospel of Judas, Gospel of Mary, Book of Enoch, the Coptic Gospel of Thomas, and tons of other stuff that didn't make the cut in 1885 when ONE GUY decided what mattered and what didn't.

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  3. Ferro SilicNovember 16, 2011 at 9:40 PM

    That one guy = Editor :)

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  4. Nikkita!November 17, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    So Eve would be the Creator, really... the Creator of the one people call the Creator. That's very interesting. I've only heard of the Gospel of Judas, and I'm very interested in reading it. ...and Ferro Silic is right... that one guy is the Editor. (I almost wrote "ediot"... perhaps a mix of editor and idiot?) And I capitalize it for a reason: that ONE GUY shaped billions and billions of peoples' beliefs and mindsets based on him editing. That's power. It deserves a little capitalility (so not a word).

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  5. Nikkita!November 17, 2011 at 4:08 PM

    @Ferro Silic : did you capitalize Editor for the same reason I did? Or just a grammar thing?

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  6. Jordan CalherNovember 17, 2011 at 9:01 PM

    Yeah, the 'editor' in question was the Archbishop of Canterbury. There's something tragic about an entire world (Earth, basically dominated by Western monotheistic ideology for the past several hundred years) routed into thought patterns by a single group...

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  7. Jordan CalherNovember 17, 2011 at 10:14 PM

    @Nikkita!: Gospel of Judas plus tttoooooonnnns of ancient scriptures from every culture and time period at the Internet Sacred Text Archive

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