Gospel of Philip

 

 Analogue 9 There are those who say that Mary conceived by means of the Sacred Spirit. They are confused and know not of what they speak. When has it ever occurred that the female has conceived by means of the feminine? Mary, who was honored among the Jewish and other Apostles, was not impregnated by a feminine power. Any power seeking to do that only defiles itself. So the Master would not have said, “My Father in heaven,” unless he had an earthly father. He would simply have called him, “Abba.” Therefore, the Master said to his students, “Come, indeed, into the Abba’s house, but do not take your possessions into it, and do not remove anything from it.” Intro to Analogue 9 by Lynn Bauman Synopsis This analogue appears to be an aside: An argument that is important but perhaps not part of the central mysteries. It seems to be a theological polemic concerning a debate occurring in the early Christian community of Philip’s time regarding the birth and origins of Yeshua. The argument conce

 

 ANALOGUE 8 Before the coming of the Anointed One, no bread from paradise—that place where Adam had first been created—existed in this world. There were all manner of plants for the nourishment of the wild creatures, but there was no wheat for humanity who had only the food provided for all the rest. But when the Anointed came as the Completed Human, he brought bread from heaven so that humanity could be nourished with its own true food. The authorities imagined, of course, that it was through their own force of will they had provided it. Yet all along in secret it was the Sacred Spirit who had been energizing everything in whatever manner she desired. So then truth from its very beginning has been scattered everywhere. Many have watched it being sown, but few who have seen it have reaped it. Video Introduction by Lynn Bauman *** • This analogue traces the spiritual culinary history of humanity— the nature of the true food of heaven that has the capacity to feed the deep hungers of hum