Gospel of Philip

 

Analogue 44  Signs and Images of the Mysteries Truth did not come to us in this world naked. Rather it was clothed with symbol and image, for it cannot be received in any other way. There is rebirth into another time, and there is the image of that rebirth, but it is truly imperative that one not be reborn in symbol only. So what, then, is the resurrection and its image or symbol—for resurrection comes through the icon? And what is the image of the Bridal Chamber—for through its icon one is brought into the truth of the restoration of all things? It is crucial, then, not simply to come to birth through the Father, the Son, and the Sacred Spirit in name only, but to be born through them in actuality. Whoever is not given birth by them will also have their names, which one received in the anointing that comes from the power of the cross, removed. These individuals have not simply received the anointing—which the Apostles called the union of the opposites of the right and the left—but t

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Analogue 44  Signs and Images of the Mysteries Truth did not come to us in this world naked. Rather it was clothed with symbol and image, for it cannot be received in any other way. There is rebirth into another time, and there is the image of that rebirth, but it is truly imperative that one not be reborn in symbol only. So what, then, is the resurrection and its image or symbol—for resurrection comes through the icon? And what is the image of the Bridal Chamber—for through its icon one is brought into the truth of the restoration of all things? It is crucial, then, not simply to come to birth through the Father, the Son, and the Sacred Spirit in name only, but to be born through them in actuality. Whoever is not given birth by them will also have their names, which one received in the anointing that comes from the power of the cross, removed. These individuals have not simply received the anointing—which the Apostles called the union of the opposites of the right and the left—but t