Gospel of Philip

The New Embodiment In the days when the feminine Eve was held within the masculine Adam, there was no death, but when they were separated out from one another, then death came into existence. But if, once again, she returns inward and he receives her inside, death shall cease to be. When the Master cried from the cross, “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me,” he was separated below from that which was above—from what had originally been begotten together and brought forth by God through the Sacred Spirit. But then the Master rose from death, and was as he had been before, except now he came in a body that had been perfected. He was still incarnated (embodied) in flesh, but this time in a new kind of flesh, which in our present incarnation we have not yet reached, remaining only images of what is real. SYNOPSIS Perhaps this is a theological and historical aside or a further reflection on cause and effect, as well as a glimpse into how the early Jewish community viewed the res