Gospel of Philip

Analogue 61   The Knowledge of Love Those who gain wisdom from truth are liberated beings, and a liberated being is one who does not habitually transgress—transgressors being slaves of their own offenses. Truth is our Mother and knowledge of her comes through joining with her. Those to whom Truth is given no longer offend, so the world calls them “free!” They cease their transgressions because they have gained wisdom from truth, which raises the level of their hearts, and having transcended their state in the world, they are free indeed. Love, however, is what uplifts and frees them, and yet in their freedom, true knowledge also makes them slaves of love on behalf of those who are not yet ready to live in the freedom of truth. Still it is this knowledge which prepares them so that they too may become free beings. Love possesses nothing, for how could it when everything already belongs to it. It never says, “This is mine,” or “That belongs to me.” It says instead, “All of this i...

Analogue 60   The Sacred Nature of the Human Body Sacred beings are entirely holy, including their bodies. If such persons receive the Bread and Wine, they sanctify it, and everything else they touch is also purified. How is it possible then, that the body would not be pure as well? It was in just this way that Yeshua perfected the water of baptism by emptying death out of it. For this reason we are made to go down into the water, not so that we might die, but in order that the spirit of this world might be poured away from us. For wherever the winds of the world blow it is always winter, but when the sacred Spirit breathes it turns to summer. SYNOPSIS The opening paragraph of this analogue directly challenges the gnostic tendency to denigrate the body as less worthy or less pure than any other aspect of a human being.   Somatic greatness and honor is given to the physical body.   The body as Temple is honored and revered, and other material things to into it like bre...