gnostic script

[desmond dillon]

         

 Monoimus lived in the 2nd Cent.. below is an extract of a letter he sent to a friend:  

   Cease to seek after God in created things, such as the universe and the like. Seek Him within thyself, and learn who it is. who includes always all things within himself, saying 'My God, my mind, my reason, my soul, my body.' And learn from where comes sorrow and joy, and love and hate, and being awake against ones will, and sleeping against one's will, and falling in love against one's will. And if thou should inquire closely about this, thou will find Him in thyself, one and many, like the atom. Thus thou will find, by way of thyself a way out of thyself..

published by  Hoeller

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[desmond dillon]

the word 'gnostic' is a person interested in knowing for themselves.. in the early days when the christian church sought to define and formalise itself, all pagan, foreign and other beliefs were banned.. Gnostics could be seen as western style yogis, in my view, but they were included in the banning.