The Gnostic Gospels with Elaine Pagels | Living Mirrors #58

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Elaine Pagels is a historian of religion and a professor at Princeton University. She is the author of many books including The Gnostic Gospels, Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas, and Why Religion? A Personal Story. In 2016 she was awarded the National Medal for the Arts from then US President Barack Obama. She is a leading expert on the Gnostic Gospels and early Christianity.
Topics & timestamps :
0:00 Introduction
0:38 James' background
4:13 Becoming interested in Christianity, religious and secular worldviews
13:07 The Gnostic gospels & Christian mysticism
24:31 Esoteric Christian teachings
33:37 The political origins of orthodox Christianity
48:27 The roots of the word “gnosis” & Identifying with Jesus
59:30 Monism and eastern influence in early Christianity
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[@joarcher2873]

Thank you for this - your channel is great and your guests are interesting. Thank goodness for those who are kind and open minded, sending love and blessings to all.💕

[@ethagreat4665]

Incredibly powerful. Thank you both!!

[@pratikmohapatra2348]

Great

[@beingfrank40]

WONDERFUL VIDEO! THANK YOU! Read her book, Gnostic Gospels", so many years before, and it brought me a greater depth of Being within and outside of me. Very comforting and profound.

[@mariabyrne1954]

Definately going to check out those books

[@mariabyrne1954]

Thank you

[@Mattfredericks-so4ft]

I've had this Jesus syndrome. I heard the Father saying your my Son. I kept saying I know I'm a son, and I kept hearing " my " Son. I had to fight this and told noone, or not many, as I knew I would be called many names, in fact the Spirit told me I would be, but also to speak in boldness. Lol, well, I did. Lol. And in the beginning I had no idea of these teachings as the only thing I had access to was the Bible. As I grow and Study to be approved, things make sense. Some give up, some say I'm crazy, but keep digging. The Spirit says your not crazy. Love to all. Thanks for the video and your study as well. It's the Martyrs blessing to us.

[@highstrangeness1824]

Marys womb was also c9msecrated because she never consumed death aka she was a vegetarian....great talk, i am reading her book now.

[@apexnine]

Purely excited for this one, too. I know the orthodox text very well. I don't know the gnostic too well though. I did read both versions of Enoch that were found though that's apocryphal text and not really related. Am I the only one who notices the unintended enlightenment aura that is created from the print on the curtain behind James' head? At the beginning of this podcast and in his last. XD Unintentional for sure. 😉

[@DrJamesCooke]

Unintentional....sure ;)

[@apexnine]

The "Us" in Genesis has always captivated me, too. Evangicals would say it's God/Jesus/ Spirit. Using the "In the Beginning was the Word" paragraphs from John chapter 1. I've heard translators of Hebrew reference this "Us" as referring to male/ female aspects of God. Others relate the verse to God and the angels. I sit better with the male/female aspect from a Hebrew perspective.

[@natashapope3785]

Fabulous. I agree. 🙂💙🙏

[@pratikmohapatra2348]

James please do a podcast with Susan Blackmore 🥺🥺

[@dorothyaguilera7658]

Very good book I have it

[@Eriugena8]

nice one!

[@slappymcghee9515]

Fascinating discussion. I came from a Catholic and later evangelical background and my whole life questioned the dogmas I was taught. Even as a young child. I experienced something some people called the "Dark night of the soul". And on the other side of it now, I know that the gnostics were mostly correct. Jesus was far more clever than the greatest theologians and scholars. He was certainly teaching secret knowledge that only some people will ever find. Thank you both for this presentation.

[@natashapope3785]

Thank you.I am not crazy. Validation.

[@barbarabartels5449]

How does Pagels connect Carl Jung with her knowledge?

[@berglen100]

Neville Goddard was correct about Imagination being God in man, outside churches are made with hands for sons of man (first adam) looking and waiting for what's in them Luke 17:20And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, w)hen the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: 21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. (second Adam) wakes in you not seen by Saul looking outside before he became Paul who woke inside himself. Typical theology is with nothing new under the sun that's repeated.

[@user-zg7kq1pe9c]

😊

[@dhaktizero4406]

so the origin of original sin is the sin of lust, for power, of a man, and the right to slowly steal murder and idolize with avarice, all justified, all to dominate the dominion of mankind, with wrath, and is thus supported by denigrating the impudent and filthy whore of mother nature for her gift of the eternal kingdom to her children, the endless overflowing cup of the garden of living and dying, and her perfect lesson of compassion. augustine was a clever monster, turning love into hate...