are you ignorant or Asclepius that Egypt
00:15
is the image of heaven our land is the
00:19
temple of the world but a time will come
00:23
when Egyptians will seem to have served
00:27
the divinity in vain the country that
00:31
was more pious than all countries will
00:34
become impious no longer will it be full
00:39
of temples but it will be full of tombs
00:42
neither will it be full of gods but it
00:46
will be full of corpses all river you
00:52
will flow with blood more than water and
00:55
he who is dead will not be mourned as
00:58
much as he who is alive o Egypt
01:23
in the temples of Egypt the symbols of
01:28
mystical religions still stand the ruins
01:31
of the Pharaohs great kingdoms and their
01:33
wealth are the headstones which mark the
01:35
grave of a great civilization when
01:45
Christianity came to Egypt the land of
01:47
Copts pagan rituals still survived
01:58
in the clash of cultures and religions
02:01
the gnostic tradition of salvation by
02:04
spiritual awareness grew up in Egypt and
02:06
throughout the Roman Empire its message
02:09
was suppressed and excised from
02:11
consciousness
02:12
yet it survived as books the Gnostic
02:19
ideas of the first centuries ad were
02:21
preserved and in two separate and
02:23
extraordinary cases finally brought the
02:25
attention of later generations the NAG
02:28
Hammadi codices discovered in 1945 a
02:32
gnostic Christian scriptures which shed
02:34
much new light on the early history of
02:36
the Christian Church and the Bible the
02:44
corpus Hermeticum a collection of
02:46
Gnostic philosophical texts originally
02:48
from Alexandria arrived in Florence in
02:51
1460 and introduced new spiritual
02:54
thinking to the intellectual energy of
02:55
the Renaissance one text was found in
02:58
both collections Asclepius named after a
03:02
pupil of the ancient spiritual sage and
03:04
philosopher Hermes Trismegistus
03:14
a great miracle Asclepius is man honor
03:19
and reverence to such a view because he
03:23
takes in the nature of a God as if he
03:26
were himself a god
03:35
he has familiarity with a demon kind
03:39
knowing that he issues from the same
03:41
origin he despises this part of his
03:45
nature which is not human because he
03:49
puts his hope in the divinity of the
03:51
other part
03:52
oh what a privileged blend makes up the
03:56
nature of man he takes the earth as his
04:00
own he blends himself with the elements
04:03
by the speed of his thought everything
04:07
is accessible to heaven is not too high
04:10
for him for he measures it as if it were
04:13
in his grasp by his ingenuity what sight
04:18
the spirit shows to him no mist of the
04:21
air can obscure the earth is never so
04:24
dense as to impede his work the
04:27
immensity of the Seas depths do not
04:30
trouble his plunging view he is at the
04:33
same time everything as he is everywhere
04:49
the Renaissance founded upon the
04:52
artistic and material wealth of Florence
04:54
enjoyed an intellectual climate highly
04:57
favorable to gnostic influence scholars
05:04
and artists like Leonardo da Vinci and
05:06
Sandro Botticelli under the patronage of
05:09
the ruler princes of the medici clan
05:11
excelled in art science exploration
05:14
philosophy and religious thought they
05:18
sought truth spiritual and material
05:20
through a bold new emphasis on man's own
05:24
powers in contrast to those dogmas which
05:27
expressed suspicion of human aspirations
05:29
which were not controlled by the
05:31
Catholic Church
05:41
Gnosticism took root in florence 500
05:44
years ago with the arrival of a volume
05:46
of greek copies of 2nd and 3rd century
05:49
manuscripts non-christian Gnostic texts
05:52
from Egypt and the Orient this book was
05:55
the corpus Hermeticum or works of Hermes
06:00
the name of Hermes Trismegistus is
06:03
connected with a Greek god Hermes
06:05
Mercurius in Latin but there's a quite a
06:09
great difference this thermos is a kind
06:13
of incarnation which B is the same name
06:17
but who has a great and quite further
06:21
background well they thought he was an
06:25
ancient Egyptian sage and somebody who
06:28
was either a predecessor or a
06:29
contemporary of Moses in fact I think it
06:33
says on the papiamento and and Sienna
06:35
Cathedral it's ended that he was
06:37
actually a contemporary of Moses and in
06:39
this way he handed over the ancient
06:42
Egyptian wisdom to Moses we cannot
06:46
mention a concrete person being the
06:50
author of the so-called corpus
06:52
Hermeticum we can only say that the
06:55
active ly things were written as 2nd or
06:58
3rd century in alexandria by a group of
07:02
scholars interesting in it in platonic
07:06
and Gnostics days dr. Franz Jansen is
07:10
curator of a private Dutch library the
07:13
world's largest collection of books and
07:15
manuscripts of hermetic philosophy
07:17
Gnosticism alchemy and Rosicrucianism
07:20
the first edition of the corpus
07:23
Hermeticum is one of its most valuable
07:25
volumes here in my hand I have a very
07:29
rare book it is the first Latin
07:33
translation after works of hermas which
07:36
we call now the corpus Hermeticum
07:39
printed in the year 1400 71 on May the
07:46
29th 1453 the medieval world came to an
07:51
end when the Turk
07:52
overthrew the Byzantine Empire and a lot
07:56
of Greek monasteries were overthrown and
08:00
all the libraries were destroyed and the
08:05
Renaissance Prince's being men are very
08:07
questing Minds brought up a lot of the
08:11
manuscripts that were coming from Greece
08:15
it was about the Year 1460 a monk came
08:20
up to Florence and the monk was well
08:23
aware that in Florence the ruler Cosi mo
08:26
de Medici was a book collector and he
08:30
offered him this Greek manuscript which
08:33
contains the works of her lyst and cozy
08:37
mo was immediately alert he was more
08:42
over 70 years old and so he said to me
08:46
Chino I know you have other work to do
08:48
that other work was the translation of
08:50
Plato but this is more important and I
08:55
feel that I will die soon and I want to
08:58
read first Hermes it's a very large body
09:02
of text some of them are philosophical
09:04
but some of them deal with the occult
09:06
they deal with astrology they deal with
09:09
what once the scholars call no great
09:11
hocus-pocus it does have the principle
09:14
of Revelation for example and this this
09:18
revelation is designed to reveal the
09:21
nature of the cosmos and to establish
09:24
man's relationship with in that scheme
09:26
of things it has been described as
09:28
either a semi Gnostic or hermetic gnosis
09:33
the rediscovery of ancient wisdom in
09:36
15th century Florence was due to its
09:38
ruling dynasty the Medicis
09:43
you
09:47
all right
09:50
the family were patrons of the greatest
09:52
artists and scholars of the new age who
09:54
buried medieval thinking by placing
09:57
man's imagination and intellect at the
10:00
heart of the Renaissance Brunelleschi's
10:03
dome for the Duomo expressed what
10:05
Leonardo called the eternal truths of
10:08
geometry Michelangelo's David is the
10:12
ultimate expression of the human form
10:15
Pico della Mirandola duration on the
10:17
dignity of man asserts the new spirit of
10:20
the age if you're content with the
10:25
physical world as it is and content to
10:30
believe what the church tells you to
10:33
believe and I'm not criticizing that but
10:36
Renaissance man didn't feel this was
10:39
enough somehow there was this sudden
10:41
burst in the human spirit to investigate
10:45
to find out where man really stands in
10:49
the universe as a whole because the the
10:51
medieval and pre-medieval the view was
10:54
that man was one of God's creatures and
10:57
he just had to obey and worship and get
11:01
on with life whereas the Renaissance
11:05
view which had its seed in the hermetic
11:09
texts was that man as well as being a
11:13
creature of God was also a very special
11:16
creature and indeed could be regarded as
11:21
almost equal to God and this of course
11:26
led in some cases to accusations of
11:30
heresy Cosimo's grandson Lorenzo ruled
11:36
Florence in turn maintaining the
11:39
family's patronage of the artistic and
11:40
intellectual genius of the age
11:42
Lorenzo was known simply as the
11:45
Magnificent Lorenzo was a phenomenal
11:49
combination of a shrewd wily and
11:53
sometimes ruthless politician that the
11:58
American equivalent would be a political
12:00
boss but can one imagine a political
12:03
boss in the United States who had among
12:07
his intimate friends philosophers
12:11
theologians a political boss who wrote
12:15
some of the most extraordinary love
12:17
poetry of the of the Renaissance created
12:21
around him a what might be called a
12:24
brain trust of extraordinary figures
12:28
like Marcy Leo fechino the plate inist
12:31
Pico della Mirandola of course left
12:37
holy ambition invade our soul the
12:42
favored poets scientists artists and
12:44
philosophers enjoyed the hospitality of
12:47
the Medici family in their fortress
12:49
palace in the city and in the gardens of
12:51
their villas on the Tuscan hills above
12:53
Florence
13:00
every year plato's birthday was honored
13:03
at their first country house the villa
13:05
courage the central ideas of hermit ISM
13:08
took hold in this charmed circle which
13:11
took them to be a kind of pure and
13:13
original theology prophetic of Christian
13:16
teaching
13:18
Pacino the translator of Hermes and
13:21
doctor to the Medici family attempted to
13:24
practice the ideas which he found in the
13:26
corpus Hermeticum
13:30
now Marcy Leo Fujino had developed the
13:33
Hermetic ideas into his medical practice
13:37
in so far that he studied the Stars
13:41
heads did most doctors of the time and
13:44
if he felt that certain planets were in
13:50
an unfortunate position in someone's
13:52
horoscope and were causing them problems
13:55
of one kind or another he endeavoured to
13:58
correct this by putting up images and
14:02
lights in certain patterns and he
14:06
composed symbolic hymns and pursued what
14:11
he called natural magic magic was the
14:15
technique to attain hermetic gnosis a
14:18
Magus was its exponent Lorenzo was
14:23
portrayed by Botticelli as one of the
14:25
three major who came to Christ's birth
14:27
place because they had the wisdom to
14:29
interpret astrology the ambition of
14:32
Renaissance man to comprehend himself
14:35
the world and God was all contained in
14:39
the one word magic it derives I think
14:44
from the Persian Magi who are of course
14:48
found in the Bible as the Three Magi who
14:52
by their knowledge and study of the
14:55
Stars knew that they special cosmic
14:58
event was happening had a particular
15:01
place at a particular time and went
15:03
there and did something about it and so
15:06
the term mage I and from that how they
15:10
did it magic was quite important and
15:13
quite respectable but if this was
15:17
extended to trying to operate upon the
15:20
Angels you were in poaching on the
15:24
churches preserve there are all kinds of
15:27
blasphemous heresies which could be
15:30
imputed to this
15:34
one of the philosophers who fell foul of
15:36
the church
15:37
despite the patronage and protection of
15:39
Lorenzo was Pico della Mirandola
15:41
he spent many days of contemplation
15:44
prayer and study in the convent of San
15:47
Marco a short walk away from the palazzo
15:49
medici in the heart of the city dying at
15:53
only 31 he was buried in dominican robes
15:55
in the church next door Pico was one of
16:01
the great humanists of the Renaissance
16:03
he was born in 1462 and was obviously a
16:09
child prodigy in fact there is a story
16:11
surrounding his birth and that's when
16:14
his mother was giving birth to him a
16:15
circle of flame appeared over over the
16:17
over the bed his full name is Giovanni
16:20
Pico della Mirandola canta D Concordia
16:23
he's born into an aristocratic family
16:25
had all the social and political
16:27
advantages that anyone can could wish to
16:29
have and was also an immensely learned
16:32
person the age of 14 he went to belong
16:35
you studied canon law and gave that up
16:39
because he told more or less exhausted
16:41
it this is that friendship what he wants
16:45
us to do is enormous reading and it was
16:47
colossal was to to bring together all of
16:52
let's say pagan philosophy Greek
16:55
philosophy Plato and Aristotle and so on
16:56
and welded together with Christianity in
16:59
such a way that he would make
17:04
Christianity fit in as he were to that
17:06
tradition or at least make the pagan
17:07
philosophers fit in that they were no
17:09
longer Outsiders outside of the outside
17:12
of Christianity they would simply belong
17:14
together
17:15
Piko was only 24 when in 1486 he wrote a
17:19
thesis of 902 theological propositions
17:22
for debate with any intellectual jouster
17:25
in Christendom but a papal committee was
17:27
set up to investigate a sample of
17:29
thirteen points three were condemned as
17:32
heresy the other ten as potential heresy
17:35
the work was banned and pìkô fled to
17:39
France his introduction known as the
17:42
Eurasian on the dignity of man argued
17:45
man's divinity
17:47
the centerpiece of Renaissance
17:49
philosophy it attempts to locate man
17:52
within the scheme of things and I think
17:56
even for the standard of its time
17:58
possibly Pico had gone over-the-top
18:01
perhaps because he tended to not only
18:03
place man at the center of God's
18:04
creation but he made man are completely
18:07
as it were independent being man had
18:09
free choice over everything he did he
18:11
could as it were control his own destiny
18:14
at last it seems to me but I've come to
18:18
understand why man is the most fortunate
18:21
of creatures and consequently worthy of
18:24
all admiration and what precisely is
18:28
that rank which is his lot in the
18:31
universal chain of being the essential
18:34
text of the Eurasian is a quotation from
18:37
escape yost founded NAG Hammadi and in
18:41
the corpus Hermeticum there is nothing
18:43
to be seen more wonderful than man in
18:47
agreement with this opinion is the
18:49
saying of Hermes Trismegistus a great
18:51
miracle is chaos is man honor and
18:56
reverence to such a being because he
18:59
takes in the nature of a God as if he
19:02
were himself a god Hermes and later
19:06
pecos rejected the Christian tenet that
19:09
man was God's creature to say he was
19:13
divine was blasphemous and heretical but
19:16
it was the central evidence of the
19:18
spiritual shift from the medieval age to
19:21
the modern hero ourselves he's saying
19:24
really that man is man is the
19:25
culmination man is the tool of jewel in
19:27
the crown of nature and a net all
19:30
nature's subservient man it's there for
19:33
him to use and to do exactly what he
19:34
likes with
19:36
you
19:45
the Renaissance philosophers renewed
19:48
man's perennial attempts to locate
19:50
himself within the universe and not
19:52
merely to accept his destiny as random
19:55
it is this which makes the Renaissance
19:58
the third significant historical
20:00
instance of Gnosticism for Gnostics man
20:05
is got on earth and also for Pico that's
20:08
become true in the aeration
20:17
gnosis has always been judged a heresy
20:20
to the church Pico and the hermetic
20:23
philosophers are as heretical as the
20:25
authors and readers of the Gnostic
20:26
papyrus scriptures found in Egypt in
20:28
1945 Pico attempted to integrate all
20:32
previous wisdom Plato and Pythagoras
20:36
Zoroaster and Jewish Kabbalah to confirm
20:39
and fortify the Christian tradition not
20:42
for nothing as he called the quantity
20:44
Concordia and it's very important
20:45
because Pico took things like this very
20:47
seriously the whole business of
20:49
gathering things together and providing
20:51
a Concorde in which you would have a
20:53
whole was was quite important to him and
20:57
indeed to too much of the renascence
20:59
tradition
21:07
Plato writes that of all the theoretical
21:10
sciences and liberal arts the science of
21:13
computation is the chief and the most
21:15
divine likewise inquiring why is man
21:19
the wisest of animals the importance of
21:23
the oration is it is really an
21:25
affirmation of the dignity of man the
21:27
dignity resides his own actions will
21:31
determine his own eventual outcome
21:35
together with this was the great
21:37
optimism and which is expressed in picot
21:41
man's power to do anything the essence
21:45
of hermetic philosophy is gnostic man is
21:48
free to move up or down on the great
21:50
chain of being because he has knows the
21:52
divine spark of mind
22:00
reaching mouse is gnosis the aim of the
22:04
Hermitage is to unite the above and the
22:06
below the inner and the outer the known
22:09
and unknown the material and the
22:13
spiritual and to use his powers
22:19
what distinguishes him from the animals
22:22
and from the rest of the creation is his
22:25
own divine spark which if he develops or
22:30
develops the knowledge of how to
22:31
approach that spark can become as God
22:35
can in fact change the world as indeed
22:38
he has since Renee's Hung's times I
22:42
shall have the power to degenerate into
22:45
the lower forms of life which are
22:47
brutish thou shalt have the power after
22:51
thy Souls judgment to be reborn into the
22:55
higher forms which are divine
22:59
the hermetic philosophy departs from the
23:03
conception that there was a former ages
23:07
in unity between God and men and this
23:10
unity is lost and what the philosophy
23:14
aims at is to recover this unity this is
23:21
that peace which God creates in his
23:24
heavens which the angels descending to
23:28
earth proclaimed to men of goodwill that
23:31
through it men might ascend to heaven
23:35
and become angels contemplation of
23:37
nature looking to nature not with only
23:42
with scientific eyes but through nature
23:46
getting the idea behind major Trevor
23:52
seeds each man cultivates will grow to
23:57
maturity and bear in him their own fruit
24:00
if they be vegetative
24:04
it will be like a plant in the
24:08
inspiration you have a beautifully
24:09
eloquent spelled out statement of the
24:12
intermediary position of man man
24:14
consists of higher and lower potential
24:21
potentialities he set midway a little
24:23
lower than the Angels he loves to quote
24:26
from the Psalms they're a little lower
24:29
than the Angels a little higher than the
24:32
beasts where he will go whether he rises
24:37
to rejoin the one the source of all
24:42
being God or whether he descends and not
24:47
into a dante esque hell but the sentence
24:50
to a kind of state of material
24:52
brutishness depends on his own will the
24:56
aeration is has been described by you
24:59
genial garden the great italian
25:00
renaissance scholar as the manifesto of
25:04
the Renaissance
25:25
I have read in the records of the
25:29
Arabians Reverend fathers that Abdallah
25:32
the Saracen
25:33
when questioned is to what on this stage
25:35
of the world as it were could be seen to
25:37
be most worthy of wonder replied there
25:41
is nothing to be seen more wonderful
25:44
than man an agreement with this opinion
25:48
is the saying of Hermes Trismegistus a
25:51
great miracle Asclepius is man at last
25:57
it seems to me I have come to understand
25:59
why man is the most fortunate to
26:01
creatures and consequently worthy of all
26:03
admiration and what precisely is that
26:06
rank which is his lot in the universal
26:09
chain of being a rank to be envied not
26:12
only by brutes but Lind by the Stars and
26:14
by minds beyond this world the best of
26:19
artisans the creative powers a dressed
26:22
man thus the nature of all other beings
26:25
is limited and constrained within the
26:28
bounds of laws prescribed by us thou
26:32
constrained by no limits in accordance
26:36
with thine own free will in whose hand
26:37
we have placed thee thou shalt ordain
26:40
for thyself the limits of thy nature
26:44
thou shalt have the power to degenerate
26:46
into the lower forms of life which are
26:48
brutish thou shalt have the power out of
26:52
thy souls judgment to be reborn into the
26:54
higher forms which are divine
26:58
whatever scenes each man cultivates will
27:02
grow to maturity and bear in him their
27:04
own fruit if they be vegetative he will
27:08
be like a plant if of the senses he will
27:10
become brutish if intellectual he will
27:14
become an angel and the Son of God
27:15
if rational he will grow into a heavenly
27:18
being and if happy in the loss of no
27:21
created thing he withdraws into the
27:24
center of his own unity his spirit made
27:27
one with God in the solitary darkness of
27:31
God who is set above all things he shall
27:33
surpass them all so let a certain holy
27:38
ambition invade our souls so that not
27:43
content with the mediocre we shall pant
27:46
up to the highest and since we may if we
27:50
wish toil with all our strength to
27:53
obtain it full of divine power we shall
27:57
no longer be ourselves but shall become
28:01
he himself who made us for he who knows
28:06
himself in himself knows all things as
28:09
Zoroaster first wrote I have also
28:13
proposed theorems dealing with magic in
28:17
which I've indicated that magic has two
28:19
forms one of which depends entirely on
28:21
the work and authority of demons a thing
28:24
to be abhorred so help me the God of
28:25
truth and a monstrous thing the other
28:29
when it is rightly pursued is nothing
28:32
else than the utter perfection of
28:34
natural philosophy the former can claim
28:37
for itself the name of neither art nor
28:39
science or the latter abounding in the
28:43
loftiest mysteries embraces the deepest
28:46
contemplation of the most secret things
28:48
and at last the knowledge of all nature
28:51
as the farmer weds his binds to Elms so
28:55
does the Magus weds earth to heaven that
28:58
is he weds the lower things to the
29:01
endowments and powers of higher things
29:05
if all of this appears new and strange
29:08
to Reverend father's think on how the
29:10
Sphinx
29:11
is carved into the temples of the
29:13
Egyptians reminded them that the mystic
29:16
doctrine should be kept inviolable from
29:18
the common herd by means of the knots of
29:20
riddles the theologian Oregon asserts
29:24
that Jesus Christ the teacher of life
29:26
made many revelations to his disciples
29:28
which they were unwilling to write down
29:30
as they become common places to the
29:32
rabble this is in the highest degree
29:34
confirmed by dearness the Areopagus who
29:38
says that the occult mysteries were
29:40
conveyed by the founders of religion
29:42
from mind to mind without writing
29:45
through the medium of speech let us
29:49
consult the Apostle Paul the chosen
29:52
vessel when he himself was exalted to
29:54
the third heaven he will answer
29:57
according to the secret interpretations
29:59
of Dionysius that he saw the cherubim
30:02
being purified then being illuminated
30:05
and at last being made perfect when we
30:11
have been so soothingly called so kindly
30:15
urged we shall with winged feet fly up
30:19
like earthly mercury's to the embraces
30:23
of our Blessed Mother and enjoy that
30:25
wished for peace most holy peace
30:28
indivisible bond in one accord with the
30:33
friendship through which all rational
30:35
souls not only shall come into harmony
30:37
with the one mind which is above all
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minds but shall in some ineffable way
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become all together one
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this is that piece which God creates in
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his heavens which angels descending to
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earth proclaim to men of goodwill that
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through it men might ascend to heaven
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and become angels let us wish this peace
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for our friends for our century
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Oh
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50 r03 67 Gnostics program number three
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part to take 110 seconds
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this is that piece which God creates in
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his heavens which the angels descending
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to earth proclaimed to men of goodwill
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that through it they might ascend to
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heaven and become angels that has wished
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this piece for our friends century
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pecos optimism was ill-founded
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his oration the manifesto of the
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renaissance was never heard in public he
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and his fellow hermitage pursued their
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philosophy and their magic courting
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danger the church to which they were
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loyal silenced them and even burned
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Sarma's heretics for the third time in
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1,200 years Gnostics were suppressed
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no Christian Church has been able to
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tolerate Gnosticism for long and both
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the existence and identity of Gnostic
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thinkers has been concealed throughout
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the Christian era but the Gnostic pulse
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continued to beat not as a distinct form
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of religious practice but as a spiritual
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dimension of scholarship art and
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philosophy hermit ISM and gnosis United
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in magic remained controversial in
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England attacks on witchcraft expressed
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the superstitious fear that Magi had
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secret powers to affect spiritual
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changes in the cosmos the targets with a
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celebrated renaissance man whose
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scholarship knew almost no bounds like
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the English scholar linguist inventor
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and magician John Dee Dee was a hundred
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years on from the Medicis Renaissance
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man 2nd generation so to speak who
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really could operate
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he was a great mathematician he was a he
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attained he went to Cambridge and then
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to the University of Leuven and at the
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age of 23 gave mathematical discourses
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at the University of Paris which was so
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popular that people are standing in the
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windows he was a very brilliant man of
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his times he lived and they all lived in
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a very different world they really
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believed in and in a world of spirits
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and that the spirits could affect man
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and just as man could affect the world
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the most famous magician of d0 is in the
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work of Shakespeare the figure of
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Prospero may represent a disguised
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defense of the real scholars and
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magicians of the time discredited in a
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climate of fear and superstition The
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Tempest the son of Shakespeare's last
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plays and there was written in the time
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of James because James was very much
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obsessed with witchcraft and demonology
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so if Shakespeare was presenting D as
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Prospero he was in some way trying to
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reinstate the or reinstate the image of
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the hermetic philosopher ye elves of
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hills brooks standing lakes and groves
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you were on the sands with printless
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foot to chase the ebbing neptune and who
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fly him when he comes back you Jimmy
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puppets but by moonshine to the sour
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green ringlets make whereof the ewe not
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bites and whose delight it is to make
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midnight mushrooms that rejoice to hear
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the solemn curfew by whose a weak
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masters though he be I have burdened the
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noontide sun brought forth the newtonís
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winds and tricks the green sea in the
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asteroid vault set roaring war
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to the dread rattling Thunder Hirai
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given fire
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unlifted Jove's stout oak with his own
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bolt the strong bass progeny and I made
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shake and by the spurs product up the
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pine and cedar graves at my command of
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wikked asleep
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oh I let him fall
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by my soul ah
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The Magus Prospero summoned up a tempest
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but his magic powers can unite and
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pacify restoring harmony where worldly
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conflict has poisoned human relationship
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but this rough magic
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I hear up to but when I have required
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some heavenly music which even now I do
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to work mine end upon the senses that
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this era charm is for I'll bring my scar
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bury it certain fathoms in the earth and
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deeper the did ever plummet sound
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I'll drown my book
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prospero perhaps based on dr. D discards
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his magic weather because of its dangers
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or because harmony and hermetic gnosis
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have been achieved remains ambiguous our
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revels now are ended in the actors as I
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foretold only spirits and are melted
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into air into thin air which like the
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baseless fabric of the vision the
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cloud-capped towers the gorgeous palaces
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the solemn temples the great globe
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itself yea all but it inherit shall
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dissolve and like this insubstantial
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pageant faded leave not a rack behind we
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are such stuff as dreams are made on and
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our little life is rounded with a sleep
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since the fading of the Renaissance open
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manifestations of Gnosticism have been
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rare and intermittent its exponents have
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been scattered yet through almost five
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centuries of art literature and
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philosophy the inward pulse of gnosis
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has endured despite its inherent
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conflict with church dogmas and
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rationalist principles gnosis underlies
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alchemy and rejected the Age of Reason
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yet found exponents in the Romantic era
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the sixteenth century German shoemaker
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mystic Jakob Burma is claimed by some as
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a gnostic as is another german the poet
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Goethe who immortalized the magical
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legend of Faust advocates of the gnostic
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tradition argue for the gnostic
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inspiration of names as diverse as
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William Blake Karl Marx Rudolf Steiner
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Carl Jung and John Lennon
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you
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Oh
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according to the Dutch scholar professor
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gilles quispel gnosis is endured since
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the Renaissance as one of the three
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central pillars of European thought and
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spirituality gnosis is Surt element in
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the cultural pattern of Europe has
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always been there in antiquity in the
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Middle Ages and in modern times
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besides the reason and besides the face
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there has always been the awareness that
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imaginative thinking can be true and
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that the heart has its reasons which
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reason doesn't know
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Gareth Knight who has studied hermit ism
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and magic throughout history believes
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that hermetic gnosis will survive as a
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spiritual liberation from the rational
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world it's liberating from the trammels
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of too narrow a vision liberation from a
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materialistic vision which is causing us
43:05
to rape the earth of its resources in a
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scramble for goods which we don't know
43:15
how to deal with because still millions
43:18
starve in spite of all our technology
43:20
and the hermetic view is that we need to
43:27
look a little wider
43:37
give a 3-1 for start-up
43:47
pororo over
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the drive of life in itself always comes
43:55
from an infeasible spiritual level and I
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believe that technical world they
44:05
discovered the secret of the atom
44:07
businessman who runs both his life and
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his company on the principles of hermit
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ISM the concrete achievement of his
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materialistic vision is balanced by life
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spiritual dimension a human being can go
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in the same moments spiritual a material
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if he is really connected to his own
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inner center that is linked the center
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of the universe
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Friedman's company the Steyr corporation
45:05
is one of the world's three largest
45:06
producers of plastics for in-flight
45:09
airline catering the highly automated
45:11
Belgian factory produces 20 million
45:14
individual items each day for delivery
45:17
to airline kitchens around the world the
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factory shows for me the meaning of
45:23
communication that you are a human being
45:27
who serves the problems of the four
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corners of the world
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I believe that I can be very proud with
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600 million articles around me surfing
45:44
350 million people all over the world
45:47
and be in a daily contact these 250
45:50
Airlines the inner connection between
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this Factory and my library is the
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absolute possibility for a human being
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to deal with an impulse in the spiritual
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aspect and in a material aspect and I
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can say I shaved with my library was a
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main part in my life I shaved to be in
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contact with the spiritual influence of
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the past of the Gnostics you can say but
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also the spirituality of today but even
46:35
now the spirituality of the future
46:39
Whitman's private life and his personal
46:41
wealth have for 20 years been devoted to
46:44
building this library the bibliotheca
46:46
philosophica hermetica in Amsterdam the
46:50
world's largest private collection of
46:52
Gnostic hermetic and related manuscripts
46:55
and first editions the separate parts of
46:58
his life form a philosophical whole if
47:02
you will look to it in a superficial way
47:06
it looks a contradiction matter and
47:10
spirits but it isn't I see my library as
47:17
the library of the light and the best
47:20
thing is to communicate is to
47:22
communicate in the light the writers of
47:25
my library are well together in the
47:30
library in the same communication the
47:33
same principle of their absolute
47:37
relation to that inner impulse Pecos
47:43
oration on the dignity of man with its
47:45
emphasis on man's spiritual and material
47:47
powers in unison is
47:49
man's text for life Pico put the human
47:55
the commitment to hermit ISM imbues his
47:58
company philosophy his aim is to pass on
48:01
from the practicalities of business to
48:03
make contact with a neglected inner
48:05
dimension of human relationship there
48:11
are two ways where you can prove people
48:14
that there is a failure in life and with
48:18
the stair company I brought company to a
48:23
very successful level as I solved the
48:26
problems of my customers it is in a way
48:30
the same as in a spiritual aspect I
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think that with my library with the
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spiritual value that I created through
48:41
the wealth of my business life I brought
48:45
the same value but not as a material
48:48
product but you can say there's a
48:51
spiritual product no one working for
48:58
Redmon's company can fail to observe the
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influence of the Hermetic tradition
49:01
between the chairman's executive suite
49:04
and the corporate offices there stands a
49:07
specially commissioned temple to Hermes
49:09
in marble and bronze you see here God is
49:16
an infinite sphere whose centre is
49:20
everywhere
49:22
and his circle friends nowhere so to
49:28
give an answer to the question of man I
49:32
like to refer to pico de l'ennuì
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Ramallah who says
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Magnum miracle oh oh whoa ashed a great
49:44
miracle as creepiest is man
49:51
a great miracle last clip EOS
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you're strickman's plastics empire is
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not alone in uniting modern high-tech
50:09
industry with a gnostic spiritual vision
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in America's Silicon Valley that has
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existed for ten years our small but
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thriving gnostic church which uses
50:21
scriptures based on the texts from NAG
50:23
Hammadi and is led by a woman bishop
50:25
making me over corn the powers of their
50:28
console today the knowledge of the
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Gnostics is a self-knowledge the last
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program of this series will show that in
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the modern era which began with the
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Renaissance and the dignity of man the
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pulse of gnosis beats still yet remains
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a mystery
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ah
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you
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