" Always seek mutual consent with one another ... "
" ... Focus your mind on the Virtues of ' The Most High Father '; which are, Oneness, Aloneness, Tranquillity, and Absolute Goodness ... "
A GLOSSARY OF GNOSTIC TERMS
- The Gnostic Glossary is divided into FOUR sections: A-F / G-L / M-R / S-Z.
- To access an entry, click on a term ('Aeons') or scroll down.
- For consistency and easy comparison, certain standard terms have been used in the explanations
(and inserted in parentheses in the quotations). These standard terms are:
- The One - for God, Father, Parent, Root etc.
- The saviour - for the Son, Christ, Word, Autogenes, Seth etc.
- Sophia - for Wisdom, Achamoth, Pistis etc.
- The Elect - for the Gnostics, Pneumatics, Chosen ones, sons of Seth etc.
- All quotations are from the standard translations of the Nag Hammadi texts, unless otherwise noted.
- All square and pointed brackets (which indicate lacuna and corrected omissions in the standard translations) have been removed.
- Parentheses are used for the addition of standard terms.
- Only the title of the text is given as a reference. On some occasions, the standard page and line numbers are added.
- The source of the quotation may be found by copying it and doing an on-line search at the Nag Hammadi Library complements of Gnosis.org.
- SAVIOUR
- SEAL
- SECRET
- SEED
- SETH
- SEXUAL INTERCOURSE
- SILENCE
- SIMILARITY AND DIFFERENCE
- SOPHIA
- SLAVE
- SLEEP
- SMALL AND LARGE
- SOUL
- SPARK See SPIRIT
- SPIRIT
- TO STAND (AT REST)
- SRANGER
- SUBSTITUTION
- SWEET
- SYZYGY - See CONSORT, ANDROGYNE
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- TEARS
- THREE TIMES - See THRICE
- THREE TYPES OF HUMANS
- THRICE
- TREASURE HOUSE - See AEONS
- TRINITY
- TRIPLE - See THRICE
- TWIN
- TYPE - See IMAGE
------ U V W ------
- UPPER AEONS - See AEONS
- VEIL
- VIRGIN
- WATER
------- XYZ -------
- YALTABAOTH
' The website's author added links to the original text references stated as "see". '
" The Logos-Wisdomis the principle of all Divine and Esoteric Revelations. She has the characteristics of being the indwelling revealer of God. She ISthe active principle and the transmitter of all Divine knowledge as well as the cosmological cause of all Creation. "
Luke 6:31(NIV); " Do to others as you would have them do to you. " ...