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Post by phantasman on Aug 12, 2014 15:12:43 GMT -5
Not much information on this Apostle who was one of the seventy. But the scripture book bearing his name is quite interesting. Speaking of explaining the mind and it's relationship to the soul.
"O soul, persistent one, be sober and shake off your drunkenness, which is the work of ignorance. If you persist and live in the body, you dwell in rusticity. When you entered into a bodily birth, you were begotten. Come into being inside the bridal chamber! Be illuminated in mind!"
I take "come into being" as the same as quickening. And he goes more into depth of "bridal chamber" like Philip does.
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Post by Soulgazer on Aug 12, 2014 17:37:15 GMT -5
Sylvanus is jam packed with awakened goodness.
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Post by xpistissopheiax on Aug 13, 2014 0:14:57 GMT -5
Not sure if I've gone through this one. I'm going to have to give it a good look  |
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Post by phantasman on Aug 13, 2014 5:27:20 GMT -5
I find this book very informative on a yet an additional concept to understanding spiritual things. Reason. He uses the word a lot, that it isn't just the mind, but also reason.
Oh wretched man, what will you do if you fall into their hands? Protect yourself, lest you be delivered into the hands of your enemies. Entrust yourself to this pair of friends, reason and mind, and no one will be victorious over you. May God dwell in your camp, may his Spirit protect your gates, and may the mind of Divinity protect the walls. Let holy reason become a torch in your mind, burning the wood which is the whole of sin.
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Live with Christ and he will save you. For he is the true light and the sun of life. For just as the sun which is visible and makes light for the eyes of the flesh, so Christ illuminates every mind and the heart. For (if) a wicked man (who is) in the body (has) an evil death, how much more so (does) he who has his mind blind. For every blind man goes along in such a way that he is seen just as one who does not have his mind sane. He does not delight in acquiring the light of Christ, which is reason.
I'm trying to zero in on what he means by reason.
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Post by phantasman on Aug 13, 2014 5:27:53 GMT -5
Double post.
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Post by Soulgazer on Aug 13, 2014 7:57:45 GMT -5
This was the golden age of philosophy.
My favorite sylvanus quote My son, accept the education and the teaching. Do not flee from the education and the teaching, but when you are taught, accept (it) with joy. And if you are educated in any matter, do what is good. You will plait a crown of education by your guiding principle. Put on the holy teaching like a robe. Make yourself noble-minded through good conduct. Obtain the austerity of good discipline. Judge yourself like a wise judge. Do not go astray from my teaching, and do not acquire ignorance, lest you lead your people astray. Do not flee from the divine and the teaching which are within you, for he who is teaching you loves you very much. For he shall bequeath to you a worthy austerity. Cast out the animal nature which is within you, and do not allow base thought to enter you. For ... you know the way which I teach.
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