Theos-Talk Archives (October 2003 Message tt00319)

A quote attributed to Jesus in Pistis Sophia 
(sp?), after translation to English: 
<<"Behold, I have put on my garment and all 
authority is given to me through the First 
Mystery. >>

Quoting from (Chapter 9):

http://www.gnosis.org/library/psoph.htm

One might wonder (?) how Jesus might've "more 
specifically" defined "garment" (among other 
things?) in whatever context the word was 
intended to be (possibly?) understood, 
considered, speculated about, etc, at the 
time, by his followers, disciples, students.

Not that I'm in any kind of position to make 
any kind of "educated guess" about that, but 
I thought it might be interesting to think 
about what might have some sort of relevance, 
however indirectly, to some kind of 
contextual meaning of that word "garment" 
(ie, as per my informal, simpler, less 
circular, less modified wording and 
theorizing that might be, I'm hoping, in 
keeping with my attepts to turn over some 
kind of new leaf, for some people, not that I 
necessarily have anything much more 
"comprehensive" to offer, "ANYWAY," I 
suspect). So I wondered if "garment" in that 
context might have something to do with such 
things as perspective by way of 
interpretive/apparent "karmic options" and 
possibilities that might be seen as modelled 
or "garmented/materialized/exoterized" within 
the medium and constraints of "essential 
duality," or something like that, maybe ... 
^:-/ ... Or, (in somewhat "simpler terms," 
maybe?) maybe one might be "more inclined," 
(per whatever interpretive/karmic tendency, 
possibly ...) to "prefer the view" that 
"garment" was "just a reference" (say ...) to 
some sort of reorganization of some kind of 
humanistic bodily physicality/medium, in 
whatever "more spiritual" terms (seeing as 
Jesus was said to have said all that after 
his passing on the cross, apparently ...). 
As for the "facts" in the matter ... What can 
I say ... (ie, I think I already said some of 
what I seem to think I "can" say 
"speculatively").

Speculatively,
Mauri