Theos-Talk Archives (November 2004 Message tt00189)

Leon wrote, in part: <<But, I'm sure the 
original founders of those religions 
knew the esoteric metaphysical truths, 
but couldn't explain it's complexities 
to their unlettered congregations... So, 
they cooked up a personal God figure to 
cover their asses. >>

I'm tending to speculate that the 
gnostics might be seen to have some sort 
of collective, wiser handle 
(comparatively speaking, possibly, in 
some cases, I'm tending to speculate) 
on some of those "original 
founders/truths" (re Esoteric/Wisdom 
Tradition) judging by what I read in 
Elaine Pagels' THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS 
(comments/translations re the Nag 
Hamadhi find).

Speculatively,
Mauri