Did the Gnostics worship the Sacred Feminine?

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Dan Brown's 'The Da Vinci Code' - Did the Gnostics worship the Sacred Feminine?

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[RosaSionis]

Those who speak don't know and those who know don't speak.

[kmichael212]

Is it possible to to have a sect that doesn't worship that they write about in scripture?Why do we automatically assume that every sect in anciet times worshipped.Personally I believe the gnostics didn't worship anything but that doesn't stop people in modern times calling themselves gnostics and worshipping carved things.There own scripture suggests that they weren't worshippers,and didn't enjoy praying.

[agapeiron]

Speaking of "Gnosticism" as if it were a unified and singular entity is beyond erroneous. This is known by anyone who has ever looked into the matter historically. But historical knowledge and the majority of the followers of mainstream Christianity often find themselves conveniently at odds.

Centuries of being the hegemonic peddler of religiosity makes them view themselves as the only path. Now they squirm in mild perturbation; their sadistic Old Testament storm god is on the wane.

[rivv3tify]

There is also the theory that the author of John and the beloved disciple were actually the Magdalene. There are many ways to interpret that quote from Thomas. @babyface10725 You say that because someone taught you to. You don't really know. The Romans and the Jews were the ones accusing Jesus, yet their way to tame and present Christianity to the world is the one most widely accepted. It doesn't necessarily make it true. In fact, it's highly suspicious.

[babyface10725]

@Vergilius07

Thomas is a false book and so are the rest of the non-canonical books.

[ShahMashya]

Long live the Daughter! Father's First Thought!

[Vergilius07]

ow and by the way Thomas isnt a gnostic gospel, though people think that ! And there are indeed some passages who have a gnostic sense, but it is from the jerusalem-comunity, and there was an earler source, even lactatntius used it in his gospelharmonie diatesseron, he got passages wich could be only in Thomas, or the source of Thomas, and ass we know he wasnt a gnostic, but there are more cleu's there

[Vergilius07]

it is not that they actually do worship her, they revere her as the counterpole of the male, the sophia.the mysterium coniunctionis, the + & - , good and evil, the dissolve of poles to reach the incomprehensible, the incorruptible etc etc. But i think that most gnostics are wrong, and simply put the corpus hermeticum and plato's divinity lore, and mix it with Christ his parabels and deeds. Also there are multiple groups of gnosis in the 1 C. the Kathars didnt look like the 1 C gnostics