... the Idea. But this Vijnana is intuitional or rather gnostic Idea, 2 not intellectual Page 71 conception. The difference is that intellectual conception not only tends towards form, but determines itself in the form of the idea and once determined distinguishes itself sharply from other conceptions. But pure intuitional or gnostic Idea sees itself in the Being as well as in the Becoming ...
... early Christian literature____Yet there is a Gnostic or incipiently Gnostic flavor to many of them. Probably The Gospel of Thomas is a composite work, binding together genuine sayings of Jesus, canonical and non-canonical, with sayings invented in Gnostic circles." Everything indicates a fore-gleam, in Paul's days, of later Gnostic ideas. There could very well have been an anticipation... terms [cf. l:26ff]... Some see this as evidence of the Gnostic character of Paul's opponents in Corinth. The terms filled, rich, kings and rule, can be paralleled in later writings by avowed Gnostics.....If this is not full-blown Gnosticism, it is certainly the intellectual climate within which Gnosticism could spring up.....In the 'gnostic' view of things, the terms would mean that those who... the following apropos of one of the objections: "The 'Gnostic' nature of the heresy [countered by Paul in Colossians], since Gnosticism is, in its development, a 2nd-century phenomenon." Then the Commentary adds apropos of it: "However, most scholars agree that Colossians is directed against an incipient form of Gnosticism, or Proto-Gnosticism, which is at home in a lst-century setting." Assuming ...
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