Tag: Clement of Alexandria

Initiatory paths in Christian gnosis: the mosaic floor of Aquileia and the Pistis Sophia

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Was original Christianity, Judeo-Christianity or Essene-Christianity, that doctrine that Christ handed over to his "pneumatic brother" James, a teaching that Renรฉ Guรฉnon saw impenetrably wrapped in the most discreet reserve, was it a gnosis? We can answer affirmatively by examining the representations of the large mosaic carpet inspired by Judeo-Christian themes present in the cathedral of Aquileia. Their peculiar iconography provides much more than a clue to support this thesis.

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The cosmological meaning of the laughter of the gods: on the myth of Baubรฒ and its surroundings

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Emerging from every corner of the globe, the mythology of divine laughter hides an ancestral and terrible secret. Why should we make the worried gods laugh? From Demeter to Amaterasu, the answer points once again to time and cosmic palingenesis.

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The Logos and the knowledge of God in Clement of Alexandria's Neoplatonism

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In the "Stromateis", written in the third century, Clement of Alexandria establishes a deeper analogy between the truth-Logos, coeternal and coextensive with God, and the cosmic aeon, aiศn, which gathers in itself present, future and past: to the temporal scan , a typical expression of creation, the articulation of the parts of the cosmos is connected; thus "he who reassembles the different parts and reunites them will safely contemplate [...] the Logos in his perfection, that is, the truth".

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