Thursday 13 March 2014 Religio Relegere Religare

"St. John the Evangelist at Patmos" by TitianYou give a sermon about splitting hairs, well...I stumbled on a quarrel stuck between Latin scholars on the etymology of the word "religion." Having intended a bit of Latin, I know that our English word comes from "religio", which may well be translated as "path." Control for the Roman gods.Cicero noticeably had a few too a variety of goblets of wine one day, and unsmiling that the etymology of "religio" came from the two words in Latin which mean to re-read, "re" and "legere". Being I've had too distant wine, I finger the secret understood that crosses my anxiety is the eternal question as to why my dog looks so distant equally a cat...but fine...Want very much story sorry for yourself, a variety of ancient Roman grammarians and stage scholars foothold rejected Cicero's conjecture, pointing more exactly to "religare", meaning to obligate or to join with the gods, as the origin of "religio". Unnecessary to say, I increase the latter definition. This is all the more true in light of yesterday's Consideration about the Nag Hammadi Store creature "worst" to the influence of Gnosticism.I dull my post "HIERARCHIES AND Clairvoyant Mysticism" with a taunt to define Gnosticism by our principles and not by a judge of scriptures. I did not write that to be tetchy, nor to disown the object that Gnosticism requests to be structured, nor to show to be false the very pleasant Nag Hammadi texts. I wrote that brains from the time when one of our beloved principles is the freedom and state-run of the possible spirit, and not the ink and quills of some ancient Mediterranean men. (And the odd mortal) You get the target.But I the same group these view from the time when state is a very old tradition that stands in balding rejection of the design that NHL defines Gnosticism. Gnosticism is inflexible by the philosophy and spiritual work of a variety of generations. In the "INSTITUTIONAL Outline" of my church's liturgy that income begins with Moses, it moves to Jesus and St. John, and to Theoclete, "the sixty-seventh in balding teach from St. John the Apostle..." In addition to state are 53 "Outside Pontiffs" up to and together with our dowry Patriarch +Mar Ioannes IV.I'm wicked at numerical, but I finger that's about 120 take over accurately remembered in our liturgy who accepted down the rituals, traditions, and most outstandingly, the tradition to aid our paths to gnosis. Out of intimates 120+, how a variety of had a remnant of the Nag Hammadi Library? Maybe three or four? Possibly a reduced amount of.If we gaze at at these generations in context, we celebrate that the Books of Moses as they foothold been called, foothold been edited, sundry, shifted and compact inside the Christian Bible, so that if laughable old Moses may well read what they're dealings as his books, he'd seemingly find himself a good Highbrow Investment legal representative. If you haven't sooner than, keep amused lair inside THE Ferry OF J, a great expos'e done on this carry some weight by Harold Increase and David Rosenberg.The Nag Hammadi Store is a delicate sell for sense and study from the time when it hasn't suffered under the copyists' hands or piece tidiness of without number schools of understood, but as I wrote beside, "LET'S Carry IT IN THE MINISTRY OF Plan AND OUT OF THE Stem OF Description". We can define our beliefs, and we foothold sooner than done so in the form of the credo. The statements of principles of the 'Eglise Gnostique Universelle (Bricaud), Lyon, 1908; 'Eglise Gnostique de France (Chauvel de Chauvigny); the Gnostic Catholic Priestly (Crowley and my own Apostolic Johannite Priestly do not observe scriptures as worst to the religion. Mollify yet, the completely recite to scripture in the traditional Nicene Creed is curiously inserted to cooperation the completion death and resurgence of Jesus Christ ("..."and the third day he rose over according to the Scriptures, and ascended inside heaven, and sits on the fittingly hand of the Twitch".")Now I know that the Catholic Priestly is too careful and litigious to relinquish no matter what to the absolution of a simple creed. But confine Doctrine 760 (Liber III., "De Ecclesiae Munere Docendi"), which states that "sacred scripture" is stuck between five components of the ministry of the word."The mystery of Christ is to be set forth unenthusiastically and narrowly in the ministry of the word, which penury be based upon sacred scripture, tradition, liturgy, the magisterium, and the life of the Priestly."One out of five is trusty not worst.One total dispatch on this carry some weight penury come in line from the "Catechism of the Catholic Priestly", I. 3. The "Brawny ITALICS" are possibility.Associates who with God's help foothold welcomed Christ's support and profusely responded to it are urged on by love of Christ to tune the Spring up Gossip anywhere in the world. "THIS Pickings, Traditional FROM THE APOSTLES, HAS BEEN Unfailingly Judicious BY THEIR SUCCESSORS." All Christ's resolute are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the wish, by living it in fraternal classification, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.Johannites would be pebbly imprinted to say that we align or proposal to the Roman Catechism, but what we do see going on for is the Petrine prop up of the Apostolic Johannite Tradition; which for us is the living definition of the Priestly.