GNOSTIC COMMENTARY ON LUKE
Modified. Originally published in 2017.
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“I baptize you with water (υδορ), but (…) he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost (Paraklêtos) and with fire (pyro or πῦρ)”
LUKE 3:16
Iaonnes baptizes Iesous with water. Iesous will baptize you with the FIRE, but this fire is the higher knowledge, or gnosis. The word of Alaha (Alah) was upon Iochanan bar Zacharia in the Desert, and he came into all the region about the Jordan, proclaiming the Baptism of Repentance for the forgiveness of sins. — Luke, iii. 2, 3, Syriac. Progenies viperarum, quis monstravit vobis fugere a futura ira. — Ioan; Matthew, iii. 7. Having put on a mortal form I entered Jerusalem and speaking with my voice I held meetings, …curing the sick, and when they had gone into the Jordan, I baptized them. — Codex Nasaraeus, II. 301. I indeed baptize you with water unto Repentance; but He that comes after me is more powerful than I. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with Fire! His winnowing shovel is in his hand and He makes clean his threshing-floor. The wheat He will gather into his Storehouse: and the chaff He will burn with Fire not extinguished. — Matthew, iii. 11-12; Luke, iii. 16; Sōd: the Son of the Man, xxiv.
THE MEANING OF FIRE IN BAPTISM
Is it the FIRE on Mount Sinai in the Mosaic account? PYRO or πῦρ, the intelligible fire of the Ionian school? In the theology of Proclus, the fire is the first principle in “Creation,” and this “Fire Beyond” was in its paternity intellectual and thus Mind. Its triadic power (δυναμις) was diffused through Matter. It was taught that the DEITY is reached through MIND and is nourished by its own power.
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