From: "Kevin J. Maroney" <kmaroney@ungames.com>
Subject: Re: (urth) Re: Gnostic point of view [Digest urth.v030.n102]
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 13:53:18 

At 01:30 PM 5/1/01 -0400, John Bishop wrote:
>I think "Gnostic point of view" means the following:

Good summary, with one thing omitted: That every person contains within
himself (or herself) the spark of the divine breath. The point of "the
knowledge" and the self-abnegation is to allow that spark to rejoin the
greater God outside the created world. Direct contact with the divine is
both possible and difficult. 


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