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In 1945 thirteen leather-bound papyrus codices were found at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, believed buried after 367 when St Athanasius declared anathema such non-canonical books.
Today, all but a few of the 52 treatises recovered are known as the Gnostic Gospels. Anathema or not, these ancient writings confirmed my own experience of spiritual-gnosis.
52 words, written for Sammi’s Weekend Challenge
crispina kemp 
You go girl! I could not for the life of me fluidly put that word to use. U nailed it! Nice job!!
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I thank you, Violet. It helped that I had recently read about them, though I’d already encountered their decidedly non-Christian, heretic teachings. They were banned for a reason.
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I had never even heard of it before. Schooled again, and loving it!
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My pleasure to extend your educations.
There is a misbelief that because the codices are referred to as Gospels, and indeed do mention Jesus, that they are Christain writings. Whle some amongst them might be, the bulk are not. Jesus is a god, while the Hebrew god is demoted to misguided upstart. Not something the Church wanted. 🙂
Yet the writings will gel with anyone into spiritual communion.
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Oh come on, Violet!
I know what you mean. Never ever has this word crossed my tongue.
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Am I some kind of freak? What it is, see, is traditional religion is anathema to me. 🙂
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Oh, I so agree with you… the word “anathema” however, just doesn’t do it for me 😉
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Okay, so I really am a freak. It is a word I do use. Maybe not everyday, but probably a dozen or so times a year. Um, maybe I overuse it? But there’s words that I seldom use. Dating and marriage come to mind;
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Kudos to you. Just hasn’t made it to my everyday lexicon.
Now, now, we’ll have no cussing here… 😂
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Don’t do cussing. Told you there’s words don’t reach my vocabulary. I might say: Shrig it! Or: Oh, fridge. But that’s about all.
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I’m teasing. I’m referring to the words dating and marriage as “cuss” words…
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You know, I am sometimes so slow ….
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Wasn’t an obvious thing… 😉
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You flatterer you
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I do my bestest 😉
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Indeed. …
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I have to admit that for me, eggplant is anathema.
But that’s a loose, informal use of the term. I admit I do not claim eggplant is accursed of God.
Well, at least not until I become one.
I’m still waiting.
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Somehow I don’t see you as an eggplant, no matter how long you wait. And while eggplant is anathems to, to me it is a God-sent blessing 🙂
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I was going to try for a clever comeback, but, no, said to myself, “Crispina owned me on that one. Just admit it, Brian. Sometimes you just can’t top the other person.”
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This is unusual, though, Brian. You have to admit it. 🙂
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Clearly, I have passed my mental peak, and am on the way to becoming a drooling, demented old man.
Or else maybe you were just clever.
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I am occasionally clever. Besides, I think I might be totally through that CFS?ME stuff now, and maybe my brain has fully (?) recovered from the encephalitis. Though I think not that cos I get horribly forgetful. But that could be age, stirring its nasty gnarly old fingers into my brain. If I cat it, I tell you, I’ll thrash it.
And I would not consider you any place near to being a drooling, demented old man. Not yet. Though we all are born to age … if we’re so fortunate to live so long.
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