Hello,
Elaine Pagels and Timothy Freke claimed that Christian Gnostic women enjoyed a far greater degree of social and ecclesiastical equality than their orthodox sisters.
However if that's the case what do you think about those verses?
1) "It was also a word for speaking and the perfection of the things of this sort. And it is these who took form with him, but according to the image of the Pleroma, having their fathers who are the ones who gave them life, each one being a copy of each one of the faces, which are forms of maleness, since they are not from the illness which is femaleness, but are from this one who already has left behind the sickness" (The Tripartite Tractate)
From Gnosis website ( I could not put the links I think I need 15 posts to do this)
2) "Flee from the madness and the bondage of femaleness and choose for yourselves the salvation of maleness" (Zostrianos)
From Gnosis website
3) "Matthew said, "'Pray in the place where there is no woman,' he tells us, meaning 'Destroy the works of womanhood,' not because there is any other manner of birth, but because they will cease giving birth" (Dialogue of the savior)
From Gnosis website.
4) "I am Christ, the Son of Man, the one from you who is among you. I am despised for your sake, in order that you yourselves may forget the difference. And do not become female, lest you give birth to evil and (its) brothers: jealousy and division, anger and wrath, fear and a divided heart, and empty, non-existent desire. But I am an ineffable mystery to you." (The second treatise of the Greath seth)
From gnosis website.
Elaine Pagels and Timothy Freke claimed that Christian Gnostic women enjoyed a far greater degree of social and ecclesiastical equality than their orthodox sisters.
However if that's the case what do you think about those verses?
1) "It was also a word for speaking and the perfection of the things of this sort. And it is these who took form with him, but according to the image of the Pleroma, having their fathers who are the ones who gave them life, each one being a copy of each one of the faces, which are forms of maleness, since they are not from the illness which is femaleness, but are from this one who already has left behind the sickness" (The Tripartite Tractate)
From Gnosis website ( I could not put the links I think I need 15 posts to do this)
2) "Flee from the madness and the bondage of femaleness and choose for yourselves the salvation of maleness" (Zostrianos)
From Gnosis website
3) "Matthew said, "'Pray in the place where there is no woman,' he tells us, meaning 'Destroy the works of womanhood,' not because there is any other manner of birth, but because they will cease giving birth" (Dialogue of the savior)
From Gnosis website.
4) "I am Christ, the Son of Man, the one from you who is among you. I am despised for your sake, in order that you yourselves may forget the difference. And do not become female, lest you give birth to evil and (its) brothers: jealousy and division, anger and wrath, fear and a divided heart, and empty, non-existent desire. But I am an ineffable mystery to you." (The second treatise of the Greath seth)
From gnosis website.
