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What is your favorite text outside of the bible?

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Living4Eden

Member
My favorite text outside of the bible is the gospel of mary. even though i disagree with gnostics teaching that God is evil, because surely God is majestic and amazing and awesome… but this gospel still rang true to me. I just got out of the psych ward after seeing various forms of nature, and then i read this

Jesus said

Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

31) That is why I said to you, Be of good courage, and if you are discouraged be encouraged in the presence of the different forms of nature.

32) He who has ears to hear, let him hear.


So.. what is your favorite text outside the bible and why? All are welcome, any text.. any religion.. anything really.

thanks!
 
sojourner

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Living4Eden said:
My favorite text outside of the bible is the gospel of mary. even though i disagree with gnostics teaching that God is evil, because surely God is majestic and amazing and awesome… but this gospel still rang true to me. I just got out of the psych ward after seeing various forms of nature, and then i read this

Jesus said

Matter gave birth to a passion that has no equal, which proceeded from something contrary to nature. Then there arises a disturbance in its whole body.

31) That is why I said to you, Be of good courage, and if you are discouraged be encouraged in the presence of the different forms of nature.

32) He who has ears to hear, let him hear.


So.. what is your favorite text outside the bible and why? All are welcome, any text.. any religion.. anything really.

thanks!
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I love Thomas, because I find it quite useful in establishing the veracity of Jesus quotations, in comparing Q material with non-Q material, and in helping to establish some dating parameters for the gospel texts.

I also love The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. I find his theology refreshing.
 
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Living4Eden

Member
i see your religion is celtic christian, i used to pray some pretty awesome celtic prayers…. awesome…

so you do acknowledge the divine feminine?
 
CynthiaCypher

CynthiaCypher

Well-Known Member
Principia Discordia or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate Of Malaclypse The Younger, Wherein is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.

Read it, Live it, Love it.
 
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Living4Eden

Member
CynthiaCypher said:
Principia Discordia or How I Found Goddess And What I Did To Her When I Found Her: The Magnum Opiate Of Malaclypse The Younger, Wherein is Explained Absolutely Everything Worth Knowing About Absolutely Anything.

Read it, Live it, Love it.
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thats the entire name of the book?

il have to look into that… i totally believe God has a wife

thus, Goddess…

but he's still God ;)

muhahah

sorry.
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
We talking any book that's not the Bible, or specifically Judeo-Christian literature that, for whatever reason, never made the canon?
 
Mycroft

Mycroft

Ministry of Serendipity
Proverbs 31:6
"Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish!"

Note: This is a contradiction to Judges 13:4 and Leviticus 10:9.
 
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CynthiaCypher

CynthiaCypher

Well-Known Member
Living4Eden said:
thats the entire name of the book?

il have to look into that… i totally believe God has a wife

thus, Goddess…

but he's still God ;)

muhahah

sorry.
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Yes that is the entire name of the Bible of the most feared religion known to humankind, a religion so feared that none here dare to speak it's name.
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
Living4Eden said:
any books… like kyballion, hindu texts, buddhist scripture.. whatever. whatever u found helpful in your journey :)
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Okay, then.

Hm....

To slightly modify something I've heard regarding art, if you have a favorite book, you haven't read enough books.

I am a Bard: a Storyteller. As far as I'm concerned, the Storyteller's Bible must include Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces and Aristotle's Poetics. I'm sure there's others, ancient and modern, that I haven't come across just yet.
 
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Living4Eden

Member
Riverwolf said:
Okay, then.

Hm....

To slightly modify something I've heard regarding art, if you have a favorite book, you haven't read enough books.

I am a Bard: a Storyteller. As far as I'm concerned, the Storyteller's Bible must include Joseph Campbell's Hero With A Thousand Faces and Aristotle's Poetics. I'm sure there's others, ancient and modern, that I haven't come across just yet.
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okay i need to do more productive things with my time until graduate school so I'm gonna get all these books to read thanks guys and gals

:D
 
Quintessence

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
I'd probably have to pick my own Book of Shadows, because it is basically a synthesis of a wide variety of sources that have inspired my path. And if I count the electronic version, it also has a complete archive of sacred texts in it.
 
jewscout

jewscout

Religious Zionist
"The Garden of Yearning" by Rabbi Shalom Arush, based on the teaching of Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
 
Vinayaka

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member
There's a large assumption in the title.

If I had to rank the scriptural books I've heard of, the Bible would be second last, only beating the Koran. The Vedas, Agamas, all the Buddhist books, and many more would all rank above those 2.
 
1137

1137

Here until I storm off again
Premium Member
I really enjoyed Crowley's "Magick Without Tears".
 
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