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The Gnostic Apostle Thomas:"Twin" of Jesus

Knowing Oneself

The Gnostic Apostle Thomas: Notes, Chapter 25

Book of Thomas the Contender
Schenke, H. M. (Einar Thomassen, Eng. trans.) NTA-1991, vol. 1, 232-47.
Turner, John D. (1) The Book of Thomas the Contender ( l975)
(2) NHL [Nag Hammadi Library ] 199-207.

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Parable of mustard seed
Matthew 13:31-32;
Mark 4:30-31;
Luke 13:19.

Myth of mustard seed in Hippolytus
Philosophumena Trans. F. Legge ( l92l) vol. 2, 67.

Kabbalistic connection
Moshe Idel, Kabbalah: New Perspectives (1988) 112-28.

Monoimos
Hippolytus, vol. 2, 106-11.

Plotinus
Enneads VI.9.7.33-4, Lloyd P. Gerson, Plotinus (1994) 289, fn. 12.[ "he who has learnt to know himself will know from whence he comes."]
Jung, Collected Works , vol. ix, Part l, 222.

Hippolytus on Basilides
Hippolytus vol. 2 ,107-8.

"For verily I say. . . ."
Matthew 5: 18 (King James Version)

Archbishop Ussher
R. B. Knox, James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (1967) 105.

Paul Davies
The Mind of God (1992) 232.
Nature vol. 358 (23 July (1992) 277,
Eugnostos the Blessed and The Sophia of Jesus Christ . Douglas M. Parrott, NHL, 220- 43.

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