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May 2013

May 21, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part III

As I discussed in the previous blog, that rather humorous passage about the Queen of...

May 16, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part II

At the end of Part I, I asked, Would the people in Jesus’ time have...

May 12, 2013

The Queen Who Is Hidden in the Gospels, Part I

I discovered Her by accident. Given my predilection for Goddesses since age 14, I obviously...

May 08, 2013

Grateful Thoughts for Peter Dybing

I am quite grateful for Peter Dybing’s praise for my writing in a comment he...

May 03, 2013

On Gnosticism, the Book of Shadows, and Sex

I received a few days ago my monthly statistical report from Patheos on how many...

April 2013

April 03, 2013

On Jesus as a Gnostic

Why write about him at all? Because, like it or not, he is the protagonist...

March 2013

March 29, 2013

On the Necessity of Awakening

I have settled on the term Awakening as the best label so far for this...

March 25, 2013

Knowledge Rather Than Faith

When the ecstasy hit, I gasped and looked up at the ceiling above my desk,...

March 06, 2013

A Request and Previews

A request for positive reviews of this blog, and some previews of upcoming posts.

February 2013

February 25, 2013

On Being Outside All the Boxes

Having been working (for a long time) on a novel about the same alternative universe...

February 20, 2013

“History” — Part III

Canon 15. Innocence: The Sorceress Blake told you and told you: you never heard....

February 19, 2013

“History” — Part II

[For an overview of this poem and its complete title, please see the previous blog.]...

January 2013

January 26, 2013

Imagine Jesus Holding Hands with the Goddess

One cannot talk about both Christianity and the Craft in the same breath IF if...

January 03, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part III

As followers of Kharpocrates, we celebrate our bodily pleasures, unlike the heretics, and teach our...

January 02, 2013

The Letter to Theophilus, Part II

Mark prayed to the Goddess Charis to drop her sacred blood into the cup that...

December 2012

December 31, 2012

The Letter to Theophilus, Part I

My dear Theophilus, all the brothers and sisters send you greetings in the name of...

December 30, 2012

Preview of “The Letter to Theophilus”

The "Gnostics" were radically dualistic and radically ascetic, but they were not the only variety...

December 26, 2012

Marvin Meyer, 1948-2012

Going looking for old friends on the Net and discovering that they have passed on...

December 25, 2012

The Gnostic Bible: A Review

I think it logically impossible for Rabbi Joshua (commonly known as Jesus) to have believed...

December 23, 2012

Taking Responsibility for Feelings

I see that an all-male court in Iowa has ruled that an employer can fire...

December 15, 2012

Of Blogging and Poetry

Now that I’ve been blogging for a few months, I have some opinions about it....

August 2012

August 02, 2012

Jesus, No, but Joshua’s a Different Story

A Pagan Almanac for August 1 & 2, 2012 Lunar Cycle: August 1 -- Fourth...

June 2012

June 28, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part IV: The Logical Consequences of the First Commandment

The “First Commandment” under discussion here is not that in the Decalogue, but the one...

June 27, 2012

Aphrodiphobia, Part III: Prolegomena to Some Theology About Sexuality

In the original essay that I am reworking in these blogs, at this point I...

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