Greco-Christian stream·Pistis Sophia·First Book — Post-Resurrection Discourses·Chapter 22
Philip questioneth Jesus
Philip questioneth Jesus
Source context
- Theme
- post-resurrection transmission of Gnostic teaching within the Christ-disciples dialogue
Steiner
not engaged in the GA corpus
Cross-tradition
- Valentinian GnosticismValentinian and Basilidean schools structured post-resurrection discourse as the privileged vehicle for pneumatic gnosis, distinguishing initiatic knowledge transmitted after the resurrection from exoteric teaching given before it.
- Mandaean / Nazarene GnosticismThe Codex Nazaraeus preserves a structurally parallel form in which the ferho — highest creative power — is disclosed through graduated post-mortem or post-resurrection revelatory speech, showing cross-tradition congruence with the dialogue genre of this chapter's stream.
Chapter 22
CHAPTER 22
Philip questioneth Jesus.It came to pass then, when Jesus had finished saying these words, while Philip sat and wrote all the words that Jesus spake,--thereafter then it came to pass that Philip came forward, fell down and adored the feet of Jesus, saying: "My Lord and Saviour, grant me authority to discourse before thee and to question thee on this word, before thou discoursest with us concerning the regions whither thou didst go because of thy ministry."
And the compassionate Saviour answered and said unto Philip: "Authority is given thee to bring forward the word which thou willest."
And Philip answered and said unto Jesus: "My Lord, on account of what mystery hast thou changed the binding of the rulers and their æons and their Fate and their sphere and all their regions, and made them confounded in confusion on their path and deluded in their course? Hast thou then done this unto them for the salvation of the world or hast thou not?"