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This is the book of the gnoses of the invisible God, by means of the hidden mysteries which show the way to the chosen race, leading in refreshment to the life of the Father - in the coming of the Savior , of the deliverer of souls who receive themselves the Word of life which is higher than all life - in the knowledge of the living Jesus, who has come forth through the Father from the aeon of light at the completion of the Pleroma - in the teaching, apart from which there is no other, which the living Jesus has taught to his apostles, saying: "This is the teaching in which dwells the whole knowledge." '''The living Jesus answered and said to his disciples: "Blessed is he who has crucified the world, and who has not the world to crucify him."''' The apostles answered with one voice, saying: "O Lord, teach us the way to crucify the world, that it may not crucify us, so that we are destroyed and loose our lives" The living Jesus answered: "He who has crucified it is he who has found my word and has fulfilled it according to the will of him who has sent me." |
This is the book of the gnoses of the invisible God, by means of the hidden mysteries which show the way to the chosen race, leading in refreshment to the life of the Father - in the coming of the Savior , of the deliverer of souls who receive themselves the Word of life which is higher than all life - in the knowledge of the living Jesus, who has come forth through the Father from the aeon of light at the completion of the Pleroma - in the teaching, apart from which there is no other, which the living Jesus has taught to his apostles, saying: "This is the teaching in which dwells the whole knowledge." '''The living Jesus answered and said to his disciples: "Blessed is he who has crucified the world, and who has not the world to crucify him."''' The apostles answered with one voice, saying: "O Lord, teach us the way to crucify the world, that it may not crucify us, so that we are destroyed and loose our lives" The living Jesus answered: "He who has crucified it is he who has found my word and has fulfilled it according to the will of him who has sent me."<ref>http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/jeu.html</ref> |
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The Books of Jeu are two gnostic texts considered part of the New Testament apocrypha. The earliest known copy is written in Coptic, and appears as part of the Bruce Codex.
One of the unusual features of the Books of Jeu are that they predominantly consist of mystic incantations and similarly esoteric diagrams, often including concentric circles and squares. Like much of gnostic teaching, it was only designed to be understood once a certain level of understanding was reached, and so appears to the casual observer to be quite obscure as to its meaning or purpose. The text has only been known for a brief time, and so there is not much academic research into them, however it does appear to be the case that the texts are some sort of manual for one or more unknown gnostic ritual(s).
Crucifixion of Jesus
According to the author of the book Jesus was not crucified.
Chapter 1
This is the book of the gnoses of the invisible God, by means of the hidden mysteries which show the way to the chosen race, leading in refreshment to the life of the Father - in the coming of the Savior , of the deliverer of souls who receive themselves the Word of life which is higher than all life - in the knowledge of the living Jesus, who has come forth through the Father from the aeon of light at the completion of the Pleroma - in the teaching, apart from which there is no other, which the living Jesus has taught to his apostles, saying: "This is the teaching in which dwells the whole knowledge." The living Jesus answered and said to his disciples: "Blessed is he who has crucified the world, and who has not the world to crucify him." The apostles answered with one voice, saying: "O Lord, teach us the way to crucify the world, that it may not crucify us, so that we are destroyed and loose our lives" The living Jesus answered: "He who has crucified it is he who has found my word and has fulfilled it according to the will of him who has sent me."[1]