…chemistry by which this transmutation can take place is concealed in the basic writings of such old masters as Vassilis Valentinus and Eugenius Philalicius. These new They realized that the great search for the golden lion, the powder of eternal projection,…

…palace of the king. It becomes the secret entrance to the cave of Zoroaster. And the story of the twelve keys of Basilus Valentinus. Now it is not common light with which we are concerned. But the essence of light. The mystery of that light which is…

…the Egyptian Gnosis tells us, was not the visible man, but the being above the man. Thus, in the Gnostic system of Valentinus, the being is called Anthropos, and the body is called Anthropos, the son of Anthropos. A peculiar term with which scholars have…

…discuss. now what is the perspective of Gnosticism not long ago on Sunday morning we gave a discussion of the Gnostic ideals of Valentinus therefore we will assume that many of you heard that we will digest it a little but try to cover the ground for…

…have descended to us, the Syrian under Simon Magus, the Egyptian under Thucydides, and the other Egyptian school under Valentinus, constitute only three of probably nearly a dozen branches. These represented again, however, a very peculiar level of thinking.…

…search for value which again produces within the individual a condition of integration or homogeneity of effort. And as the Gnostic Valentinus points out, the true experience of the good is most quickly tested by the fact that it produces the harmless…

…been his challenge. His challenge was not to conquer nature, but to release nature. As one of the great alchemists, Basilus Valentinus, said, the end of alchemy is man becoming the voluntary servant of nature. That nature must be obeyed, and that wisdom…

…nature to open her wonders reveal them without fear to the being who is without fault this is almost exactly the wording of Valentinus and it is the the idea the concept of man persuading man inducing the universe to give up its secrets And this secret…

…know there are a number of volumes and some of the early fathers included among the Christian documents the writings of Valentinus and Basilides the Gnostics of Alexandria they were quite justified in doing so and the recent discovery of the Gnostic library…

…the mystical aspects of the early church as found perhaps best in neoplatonism and in the doctrines of the Gnosis, of Valentinus and Basilides. These recognized a great chemistry, a kind of alchemy. And the alchemist had it. That was the transformation of…

…greatest informed are Lee Van Dyck, the alchemist, who was Reginald Lully. Another one highly proficient in skill was Nassimus Valentinus, both of St. Benedict. A third very highly efficient one was George Ripley, the English chemist. And then four equally…