Teaser for 'The Apostolic Johannite Church' 07/10/2010

THE APOSTOLIC JOHANNITE CHURCH MAIN

Topics discussed this weekend:

--The esoteric and stormy atmosphere that gave birth to the Gnostic revival in the 19th Century, including the legacies of Bernard-Raymond Fabre-Palaprat and Julies Doniel.
--How the AJC interprets the sacraments, including the Eucharist.
--Understanding The Livitikon, including its paradoxically radical departure but loyalty to the soul of The Gospel of John.
--In a land of scarce Gnostic churches, how one can find them, become involved with even if it’s in the distance, or at least encounter a nearby Gnostic fellowship.
--Understanding the structure and principles of the AJC, an organization that has both very old and very modern beginnings.
--What exactly is the ‘valid but elicit’ stamp that the larger Christian denominations have given to the rising Gnostic churches who take the side of John  and Mary Magdalene instead of Peter.

And much more!!!


Our rebroadcast is Aeon Byte #71-- Gospel of the Second Coming with Timothy Freke, co-author of The Jesus Mysteries and The Gospel of the Second Coming. The Orthodox Church complained often that the Gnostics wrote a new Gospel every day. This ancient tool of gnosis has been forgotten for the most part, but there are leading Gnostics who are doing just that in an age of congealing literalism. Jesus has returned one last time and this is time he’s both Gnostic and funny. Not only that, Jesus realizes that he’s just a fiction character in a story just like you and I are fiction characters in a story written by a Divine Mind or perhaps a Mad God. The question is whether Jesus, with his sidekicks Peter and Mary Magdalene, can figure out the secrets of the cosmos in order to redeem humanity before the books closes once and for all on all of us. After all, ‘life is foreplay and death is coming’. 




Next week we finally tackle what could be the mother of all Gnostic epics—CG Jung’s Red Book.  It’s coming! And there is nobody better to do this than Dr. Stephan Hoeller, author of Gnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing, Jung and the Lost Gospels and Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society’.


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