Jean Doresse > Quotes

“Whoever has this Gnosis...takes what is his and restores it to himself. By Gnosis, a man knows 'whence he has come and whither he is going.”
― Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion

“Salvation is represented here as the response to a Call coming from below, like an awakening out of deep sleep...”
― Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion

“The cosmic universe owed its development to the ignorance of the highest God, to anxiety, terror, and forgetfulness...”
― Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion

“When the former attains to the supreme moment, and when the seed springs forth, at that moment the woman receives the strength of the male, while the male receives the strength of woman...It is because of this that the mystery of carnal union is practiced in secret, so that the conjunction of natures should not be degraded through being seen of the multitude who would despise that work.”
― Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics: An Introduction to the Gnostic Coptic Manuscripts Discovered at Chenoboskion