What do you think of this?

[Photini]

Rastas great prophet was Bob Marley, the undisputed king of reggae, who also followed Salassie into the Church just months prior to his untimely death in 1981.

Do you know if there are any pictures from his funeral on any website? He had an Orthodox funeral.

 

[pnotc]

I think the phrases "light, sound and vibration" and that about the earth being "material and dense" grabbed my attention. My recollection is that many of the early gnostics, who saw creation as kind of like rings radiating outward, like waves from a rock thrown in a pond, included creations of vibration and the like. I'm trying to decide if I'm interested enough to go hunt up all that stuff.

Iacobus-

No, you are correct. The gnostics were anti-materialist and spoke of creation in progressive emanations or aeons. While it does have gnostic overtones, the first phrase is what really makes it non-gnostic. Gnostics believed that creation was performed by the inferior God of the Old Testament and that Jesus was an emissary from the true God of the universe which would actually not have sullied itself with material creation. The "cosmic birther" thing actually sounds a lot like some of the Mesopotamian religions that existed in the OT period. There was a fairly uniform belief in those systems that our world was produced by the gods in a process very similar to birth. -- Hey, my professor was good for something at least! :o