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The Gospel of Phillip is one of the texts of the New Testament apocrypha. In a similar manner to the Gospel of Thomas, it is a sayings gospel, a collection of wise sayings, purpotedly of Jesus. In the process of determining the Biblical canon, a large number of works were excluded from the New Testament. ...
The Gospel of Thomas, completely preserved in a papyrus Coptic manuscript discovered in 1945 at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, is a list of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. ...
In the case of the Gospel of Philip, the sayings are presented more purely than in the Gospel of Thomas, since they have no framing text, the gospel is literally one saying followed by another. Other than the text's introduction and title, there is no reason to assume they have anything to do with Jesus.
Many of the sayings are identifiably gnostic, and often appear quite mysterious and enigmatic: Gnosticism is a blanket term for various religions and sects most prominent in the first few centuries A.D. General characteristics The word gnosticism comes from the Greek word for knowledge, gnosis (γνῶσις), referring to the idea that there is special, hidden mysticism (esoteric knowledge) that only a few possess. ...
- Blessed is he who is before he came into being. For he who is, has been and shall be.
- Echamoth is one thing and Echmoth, another. Echamoth is Wisdom simply, but Echmoth is the Wisdom of death, which is the one who knows death, which is called "the little Wisdom".
- Those who say they will die first and then rise are in error. If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will receive nothing.
- Jesus came to crucify the world.
One in particular appears to identify the levels of initiation in gnosticism, although what exactly the bridal chamber represented in gnostic thought is currently a matter of great debate. - The Lord did everything in a mystery, a baptism and a chrism and a eucharist and a redemption and a bridal chamber. - Gospel of Phillip
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