About this episode
Cyd Ropp explores the Gnostic interpretation of Pentecost and the coming of the Holy Spirit as described in the Acts of the Apostles.
Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week I was listening to one of the radio preachers I like to listen to and I caught a sermon on the Pentecost, and I realized I had at that point a Gnostic insight that Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit, when it infused the disciples in the upper room—that is the coming of the Third Order of Powers released by the Christ after his resurrection—that the Third Order Powers are the “anointing of the Holy Spirit.” So quickly, let’s look at the Acts of the Apostles book out of the New Testament, Chapter 2, which is what we now call Pentecost. And when the day arrived that completed the fifty days after Passover, they were all gathered together in one place, and suddenly there came a noise, like a turbulent wind borne out of the sky, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared before them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest, one each upon each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them to utter. Now dwelling in Jerusalem, there were devout Judeans from every nation…
People in this episode
Host: Cyd Ropp
Topics covered
- Gnosticism
- Pentecost
- Holy Spirit
- Acts of the Apostles
- Spirituality
- Religious Insights
Keywords
- Gnosticism
- Pentecost
- Holy Spirit
- Acts of the Apostles
- spiritual insights
- religion
- Christianity
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Gnostic Insights, Gnostic Reformation
Books & works: Acts of the Apostles
Places: Jerusalem, Galilee
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