The Only Illustrated Ancient Gnostic Manual of Mystical Ascent After Death - The Two Books of Jeu
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- čas přidán 23. 03. 2023
- Interest in Gnosticism and Gnostic texts has exploded since the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library. However, Gnostic Scriptures began to be discovered as early the 18th century. In 1769, a Gnostic codex came to light that combined ancient mystical ascent literature, gnostic cosmological speculation of the lower Aeons and celestial "Treasuries of Light," along with the quasi-magical rituals, baptisms, ciphers and seals to ascend into the realm of Light. These two incredibly complex volumes are now known to scholars as the Books of Jeu, after the Demiurge of the text, and are not only the most complete and complex manuals of ritual ascent but also the only illustrated Gnostic texts from antiquity. Join me as I explore one of the most complex and yet understudied texts of ancient Gnosticism - the 2 Books of Jeu.
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Bodleian Library MS. Bruce 96 - digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/obj...
Crégheur E. - Les «deux Livres de Iéou» (MS Bruce 96, 1-3) - 9789042932791
Schmidt - The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex - 978-9004057548
Evans - The Books of Jeu and the Pistis Sophia as Handbooks to Eternity - 978-9004284463
Lambdin - Introduction to Sahidic Coptic - 978-0865540484
DeConick (ed.) - Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature - 978-9004256293
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I've been trying to get the Evans and it appears to be out of print. Jesse
I truly respect what you do on your channel and I value your thoughts that you express on the many subjects.... a light shining on so many perspectives. So.. with that said, what are your thoughts and opinions about the Nag Hammadi library and the Dead Sea Scrolls being written fairly recently compared to what we are told? (Mainly based on the language it was written in.)
Alright game designers - who wants to make a puzzle based on this? Hmu!
I can't be the only one who thought of Shin Megami Tensei during the segment about treasuries
Myst meets The Backrooms. It'll be a cult classic.
Not a gamer but I can't help but think that a role playing system based around souls attempting to ascend would be...oh goodness it would be a headache. But nice art I'm sure.
@@CelestialDung I mean that's part of Bloodborne
@@CelestialDung Divinity: original sins 2 has this plot.
How is it possible that I have only just realized how deeply funny you are? I’ve come for the enlightenment, but will definitely stay for the giggles. Thanks for all you do!
His humor makes such deep and intimidating material feel a little less overwhelming, huh? I also appreciate his inclusiveness of a wide range of ancient texts and topics.
He’s hilarious lol
Intelligent people are always funny.
"Now let's turn to the books of Jeu." Who, me? Nope, didn't skip the baptisms. In fact, I again noticed how much your presentation has improved over the years, which isn't to say that there really was a need for improvement, just that your content simply keeps getting better and better. Thanks and all the best to you, good doctor.
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im afraid of the water! and avoid the wine, but got plenty of oil and its divine.
This part of the Mysteries seems so interesting ⚔
"Jesus, what's the next cypher?? Jesus, please tell me the next cypher!!" - couldn't stop laughing at that one, so perfect! 😂
I'm for real - Books of Jeu are the machine code of reality.
Sounds like Jesus had a really sick game of Dungeons and Dragon with his Apostles and someone took really detailed notes
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Thank you kindly sir for keeping such content free and accessible to all. 🙏
My fav thing is your dry wit. You get me everytime.
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Dr sledgehammer putting in that work for us again! Teaching us profane plebians about the sacred without offering up any kool-aid in the process.
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I always love what I learn here, but over and beyond that I have to say I always appreciate the humor. It really makes the experience human.
What masterful coverage of so underated Gnostic texts. I'm just blown away, Dr Sledge. I will have to watch this 10x more, once is not enough.
Thank you for the term “shaman Jesus” and laying out this knowledge like a final fantasy journey to the crystal kingdom. You are a gift.
Your timing on posting this compared to where my studies have taken me this week is uncanny. Thank you so much for all you do, I've been loving your channel for a while here, and you truly are doing the great work for humanity!!
I'm always captivated by your videos, Dr. Sledge. My eyes are glued to the screen as soon as you start talking. I've been studying arcane and esoteric texts ever since I was exposed to the Greek Magical Papyri a few years ago when I was an undergraduate. To this day, it blows my mind just how much ancient literature like this is out there, how much of it is largely inaccessible to a wider audience - and how much, perhaps, still lays dormant, just waiting to be unearthed, translated, and disseminated. Your analyses serve not only to democratize this knowledge, but you provide a certain humor and candor to your observations which make for an enjoyable and lucid discussion on the contents and implications of otherwise nebulous and torturously impenetrable bodies of literature.
Plus, anyone who provides sources in the video description is a good egg in my book.
Thank you for tackling the books of Jeu. Looking forward to the eventual Pistis Sophia episode. ;) The "untitled text" in the Bruce Codex is a wonderful piece of gnostic cosmology. There are, at least 3, that I am aware of, translations.
The untitled text is interesting but very resistant to summary because it's kinda a summary
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I'm really loving the channel. This is the video that convinced me to become a patron. Keep up the amazing work. You've joined my pantheon of entertaining academic CZcams creators!
That phrase to not sell the secrets is in almost every rite of freemasonry.
Watching you narrate makes me feel like less of a history nerd. Always enjoy your videos and many thanks.
Wonderful episode! thank you for making t his kind of information more available! truly a follow through on your stated intentions for this channel! As A christian myself I find studying subjects related to early Christian history hard to access and difficult to orient one's self too just through solo internet research. A channel such as this is invaluable both to my personal intellectual life and my understanding of my own religion and it's place within a wider religious Milieu. From the bottom of my heart, Thank you Doctor Sledge, I deeply appreciate all you do!
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@@SobekLOTFC I am the work and I am the lazy
@@SobekLOTFC but seriously I'd love to hear a Coptic audio book of it
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Thank you Dr Sledge. I have been studying the Book of Jeu since your first mentioned it. In my opinion, the book is the foundation of Masonic, Rosicrucian and Golden Dawn traditions. The use of tokens, knowledge and treasuries is very similar to tokens, grips, knowledge lectures and grades. I think that the Book of Jeu can be used a complete magical system like the golden dawn but more beautiful and complete.
Though it'd have to be completed - 90% of it is missing, sadly
@@TheEsotericaChannel 90% is way better than Mathers or Felkin making stuff up. As I studied it I could not help but wonder if anyone people did the rituals and followed the book. I assume there had to be some prayers missing. I love this book. I have read it twice and compare it to the Pistis Sophia since they seem to be companion books. Thank you for bringing it to light. I can’t thank you enough.
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@@TheEsotericaChannel the gnostics mention wisdom. Wisdom is an sometime referred to as Nuwa. Nuwa and Fuxi are two serpents who carry the square and compass.
The very same Nuwa is thought to be the inspiring God for the Tuath Dé Dananna. An Irish folklore.
Also the red head gene comes from south east Asia, and is linked to Melanisians. That area also has a serpent God lmfao.
@Ipos there's serpent gods all over the earth though
You’re so rad Dr. Justin Sledge. Thank you for your channel.
I've seen a few of your vids, but this is the one that earned my sub!!! I had never heard of these books, and will treat them with extreme skepticism based upon the age in which they were written alongside any cultural influences they were subject to. You have done a great service to humanity by giving this primer to a very difficult subject, but please keep up the good work!!!
I learned some about Sethian and Valentinian Gnosticism during my doctoral studies in Syriac and Coptic, but I had not heard of Jeuian Gnosticism. Thank you for this great introduction!
been binging your vids lately love them, study`d this for decades...
Oh, I had to pause at 38:34 from chuckling heartily at "black Unix terminal of reality" and commend you on your turn of phrase. Just discovered this channel recently and I am loving it so far! Thank you!
Excellence video as always. With your impassioned rant towards publishers at the end you’ve definitely cemented yourself as my favourite scholarly channel on this site
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Man your channel just keeps getting better and better
Wow thank you so much for these great videos 😊 you explain things very well and definitely encourage me to study deeper into these subjects!
This was a fascinating video and I did not skip the baptism tangent. Gonna binge watch your Gnosticism videos now.
Side note, I ran my first ever non stop 10k to this video. Hell yeah
Bizarrely fascinating. I'm relatively new to your channel, I've been watching for just a few weeks, and had no idea that I'd be so interested and entertained by deep dives into subjects I didn't even know existed. Thank you for making it accessible to us total rookies!
Very Interesting Doctor Justin! Always a fine job.. Thanks
I love your introduction to ancient texts, thank you!💛💛💛
I enjoyed this one. I notice parallels between the ascent through the hostile archon regions and the “aerial toll house” teaching found in Eastern Orthodoxy. Very interesting stuff! Thank you!
Amazing. Thank you so much for your time, energy and passion, sir.
Thank you for making this video, really fascinating and the beginning of a new rabbit hole for me
I watched this video in its entirety twice back to back today. Thank you for wgat youre doing.
I really enjoy your way of talking and explaining. I aspire to explain difficult topics in a amenable and interesting way such as what you strive. Thanks for your efforts and have a great day...
Thanks again. My lack of humility hates this channel almost as much as my ignorance. Positive waves.
Very new to your channel bit seen it floating around in my feed for like a year now lol I wasnt sure what your channel was so I decided to check it out the other day!
It's been a fun ride! ^-^ Lots of accurate and well researched information and very good little jokes here and there
Easily one of the most fascinating videos in a while. Thank you so much. Time to sell a few organs for those Brill books. For real though, I will be looking more into this. Very cool stuff.
An easy to understand video on a wonderful subject. Thank you so much for taking the time, to explain all of this in such a nice way. I really get what this subject is about and I really enjoy learning about this subject because it's very important for me to understand. It is a bit disheartening to hear that is from the third or fourth century but I still find it very insightful to the early teaching.
The book of game as jeu is translated in utube. How fitting! Just found this channel today and you're hilarious! Def going to check out more of your vids.
Fantastic Work. Many Thanks!
Thank you for another fantastic episode.
Thank you. You’re awesome. Really admire the dedication to digging in such a daunting system of bones of wisdom hidden in paramount levels of dirt(reference to Gurdjieff). Appreciate all that you do.
This will be rich indeed! Doing my own illustrations for my novel soon! Inking them both physically and digitally!
The books of Jeu are definitely the deep B-sides of the "Gnostic" corpus.
To make a musical analogy, they belong in any sojourner's record collection as much as any Smiths.B-side, so to speak
Keep up the great work, Dr Sledge! 👍⚒️
That's a great analogy - only the kewl kids are down these
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Thanks for all you do, Doc! Both the topic of mysticism and this channel are relatively new to me, so the extensive back-catalog has become my go-to content to listen to during the grind of my day job. Thus, the majority of the time I spend experiencing Esoterica content is through listening rather than watching. I'd put off this video when it showed up in my feed specifically because that word "illustrated" in the title suggested I'd want to experience it visually, and I'm glad I did, because I hadn't realized just how much visual humor I was missing! The "wifi password" gag absolutely sent me and now I look forward to reexperiencing some of my faves with a proper watch-through. 😂
Thanks - I try to make them visually engaging but without sacrificing any of the information which is primarily audio. Hopefully they can function as both fun videos but also podcasts.
As a Linux nerd, I can relate, and this is *not* an afterlife I'd want to navigate without plenty of manpages and a GUI. False ending was hilarious, btw.
Great channel too. :-) I'm kind of new here.
lol - you're honing your sense of humour, Dr. Justin - love it. This is heavy lifting and when I laugh, I know I'm learning something (as much as I'm just a regular person and not a scholar). Keep 'em laughing - you do it well, sir.
Really interesting video! I was just reading books about Gnosticism so the timing is perfect! Hopefully the archons will make the books more available so I can study more >.<
I love your sense of humor, that add a little something to an otherwise not so simple subject. As a game designer I also really enjoyed the references!
(also I went back to check the other video, thank you for waiting!)
Thank you for your lecture, very informative. Hope in the future there's video game based on the two books of Jeu.
Wonderful episode!! Looking forward to whenever you get a chance to do the Pistis Sophia one :)
Eventually.... ;)
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Some pages are missing :
19th century British library worker : ' Damn, no toilet paper..I just use this old thing ' '
Thank you so much for this; I was under the impression that the Jeu was something along the lines of the 'Ohaspe' text for some reason, so I never looked into it. Definitely have to add it to my list now
Enjoyed the presentation
Thank you for this amazing content.
Hey Dr. Sledge, I recognize your intro music as Chopin’s Nocturne 1, which I love. And was wondering which rendition this is?
The creative commons licence version
@@TheEsotericaChannel Oh, that does make sense. Thank you!!
Great job as always, thank you.
Bonjour Dr.Sledge, thank you for your great video. I recently read some lectures about the syriac orthodox christian mystic tradition, and I found it's closed to the books of Jeu and Ma'asse Merkava, also the Mandaeanism. It's pretty interesting, and in this tradition, the discussion of celestial systeme turns into the mystery of heart, and this time its form is closed to sufism. I suggest there is a relationship between those different traditions, and they are rooted on the mesopotamian mystic tradition, where those mysticism happened. In my imagination, because of this condition ,the number 60 is used, which number is a sacred numbre in ancient mesopotamia. I hope it's a useful imagine.
So I guess this solves all the "wtf" questions I had when first watching the anime Evangelion circa 2003. The design choices the animators of Evangelion made for the "angels" really resemble a lot of these seals. Not to mention, diagrams of the qabbalah appear numerous times throughout the show, so it's all kind of piecing together now.
As always, thank you for your content! You fill an invaluable niche of CZcams.
Ahh the Pistis Sophia. I read that book and cried for two weeks. Life changing book. I am a theosophist, love your content. Thank you for all your work.
What exactly did you take away from the Pistis Sophia? It is almost impenetrable
Of all channels on youtube i never thought id see the fake ending schtick here but yet here we are lol. A true CZcamsr you are Doc!
Love your sense of humor
I gotta say, I owe a frankly fucking dramatic deepening of my religious/esoteric exploration to you and like three other guys with youtubes. Thanks so much man.
I'm just glad I can do my small part.
@@TheEsotericaChannel You have been pretty central. I'm reaching a point where I am slowing down, trying to wrangle my adhd+depression to dive *deeper* and learn some languages and read/study primary material, rather than have a broad trivia-like understanding of these topics, but your videos and insight has been no small part of *my* descent into autodidactic madness, but honestly a pretty big one, and it's the best thing a stranger has ever done for me. I have been out of school for years now. I don't wanna blow too much smoke up your ass, but I really, really appreciate what you do lol. Thank you again.
Usually, I will skip recommended videos until I finish the video Im on, but you talked me into it lol
Gotta not skip the baptisms
38:00 "Six shots of espresso, staring at a Unix terminal...logged in as root" Loved that analogy!!!
I do not practice any known/unknown magic. But have always found it interesting.
Okay...I've been subbed for awhile, have never commented. This feels/seems above my level but I am striving for understanding and to learn. I recently watched a video where a Prof. David Ulansey discussed (Mithra)the constellations on a specific icon from 10yrs ago. (I saved the video to "My Favorite Subjects" playlist). Now at 20mins in you are hitting on that subject. Also you are pinging my memory about St. Teresa of Avila's "Mansions" prayer.
Now off to watch rest of video....
Awesome profanation . Love your channel .
this is so friggin interesting - thank you!
Thank you so much. This is amazing! 🙏✨
Can't wait for the video on Sofia that will be so cool!
Excellent video! Those Jeuians had so many guarded, technical specifics that it would take a lifetime to learn them all with confidence. It's as if, no matter how far you go, you always need something more. We may be looking at an early implementation of Scientology.
Finally! A Gnostic text I can study!
(I attended the Gaston’s University for People Who Can Only Read Books With Pictures)
Thank you for the great wisdom you share with us all
Academia should give the text to game developers and make a (soulsborne) action-RPG based on it. Within a month gamers will have had the text figured out and post extensive and exhaustive lore videos here making sense of everything. It wouldn't be the first time crowdsourced gamification of scientific research would be employed. Anyone remembers the Foldit game/project?
Today I checked the The University if Texas library thats a couple miles away from me and they have Evans' study as well as the Schmidt translation! They also have the Schmidt translation of The Pistis Sophia so I'm ready when you are on that one...
The Goonies reference kills it. Thank you again sir your channel is better than a lifetime supply of baby ruths.
Thank you Brother for your work 🙏
Fantastic job! This lecture came to me as an epiphany. Plus, I have found the referenced books online. Someone (Z-library) made them available for the interested scholar "to borrow" free of charge. The harder part then to obtain them is to study them - as they are very voluminous: Evans (2015) 295 pages and Schmidt (2020) 345 pages., DeConick (2013) 583 pages. I will skip the Coptic language courses for now. Thanks!
It is amusing to think that scholars found the Jeu books to be overly decadent and baroque but find the apcryphon of John to be worthy of study, it’s not like John has page long lists of angels that corresponds with each body part or anything lol.
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This guy cracks me up, all while delivering top-shelf information. 😆
I'd love to know exactly how they came up with this information in the first place. I'm not even commenting on whether or not this information reflects reality in any way. It's seriously profound thinking and impressive in its own right.
Dear Dr., I feel like Kirk telling Spock he’ll take Spock’s best guess right now, because your best efforts pale those of the vast majority of others.
Thank you for your respectful approach. Many blessings ✨
i wonder what the small idea could be? brilliant work dr sledge.
i love what you did there, other content creators are content creators not actually looking to dive deeper, just enough to get some views and seem intelligent. Thanks for actually diving in., Have you any knowledge on the pale church of the white stone?
Fantastic episode thank you 🙏✝️🍄🌎
It would be convenient to click the link below to go directly to the video you're talking about. Maybe updating that would be more engaging for us to watch multiple videos easily. I'm liking the topics! I'm all about apotheosis!
I tried to hack at the translations of the Nag Hammadi library and I got utterly lost in urges, demiurges, and what seemed like an elder sibling constantly changing the rules of the game to never let you win. I went back to reading about Structural Dynamics because it was a smaller headache...
Great job
Every church I've ever attended claimed to be (or aspired to be) "just like the original church". I wish I could make these pastors and elders watch these videos.
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Great and interesting video, I loved the subject matte. I've always thought of myself and a fairly smart person and can hold my hold when talking with the professors at the college I work at, but you and your videos make me feel dumber the Gomer Pyle (1960's and 70's TV character). Here is a like and comment to help your channel grow and get you the recognition you deserve.
Cam you do a video on גרשם שלום? Thanks alot!
How can you not love this?
I’m probably wrong about this, but the seals used before and after this ritual could be interpreted as the same symbol being simplified from a 2D plane into a 1D line segment, becoming better representation of the fundamentals, or even a kind of divine “template”(?)
similar to how multiple separate sine waves can be combined to make a single wave (cant remember the actual term for this process)
Wow what amazing knowledge and book to open
I would have a more erudite comment were I not so rightly enthralled and agog at the immensely badass rigorous distillation of esoteric knowledge unpacking that I can only glimpse at the idea of the depths and heights of wisdom herein within the first few moments alone. For upping the algorithm and sooner than later today comprehension in general, I will swiftly and excitedly comment!
I am wont to discover by way of a friend in taking same train one time a quicker route to work across town and then share it with the very office co-worker who had been telling me the same route that I was simply too frazzled end of day to listen to and consider...long spiel. When student is ready, master will appear kinda thing. It will click soon like a puzzle in place. Gnosticism is as fascinating and elusive as quantum physics to me. Thankful for now.
This episode was amazing, would you reccomend any other source from pdf that i was able to find ( like Nah Hammadi Studies ) on the internet