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TRANSFORMATION THROUGH VISION IN JEWISH GNOSTICISM AND THE COLOGNE MANI CODEX BY GILLES QUISPEL In the Cologne Mani Codex (C.M.C.) a certain Baraies, a pupil of Mani himself, quotes one of the many apocryphal writings that were current among the Jewish Christian Baptists, among whom Mani was reared: In the same way his (Adam's) son Sethel has written the following in his Apocalypse: I opened my eyes and saw before me an angel whose radiance I could not describe: for he was all lightning. He said to me: ... (3 lines lost). When I heard that, my heart rejoiced, my mind was transformed an I became like one of the greatest angels (lyev6ynv WS FLq 1:WV fLQ£cr1:WV 50, 8-51, 6, Koenen-ROmer, Der Kölner Mani-Kodex 32-33. We have not the slightest reason to suppose that the Apocalypse of Seth did not exist at that time (the third century A.D.), that it was not used by the Jewish Christians and was not Jewish in origin. C.R.A. Morray-Jones has recently argued that in the apocalyptic- Merkabah tradition the ascent into heaven and the vision of the kabod involves a transformation of the visionary into an angelic or supra- angelic likeness of
Vigiliae Christianae – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1995
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