/lit/ - Literature

Why are some of these ideas present in the gospel revealed by Christ? Not just world denial in favor of an applied philosophy of obeisance to a higher Intellect, to God. But also the specific terms: Angels. Light. The urgency of escaping the material. 'Sacerdotal' or apostolic life as psychopomp to others, *in persona Christi* in the case of priests, gatekeepers of the substance of God.

Fragment 134
>Do not hasten to the light-hating world, boisterous of matter, where there is murder, discord, foul odors, squalid illnesses, corruptions, and fluctuating works. He who intends to love the Intellect of the Father must flee these things."

Matthew 16:24-27
>Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done."


Fragment 136
>For no other reason does God turn away from man and, with his living power, send him on empty pathways.

Romans 11:32
>For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.


Scholars of /lit/ pls help. Are Christian texts just the latest revision of ancient secret mysteries? Is literally all philosophy based on a Platonic-Chaldean assumption of-about a God?