pag. 155 excerpted from "Reading Judas" by E.Pagels & K.King
"The author of the Gospel of Judas, agrees. The movement of hte heavenly bodies follows God's plan - it is the stars that will bring everything to "completion"......(this notion fits very well with Edgar Cayce's teachings)
Yet, at the same time the stars can lead people "astray"
Jesus refers to Judas star twice in ways that seem contradictory.(but aren't)
1) "Your star is leading you astray Judas"....he says when Judas wrongly interpets his dream about the heavenly temple above.
(Judas 9-15)
But later Jesus tells him "The star that leads the way - that is your star"(Judas 15:16)
Contradictory as this appears, we see at work one of the Gospel of Judas's main assumptions that the heavenly bodies are set in place by God, but nonetheless they can go astray and err.
Where does this notion come from?
Partly it derives from the observation of the planets,(wandering stars) which seem to err in their courses. (rx?)
But the more accurate answer with regard to the Gospel of Judas is that although the angels in charte of the world were created and appointed by God, they are deficient beings.
re: (Job?the allegory written by Melchizidek?)deb's note
because they share in the nature of the lower realm over which they rule.
(re: Loka? divine angelic beings?in vedic scriptures.....)
Unlike the angels in heaven above, these beings are mortal.
They are limited in other ways as well; God set terms for their rule and allowed them only limited understanding as well, for as we have seen, they also can err and lead people astray.
For example, a book ascribed to the great prophet Enoch, describes how the exact computation of the times and seasons was revealed to him by Uriel, the angel who has "the power in the heaven over both day and night so that he may cause the light to shine over the people - Sun,Moon, and stars and all the principlaities of the heaven which revolve in their (respective) circuits " Enoch 1:82)
Enoch explains that God appointed angelic leaders and captains over each of the 4 seasons the twelve months and the 360 days, along with the names, orders and the subordiantes of those captains over thousands. As in Gospel of Judas, these angels are imperfect; sometimes they "err" and even lead humanity into error.
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