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Wisdom

In Hebrew, "Chockmah", see also; Sophia. Meaning Understanding, discernment, enlightenment, erudition, insight, intelligence, judgment, learning, sense. To be wise, "having intelligence and knowledge". (See Harper Collins, "Dictionary, and Thesaurus", 2003.) "...the personified Wisdom of the "Old Testament wisdom literature developed into the Gnostic redeemer myth, especially as it identified Jesus with that redeemer, and thus understood Jesus as bringer of the secret redemptive gnosis or logoi". (pg. 31) " Wisdom is not only the mediatrix of creation but also of salvation, and cosmology and soteriology are related to one another in the myth of Wisdom". (pg. 105) (James Robinson on "The Gospel of Thomas, "The Gospel of Thomas, and Christian Wisdom, 2nd, Davies, Bardic Press, 2005.) Dr. Stevan Davies" ("Gospel of Thomas, and Christian Wisdom" ) relates Wisdom to Solomon traditions and contained therein on the nature of Wisdom is its "ordering value". These descriptions are of great philosophical value to the idea of natural organization in formal study. They pertain to the way all lexicons are formed and this kind of organization is present in philosophy, as well as science. As to Pseudo Solomon.... "This presents a series of ideas on Wisdom. "Included are Wisdom"s creative and ordering power, her presence in the world in all human beings, and in the world through all her permeation of all things, and her arrival as spirit to those who call upon her". (Ibid., pages 52-4) "By the time of the writing of the Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom is not only seen to be active at Creation, it is said to permeate all the world, organizing and underlying all ordered phenomena". (Ibid. p. 54.)

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