Section 8

p. 66 1 Presumably the Seven. 2 Presumably the End-Sea. 3 White for purity, the M. colour par excellence . The water is of course the Living Water or Water of Life. 4 Or Treasury, Sīmath-Haiyē, a feminine personification, called elsewhere the Mother of all the [Light] Kings'; she is par excellence the Treasure or Treasury of Light. p. 67 1 Mentioned also in § 32 , but unexplained. 2 In the Lud (cp. note on R. Eliezar, founder of the Lud school in § 18, p. 34) Ben Stada Talmūd Jesus stories, Jeshu is stoned and hanged on a stake afterwards (see D. J. L. 100 B.C.? —pp. 176ff.). It was the custom for the dead body after the stoning ( e.g. of an adulterer, or of a fornicator— i.e. heretic) to be exposed on a stake or post. 3 Gnosis of Life is called the Stranger ( sc . to the world) par excellence . 4 The MM. were bitterly persecuted. The fellings or slaughterings of the 'trees' and the snaring or imprisonment of the 'doves' refer to the martyrdom of the faithful. Cp. the hewing-down of the 'trees' in the Synoptic John-sermon and also the John-Jonah (Dove) word-play.