Herein we continued, from part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, a series regarding paranormal entities in text generally termed the Apocrypha, Deutero Canonical, Pseudepigrapha, Gnostic Texts, etc. (see my article on the Apocrypha here). The quotations are of those sections within the text that refer to Angels, Cherubim, Seraphim, Devil, Satan, demons, serpent and dragon. The point is not to elucidate these references but to provide relevant partial quotations and citations.
Angels in the apocryphal texts Secret Book of James aka Apocryphon of James, Preaching of Peter, Letter of Clement of Alexandria on Secret Mark & Trimorphic Protennoia.
Secret Book of James aka Apocryphon of James – 100-150 AD
Invoke the Father, implore God often, and he will give to you. Blessed is he who has seen you with Him when He was proclaimed among the Angels, and glorified among the saints; yours is life…And when we had passed beyond that place, we sent our mind(s) farther upwards, and saw with our eyes and heard with our ears hymns, and Angelic benedictions, and Angelic rejoicing. And heavenly majesties were singing praise, and we, too, rejoiced…
Preaching of Peter – 100-150 AD
This God worship ye, not after the manner of the Greeks…Neither worship ye him as do the Jews, for they, who suppose that they alone know God, do not know him, serving Angels and Archangels…
Letter of Clement of Alexandria on Secret Mark – 70-255 AD
You did well in silencing the unspeakable teachings of the Carpocrations. For these are the “wandering stars” referred to in the prophecy, who wander from the narrow road of the commandments into a boundless abyss of the carnal and bodily sins. For, priding themselves in knowledge, as they say, “of the deep things of Satan”…
Trimorphic Protennoia – 120-180 AD
I am the life of my Epinoia that dwells within every Power and every eternal movement, and (in) invisible Lights and within the Archons and Angels and Demons, and every soul dwelling in Tartaros, and (in) every material soul…I dwell within all the Sovereignties and Powers, and within the Angels, and in every movement that exists in all matter…among the Angels I revealed myself in their likeness, and among the Powers, as if I were one of them; but among the Sons of Man, as if I were a Son of Man, even though I am Father of everyone.
In the next segment, we will consider Gospel of Truth & Apocryphon of John.