Art of the Gnostic Gospels

Jehovah the Ass-Headed Angel

"For…the reason why Zechariah was slain in the temple was that he saw… a vision. And when he wished to tell the vision his mouth froze from fear. For… in the hour of the offering of incense he saw, as he was offering incense, a person standing at rest, having… the form of an ass. And when he went outside… and wanted to say, "Woe unto you! What are you worshiping?" the thing he had seen inside in the temple froze his mouth, so that he could not speak. And when his mouth opened so that he might speak, then he revealed it to them, and they slew him. And thus…did Zechariah die…"

(St. Epiphanius, Against Heresies, Chapter 26, from Bentley Layton’s The Gonstic Scriptures, p.212, pub. A.D. 1987)

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