User talk:Percevalles

Percevalles

--Percevalles 05:01, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

FYI: External links are never "minor"

Suggestion: don't mark external link additions as "minor" even on your own user page, but especially when added to a controversial article. Since you did this only twice, I'm sure this was innocent. You can set your preferences to default to making edits "minor" or not; I have mine set to default to "not minor".

Any controversial edits or link additions marked "minor" may needlessly bring down the wrath of others who think you're trying to sneak something by them. Even on non-controversial articles, it may arouse concerns of link-spamming; Wikipedia is under constant assault by link spammers (even more than POV pushers). Trust me on this.--A. B. 15:58, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks A.B. for your helpful advice. I was experimenting with that minor edit flag as I saw the tick box for it at the bottom of the edit screen. Thanks for letting me know the protocol.

--Percevalles 00:43, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

Sophia (gnosticism)

Hi Percevalles, ThePeg here. I wrote the discussion article about the Sophia which you replied to. Very interested in what you said and would like to know more about your interest in this subject but don't know how to contact you except via here. Is that ok? ThePeg 11.9.2006

No problem. My interest in that article and your discussion of it is due to my interest in gnosticism and in particular the teachings I have received from that website I mentioned. There isn't any specific information given about Sophia on the courses but after having done them you can see the meaning of the symbolisms that arose in many different cultures and times and how they are all related to one another because you see they are refering to the same things since the truth is the truth and does not change but only the way of expressing it does.

The best thing you can do is to experience it yourself and take the free courses offered and most importantly to practice over time what is given to you because intellectual learning is one thing but true wisdom and having an understanding of the significance of things is completely another which is really what it means to attain gnosis. Percevalles 10:54, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks Percevalles. Have you read Sophia: The Wisdom of God by Sergei Bulgakov? If not I recommend it. I may take your advice and try those courses, although I am already some way down the line with other teachers. As you say, the Truth is the Truth and the different images different cultures use to describe it all lead to the same place. ThePeg 16 Sept 2006