KFLCC / New Age Bible Versions - Gail Riplinger

[F]irst its Father. . .the Kabalistic Ain Suph. . . manifested] itself in the form of the Invisible One. The Supreme Tetrad [meaning four] came down unto him.. .in a female form. . .the Silence, the Father.6 [Marcion and Blavatsky's 'Father' uses the title 'One' and appears in a female form, a clue this book will pursue in Chapters 5, 6 and 7.]

New Ager Blavatsky analyzes this flurry of words, this

"Father,” the female image, and Marcion's theology.

This is as plain as ancient esoteric secrecy could make it.7

Marcion viewed Jesus neither as King or Messiah.. .[He] maintained the fallaciousness of the idea of an incarnate god.8 [He] taught that Deity had to be viewed under the symbol of four. . .[and] gave out more of the esoteric truth than any other Gnostic. This teaching of Marcion was that of the early Kabalists and is ours, [the New Age's] This Father alone is the God of spirit.. .To compare him with the subordinate and Sinaitic Deity is an error. Did Jesus ever pronounce the name of Jehovah? Never! 9

Marcion's mischief was recorded by his contemporaries— Christians such as Tertullian, Epiphanius and Irenaeus. The latter said: Wherefore also Marcion and his followers have betaken themselves to mutilating the scriptures, not acknowledging some books at all; and curtailing the gospel according to Luke; and the epistles of Paul, they assert that these alone are authentic, which they themselves shortened .10 More recently and of equal weight are the comments by Dean John Burgon. Internationally respected for his renowned scholarship, he writes of "heretical depravation" and "scandalously corrupt Greek