{"id":3868,"date":"2008-03-08T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/quote-of-the-day-the-gospel-of-philip\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T18:10:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-the-gospel-of-philip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/03\/quote-of-the-day-the-gospel-of-philip.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (The Gospel of Philip)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cA donkey turning a millstone did a hundred miles walking. When it was loosed, it found that it was still at the same place. There are men who make many journeys, but make no progress towards any destination\u201d<\/span> <em>(<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnosis.org\/naghamm\/gop.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Gospel of Philip<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metalog.org\/files\/philip.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">56<\/a>)<em>.<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-4909135379821572290?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA donkey turning a millstone did a hundred miles walking. When it was loosed, it found that it was still at the same place. 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