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    Pearl Substance: Who Am I?
    Pearl Substance: Who Am I?
    Pearl Substance: Who Am I?
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    Pearl Substance: Who Am I?

    By Nina Kristiina Honkanen

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    This booklet divided in three poems is suitable for young people as well as adults. It is a tribute to the Hymn of the Pearl of the Acts of Thomas that answers four important questions that have preoccupied the minds of each of us at times:

    Who am I, where do I come from, why am I here and where am I going?

    The first half of the book is written in the form of questions and the second half in the form of answers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateApr 3, 2020
    ISBN9789528056362
    Pearl Substance: Who Am I?
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    Nina Kristiina Honkanen

    Nina Kristiina Honkanen asuu Helsingissä tsekkiläisen vaimonsa ja poikansa kanssa. Hän on psykiatri, EMDR-terapeutti, ihmisten auttajien tukija ja kirjailija. Hänen työnsä perustana on keho-mieli-henki - kokonaisuutemme. Hän on opiskellut Tiedon Kirjaa: Eenokin Avaimia® Tulevaisuuden Tieteen Akatemian opintoryhmässä vuodesta 2002 alkaen.

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      Contents:

      Prologue

      Who am I?

      Hymn of the Pearl

      Pearl Substance

      Acknowledgements

      Glossary

      Sources of Inspiration

      - Prologue -

      The Hymn of the Pearl, also known as The Hymn of the Soul, is a poem belonging to Syrian and Greek manuscripts of The Acts of Thomas that is part of the gnostic apocryphal scripts left out of the main canon of the Bible, the authoritative collection of Jewish and early Christian texts. In The Acts of Thomas the apostle Thomas sings the Hymn as he prays for himself and his fellow prisoners.

      In this booklet I have adapted The Hymn of the Pearl to better show my own interpretive understanding of the text while honouring

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