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Gnostic mysteries are the
culmination of human philosophical, religious and scientific thought up until
the ascendency of the State of Rome's Imperial Religion -
Roman Catholicism.
Greek
Orthodox Christianity is nearer to the Gnostic Mysteries but it still misses
the mark because, once again, it became
the State religion of the
Byzantium Empire.
As was spelled out in the Bhagavatam and the Vedas by
the mystic saints of India, Avatars
would descend from heaven to inhabit earthly bodies and accomplish great
spiritual feats.
These Avartars, Walking the Thinspace between
worlds, would act as intermediaries between the material world and the
spiritual world.
Men
of Wisdom - sage, seer, shaman, all wrapped up into One - sharing the
unseen mysteries that inhabit this
earthly plane.
Women of Sophia
- Augur, Oracle, Soothsayer, three living
as One - sharing deeply veiled mysteries hidden
under stones.
There is the most pressing problem with
religion.
Each and every
religion that has carried a culture through time has two elements.
The first is the initial
religious experience of the mystic founder.
The second is the modification of the
mystic's vision through institutionalization which involves cultural
modifications based on past traditions.
All religion grows old and
stale when institutionalized.
The life leaves it, as it leaves any
piece of artwork, that is reworked and then overworked by
left brained blind MICE into
a social control mechanism.
To keep religion from getting
old and stale mystics suggest
looking at the Creator and Sustainer in a manner both alien and odd to the
theologian keepers of the
religion.
Mystics can teach theologians how to revitalize their
institutionalized religions which requires
standing and facing the
Creator and Sustainer in awe as opposed to turning the back in fear,
shivering and cowering.
Eternal Souls are motivated to participate
spiritually as well as materially in life.
Eternal Souls,
inhabitating bodies with cultural
differences, deal with the
spiritual forces of reality in nearly the same manner despite
differentiation.
The essential and fundamental elements of each
religion is grounded in aspects of physical reality. These elements
subconsciously convey conceptual archetypes symbolically of spiritual reality
in a manner that is common to all human beings even if the presentation varies
as presentation is dependent on available props.
All human life is
spiritually interconnected through these subconscious spiritual archetypes as
they parallel subconscious human thought forms.
These symbolic conceptual
archetypes of spiritual reality within the mystical core of each religion are
remarkably similar.
That should come as no surprise since humans
are 99.9% identical having the same ancestors -
Adam and Eve.
The
mystical experience
comes from a dissociative state
of consciousness.
Minds trained to think in a linear, academic
manner have a much more difficult time of reaching this
dissociative state of
consciousness than the shepherd
in the field watching the sheep.
"In contrast to
the mechanistic Western view,
the Eastern view of the world is
"organic." For the Eastern mystic, all things and events perceived by the
senses are interrelated, connected, and are but different aspects or
manifestations of the same ultimate reality. Our tendency to divide perceived
reality into individual and separate things and to experience ourselves as
isolated egos in this reality is seen as an
illusion which comes from our
measuring and categorizing mentality. It is called
avidya, or ignorance, in Buddhist
philosophy, and is seen as
the state of a disturbed
mind which has to be overcome: When the mind is disturbed, the multiplicity
of things is produced, but when the mind is quieted, the multiplicity of things
disappears." - Fritjof Capra
"The deep mystery of life, consciousness, reality and
your natural place within existent
reality. The deep mystery of existence
is a mysterium,
a mystery, tremendum et
fascinans-tremendous, terrifyingly horrific when initially contemplated because
understanding smashes all of your fixed notions of existent reality. Horrific,
yet at the same time utterly fascinating, the beauty of your own nature and
being. When you start thinking about these things, about the inner mystery,
inner life, the eternal life, there
are not too many symbolic conceptual images for you to use." - Joseph
Campbell
Within the mystical experience - a
dissociative state of
consciousness - lies communion with the Creator and
Sustainer.
Some see
only silence, hear only light,
taste only aroma, smell only
flavor … but all touch Creation. It is only here, within the mystical
experience, that we find True
Liberation.
Omkara -
the Sound of Divine Compassion
is the other name for the
God of Truth Omkara is
Ineffable.
No principle knew
IT, no
authority, no subjection,
nor any creature from the
Foundation of Reality,
except
IT alone.
Omkara is
immortal and
eternal, having no birth;
for
every creature who has birth will
perish.
IT is unbegotten, having no
beginning;
for every creature who has a beginning has an end.
No one rules over IT.
Omkara has no name;
for whoever has a
name is the creation of another.
IT is an unnameable sound.
IT has no human form;
for whoever
has human form is the creation of
another.
Omkara has its own semblance - not like
the semblance we have received and
seen,
but a strange semblance
that surpasses all things and is better than the totalities.
Omkara
looks to every side and sees itself
from itself.
IT is
infinie;
IT is incomprehensible.
IT is ever imperishable and has
no likeness to anything known to us.
Omkara is
unchanging perfection.
IT is
faultless.
IT is everlasting.
IT is blessed.
IT is
unknowable, while
IT nonetheless knows
itself.
Omkara is
immeasurable.
IT is untraceable.
IT is perfect, having no defect.
IT
is imperishably blessed.
Omkara is called 'Creator and Sustainer of the Universe'.
Now, if anyone wants to believe the words set down here,
let him go from what is hidden to the
end of what is visible, and this thought will
instruct him how faith in those
things that are not visible was found in what is visible.
This is
the principle of True
Knowledge.
Omkara female
aspect is 'First-begotten Sophia, Mother
of the Universe ,' whom some call 'Compassion'. Some call
her Faith.
Omkara masculine aspect is 'Savior, Creator of all things'.
From the consenting of those I have just mentioned,
thoughts appeared.
From
thoughts, reflectings; from reflectings, considerings; from considerings,
rationalities, from
rationalities, wills, from wills, words.
All I have just said to you, I said in
the Way that you might accept, until
the one who need not be
taught appears among you, and he will speak all these things to you
joyously and in True
Knowledge.
Eugnostos the Blessed
Emanation theory is common to
all forms of Gnosticism.
In
different cultures these emanations are named, classified, and described in
different manners.
From the Lumière Infinie
sprang Æon.
The source of all being is Æon,
in which an inner being dwells, recognized as Ennoea
(thought/intent/grace/silence).
Æon,
Vital Force of Eternal Life
imagined as Monad - the One Perfect Being, then splits and conceives the second
Æon, Nous (mind),
within itself, creating a Holy Duality.
Æon eternally split conceiving
countless Æon.
Complex hierarchies of Æon are
thus produced.
Æon belong to
a purely ideal, noumenal, intelligible,
or supersensible world; they are immaterial, they are hypostatic ideas.
Together with the source from which they emanate, they form the Pleroma
(Region of Light).
The transition from immaterial to material, from
noumenal to sensible, was created by the passion of the Æon
Sophia.
The material world sprang into being through the passion of
the female Æon Sophia who emanated
a dream of a faulty
reality that produced the Demiurge by spurning the
re-synchronization of reality with Æon - the One.
This produced the faulty reality we
experience as a duality.
The
Demiurge is a creature that should
never have existed in the vision of Æon as it does not belong to the
Pleroma.
To solve the problem Sophia has presented by exhibiting
free will the Father Æon
emanates two savior Æon, Christ and
the Holy Spirit, to save humanity
from the Veil of Cognitive
Blindness the Demiurge uses to
blind humanity to the presence of Christ
within the noumenon.
Chrestus took a human form (Jesus), to
teach humanity how to achieve
Gnosis.
The ultimate end of all
Gnosis is
metanoia, or repentance - undoing
the failures of material existence by returning to the Pleroma in spirit.
Æon, existing as beings of light, bear a number of similarities
to Judaeo-Christian angels, including roles as servants and emanations of God.
In fact, certain Gnostic Angels, such as Armozel, was an Æon.
Observe carefully and you might
see Æon descend from Pleroma and walk and talk with the common people to
bring them spiritual relief.
Valentinian Gnosticism was
extremely widespread through the Roman
Empire from Alexandria, Egypt
through Asia Minor and Syria in the east, and Northwest Africa.
Valentinus and the Gnostic movement that bore his name were considered
threats to Pauline Christianity by church
leaders and orthodox Christian scholars including
Irenaeus.
According to Valentinus,
there are esoteric teachings which originate from Jesus that were passed on in
secret.
When Jesus spoke in
public, he used metaphors that did not disclose his complete teachings.
This secret
tradition provides the key that is essential for a complete understanding of
Jesus' message.
"The scriptures are
ambiguous and the truth cannot be extracted from them by those who are ignorant
of tradition."
Valentinians claim that the secret
teachings are meaningful only to those who are spiritually mature. If a person
was not ready to receive them, they seem like nonsense.
To Valentinians God the
Ineffable defies description and Jesus came to bring knowledge (gnosis) to a
suffering humanity that was desperately seeking God.
The Valentinian
tradition draws a sharp distinction between the human Jesus and the divine
Jesus.
The human Jesus was born
the true son of Mary and Joseph.
By a special dispensation, his
body is consubstantial with Sophia and her spiritual seed.
When he was thirty years
old, he went to John the Baptist to be baptized.
As soon as he went down into the water, the
divine Savior, referred to as the "Spirit of the Thought of the Father",
descended on him in the form of a dove.
This is the true "virgin birth" and
resurrection from the dead, for he was reborn of the virgin
Spirit.
According to the Valentinians, people
manifest their true nature by their response to the message of Jesus.
Using the parable of the sower (Matthew 13:1-8),
they explain that through Jesus, Sophia sows
the spiritual seed in all who hear the message.
People bear fruit
spiritually by attaining a state of mystical knowledge (gnosis) in which they
recognize their Eternal Soul who always accompanies the Savior.
Sin, an
expression of ignorance, could be overcome through perfect knowledge (gnosis)
of the Will of God.
Irenaeus identified
Valentinus as the author of the Gospel of Truth.
Clement of Alexandria records that his followers said that Valentinus was a
follower of Theudas, a disciple of
Saul of Tarsus.
Valentinus claimed Theudas imparted to him secret wisdom that
Saul of Tarsus
privately taught his inner circle
publicly referred to in connection with his visionary encounter with the risen
Christ (Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 2 Corinthians 12:2-4; Acts
9:9-10).
Valentinian literature described the
primal being, called Bythos, as the
beginning of all things.
Valentinius was among the early Christians
who attempted to align Christianity with
Platonism.
Trinitarianism states that the three distinct aspects are One God.
(montheism)
Tritheism states the three distinct aspects are Three Gods.
(polytheism)
"Valentinus was the first to invent three hypostases and
three persons of the
Father, Son and
Holy Spirit, and he is discovered
to have filched this from Hermes and Plato."- Marcellus of Ancyra
Valentinian Gnosticism professed God the
Father, Sophia the Mother, and
Logos the Son.
Teaching professed by
Hellenized Hebrews at the time of
Saul of Tarsus
proclaims God the Father,
Shekhinah the female aspect
of God and the Law.
By the
time of Jesus the Tannaim
Hellenized Hebrews, believed
the Greeks to be superior in
philosophy and
knowledge with
a better understanding of human nature,
had become apostate to
the Yahweh mythology of Moses and had
begun adding elements of Greek polytheism,
numerology and
astrology to
the original patriarchal
monotheistic religion through the use of
exegesis.
Sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas:
Jesus, or rather,
Christ Consciousness said, "Those who know all, but are
lacking in knowing themselves, are
utterly lacking."
Christ
Consciousness said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they
find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they
will marvel, and will reign over all."
Christ Consciousness said, "I
disclose mysteries to those who are worthy of my mysteries."
Christ Consciousness said, "Know what is in front of your face, and
what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden
that will not be revealed."
Christ Consciousness said, "Do
not lie, and do not do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before
heaven. After all, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there
is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed."
Christ Consciousness said, "I have cast fire upon the Earth, and look,
I'm guarding it until it blazes."
Christ Consciousness said, "I
am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to
me all attained. Split a piece of wood;
I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
Christ
Consciousness said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have
will save you. If you do not have that
within you, what you do not have
within you will kill you."
Christ Consciousness said, "Images are visible to
people, but the light within them is
hidden in the image of the Father's light. The Father will be disclosed, but
his image is hidden by His light."
Christ Consciousness said, "I
will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has
touched, what has not arisen in the human
heart."
Christ Consciousness said, "Have
compassion for your fellow human
beings like your have for your own Eternal Soul, protect them like
the pupil of your
eye."
Christ
Consciousness said, "You see the sliver in your friend's eye, but you don't
see the timber in your own eye. When you take the timber out of your own eye,
then you will see well enough to remove the sliver from your friend's eye."
Christ Consciousness
said, "When you see one who was not born of woman, fall on your faces and
worship. That one is your Father."
Christ Consciousness said, "If
the flesh came into being because of
spirit, that is a
marvel, but if
spirit came into being because
of the body, that is a marvel of
marvels. Yet
I marvel at how this great wealth
has come to dwell in this flesh."
Christ Consciousness said,
"Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see,
the end will be where the
beginning is. Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that
one will know the end and will not taste
death."
Christ
Consciousness said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will
pass away. The dead are not alive,
and the living will not die. During the days when you ate what is dead, you
made it come alive. When you are in
the light, what will you do? On the day when
you were one, you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"
Christ Consciousness said, "I took my stand on the Earth, and in
flesh I appeared to them. I found them all
drunk, and I did not find any of
them thirsty. My
soul ached for the children of
humanity, because they are blind in
their hearts and do not see, for they came onto the Earth empty, and they
also seek to depart from the Earth empty. But meanwhile they are drunk.
When they shake off their wine, then
they will change their ways."
Christ
Consciousness said, "What you
will hear in your ear, in the other ear proclaim from your rooftops. After all,
no one lights a lamp and puts it under a basket, nor does one put it in a
hidden place. Rather, one puts it on a lamp stand so that all who come and go
will see its light."
Christ Consciousness said, "A city built on a high hill and
fortified cannot fall, nor can it be hidden."
Christ Consciousness said, "If the blind lead the blind, both will
fall into a chasm."
Christ Consciousness said,
"When you strip without being ashamed, and you take your clothes and put them
under your feet like little children and trample them, then will see the son of
the living one and you will not be afraid."
Christ Consciousness said, "The Pharisees and the scholars
have taken the keys of knowledge and
have hidden them. They have not entered nor have they allowed those who want to
enter to do so. As for you, be as sly as
snakes and as simple as doves."
Christ Consciousness said,
"Grapes are not harvested from thorn trees, nor are figs gathered from
thistles, for they yield no fruit. Good individuals produce good from what
they've stored up; evil individuals produce evil from the wickedness they have
stored up in their hearts, and
say evil things. For from the overflow of the
heart they produce evil."
Christ Consciousness
said, "From Adam to John the Baptist, among
those born of women, no one is so much greater than John the Baptist that his
eyes should not be averted. But I have said that whoever among you becomes a
child will recognize the kingdom and will become
greater than John."
Christ Consciousness said, "An individual cannot
mount two horses or bend two bows. And a slave cannot serve two masters, otherwise
that slave will honor the one and
offend the other. Nobody drinks aged wine
and immediately wants to drink young wine. Young wine is not poured into old
wineskins, or they might break, and aged wine is not poured into a new
wineskin, or it might spoil. An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment, since
it would create a tear."
Christ Consciousness said, "If
two make peace with each other in a single house, they will say to the
mountain, 'Move from here!' and it will
move."
Christ
Consciousness said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the
Father's Kingdom is in the
sky,' then the birds of the
sky will precede you.
If they say to
you, ' The Father's Kingdom in
the sea,' then the fish will precede you.
Rather,
the Father's Kingdom is within you and it
is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known,
and you will understand that you are
children of the living
Father.
If you do not
know yourselves, then you will live in
spiritual
corruption."
Christ Consciousness said, "Congratulations to those
who are alone and
chosen, for you will find the
kingdom. For you have
come from it, and you will return there again."
His
disciples said to Christ Consciousness,
"When will the rest for the dead take place, and when will
the new world come?"
Christ Consciousness said to
them, "What you are looking forward
to has come, but you do not know it."
His
disciples said to Christ Consciousness, "Is
circumcision useful or not?"
Christ Consciousness said to
them, "If it were useful, the Father would produce children already
circumcised from their
mother.
Rather, the true
circumcision in spirit has become profitable in every regard."
Christ Consciousness said, "Congratulations to the individual
who has toiled and has found life."
Christ Consciousness said,
"Look to the living one as long as you live, otherwise you might die and then
try to see the living one, and you will be unable to see."
Christ
Consciousness said to her, "I am the one who comes from
what is whole. I was granted from the things of my Father."
"I am
your disciple."
"For this reason I
say, if one is whole, one
will be filled with light, but
if one is divided, one will
be filled with darkness."
Christ
Consciousness said, "Show me the stone that the builders rejected: that is
the keystone."
Christ Consciousness said,
"Congratulations to those who have been persecuted in their
hearts:
they are the ones who have
truly come to know the Father. Congratulations to those who go hungry, so
the stomach of the one in want may be filled."
Christ Consciousness said, "The
Kingdom of the Father is like a
merchant who had a supply of merchandise and found a
pearl. That merchant was
prudent; he sold the merchandise and bought the single
pearl for himself. So also with
you, seek his treasure that is
unfailing, that is enduring, where no
moth comes to eat and no worm destroys."
Christ Consciousness said, "Why
have you come out to the countryside? To
see a reed shaken by the wind? And to see an individual dressed in soft
clothes, rulers and your powerful
ones? They are dressed in soft
clothes, and they cannot understand truth."
Christ Consciousness said,
"Often you have desired to hear these
sayings that I am speaking to you, and you have no one else from whom to
hear them. There will be days when you
will seek me and you will not find me."
"Liberation
Theology has not fallen from favor
among the religious people of Latin America.
To refer to
Liberation Theology as "Marxist
Catholicism" is quite incorrect.
Christian communities preceded Marxism by nineteen centuries and gave us a
lifestyle of sharing and cooperation.
Unfortunately,
Imperial Christianity, which developed
in the 4th century, married the church to militarism and oppression.
Liberation Theology is the antithesis
of Imperial Christianity.
We
created small Christian communities to observe, judge and act on realissues in
Latin America.
Thus democracy, conscience and critical thinking
became part of a vibrant spirituality.
Liberation Theology is the key to a
future of religious and spiritual integrity." - Blase Bonpane, Director, Office
of the Americas, Los Angeles
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