Sunday, March 17, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
My Sister Molly Passed Away
I have stories. Many...stories.
What happened today? My sister died!
That was horrible!
I would never ever wish this on ANYONE.
What's worse, is that I don't know whether I'm coming, or going. Feels like the plate has been taken away from 'home'. So it's move along, move along.
Hey? You busy? I'm free. Would you like to do something? How about ascend?
My Sister Molly!
My goodness, I have a story to tell. But I don't feel like writing all 'night'. It's morning.
She went to the hospital on March 6 at 3:00pm. She passed away March 16, 2013 at 2:08am.
I had no idea this would happen like this and so fast.
I did some research and my Sister Rosy who was in the hospital on September 9, 2012 and then passed away on September 18, at 7:25am 2012, is so much like Molly, my best friend and sister, who is the oldest of the family. Rosy, the second youngest. So the point in time, December 21, 2012...I looked to see the pattern of my two sisters death, who both died of basically the same thing. Breast cancer. The one who passed away first, did so three months before that date, the second one who passed away today, did so, three months after that very date I just mentioned. What is that? Is that not strange?
Not only that, I also noticed they were both in the hospital for ten days. Each. What is this? How truly very strange.
It says the moon is a waxing crescent, 21% full.
Molly once said to me, this is her favorite song:
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
I was just thinking how this is one of my favorite songs:
Cat People - David Bowie
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Note: After I wrote this post I decided to keep it in draft form. Today I decided to look at it and edit it. Then I realized what date this was....May 19 Sunday 2013. That's my dad's birthday. Anyway it's now posted. It's because I was looking at the lady who channels Ramtha. She was born March 16, 1946 and that prompted me to come and look at this post I had hidden away, because I was so upset that it happened and felt like there was some kind of mystery which I needed to discover. Well, I'm discovering it.
What happened today? My sister died!
That was horrible!
I would never ever wish this on ANYONE.
What's worse, is that I don't know whether I'm coming, or going. Feels like the plate has been taken away from 'home'. So it's move along, move along.
Hey? You busy? I'm free. Would you like to do something? How about ascend?
My Sister Molly!
My goodness, I have a story to tell. But I don't feel like writing all 'night'. It's morning.
She went to the hospital on March 6 at 3:00pm. She passed away March 16, 2013 at 2:08am.
I had no idea this would happen like this and so fast.
I did some research and my Sister Rosy who was in the hospital on September 9, 2012 and then passed away on September 18, at 7:25am 2012, is so much like Molly, my best friend and sister, who is the oldest of the family. Rosy, the second youngest. So the point in time, December 21, 2012...I looked to see the pattern of my two sisters death, who both died of basically the same thing. Breast cancer. The one who passed away first, did so three months before that date, the second one who passed away today, did so, three months after that very date I just mentioned. What is that? Is that not strange?
Not only that, I also noticed they were both in the hospital for ten days. Each. What is this? How truly very strange.
It says the moon is a waxing crescent, 21% full.
Molly once said to me, this is her favorite song:
Pantera - Cemetery Gates
I was just thinking how this is one of my favorite songs:
Cat People - David Bowie
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Note: After I wrote this post I decided to keep it in draft form. Today I decided to look at it and edit it. Then I realized what date this was....May 19 Sunday 2013. That's my dad's birthday. Anyway it's now posted. It's because I was looking at the lady who channels Ramtha. She was born March 16, 1946 and that prompted me to come and look at this post I had hidden away, because I was so upset that it happened and felt like there was some kind of mystery which I needed to discover. Well, I'm discovering it.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Belle's Tales
Tonight I was with my two friends from then, when I was 16. It's been since then that I saw Aurora again. Wow. Wisdom's tales. It was an interesting night. Know not what to say, after all, it was a few days prior, coming on, to this point, that everything occurred. And that's not easy hahaha, to put in words. So. . . I'll leave it to your own comprehension, as, everything flows together anyway, s o when you take a look at your own like, personally, then you can comprehend by the strange words I'm using, what I'm meaning. What ever that means. Haha. Lovely.
Have a good night Belles. See you again, at Summer Solstice.
This guy is so wicked. Listen to the voice. Talk about Capricorn voice skills. Yum!~
You know what Aurora called me today? A Gypsy. Like my mother use to call me. Well, from one gypsy to another. Here's Robert Plant.
Robert Plant Sea Of Love
Have a good night Belles. See you again, at Summer Solstice.
Robert Plant Sea Of Love
Finding Spirit Within
"knowledge of the pneuma (spirit) to the soul and mind"
I've been looking for alignment, and I just found it. The Mother once again helped me! Thank
you! This is what I was working at and this is what I discovered. Just recently I was studying
the body, the soul and the spirit, looking to see which is which as it proceeds from out of me.
I was paying attention very closely, and I had much complications in understanding just what
I was perceiving, as, one part of my essence shone through and I listened to it, and it led me
to a place where old greivances were healed up. But upon being in company with that person,
they said something to me, in a negative, so that I thought they were talking about that
essence. So there was confusion there. I think they were talking about the soul, not the spirit,
and that is why it was a negative connotation. Because the spirit is pure, and all good,
whereas the soul is animal based.
So today I was very determined to find where the center of peace of mind, peace of heart,
peace of whole being is. I had noticed all kinds of different things happening within me, and a
certain type of sorrow which I kept equating with wanting to be with Father Creator, the
Original. And nothing of this earth or anything could make me to feel like wanting to be here. I
was so determined then, to find out just where exactly IS my spirit.
That's when I heard the Mother speaking, way deep from within me, and She reminded me of
the third aspect of myself (not that she said anything about that, but that I remembered the
experience when I first heard her coming to me through that avenue) that I had found when I
was 17 years old, while searching out who I am. I found the left side which was a great big
large black sphere and feminine, and I found the right side which was a tiny dot of golden
light, compared to the left side. The right side was the masculine side. And one day they were
fighting because she was taking up all the decisions, she was being way too dominant, and I
saw that it was getting out of hand, so my right side started to object and began to find
ground of their own. That is when she appeared, the third one. It is like she came from above
my head, swooped down on the left and right me's, and began talking of really highly
knowledgeable things, and she was light-like with a joy that isn't about emotions but is an
energy of motion. She immediately told them (us) to stop fighting and to work together. We
both stood there staring at her, surprised, fascinated and listening to her speak, because she
had such intricate knowledge that we hadn't a clue of. After she finished speaking she left the
same way as she came, apparently back to work in the higher knowledge ways.
So we stopped fighting and eventually we became one person, the left and the right side, with
hardly a distinction between them. That was the one and only time I had experienced her, the
third part of myself. And now today, Mother came from a deep part of me, way back there in
the middle, and she has a sweet and lovely voice, and is very gentle. As soon as I heard her I
focused my entire energy on her so I could grow from what she had to teach. She said that
the words I'm reading on these pages, all these books, are not where knowledge is found. She
said it's inside of me. And I wondered about that. She said the books are the second source.
But the first source is inside of me. And so I asked her, but from where inside of me, and
how will I know when I've found it? So I started looking inside of me all over, and I didn't
find anything at first. Then came to my attention that other being who has been
communicating with me ever since 1984, and I looked at him internally. I don't see him as a
picture, I just listen to his sound and the feeling that his presence gives off and that's how I
see a 'picture' of him. And I began wondering about how to bring peace within me between
him and I, because if I hear him inside of me, and I argue with him inside of me, then there is
no peace. But I want peace all through me. So I began to look at him. And that's when
Mother brought to my view his essence. She showed me how he too was like me, and that
there was love in our beings. So I looked at him a lot closer and noticed a really shiny light
pouring from his golden-mean center, at the heart area. And I felt a strong energy which
frightens my soul or my physical, and I've always wondered about that. It's like an animal
overpowered by the higher energy, and so it fears. Well this time I forced through moving
past those initial impulses so I could see what the Mother was teaching me.
The next thing you know, I began looking for that spirit, that light, inside of myself. That is
when the Mother said that this is where your strength is, where your power is. She showed
me that it is in the center of your heart area, that light. And then I started picking up clues
from parts of my life that I had read or heard or learned about, like astronomy, and I saw that
that light is like a Sun which your mind, Mercury, travels around in its appropriate manner.
When the mind, Mercury, travels all around the body, or in the head part, then it is out of
alignment. It is alone, without the warmth of the sunshine. It is like dark reality, or ignorance
or ugly ego in all its utter distortions. Only when the Mind revolves around the center, the
Light of the body, the spirit, then is it aligned properly. So I began focusing my attention in
that area, and I found that is where perfection is. That is the essence I had seen yesterday,
working through my soul-self getting me out of the house and on to a mission that I had no
idea I was fulfiling until it was completed. Then I looked back and saw how that essence,
what you call my spirit, had been working through all the other parts of my being for fulfilling
tasks that I had no idea I was fulfilling.
So the spirit inside of you is like the Sun in the center of the solar system. The mind is like
Mercury when it properly keeps its attention and focus on the Sun at all times, to
communicate and listen to what the Sun is relaying over to the Mind, Mercury. And once you
find your alignment, you pay attenion to it often so you set the alignment in the correct place
and work from there. And that's what I'll be focusing my attention on from now. Oh and, I
also noticed that the spirit, the center at heart area, doesn't think like the mind, it doesn't talk.
Instead, it emanates. It's very difficult to comprehend how to put it into words. It is animated
from a point and emanates knowledge, beauty, excellence, strength, sobriety, love of a very
strong order without being romantic in style, and essence of all this, in not word form but of a
compact way that suits the entire structure of the person living in the body in which all this
dwells. So now I've found the peace I was looking for. And this is what I mean to develop.
Here's the work I was reading while the Mother was teaching me all this.
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VALENTINUS
A Gnostic for All Seasons
by Stephan A. Hoeller
When questioned regarding the personal elements in his lifelong interest in matters Gnostic,
Professor Gilles Quispel, the noted Gnostic expert and associate of C.G. Jung, tells a
remarkable story. During the dark and hopeless years of World War II, when life and the
world seemed lacking in hope and joy, Quispel turned to the study of the message of the great
Gnostic teacher and poet, Valentinus. The inspiration, comfort, and faith derived from the
writings of Valentinus were instrumental in turning Quispel into a devoted and thoroughly
sympathetic scholar of Gnosticism. It would not be a gross exaggeration to state that the
experience of the Dutch scholar is far from unique and that numerous persons in our
contemporary world are finding the message of this greatest of all Gnostic teachers of
eminent and helpful relevance in their lives.
The Almost Pope
G.R.S. Mead, the great early translator and theosophical interpreter of Gnostic documents,
called Valentinus "the great unknown" of Gnosticism, and indeed it is true that we do not
possess much information regarding his life and personality. He was born in Africa, probably
within the territory of the ancient city of Carthage, around or before 100 A.D. He was
educated in Alexandria and in the prime of his years transferred his residence to Rome, where
he achieved a high degree of prominence in the Christian community between 135 and 160
A.D. Tertullian wrote that Valentinus was a candidate for the office of bishop of Rome and
that he lost the election by a rather narrow margin. This same failed orthodox church father
(Tertullian himself joined the heresy of Montanism) alleges that Valentinus fell into apostasy
around 175 A.D. There is much evidence indicating, however, that he was never universally
condemned as a heretic in his lifetime and that he was a respected member of the Christian
community until his death. He was almost certainly a priest in the mainstream church and may
even have been a bishop.
It is certainly a question of some interest what the course of Christian theology might have
been had Valentinus been elected to the office of bishop of Rome. His hermeneutic vision
combined with his superb sense of the mythical would have probably resulted in a general
flowering of the Gnosis within the very fabric of the Church of Rome, and might have created
an authoritative paradigm of Gnostic Christianity that could not have been easily exorcised for
centuries, if at all.
Like many of the greatest Gnostic teachers, Valentinus claimed to have been instructed by a
direct disciple of one of Jesus' apostles, an "apostolic man" by the name of Theodas.
Tertullian also stated that Valentinus was personally acquainted with Origen, and one may
speculate with some justification that his influence on this orthodox church father was
considerable. The overall character of his contribution has been accurately summarized by
Mead in the following manner:
The Gnosis in his hands is trying to . . . embrace everything, even the most dogmatic
formulation of the traditions of the Master. The great popular movement and its
incomprehensibilities were recognized by Valentinus as an integral part of the mighty
outpouring; he laboured to weave all together, external and internal, into one piece, devoted
his life to the task, and doubtless only at his death perceived that for that age he was
attempting the impossible. None but the very few could ever appreciate the ideal of the man,
much less understand it. (Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, p. 297)
Valentinus, the Gnostic who almost became pope, was thus the only man who could have
succeeded in gaining a form of permanent positive recognition for the Gnostic approach to
the message of Christ. The fact that circumstances and the increasing floodtide of a
regressive pseudo-orthodoxy caused his efforts to fail must be reckoned among the greatest
tragedies of the history of Christianity. Still, many essential features of his unique contribution
have survived and more have recently surfaced from the sands of the desert of Egypt. We
shall address ourselves to the most important of these in the following pages.
Psycho-Cosmogony and the Pneumatic Equation
The often-debated cosmogony of Valentinus might be most profitably understood as being
based on a single existential recognition, which might be summarized thus: Something is
wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the fabric of being at the existential level of human functioning
has lost its integrity. We live in a system which is lacking in essential integrity, and thus is
defective. So-called orthodox Christians as well as Jews recognize that there is a certain
"wrongness" in human existence, but they account for it chiefly in terms of the effects of
human sin, original or other. Jews and Christians hold that whatever is wrong with the world
and human existence is the result of human disobedience to the creator. This means, that all
evil, discomfort, and terror in our lives and in history are somehow our fault. A great cosmic
statement of "Mea Culpa" runs through this world view, which permanently affixes to the
human psyche an element of titanic guilt. Valentinus, in opposition to this guilt-ridden view of
life, held that the above-noted defect is not the result of our wrongdoing, but is inherent in the
system of existence wherein we live and move and have our being. Moreover, by postulating
that creation itself is lacking in integrity, Valentinus not only removes the weight of personal
and collective guilt from our shoulders but also points to the redemptive potential resident in
the soul of every human being.
Humans live in an absurd world that can be rendered meaningful only by Gnosis, or self-
knowledge. When referring to the myth of the creation of the world by a god, Valentinus
shifts the blame for the condition of cosmic defect from humanity to creative divinity. That
God the creator could be at fault in anything is of course tantamount to blasphemy in the eyes
of the orthodox. What we need to recognize, however, is that Valentinus does not view the
creator with the worshipful eyes of the Judeo-Christian believer, but rather sees the creator -
along with other divinities - as a mythologem. Much evidence could be adduced to
demonstrate this, but one must suffice here, taken from the Gospel of Philip:
God created man and man created God. So is it in the world. Men make gods and they
worship their creations. If would be fitting for the gods to worship men. (Logion 85: 1-4)
The present writer holds that Valentinian (as well as all other) Gnosticism can be understood
in psychological terms, so that the religious mythologems treated by the Gnostics are taken to
symbolize psychological conditions and intra-psychic powers of the mind. Taking this
approach we might conclude that what Valentinus tells us is that because our minds have lost
their self-knowledge, we live in a self-created world that is lacking in integrity. The word
kosmos used by Gnostics does not mean "world," but rather "system," and thus can be
perfectly well applied to the systematization of reality created by the human ego. We need not
worry overmuch about whether Valentinus insults Jehovah by calling him a demiurge. What
matters is that we act as our own psychic demiurges by first creating and the inhabiting a
flawed kosmos created in the image and likeness of our own flaws.
The proposition that the human mind lives in a largely self-created world of illusion from
whence only the enlightenment of a kind of Gnosis can rescue it finds powerful analogues in
the two great religions of the East, i.e., Hinduism and Buddhism. The following statement
from the Upanishads could easily have been written by Valentinus or another Gnostic: "This
(world) is God's Maya, through which he deceives himself." According to the teachings of
Buddha, the world of apparent reality consists of ignorance, impermanence, and the lack of
authentic selfhood. Valentinus is in very good company indeed when he establishes the
proposition of the wrong system of false reality that can be set aright by the human spirit.
This brings us to the second part of what some scholars have called the "pneumatic equation"
of Valentinus. After accepting the proposition of the flawed system, the mind needs to
recognize a second and complementary truth. Irenaeus in his work against heresies quotes
Valentinus concerning this:
Perfect redemption is the cognition itself of the ineffable greatness: for since through
ignorance came about the defect . . . the whole system springing from ignorance is dissolved
in Gnosis. Therefore Gnosis is the redemption of the inner man; and it is not of the body, for
the body is corruptible; nor is it psychical, for even the soul is a product of the defect and it
is a lodging to the spirit: pneumatic (spiritual) therefore also must be redemption itself.
Through Gnosis, then, is redeemed the inner, spiritual man: so that to us suffices the Gnosis
of universal being: and this is the true redemption. (Adv. Haer. I. 21,4)
The ignorance of the agencies that create the false system is thus undone and rectified by the
spiritual Gnosis of the human being. The defect can be removed from being by Gnosis. There
is no need whatsoever for guilt, for repentance from so-called sin, neither is there a need for a
blind belief in a vicarious salvation by way of the death of Jesus. We don't need to be saved;
we need to be transformed by Gnosis. The wrong-headedness, perversity, obtuseness, and
malignancy of the existential condition of humanity can be changed into a glorious image of
the fullness of being. This is done not by guilt, shame, and an eternal saviour but by the
activation of the redemptive potential of self-knowledge. Spiritual self-knowledge thus
becomes the inverse equivalent of the ignorance of the unredeemed ego. The elaborate mythic
structures of cosmogonic and redemptive content bequeathed to us by Valentinus are but the
poetic-scriptural expressions of this grand proposition, which has a direct relevance to the
existential condition of the human psyche in all ages and in all cultures.
The Gnostic Saviour: a Maker of Wholeness
It would be erroneous to deduce from the foregoing that Valentinus negated or even
diminished the importance of Jesus in his teachings. The great devotion and reverence shown
for Jesus by Valentinus is amply manifest with sublime poetic beauty in the Gospel of Truth,
which in its original form was in fact authored by Valentinus himself. According to Valentinus,
Jesus is indeed Saviour, but the term needs to be understood in the meaning of the original
Greek word, used by orthodox and Gnostic Christian alike. This word is soter, meaning
healer, or bestower of health. From this is derived the word today translated as salvation, i.e.,
soteria, which originally meant healthiness, deliverance from imperfection, becoming whole,
and preserving one's wholeness. What then is the role of the soter of spiritual maker of
wholeness, if he clearly has no need to save humankind from either original or personal sin?
What is the state or condition of newly found spiritual health bestowed or facilitated by such
a healer-saviour?
The Gnostic contention is that both the world and humanity are sick. The sickness of the
world and its equivalent human illness both have one common root: ignorance. We ignore the
authentic values of life and substitute unauthentic ones for them. The unauthentic values are
for the most part either physical or of the mind. We believe that we need things (such as
money, symbols of power and prestige, physical pleasures) in order to be happy or whole.
Similarly we fall in love with the ideas and abstractions of our minds. (The rigidities and the
hardness of our lives are always due to our excessive attachment to abstract concepts and
precepts.) The sickness of materialism was called hyleticism (worship of matter) by the
Gnostics, while the sickness of abstract intellectualism and moralizing was known as
psychism (worship of the mind-emotional soul). The true role of the facilitators of wholeness
in this world, among whom Jesus occupied the place of honor, is that they can exorcise these
sicknesses by bringing knowledge of the pneuma (spirit) to the soul and mind.
What is this pneuma, this spirit, which alone brings Gnosis and healing to the sickness of
human nature? We cannot truly say what it is, but we can indicate what it does. It has been
said that the spirit bloweth where it listeth. It brings flexibility, existential courage of life. By
way of the healing agency of pneuma, the soul ceases to be fascinated and confined by things
and ideas and thus it can address itself to life. The obsession of the human psyche with the
importance of the material world and/or of the abstract intellectual and moral world is the
sickness from which the great saviours of humanity redeem us. The obsessive state of
material and mental attachments is thus replaced by spiritual freedom; the unauthentic values
of the former are made to give way to the authentic ones brought by the spirit.
Union and Redemption as Sacraments
The methods advocated by Valentinus for the facilitating of a true spiritual Gnosis are not
confined to philosophical doctrines and poetic mythologems. The Valentinian system was
above all a system of sacrament. The Gospel of Philip mentions five of the seven historical
sacraments (or rather their original Gnostic forms) explicitly and mentions the two remaining
ones by implication.
In addition to baptism, anointing, eucharist, the initiation of priests and the rites of the dying,
the Valentinian Gnosis mentions prominently two great and mysterious sacraments called
"redemption" (apolytrosis) and "bridal chamber" respectively. While many of the formulae for
these rites have been lost, their essential meanings can still be discovered by perusing the
various accounts given by the church fathers and the references contained in the Gnostic
scriptures.
The bridal chamber, or pneumatic union, is by far the most frequently alluded to of the greater
sacraments. The Gospel of Philip makes constant references to it and statements concerning
it are scattered in a large number of the Gnostic scriptures. Irenaeus associates this sacrament
primarily with the followers of Valentinus, but the theoretical foundations serving as its
psychological rationale are present in the corpus of Gnostic writings generally. Thus the
Gospel According to Thomas, which is generally considered to be relatively free of
Valentinian influences, presents us with what might be considered the clearest formulation of
the theoretical foundation of the bridal chamber in its 22nd Logion:
When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the
inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single
one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female . . . then shall you enter the
kingdom.
The psychological basis upon which the bridal chamber ritual is founded is fairly easily
understood. The Gnosis considers the human being as divided and fragmented within itself.
The divisions have numerous aspects: We are involved in what modern psychology would
call an Ego-Self dichotomy, in an Anima-Animus dichotomy, in a body-mind dichotomy, in a
subjective-objective dichotomy, and many others. All of these divisions require mending, or
healing. Even as the Pleroma, or divine plenum, is characterized by wholeness, so the human
being must once again become whole and thereby acquire the qualifications to reenter the
Pleroma. Contemporary, especially Jungian depth psychology envisions such a pneumatic
union as the ultimate objective of what it calls the individuation process. Unlike Jungian
psychologists who can offer only the practice of analysis as an instrumentality of the process
of reunification, Valentinus was apparently inspired to document and ritually dramatize this
union in the great sacrament of the bridal chamber. The Sophia myth serves in many ways as
the mythological support of this sacrament. The myth implies that the creation of the
imperfect world and the confinement of the soul within it originated through the disruption of
the original spiritual unity of the Pleroma, so that the return of the soul into the loving embrace
of her bridegroom, as indicated by the return of Sophia into the arms of Jesus, then
represents the healing of this disruption and restoration of wholeness.
The sacrament of the bridal chamber more than any other feature of the Valentinian Gnosis
gives us a clear indication of the psychological versus the theological character of Gnostic
teaching and practice. The professed purpose of this rite is the individual and personal
'becoming one' of the soul of the initiate, and cosmic and eschatological considerations play
no role in this. It is not abstract being or creation that is healed and unified in this sacrament
but the interior being of a human individual. It might be fair to say that Valentinus practiced an
individuation rite, the need for which in today's world is evidenced by the highest and best of
psychological research. It is perhaps characteristic of the sad deterioration of the sacramental
system in historic Christianity that this intrapsychic union has been allowed to devolve into the
sacrament of matrimony, signifying a contractual relationship of two terrestrial personalities
within the context of the flawed order of societal mores.
However, it is not sufficient to be unified in one's nature - so Valentinus implied - one must
also be redeemed from the corrupting and confusing thralldom of the false existential world
wherein one lives. This liberation from the clutches of the world of defect was accomplished
by the sacrament of redemption (apolytrosis) sometimes also called restoration
(apokatastasis). This might be called the final act of separation from the rule of illusory and
deceptive states of mind. While it is by no means established whether the sacrament of the
bridal chamber was administered first and the redemption later, it is the conviction of the
present writer that this indeed was the case. The individual in whom the dualities have been
united and the splits healed (the individuated person, as Jung might have called him or her) is
now empowered to repudiate the forces bereft of illuminating meaning. This is well-expressed
in one of the formulae of restoration preserved from Valentinian source:
I am established, I am redeemed and I redeem my soul from this aeon and from all that comes
from it, in the name of IAO, who redeemed his soul unto the redemption in Christ, the living
one. (Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I. 21,5)
Even as Buddha is said to have triumphantly repudiated the works of Mara the deceiver
subsequent to his enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, so the Gnostic severs every
connection with the unconsciousness and compulsion and lives and dies as a sovereign being
of light and power henceforth. There is every indication that the double sacraments of the
bridal chamber and redemption caused enormous transformations and brought a great
empowerment to the lives of their recipients. (These rites survived in modified form among
the followers of the prophet Mani and the Cathars of the Languedoc. The latter had a great
sacrament resembling the apolytrosis, called the consolamentum, which gave its recipients not
only a great serenity of live but a virtually unequaled courage to face death.)
The foregoing - and much other material relating to the Valentinian Gnosis that had to remain
unexplored in this brief exposition - serve to illustrate the great and undeniable virtues of this
heritage of wisdom. Philosophic integrity, psychological insight, poetic and artistic exaltation
and beauty, mingled with true religious devotion and emotion characterize the contribution of
Valentinus and elevate it over most Gnostic and semi-Gnostic systems and schools. Were one
to combine the highest and best products of Existentialism, one might only hope to
approximate the sublime message of the great technician of human transformation who
beckons to us from the distance of nearly two millennia. Valentinus indeed lives. He was and
is a knower, a Gnostic for all seasons, a source of inspiration and guidance for persons in
every age and clime: a timeless messenger of the mysteries of the soul. One could not
conclude this brief exposition and tribute with a more appropriate hope than the one
embodied in the following fragment of a Valentinian blessing:
May the Grace beyond time and space that was before the beginnings of the Universe fill our
inner man and increase within us the semblance of itself as the grain of mustard seed.
The spiritual elect have attained to gnosis and believe "because of the Truth itself" (Herakleon Fragment 39). Valentinian teachers frequently caution those with gnosis to "share it without hesitation" (Interpretation of Knowledge15:36). They are not to despise others as inferior or ignorant, for "you are ignorant when you hate them and are jealous of them, since you will not receive the grace that dwells within them, being unwilling to reconcile them to the bounty of the head" (Interpretation of Knowledge17:27-31) Rather, as "illuminators in the midst of mortal men" (Letter of Peter to Philip137:8-9)., they have a duty to aid in the salvation of those who do not yet have gnosis. In the Gospel of Philip it says, "Whoever becomes free through acquaintance (gnosis) is a slave on account of love towards those who have not yet taken up the freedom of aquaintance (gnosis)" (Gospel of Philip 77:26-29). It is the role of the spiritual to "return to the world to announce the good tidings of Christ's coming to the 'called'. For through the Spirit and by the Spirit, the soul is drawn to the Savior" (Herakleon Fragment 27).
From: The Called and the Elect
I've been looking for alignment, and I just found it. The Mother once again helped me! Thank
you! This is what I was working at and this is what I discovered. Just recently I was studying
the body, the soul and the spirit, looking to see which is which as it proceeds from out of me.
I was paying attention very closely, and I had much complications in understanding just what
I was perceiving, as, one part of my essence shone through and I listened to it, and it led me
to a place where old greivances were healed up. But upon being in company with that person,
they said something to me, in a negative, so that I thought they were talking about that
essence. So there was confusion there. I think they were talking about the soul, not the spirit,
and that is why it was a negative connotation. Because the spirit is pure, and all good,
whereas the soul is animal based.
So today I was very determined to find where the center of peace of mind, peace of heart,
peace of whole being is. I had noticed all kinds of different things happening within me, and a
certain type of sorrow which I kept equating with wanting to be with Father Creator, the
Original. And nothing of this earth or anything could make me to feel like wanting to be here. I
was so determined then, to find out just where exactly IS my spirit.
That's when I heard the Mother speaking, way deep from within me, and She reminded me of
the third aspect of myself (not that she said anything about that, but that I remembered the
experience when I first heard her coming to me through that avenue) that I had found when I
was 17 years old, while searching out who I am. I found the left side which was a great big
large black sphere and feminine, and I found the right side which was a tiny dot of golden
light, compared to the left side. The right side was the masculine side. And one day they were
fighting because she was taking up all the decisions, she was being way too dominant, and I
saw that it was getting out of hand, so my right side started to object and began to find
ground of their own. That is when she appeared, the third one. It is like she came from above
my head, swooped down on the left and right me's, and began talking of really highly
knowledgeable things, and she was light-like with a joy that isn't about emotions but is an
energy of motion. She immediately told them (us) to stop fighting and to work together. We
both stood there staring at her, surprised, fascinated and listening to her speak, because she
had such intricate knowledge that we hadn't a clue of. After she finished speaking she left the
same way as she came, apparently back to work in the higher knowledge ways.
So we stopped fighting and eventually we became one person, the left and the right side, with
hardly a distinction between them. That was the one and only time I had experienced her, the
third part of myself. And now today, Mother came from a deep part of me, way back there in
the middle, and she has a sweet and lovely voice, and is very gentle. As soon as I heard her I
focused my entire energy on her so I could grow from what she had to teach. She said that
the words I'm reading on these pages, all these books, are not where knowledge is found. She
said it's inside of me. And I wondered about that. She said the books are the second source.
But the first source is inside of me. And so I asked her, but from where inside of me, and
how will I know when I've found it? So I started looking inside of me all over, and I didn't
find anything at first. Then came to my attention that other being who has been
communicating with me ever since 1984, and I looked at him internally. I don't see him as a
picture, I just listen to his sound and the feeling that his presence gives off and that's how I
see a 'picture' of him. And I began wondering about how to bring peace within me between
him and I, because if I hear him inside of me, and I argue with him inside of me, then there is
no peace. But I want peace all through me. So I began to look at him. And that's when
Mother brought to my view his essence. She showed me how he too was like me, and that
there was love in our beings. So I looked at him a lot closer and noticed a really shiny light
pouring from his golden-mean center, at the heart area. And I felt a strong energy which
frightens my soul or my physical, and I've always wondered about that. It's like an animal
overpowered by the higher energy, and so it fears. Well this time I forced through moving
past those initial impulses so I could see what the Mother was teaching me.
The next thing you know, I began looking for that spirit, that light, inside of myself. That is
when the Mother said that this is where your strength is, where your power is. She showed
me that it is in the center of your heart area, that light. And then I started picking up clues
from parts of my life that I had read or heard or learned about, like astronomy, and I saw that
that light is like a Sun which your mind, Mercury, travels around in its appropriate manner.
When the mind, Mercury, travels all around the body, or in the head part, then it is out of
alignment. It is alone, without the warmth of the sunshine. It is like dark reality, or ignorance
or ugly ego in all its utter distortions. Only when the Mind revolves around the center, the
Light of the body, the spirit, then is it aligned properly. So I began focusing my attention in
that area, and I found that is where perfection is. That is the essence I had seen yesterday,
working through my soul-self getting me out of the house and on to a mission that I had no
idea I was fulfiling until it was completed. Then I looked back and saw how that essence,
what you call my spirit, had been working through all the other parts of my being for fulfilling
tasks that I had no idea I was fulfilling.
So the spirit inside of you is like the Sun in the center of the solar system. The mind is like
Mercury when it properly keeps its attention and focus on the Sun at all times, to
communicate and listen to what the Sun is relaying over to the Mind, Mercury. And once you
find your alignment, you pay attenion to it often so you set the alignment in the correct place
and work from there. And that's what I'll be focusing my attention on from now. Oh and, I
also noticed that the spirit, the center at heart area, doesn't think like the mind, it doesn't talk.
Instead, it emanates. It's very difficult to comprehend how to put it into words. It is animated
from a point and emanates knowledge, beauty, excellence, strength, sobriety, love of a very
strong order without being romantic in style, and essence of all this, in not word form but of a
compact way that suits the entire structure of the person living in the body in which all this
dwells. So now I've found the peace I was looking for. And this is what I mean to develop.
Here's the work I was reading while the Mother was teaching me all this.
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VALENTINUS
A Gnostic for All Seasons
by Stephan A. Hoeller
When questioned regarding the personal elements in his lifelong interest in matters Gnostic,
Professor Gilles Quispel, the noted Gnostic expert and associate of C.G. Jung, tells a
remarkable story. During the dark and hopeless years of World War II, when life and the
world seemed lacking in hope and joy, Quispel turned to the study of the message of the great
Gnostic teacher and poet, Valentinus. The inspiration, comfort, and faith derived from the
writings of Valentinus were instrumental in turning Quispel into a devoted and thoroughly
sympathetic scholar of Gnosticism. It would not be a gross exaggeration to state that the
experience of the Dutch scholar is far from unique and that numerous persons in our
contemporary world are finding the message of this greatest of all Gnostic teachers of
eminent and helpful relevance in their lives.
The Almost Pope
G.R.S. Mead, the great early translator and theosophical interpreter of Gnostic documents,
called Valentinus "the great unknown" of Gnosticism, and indeed it is true that we do not
possess much information regarding his life and personality. He was born in Africa, probably
within the territory of the ancient city of Carthage, around or before 100 A.D. He was
educated in Alexandria and in the prime of his years transferred his residence to Rome, where
he achieved a high degree of prominence in the Christian community between 135 and 160
A.D. Tertullian wrote that Valentinus was a candidate for the office of bishop of Rome and
that he lost the election by a rather narrow margin. This same failed orthodox church father
(Tertullian himself joined the heresy of Montanism) alleges that Valentinus fell into apostasy
around 175 A.D. There is much evidence indicating, however, that he was never universally
condemned as a heretic in his lifetime and that he was a respected member of the Christian
community until his death. He was almost certainly a priest in the mainstream church and may
even have been a bishop.
It is certainly a question of some interest what the course of Christian theology might have
been had Valentinus been elected to the office of bishop of Rome. His hermeneutic vision
combined with his superb sense of the mythical would have probably resulted in a general
flowering of the Gnosis within the very fabric of the Church of Rome, and might have created
an authoritative paradigm of Gnostic Christianity that could not have been easily exorcised for
centuries, if at all.
Like many of the greatest Gnostic teachers, Valentinus claimed to have been instructed by a
direct disciple of one of Jesus' apostles, an "apostolic man" by the name of Theodas.
Tertullian also stated that Valentinus was personally acquainted with Origen, and one may
speculate with some justification that his influence on this orthodox church father was
considerable. The overall character of his contribution has been accurately summarized by
Mead in the following manner:
The Gnosis in his hands is trying to . . . embrace everything, even the most dogmatic
formulation of the traditions of the Master. The great popular movement and its
incomprehensibilities were recognized by Valentinus as an integral part of the mighty
outpouring; he laboured to weave all together, external and internal, into one piece, devoted
his life to the task, and doubtless only at his death perceived that for that age he was
attempting the impossible. None but the very few could ever appreciate the ideal of the man,
much less understand it. (Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, p. 297)
Valentinus, the Gnostic who almost became pope, was thus the only man who could have
succeeded in gaining a form of permanent positive recognition for the Gnostic approach to
the message of Christ. The fact that circumstances and the increasing floodtide of a
regressive pseudo-orthodoxy caused his efforts to fail must be reckoned among the greatest
tragedies of the history of Christianity. Still, many essential features of his unique contribution
have survived and more have recently surfaced from the sands of the desert of Egypt. We
shall address ourselves to the most important of these in the following pages.
Psycho-Cosmogony and the Pneumatic Equation
The often-debated cosmogony of Valentinus might be most profitably understood as being
based on a single existential recognition, which might be summarized thus: Something is
wrong. Somewhere, somehow, the fabric of being at the existential level of human functioning
has lost its integrity. We live in a system which is lacking in essential integrity, and thus is
defective. So-called orthodox Christians as well as Jews recognize that there is a certain
"wrongness" in human existence, but they account for it chiefly in terms of the effects of
human sin, original or other. Jews and Christians hold that whatever is wrong with the world
and human existence is the result of human disobedience to the creator. This means, that all
evil, discomfort, and terror in our lives and in history are somehow our fault. A great cosmic
statement of "Mea Culpa" runs through this world view, which permanently affixes to the
human psyche an element of titanic guilt. Valentinus, in opposition to this guilt-ridden view of
life, held that the above-noted defect is not the result of our wrongdoing, but is inherent in the
system of existence wherein we live and move and have our being. Moreover, by postulating
that creation itself is lacking in integrity, Valentinus not only removes the weight of personal
and collective guilt from our shoulders but also points to the redemptive potential resident in
the soul of every human being.
Humans live in an absurd world that can be rendered meaningful only by Gnosis, or self-
knowledge. When referring to the myth of the creation of the world by a god, Valentinus
shifts the blame for the condition of cosmic defect from humanity to creative divinity. That
God the creator could be at fault in anything is of course tantamount to blasphemy in the eyes
of the orthodox. What we need to recognize, however, is that Valentinus does not view the
creator with the worshipful eyes of the Judeo-Christian believer, but rather sees the creator -
along with other divinities - as a mythologem. Much evidence could be adduced to
demonstrate this, but one must suffice here, taken from the Gospel of Philip:
God created man and man created God. So is it in the world. Men make gods and they
worship their creations. If would be fitting for the gods to worship men. (Logion 85: 1-4)
The present writer holds that Valentinian (as well as all other) Gnosticism can be understood
in psychological terms, so that the religious mythologems treated by the Gnostics are taken to
symbolize psychological conditions and intra-psychic powers of the mind. Taking this
approach we might conclude that what Valentinus tells us is that because our minds have lost
their self-knowledge, we live in a self-created world that is lacking in integrity. The word
kosmos used by Gnostics does not mean "world," but rather "system," and thus can be
perfectly well applied to the systematization of reality created by the human ego. We need not
worry overmuch about whether Valentinus insults Jehovah by calling him a demiurge. What
matters is that we act as our own psychic demiurges by first creating and the inhabiting a
flawed kosmos created in the image and likeness of our own flaws.
The proposition that the human mind lives in a largely self-created world of illusion from
whence only the enlightenment of a kind of Gnosis can rescue it finds powerful analogues in
the two great religions of the East, i.e., Hinduism and Buddhism. The following statement
from the Upanishads could easily have been written by Valentinus or another Gnostic: "This
(world) is God's Maya, through which he deceives himself." According to the teachings of
Buddha, the world of apparent reality consists of ignorance, impermanence, and the lack of
authentic selfhood. Valentinus is in very good company indeed when he establishes the
proposition of the wrong system of false reality that can be set aright by the human spirit.
This brings us to the second part of what some scholars have called the "pneumatic equation"
of Valentinus. After accepting the proposition of the flawed system, the mind needs to
recognize a second and complementary truth. Irenaeus in his work against heresies quotes
Valentinus concerning this:
Perfect redemption is the cognition itself of the ineffable greatness: for since through
ignorance came about the defect . . . the whole system springing from ignorance is dissolved
in Gnosis. Therefore Gnosis is the redemption of the inner man; and it is not of the body, for
the body is corruptible; nor is it psychical, for even the soul is a product of the defect and it
is a lodging to the spirit: pneumatic (spiritual) therefore also must be redemption itself.
Through Gnosis, then, is redeemed the inner, spiritual man: so that to us suffices the Gnosis
of universal being: and this is the true redemption. (Adv. Haer. I. 21,4)
The ignorance of the agencies that create the false system is thus undone and rectified by the
spiritual Gnosis of the human being. The defect can be removed from being by Gnosis. There
is no need whatsoever for guilt, for repentance from so-called sin, neither is there a need for a
blind belief in a vicarious salvation by way of the death of Jesus. We don't need to be saved;
we need to be transformed by Gnosis. The wrong-headedness, perversity, obtuseness, and
malignancy of the existential condition of humanity can be changed into a glorious image of
the fullness of being. This is done not by guilt, shame, and an eternal saviour but by the
activation of the redemptive potential of self-knowledge. Spiritual self-knowledge thus
becomes the inverse equivalent of the ignorance of the unredeemed ego. The elaborate mythic
structures of cosmogonic and redemptive content bequeathed to us by Valentinus are but the
poetic-scriptural expressions of this grand proposition, which has a direct relevance to the
existential condition of the human psyche in all ages and in all cultures.
The Gnostic Saviour: a Maker of Wholeness
It would be erroneous to deduce from the foregoing that Valentinus negated or even
diminished the importance of Jesus in his teachings. The great devotion and reverence shown
for Jesus by Valentinus is amply manifest with sublime poetic beauty in the Gospel of Truth,
which in its original form was in fact authored by Valentinus himself. According to Valentinus,
Jesus is indeed Saviour, but the term needs to be understood in the meaning of the original
Greek word, used by orthodox and Gnostic Christian alike. This word is soter, meaning
healer, or bestower of health. From this is derived the word today translated as salvation, i.e.,
soteria, which originally meant healthiness, deliverance from imperfection, becoming whole,
and preserving one's wholeness. What then is the role of the soter of spiritual maker of
wholeness, if he clearly has no need to save humankind from either original or personal sin?
What is the state or condition of newly found spiritual health bestowed or facilitated by such
a healer-saviour?
The Gnostic contention is that both the world and humanity are sick. The sickness of the
world and its equivalent human illness both have one common root: ignorance. We ignore the
authentic values of life and substitute unauthentic ones for them. The unauthentic values are
for the most part either physical or of the mind. We believe that we need things (such as
money, symbols of power and prestige, physical pleasures) in order to be happy or whole.
Similarly we fall in love with the ideas and abstractions of our minds. (The rigidities and the
hardness of our lives are always due to our excessive attachment to abstract concepts and
precepts.) The sickness of materialism was called hyleticism (worship of matter) by the
Gnostics, while the sickness of abstract intellectualism and moralizing was known as
psychism (worship of the mind-emotional soul). The true role of the facilitators of wholeness
in this world, among whom Jesus occupied the place of honor, is that they can exorcise these
sicknesses by bringing knowledge of the pneuma (spirit) to the soul and mind.
What is this pneuma, this spirit, which alone brings Gnosis and healing to the sickness of
human nature? We cannot truly say what it is, but we can indicate what it does. It has been
said that the spirit bloweth where it listeth. It brings flexibility, existential courage of life. By
way of the healing agency of pneuma, the soul ceases to be fascinated and confined by things
and ideas and thus it can address itself to life. The obsession of the human psyche with the
importance of the material world and/or of the abstract intellectual and moral world is the
sickness from which the great saviours of humanity redeem us. The obsessive state of
material and mental attachments is thus replaced by spiritual freedom; the unauthentic values
of the former are made to give way to the authentic ones brought by the spirit.
Union and Redemption as Sacraments
The methods advocated by Valentinus for the facilitating of a true spiritual Gnosis are not
confined to philosophical doctrines and poetic mythologems. The Valentinian system was
above all a system of sacrament. The Gospel of Philip mentions five of the seven historical
sacraments (or rather their original Gnostic forms) explicitly and mentions the two remaining
ones by implication.
In addition to baptism, anointing, eucharist, the initiation of priests and the rites of the dying,
the Valentinian Gnosis mentions prominently two great and mysterious sacraments called
"redemption" (apolytrosis) and "bridal chamber" respectively. While many of the formulae for
these rites have been lost, their essential meanings can still be discovered by perusing the
various accounts given by the church fathers and the references contained in the Gnostic
scriptures.
The bridal chamber, or pneumatic union, is by far the most frequently alluded to of the greater
sacraments. The Gospel of Philip makes constant references to it and statements concerning
it are scattered in a large number of the Gnostic scriptures. Irenaeus associates this sacrament
primarily with the followers of Valentinus, but the theoretical foundations serving as its
psychological rationale are present in the corpus of Gnostic writings generally. Thus the
Gospel According to Thomas, which is generally considered to be relatively free of
Valentinian influences, presents us with what might be considered the clearest formulation of
the theoretical foundation of the bridal chamber in its 22nd Logion:
When you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the
inner and the above as the below, and when you make the male and the female into a single
one, so that the male will not be male and the female not be female . . . then shall you enter the
kingdom.
The psychological basis upon which the bridal chamber ritual is founded is fairly easily
understood. The Gnosis considers the human being as divided and fragmented within itself.
The divisions have numerous aspects: We are involved in what modern psychology would
call an Ego-Self dichotomy, in an Anima-Animus dichotomy, in a body-mind dichotomy, in a
subjective-objective dichotomy, and many others. All of these divisions require mending, or
healing. Even as the Pleroma, or divine plenum, is characterized by wholeness, so the human
being must once again become whole and thereby acquire the qualifications to reenter the
Pleroma. Contemporary, especially Jungian depth psychology envisions such a pneumatic
union as the ultimate objective of what it calls the individuation process. Unlike Jungian
psychologists who can offer only the practice of analysis as an instrumentality of the process
of reunification, Valentinus was apparently inspired to document and ritually dramatize this
union in the great sacrament of the bridal chamber. The Sophia myth serves in many ways as
the mythological support of this sacrament. The myth implies that the creation of the
imperfect world and the confinement of the soul within it originated through the disruption of
the original spiritual unity of the Pleroma, so that the return of the soul into the loving embrace
of her bridegroom, as indicated by the return of Sophia into the arms of Jesus, then
represents the healing of this disruption and restoration of wholeness.
The sacrament of the bridal chamber more than any other feature of the Valentinian Gnosis
gives us a clear indication of the psychological versus the theological character of Gnostic
teaching and practice. The professed purpose of this rite is the individual and personal
'becoming one' of the soul of the initiate, and cosmic and eschatological considerations play
no role in this. It is not abstract being or creation that is healed and unified in this sacrament
but the interior being of a human individual. It might be fair to say that Valentinus practiced an
individuation rite, the need for which in today's world is evidenced by the highest and best of
psychological research. It is perhaps characteristic of the sad deterioration of the sacramental
system in historic Christianity that this intrapsychic union has been allowed to devolve into the
sacrament of matrimony, signifying a contractual relationship of two terrestrial personalities
within the context of the flawed order of societal mores.
However, it is not sufficient to be unified in one's nature - so Valentinus implied - one must
also be redeemed from the corrupting and confusing thralldom of the false existential world
wherein one lives. This liberation from the clutches of the world of defect was accomplished
by the sacrament of redemption (apolytrosis) sometimes also called restoration
(apokatastasis). This might be called the final act of separation from the rule of illusory and
deceptive states of mind. While it is by no means established whether the sacrament of the
bridal chamber was administered first and the redemption later, it is the conviction of the
present writer that this indeed was the case. The individual in whom the dualities have been
united and the splits healed (the individuated person, as Jung might have called him or her) is
now empowered to repudiate the forces bereft of illuminating meaning. This is well-expressed
in one of the formulae of restoration preserved from Valentinian source:
I am established, I am redeemed and I redeem my soul from this aeon and from all that comes
from it, in the name of IAO, who redeemed his soul unto the redemption in Christ, the living
one. (Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. I. 21,5)
Even as Buddha is said to have triumphantly repudiated the works of Mara the deceiver
subsequent to his enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree, so the Gnostic severs every
connection with the unconsciousness and compulsion and lives and dies as a sovereign being
of light and power henceforth. There is every indication that the double sacraments of the
bridal chamber and redemption caused enormous transformations and brought a great
empowerment to the lives of their recipients. (These rites survived in modified form among
the followers of the prophet Mani and the Cathars of the Languedoc. The latter had a great
sacrament resembling the apolytrosis, called the consolamentum, which gave its recipients not
only a great serenity of live but a virtually unequaled courage to face death.)
The foregoing - and much other material relating to the Valentinian Gnosis that had to remain
unexplored in this brief exposition - serve to illustrate the great and undeniable virtues of this
heritage of wisdom. Philosophic integrity, psychological insight, poetic and artistic exaltation
and beauty, mingled with true religious devotion and emotion characterize the contribution of
Valentinus and elevate it over most Gnostic and semi-Gnostic systems and schools. Were one
to combine the highest and best products of Existentialism, one might only hope to
approximate the sublime message of the great technician of human transformation who
beckons to us from the distance of nearly two millennia. Valentinus indeed lives. He was and
is a knower, a Gnostic for all seasons, a source of inspiration and guidance for persons in
every age and clime: a timeless messenger of the mysteries of the soul. One could not
conclude this brief exposition and tribute with a more appropriate hope than the one
embodied in the following fragment of a Valentinian blessing:
May the Grace beyond time and space that was before the beginnings of the Universe fill our
inner man and increase within us the semblance of itself as the grain of mustard seed.
The spiritual elect have attained to gnosis and believe "because of the Truth itself" (Herakleon Fragment 39). Valentinian teachers frequently caution those with gnosis to "share it without hesitation" (Interpretation of Knowledge15:36). They are not to despise others as inferior or ignorant, for "you are ignorant when you hate them and are jealous of them, since you will not receive the grace that dwells within them, being unwilling to reconcile them to the bounty of the head" (Interpretation of Knowledge17:27-31) Rather, as "illuminators in the midst of mortal men" (Letter of Peter to Philip137:8-9)., they have a duty to aid in the salvation of those who do not yet have gnosis. In the Gospel of Philip it says, "Whoever becomes free through acquaintance (gnosis) is a slave on account of love towards those who have not yet taken up the freedom of aquaintance (gnosis)" (Gospel of Philip 77:26-29). It is the role of the spiritual to "return to the world to announce the good tidings of Christ's coming to the 'called'. For through the Spirit and by the Spirit, the soul is drawn to the Savior" (Herakleon Fragment 27).
From: The Called and the Elect
Thursday, February 28, 2013
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Tinariwen
I'ma gonna tell ya, something about the human use, before, when we use to respect one another and the land. Timbuktu had a thriving business of ...
"Timbuktu flourished from the trade in salt, gold, ivory and slaves."
The Dogon Tribe
tribes and their astronomy
............................................ and but THESE ah days, everyone's a free-man, whether you've earned the badge or not, you're all free....free-free-free. For a fee, you can also enjoy, freedom beyond freedom. You can buy this at your nearest pharmacy store nearby in the neighbourhood. Nevermind. The point is, people need to want to be "of service" Of Service, whether or not it is called 'slave' or 'factory worker' don't mattter mad hattter. What matters is that those who WANT to work, are being PUT to work, and those who don't matter, are not around. Therefore, slavery is another way of saying, a service fulfilled. For example: Would I to have absolutely haha no time to deviate from my studies, even though it means a cleaner house, I would lose my time of really learning, and therefore waste it on housecleaning. But, cunning shows, you can HIRE someone to clean the house for you, while you take care of business, and everything works out because those who clean house for you are the closest TO you and in thus this vicinity, they learn a LOT too. So, we work together. There is no such thing as a slave, in MY book that is. When pays an awful lot of attention to excellence and fulfillment, it don't matter what kind of slave work you did, it matters the finishing result, whith what you've accomplished, yourself, at doing.
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Tuareg People
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Adj. 1. surreal - characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
This Is So Sereal Music
Adj. 1. surreal - characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature"
Hello again. This song is for you. It's sir, real....
When the moon hits the sky at ninety-three percent full, that's alright.
Listen, do hear something....
Any way, Leaf Garrett? Wow. He sings an aWefull song. Somthing else... No, it's not darling "Kizz." (but it sounds like it!)
Hey everyone, this is Leif at the Beauty Pagent
Leif Garrett When I Think Of You Live 1979 Miss USA Pageant 1979 MISS USA - Traditional Walk & Crowning Doesn't this girl, "Miss New York" remind you of Sheri Moon Zombie? Olivia Newton-John "Hopelessly Devoted To You" In representation of Jesus Christ? I give you this song. First of all, before you go to listen to it, listen to me. Someone who is sooo knowledgeable, there is no one else out there as knowledgeable as you got it....how, would you feel? all by your OWN self? Think about this. When one is occupied in the Mind and the Heart with helping other's, there is no time to think about hahahahaha 'loneliness'. Alright? Think about it. There IS no lonliness. You are always, hahaha, surrounded. Anyway, this song reminds me of Chirst. You check it out. |
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Dedicated To John Lash
This movie is hilarious, with a twist. And so, I dedicate it to John Lamb Lash.
Hahahaha.... ah....
Monday, February 25, 2013
Sorcearial Music
Ok this is for the musicians.
In this video. Look at how the bodies move. That is sorcearial music. The way the teacher with the white hair talks, that's sorcearial. Calm, gentle, smooth, yet precise and perfect. The bodies, how they move, un-usual. Different. Even strange. But, in coordination, in perfect blend with fourth dimension. That is, third and fourth working together in balance. That's sorcearial music. Go ahead and check out the video, psychically tune into the whole thing, yourself, and what you see and hear. Do this with other things too. Then one day, it will come naturally and you will be able to motion from your inner self the music outwards, for us to hear...like a story...like an ancient poem.
She says: "My body is under the look of my Attention." Remember that. That attention will open up and the higher dimensions of your real self will come swirling in, and don't you start wondering what it means, or judging it, just BE while it works. You can review later. So, what did she say?
In this video. Look at how the bodies move. That is sorcearial music. The way the teacher with the white hair talks, that's sorcearial. Calm, gentle, smooth, yet precise and perfect. The bodies, how they move, un-usual. Different. Even strange. But, in coordination, in perfect blend with fourth dimension. That is, third and fourth working together in balance. That's sorcearial music. Go ahead and check out the video, psychically tune into the whole thing, yourself, and what you see and hear. Do this with other things too. Then one day, it will come naturally and you will be able to motion from your inner self the music outwards, for us to hear...like a story...like an ancient poem.
She says: "My body is under the look of my Attention." Remember that. That attention will open up and the higher dimensions of your real self will come swirling in, and don't you start wondering what it means, or judging it, just BE while it works. You can review later. So, what did she say?
Rose Red
From the Stephen King movie Rose Red,
Happy Full Moon Evening!
A Summer Place
Stephen King's Rose Red
Percy Faith version
A Summer Place (1959, theme)
Theme From A Summer Place - SANTO Y JOHNNY
The Lennon Sisters - Theme from A Summer Place
Theme From A Summer Place
A Summer Place - The Lettermen (with Lyrics)
Theme From A Summer Place - Al Caiola
Andy Williams - A Summer Place - 1962
The Brass Ring - Theme From A Summerplace
Cliff Richard Theme from A Summer Place
Theme from 'A Summer Place' - Norrie Paramor and Orchestra with Patricia Clark
Theme From A Summer Place - Conducted By Steiner
Percy Faith - Theme From A Summer Place [1960]
There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
For within that summer place
Your arms reach out to me
And my heart is free from all care
For it knows
There are no gloomy skies
When seen through the eyes
Of those who are blessed with love
And the sweet secret of
That summer place
Is that it's anywhere (everywhere)
When two people share
All their hopes
All their dreams
All their love
There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
In your arms, in your arms
In your arms, in your arms
Now if Rob Zombie could do a scary version of this, with backward taped into forward sounding haha violins, then that will be the crown royale! Yea. It takes a LOT of skill!
Happy Full Moon Evening!
A Summer Place
Stephen King's Rose Red
Percy Faith version
A Summer Place (1959, theme)
Theme From A Summer Place - SANTO Y JOHNNY
The Lennon Sisters - Theme from A Summer Place
Theme From A Summer Place
A Summer Place - The Lettermen (with Lyrics)
Theme From A Summer Place - Al Caiola
Andy Williams - A Summer Place - 1962
The Brass Ring - Theme From A Summerplace
Cliff Richard Theme from A Summer Place
Theme from 'A Summer Place' - Norrie Paramor and Orchestra with Patricia Clark
Theme From A Summer Place - Conducted By Steiner
Percy Faith - Theme From A Summer Place [1960]
There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
For within that summer place
Your arms reach out to me
And my heart is free from all care
For it knows
There are no gloomy skies
When seen through the eyes
Of those who are blessed with love
And the sweet secret of
That summer place
Is that it's anywhere (everywhere)
When two people share
All their hopes
All their dreams
All their love
There's a summer place
Where it may rain or storm
Yet I'm safe and warm
In your arms, in your arms
In your arms, in your arms
Now if Rob Zombie could do a scary version of this, with backward taped into forward sounding haha violins, then that will be the crown royale! Yea. It takes a LOT of skill!
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Making Sense of Gnostic Letters & Syllables.
Ok. From all I've learned, and not learned, that is, inherent knowledge, I'm going to make sense of this CHAP. XIV to the best of my ability. That way, I can come back to it expounding even further, as I learn more. This is from Irenaeus Against Heresies Book 1.
Roman Numerals Chart
So, chapter 14.
CHAP. XIV.--THE VARIOUS HYPOTHESES OF MARCUS AND OTHERS. THEORIES RESPECTING LETTERS AND SYLLABLES.
1. This Marcus then, declaring that he alone was the matrix and receptacle of the Sige of Colorbasus, inasmuch as he was only-begotten, has brought to the birth in some such way as follows that which was committed to him of the defective Euthymesis. He declares that the infinitely exalted Tetrad descended upon him from the invisible and indescribable places in the form of a woman (for the world could not have borne it coming in its male form), male being the part of the brain that deals with higher thought processes and the female with warm emotions etc. and expounded to him alone its own nature, and the origin of all things, which it had never before revealed to any one either of gods or men. This was done in the following terms: When first the unoriginated, inconceivable Father, who is without material substance, and is neither male nor female, willed to bring forth that which is ineffable to Him, and to endow with form that which is invisible, He opened His mouth, and sent forth the Word similar to Himself, who, standing near, showed Him what He Himself was, inasmuch as He had been manifested in the form of that which was invisible. Now that is really interesting as I've had a similar experience. I was deeply studying within myself who I am when I found this out. So I was the Mother, and the Mother was love and wisdom and she just acted, was, being. Then this Being who I call Belz, was formed from the Father from out of the Mother's blackness, and she didn't know this until she met him. He was alone for a long time just observing, then one day when his knowledge was full, and I was wondering about all of this, then he came to the Mother and spoke every single magnificent thing that was absolutely true about her, but that she could never put into words, nor did she ever have the desire to. So it was like the Mother is one side of the brain, the feminine, and Belz, who spoke to her of herself, is the other side of the brain, masculine. Also feminine has masculine within it as well as masculine having feminine within it. Moreover, the pronunciation of His name took place as follows:--He spoke the first word of it, which was the beginning [of all the rest], and that utterance consisted of four letters. He added the second, and this also consisted of four letters.
Next He uttered the third, and this again embraced ten letters. Finally, He pronounced the fourth, which was composed of twelve letters. Thus took place the enunciation of the whole name, consisting of thirty letters, and four distinct utterances. Each of these elements has its own peculiar letters, and character, and pronunciation, and forms, and images, and there is not one of them that perceives the shape of that [utterance] of which it is an element. Neither does any one know itself, nor is it acquainted with the pronunciation of its neighbour, but each one imagines that by its own utterance it does in fact name the whole. For while every one of them is a part of the whole, it imagines its own sound to be the whole name, and does not leave off sounding until, by its own utterance, it has reached the last letter of each of the elements. This would mean that everyone ever created has the obligation to find out first who they themself are and then to go out and discover each and every individual who exists as well, that is, their perfect nature, just the way I found myself, and now I search to find out the others. Once this is all fullfilled, it finishes, and something else begins. This teacher declares that the restitution of all things will take place, when all these, mixing into one letter, shall utter one and the same sound. He imagines that the emblem of this utterance is found in Amen, he is NOT saying that the word 'amen' is the utterance, he is saying that it is as though everyone were at the end of a prayer saying just one word, all together. That's what this metaphor means. which we pronounce in concert. The diverse sounds (he adds) are those which give form to that AEon who is without material substance and unbegotten, and these, again, are the forms which the Lord has called angels, who continually behold the face of the Father. To continually behold the face of the Father means that they always have their mind on Him, the perfection that created them, the All in everything. That is, they don't fall asleep and start chit-chatting without thinking of what they're saying, nor do they sit down on the couch to fall deeply into a movie on t.v. and forget who they are and what they are here for. Comprehend? That is to be continually beholding the face of the Father. It's ALWAYS in their minds, to find out, to figure it all out, how everything equals Him.
2. Those names of the elements which may be told, and are common, he has called AEons, and words, and roots, and seeds, and fulnesses, and fruits. That is us, all of us. He asserts that each of these, and all that is peculiar to every one of them, is to be understood as contained in the name Ecclesia. Of these elements, the last letter of the last one uttered its voice, that is Sophia, being Wisdom, and the last in line, finished with that cycle and then fell out of it and created a new cycle where everything equals that of where she came from, so it is all the same as in mirror image. and this sound going forth into this universe or, the mother side of it all, because of the blackness, and it does have to do with the Mother finding out about her own self, or sharing it with the Father, is what I'm understanding is the lesson. Such as, everything hidden will be revealed. generated its own elements after the image of the [other] elements, by which he affirms, that both the things here below were arranged into the order they occupy, and those that preceded them were called into existence. He also maintains that the letter itself, the sound of which followed that sound below, was received up again by the syllable to which it belonged, in other words, we are connected to the first aspects by 'like-attracts-to-like' and each have a particular place in the order of the whole, so it's a continuation as well as a learning about ourselves and others until we get the entire picture one day. in order to the completion of the whole, but that the sound remained below as if cast outside. Like we were rejecting out own selves, Hahaha Ahahaha! But the element itself from which the letter with its special pronunciation descended to that below, he affirms to consist of thirty letters, while each of these letters, again, contains other letters in itself, by means of which the name of the letter is expressed. And thus, again, others are named by other letters, and others still by others, so that the multitude of letters swells out into infinitude. You may more clearly understand what I mean by the following example:-- The word Delta contains five letters, viz., D, E, L, T, A: these letters again, are written by other letters, and others still by others. If, then, the entire composition of the word Delta [when thus analyzed] runs out into infinitude, letters continually generating other letters, and following one another in constant succession, how much faster than that [one] word is the [entire] ocean of letters! And if even one letter be thus infinite, just consider the immensity of the letters in the entire name; out of which the Sige of Marcus has taught us the Propator is composed. yea, composed infinitely of infinite, haha! For which reason the Father, knowing the incomprehensibleness of His own nature, assigned to the elements which He also terms AEons, [the power] of each one uttering its own enunciation, because no one of them was capable by itself of uttering the whole. and this is the playground, you see?
3.Moreover, the Tetrad, explaining these things to him more fully, said:--I wish to show thee Aletheia (Truth) herself; for I have brought her down from the dwellings above, that thou mayest see her without a veil, and understand her beauty--that thou mayest also hear her speaking, and admire her wisdom. Behold, then, her head on high, Alpha and Omega; her neck, Beta and Psi; her shoulders with her hands, Gamma and Chi; her breast, Delta and Phi; her diaphragm, Epsilon and Upsilon; her back, Zeta and Tau; her belly, Eta and Sigma; her thighs, Theta and Rho; her knees, Iota and Pi; her legs, Kappa and Omicron; her ancles, Lambda and Xi; her feet, Mu and Nu. This is the whole body of us, but we just need to come into comprehension of ourselves in order to understand just how we are all from Truth. When Sophia is the last letter, then it means the fullness of the whole, so when she came down here, she had the entirety in her, the Truth. And that is what is being revealed, and how we too are part of her, wherefore part of them, part of the whole, and now, no more parts, we are the whole. Such is the body of Truth, according to this magician, such the figure of the element, such the character of the letter. And he calls this element Anthropos (Man), and says that is the fountain of all speech, and the beginning of all sound, and the expression of all that is unspeakable, and the mouth of the silent Sige. This indeed is the body of Truth. But do thou, elevating the thoughts of thy mind on high, listen from the mouth of Truth to the self-begotten Word, who is also the dispenser of the bounty of the Father. What this last sentence means is that, as you behold with your mind the higher things, don't forget to listen to your own self speaking, because out of your own mouth, whether you know it or not, amazing things are being shown. So you have to listen to yourself speak to hear the nuances of what is being said, or spoken through you, because in you are the higher aspects which speak through you, but by your not valuing your own mouth, your own words coming from it, you miss the whole shebang of awesome things being revealed! So listen to your words when they come out.
4. When she (the Tetrad) had spoken these things, Aletheia looked at him, opened her mouth, and uttered a word. That word was a name, and the name was this one which we do know and speak of, viz., Christ Jesus. When she had uttered this name, she at once relapsed into silence. And as Marcus waited in the expectation that she would say something more, the Tetrad again came forward and said, "Thou hast reckoned as contemptible that word which thou hast heard from the mouth of Aletheia. This which thou knowest and seemest to possess, is not an ancient name. For thou possessest the sound of it merely, whilst thou art ignorant of its power. What is being said here is, by not having knowledge of her own self or of others, she would to think this progress contemptible, like someone who is called 'stuck-up' thinking only their stuff is the greatest. So she was in ignorance of the entire process, and she wasn't listening from her own voice to hear what the Father was speaking through her, an individual who needs learning, just like all of us. For Jesus (Ihsous) pronounced Eh-sous is a name arithmetically symbolical, consisting of six letters, six in numerology here on planet Earth is the number for "response-ablitiy" or responsibility. And as you can see, how many actually WANT to take responsibility? Hm? To put the nose to the grind-stone, the pedal to the metal? and is known by all those that belong to the called. But that which is among the AEons of the Pleroma consists of many parts, and is of another form and shape, and is known by those [angels] who are joined in affinity with Him, and whose figures (mightinesses) are always present with Him.
5. Know, then, that the four-and-twenty letters which you possess are symbolical emanations of the three powers that contain the entire number of the elements above.
For you are to reckon thus--that the nine mute letters are [the images] of Pater and Aletheia, I'm thinking this here is Yaldaboath and Sophia, as, Pater is an Aries who starts the show in the zodiac, first one out, and Sophia is the Wisdom which brought it about that he came first, so she is like zero and he is 1. because they are without voice, that is, of such a nature as cannot be uttered or pronounced. You can't see her nor him, but they are nevertheless there. Just like the air you breath is there but you can't see it. But the semi-vowels represent Logos and Zoe, word and life, the beings - archontic, created out of Sophia and Yaldaboath because they are, as it were, midway between the consonants and the vowels, partaking of the nature of both. The vowels, emotions again, are representative of Anthropos and Ecclesia, inasmuch as a voice proceeding from Anthropos gave being to them all; for the sound of the voice imparted to them form. That is mankind, Anthropos, and the whole of all that is above, Ecclesia. Thus, then, Logos and Zoe possess eight [of these letters]; Anthropos and Ecclesia seven; and Pater and Aletheia nine. But since the number allotted to each was unequal, and there is no hierarchy in Father's Creations. He who existed in the Father came down, responsibly, having been specially sent by Him from whom He was separated, for the rectification of what had taken place, that the unity of the Pleromas, being endowed with equality, might develop in all that one power which flows from all. Thus that division which had only seven letters, received the power of eight, and the three sets were rendered alike in point of number, all becoming Ogdoads; which three, when brought together, constitute the number four-and-twenty. The three elements, too (which he declares to exist in conjunction with three powers, and thus form the six from which have flowed the twenty-four letters), being quadrupled four 6's by the word of the ineffable Tetrad, give rise to the same number with them; and these elements he maintains to belong to Him who cannot be named. These, again, were endowed by the three powers with a resemblance to Him who is invisible. And he says that those letters which we call double are the images of the images of these elements; and if these be added to the four-and-twenty letters, by the force of analogy they form the number thirty.
6. He asserts that the fruit of this arrangement and analogy has been manifested in the likeness of an image, namely, Him Autogenes, who is Him, who is the Christ and all of them who are Him. who, after six days, ascended into the mountain along with three others, so there were four of them. and then became one of six (the sixth), in which character He descended and was contained in the Hebdomad, so he created two of himself and one of these he sent to Yaldaboath to be his Son in the physical, so the fifth one stayed but the sixth one went down. since He was the illustrious Ogdoad, and contained in Himself the entire number of the elements, which the descent of the dove (who is Alpha and Omega) made clearly manifest, when He came to be baptized; for the number of the dove is eight hundred and one. And for this reason did Moses declare that man was formed on the sixth day; because only when Christ came were they formed and he came the sixth one and then, again, according to arrangement, it was on the sixth day, which is the preparation, that the last man appeared, for the regeneration of the first, Of this arrangement, both the beginning and the end were formed at that sixth hour, at which He was nailed to the tree. For that perfect being Nous, knowing that the number six had the power both of formation and regeneration, declared to the children of light, that regeneration which has been wrought out by Him who appeared as the Episemon in regard to that number. Whence also he declares it is that the double letters contain the Episemon number; double letters meaning the two who were created up in the mountain, one stayed and one went down. for this Episemon, when joined to the twenty-four elements, completed the name of thirty letters.
7. He employed as his instrument, as the Sige of Marcus declares, the power of seven letters, in order that the fruit of the independent will [of Achamoth] might be revealed. Gurdjieff says 3 and 7 are very important numbers. I figured the three out but had much trouble figuring the seven out. (One day it clicked. The two sets of three which make six are like 'fixed' as they call it in astrology. But the entrance of the seven makes it cunning, pliable, mutable, and opens a little place so the psychic energy can come through, and that is how history can be sent down the line from generation to generation without having to have it written down.) So the seven opened up the 'airways' in order to reveal what was in the Achamoth, what was in that one's will to have accomplish. Which are also the seven bands of awareness that don Juan talked about, who are these inorganic beings who work for the Achamoth. "Consider this present Episemon," she says--"Him who was formed after the [original] Episemon, as being, as it were, divided or cut into two parts, and remaining outside; sort of like Yaldaboath the Hebdomad is one, and the seven bands of awareness, the inorganic beings, is two. who, by His own power and wisdom, through means of that which had been produced by Himself, gave life to this world, consisting of seven powers, after the likeness of the power of the Hebdomad, and so formed it, that it is the soul of everything visible. And He indeed uses this work Himself as if it had been formed by His own free will; as though he uses tools but the rest, as being images of what cannot be [fully] imitated, are subservient to the Enthymesis of the mother. meaning they have self-will and so cannot be used as tools therefore they are subservient to the mother and must clean themselves, i.e. make responsible choices to fulfill their part.
and these are the seven bands of awareness that don Juan talked about, and that gnosis spoke of when they say Yaldaboath had babies and their names were 'ga-ga' 'goo-goo' 'coooh' haha etc. And the first heaven indeed pronounces Alpha, the next to this Epsilon, the third Eta, the fourth, which is also in the midst of the seven, utters the sound of Iota, the fifth Omicron, the sixth Upsilon, the seventh, which is also the fourth from the middle, utters the elegant Omega,"--as the Sige of Marcus, talking a deal of nonsense, but uttering no word of truth, confidently asserts. "And these powers," she adds, "being all simultaneously clasped in each other's embrace, like don Juan said, they are clustered together these bands of light or awareness. do sound out the glory of Him by whom they were produced; and the glory of that sound is transmitted upwards to the Propator." She asserts, moreover, that "the sound of this uttering of praise, having been wafted to the earth, has become the Framer and the Parent of those things which are on the earth." so also, like don Juan says, these inorganic beings are a test to us, like this writing here says, they are like parents to us, who guide us, in which ever way they know best...and you know, your parents do the best they can, even if they aren't perfect, but they do somehow get the gist of the teachings of life across to you. So do, forgive your parents if they seemed cruel. They're just doing the best they can. "What can you do when you live in a shoe?!"
8. He instances, in proof of this, the case of infants who have just been born, the cry of whom, as soon as they have issued from the womb, is in accordance with the sound of every one of these elements. in other words, every bit of our physical structure was composed from them, from their individual work on each body part internal and external so as to create our DNA and genes. As, then, he says, the seven powers glorify the Word, so also does the complaining soul of infants. For this reason, too, David said: "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise;" and again: "The heavens declare the glory of God." Hence also it comes to pass, that when the soul is involved in difficulties and distresses, for its own relief it calls out, "Oh" (W), in honour of the letter in question, so that its cognate soul above may recognise [its distress], and send down to it relief.
9. Thus it is, that in regard to the whole name, which consists of thirty letters, and Bythus, who receives his increase from the letters of this [name], and, moreover, the body of Aletheia, which is composed of twelve members, each of which consists of two letters, and the voice which she uttered without having spoken at all, and in regard to the analysis of that name which cannot be expressed in words, and the soul of the world and of man, according as they possess that arrangement, which is after the image [of things above], he has uttered his nonsensical opinions. It remains that I relate how the Tetrad showed him from the names a power equal in number; so that nothing, my friend, which I have received as spoken by him, may remain unknown to thee; and thus thy request, often proposed to me, may be fulfilled.
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Note: Under the heading Gnosticism in this website, I found a definition for the word Bythus, because I was wondering about it.
Gnosticism
What is the meaning of Bythus?
A: Bythus is the name for the Gnostic abyss but like all things they seems to have placed a twist on it such that it existed as the abyss of Deity proceeding from the invisible and nameless heights of the perfect pre-existing Aeon which they called the first principle that is Progenitor and Bythus.
Hippolytus (vi, 37) speaks of the Gnostic Valentinus who he says: He whom Plato spoke of a king of all, this man postulated as father and Bythus and first principle of all the aeons.
The Valentinians held that to be a process of self-limitation. The Bythus evolved a series of pairs of aeons, male and female, any pair of which may be called the pleroma. The Aeon was a unity, which manifested itself as a plurality.
Later Gnosticism exhibits them as a confederacy of Divine existences proceeding in pairs from the supreme Father, each pair originating another, descending in dignity as it becomes more remote from the source (ERE, Aeons, Vol. 1, p. 149).
The doctrines of the Syzygies had its counterpart in Mithraism also and both are derived from the Babylonian system, which Gnosticism softened (cf. ERE, ibid). In this sense they also have their counterparts in Japanese Shintoism, Mahayana Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, the Platonic Ideas, Philos Powers and the Stoic Logoi and so on.
The Shinto system set forth in the Kojiki rests on pure pantheism. As Izanagi and Izanami the male and female principles are personified and depicted as grossly lustful. These procreative Aeons are derived from abstract deities.
In the Northern School of Adibuddha, the five Buddhas of contemplation (Vairochana, Aksobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha, and Amoghasiddhi) emanate the five future Buddhas of contemplation, the source of the five worlds, which successively make up the universe. They became the five elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether or orthodox Brahmanism. The Zoroastrian has a similar but twofold system of aeons in the kingdoms of Light and of Darkness. Ahuramazda heads the kingdom of Light and Ahriman heads the kingdom of Darkness.
The Gnostic Pleroma was also a name given to the whole series taken together which then stands to the Bythus in the feminine relation as Tiamat did to Apsu. However, Gnosticism never formed a homogenous body of opinions.
Hippolytus warns us that there were many varying opinions among them concerning the Bythus itself. Some thinkers held Bythus to be outside of the pleroma while others held him to be within it but separated from the rest by the Horus which was a personified boundary (cf. ERE, Vol. 1, pp. 54-55) and perhaps this reflects the Egyptian mysteries, as the socio-economic origins of Gnosticism, according to Green, lay in the Alexandrian system.
Some also deposed the Bythus from the head of the series and made him follow the first ogdoad. Some thought of him as unwedded, others as androgynous or asexual. Others gave him Sige as his consort and others the two powers Thought and Will.
The relation of Gnostic speculation on the Bythus is indicated in one sentence of Irenaeus (ap. Epiphaneus xxxii, 7) "For some say that he is unwedded and is neither male nor female, nor in fact, anything at all." Perhaps this is the reference in question.
In some ways he was portrayed in a quasi-Buddhist sense being exalted above all contrarieties: The Absolute identical with Nothing; the Being of whom even existence might not be predicated. It is from this Gnostic concept that the Mystics developed the thought process:
"I saw and knew the being of all things, the Byss and the Abyss, and the eternal generation of the Holy Trinity, the descent and original of the world and of all creatures through the Divine Wisdom" (Jacob Behmen, quoted by James, Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 411 and also ERE, ibid, p. 55).
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SO! Some of my comments. Yes Sophia did create us, like John Lamb Lash knew, but there is more to it than he has told us. In depth, when Sophia came here, it was out of the Wisdom of the Mother, because she could see the working on in the place, and that it needed restoration to its proper way of being. Hence we see the messes down here, in mirroring some of the messes that went on over there. But Sophia personally wasn't aware of all of this, the Mother was though. But just as the Mother is aware of things, Sophia too is aware of things, and neither of them are aware of the entire plan until it is revealed in its workings. So Mother had made something to cause something else to occur, and that was when Sophia fell into this place to begin creating a place of learning for all those who knew not themselves fully. That is when Sophia being out here, drew the Christ to work, Up there, and you get the two beings split, one in that world, one in this world. Which is another way of saying "how to Create." Because you have to expand away from the Father, since going to the Father before you are ready can make you to not exist anymore. And what's the point of not existing when you were created TO exist, so the way of doing that, is knowledge.
Therefore, the Christ with his perfect mind, began correcting HERE what was amiss over there, as well as over here, as, this is the mirror image. I know many have been taught that everything is perfect in heaven and they believe this, without questioning. But when you take a REALLY close look at it all...you will find, it is not as perfectly set out as it was taught to you, hence, this seeming to be 'fallen goddess' that entered into this 'darkness'. The darkness, so far, has always represented ignorance. But it doesn't have to! There is knowledge there too. It's just that you can't describe light in darkness because light extinguishes darkness, which is obviously totally ignoring what darkness now is. What IS the darkness. What does it hold? Well were you to have first been created, and you weren't in darknes, then you would not exist. Simple as that. So, there is wisdom in darkness, albeit, invisible. Like the Mother. Invisible in darkness. She takes care of the creations that come through to make them visible. Then they have the responsibility to find out just who they are. Each one is unique and individual and are an expression of the GodHead they came from. And she loves the Father and his Ways, so obviously, she'll do anything to help everything that comes out of Him, to stay alive! The more beauty to behold! Hahahaha. I could go on and on. So anyway. Sophia created this place through 'accident.' And when Christ came to her aid, he reorganized eveything so it fits perrrfectly. That is why they say HE created everything, NOT Sophia....Christ. The higher, masculine mind of the pair. And she was the mother. Interesting. We could go on and on...ahahaha, and we do!.....
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Sunday February 24, 2013, 3:33 PM
Now I know what He meant when he said, it's like planning and then planting a vineyard, but the only thing that comes out of it is wild grape, good for nothing. So now our work is doubled. We have to tear down the entire vineyard and build a new one. Hahaha. But that doesn't explain much. It's the arrogance, the self-centeredness, the childishness complete with temper tantrums, drama-drama, and 'look at me! ain't i great?" The cunning of trying to steal attention and glory, but the ignorance of the wild grape doesn't have a clue that all this is being seen, all those thoughts in the dim head, are all known. For an example, I had gotten rid of my t.v. a few years ago, only keeping one for viewing videos that I selected to watch. Then my boyfriend bought me a t.v. for Christmas, out of the thought that I need to keep aware of what's going on around the world, instead of relying on my sister to call me when anything out of the blue, or important happens. But I rarely watch it. And today, haha, when I turned it on, I saw that nothing has changed. There are still the immature shows, immature programs, non-truth telling, falsehoods, lies, idiocy! I couldn't even watch the end of haha the hour of a program, it was so ridiculous, nevermind the commercials and the idiotic 'drama-drama' music they play on the show to back up trite and stupid scenes. What a bunch of garbage. I was relieved to shut it off.
Well? Does anything ever change? Or is it stuck in static? Does anyone think of others, ever, without thinking of how they can benefit their own self? Is it such a deaf, blind, dumb, and dumber world that the spiral leads only down? To the alchemization pit? When is this EVER going to be done with?
I was reading some scientific papers on the problems of cancer etc etc, earlier today, before I even was aware the t.v. existed. They use a 'special language' that they all know, but one so special it is meant only to decieve you further, because you let them, so they tell you that they are still looking for a cure for cancer, and yet, knowing the pulse of society, and their own selling of themselves into the lucre, they just work to keep you stupid to the fact that there already is a cure, but it is so simple that you already know it, but you don't want to know, so they can keep getting paid to work in the laboratory, and sell drugs when your self-indulgence has overcome you and you need a different kind of candy, and more pity from others who are also like you self pitying and wanting reassurance of that self pity so they don't feel like they're in the sand box alone. It goes round and round, like a snake with its tail in its mouth, caught in an illusory frame of mind that they call "Time."
Ever seen the Dragon's symbol, the 8? Or the snake eating its own tail? What does that symbolism mean? Anyone? The Ouroboros. Our robotus selves burrowing in a hole of forgetfulness, ignorance willfully.
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Do you know how Dr. Emoto, the Japanese Scientist showed us about how water holds essences? And how crystals are formed? Or how no crystalline structure can come through out of useless sludge? Not that rock and roll is useless sludge. Because I know it to be a tool, and a good one at that. But yea, definitely, some of that stuff is not called music at all. And therefore, no crystalline structure shows up from those frozen pieces of water.
Ok, I'll get to the point. Seeing as there are people who ARE working at self-knowledge and taking responsibility, amongst the smoldering inflammation which contributes to proliferation and survival of malignant cells, yes carcinogenic beings who don't give a damn, and only want to fight fight fight, no matter what the war, arguement, bibble-babble, judo (the cunning way), chop-chop, anything they can get their derlict minds into for confrontation and the destruction of anything that's of worth?...
Well, we need to create cells of crystalline forms, groups who work together. Not a good example, but look at the way a honeycomb is set up, all those geometrical shapes fit snuggly into each other supporting the whole structure. I said, not a good example, as one's mind may wander off to the hahaha 'hive' mentality, which is the exact opposite of what I mean here. The crystalline cells of small groups are much more powerful than a large group. A large group may be led astray, and like animals, form a mob gone in sane, as though a stampede of wild buffalo fly off a cliff in their dementia. But small groups can keep their sanity, speak with one another and actually listen to each other hearing what one has to say as well as hearing one's own self speaking, wherefore being able to learn from one's self, as well as from those others from your group.
Now these groups do not close out other similar groups, because that would be their demise, since it isn't one little group that rules the world, because that is a weakness and meant to fall. They instead recognize the other crystalline cells and when the circles swirl around like water swirls around, they communicate with each other at the same time upholding their own crystalline cell. That way, it is similar to a honeycomb because all of them are in communication with each other. BUT...they do not allow smoldering unaligned misaligned asymmetrical (in violation of symmetry) self inflated carcinogenic beings to become part of their group, because they don't have any crystalline potential in them, they only perform sludge. That's how you know who's who, or what's what. It's in the heart of the man to know these things. (And when I said "carcinogenic beings" I was not talking about people who have cancer, I am talking about discordant-refusing-to-be-of-service type of people).
In fact, Dr. Emoto put this idea forward himself, and I'm backing it up because I have thought about it for a loooooong time now, and I see that it works.
Like my childhood dance instructor of the traditional Croatian dances, our Priest, who taught us these words...."together together, apart apart." That there is the tempo of the dance steps we take all around one another in order to communicate and share the things we've learned from our crystalline cell group, and through those dance steps everyone who is anyone of importance will learn. (Like Gurdjieff's choreographed dances.) And those dance steps naturally enclose us in safety, thus, keeping out nefarious influences who would to try to slip in. Those dance steps, those thought forms, those concentrations, those wills to do this and get it going and flowing, is. That is what they mean by "the meek shall inherit the Earth", after all, who else will take care of it were it not for the meek? Those who care ARE the meek. It takes some amount of self-limitation to do well. Self-indulgence all can see leads to a bitter end. Cancer self indulges until it is extinct!
So, start your group cell formation and get crystallized. Open up to one another whom you feel safe to open up with and go on and do the same to others so that these groups begin to form and swirl.
Roman Numerals Chart
So, chapter 14.
CHAP. XIV.--THE VARIOUS HYPOTHESES OF MARCUS AND OTHERS. THEORIES RESPECTING LETTERS AND SYLLABLES.
1. This Marcus then, declaring that he alone was the matrix and receptacle of the Sige of Colorbasus, inasmuch as he was only-begotten, has brought to the birth in some such way as follows that which was committed to him of the defective Euthymesis. He declares that the infinitely exalted Tetrad descended upon him from the invisible and indescribable places in the form of a woman (for the world could not have borne it coming in its male form), male being the part of the brain that deals with higher thought processes and the female with warm emotions etc. and expounded to him alone its own nature, and the origin of all things, which it had never before revealed to any one either of gods or men. This was done in the following terms: When first the unoriginated, inconceivable Father, who is without material substance, and is neither male nor female, willed to bring forth that which is ineffable to Him, and to endow with form that which is invisible, He opened His mouth, and sent forth the Word similar to Himself, who, standing near, showed Him what He Himself was, inasmuch as He had been manifested in the form of that which was invisible. Now that is really interesting as I've had a similar experience. I was deeply studying within myself who I am when I found this out. So I was the Mother, and the Mother was love and wisdom and she just acted, was, being. Then this Being who I call Belz, was formed from the Father from out of the Mother's blackness, and she didn't know this until she met him. He was alone for a long time just observing, then one day when his knowledge was full, and I was wondering about all of this, then he came to the Mother and spoke every single magnificent thing that was absolutely true about her, but that she could never put into words, nor did she ever have the desire to. So it was like the Mother is one side of the brain, the feminine, and Belz, who spoke to her of herself, is the other side of the brain, masculine. Also feminine has masculine within it as well as masculine having feminine within it. Moreover, the pronunciation of His name took place as follows:--He spoke the first word of it, which was the beginning [of all the rest], and that utterance consisted of four letters. He added the second, and this also consisted of four letters.
Next He uttered the third, and this again embraced ten letters. Finally, He pronounced the fourth, which was composed of twelve letters. Thus took place the enunciation of the whole name, consisting of thirty letters, and four distinct utterances. Each of these elements has its own peculiar letters, and character, and pronunciation, and forms, and images, and there is not one of them that perceives the shape of that [utterance] of which it is an element. Neither does any one know itself, nor is it acquainted with the pronunciation of its neighbour, but each one imagines that by its own utterance it does in fact name the whole. For while every one of them is a part of the whole, it imagines its own sound to be the whole name, and does not leave off sounding until, by its own utterance, it has reached the last letter of each of the elements. This would mean that everyone ever created has the obligation to find out first who they themself are and then to go out and discover each and every individual who exists as well, that is, their perfect nature, just the way I found myself, and now I search to find out the others. Once this is all fullfilled, it finishes, and something else begins. This teacher declares that the restitution of all things will take place, when all these, mixing into one letter, shall utter one and the same sound. He imagines that the emblem of this utterance is found in Amen, he is NOT saying that the word 'amen' is the utterance, he is saying that it is as though everyone were at the end of a prayer saying just one word, all together. That's what this metaphor means. which we pronounce in concert. The diverse sounds (he adds) are those which give form to that AEon who is without material substance and unbegotten, and these, again, are the forms which the Lord has called angels, who continually behold the face of the Father. To continually behold the face of the Father means that they always have their mind on Him, the perfection that created them, the All in everything. That is, they don't fall asleep and start chit-chatting without thinking of what they're saying, nor do they sit down on the couch to fall deeply into a movie on t.v. and forget who they are and what they are here for. Comprehend? That is to be continually beholding the face of the Father. It's ALWAYS in their minds, to find out, to figure it all out, how everything equals Him.
2. Those names of the elements which may be told, and are common, he has called AEons, and words, and roots, and seeds, and fulnesses, and fruits. That is us, all of us. He asserts that each of these, and all that is peculiar to every one of them, is to be understood as contained in the name Ecclesia. Of these elements, the last letter of the last one uttered its voice, that is Sophia, being Wisdom, and the last in line, finished with that cycle and then fell out of it and created a new cycle where everything equals that of where she came from, so it is all the same as in mirror image. and this sound going forth into this universe or, the mother side of it all, because of the blackness, and it does have to do with the Mother finding out about her own self, or sharing it with the Father, is what I'm understanding is the lesson. Such as, everything hidden will be revealed. generated its own elements after the image of the [other] elements, by which he affirms, that both the things here below were arranged into the order they occupy, and those that preceded them were called into existence. He also maintains that the letter itself, the sound of which followed that sound below, was received up again by the syllable to which it belonged, in other words, we are connected to the first aspects by 'like-attracts-to-like' and each have a particular place in the order of the whole, so it's a continuation as well as a learning about ourselves and others until we get the entire picture one day. in order to the completion of the whole, but that the sound remained below as if cast outside. Like we were rejecting out own selves, Hahaha Ahahaha! But the element itself from which the letter with its special pronunciation descended to that below, he affirms to consist of thirty letters, while each of these letters, again, contains other letters in itself, by means of which the name of the letter is expressed. And thus, again, others are named by other letters, and others still by others, so that the multitude of letters swells out into infinitude. You may more clearly understand what I mean by the following example:-- The word Delta contains five letters, viz., D, E, L, T, A: these letters again, are written by other letters, and others still by others. If, then, the entire composition of the word Delta [when thus analyzed] runs out into infinitude, letters continually generating other letters, and following one another in constant succession, how much faster than that [one] word is the [entire] ocean of letters! And if even one letter be thus infinite, just consider the immensity of the letters in the entire name; out of which the Sige of Marcus has taught us the Propator is composed. yea, composed infinitely of infinite, haha! For which reason the Father, knowing the incomprehensibleness of His own nature, assigned to the elements which He also terms AEons, [the power] of each one uttering its own enunciation, because no one of them was capable by itself of uttering the whole. and this is the playground, you see?
3.Moreover, the Tetrad, explaining these things to him more fully, said:--I wish to show thee Aletheia (Truth) herself; for I have brought her down from the dwellings above, that thou mayest see her without a veil, and understand her beauty--that thou mayest also hear her speaking, and admire her wisdom. Behold, then, her head on high, Alpha and Omega; her neck, Beta and Psi; her shoulders with her hands, Gamma and Chi; her breast, Delta and Phi; her diaphragm, Epsilon and Upsilon; her back, Zeta and Tau; her belly, Eta and Sigma; her thighs, Theta and Rho; her knees, Iota and Pi; her legs, Kappa and Omicron; her ancles, Lambda and Xi; her feet, Mu and Nu. This is the whole body of us, but we just need to come into comprehension of ourselves in order to understand just how we are all from Truth. When Sophia is the last letter, then it means the fullness of the whole, so when she came down here, she had the entirety in her, the Truth. And that is what is being revealed, and how we too are part of her, wherefore part of them, part of the whole, and now, no more parts, we are the whole. Such is the body of Truth, according to this magician, such the figure of the element, such the character of the letter. And he calls this element Anthropos (Man), and says that is the fountain of all speech, and the beginning of all sound, and the expression of all that is unspeakable, and the mouth of the silent Sige. This indeed is the body of Truth. But do thou, elevating the thoughts of thy mind on high, listen from the mouth of Truth to the self-begotten Word, who is also the dispenser of the bounty of the Father. What this last sentence means is that, as you behold with your mind the higher things, don't forget to listen to your own self speaking, because out of your own mouth, whether you know it or not, amazing things are being shown. So you have to listen to yourself speak to hear the nuances of what is being said, or spoken through you, because in you are the higher aspects which speak through you, but by your not valuing your own mouth, your own words coming from it, you miss the whole shebang of awesome things being revealed! So listen to your words when they come out.
4. When she (the Tetrad) had spoken these things, Aletheia looked at him, opened her mouth, and uttered a word. That word was a name, and the name was this one which we do know and speak of, viz., Christ Jesus. When she had uttered this name, she at once relapsed into silence. And as Marcus waited in the expectation that she would say something more, the Tetrad again came forward and said, "Thou hast reckoned as contemptible that word which thou hast heard from the mouth of Aletheia. This which thou knowest and seemest to possess, is not an ancient name. For thou possessest the sound of it merely, whilst thou art ignorant of its power. What is being said here is, by not having knowledge of her own self or of others, she would to think this progress contemptible, like someone who is called 'stuck-up' thinking only their stuff is the greatest. So she was in ignorance of the entire process, and she wasn't listening from her own voice to hear what the Father was speaking through her, an individual who needs learning, just like all of us. For Jesus (Ihsous) pronounced Eh-sous is a name arithmetically symbolical, consisting of six letters, six in numerology here on planet Earth is the number for "response-ablitiy" or responsibility. And as you can see, how many actually WANT to take responsibility? Hm? To put the nose to the grind-stone, the pedal to the metal? and is known by all those that belong to the called. But that which is among the AEons of the Pleroma consists of many parts, and is of another form and shape, and is known by those [angels] who are joined in affinity with Him, and whose figures (mightinesses) are always present with Him.
5. Know, then, that the four-and-twenty letters which you possess are symbolical emanations of the three powers that contain the entire number of the elements above.
For you are to reckon thus--that the nine mute letters are [the images] of Pater and Aletheia, I'm thinking this here is Yaldaboath and Sophia, as, Pater is an Aries who starts the show in the zodiac, first one out, and Sophia is the Wisdom which brought it about that he came first, so she is like zero and he is 1. because they are without voice, that is, of such a nature as cannot be uttered or pronounced. You can't see her nor him, but they are nevertheless there. Just like the air you breath is there but you can't see it. But the semi-vowels represent Logos and Zoe, word and life, the beings - archontic, created out of Sophia and Yaldaboath because they are, as it were, midway between the consonants and the vowels, partaking of the nature of both. The vowels, emotions again, are representative of Anthropos and Ecclesia, inasmuch as a voice proceeding from Anthropos gave being to them all; for the sound of the voice imparted to them form. That is mankind, Anthropos, and the whole of all that is above, Ecclesia. Thus, then, Logos and Zoe possess eight [of these letters]; Anthropos and Ecclesia seven; and Pater and Aletheia nine. But since the number allotted to each was unequal, and there is no hierarchy in Father's Creations. He who existed in the Father came down, responsibly, having been specially sent by Him from whom He was separated, for the rectification of what had taken place, that the unity of the Pleromas, being endowed with equality, might develop in all that one power which flows from all. Thus that division which had only seven letters, received the power of eight, and the three sets were rendered alike in point of number, all becoming Ogdoads; which three, when brought together, constitute the number four-and-twenty. The three elements, too (which he declares to exist in conjunction with three powers, and thus form the six from which have flowed the twenty-four letters), being quadrupled four 6's by the word of the ineffable Tetrad, give rise to the same number with them; and these elements he maintains to belong to Him who cannot be named. These, again, were endowed by the three powers with a resemblance to Him who is invisible. And he says that those letters which we call double are the images of the images of these elements; and if these be added to the four-and-twenty letters, by the force of analogy they form the number thirty.
6. He asserts that the fruit of this arrangement and analogy has been manifested in the likeness of an image, namely, Him Autogenes, who is Him, who is the Christ and all of them who are Him. who, after six days, ascended into the mountain along with three others, so there were four of them. and then became one of six (the sixth), in which character He descended and was contained in the Hebdomad, so he created two of himself and one of these he sent to Yaldaboath to be his Son in the physical, so the fifth one stayed but the sixth one went down. since He was the illustrious Ogdoad, and contained in Himself the entire number of the elements, which the descent of the dove (who is Alpha and Omega) made clearly manifest, when He came to be baptized; for the number of the dove is eight hundred and one. And for this reason did Moses declare that man was formed on the sixth day; because only when Christ came were they formed and he came the sixth one and then, again, according to arrangement, it was on the sixth day, which is the preparation, that the last man appeared, for the regeneration of the first, Of this arrangement, both the beginning and the end were formed at that sixth hour, at which He was nailed to the tree. For that perfect being Nous, knowing that the number six had the power both of formation and regeneration, declared to the children of light, that regeneration which has been wrought out by Him who appeared as the Episemon in regard to that number. Whence also he declares it is that the double letters contain the Episemon number; double letters meaning the two who were created up in the mountain, one stayed and one went down. for this Episemon, when joined to the twenty-four elements, completed the name of thirty letters.
7. He employed as his instrument, as the Sige of Marcus declares, the power of seven letters, in order that the fruit of the independent will [of Achamoth] might be revealed. Gurdjieff says 3 and 7 are very important numbers. I figured the three out but had much trouble figuring the seven out. (One day it clicked. The two sets of three which make six are like 'fixed' as they call it in astrology. But the entrance of the seven makes it cunning, pliable, mutable, and opens a little place so the psychic energy can come through, and that is how history can be sent down the line from generation to generation without having to have it written down.) So the seven opened up the 'airways' in order to reveal what was in the Achamoth, what was in that one's will to have accomplish. Which are also the seven bands of awareness that don Juan talked about, who are these inorganic beings who work for the Achamoth. "Consider this present Episemon," she says--"Him who was formed after the [original] Episemon, as being, as it were, divided or cut into two parts, and remaining outside; sort of like Yaldaboath the Hebdomad is one, and the seven bands of awareness, the inorganic beings, is two. who, by His own power and wisdom, through means of that which had been produced by Himself, gave life to this world, consisting of seven powers, after the likeness of the power of the Hebdomad, and so formed it, that it is the soul of everything visible. And He indeed uses this work Himself as if it had been formed by His own free will; as though he uses tools but the rest, as being images of what cannot be [fully] imitated, are subservient to the Enthymesis of the mother. meaning they have self-will and so cannot be used as tools therefore they are subservient to the mother and must clean themselves, i.e. make responsible choices to fulfill their part.
and these are the seven bands of awareness that don Juan talked about, and that gnosis spoke of when they say Yaldaboath had babies and their names were 'ga-ga' 'goo-goo' 'coooh' haha etc. And the first heaven indeed pronounces Alpha, the next to this Epsilon, the third Eta, the fourth, which is also in the midst of the seven, utters the sound of Iota, the fifth Omicron, the sixth Upsilon, the seventh, which is also the fourth from the middle, utters the elegant Omega,"--as the Sige of Marcus, talking a deal of nonsense, but uttering no word of truth, confidently asserts. "And these powers," she adds, "being all simultaneously clasped in each other's embrace, like don Juan said, they are clustered together these bands of light or awareness. do sound out the glory of Him by whom they were produced; and the glory of that sound is transmitted upwards to the Propator." She asserts, moreover, that "the sound of this uttering of praise, having been wafted to the earth, has become the Framer and the Parent of those things which are on the earth." so also, like don Juan says, these inorganic beings are a test to us, like this writing here says, they are like parents to us, who guide us, in which ever way they know best...and you know, your parents do the best they can, even if they aren't perfect, but they do somehow get the gist of the teachings of life across to you. So do, forgive your parents if they seemed cruel. They're just doing the best they can. "What can you do when you live in a shoe?!"
8. He instances, in proof of this, the case of infants who have just been born, the cry of whom, as soon as they have issued from the womb, is in accordance with the sound of every one of these elements. in other words, every bit of our physical structure was composed from them, from their individual work on each body part internal and external so as to create our DNA and genes. As, then, he says, the seven powers glorify the Word, so also does the complaining soul of infants. For this reason, too, David said: "Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise;" and again: "The heavens declare the glory of God." Hence also it comes to pass, that when the soul is involved in difficulties and distresses, for its own relief it calls out, "Oh" (W), in honour of the letter in question, so that its cognate soul above may recognise [its distress], and send down to it relief.
9. Thus it is, that in regard to the whole name, which consists of thirty letters, and Bythus, who receives his increase from the letters of this [name], and, moreover, the body of Aletheia, which is composed of twelve members, each of which consists of two letters, and the voice which she uttered without having spoken at all, and in regard to the analysis of that name which cannot be expressed in words, and the soul of the world and of man, according as they possess that arrangement, which is after the image [of things above], he has uttered his nonsensical opinions. It remains that I relate how the Tetrad showed him from the names a power equal in number; so that nothing, my friend, which I have received as spoken by him, may remain unknown to thee; and thus thy request, often proposed to me, may be fulfilled.
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Note: Under the heading Gnosticism in this website, I found a definition for the word Bythus, because I was wondering about it.
Gnosticism
What is the meaning of Bythus?
A: Bythus is the name for the Gnostic abyss but like all things they seems to have placed a twist on it such that it existed as the abyss of Deity proceeding from the invisible and nameless heights of the perfect pre-existing Aeon which they called the first principle that is Progenitor and Bythus.
Hippolytus (vi, 37) speaks of the Gnostic Valentinus who he says: He whom Plato spoke of a king of all, this man postulated as father and Bythus and first principle of all the aeons.
The Valentinians held that to be a process of self-limitation. The Bythus evolved a series of pairs of aeons, male and female, any pair of which may be called the pleroma. The Aeon was a unity, which manifested itself as a plurality.
Later Gnosticism exhibits them as a confederacy of Divine existences proceeding in pairs from the supreme Father, each pair originating another, descending in dignity as it becomes more remote from the source (ERE, Aeons, Vol. 1, p. 149).
The doctrines of the Syzygies had its counterpart in Mithraism also and both are derived from the Babylonian system, which Gnosticism softened (cf. ERE, ibid). In this sense they also have their counterparts in Japanese Shintoism, Mahayana Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, the Platonic Ideas, Philos Powers and the Stoic Logoi and so on.
The Shinto system set forth in the Kojiki rests on pure pantheism. As Izanagi and Izanami the male and female principles are personified and depicted as grossly lustful. These procreative Aeons are derived from abstract deities.
In the Northern School of Adibuddha, the five Buddhas of contemplation (Vairochana, Aksobhya, Ratnasambhava, Amitabha, and Amoghasiddhi) emanate the five future Buddhas of contemplation, the source of the five worlds, which successively make up the universe. They became the five elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether or orthodox Brahmanism. The Zoroastrian has a similar but twofold system of aeons in the kingdoms of Light and of Darkness. Ahuramazda heads the kingdom of Light and Ahriman heads the kingdom of Darkness.
The Gnostic Pleroma was also a name given to the whole series taken together which then stands to the Bythus in the feminine relation as Tiamat did to Apsu. However, Gnosticism never formed a homogenous body of opinions.
Hippolytus warns us that there were many varying opinions among them concerning the Bythus itself. Some thinkers held Bythus to be outside of the pleroma while others held him to be within it but separated from the rest by the Horus which was a personified boundary (cf. ERE, Vol. 1, pp. 54-55) and perhaps this reflects the Egyptian mysteries, as the socio-economic origins of Gnosticism, according to Green, lay in the Alexandrian system.
Some also deposed the Bythus from the head of the series and made him follow the first ogdoad. Some thought of him as unwedded, others as androgynous or asexual. Others gave him Sige as his consort and others the two powers Thought and Will.
The relation of Gnostic speculation on the Bythus is indicated in one sentence of Irenaeus (ap. Epiphaneus xxxii, 7) "For some say that he is unwedded and is neither male nor female, nor in fact, anything at all." Perhaps this is the reference in question.
In some ways he was portrayed in a quasi-Buddhist sense being exalted above all contrarieties: The Absolute identical with Nothing; the Being of whom even existence might not be predicated. It is from this Gnostic concept that the Mystics developed the thought process:
"I saw and knew the being of all things, the Byss and the Abyss, and the eternal generation of the Holy Trinity, the descent and original of the world and of all creatures through the Divine Wisdom" (Jacob Behmen, quoted by James, Varieties of Religious Experience, p. 411 and also ERE, ibid, p. 55).
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SO! Some of my comments. Yes Sophia did create us, like John Lamb Lash knew, but there is more to it than he has told us. In depth, when Sophia came here, it was out of the Wisdom of the Mother, because she could see the working on in the place, and that it needed restoration to its proper way of being. Hence we see the messes down here, in mirroring some of the messes that went on over there. But Sophia personally wasn't aware of all of this, the Mother was though. But just as the Mother is aware of things, Sophia too is aware of things, and neither of them are aware of the entire plan until it is revealed in its workings. So Mother had made something to cause something else to occur, and that was when Sophia fell into this place to begin creating a place of learning for all those who knew not themselves fully. That is when Sophia being out here, drew the Christ to work, Up there, and you get the two beings split, one in that world, one in this world. Which is another way of saying "how to Create." Because you have to expand away from the Father, since going to the Father before you are ready can make you to not exist anymore. And what's the point of not existing when you were created TO exist, so the way of doing that, is knowledge.
Therefore, the Christ with his perfect mind, began correcting HERE what was amiss over there, as well as over here, as, this is the mirror image. I know many have been taught that everything is perfect in heaven and they believe this, without questioning. But when you take a REALLY close look at it all...you will find, it is not as perfectly set out as it was taught to you, hence, this seeming to be 'fallen goddess' that entered into this 'darkness'. The darkness, so far, has always represented ignorance. But it doesn't have to! There is knowledge there too. It's just that you can't describe light in darkness because light extinguishes darkness, which is obviously totally ignoring what darkness now is. What IS the darkness. What does it hold? Well were you to have first been created, and you weren't in darknes, then you would not exist. Simple as that. So, there is wisdom in darkness, albeit, invisible. Like the Mother. Invisible in darkness. She takes care of the creations that come through to make them visible. Then they have the responsibility to find out just who they are. Each one is unique and individual and are an expression of the GodHead they came from. And she loves the Father and his Ways, so obviously, she'll do anything to help everything that comes out of Him, to stay alive! The more beauty to behold! Hahahaha. I could go on and on. So anyway. Sophia created this place through 'accident.' And when Christ came to her aid, he reorganized eveything so it fits perrrfectly. That is why they say HE created everything, NOT Sophia....Christ. The higher, masculine mind of the pair. And she was the mother. Interesting. We could go on and on...ahahaha, and we do!.....
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Sunday February 24, 2013, 3:33 PM
Now I know what He meant when he said, it's like planning and then planting a vineyard, but the only thing that comes out of it is wild grape, good for nothing. So now our work is doubled. We have to tear down the entire vineyard and build a new one. Hahaha. But that doesn't explain much. It's the arrogance, the self-centeredness, the childishness complete with temper tantrums, drama-drama, and 'look at me! ain't i great?" The cunning of trying to steal attention and glory, but the ignorance of the wild grape doesn't have a clue that all this is being seen, all those thoughts in the dim head, are all known. For an example, I had gotten rid of my t.v. a few years ago, only keeping one for viewing videos that I selected to watch. Then my boyfriend bought me a t.v. for Christmas, out of the thought that I need to keep aware of what's going on around the world, instead of relying on my sister to call me when anything out of the blue, or important happens. But I rarely watch it. And today, haha, when I turned it on, I saw that nothing has changed. There are still the immature shows, immature programs, non-truth telling, falsehoods, lies, idiocy! I couldn't even watch the end of haha the hour of a program, it was so ridiculous, nevermind the commercials and the idiotic 'drama-drama' music they play on the show to back up trite and stupid scenes. What a bunch of garbage. I was relieved to shut it off.
Well? Does anything ever change? Or is it stuck in static? Does anyone think of others, ever, without thinking of how they can benefit their own self? Is it such a deaf, blind, dumb, and dumber world that the spiral leads only down? To the alchemization pit? When is this EVER going to be done with?
I was reading some scientific papers on the problems of cancer etc etc, earlier today, before I even was aware the t.v. existed. They use a 'special language' that they all know, but one so special it is meant only to decieve you further, because you let them, so they tell you that they are still looking for a cure for cancer, and yet, knowing the pulse of society, and their own selling of themselves into the lucre, they just work to keep you stupid to the fact that there already is a cure, but it is so simple that you already know it, but you don't want to know, so they can keep getting paid to work in the laboratory, and sell drugs when your self-indulgence has overcome you and you need a different kind of candy, and more pity from others who are also like you self pitying and wanting reassurance of that self pity so they don't feel like they're in the sand box alone. It goes round and round, like a snake with its tail in its mouth, caught in an illusory frame of mind that they call "Time."
Ever seen the Dragon's symbol, the 8? Or the snake eating its own tail? What does that symbolism mean? Anyone? The Ouroboros. Our robotus selves burrowing in a hole of forgetfulness, ignorance willfully.
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Do you know how Dr. Emoto, the Japanese Scientist showed us about how water holds essences? And how crystals are formed? Or how no crystalline structure can come through out of useless sludge? Not that rock and roll is useless sludge. Because I know it to be a tool, and a good one at that. But yea, definitely, some of that stuff is not called music at all. And therefore, no crystalline structure shows up from those frozen pieces of water.
Ok, I'll get to the point. Seeing as there are people who ARE working at self-knowledge and taking responsibility, amongst the smoldering inflammation which contributes to proliferation and survival of malignant cells, yes carcinogenic beings who don't give a damn, and only want to fight fight fight, no matter what the war, arguement, bibble-babble, judo (the cunning way), chop-chop, anything they can get their derlict minds into for confrontation and the destruction of anything that's of worth?...
Well, we need to create cells of crystalline forms, groups who work together. Not a good example, but look at the way a honeycomb is set up, all those geometrical shapes fit snuggly into each other supporting the whole structure. I said, not a good example, as one's mind may wander off to the hahaha 'hive' mentality, which is the exact opposite of what I mean here. The crystalline cells of small groups are much more powerful than a large group. A large group may be led astray, and like animals, form a mob gone in sane, as though a stampede of wild buffalo fly off a cliff in their dementia. But small groups can keep their sanity, speak with one another and actually listen to each other hearing what one has to say as well as hearing one's own self speaking, wherefore being able to learn from one's self, as well as from those others from your group.
Now these groups do not close out other similar groups, because that would be their demise, since it isn't one little group that rules the world, because that is a weakness and meant to fall. They instead recognize the other crystalline cells and when the circles swirl around like water swirls around, they communicate with each other at the same time upholding their own crystalline cell. That way, it is similar to a honeycomb because all of them are in communication with each other. BUT...they do not allow smoldering unaligned misaligned asymmetrical (in violation of symmetry) self inflated carcinogenic beings to become part of their group, because they don't have any crystalline potential in them, they only perform sludge. That's how you know who's who, or what's what. It's in the heart of the man to know these things. (And when I said "carcinogenic beings" I was not talking about people who have cancer, I am talking about discordant-refusing-to-be-of-service type of people).
In fact, Dr. Emoto put this idea forward himself, and I'm backing it up because I have thought about it for a loooooong time now, and I see that it works.
Like my childhood dance instructor of the traditional Croatian dances, our Priest, who taught us these words...."together together, apart apart." That there is the tempo of the dance steps we take all around one another in order to communicate and share the things we've learned from our crystalline cell group, and through those dance steps everyone who is anyone of importance will learn. (Like Gurdjieff's choreographed dances.) And those dance steps naturally enclose us in safety, thus, keeping out nefarious influences who would to try to slip in. Those dance steps, those thought forms, those concentrations, those wills to do this and get it going and flowing, is. That is what they mean by "the meek shall inherit the Earth", after all, who else will take care of it were it not for the meek? Those who care ARE the meek. It takes some amount of self-limitation to do well. Self-indulgence all can see leads to a bitter end. Cancer self indulges until it is extinct!
So, start your group cell formation and get crystallized. Open up to one another whom you feel safe to open up with and go on and do the same to others so that these groups begin to form and swirl.
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