He is not wood but split a piece and He is there,
He is not the earth but pick up a stone and you will find Him,
He is not a bird but its song is His holy voice,
He is not the sky but look up and you will see His shining face,
He is not a man but He became flesh and dwelt among us,
He has no name but we call him Father and Master and Lord.
How can I express the truth?
God is one. All is the One,One is the All. Yet God is more than the All.
Material reality is only an illusion.
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Today's PPF Reading
See now this is why I love the Tarot,what a wonderful reading!
Past
The river was ruff and full of rapids but I began to travel out of the fog of confusion and the water calmed,
Present
On the horizon out over the calm water I see 8 bright stars but one is bigger than the rest and shining the brightest pointing the way home. Right now Hope and Joy are my allies!
Future
There will come a time soon on my journey where I will have to look inward and discover which road the Lord will have me take as I journey onwards towards the distant crown!
Past
The river was ruff and full of rapids but I began to travel out of the fog of confusion and the water calmed,
Present
On the horizon out over the calm water I see 8 bright stars but one is bigger than the rest and shining the brightest pointing the way home. Right now Hope and Joy are my allies!
Future
There will come a time soon on my journey where I will have to look inward and discover which road the Lord will have me take as I journey onwards towards the distant crown!
Thursday, November 29, 2012
From the Inside out
I was taught to pray not listen, to read not feel,to accept not see.
Eventually I realized through studying the Gnostic Gospels that each of our spirits is of the same substance as the Divine so how could I learn to hear,feel,and see?
By following the advice of my lord Jesus Christ,
"...the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.
When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and
you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living
Father..."
-Gospel of Thomas,3
What I didn't know before is that God speaks from the inside out not from the outside in.
Though it may be obvious to you it wasn't to me. My understanding was stilted.
I looked everywhere else for God ,tried all kinds of practices, but I never found him because I didn't look inside. I was afraid too you see. I knew that inside me was great darkness.
A great and horrible darkness,the shadow.
But what I know now is that darkness is the illusion that encrusts the Divine Spark inside me and hides its light from my view.
Christ did not come into this world,he did not take on limited material form to save the righteous,
"I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."
-Matthew 9:13
There is NOTHING so dark that it can not be illuminated,there is no one beyond redemption and enlightenment. Not even me and certainly not you!
"Light and darkness, life and death, right and left are mutually dependent; it is impossible for them to separate. Accordingly the 'good' are not good, the 'bad' are not bad, 'life' is not life, 'death' is not death."
-Gospel of Philip
I am not bad and I am not good,I am both.
When I learned to see the good in me again not just the bad I could hear,feel,and see my Lord from within!
It came when I realized that I am just a fool on a journey. When I accepted that I could forgive myself and then the Light came!
Eventually I realized through studying the Gnostic Gospels that each of our spirits is of the same substance as the Divine so how could I learn to hear,feel,and see?
By following the advice of my lord Jesus Christ,
"...the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.
When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and
you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living
Father..."
-Gospel of Thomas,3
What I didn't know before is that God speaks from the inside out not from the outside in.
Though it may be obvious to you it wasn't to me. My understanding was stilted.
I looked everywhere else for God ,tried all kinds of practices, but I never found him because I didn't look inside. I was afraid too you see. I knew that inside me was great darkness.
A great and horrible darkness,the shadow.
But what I know now is that darkness is the illusion that encrusts the Divine Spark inside me and hides its light from my view.
Christ did not come into this world,he did not take on limited material form to save the righteous,
"I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners."
-Matthew 9:13
There is NOTHING so dark that it can not be illuminated,there is no one beyond redemption and enlightenment. Not even me and certainly not you!
"Light and darkness, life and death, right and left are mutually dependent; it is impossible for them to separate. Accordingly the 'good' are not good, the 'bad' are not bad, 'life' is not life, 'death' is not death."
-Gospel of Philip
I am not bad and I am not good,I am both.
When I learned to see the good in me again not just the bad I could hear,feel,and see my Lord from within!
It came when I realized that I am just a fool on a journey. When I accepted that I could forgive myself and then the Light came!
Admit it and Change Everything
Nail me down in a box of cold words, that box is your
coffin.
I do not know who I am.
I am astounded lucid confusion.
I am not a Christian, I am not a Jew, I am not a Zoroastrian,
And I am not even a Muslim.
I do not belong to the land, or to any known or unknown
sea.
Nature cannot own or claim me, nor can heaven,
Nor can India, China, Bulgaria,
My birthplace is placelessness,
My sign to have and give no sign,
You say you see my mouth, ears, eyes, nose-they are not
mine.
I am the life of life.
I am that cat, this stone, no one.
I have thrown duality away like an old dishrag,
I see and know all times and worlds,
As one, one, always one.
So what do I have to do to get you to admit who is
speaking?
Admit it and change everything!
This is your own voice echoing off the walls of God."
-Rumi
Monday, November 26, 2012
Salvation
Far from being an elitist religion this idea points to the universalism of Gnosticism. Taken to its logical conclusion it means all will be saved though some with less rebirths than others. This is in keeping with the belief that our Divine Spark is actually part of the Unknown Father and He can not be whole so long as we remain in the prison of material reality.
Now the Valentinian Gnostics taught that you must be resurrected in life if you are to be resurrected after death which is to say you have to reach Christ consciousness or Theosis as our eastern orthodox brothers call it.
"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
-2 Corinthians 5:17
Jesus repeatedly talks about the two natures becoming one in the Gospel of Thomas. He further says quote,
"He who will drink from my mouth will become
like Me. I myself shall become he, and the things that are hidden
will become revealed to him."
(saying 108)
My understanding of all this is far from perfect ,after all I am only a fool, so I do not believe I understand it fully but this concept has perhaps two stages,
1. Making the two natures of man,the Light and the darkness,one.
2. Experiencing the true reality which is that all multiplicity is an illusion. Coming to know that the universe of forms ,that is material reality, is an illusion and that all things are one. Forming a union with the Divine from which all things emanate and are inseparably connected.
I believe this comes from knowing yourself and listening to your Divine Spark within. There are many methods one can use to do this. My chief methods at this point are study and meditation on the Gnostic Gospels,interpreting my dreams, and visualizations on a Kabbalistic interpretation of the Tarot along with readings.
It is my belief that those who attain Christ Consciousness in this life will break the cycle and upon material death ascend to the Pleroma,the heavenly realm of Light and Oneness!
I hope to one day KNOW it.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
Wholeness
When I started out on my journey I believed that there were two natures,the darkness and the light and indeed in a symbolic way there are but I have come to know that it is only an illusion. Multiplicity is the demiurges illusion.
The great evil I see in others is my ego projecting my own faults on to them.
To experience the true reality I must learn to transmutate my two natures into one,I must become whole.
All things emanate from the Source,the One,the Monad,the Unknown Father of all and as Jesus said,
"When you make the two one, and when you
make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside,
and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the
female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the
female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye,
and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and
a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter [the
Kingdom]."
-Gospel of Thomas,22
As the great Valentinian writer elaborated:
"Light and darkness, life and death, right and left are mutually dependent; it is impossible for them to separate. Accordingly the 'good' are not good, the 'bad' are not bad, 'life' is not life, 'death' is not death."
-Gospel of Philip
Remember,
"Jesus said, "When you make the two one, you will become the
sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will
move away."
-Gospel of Thomas,106
"Jesus said, "He who will drink from my mouth will become
like Me. I myself shall become he, and the things that are hidden
will become revealed to him."
-Gospel of Thomas,108
The great evil I see in others is my ego projecting my own faults on to them.
To experience the true reality I must learn to transmutate my two natures into one,I must become whole.
All things emanate from the Source,the One,the Monad,the Unknown Father of all and as Jesus said,
"When you make the two one, and when you
make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside,
and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the
female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the
female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye,
and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and
a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter [the
Kingdom]."
-Gospel of Thomas,22
As the great Valentinian writer elaborated:
"Light and darkness, life and death, right and left are mutually dependent; it is impossible for them to separate. Accordingly the 'good' are not good, the 'bad' are not bad, 'life' is not life, 'death' is not death."
-Gospel of Philip
Remember,
"Jesus said, "When you make the two one, you will become the
sons of man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will
move away."
-Gospel of Thomas,106
"Jesus said, "He who will drink from my mouth will become
like Me. I myself shall become he, and the things that are hidden
will become revealed to him."
-Gospel of Thomas,108
Symbols and Images
"Truth did not come into the world naked, but
in symbols and images. The world cannot receive truth in any other way.
There is rebirth and an image of rebirth, and it is by means of this
image that one must be reborn. What image is this?
It is resurrection. Image must arise through image. By means of this image the bridal chamber and the image must approach the truth. This is restoration.
It is resurrection. Image must arise through image. By means of this image the bridal chamber and the image must approach the truth. This is restoration.
Those who receive the
name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and have accepted them must do
this. If someone does not accept them, the name (Christian) will also be
taken from that person. A person receives them in chrism (anointing)
with the oil of the power of the cross. The apostles called this power
the right and the left. This person is no longer a christian but IS
Christ.
The master (Jesus) did everything in a mystery: baptism,chrism,eucharist,redem
For this reason He said,
"I have come to make the lower like the upper and the outer like the inner,and to unite them in that place."
He spoke here in symbols and images."
-The Gospel of Philip, 67:9-32
The master (Jesus) did everything in a mystery: baptism,chrism,eucharist,redem
For this reason He said,
"I have come to make the lower like the upper and the outer like the inner,and to unite them in that place."
He spoke here in symbols and images."
-The Gospel of Philip, 67:9-32
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