Gnosis: The Missing Piece [Esoteric Saturdays]
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2022
- In this concluding video to the Gnostic Trilogy, I would like to share a little about what my life was like when I first embraced Gnosticism as my underpinning worldview, and what I eventually came to realise was missing from the narrative in order to allow it to be a workable, balanced way of conceiving existence.
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Denis, What translation of The Golden Asse do you reccomend?
@@subspeciez The Golden Ass, Apuleius.
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Hinduism is merely dualistic on the surface for those who need it to be. It is a non dualistic religion. Our destiny is to remember that we are Brahman, and the world is Maya, illusion. Our goal is to reinforce that by renouncing the world and ourselves, and become Parabrahman. Listen to Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, the translated interviews about what his guru told him, and how he became enlightened- really a short story, it’s the meat around those bare bones that is the essence.
Also, some researchers have proven that the original Christians believed that the Holy Spirit was the Devine Feminine, which was simply expunged from the original NT.
I have a problem with Revelations putting words into Jesus’s mouth, just as I have a problem with whomever wrote the NT putting words into his mouth. I do like the teaching “when your eye is single”, referring to the Third Eye, wether he said it or not.
I also find a bit of a contradiction in your claiming that you think the Gnostic teachings strike a chord with you as they are to be secret teachings… Firstly, that contradicts your claim that we have a responsibility to leave the world a better place spiritually and your saying you would never copyright your process for something, but rather freely share it… 2nd, I don’t believe Jesus would’ve been into keeping his teachings secret as he seemed to criticize the Phariseans et al for having one outward and one inward practice- furthermore, what is kept secret anymore, anything? Perhaps your actual personal Magickal goals, to which you’ve invested your energy? Idk, just thinking here.
I do understand the idea of not everyone being able to comprehend the mysteries, and therefore Jesus had a teaching that was simplified for them, but “mysteries” isn’t, to my lights, something one should be withholding necessarily the route to how to unravel them, but sharing, with those interested and just as passionate in them.
Oh, and people like Vivekenanda and Ramana Maharshi totally taught that you indeed can achieve powers including invisibility and flying through the air/mastering the physical plane- smelling sweet things all the time by focusing on your nose and doing a breathing exercise (basically a Lesser Banishing Ritual), but Vivekenanda warns that you A) Must be ready and should try to have a guru, B) Are literally procrastinating along the way to your ultimate goal of rejecting the world and becoming Brahman - the watcher - behind the ego, and that it is a dangerous flirting with ego and worldliness to seek mastery over a world of illusions (which one need not bother taking mastery over, as if one is Brahman….).
Nisargadatta never bothered with meditation - though what he did was more direct.
Love your channel.
Cheers
Divine, not “Devine” like the John Waters film character, lofknl.
This video has the golden nugget that I’ve been missing to take the next step in my own spiritual journey. Thank you so much for sharing.
I'm so glad I could help! 😄🙏
PLEASE Keep up the series of GNOSTIC videos! The first one, and this one alike put into words many ideas that I have already came to piece together on my own, along with other new threads of interest to follow. Truly inspiring and affirming!
Hi J.S.! Thank you so much for the kind words! I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! 😄🙏
Thank you Denis. This video was moving. And I’m sure I’ll be revisiting it multiple times. So, profound.
I'm so glad you've enjoyed it, Raven-Hare! 😄🙏
Thank you so much Denis, another marvellous presentation. Must admit I got a a bit of a shock at the end of the list of the Goddesses names, when the final one was Queen Isis. that name has come to me several times this week. So I guess I was guided to watch this wonderful video today .
This is seriously good work and a great example of why I subscribe to your channel and Patreon. Thank you for sacrificing your time to make this for us. I'm sure it would be easier to just review things, but these videos (and the research and accuracy) add so much to our community and the general discourse. I've seen this shared across multiple discord servers, and it makes me happy that so many folks will be exposed to it.
:D Thank you again, dear Vince! Warmest festive wishes to you and your close ones!
I'm really so glad this video has sparked some conversations :)
This is a very interesting topic and it's good to know more about you! Thank you for sharing. Blessings to you and your family, Denis! All hail the Divine Mother.
All hail indeed! 😄🙏
It's always trickiest to talk about the topics that are closest to our hearts. I'm so glad you found it interesting! 😄💫
I had a very similar experience. My faith was shaken from the first word, In the absolute best way
A revelation. Thank you. The words of your experiences and your journey feel like a powerful light that has revealed not only my own incompleteness of being but also the path forward. Thank you for the radiance that I've felt all the way over here.
Hi Jason! I'm delighted the video was of use! 🙏
Wow , this one was so moving !!!! You’re a great service to all of us who can get a hand on this information! Thank you 🙏🏼
Beautiful, profound, and a timely message on my path. Thank you so much, as always, for sharing your thoughts, knowledge, and experience. 🙏🏻
It's my great pleasure, Sir Faffalot! Always delighted to know the videos are helpful! 😄🙏
Thank you for this. Outstanding. And perfectly timed. Only this past year have, after decades of seeking and practices, I have also come to realize this, and understand it. It feels as thought I've come to it too late, but in a way, I now have more to look forward to - in this body. :)
Absolutely brilliant! I can't love your work enough. It put in simple terms what I live every day of my life. Bravo!
You offer such valuable and always so well elucidated treatments. Thank you very much.
Love you Fish! So glad to see others on a similar journey to my own. The truth is beautiful. 🦁
Denis, this video touched me deeply. Especially when you quoted the words of Queen Isis.
Thank you so very much 💚🙏
This was incredibly helpful and beautifully put. 🙏
Ah, dear Patrick! Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm so glad you liked the video! 🙏😄 Best wishes to you as always!
How wonderfully synchronous!!!! Beautiful!
Glad (but not happy) to know that my struggles are also your struggles. I feel a little less lonely now.
Denis, I've been following this channel almost religiously, so to speak, so I think I can say without fear that this one is among the most beautiful and moving videos you've posted so far: BEAUTIFUL!!
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Christmas is approaching and you have given us a real Christmas present!
Thanks again for your incredible generosity!
No wonder I became a member: this channel has become fundamental in my occult & profane life.
Thank you very much, mate: I wish you and all your beautiful family a very bright and happy CHRISTMAS!
PAX & LUX!!!
Ah, I'm very touched, dear @The Wizard of Awes ! Thank you so much for your very kind words! It's a delight to know viewers like you found some use in the video :)
And a very Merry Christmas to you and yours!
This was the final piece of the puzzle I needed. Thank you my friend ❤️
Delighted to help, @King Solomon!
@Hollywoodland Hyperreality Hellscape well, sometimes it's nice to finish the bit of the puzzle you've been working on for a while :) Happy holidays to you!
This was great. Thank you, my brother.
Absolutely brilliant🤩much appreciated🙏🏻Namaste
So glad you enjoyed it, @Organic!
What you have stated @ 17:00 is exactly my feelings. Thank you for revising
It's fantastic take, much appreciated, thank you
Thanks for putting in words once again what had been on my mind for a while :)
I think this is probably the most important thing I have to say 😄 I'm so glad it resonates for you 🙏 best wishes to you, Kārlis!
I could listen to you for hours.
Thanks for explaining that for me. Now I can die in knowledge.
Honestly this was a major eye opener for me. Made me re-evaluate the two male deities and one female goddess I am a devotee too. I would love to hear more.
I have to add a comment here. This is by far the best video you have made. Left me hungry for more, perhaps materialized in a nice book from anathema publishing? Just saying…
I second this.
Alessio, your words are a much needed balm! I have had very little sleep, I've been so worried about how this video would be received. It's my must important one in my own eyes, I took 2 weeks to write it, and as I was editing i just couldn't stop cringing at how rambling I sounded. I was really worried I hadn't done justice to the topic, and though I remain persuaded that I haven't, you've been able to see through the imperfection to to the core message, it seems, and I just can't tell you what a relief that is!
I don't often find I need reassurance, but today I did and you and so many others here and on the Discord chat and in the Patreon messages have provided that, and I'm just really very, very grateful indeed! 😄🙏 Best wishes to you Alessio! And to everyone else who has posted encouraging words like yours that have made my morning!
Thank you so much Darryl 😄🙏
I would like to 3rd this
@@ryucartel351 thank you Ryu
Really Great,Our Apricciation💎
Thank you for sharing these integral pieces of your personal journey. I’d love to hear your thoughts on Gnosticism and how it relates to grimoire magic; I hope that video is on the way. Blessings and Happy New Year!
Great video. Very timely for me.
That is some good slice of the truth. Love & Light❤&☀
I Love your Content so much. 💚
Beautiful! Thank you! ❤
I like your video. The longer I walk the road before me the more I think finding balance is why we're here. The more I learn the less I know.
We certainly share numerous experiential roots my friend. ;) Another grear video!
I was so hoping you'd like this one, Gabriel! 😄🙏
thank you for sharing much appreciated
Great Video !!! Thank you Denis
Thank you Alessio 😄🎉🙏
Thank you dear FF! Hail Goddess
Wonderful Denis. Whilst instinctively appreciating Gnostism, I have never really understood it, not least as others seem to quote aspects which have no ressonance with me. From my Kejawen perspective, I have arrived at nearly identical views to yours, including the allegorical nature of the scriptures and importance of Tantra. I guess where we differ slightly, as in common with Swedenborg, I have come to see earth as being both heaven and hell depending on our own beliefs. I have also been considering the need to balance all within ourselves, but you have a slightly different perspective on this, which I must ponder on.
This video is just perfect timing in answering questions i've had. also, i would love if you did a video on the gnostic perspective on grimoire magick
Soon! 😄🙏
@@FoolishFishBooks can’t wait!!!
Thank you 💥🤍
I'm just trying to take it all in and integrate a universal view that works for me. Thanks for the insight:)
It's so much! It's a wonder that anyone has time to even think about it in the modern world. But I can't think of a more important topic! 🙏 Best wishes to you, George!
Really good vid sir! Xmas came early!
This was a really nice video, keep it up !
Thank you Ognjen! So glad you enjoyed it! 😄🙏
Very relatable! Thank you!
First yt view in a while, I like the hypnotic ying-yang logo
I'd love to see that Gnostic perspective on Grimoire magick video. Gnosticism seems to have a magical title attached to it, and many Gnostics I know, myself included, are also occultists. But there's a lot of debate on the internet about whether it's "ethical" for a Gnostic to approach magick based mostly in abrahamic doctrine. Perhaps an articulation on your end would clear things up.
Right! I mean there's a can of worms if I ever saw one 😂 I'm looking forward to doing a video on the implications of gnosticism for Grimoire magic, it's a topic that deserves a deep dive 😄
Thank you very much...!!
Thanks for sharing so much of yourself here, it really makes for relatable(to me anyway), intimate and inspiring installment. Definitely one for the "best of..." compilation.😉
Also, If it's of genuine interest and it seems like it might be, I'd LOVE to hear about any way you may have adapted grimoire tech to use gnostic divine names. It's actually something specifically of personal interest to me but I haven't confidently arrived at anything yet, so again...yes please!
Thank you Alexander!
I actually think that the grimoires might not need altering. It's our way of thinking about them that might need tweaking. I'll make the video shortly!
Denis, thank you for sharing your spiritual dilemmas, awakenings and insights. I had a visual encounter with that lion faced serpentine entity back in 1991 and then a different entity that may have been Sophia or Barbelo herself...it was either a vision or they actually materialized in my room. I came upon Gnosticism only about 3 years ago. That entity with the serpentine/wormlike body goes by many names such as Chnoubis, Abraxas, the Demiurge, Yaldabaoth, and Rex Mundi to name a few. There is much of Gnosticism that resonates with my own views and personal experiences, but I don't think the ancient Gnostic sect's interpretations of the archons and aeons are entirely correct either. There is definitely something beyond this world of time of matter...just not quite sure what it is.
Good watch!
as a side note, i got into basic Daoism, before the Cabala, because polarity made sense to me, from science, ..and even in positive negative, seem separate, they are both still polarities of electromagnetism
then the same could be said, on a different scale between the strong and weak nuclear forces..
they are both nuclear forces
then, after joining Amorc, i learned about other polarities, like like cohesion..the sticking to self, and adhesion, the sticking to another surface..they are both "sticky"..but different
Campbell's ''Meeting the Goddess''? Yes, this is a profound Truth. It reminds me of Her statements in 'Thunder, Perfect Mind'. Dr. Hal Taussig has written a brilliant commmentary on it (which link I am not enabled to post here).
Thank you for the breadcrumb :)
Thanks, Fish.
Amazing, this aligns with what I have been reaching out towards for so long. Thank you for this video.
It's very interesting, actually, regarding your triple model of divinity: in the circle model of point-circumference-middle, (I use "axle-rim-spokes," as of a Wheel), you can view the divine masculine as the axle and the divine feminine as the rim, as is the case when you take an idealist position of viewing all the world as emanating from the central ground of being and from here receiving it's motion and instantiation. However, you can also equally take the view that the divine feminine is the center and the divine masculine is the periphery, as is the case when you consider the Chaldean order of the Earth as central and held within the vast circumference of the godhead lying beyond even the fixed stars. It depends on whether you centralize the transcendant and marginalize the immanent, or if you centralize the immanent and marginalize the transcendant. I have seen salient models using both schemes. But in both models, the "Spokes" or the various levels/ladders that fall between the transcendant and immanent in which they are reconciled, occupies the same intermediary position. The model which centers the intermediary between transcendant and immanent cannot be a circle, because Horus must fall between Isis and Osiris, so to speak. So Horus at the center forms: the three pillars, akin to the Tree of Life.
Very interesting perspective :) Thank you for sharing, it's food for thought :)
It’s great to get a credible opinion and experience on these matters not just academic content.. FYI Wouter Hanegraaff’s recent insights into Hermetic Spirituality shows how important reverence (Eusebeia) to creation is in spiritual progression, not trying to escape this plane of reality.. one has to be careful of escapism/spiritual bypassing (a drug by any other name). “..the Kingdom of Heaven is spread across the earth but people do not see it”
Oh my brother u have worded perfectly... Thank u .....
Your work is appreciated
Materialistic world is a scary
Love is the only way
Fascinating.
I had exactly the same experience, it was tearing me apart sometimes and made me confused, eventually the answers came
I would love to hear you speak more about embracing the Divine masculine feminine and inner child as a way of balancing our aspects and become whole.
Thank you so much!
Thank you, Blomnos Leyontass!! How very kind 😄🙏🙏 all my best wishes to you!
Good video. I am studying the same things and to me, it is all coming together as well. If you ever come to Bangkok, please let me know.
Thank you
Bravo! 👏👏👏
Foolish Fish you are Wise. From my Heart to Yours, Thank You.
A connection to the SOURCE is crucial. The SOURCE FREQUENCY is known in modern times as The Holy Spirit. Without that connection, there is NO discernment.
I've found that there is a much more forgiving basis upon which that bridge between the physical and metaphysical can be made outside of the inherent contradiction that you mention (the world is inherently evil). The Valentinian Gnostic texts merely hold that the demiurge is imperfect and therefore the material is merely imperfect and both aren't necessarily evil. I will say though, the main issue with these texts is that some V. texts are in conflict with other V. texts as it pertains to specific entities that the events happen to. But, the premise remains the same, so the allegorical and esoteric value is not lost due to these differences. Just thought you might be interested in another gnostic point of view that appears to resolve at least some of the issues you mentioned in your video.
Eventually the intellect must be abandoned and realization must take its place . Thus though your self revelation is true , it is not the same for everyone else . There is yet further to go .
There's definitely no doubt that we each have our own path. This video is to help those out there who have followed a similar path to mine. The Christian route has been so tangled up, it's not always easy to spot the potholes. 🙏
Have you looked at the links between Gnosticism and Alchemy? Jung writes that it was Reitzenstein "who recognized the mythological and Gnostic ideas embedded in alchemy". The Alchemists talk of the lumen naturae, which is the light in nature or matter, a little spark without which the darkness would not be darkness. [Richard August Reitzenstein (2 April 1861, Breslau - 23 March 1931, Göttingen].
Yes, Gnosticism makes more sense to me than other religious scriptures.
Some of us are on the same path, frequency
Great video Denis. Is there a book or two you'd recommend for those of us just starting to explore gnosticism?
Yes, a few recommended in the description on the previous video. I'll add that I am decidedly NOT a fan of the cult-leader Samuel Sun Weor whose troubling take on gnosticism has much more to do with a narcissism disorder than it does with divinity. For a long time, when people entered Gnosticism into Google his name would be the main one popping up 😖
Elaine Paigels is also one with whom I have trouble since her approach is acadenic and detached - not experience-centred. My main reason for making this video series in precisely because of how little good stuff there is out there on the topic. And I mean these are far from being "good", but I'm hoping they might be a little bit more relevant than what's out there already, and so encourage others to explore for themselves 🙏
Thank you, for a start, for showing your interest! It reassures me that making these videos may have been a good idea after all!
Thanks!
Oh wow! Gabriel, thank you so very much! 😄🙏
@@FoolishFishBooks Une petite façon de te souhaiter un bon temps des fêtes à venir et te démontrer mon appréciation pour ton beau travail!
@@gmccaughry Merci Gabriel! Ça va mettre du beurre dans les épinards comme dit mon père 😄🙏 joyeuses fêtes a toi et à tes proches! 😄🙏🌲💫
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I had a very similar situation with gnosticism when I first heard about it in a novel in Spanish called El Misterio de Belicena Villca, which in itself is very strange book with a very pro Hitler / WW2 Germany mindset. Even though I was fascinated by the worldview and overly complex story about the villain being the actual hero, italso made me worry about the consequences or conclusions that common people would have after adhering to this worldview. Not long after I found groups in Argentina who are trying to mobilize and following the teachings of the author take down the government. 💀
Fan-fuckin-tastic! Another great one!
Hehe! I'm so glad you liked it, Chet! Thank you for the kind words!
@@FoolishFishBooks Sorry about the language but it was a true expression of my enthusiasm!
I wonder if the fruits of creation were unexpected by its Creator as well. How might that affect and effect evolution? The question of if the creator might be superseded by its creation could be its own question, to which we discern the answer. Love will find a way to resolve it .
17:00 to 18:10 GOLD
I confirm this story "Sofia"
How r u not viral? I love this channel. Can I share clips on TikTok?
By all means! 😄 Thank you for the thought!
@@FoolishFishBooks i had to just go and do it. People love it. I hope they follow the links and find your wisdom as enlightening as i do!
@@QuaesitorDei thank you! 😄🙏
Excelent video and will read 'the golden assess' and 'The Nag Hammadi Scriptures', but is there one book, or series of books, that covers the entire subject to your satisfaction?
Not that I know of I'm afraid. We're still very much at the stage where people need to do their own research or rely on cult-leaders' opinions unfortunately.
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I’ve also had a complicated, love-hate relationship with Gnosticism. I’ve always approached spiritual philosophy from a pretty critical, syncretic view (I’m interested in Truth, & I don’t believe you progress towards Truth by just uncritically accepting every tenet of a belief system wholesale just because you agree with other parts of it, or because of an appeal to authority (because some clergy/institution/old text says so), so I was never in danger of accepting the Sethian worldview, good ideas & bad ideas alike. Rather, I basically learned enough to know that a big part of Gnosticism was the belief that the material world was basically a prison ruled by a malevolent Demiurge, & that it seemed highly dualistic, & as someone who has a much more optimistic outlook on the nature of the universe, who is in awe of its beauty & complexity & magnificence, who has found learning about it & exploring everything it has to offer & enjoying pleasures to be tremendously rewarding & worthwhile, that was enough for me to be like “Eh, I’ll throw that on the back burner & focus on these other traditions which are more my speed,” like Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Advaita Vedanta, Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, Taoism, etc.. I feel similarly about a lot of the tendencies of Buddhism I’ve looked into; like, I get that suffering & loss (& under capitalist class hierarchy, toil & class struggle for most people) is a significant part of life on Earth & it’s hard, & that sucks… But also, that doesn’t mean the positive aspects don’t exist or have real value; it doesn’t mean that simply saying “the physical universe is evil/prison” or “life is suffering” is an accurate or sufficiently nuanced analysis of the nature of the world. Like, what about the prevalence of & opportunity for connection, love, joy, satisfaction, mutualism (mutually beneficial, symbiotic relationships), the opportunity to seek knowledge & tranquility & have mystical experiences of transcendence even during the brief stint of our time on Earth... It simply seems like a biased judgement based on a pessimistic outlook, just like when right-wingers will say “human nature is just bad. Our nature is just to be lazy, & greedy, & hateful, & tribalistic, & selfish, & cruel…” And I’m sitting here like… Okay, 1. Big self-report. But 2. What about all the data that hypothesis fails to explain- what about all those humans who are compassionate, & empathic, who go to great lengths to help others (which I would say is embodying the altruistic nature of Ein Sof Aur or The Light, the active, giving creative principle)… What about people literally sacrificing themselves to liberate or save the lives of others? Like, yes, we have a long history of tyranny & selfish egotism & cruelty… But what about all the people who embody the opposite, positive potentials just as much as some do the negative?.. Do they just not count as human? Are they all just of some other nature besides human? No, of course not. The simple, the ONLY coherent answer, as far as I’m concerned, is that human beings in our actions fall on a spectrum- we aren’t black & white. But we have the potential to strive towards our higher potential, or true self- Atman or the Soul or the Point of Light in the Heart or embodying the Platonic Good, or whatever you want to call it. And we likewise have a lower, base, ego-driven, negative potentiality. Any theory which tries to omit HALF of that picture & thereby eliminate the whole spectrum & paint us as just uniformly evil is not only misanthropic af, but it’s profoundly easily disproven, because there are counter examples all around us all the time, whereas the kind of nondual, polar nature I’m describing allows for the whole range of possibilities & IMO is just demonstrably true. We have conflicting drives, we have moral conflicts internally, & who we end up being, where we fall on each of these dimensional spectra (kind-mean, altruistic-greedy, selfless-narcissistic, empathic-sociopathic, principled-unprincipled, strong-willed-weak-willed, & so on) shapes who we end up being. So we’re immensely complex, but the whole pattern of our lives, as they turn out, is guided by all of these interrelated dialectical conflicts both inside us & connecting us to the “material” dialectics [the social ones Marx described] of the external world, which shape us as our [albeit obviously limited] agency allows us to shape them.
But anyway, because that was one of the first things I learned about Gnosticism, I pulled away from it & focused elsewhere until I recently started exploring it again, after I learned that there were less pessimistic currents & that not all Gnostics believed our world & the spirit which governs natural law within it are necessarily EVIL. (Although to be fair, I can understand why some people believe it a lot better now, because basically our ruling class, our corporate state, our corrupt hierarchical churches- pretty much every authority & centralized institution & elite who rules our current society literally could not fit the description of Archons of the Demiurge better if they tried. So while I still don’t think the highest God of Earth/our universe is an evil prison keeper, or that enlightenment/spiritual ascension has to mean you literally escape the material world, when there’s so much to enjoy on Esrth & things could be so good if we just organized together & overthrew our demiurgic ruling class], I do believe that the forces of evil [such as it exists, as an absence of the Good, the shadow cast by the Light, so to speak] & ego are essentially doing exactly what agnostics described the archons & the demiurge as existing to do; so on a metaphysical level, no, I don’t think the Gnostics have it perfectly right, but I have much more sympathy for why someone ends up believing it & how it’s ideas can be relevant to our socio-material conditions).
But anyway, now, in light of all that, I’ve found it extremely fascinating to learn about Gnosticism, about the incredibly different & far more mystical version of Christian thought Jesus allegedly disseminated to Mary as his more enlightened & knowledgable disciple; seeing how Gnostics combine so many concepts which I recognize similar or identical concepts of in Kabbalah, Hermeticism, Advaita Vedanta, etc.). By now I definitely believe there’s a lot of insight to learn there, & that it could be a profoundly effective means of introducing Christians to esoteric/mystical ideas in a format some of them would be receptive to (because it’s coming from their Lord & Savior & if you explain that the other disciples censored it because they were jealous of Mary, among other reasons, & that the Council of Nicea & such were hostile to these highest mysteries ever allegedly taught by Jesus because of patriarchy, desire for hierarchical power over the religion, to keep people from believing they could connect with God directly [& therefore minimizing the need for priests or big, fancy, extravagant churches & so on & crediting mystical/visionary experience which is outside of their control]… I’m sure there are plenty who are just dogmatic, devout to the church itself who would be like “Blasphemy! They cut it out of the Bible so it’s devilry! You shall burn in the fires of hell for… Listening to what Jesus actually taught rather than just whatever social reactionism the Christian right has perverted it into & selectively decided is crucial to interpret literally, even though they straight up act like Jesus & his Disciples & the Saints never said all the anti-rich people, pro-helping poor & oppressed people, very socialist/libertarian theologian type stuff that the New Testament is full of).” But I do think there are also lots of progressive or moderate Christians, & horoscope crystal mommies & such, who would be thrilled to learn of Christianity-associated teachings which are more similar to other mystical, nondualist, &/or panentheist esoteric traditions.
Some great points raised! 🙏
Hermeticism is like non nihilistic Gnosticism. I prefer it to Gnosticism.
I love this story man! The main reason is because it mirrors that of my own. Something happened one day a couple years after my daughter's birth. It occurs to me that I have an abundance of knowledge that I need to pass on to her, but what if I die first? So, I wrote a book for her on life things. During this labor of love being poured out of me, the goddess found her way in, and hasn't left. She has made things go so amazing for me since then it is magic. For the heck of it I let a few friends and co-workers read the book. They all said it was really good, nice and short, well written. But that's whatever. It wasn't until a week or 3 later I saw everyone that read the book making big life changes and bettering their lives. It's weird to say the least. But I thought if it's doing this for 6 people, maybe I should put it out there to hopefully help others. So, I did. It's called Dad's philosophy on life. It's on Amazon and free with Kindle unlimited. I used the pen name M.P. Masters If anyone is interested in looking at it. It seems to me that the more love you put out the more she comes into your life. But once you call for her in the proper way, that's when your life will change.
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I thought this to be your most outstanding segment that I have seen from your series. The mending of the two flames as I have come to think of it. And when the inside heals the outside changes as a result. I think the divine feminine is being headed inside both sexes do some degree. And when healed men and women start raising children to know the arts and be authentic human beings from day one, the collective will change and the golden age will finally manifest into the material world.Then as a healed collective of Stewarts to the great mother who is Earth and the Heavens.
@FoolishFish I’m curious what you think of The Mary Magdalene Manuscripts?
Eh... I'm afraid channelled material interests me, but not enough to spend time digging deep. If this had been an actual 1-5th century manuscript, I'd have said sure, but today's Westerner is so far removed from the origins of Christianity (Especially the so-called "Christians") that I wonder what kind of authority such a "received" text could really bring to the table. I'm sure it's interesting enough, I guess I have other books that are way further up on my priorities list ;)
Ancient Gnosticism = the original Red Pill
@FoolishFishBooks are there any books on the Ancient Greek Mysteries you'd recommend to your viewers? Also, is there a particular copy of The Nag Hammadi that is more preferable to another?
Mystai by Peter Mark Adams, maybe Iamblichus and Porphyry too.
Gnosis = Being aware of being aware.
When we become still and silent Kundalini becomes active.
I’m 22 and have grown with the Masonic teachings of my father// the symbolisms make me feel this responsibility you talk about // art//spiritual, human race development in any direction but with good ways. Cool video:)
Some time ago you relied to my e:mail noting that there was no decent book(s) that gave a comprehensive overview of gnostisism to your satisfaction. Perhaps you should write (or co-authorr) one. I know I'd pre-order or pay for kickstarter.
Gnosis = Being aware of being aware
God = Life
"Be-hold I am (Life) is come that you might have Life and have it more abundantly."
Christ = at One with Life
Empty of ego (separateness) = Full of Life
Being aware of being aware is empty of ego.
Holy Spirit = Eternally actualizing Infinite potential
Can I get the picture of 1:05?
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What is the deal with symbols by some peoples names?
Do you think this entity (Barbelo/Shekinah/Isis) exists as a conscious and willful being (accepting that those things would look extremely different for such a being, and we may not even recognize them as such if they were shown to us now), or do you view it as more of an unintelligible, impersonal force?
I do believe she is personal in nature, and can be interacted with.
I seriously need help with this from anyone who can guide me. I am struggling so much right now😖. How does "mother earth" or "mother nature" fit into this? Would that be considered just another name for the divine feminine? Or would the entity of "mother earth" be a character in this framework? I am seriously in over my head in this
The Divine feminine is associated with the material world. Yes. Mother Earth falls under this umbrella 😊