Celestial Transfiguration
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth in me, the works that I do shall he do also and greater works than these shall he do because I go unto my Father. John 14 12 The calling to the Celestial Path is a special one. It echoes across lifetimes bringing the Parfait to higher and higher levels of development, until, at an appointed time perfection is achieved. This state of Perfection is a unique state of being. It is one where the Gnostic is in tune with the Mind of God Logos and his...
Hylics Psychics and Pneumatics
Leading from this new understanding of what the world, indeed, material creation is made up of, we need to consider how it applies to humanity. In the Gnostic system of Valentinus, the Dominions play an important part in the creation story. Under the direction of the Demiurge they created a whole order of likenesses, copies, shadows and phantasms which take the forms of the world of light, but are dark within. These forms are used to control and degrade the Light Sparks which are locked within...
The Gnostic Secret The Creator is Evil
For the Gnostic matter is evil, it is a prison for the soul. It was not created by the source of light, the Lord of Wisdom, but by a lesser God, a Demiurge. There are many traditions and explanations of how this occurred, it has always been the secret teaching of esoteric and occult orders. In modern Gnosticism we sometimes call this error the primal mistake or the Alpha Event, in some sense this is inaccurate as the contamination of spirit by matter occurred through a sequence or series of...
The Spiritual Hierarchy
To understand the spiritual hierarchy we must first give you some background on one of the major strands within the Gnostic tradition, the Kabbalah. It is said that the Lord of Wisdom first communicated the Kabbalah to Moses and transmitted to him the mysteries of the the Ten Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. However, since Israel rejected these ten words, Moses made a covenant with the Archon Yahweh and he gave them a fallen, physical version in the form of the Ten Commandments. The Kabbalah is a...
The Yechidah
The Yechidah is the potentially immortal part of man and in mans fallen state does not come into action naturally. The average human experiences life through his instincts the soul and through his mind Ruach . The Soul and Mind while of importance, cannot offer a truly discrete, individual self. Ultimately, death, after a cycle of lives and many lost opportunities, becomes the end for most people. Only through the awakening of the Yechidah can immortality be achieved. According to the...
Archons as World Powers
The Archons may exist within us, but they also exist in the world at large. As Memes they can move like viruses through the bloodstreams which make up the collective unconscious of the planet. They manipulate governments, organizations, policy makers and thinkers. They reduce efforts to awaken mankind to minimal effect and encourage anything that leads away from awakening. They feed the conglomerates of business, commercialism and the press and play off ideological opposites so we do not see...
Jesus Christ and Logos
When we come to understand that Jesus is a created being a new picture of divinity arises. Jesus was the first created being, Michael, the first of the immortals created through the power of the Logos. There is one Source of light, the Lord of Wisdom and other created beings formed by the force of the divine mind. Jesus in the first estate before coming into a physical body is Michael, that immortal who plays such an important role in the Cosmic battle we will discuss later. When Michael is...
What are the Aeons
According to the Gnostic traditions these two forces further manifest through a series of forms or entities. These forms can be expressed in many different ways, the most traditional is to know them as Aeons, while in Egypt they would have been called Sacred Principles or Neters. In the Zoroastrian tradition they are known as the Holy Spirits Spenta Amesha . These are akin to the Seven Spirits before the Throne in the Book of Revelation . These forces can, in some sense, be even understood as...
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