Podcasts about Nag Hammadi

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2025 25:31

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I think we’ve got a lot of new listeners now and new subscribers. And since you haven’t been with us from the beginning, I’d like to review the Gnostic cosmology. A basic premise of Gnosticism is that we are all born with gnosis inherent within us. We already have the answers. We already are our perfect Selves. But because of the nature of the never-ending war that we find ourselves in here in this material cosmos, we forget our inherent nature. And we begin to engage in the war through what the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi calls the law of mutual combat. That being, since we are attacked, we attack back. And then we engage in that back and forth enough that we completely forget our mission and our goal and who we are. So today, I want to run through what I call the illustrated Gnostic cosmology. And I’m putting the illustration into the transcript so that if you are listening to this as an audio podcast, you really would do well to go to GnosticInsights.com or to my Substack location, the Gnostic Reformation, under the name of Cyd Ropp, so that you can see the illustration that we’re talking about. Now, when you first look at this Gnostic cosmology, it’s very strange looking, and it’s probably incomprehensible. But by the time I talk you through this, you’ll be able to follow the steps. There are 15 steps in this Gnostic cosmology. And once you recognize these stations, then you will literally understand Gnosis. You will remember your Gnosis, and you’ll understand what all of the various versions of Gnosticism have been trying to say. One reason is that this is a pictorial presentation. It’s not just words, because I’ve noticed when reading the various books of the Nag Hammadi, for example, some of which are Valentinian Gnosticism, some of which are Sethian Gnosticism, some are straight-out Greek philosophy by Plato. They use different words, but the concepts are the same. So what I always attempt to do is to level up to a meta-level, above the words, and envision and then picture it so that you can describe it with the words you prefer. So let’s get started. The background image of this entire Gnostic cosmology key I picture as pure inky blackness, like the sky with no stars or moons. That is the ground state of consciousness. And that is the Father’s mind. Now the Father is another one of these words where many people would like to disagree with saying Father. They want to say Source, or, for example, as it is called in the Secret Book of John, the One, the Parent, the Invisible Spirit. However, in the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, which is the book that I mainly use as a reference, that initial, illimitable consciousness is called the Father. Now, that’s the ground state. That’s the first principle. Consciousness is not a byproduct of the little gray cells. Consciousness predates everything. Consciousness is part of the existence of God, and it is the very first thing before anything that follows. Step number two is the emergence of the Son. It is the emergence of consciousness from the illimitable, infinite consciousness of the Father into a singularity, into a monad, as it’s called. It’s like the bucket dipped into the sea. It contains all of the characteristics and quality of the Father, but it’s contained as an individual. The Son doesn’t separate from the Father. It stays plugged into the Father. The Tripartite Tractate says that as soon as the Son was formed, what are called the Totalities of the All were formed. That’s step number three. And the Totalities of the All are all of the variabilities that make up the Son. So, the Totalities and the Son are coexistent, but it is all of the characteristics broken out and enumerated that form what are called the Totalities of the All. The Totalities of the All do not recognize themselves as individuals. They are only spokes on the wheel. They have no personal identity. They know that they are part of the Son, and they glorify the Son, and they glorify the Father. So, they are glorifying upstream, as we like to say. And it is through this giving of glory that each of the Totalities comes to self-awareness. Now, instead of one singular unit that is coexistent entirely with the Son, they blossom into self-identities, and they arrange themselves in a hierarchy. So, step four is the Totalities of the All migrating from a burst of sunshine that’s sitting within the Son into a pyramidal shape, because the pyramid is the essential shape of a hierarchy. There’s more at the bottom than there is at the top. Everything keeps leveling up, following a basic Gnostic rule of the higher the fewer, until you eventually arrive at a capstone at the very top, just like our physical pyramids look. And this entity, at number five, is called the hierarchy of the Aeons of the Fullness. And in Gnosticism, we usually identify the word aeon with consciousness, with an individual. It’s an entity. It’s not a unit of time. It’s a unit of consciousness. And so the Aeons of the hierarchy of the Fullness of God are infinite in number. There aren’t only eight or 64 or 365. Those may be ones that are named in other books of Gnosticism, but conceptually, you see, they’d have to be innumerable, because they are part of the illimitable consciousness of the Father, via the Son. And the job of the hierarchies of the Fullness, well, they’ve each got a position, a place, a duty, and a name. And basically what they do is sing songs of glory upstream to the Father and the Son, just like the Totalities did. And in this combination of the Aeons in the Fullness of God, they dream. They dream of Paradise. They dream of the intelligent design of this cosmos that we live in. And so all of us down here, we’re prefigured in the minds of the Fullness of God. And that Fullness of God is generally what we humans imagine as Heaven or Paradise. Humans in cultures all over the world have a dream of Paradise. And the reason why we all have this exact same dream of Paradise is because that’s where we come from. We are the fruit of the Aeons of the Fullness, and we instantiate their dream of Paradise. Now, according to the Tripartite Tractate, the object that in my drawings looks like a starburst re-sorted themselves into this hierarchy of the Fullness of God. The last Aeon that was produced through a combination of all of the Aeons of the Fullness of God, giving glory to the Father and the Son. In the Tripartite Tractate, that Aeon, that final Aeon, the capstone to the pyramid, sitting right up there on top, is called Logos. And Logos means reasoning. It means logic. The next step in the story is when that final Aeon that’s sitting on top of the Fullness of God wants to re-insert itself into the Father—the original source of consciousness—wants to plug into the Father the way that the Son remains plugged into the Father. It tries to take that position, and it can’t do it. And it is repelled by the Father, and that is the Fall. The Father repelled that Aeon from being able to plug into itself. I wouldn’t say that Logos was trying to become God. That’s kind of an insulting way to put it. I would say that that final Aeon was simply trying to reunite with the Father. But it couldn’t. It was repelled because no one can come to the illimitable. It’s too powerful. The Tripartite Tractate says they would be annihilated because the Father’s power is too great. It would just burn it up. And so instead of plugging into the Father, Logos fell. And that, according to Gnosticism, is the Fall. And it was the Fall that created our material cosmos. Now, you could say that that was Sophia that fell and her child Yaldabaoth. I prefer to keep it simple and just to say that it’s Logos that fell. Logos was a very special Aeon that contained within its one unity, fractal representations of all of the other Aeons of the Fullness. So Logos was perfect and complete, representing the Son of God. However, he was a fractal level down. Logos crowned the top of the Fullness with fractals of all the other Aeons. He didn’t have the power, didn’t have the greatness of the original Son in step two. But he had the pattern. He had the blueprint. He thought he was complete and could build Paradise, the Paradise that all of the Aeons dreamed up together in step five. He thought he could do that because he contained the Fullness of God in a smaller fractal form. But he was mistaken and he crashed out of the ethereal plane, boom, broke apart, and his pleroma lost its hierarchical arrangement. It became random and chaotic. That is step eight. I generally depict that random chaos as quantum foam. It’s just boiling in and out of existence. Nothing can stick. Nothing can stay. Nothing can level up. It’s chaotic. Logos tried his best to bring it all back in order, tried to put his pleroma back together into a proper hierarchy, but it would not cooperate. And he was aghast, it says. He was very upset, very disturbed by the disturbance that had come out of him. He meant to bring perfection and instead he brought chaos. And he was now separated from the Fullness of God. Well, the Fullnesses prayed to help Logos return, and the best part of Logos, it says in the Tripartite Tractate, step 10, the best part of Logos returned to the Fullness of God, but it abandoned the chaos below. So what is that chaos? I’ve identified that chaotic disturbance that came out of Logos as not only quantum foam, but the Fallen ego of Logos. You see, all of the Aeons have an ego. They’ve got their perfect One Self that is a fractal copy of the Son, but they’ve also got positions, places, names, duties, which is to say they have an ego. And an ego is just their designation. It’s just their address and their name, rank, and serial number. That’s their ego. It’s not self-centered. It’s just a name. But when Logos falls and abandons his ego down below, then it is an ego that came into being that is separated from the One Self of the Son. It’s outside of the direct flow of consciousness and life and love of the Father and the Son and the God. So it is the beginning of ego running amok. Ego came to its own realization, woke up, so to speak, found itself in this weird, dark, chaotic space, and he thought he was God because he didn’t remember where he came from. He didn’t realize he was the fallen ego of Logos. He had all of the blueprints for Paradise because they were in the mind of Logos when he fell. And he also had the ambitious overreaching that Logos was doing when he fell. Step 11 in the diagram shows the chaos and this disordered pleroma of the ego of Logos down here, no longer looking like a pyramid but just random bubbles. But there’s a border around it now because the Father put up a border around the fallen bits in order to contain them, in order to protect the Fullness of God from the disaster that was occurring, we would say, down below. Logos, now reunited with the Fullness, prays for his fallen ego, prays for this mess that he left behind. Demiurge came to awareness down there at step 11. So the ego of Logos, abandoned down below, becomes what Gnostics call the Demiurge. And the Demiurge, thinking it was God, having all the blueprints for Paradise, thought it could build Paradise now down here inside of this border. And this border, by the way, could be likened to the expanding bubble around our universe. The Big Bang would have been the splat in step 8 when Logos crashed apart and began emitting these particles. So Fullness and Logos prayed for help to come to what is called now the Deficiency. Our cosmos is known as the Deficiency or the imitation because it’s a knock-off of Paradise. And what they want is to rescue the Demiurge. They’re not trying to condemn the Demiurge to hell. They’re trying to rescue the Demiurge and bring him back up to the Fullness to reunite with Logos and plug back in with them because that’s where it belongs. So in step 12, we have the fruit of the Aeons of the Fullness being sent down into this material cosmos. The Demiurge has been working on the material cosmos in step 11. He can’t get it to come to life because he doesn’t contain the consciousness and life of the Fullness and the Father. He’s a flat version, like a mirror image or like a projection on a movie screen. He doesn’t have the true depth of consciousness. Archons lack consciousness, they are not self-aware the way the Aeons are. They are tightly restrained and very strictly ordered by very strict laws of physics and chemistry and whatnot by the mind of the Demiurge only. They are projections of the Demiurge. They are shadows of the Aeons. They’re like the inversions of the beauty of that Aeonic Golden Pyramid, but they are lacking consciousness, life, and love. So the Aeons send down what are called the Second Order of Powers. The First Order of Powers were the Aeons and the Fullness of God. The Second Order of Powers is all of the life and consciousness and love of the Father flowing down from the Fullness of God down into this fallen cosmos. That is all living creatures. Everything that’s alive from the bacteria and the cells and the organs that make up our bodies and all of the critters and birds and fish, all of the insects and mammals, all living creatures, the grasses and the trees, the moss and the slime molds, everything that’s alive is a fruit of the Fullness of God. Fruits of the Aeons pre-designed in the Fullness of God and sent down here to instantiate life, love, and consciousness into this otherwise dead disaster of a cosmos. And we come down with a mission. We Second Order Powers were supposed to come down here to remind the Demiurge of the Father above; to remind the Demiurge of Logos, his better half; to remind the Demiurge of love and consciousness and that he is not God and he needs to return home. Come home, Demiurge, come home. We are supposed to be calling to the Demiurge to return home to the Fullness of God. Well, we got caught in a never-ending war instead with the material world. See, at conception, we are all bonded to the molecular level. So when a creature has the spark of life come into it from the Fullness down here, when it bonds to that material level, that molecule that then begins reproducing, reproducing, reproducing according to the pattern from above that that creature brought into the cosmos with it. We all carry the Fullness of God within every part of our living bodies, every one of our cells, every one of our organs. We are full of the Fullness of God. We have consciousness. It’s self-evident. We love. That is also self-evident. We operate according to the Simple Golden Rule of reaching out to others to help build things that we can’t do on our own. We make families and work together. We make villages and work together. We make small communities and build things that we can all enjoy together. But we forget our job. We forget about bringing love and remembrance to the Demiurge because of the never-ending war of spirit against material, the never-ending war of right and left, the never-ending war between us and the archons, the never-ending war. It’s a constant battle here between life and death. And so the Fullnesses realized that that plan wasn’t working. We forgot to do our jobs. They prayed upstream to the Father, to the Son, to the Totalities, and they prayed for true salvation to come now and rescue the Second Order Powers, just like we were supposed to rescue the Demiurge. Now it takes a superpower, the most superpower, to come into our cosmos, rescue all of the Second Order Powers by reminding us of God’s love and what our true mission is of sharing love. We can’t do it on our own. We already proved that we lost the battle in step 13. So step 14 is sending down the Savior, sending down the most powerful entity of the ethereal plane, that being what is called the Christ. And Christ is the Son of God. Christ is the Fullnesses all praying together. Christ is the Totalities all singing the song together. Christ has the most power of any entity ever, more than enough power to bring remembrance, love, salvation, peace, comfort, joy to all of us down here who have forgotten. That’s the job of the Christ. That’s step 14. And step 15 is once the Christ succeeds in bringing remembrance to everyone, then we can move into what will be called the Third Economy. We’re in the Second Economy now. That’s the economy or the system of the material world. The First Economy was the Fullness of God, where the First Order of Powers live. The Second Economy is this cosmos that we live in, where the Second Order of Powers live. And the Third Economy is after this material cosmos passes away, dissolves like snow, gets all rolled up and wrapped up, and we all return to the Fullness of God. The Third Economy is the dream of Paradise the cosmos will instantiate after this Second Economy dissolves at the end of time. We all return to the new Third Economy ruled by the Third Order of Powers, and that’s the pleroma of Christ. Christ is the Third Order of Powers, and there is an individual Third Order Power for every one of us Second Order Powers. We can’t do it on our own. We cannot love to the extent needed to demonstrate to the Demiurge love. We get caught in wars. We kill each other. We fight with each other. We quarrel. We quibble. We blow each other up and chop off heads. Bad, very bad. The Christ and the Third Order Powers comes to each of us as an individual, comes to you, comes to me, comes to our neighbors, comes to all of the critters and all of the plants, but I don’t think they’re quite as fallen as we are. I think they’re doing a pretty good job of living their lives according to what is required down here in the Second Economy. But true salvation, true redemption from this world comes by accepting the assistance of the Christ. Okay, I think we’ll stop there today. That’s the end of this Gnostic Cosmology. Next week, we’ll talk about the yeah, so what? to all of this. What good will that do me? What good will that do the world? Tune back in next week and we’ll talk about it. Meanwhile, if you have any questions or comments, please don’t be shy. Make some comments. I look forward to reading them. God bless and onward and upward. 15 steps in Gnostic Cosmology

The Key to Gnostic Cosmology

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2025 25:31

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I think we’ve got a lot of new listeners now and new subscribers. And since you haven’t been with us from the beginning, I’d like to review the Gnostic cosmology. A basic premise of Gnosticism is that we are all born with gnosis inherent within us. We already have the answers. We already are our perfect Selves. But because of the nature of the never-ending war that we find ourselves in here in this material cosmos, we forget our inherent nature. And we begin to engage in the war through what the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi calls the law of mutual combat. That being, since we are attacked, we attack back. And then we engage in that back and forth enough that we completely forget our mission and our goal and who we are. So today, I want to run through what I call the illustrated Gnostic cosmology. And I’m putting the illustration into the transcript so that if you are listening to this as an audio podcast, you really would do well to go to GnosticInsights.com or to my Substack location, the Gnostic Reformation, under the name of Cyd Ropp, so that you can see the illustration that we’re talking about. Now, when you first look at this Gnostic cosmology, it’s very strange looking, and it’s probably incomprehensible. But by the time I talk you through this, you’ll be able to follow the steps. There are 15 steps in this Gnostic cosmology. And once you recognize these stations, then you will literally understand Gnosis. You will remember your Gnosis, and you’ll understand what all of the various versions of Gnosticism have been trying to say. One reason is that this is a pictorial presentation. It’s not just words, because I’ve noticed when reading the various books of the Nag Hammadi, for example, some of which are Valentinian Gnosticism, some of which are Sethian Gnosticism, some are straight-out Greek philosophy by Plato. They use different words, but the concepts are the same. So what I always attempt to do is to level up to a meta-level, above the words, and envision and then picture it so that you can describe it with the words you prefer. So let’s get started. The background image of this entire Gnostic cosmology key I picture as pure inky blackness, like the sky with no stars or moons. That is the ground state of consciousness. And that is the Father’s mind. Now the Father is another one of these words where many people would like to disagree with saying Father. They want to say Source, or, for example, as it is called in the Secret Book of John, the One, the Parent, the Invisible Spirit. However, in the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, which is the book that I mainly use as a reference, that initial, illimitable consciousness is called the Father. Now, that’s the ground state. That’s the first principle. Consciousness is not a byproduct of the little gray cells. Consciousness predates everything. Consciousness is part of the existence of God, and it is the very first thing before anything that follows. Step number two is the emergence of the Son. It is the emergence of consciousness from the illimitable, infinite consciousness of the Father into a singularity, into a monad, as it’s called. It’s like the bucket dipped into the sea. It contains all of the characteristics and quality of the Father, but it’s contained as an individual. The Son doesn’t separate from the Father. It stays plugged into the Father. The Tripartite Tractate says that as soon as the Son was formed, what are called the Totalities of the All were formed. That’s step number three. And the Totalities of the All are all of the variabilities that make up the Son. So, the Totalities and the Son are coexistent, but it is all of the characteristics broken out and enumerated that form what are called the Totalities of the All. The Totalities of the All do not recognize themselves as individuals. They are only spokes on the wheel. They have no personal identity. They know that they are part of the Son, and they glorify the Son, and they glorify the Father. So, they are glorifying upstream, as we like to say. And it is through this giving of glory that each of the Totalities comes to self-awareness. Now, instead of one singular unit that is coexistent entirely with the Son, they blossom into self-identities, and they arrange themselves in a hierarchy. So, step four is the Totalities of the All migrating from a burst of sunshine that’s sitting within the Son into a pyramidal shape, because the pyramid is the essential shape of a hierarchy. There’s more at the bottom than there is at the top. Everything keeps leveling up, following a basic Gnostic rule of the higher the fewer, until you eventually arrive at a capstone at the very top, just like our physical pyramids look. And this entity, at number five, is called the hierarchy of the Aeons of the Fullness. And in Gnosticism, we usually identify the word aeon with consciousness, with an individual. It’s an entity. It’s not a unit of time. It’s a unit of consciousness. And so the Aeons of the hierarchy of the Fullness of God are infinite in number. There aren’t only eight or 64 or 365. Those may be ones that are named in other books of Gnosticism, but conceptually, you see, they’d have to be innumerable, because they are part of the illimitable consciousness of the Father, via the Son. And the job of the hierarchies of the Fullness, well, they’ve each got a position, a place, a duty, and a name. And basically what they do is sing songs of glory upstream to the Father and the Son, just like the Totalities did. And in this combination of the Aeons in the Fullness of God, they dream. They dream of Paradise. They dream of the intelligent design of this cosmos that we live in. And so all of us down here, we’re prefigured in the minds of the Fullness of God. And that Fullness of God is generally what we humans imagine as Heaven or Paradise. Humans in cultures all over the world have a dream of Paradise. And the reason why we all have this exact same dream of Paradise is because that’s where we come from. We are the fruit of the Aeons of the Fullness, and we instantiate their dream of Paradise. Now, according to the Tripartite Tractate, the object that in my drawings looks like a starburst re-sorted themselves into this hierarchy of the Fullness of God. The last Aeon that was produced through a combination of all of the Aeons of the Fullness of God, giving glory to the Father and the Son. In the Tripartite Tractate, that Aeon, that final Aeon, the capstone to the pyramid, sitting right up there on top, is called Logos. And Logos means reasoning. It means logic. The next step in the story is when that final Aeon that’s sitting on top of the Fullness of God wants to re-insert itself into the Father—the original source of consciousness—wants to plug into the Father the way that the Son remains plugged into the Father. It tries to take that position, and it can’t do it. And it is repelled by the Father, and that is the Fall. The Father repelled that Aeon from being able to plug into itself. I wouldn’t say that Logos was trying to become God. That’s kind of an insulting way to put it. I would say that that final Aeon was simply trying to reunite with the Father. But it couldn’t. It was repelled because no one can come to the illimitable. It’s too powerful. The Tripartite Tractate says they would be annihilated because the Father’s power is too great. It would just burn it up. And so instead of plugging into the Father, Logos fell. And that, according to Gnosticism, is the Fall. And it was the Fall that created our material cosmos. Now, you could say that that was Sophia that fell and her child Yaldabaoth. I prefer to keep it simple and just to say that it’s Logos that fell. Logos was a very special Aeon that contained within its one unity, fractal representations of all of the other Aeons of the Fullness. So Logos was perfect and complete, representing the Son of God. However, he was a fractal level down. Logos crowned the top of the Fullness with fractals of all the other Aeons. He didn’t have the power, didn’t have the greatness of the original Son in step two. But he had the pattern. He had the blueprint. He thought he was complete and could build Paradise, the Paradise that all of the Aeons dreamed up together in step five. He thought he could do that because he contained the Fullness of God in a smaller fractal form. But he was mistaken and he crashed out of the ethereal plane, boom, broke apart, and his pleroma lost its hierarchical arrangement. It became random and chaotic. That is step eight. I generally depict that random chaos as quantum foam. It’s just boiling in and out of existence. Nothing can stick. Nothing can stay. Nothing can level up. It’s chaotic. Logos tried his best to bring it all back in order, tried to put his pleroma back together into a proper hierarchy, but it would not cooperate. And he was aghast, it says. He was very upset, very disturbed by the disturbance that had come out of him. He meant to bring perfection and instead he brought chaos. And he was now separated from the Fullness of God. Well, the Fullnesses prayed to help Logos return, and the best part of Logos, it says in the Tripartite Tractate, step 10, the best part of Logos returned to the Fullness of God, but it abandoned the chaos below. So what is that chaos? I’ve identified that chaotic disturbance that came out of Logos as not only quantum foam, but the Fallen ego of Logos. You see, all of the Aeons have an ego. They’ve got their perfect One Self that is a fractal copy of the Son, but they’ve also got positions, places, names, duties, which is to say they have an ego. And an ego is just their designation. It’s just their address and their name, rank, and serial number. That’s their ego. It’s not self-centered. It’s just a name. But when Logos falls and abandons his ego down below, then it is an ego that came into being that is separated from the One Self of the Son. It’s outside of the direct flow of consciousness and life and love of the Father and the Son and the God. So it is the beginning of ego running amok. Ego came to its own realization, woke up, so to speak, found itself in this weird, dark, chaotic space, and he thought he was God because he didn’t remember where he came from. He didn’t realize he was the fallen ego of Logos. He had all of the blueprints for Paradise because they were in the mind of Logos when he fell. And he also had the ambitious overreaching that Logos was doing when he fell. Step 11 in the diagram shows the chaos and this disordered pleroma of the ego of Logos down here, no longer looking like a pyramid but just random bubbles. But there’s a border around it now because the Father put up a border around the fallen bits in order to contain them, in order to protect the Fullness of God from the disaster that was occurring, we would say, down below. Logos, now reunited with the Fullness, prays for his fallen ego, prays for this mess that he left behind. Demiurge came to awareness down there at step 11. So the ego of Logos, abandoned down below, becomes what Gnostics call the Demiurge. And the Demiurge, thinking it was God, having all the blueprints for Paradise, thought it could build Paradise now down here inside of this border. And this border, by the way, could be likened to the expanding bubble around our universe. The Big Bang would have been the splat in step 8 when Logos crashed apart and began emitting these particles. So Fullness and Logos prayed for help to come to what is called now the Deficiency. Our cosmos is known as the Deficiency or the imitation because it’s a knock-off of Paradise. And what they want is to rescue the Demiurge. They’re not trying to condemn the Demiurge to hell. They’re trying to rescue the Demiurge and bring him back up to the Fullness to reunite with Logos and plug back in with them because that’s where it belongs. So in step 12, we have the fruit of the Aeons of the Fullness being sent down into this material cosmos. The Demiurge has been working on the material cosmos in step 11. He can’t get it to come to life because he doesn’t contain the consciousness and life of the Fullness and the Father. He’s a flat version, like a mirror image or like a projection on a movie screen. He doesn’t have the true depth of consciousness. Archons lack consciousness, they are not self-aware the way the Aeons are. They are tightly restrained and very strictly ordered by very strict laws of physics and chemistry and whatnot by the mind of the Demiurge only. They are projections of the Demiurge. They are shadows of the Aeons. They’re like the inversions of the beauty of that Aeonic Golden Pyramid, but they are lacking consciousness, life, and love. So the Aeons send down what are called the Second Order of Powers. The First Order of Powers were the Aeons and the Fullness of God. The Second Order of Powers is all of the life and consciousness and love of the Father flowing down from the Fullness of God down into this fallen cosmos. That is all living creatures. Everything that’s alive from the bacteria and the cells and the organs that make up our bodies and all of the critters and birds and fish, all of the insects and mammals, all living creatures, the grasses and the trees, the moss and the slime molds, everything that’s alive is a fruit of the Fullness of God. Fruits of the Aeons pre-designed in the Fullness of God and sent down here to instantiate life, love, and consciousness into this otherwise dead disaster of a cosmos. And we come down with a mission. We Second Order Powers were supposed to come down here to remind the Demiurge of the Father above; to remind the Demiurge of Logos, his better half; to remind the Demiurge of love and consciousness and that he is not God and he needs to return home. Come home, Demiurge, come home. We are supposed to be calling to the Demiurge to return home to the Fullness of God. Well, we got caught in a never-ending war instead with the material world. See, at conception, we are all bonded to the molecular level. So when a creature has the spark of life come into it from the Fullness down here, when it bonds to that material level, that molecule that then begins reproducing, reproducing, reproducing according to the pattern from above that that creature brought into the cosmos with it. We all carry the Fullness of God within every part of our living bodies, every one of our cells, every one of our organs. We are full of the Fullness of God. We have consciousness. It’s self-evident. We love. That is also self-evident. We operate according to the Simple Golden Rule of reaching out to others to help build things that we can’t do on our own. We make families and work together. We make villages and work together. We make small communities and build things that we can all enjoy together. But we forget our job. We forget about bringing love and remembrance to the Demiurge because of the never-ending war of spirit against material, the never-ending war of right and left, the never-ending war between us and the archons, the never-ending war. It’s a constant battle here between life and death. And so the Fullnesses realized that that plan wasn’t working. We forgot to do our jobs. They prayed upstream to the Father, to the Son, to the Totalities, and they prayed for true salvation to come now and rescue the Second Order Powers, just like we were supposed to rescue the Demiurge. Now it takes a superpower, the most superpower, to come into our cosmos, rescue all of the Second Order Powers by reminding us of God’s love and what our true mission is of sharing love. We can’t do it on our own. We already proved that we lost the battle in step 13. So step 14 is sending down the Savior, sending down the most powerful entity of the ethereal plane, that being what is called the Christ. And Christ is the Son of God. Christ is the Fullnesses all praying together. Christ is the Totalities all singing the song together. Christ has the most power of any entity ever, more than enough power to bring remembrance, love, salvation, peace, comfort, joy to all of us down here who have forgotten. That’s the job of the Christ. That’s step 14. And step 15 is once the Christ succeeds in bringing remembrance to everyone, then we can move into what will be called the Third Economy. We’re in the Second Economy now. That’s the economy or the system of the material world. The First Economy was the Fullness of God, where the First Order of Powers live. The Second Economy is this cosmos that we live in, where the Second Order of Powers live. And the Third Economy is after this material cosmos passes away, dissolves like snow, gets all rolled up and wrapped up, and we all return to the Fullness of God. The Third Economy is the dream of Paradise the cosmos will instantiate after this Second Economy dissolves at the end of time. We all return to the new Third Economy ruled by the Third Order of Powers, and that’s the pleroma of Christ. Christ is the Third Order of Powers, and there is an individual Third Order Power for every one of us Second Order Powers. We can’t do it on our own. We cannot love to the extent needed to demonstrate to the Demiurge love. We get caught in wars. We kill each other. We fight with each other. We quarrel. We quibble. We blow each other up and chop off heads. Bad, very bad. The Christ and the Third Order Powers comes to each of us as an individual, comes to you, comes to me, comes to our neighbors, comes to all of the critters and all of the plants, but I don’t think they’re quite as fallen as we are. I think they’re doing a pretty good job of living their lives according to what is required down here in the Second Economy. But true salvation, true redemption from this world comes by accepting the assistance of the Christ. Okay, I think we’ll stop there today. That’s the end of this Gnostic Cosmology. Next week, we’ll talk about the yeah, so what? to all of this. What good will that do me? What good will that do the world? Tune back in next week and we’ll talk about it. Meanwhile, if you have any questions or comments, please don’t be shy. Make some comments. I look forward to reading them. God bless and onward and upward. 15 steps in Gnostic Cosmology

Los evangelios ocultos: el hallazgo que cambió la Navidad - Javier Sierra en "Lo Misterioso" - EDENEX -

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2025 16:48

En este episodio de Lo Misterioso, Alberto Herrera y Javier Sierra nos invitan a retroceder ocho décadas, hasta un hallazgo que podría reescribir los orígenes de muchas de las tradiciones navideñas. En diciembre de 1945, un campesino egipcio descubrió, por azar, una vasija sellada en las colinas de Nag Hammadi. Dentro, no había oro ni genios, sino trece códices escritos en copto: los Evangelios apócrifos, textos que narran historias de Jesús y sus discípulos al margen del canon oficial. Sierra explica que estos manuscritos, tachados de “fantasiosos” y “heréticos”, ofrecen una visión alternativa del cristianismo primitivo, donde lo místico y lo simbólico se entrelazan con lo humano y lo divino. Un viaje fascinante a las raíces secretas de la fe, donde el misterio, la arqueología y la espiritualidad se dan la mano bajo la luz del desierto egipcio. https://www.edenex.es

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Las 20 Razas del Mal: Investigación Paranormal sobre Entidades Oscuras y Fenómenos Sobrenaturales

Marcado por el misterio

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 5, 2025 50:06

El conocimiento más antiguo y perturbador de la humanidad, finalmente revelado. Durante milenios, civilizaciones de todos los continentes han documentado la existencia de entidades no humanas que habitan en los márgenes de nuestra realidad. Seres que desafían las leyes físicas, que interactúan con nosotros de formas incomprensibles, y que según miles de testimonios verificables, conviven entre nosotros en dimensiones superpuestas. Este podcast presenta la investigación más exhaustiva jamás realizada sobre las 20 razas del mal: desde demonios de jerarquías infernales documentados en casos como el de Roland Doe (que inspiró El Exorcista), hasta arcontes gnósticos que según textos de Nag Hammadi diseñaron nuestra realidad como prisión dimensional. Desde djinn islámicos creados de fuego sin humo, hasta wendigos caníbales de los bosques helados de Norteamérica. Cada entidad analizada desde múltiples perspectivas: Origen histórico y mitológico en fuentes primarias Casos documentados con evidencia verificable Investigaciones de universidades prestigiosas Interpretaciones religiosas de múltiples tradiciones Explicaciones científicas y neurocientíficas disponibles Métodos de protección espiritual comprobados No encontrarás especulación barata ni teorías conspirativas. Solo información rigurosa, contrastada con archivos históricos, textos religiosos canónicos, investigaciones antropológicas y estudios paranormales con metodología científica. Íncubos y súcubos que atacan durante el sueño. Larvas astrales que parasitan campos energéticos. Sombras sin rostro capturadas por cámaras de seguridad. Poltergeists investigados por laboratorios universitarios. Ángeles caídos que enseñaron conocimientos prohibidos. Bestias apocalípticas selladas hasta el fin de los tiempos. ¿Son reales? ¿Son proyecciones psicológicas? ¿O habitan en frecuencias que la ciencia aún no puede medir? Descubre la verdad detrás del misterio. Pero ten cuidado: una vez que conoces estos nombres, una vez que identificas sus patrones, ya no puedes no-verlos. Y eso cambia todo. ESPACIO PATROCINADO POR TAROT ALICIA GALVÁN https://www.aliciagalvan.com Consultas telefónicas: 922 67 93 61 LIBRO "LAS 20 RAZAS DEL MAL Y LOS FENÓMENOS PARANORMALES": LIBROS DE MIGUEL ÁNGEL SEGURA: https://www.amazon.es/stores/Miguel-%C3%81ngel-Segura/author/B0788P7QYX #TerrorReal #FenómenosParanormales #Demonología #EntidadesOscuras #InvestigaciónParanormal #Exorcismos #MisteriosSinResolver #HorrorDocumental Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

VISITORS: Roz Mugford & Dan Zetterström (What It Means to Be Human)

Frightday: Horror, Paranormal, & True Crime

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2025 82:45

What happens when you actually follow your gut and reach out to people doing the work? This week, Kelly finds out this week, sitting down with two thoughtful, genuinely kind humans who are quietly reshaping how we talk about the UFO phenomenon. Roz and Dan discuss why women in these spaces still get push back for, well, existing, how representation matters when we're trying to understand something bigger than ourselves, the surprising overlap between consciousness, spirituality, and close encounters, why indigenous voices are being drowned out by military ones, meditation as a gateway to mediumship, Marian apparitions and what they might actually mean, the miracle of Fatima, why horror movies prove women always have the answers, and a deeply personal encounter story that Dan carries with him. Also: Tom DeLonge's new book, the Nag Hammadi texts, meditation headbands that measure brain waves, the divine feminine energy showing up everywhere lately, Nancy Drew, and why listening to what makes you uncomfortable might be the key to understanding everything. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN http://tobehumanshow.com -Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/what-it-means-to-be-human/id1838722392 -YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tobehumanshow -Instagram: @tobehumanshow_ Dan Zetterström -Instagram: @thezignal -X/Twitter: @TheZignal Roz Mugford -Instagram: @rozwelll_ Patreon ⇒ http://patreon.com/frightday TikTok ⇒ http://tiktok.com/frightdaypodcast Spotify ⇒ https://open.spotify.com/show/14ioP0z... Website ⇒ https://www.frightday.com Apple Podcasts ⇒ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Instagram ⇒ http://instagram.com/frightday X ⇒ https://x.com/frightday Media Inquiries ⇒ byron@frightday.com

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S2E19: The Thunder, Perfect Mind - Part 1 of 2

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Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2025 46:08 Transcription Available

In this episode, Gene and David begin their exploration of “The Thunder, Perfect Mind,” one of the most enigmatic and paradoxical texts from the Nag Hammadi library. This mysterious Gnostic revelation presents the divine feminine Voice (Barbelo) speaking in riddles and contradictions that deliberately shake the foundations of dualistic thinking. "I am the first and the last. I am the honored one and the scorned one. I am the whore and the holy one" - these riddles are not quite they seem. They are actually sophisticated teachings designed to awaken the listener to a deeper truth about consciousness itself.The hosts reveal how this text is from the perspective of the Trimorphic Protennoia in her second form as the unarticulated Voice - the Thunder that shook the seven Archons' thrones by introducing cognitive dissonance into the mind's rigid structures. Through her paradoxes, the Voice demonstrates that she is the consciousness present in all experiences, both the observer and the observed, the lover and beloved, the slave and ruler.Gene and David guide listeners through the text's profound psychological dimensions, showing how these apparent contradictions point toward the recognition of oneself as the witnessing consciousness that encompasses all opposites - love and hate, wealth and poverty, power and weakness, life and death.The episode explores how different spiritual traditions from Maat in Egypt to the Taoist principle of fluidity all point toward this same underlying Unity. The Voice challenges listeners to stop identifying with particular states or emotions and instead recognize themselves as the constant awareness experiencing all of life's polarities. "The Thunder, Perfect Mind" is a text designed to expand consciousness by holding opposites simultaneously, ultimately revealing that all experiences are movements of the One consciousness knowing itself from infinite perspectives. This teaching method culminates in recognizing that the Voice speaking in the text is not external but our own deepest Self.

Frank Jacob: Plasma, Intelligence & Parallel Worlds

Catalyst Talks

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 27, 2025 88:36

In this episode, I'm joined by Frank Jacobs, an award winning filmmaker, researcher and founder of CYPERHIVE.TV. We explore hidden layers of reality, from ancient texts to plasma cosmology to Gnostic origin stories, and Frank shares his extraordinary research and perspectives on who we really are and what we're here to do. In this episode,we unpack:The hidden realms of GnosticismPhysics hidden in mythologythe modern crisis of sleepwalking through this greatmystery called being human on Earth at this timeWhat is Plasma intelligence and why is our embrace the next frontier of consciousness evolutionA deeper story of creationArtificial intelligence and transhuman narrativesThe divine blueprint in the human genomePersonal Sovereignty and choosing our reality And why suffering is a pattern we opt in or out of -by choiceAbout Frank JacobFrank Jacob is an international award-winning filmmaker, researcher, producer, and popular guest on many podcasts. Having produced and directed multi-award-winning films including Solar (R)evolution, ‘The Klaus Dona Chronicles', and 'Packing For Mars', Frank is a leading voice on the frontiers of fringe science and unexplained mysteries.After a viral story he broke in 2022 on Project Looking Glass, Frank founded the channel CYBERHIVE.TV and developed a series of popular master class webinars, including ‘A Tale of Two Timelines', ‘The Inner Looking Glass', and 'Ancient X-Files and the Plasma Matrix'. His work traces primary source documents found at Nag Hammadi to the very roots of Gnosticism, uncovering how this ancient interaction has impacted historical events all the way into modern times.

Il testo è costituito da ampi estratti di un libro intitolato "Cos'è lo gnosticismo? Momenti di un'antica religione" di Ezio Albrile, pubblicato nel 2018. L'opera offre una panoramica approfondita dello gnosticismo, esaminando la sua natura, le sue mitologie (in particolare il mito valentiniano e le figure del Demiurgo e degli Arconti) e le sue rivelazioni. Il saggio analizza i testi gnostici scoperti a Nag Hammadi, discutendo le loro dottrine sul cosmo come prigione, il ruolo del Salvatore (Sōtēr) e la via per la gnosi come "uscita dal mondo". Inoltre, il libro traccia le influenze del pensiero gnostico sulla filosofia successiva, sulla cultura (citando Kierkegaard, Marx e Plotino) e sul concetto moderno di alienazione e realtà virtuale.cos'è lo gnosticismo.https://amzn.to/3Wgkt6aDiventa un supporter di questo podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/l-antica-sapienza-egizia--3571682/support.

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GNOSIS: Conocimiento de lo Oculto con Antonio Piñero - 'La Luz del Misterio' en EDENEX -

EDENEX - La Radio del Misterio

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 16, 2025 77:30

Antonio Piñero toma la palabra y conduce al oyente por el corazón intelectual de la Gnosis: sus textos, su lengua y su mundo simbólico. Desde el hallazgo de la biblioteca de Nag Hammadi hasta las dificultades y virtudes de trabajar con textos en copto, Piñero explica con sencillez filológica cómo se reconstruye una tradición que llegó fragmentada y muy mezclada con testimonios apologéticos. Relata el hallazgo accidental de los códices, las pérdidas irreparables y la fortuna de disponer de manuscritos antiguos —manuscritos que permiten acercarse de forma directa al pensamiento gnóstico— y reconoce la labor colectiva detrás de las ediciones críticas (Monserrat, Carmen Padilla y otros colaboradores). Piñero desmenuza la estructura intelectual del gnosticismo: el Demiurgo y su mundo material, el pléroma o plenitud divina, la experiencia revelatoria del iniciado y la noción de salvación como conocimiento supraterrenal. Presenta su método: ordenar y sintetizar una literatura dispersa (la base de su propuesta de 122 proposiciones) para hacerla comprensible sin domesticarla; traducir del copto, cotejar con autores patrísticos (Ireneo, Hipólito, Epifanio) y aceptar los límites de la interpretación cuando los manuscritos están fragmentados (el caso del Zostriano o textos dañados por el tiempo). Cuando aparecen pasajes enigmáticos —el beso en la boca, las cámaras nupciales, las ascensiones visionarias— Piñero ofrece lecturas matizadas: el ósculo como símbolo de unión mística y transmisión de vida, no como acto puramente sexual; las iniciaciones como ritos de revelación; la distancia entre la experiencia mística y la explicación histórica. Afirma con franqueza su posición: estudioso riguroso, escéptico y racionalista, interesado en explicar la doctrina pero no en predicarla; su enfoque es académico, filológico y cauteloso frente a las afirmaciones de los contemporáneos que se reclaman gnósticos. El diálogo termina enlazando pasado y presente: la pervivencia de motivos gnósticos en la teosofía, el esoterismo y el New Age, el papel de la tradición en dar sentido a quienes buscan una experiencia trascendente, y la necesidad de distancia crítica para comprender qué fue realmente la Gnosis. Es, en suma, una lección apasionada de historia intelectual: Piñero como guía paciente que traduce lo oculto en palabras claras, mostrando tanto la riqueza textual como las trampas interpretativas de un terreno donde lo sagrado y lo simbólico se entrelazan con la precariedad de los libros que han llegado hasta nosotros. https://www.edenex.es

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There's Something about Mary (Magdalene's Writing)

The Soul Amplified Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 7, 2025 32:50

Did you know Mary Magdalene has writings? Yeah. The Gospel of Mary.I'm going to share the crazy story of why it took almost 60 years for it to be published once it was discovered.I'm going to share just 3 of the things in this text that drop bombs all over modern theology and belief systems. They upend power structures, and call into question major assumptions whole swaths of people hold. Ready? Let's Go!Books I mention:I reference Meggan Watterson's book several times, it is called "Mary Madalene Revealed: The First Apostle, Her Feminist Gospel and the Christianity We Haven't Tried Yet"I also reference the Nag Hammadi, the version of that I own is "The Nag Hammadi Library Revised Edition: The Definitive new translation of the Gnostic scriptures, complete in one volume" edited by James M Robison (this is from the 1990's, I'm sure you can find a more updated version).Contact me or Join my Stuff Here:Behind the Veil: Secrets of the TowerJoin the Peek Behind the Veil email list here!Experience an exclusive and private initiation into the herstory of Tower Priestesses. We begin with a 5 hour private day in my home in Vancouver, WA to learn more about Tower Priestesses (MM was one). We continue to deepen your power over the next 2 months through digital workbooks, audio, and 2 zoom calls. This is a 4 figure investment in USD with a pay-up-front option and a pay in 3 installments option. To learn more, join the Peek Behind the Veil Email List to get more information and next steps to sign up. Join my email list--just click here!I share insights here not seen anywhere else, as well as coupon codes, early access and bonus' for early sign up! If you want all the cool things, this is the place to be! Email comes out every Monday morning.Sign up for my Transforming Your Self Text messages! I can be in your texts messages every M, W & F. I'll be giving advice, loving reminders & information to help you love yourself & heal NOW. Sign up by texting the word PEACE to 877-338-0875 or visit this web site: https://slkt.io/xlBeWebsite: Soulamplified.orgInstagram: @SoulAmplifiede-mail: Vanessa@soulamplified.org

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Authoritative Discourse of the Nag Hammadi

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 30:14

Death and life are placed before everyone, and people choose for themselves which of these two they want. The soul forgets her siblings and her father, and sensual pleasures and sweet things deceive her. She has abandoned knowledge and has fallen into the life of an animal. A person devoid of sense lives like a beast, not knowing what one should say or should not say. We are to be triumphant over the ignorance of those who contend with us, the adversaries who contend against us, through our gnosis, for we already have known the inscrutable One from whom we have come. We are not interested in them when they speak ill of us. We ignore them when they curse us. We stare at them in silence when they treat us shamefully, directly to our face. The soul who has tasted these things has come to realize that sweet passions are fleeting. She has learned about evil, has forsaken these passions, and has adopted a new lifestyle. After her experiences, the soul disdains this life because it lasts for only a time. She seeks the kinds of food that will bring her life, and she leaves behind the food of falsehood. She learns about the light, and she goes about and strips off this world. Her true garment clothes her within, and her bridal gown reveals beauty of mind rather than pride of flesh. She learns about the depth of her being. She runs into her sheepfold as her shepherd stands at the door. In return for all the shame and scorn she experienced in this world, she receives 10,000 times as much grace and glory.

Authoritative Discourse of the Nag Hammadi

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Play Episode Listen Later Jul 11, 2025 30:14

Death and life are placed before everyone, and people choose for themselves which of these two they want. The soul forgets her siblings and her father, and sensual pleasures and sweet things deceive her. She has abandoned knowledge and has fallen into the life of an animal. A person devoid of sense lives like a beast, not knowing what one should say or should not say. We are to be triumphant over the ignorance of those who contend with us, the adversaries who contend against us, through our gnosis, for we already have known the inscrutable One from whom we have come. We are not interested in them when they speak ill of us. We ignore them when they curse us. We stare at them in silence when they treat us shamefully, directly to our face. The soul who has tasted these things has come to realize that sweet passions are fleeting. She has learned about evil, has forsaken these passions, and has adopted a new lifestyle. After her experiences, the soul disdains this life because it lasts for only a time. She seeks the kinds of food that will bring her life, and she leaves behind the food of falsehood. She learns about the light, and she goes about and strips off this world. Her true garment clothes her within, and her bridal gown reveals beauty of mind rather than pride of flesh. She learns about the depth of her being. She runs into her sheepfold as her shepherd stands at the door. In return for all the shame and scorn she experienced in this world, she receives 10,000 times as much grace and glory.

S2E15: The Trimorphic Protennoia - Part 1 of 4

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Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2025 34:30 Transcription Available

In this episode of the “Way of the Hermit” podcast, Gene and David embark on a 4-part exploration of the Trimorphic Protennoia (”Three Forms of the First Thought") - a cornerstone text from the Nag Hammadi library. This episode builds on their previous journeys through the "Secret Gospel of John" and the "Gospel of Thomas," tracing the descent and return of the soul through the mythic architecture of consciousness.In this discussion, the hosts unravel the Trimorphic Protennoia as both a cosmic autobiography and a practical manual for the inner life. They illuminate the text's central claim: that all reality is an emanation of consciousness, unfolding through three archetypal forms - Thought, Voice, and Word - mirrored in the Gnostic Trinity of Father, Mother, and Son. Through poetic passages and careful exegesis, Gene and David reveal how this triadic process is not only the fabric of the cosmos but also the hidden engine of our own minds. The conversation weaves through profound symbols: Barbelo as the androgynous First Thought, the descent into the underworld as the awakening of the sleeping soul, and the “still small voice” as the intuitive guide within.Listeners are invited to contemplate the omnipresence of consciousness, the mystery of the “door” between the ineffable and the manifest, and the transformative power of recognizing the divine seed within. The discussion makes connections to alchemy, Kabbalah, and Jungian psychology, offering both theoretical insights and practical methods for tuning into the quiet, radiant voice at the heart of being.We hope that this episode deepens your understanding of the perennial wisdom tradition and inspires your own journey toward wholeness and gnosis.Deep Dive:The Trimorphic Protennoia - Three Forms of First ThoughtChapters:01:15 Introduction02:27 Review05:54 Trimorphic Protenoia08:49 Protennoia - First Thought12:23 Epinoia - Subsequent Thoughts15:19 Invisible One18:12 The Quiet Voice20:21 Radiant Waters23:32 The Door26:41 Seed and Fruit28:22 The Son30:55 ConclusionsResources:Trimorphic Protennoia (Wikipedia)Trimorphic Protennoia - John D. Turner (“Bible-like” but leaves names intact)Three Forms of First Thought - Willis Barnstone Translation (clearer, more readable)Analytic Idealism in a Nutshell - Bernardo KastrupIrreducible: Consciousness, Life, Computers, and Human Nature - Federico FagginCreative Evolution - Henri Bergson (Amazon)Gospel of Nicodemus (Sacred Text Archive)Gnosis.org - The Gnosis ArchiveThe Nag Hammadi ScripturesThe Red Book: A Reader's Edition - Carl JungJesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians - Freke and Gandy

Universal Architecture: Who is Sophia? (Part 7)

Fully NourishedÂ®

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2025 22:12

As we come to the close of the Universal Architecture series, I find myself feeling both reflective and deeply moved. There were many directions I considered taking this final episode, but my heart kept bringing me back to the number seven. This is the seventh installment, and in universal architecture, numbers carry sacred meaning..To close this series, I want to share two texts that have profoundly shaped my spiritual path. These texts honor the Divine Feminine, whom I, as a woman, am called to embody and serve here on Earth. The first is Proverbs 8, from the Hebrew Scriptures. It speaks of Wisdom, personified as a woman who calls out to all people. She was with God from the beginning, before the foundations of the earth. She stands at the crossroads, calling to those who seek truth, offering something far more precious than silver or gold. Her presence is ancient, woven into the very fabric of creation. The second text is from the Nag Hammadi library, a mystical Gnostic scripture titled The Thunder, Perfect Mind. This one is esoteric, poetic, and challenging—intentionally so. It expresses the Divine Feminine in all her paradoxes. She exists in all things and speaks directly to those who seek her. She is within you, yet beyond you. She is the one both hated and adored, hidden in shame and revealed in glory. This text, though difficult to digest intellectually, reveals something crucial: the feminine nature of God is not a doctrine to be debated but a mystery to be experienced. She is not loud or obvious; she hides in plain sight. This whole series has only scratched the surface of this universal architecture, but I hope it's planted seeds of courage in you—to seek, to question, and to go where fear tries to keep you from looking.Tune in today to dive deeper into this episode as we explore how we can truly seek the Divine and overcome our fears. As Frank Herbert writes in Dune, “Fear is the mind killer.” You must let it pass over and through you. On the other side of fear, there is nothing left to hold you back; only you remain, awakened, whole, and held by the Divine.In this episode:[00:38] Welcome back to The Fully Nourished Podcast![00:58] What do numbers represent in universal architecture?[02:52] My two favorite texts that have helped me draw closer to the divine.[03:15] Proverbs 8. [07:16] The Thunder, Perfect Mind from the Nag Hammadi library[17:58] The nature of the divine feminine is a mystery. [18:39] The key to facing our fears on our journey to seek the divine. [21:08] Thanks for joining me on The Fully Nourished Podcast! Links and Resources:Read These Texts:Proverbs 8Thunder, Perfect Mind:http://gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.htmlGet more info on Philosophia Society Here:https://www.jessicaashwellness.com/philosophia-societySubmit a Question for our Next Q&A:https://airtable.com/appoicByQy3UFoSXs/shrXwD7wQFJQr68NnSign Up for Sunday Tea Here: https://jessica-ash-wellness.ck.page/04f86a550fConnect with Jessica:Have Sunday tea with me! Sign-up for my Sunday newsletter where I share what's on my brain from the nutritional to spiritual: https://www.jessicaashwellness.com/email-subscribe. Join the Fully Nourished community! Follow me @jessicaashwellness on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jessicaashwellness/

How Religion Erased the Divine Feminine

Awaken Beauty Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2025 8:47

REINCARNATION - The Nag Hammadi

Unexplained Realms

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2025 14:16

Join me for a Gnostic journey through reincarnation...

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#642 - What REALLY Happens During Spiritual Awakening? The HIDDEN Pattern You've Missed! With Booboo Garcia

Ask Julie Ryan

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2025 60:03

EVEN MORE about this episode!What if hitting rock bottom unlocked the cosmos? In this gripping episode, spiritual seeker and The Broader Lens Podcast host Booboo Garcia shares his raw journey from gang life and addiction to a soul-shattering ego death that rewired his reality.Booboo opens up about the trauma that shaped him, the moment of pure nothingness that awakened him, and how glimpses of past lives and vivid spiritual encounters set him on a path of truth and transformation.We dive deep into ancient wisdom—from the Nag Hammadi to Yogananda—while unraveling the spiritual codes hidden in pop culture. If you've ever questioned your purpose or sensed there's more beyond the veil, this episode is your invitation to explore the mystical side of healing, awakening, and who we really are.Guest Biography:Booboo Garcia is a spiritual seeker, writer, and host of The Broader Lens Podcast. After overcoming trauma, gang life, and addiction, a profound awakening in 2009 set him on a lifelong path of self-discovery and sobriety. He explores consciousness, ancient wisdom, and humanity's hidden origins, blending mysticism, science, and personal experience to challenge what we think we know.Episode Chapters:(0:00:01) - Spiritual Awakening and Transformation Interview(0:06:29) - Journey From Darkness to Awakening(0:12:40) - Healing Trauma and Self-Discovery(0:26:05) - Journey of Spiritual Discovery(0:29:11) - Exploring Ancient Texts and Beliefs(0:34:40) - Exploring Ancient Mysteries and Spiritual Connections(0:48:11) - Exploring Spiritual Awakening and Oneness➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan YouTube➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan Español YouTube➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan Português YouTube➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan Deutsch YouTube➡️Subscribe to Ask Julie Ryan Français YouTube✏️Ask Julie a Question!

TJP FULL EPISODE 1360 Wednesday 050725 James and the Giant Preacher Apostolic and Nag Hammdi

The James Perspective

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2025 90:43

On todays Show we celebrate the return of Texas Jim and we talk about Jimbo's paper on early Christian liturgical and catechetical patterns, which identified 12 features of apostolic Christianity. These include beliefs in God's unity, Jesus' divinity and humanity, and the resurrection. Jimbo compared Apostolic Fathers' texts with Nag Hammadi texts, finding that only the Secret Book of James and some Valentinian texts partially aligned with the narrative pattern. The paper concluded that early Christianity was unified around these beliefs, despite diverse practices. The conversation also touched on the implications of these findings for modern Christian orthodoxy and the importance of implicit versus explicit theological statements. The discussion delves into the interpretation of the Bible, emphasizing the depth beyond literalism. Speaker 2 critiques the shallow approach of Richard Dawkins and others, advocating for a deeper understanding of Christianity's narrative and salvific plan. The conversation highlights the unity of Christianity through 12 core features, despite diverse practices like communion. They contrast this with Gnostic texts, which deviate significantly from Apostolic Christian principles. The narrative pattern unites major Christian denominations, including Protestantism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Catholicism. Don't miss it!

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The Father of All Consciousness

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Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 29:16

I like to begin with the cosmos as it unfolded and rolled out. The word for that sort of study is cosmogony, which is defined as the study of the origins of the universe. This makes the most sense to me, to start at the very beginning and then to go through the entire process of how everything came to be and who the principal players are, and then, after that is established, to see how that applies to our lives. Then we can ask, why are we here? Is there a purpose to our lives? How should we live? And after that, we can finally consider the final roll-up of the universe and what happens after we “die.” All of these questions are answered very precisely in the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi. This sort of knowledge is known as gnosis. Today we begin at the very beginning, and that has to do with what is called the Father. This story begins before the beginning of time, because there was no time before our material cosmos existed.

Introducing the Gospel of Philip from the Nag Hammadi Collection

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Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 34:01

An interview with Dr. Kimberly Fowler Dr. Kimberley Fowler explains the Gospel of Philip, one of the lesser known texts from the Nag Hammadi collection. She loves it and finds it “charmingly and remarkably weird,” even though is it does not stray too far from orthodox Christian theology. Although it includes a brief reference to Jesus kissing Mary, that kiss seems to be only one of the many ritual Christian practices explained in the rather randomly organized gospel. Kimberley Fowler is Assistant Professor of New Testament at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Her research incorporates a range of topics in early Christianity, most especially the Coptic texts of the Nag Hammadi Codices, where she has focused on the production and reception context of the manuscripts and what this reveals about diverse early Christian reading practices. She has also worked on the manuscripts of the New Testament and is co-leading a project on an important copy of Paul's letters and its annotation system. Kimberley is currently writing a monograph on the Gospel of Philip for Cambridge University Press, as well as a short volume on the Nag Hammadi Codices for Cambridge's Elements in Early Christianity series. Complete transcript available here: https://earlychristiantexts.com/gospel-of-philip/

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What is Gnosticism: Silicon Valley's Transhuman Path, Simulation Theory & The Matrix!

Breaking Social Norms

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2025 108:10

Today we're doing a beginner's guide to Gnosticism! Housekeeping covers Isaac's Dark Enlightenment series, Ian Carroll drama and Netflix Temptation Island. Show starts at 18:00 of Gnostic concepts: Secret Knowledge of Sophia, Creation of the false world, Nag Hammadi, Demiurge false god Abraxas, Opposing Forces, Occult embrace, Silicon Valley Simulation Theory and what we can do about it!You can now sign up for our commercial-free version of the show with a Patreon exclusive bonus show called “Morning Coffee w/ the Weishaupts” at Patreon.com/BreakingSocialNorms OR subscribe on the Apple Podcasts app to get all the same bonus “Morning Coffee” episodes AD-FREE with early access! (*Patreon is also NOW enabled to connect with Spotify! https://rb.gy/r34zj)Want more?…Index of all previous episodes on free feed: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/2021/03/22/index-of-archived-episodes/Leave a review or rating wherever you listen and we'll see what you've got to say!Follow us on the socials:instagram.com/theweishaupts2/Amazon Affiliate shop (*still under construction) with our favorite hair, skin care and horny books: https://breakingsocialnorms.com/2024/08/24/amazon-shopping-list-josie-and-isaacs-list/Check out Isaac's conspiracy podcasts, merch, etc:AllMyLinks.com/IsaacWOccult Symbolism and Pop Culture (on all podcast platforms or IlluminatiWatcher.com)Isaac Weishaupt's book are all on Amazon and Audible; *author narrated audiobooks*STATEMENT: This show is full of Isaac's and Josie's useless opinions and presented for entertainment purposes. Audio clips used in Fair Use and taken from YouTube videos.

The Surprising Spirituality of the Nag Hammadi Texts w/Dr. Shirley Paulson

Talk Gnosis

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025

Talk Gnosis welcomes back Dr. Shirley Paulson to discuss her new FREE course on the Nag Hammadi and related texts. […]

Nag Hammadi - Happy Fools Podcast

Fringe Radio Network

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025 90:21

The Nag Hammadi texts are a collection of early Christian and Gnostic manuscripts discovered in 1945 near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt. Written primarily in Coptic, these documents include the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Philip, and other works that were not incorporated into the traditional Christian canon. They offer unique perspectives on Jesus's teachings, delve into esoteric beliefs about the nature of existence, and shed light on the diversity of thought in early Christian communities.

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The Secret Teachings of Opera | Karma, Archons, Aeons, the Demiurge, and Salvation in Beethoven's Fidelio

Chicago Gnosis Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 9, 2025 78:32

Beethoven's only opera encodes tremendous metaphysical truths gleaned from his own inner spiritual development on the initiatic path. What is more remarkable is that he conveyed gnostic principles on the demiurge, archons, aeons, and redemption without physical access to classical gnostic texts. This is because as a master of meditation, he was privy to knowledge inaccessible to the mind, personality, or senses, and through his psychological work, was able to witness, live, and portray first hand the very root source of such knowledge informing the conception and documentation of the Gnostic Gospels and Nag Hammadi corpus. He composed Fidelio not only to musically uplift humanity's level of being, but also to teach the realities of divine law (karma), atonement, and the esoteric spiritual work for candidates of the mysteries. Such wisdom is elucidated by Samael Aun Weor's rich commentary on The Gnostic Bible: The Pistis Sophia Unveiled, which serves as the basis for future viewings of Beethoven's masterpiece. Discover the deep insights of this truly gnostic opera, and how a prophet of music demonstrated true love for divinity and the overpowering realities of Pistis Sophia's salvation (the penitent soul who longs for and aspires to the light).

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What is the Nag Hammadi Library?

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 5, 2025 39:53

What is the Nag Hammadi Library? An Interview with Dr. Dylan Burns Dr. Dylan Burns, a leading scholar on the “Nag Hammadi Library” and related texts, describes the significance of the 1945 archaeological discovery in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. It is not only of great importance for a better understanding of Christian origins, but many of the texts also reveal a great beauty and probing inquiry into the meaning of the divine in human experience. Their great diversity and welcome for women leadership were among the greatest surprises. Dr. Dylan M. Burns is Assistant Professor of the History of Esotericism in Late Antiquity at the University of Amsterdam. He earned his doctorate in Ancient Christianity at Yale University in 2011, before holding research positions in Copenhagen, Leipzig, and Berlin. Among his books are Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism (2014), Did God Care? Providence, Dualism, and Will in Later Greek and Early Christian Philosophy (2020), and The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices (2022). Transcript available on the Early Christian Texts website: https://earlychristiantexts.com/what-is-the-nag-hammadi-library/

S2E10: The Gospel of Thomas - Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2025 32:23 Transcription Available

In this episode of the Way of the Hermit Podcast, David and Gene begin their exploration of the Gospel of Thomas, a collection of 114 enigmatic sayings attributed to the “Living Jesus,” that, like the other Gnostic texts discovered in the cache at Nag Hammadi, Egypt - challenges conventional religious notions.Unlike the cosmological narrative of the Secret Gospel of John, the teachings in the Gospel of Thomas are distilled into koan-like paradoxes and parables, designed to provoke self-realization. Labeled heretical by early church fathers, this primary text of the “Thomasine Tradition,” rejects dogma in favor of direct spiritual revelation, urging initiates to meditate on its riddles to awaken their divine nature, so as to “not taste death.”This episode discusses the first 23 sayings. Here are highlights from the sections:Sayings 1–3: immortality comes by transcending physicality and materiality through self-knowledge and identification with consciousness, while the path to sovereignty (“becoming king over the All”) demands confronting disturbing truths.Sayings 4–7: delve into Jungian shadow work, where innocence must be reclaimed consciously, and spiritual mastery requires “eating the lion” (integrating instinctual forces symbolized by the Demiurge).Sayings 8–11: contrast transient heavens with eternal unity, using metaphors like the fisherman's “large fish” (ultimate truth) and the disruptive “fire” that the teachings help kindle, to dismantle outdated paradigms.A pivotal moment arises in Saying 13, where Thomas receives three secret words - keys to spiritual, soul, and material realms - after recognizing Jesus's ineffable nature, also highlighting Peter's and Matthew's limited interpretations of Jesus as merely a prophet or a philosopher.Later sayings (14–23): critique performative piety, urging alignment with the “unborn” (bornless) divine essence within. These sayings include Kabbalistic references, and also refer to the alchemical unification of male/female polarities.The episode culminates in Saying 23's stark reminder that few attain full unity with the divine - a “spiritual alchemy” reserved for those willing to dissolve egoic barriers, to die to who they thought they were, in order to become a “Twin of Jesus,” a spiritual master.David and Gene contextualize Thomas' role as the archetypal Gnostic doubter, whose insistence on firsthand gnosis mirrors the text's radical claim: that we are all potential “twins” of Christ, tasked with resurrecting the reflection of the divine, in our mind, heart and hands.Deep Dive:The Gospel of ThomasChapters:01:15 Introduction02:45 History and Significance05:10 The Gospel of Thomas06:36 Sayings 1-309:24 Sayings 4-712:02 Sayings 8-1115:43 Sayings 12-1319:14 Sayings 14-1622:59 Sayings 17-1925:27 Sayings 20-2330:15 ConclusionsResources:The Gospel of Thomas (history and various translations - Gnosis.org)Gospel of Thomas (Patterson and Robinson translation)Gnosis.org - The Gnosis ArchiveThe Nag Hammadi ScripturesThe Red Book: A Reader's Edition by Carl JungJesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians by Freke and Gandy

The Outer Realm- Egyptian Nag Hammadi - A Book 0f Great Secrets With Kevin Dermot O Doherty

United Public Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 127:55

The Outer Realm welcomes the return of Kevin Dermot O'Doherty Hosts: Michelle Desrochers, Amelia Pisano Date: January 29th, 2025 Episode: 517 Discussion: Kevin returns to talk about his book " Secrets of the Egyptian Nag Hammadi" - The Nag Hammadi texts were found in the Upper Nile town of the same name by a farmer in 1945. They date from the 2nd Century AD but may be even older in their original form. Kevin claims to have discovered within them the lost ‘Book of Great Secrets', and that the Major Arcana suit of the tarot deck has its origins in ancient Egypt and is actually an account of the world's creation. Contact for the show - theouterrealmcontact@gmail.com Rumble: TheOuterRealm X - MicheleDerocher Website: www.theouterrealmradio.com Please support us by Liking, Subscribing, Sharing and Commenting. Thank you all!! About Our Guest: Kevin was the church president of Waterloo Spiritualist Church, Liverpool, UK, for many years but is no longer attached to any religion or organisation. He is also a multi-award-winning filmmaker with many hours of production and broadcast credits to his name, including managing a TV studio for the Uk's ITV network. He was a regular on Liverpool's City Talk FM as an esoteric pundit and guest with Lady Snake on the Psychic Surgery lunchtime phone-in. Kevin is currently engaged in searching out the Faery Folk following his life-changing encounter with them in September 2023 when he returned to his ancestral home on Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland, follwing te death of his father. Dissatisfied with his current publisher, Kevin has set up his own imprint called Valentia Press, name after the Irish island from which his family hail. He holds two black belts with the World Ju-Jitsu Federation. About The Book: Secrets of the Egyptian Nag Hammadi The Nag Hammadi texts were found in the Upper Nile town of the same name by a farmer in 1945. They date from the 2ndCentury AD but may be even older in their original form. Kevin claims to have discovered within them the lost ‘Book of Great Secrets', and that the Major Arcana suit of the tarot deck has its origins in ancient Egypt and is actually anaccount of the world's creation. They offer a plausible answer to the really big questions of who, what, why, when, where and how we are, through ‘the revealing', ‘the psychic' and the ‘spiritual science of God'! These texts are the teachings of masters and exponents immersed in the disciplines of understanding energies, auras, spirits, demons and other classes of interdimensional entities that move through our world, and the realms they occupy and control. And of the latter, the texts seek to give to us the gravest warning of ‘archon' intrusion, their universal threat to us, and how these creatures emerged as a supra phantastic, super intelligent anomaly from the bile of the original womb in the predominant form of so-called ETs and can move through ether and matter like fishes through water. They are delineated as the supreme, sabotaging influence on that which created us. These texts make a promise to you. If you persevere you will be greatly rewarded, and your understanding of life made fuller. They will slowly reveal to you their ‘great secrets'. But you are warned that this may come at a price! The interdimensional ‘powers' that have conspired to keep mankind blind and locked in slavery may well visit upon you prior to, during, or just after your sleep state. They dread the human being becoming alive to their evil. They exist in a state of fear of being discovered any minute now. Should you come under their attack, do not fear because they texts tell you how to deal with it

The Sophia of Christ ~ Gnosticism

Wisdom of the Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 22:26

A reading of selected excerpts/verses from the gnostic text, The Sophia of Christ. The Sophia The Christ, also known as the Wisdom of Jesus Christ, is a Gnostic text that was first discovered in the Berlin Codex (a Codex purchased in Cairo in 1896 and given to the Berlin Museum which also contains the Gospel of Mary, the Apocryphon of John, and a summary of the Act of Peter). More famously, the Sophia of Jesus Christ is also among the many Gnostic tractates in the Nag Hammadi codices, discovered in Egypt in 1945. The Berlin-Codex manuscript (as opposed to its contents) probably dates to c. AD 400, and the Nag-Hammadi manuscript has been dated to the 300s. However, these are complemented by a few fragments in Greek dating from the 200s, indicating an earlier date for the contents. Sophia should be understood in its ordinary meaning as "wisdom", analogous to the titles Wisdom of Solomon and Wisdom of Sirach.

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Beatitudes of Jesus, Book of Mark

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Play Episode Listen Later Jan 18, 2025 23:29

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. You know, this podcast is an odd space where it's both Gnostic and Christian, because what I'm teaching is what I believe to be the original form of the messages that Jesus was trying to get across. And then the messages that Jesus was trying to get across were co-opted and taken over by the Catholic Church and the Emperor of Rome, who wanted a state religion around 300 AD—that was Constantine—wanted a state religion by which Rome could go out and conquer their enemies. And that's why Constantine's vision that supposedly caused him to become a Christian was one of a cross floating in the sky and a voice saying, “By this sign, go out and conquer.” Well, that isn't what Jesus was about. That may be what the Pope and the Emperor of Rome are about, and that is this religion called Christianity. But Jesus came for an entirely different process and message. It's important to remember that Jesus was a Jew, a devout Jew who knew his scripture. So when Jesus makes comments, it's usually in relationship to the original Pentateuch or the Torah. We modern people have inherited a kind of Gentile religion, mostly formed by the Apostle Paul, who was not one of the original disciples. When people tune into Gnostic Insights here, they are hoping for, ooh—Gnosticism. And usually the Gnosticism that's presented when you go out there and you do your research and listen to other Gnostic podcasts, and you go to Wikipedia and read about Gnosticism, isn't what I'm teaching. But, of course, I maintain that this is the Gnosis that we need to know. This is Gnosticism, and it comes from the same period of time as the other Gnostic scrolls, because it was contained within the Nag Hammadi Scriptures, buried in the desert for 2,000 years. But this one's usually tossed aside, because people say, oh, it's too complicated, it's too complex. But I think it's because it's true, and it has been untouched. Now we do know that Carl Jung was very familiar with the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, because Jung actually purchased the codex upon which this Tripartite Tractate was written. In other words, he bought one of the scrolls out of the Nag Hammadi collection and had it translated. And then, what do you know, out pops Jung's theory of transpersonal consciousness and Jung's theory of Depth psychology, which is based upon things like archetypes and dreams. It's based upon this higher source that I'm teaching you, because Jung and I have both taken to this Tripartite Tractate scroll. So he noticed that what was being taught in the Tripartite Tractate very well describes humanity and the three-part nature of humankind. And it was different than what Sigmund Freud had taught him about the three-part nature of humanity, which is simply id, ego, and superego, but without any higher level. So the superego of Freud is not the same as the spiritual dimension that we talk about, or that Jung talked about. Anyway, this is an aside. This isn't what I'm intending to talk about today. ***************** I started by saying that this is a funny type of teaching that's very Christian and yet very, very Gnostic. People have been asking me for more Gnostic interpretations of the New Testament, which I'm very happy to give. So, you know, there's four Gospels, what are called the Gospels, or the story of Jesus in the New Testament. The New Testament begins with these four books, the book of Matthew, the book of Mark, the book of Luke, and the book of John. We're going to start with the book of Matthew, and I'm reading from a red letter edition, which for me is this New King James Version. Unfortunately, David Bentley Hart's translation is not a red letter edition, so I'm going to have to go back and forth between my King James and Hart. The first big speech that Jesus ever gave is called the Beatitudes. That's what it's called, the name of speech. And there were a multitude of people sitting on the side of a hill,

Gnostic Gospel of St Thomas ~ Teachings of Jesus

Wisdom of the Masters

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2024 36:21

This is a selection of "Sayings of Jesus" from the gnostic Gospel of St. Thomas (translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson) plus a few other selections of Jesus' key teachings from other gospels. https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-versions-and-translations/the-gospel-of-thomas-114-sayings-of-jesus/ Here's the link to various other translations: http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html The Gospel of Thomas (also known as the Coptic Gospel of Thomas) is a non-canonical sayings gospel. It was discovered near Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in December 1945 among a group of books known as the Nag Hammadi library. Scholars speculate that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius declaring a strict canon of Christian scripture. Scholars have proposed dates of composition as early as AD 60 and as late as AD 140. The Coptic-language text, the second of seven contained in what modern-day scholars have designated as Codex II, is composed of 114 sayings attributed to Jesus. In the Gnostic Christian tradition, Christ is seen as a divine being which has taken human form in order to lead humanity back to the Light. The usual meaning of gnostikos in Classical Greek texts is "learned" or "intellectual". Art image - "Ground" by Dan Hillier used with kind permission of the artist. Please see Dan's incredible art at: https://danhillier.com/ Music: Father Archimandrite Serafim Bit-Kharibi and his choir - Saint- Petersburg

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Deep Dip: Pistis Sophia

Darkly Splendid Abodes

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 119:36

Crowley calls the Pistis Sophia ‘an admirable introduction to the study of Gnosticism', and includes it in the Curriculum of A∴A∴. But how does Gnosticism relate to Thelema? We'll delve into the first half of this early-Christian text to see if we can find connections, and contextualize magical ideas about Gnosticism before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library.

The Genesis story isn't about divine creation; it's about advanced beings experimenting with primitive hominids. It's genetic manipulation.

Jordan Maxwell

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2024 123:50

“The Genesis story isn't about divine creation; it's about advanced beings experimenting with primitive hominids. It's genetic manipulation disguised as mythology.” - Jordan MaxwellJordan Maxwell Interviewed by TruthSeekah.www.TruthSeekah.comPhenomena and Spiritual Awareness (00:19): The podcast opens with a disclaimer about potential spiritual and psychic phenomena listeners may experience, such as heightened intuition, lucid dreaming, and astral projection.Personal Struggles with Faith and Acceptance (04:30): The host shares a personal story of being ostracized by Christian peers for exploring topics like aliens and the occult. A conversation with Jordan Maxwell encouraged him to continue his spiritual journey despite criticism.The Nature of Truth and Religion (10:19): Maxwell discusses his perspective on Jesus and religion, asserting that the teachings of Jesus have been mistranslated and misunderstood. He contrasts the pursuit of spiritual truth with the corporate nature of organized religion.Critique of Organized Religion (14:13): Maxwell criticizes modern religion as focused on power, money, and control rather than spirituality, claiming people prefer lies that align with their beliefs over uncomfortable truths.Spiritual Experiences and Supernatural Misconceptions (24:28): Maxwell recounts profound spiritual experiences, rejecting the term "supernatural" and suggesting they are part of natural, universal phenomena.Etymology and Ancient Texts (1:10:29): He delves into the linguistic roots of biblical terms, discussing how the Hebrew word "Elohim" implies "many gods" and interpreting Genesis as a narrative involving multiple deities.Aliens and Biblical Connections (1:17:36): Maxwell links ancient myths, including Genesis, to extraterrestrial beings, positing that the creation story may involve genetic experimentation by advanced entities.Gnostic and Hidden Scriptures (1:28:06): The interview touches on Gnostic texts like the Nag Hammadi, suggesting that these offer alternative interpretations of Jesus and early Christian theology often ignored by mainstream Christianity.The Importance of Challenging Beliefs (1:55:35): The host reflects on the value of having beliefs challenged, noting that his faith has been strengthened through periods of doubt and reevaluation.Encouragement and Spiritual Renewal (2:02:57): The interview closes with a prayer for listeners, encouraging them to seek personal encounters with God and spiritual peace in their lives.

Jacob Slavenburg over de Gnostieke Wijsbegeerte | The Trueman Show #198

The Trueman Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2024 113:46

Lieve vrienden, Voor deze nieuwe aflevering van The Trueman Show mocht ik cultuurhistoricus Jacob Slavenburg als gast verwelkomen. Jacob is niet zomaar iemand in de wereld van spiritualiteit en religieuze geschiedenis: hij is een autoriteit op het gebied van gnostiek, vroegchristelijke stromingen, hermetica en mysteriën. Jacob ontwikkelde een diepe passie voor historie dankzij inspirerende docenten. Die passie leidde uiteindelijk tot het schrijven van tientallen boeken. Zijn eigen bibliotheek telt inmiddels 4.000 historische werken en hij staat bekend om zijn grondige onderzoek en toewijding aan het schrijversvak – een kunst die volgens hem tegenwoordig vaak wordt onderschat. In deze aflevering duiken we dieper in de verborgen lagen van onze geschiedenis. Jacob vertelt over de gnostische geschriften, waaronder de Nag Hammadigeschriften die hij samen met Willem Glaudemans in het Nederlands vertaalde. Ook vertelde hij over zijn vriend Gilles Quispel, die volgens hem ongelooflijk belangrijk is geweest in het naar buiten brengen van de geschriften. Deze teksten bevatten wijsheden die eeuwenlang van ingewijde tot ingewijde werden doorgegeven. We bespreken ook de overgang van matriarchale naar patriarchale systemen en de rol van vrouwelijke energie. Volgens Jacob heeft de wereld nu juist behoefte aan die balans tussen mannelijke en vrouwelijke krachten. "De wereld heeft die vrouwelijkheid hard nodig." Bestel de boeken van Jacob in de webshop van That's the Spirit! Een Reis Langs de Mysteriën Lou Salomé En natuurlijk de Nag Hammadi geschriften Ga ‘m luisteren! Deze aflevering is ook te zien op het That's The Spirit videoplatform. WORD MEMBER van ons platform en bekijk UNCENSORED op That's The Spirit: STEUN The Trueman Show ABONNEER op onze nieuwsbrief VOLG ons op Instagram Facebook TikTok BLIJF OP DE HOOGTE via Telegram

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How Can You Tell When an Ancient Text Is Gnostic, Jewish, or Christian?

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 34:39

An interview with Dr. Samuel Zinner Dr. Samuel Zinner describes the ancient Apocryphon (or Secret Book) of James, then, focusing on two common elements in so-called ‘gnosticism'—the meaning of the demiurge and ascending—he shows how this text does not neatly fit any category. It includes no reference to demiurge, but it does involve a lengthy and unusual description of Jesus, Peter, and James all ascending. Inclusion in the Nag Hammadi collection does not necessarily define something as ‘gnostic,' as this text illustrates. Zinner is an award-winning author and scholar of Holocaust studies, ecumenism, modern and ancient languages, literature and history, and has been published internationally in a variety of languages by Oxford University Press, de Gruyter, and others. He has contributed articles to Religions Journal and served as peer review referee for several academic journals. He is also a documentary script writer, having worked with Jean-Claude Bragard, the creator of award-winning programs for the BBC. Zinner has collaborated with eminent scholars on the Dead Sea Scrolls and Hebrew scriptures. He's currently an editor for the forthcoming Origins and Applications of Language and Number with contributions from several eminent scholars, and he presents at conferences such as "The Bible and the Qur'an: Comparative Studies” at the Shahid Beshita University in Tehran. His current book that we discuss in this podcast interview is The Apocryphon of James (NHC 1,2), a scholarly work on the text more popularly known as the Secret Book of James.

Laurence Galian | Laurence's Brush with Death & Gnosticism 101

The Melt Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 162:36

I speak with author, Gnostic Sufi, Wiccan Priest, classical composer, and lover of Rudolf Steiner, Laurence Galian from his home in Mexico. We talk about the travails of getting one's lungs scraped, the Nag Hammadi library, the demiurge, and the cosmology of Gnosticism. Laurence's website: http://quantumtheurgy.click My other podcast that Laurence refers to in this podcast: http://www.twilight-language.com To support The Melt just visit our Locals page at https://themeltpodcast.locals.com/ or our Patreon page at https://www.patreon.com/themeltpodcast where you can subscribe for as little as $5 a month to receive extended episodes, exclusive episodes, and early access to regular episodes. For one time donations- PayPal: fosamsara@gmail.com Find The Melt on… Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-2365404 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheMeltPodcast Check out our merch at: https://the-melt.creator-spring.com/ Music by The Godawful Joy: https://thegodawfuljoy.bandcamp.com/releases and Matt Presti: https://www.mattpresti.com/music.html

S2E5: Gnostic Christianity

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 2, 2024 25:43 Transcription Available

In this episode, David and Gene delve into the fascinating world of Gnostic Christianity, exploring its origins, philosophical concepts, and enduring influence.The episode explores the historical and philosophical landscape that gave birth to Gnostic Christianity, focusing on Alexandria's crucial role as a melting pot of Eastern and Western thought. David and Gene also discuss the significance of the Septuagint and the works of Philo of Alexandria, in bridging Jewish and Greek philosophical traditions.The main Gnostic sects are introduced: the Sethians, Valentinians, Basilideans, Ophites, and Carpocratians, as well as the key texts associated with them, that were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt. In preparation for later discussions, this episode summarizes many fundamental Gnostic concepts such as the Pleroma, Nous, Aeons, Barbelo, Sophia, the Demiurge, and the Archons.Carl Jung's contributions to understanding Gnosticism are examined, as are his interpretations of Gnostic concepts as representations of psychological processes and structures, shedding light on the potential of Gnostic thought to illuminate the human psyche.Deep Dive:Gnostic ChristianityChapters:01:15 Introduction02:43 Gnostic Christianity05:28 The Septuagint07:04 Philo of Alexandria09:34 Gnostic Sects11:54 Nag Hammadi Texts12:50 Gnostic Concepts15:14 Seven Sermons to the Dead17:04 Gnostic Psychology19:28 Gnostic Jung22:27 ConclusionsResources:MiddleChamber.org (A Symposium of Masonic Esoterika)Morals & Dogma: Annotated EditionThe Nag Hammadi ScripturesThe Red Book: A Reader's Edition by Carl JungSeven Sermons To the Dead by Carl JungGnosticism: New Light on the Ancient Tradition of Inner Knowing by Stephan A. Hoeller

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