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THE EMOTIONS
The
Upward and Downward Spiral
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From Fragments
of a Faith Forgotten by G.R.S.
MEAD:
Doubt
is regarded as a downward tendency,
a path downward to even
more dense
and gross states of existence than
the physical; while supplication
(prayer, repentance, or aspiration)
is regarded as a path upwards to the
Heaven-
world.
She
[first] feared, then grieved, then
doubted, and then flew for refuge to
prayer
and supplication.
Here
is Christ's response to the doubt
and fear of
John:
He said
to me, “John, why doubt?
Why be
afraid? Don’t you know this image?
Be not
afraid. I am with you (plural)
always.
I am
the Father The Mother The Son
I am
the incorruptible Purity.
I have
come to teach you
About
what is And what was
And
what will be
In
order for you to understand
The
invisible world
And the
world that is visible
And the
immovable race of perfect humanity.
Raise
your head;
Understand my lessons;
Share
them with any others who have
received the spirit,
Who
are from the immovable race of
perfect humanity.”
note: The downward spiral of the
alcoholic, drug addict, rebellious
youth and the
sexual libertine come
to mind. The downward spiral comes
from doubt; doubt that
you are a
divine human emanation in essence, doubt of your
spiritual pneumatic
self in the
divine order of the spirit realm.
The
ogdoad or eight is the Father, the
Mother, the Son, Mind, Adamas, Eve,
Seth
and Seth's mate. Adam, Eve,
Seth and Mate are the four first
humans in the
pleroma spirit realm.
We are among these humans, all
created equal in divine spark.
When
you ''hit bottom'', you repent
through prayer and supplication
which allows
you to aspire to a
higher realm. It can happen on a
large scale in your life over
months or years or on a small scale within a
day.
I
have been singing in my mind Save Me by Aimee
Mann over and over, and I did
not
know why. The song is a prayer, a
supplication. To look for salvation
from
another lover or any human is
like looking into another's eyes to
see the totality
of the infinite, it just does not make it, compared to
prayer to Christ and the
Father.
In
some cases doubt can lead to an
upward spiral through release of the
physical, world order, which is
really chaos in disguise; the order
of religious,
political and economic
power on the earth today.
Doubting these crusty old
institutions can lead to freedom
from the mundane and
rising to the
Real pleroma realm. In the sixties
the youth rebelled against the
man, the conventional order, but it often
fell into drug abuse and sexual
promiscuity.
The desire to get high is a valid
emotion trying to spiral up, but
psychedelic drugs
are in the psyche
level not the spirit level and you
always come down afterward.
They
also take a
toll on your body, wasting its vital
life essence. Prayer or
supplication for Divine Aid combined with fasting
(one or two days on living water)
is
the truest way to spiral up to
higher realms.
Being
born again as a christian is a
turning point but then one doubts
the validity
of the conventional christian order, but finds it again
in the inner essene
teachings
allowing one to spiral up
on the escalator of supplication,
prayer and faith.
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How Sophia is Saved
From
her chaotic state she is rescued by
the Divine Power from above, the
synthesis of the powers of the
intelligible or noetic universe.
Chaos
becomes cosmos; un-order (becomes) order.
The
"passions" (fear, grief, doubt and
supplication) are separated from
her, and
she is purified and remains
above, while the passions contract
into denser
phases of substance,
constituting the sensible universe.
Above
them broods the Power, the
representative of the three highest
planes
(the intelligible universe or Plērōma) and of the One beyond, the
Supreme Deity.
This Divine Power is
called the Common Fruit.
The
four "passions" (fear, grief, doubt
and supplication) are separated from
Sophia, and she remains as the
substance of the highest of the
lower planes.
Fear
and grief become the substances of
the psychic and hylic (or physical)
planes respectively.
note:
our essential essence is
Thought. And Foreknowledge -
Incorruptibility -
Life Everlasting
- Truth and so fear, grief, doubt
and supplication are fallen
emotions since they did not exist before in
the pleroma or spirit realm i.e.
heaven.
Nonetheless we experience these
emotions being in physical bodies
and psychic
minds, living on an
impermanent island in space and
time, thus the need for
supplication and asking for aid from the pure
spirit world.
She,
Barbelo, asked the virgin Spirit for
foreknowledge (prognosis).
The
Spirit agreed. Foreknowledge came
forth and stood by Providence
[This
one came through the Invisible
Virgin Spirit’s Thought.]
Foreknowledge gave glory to the
Spirit
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Moreover, he says, the psychic
substance is of a fiery nature, and
they call it
[Middle] Space and
Hebdomad and Ancient of Days.
note:
(Earth is our physical world
and physical body of which our
psyche or
brain/ego mix with,
although the pneumatic part or
spirit spark like sophia never
mixed
with the material. So we are a mix
of animal lower psyche and a higher
pneumatic being, your true or higher
self.
And
whatever other statements of this
kind they make concerning this
[space],
they [in reality] refer to
the [cosmic] psychic substance,
which they declare to
be the fabricative power of the [physical]
world.
And
it is of a fiery nature. Moses also,
says the writer, declares, 'The
Lord, thy
God, is fire burning and
consuming,' for thus he would have
it written."
"As,
therefore, proceeding from the
psychic substance, [and not from an
aeon or
plērōma], the first and
greatest power [of the Sensible
World] was an image,
[and not a plērōma, namely the Workman
(Demiurge); while the power
proceeding from the material
substance or 'grief' was] the
Accuser (Diabolus), the
ruler of this world.
"[The
power, moreover, which proceeds]
from the elemental [or damonian]
substance, that is to say 'doubt,'
is Beelzeboul.
"[And] Wisdom herself energises from
above, from the Ogdoad, as far as
the
Hebdomad.
[For]
they say that the Workman knows
nothing at all, but is, according to
them,
mindless and foolish, and
knows not really what he does or
works.
Owing
to his ignorance Wisdom energised
and strengthened for him everything
he made; and, though it was she who
had done so, he imagined it was
himself
who had of himself achieved
the fabrication of the universe, and
so he began to
say: 'I am God, and
beside me there is no other.'
all excerpts From Fragments of a
Faith Forgotten
by G.R.S Mead;
HIPPOLYTUS' ACCOUNT OF ONE OF THE
VARIANTS OF THE SOPHIA-MYTHUS.
a Prayer;
Still
upwards and inwards are they to soar
to the Space of the Great Light
which
surrounds or
The Great Light. transcends the
outer Treasure of Light itself. Ieouis
there too, he is the Great Light;
this is the Second or inner Light
Treasure.
The guardians will open the Gates
and they will pass into the Orders
of the Triple
Powers of the Second
Light Treasure; thence inwards to
the twelfth Order of the
twelfth
Great Power of the emanation of the
True God.
There are twelve Great
Powers with twelve Chiefs in each of
their Orders (of which
the authentic
names are given). These Twelve will
stand apart in this Space and
invoke
the True God with this "Name" (?
prayer), saying:
Invocation to the
True God."Hear
us, O Father, Father of all
fatherhood [Here
follows a
sentence in the mystery-language
containing four of the vowels each
seven times
repeated--with the interpretation:
That is to say, Father of all
fatherhood, for the All hath come
out of the Alpha, and will return to
the Ōmega
when the consummation of
all consummations will take place.]
We
will now invoke Thy imperishable
Names that
Thou mayest send forth Thy
great Light-power, and that it follow
these Twelve
Uncontainables [that is to say,
the twelve disciples], for they have
verily received the Mystery of the
Forgiveness
of Sins, and therefore
are they not to be held back from
approaching Thy Light-
Treasure."
Thereon the True God will send forth
his Light-power; it will shine forth
from
behind the disciples, and cause
all the Treasures of the Second
Light-realm
to withdraw, and they
will reach the Space of the True God.
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The Origin of the Negative Emotions:
The four passions; Fear, Grief,
Doubt, Supplication.
also described as Fear, (Shock),
Grief (Sadness, Mourning), Doubt or
Bewilderment (Confusion), Supplication,
Repentance, Prayer (guilt,
shame,
your conscience bothering you).
All of Which Arose Out of Ignorance
The account we are mainly using
offers at
this point the following series of
emotions: grief, because she could
not get hold of the light;
fear,
lest besides the light also life
might
leave her;
bewilderment, added to
these; and all of them united in
the basic quality of
ignorance (itself
counted as an "affection").
And still another state of mind
ensued: the turning (conversion)
toward the Giver of Life.
"This,
then, became the composition
and substance of Matter, of which
this world consists; from the
turning back, all the Soul of the
world and of the Demiurge took
its origin; from fear and grief, the
rest had its beginning."
Consequences of the Crisis. Function
of the Limit
The passion and recovery of the
Sophia have an effect reaching
outside the Pleroma.
The formless
entity to which in her striving
for the impossible she gave birth is
the objectivation of her
own passion; and at the sight of it,
and reflecting upon her fate,
she is moved by varying emotions:
grief, fear, bewilderment,
shock and repentance.
Pleroma -
the Gnostic concept of the spiritual
world, representing the fullness of
the Divine Being and the eons emanating
therefrom.
Eon - (Gnosticism) a divine power or
nature emanating from the Supreme
Being
and playing various roles in the
operation of the universe.
note:
operation of the pleroma
not the material universe
These emotions too become embodied
in the
formlessness, and their complete
series, developed in ever-new
variations
by the individual thinkers, plays an
important ontological
role in the system: "From here, from
the ignorance, the grief, the
fear and the shock, material
substance took its first beginning"
(Iren. I. 2. 3).
"It
was this ignorance concerning the
Father which
produced Anguish and Terror.
Anguish
became dense like a fog,
so that no one could see.
Therefore
Error became fortified [i.e.,
assumed subsistence].
It elaborated
its own Matter in the Void"
(GT 17. 9-16).
This
is the materialization or
hypostasization of ignorance, or the
creation
of the material world.
The
actual transition to matter occurs
only in the
stage represented by the lower
Sophia, when we shall deal with it.
The first Sophia as we have heard
was purified and steadied by the
Limit and reunited with her consort,
and thus the integrity of the
Pleroma was restored.
But her Intention, once conceived
and having
become effective, cannot be just
undone:
together with the
Passion caused by it, it is
separated from her and, while she
herself
remains within the Pleroma, is by
the Limit cast outside it.
As
the natural impulse of an Aeon, this
detached complex of mental
states is now a hypostatized
spiritual substance, but a formless
and
shapeless one, being an "abortion"
brought forth without conception.
hy·pos·ta·tize (h-pst-tz)
tr.v. hy·pos·ta·tized,
hy·pos·ta·tiz·ing, hy·pos·ta·tiz·es
To ascribe material existence to.
[From Greek hupostatos, placed under,
substantial, from huphistasthai, to
stand under,
exist : hupo, beneath; see hypo- +
histasthai, middle voice of histanai,
to set, place;
see epistasis.]
hy·posta·ti·zation (-t-zshn) n.
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excerpts from
The Gnostic Religion by Hans Jonas
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note:
Sophia had a consort, opposite
companion like Adam and Eve, but she
acted out of envious desire to be
equal to God and emanate a being
without a
partner.
She was the last
aeon to be emanated and the farthest
from the light and thus
the weakest
of the aeons. She, Sophia, was also
the closest to the dark, evil
realm
and thus the
easiest for the dark forces to
seduce.
This
reconciles the Iranian Gnosis of
Mani and the Zoroastrians with the
Syrian
Egyptian
Gnosis of the Valentinians et al.
Sophia is
seduced by Ahriman and his demons as
the first attack on the realm of
Light. Sophia
is then saved by God and her failure
is walled off to the material
world.
Our earthly,
material world is a mix of darkness
and Light wherein Jesus the
Spiritual Son
of God comes with his Angels and
Humans to free the light trapped
in the Darkness.
Encyclopedia
Britannica:
Ahriman, Avestan
Angra
(Angry) Mainyu (“Destructive
Spirit”), the evil spirit in
the dualistic doctrine of
Zoroastrianism.
His essential
nature is expressed in his principal
epithet—Druj, “the Lie.” The Lie
expresses itself as greed, wrath,
and envy.
To aid him in
attacking the light, the good
creation of
Ahura
Mazdā
(the Good God),
the Wise Lord, Ahriman created a
horde of demons embodying envy and
similar qualities.
Despite the
chaos and suffering effected in the
world by his onslaught, believers
expect Ahriman to be defeated in the
end of time by Ahura Mazdā. Confined
to their own realm, his demons will
devour each other, and his own
existence will be quenched.
So
every emanated being has a twin
partner of the opposite gender, male
and female, except God Who
emanates without a partner. God
cannot be completely known by humans
or aeons. Only Christ His Son can
truly know God and even then he is subordinate to God
and thus is not equal to Him. We can
know Christ and through Christ
indirectly know God.
God
is totality undivided unity. He
emanated Barbelo first also called
Man, so the
Son of Man is Christ.
This is the tripartate trinity.
Christ asked for his companion
and
Mind was Emanated giving Four.
Then
the Human Adamas was emanated and
you have 5, Eve 6, then
the
first couple emanated Seth and his
partner making 8. This is the
Ogdoad which means 8.
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