#gnostic kabbalah

[chicagognosis]

The controversial Gospel of Judas is a powerful scripture depicting the relationship between betrayal and transcendence. While religious groups intensely, fearfully, and dogmatically contest its authenticity, this scripture is clarified through a comparative study of Samael Aun Weor's writings. Just as an actor plays a part in a film and should not be condemned for it, likewise the Apostle Judas should not be denigrated for the role he played in a necessary cosmic drama led by Jesus, the Master Aberamentho. By understanding who Judas is in us, we can better understand the ways we betray our own selves while striving for divine reality.

[knoxvillerose-blog]

I sell Vintage Books at KnoxvilleRose On Etsy. This is a small sample of the works currently avaialble at the shop! Recently added some new inventory. I cater to the Ceremonial Magician, Witch & Occultist mostly, with forays into the Parnormal, Religions, Anthropology.... and more!

[gnosticinitiation]

THE WAY OF INITIATION

Chapter II (excerpt)

The great majority of our fellow men are willing to take the world as they find it, and so long as it does not treat them too hardly, they are content. Others, however, question what lies behind the world as they see it, and until they learn the answer to that question, suffer from the divine discontent which has forever urged men to “seek beyond the skyline, where the strange roads go down.”

 Most men are also inclined to take for granted the inevitableness of suffering, and unless they are brought into personal contact with some flagrant case, or are themselves the victims, they offer no protest; others, however, seem to be so linked with the human race that they suffer with the suffering of humanity, and cannot accept happiness or peace for themselves while any are in grief or pain. In the older days such natures were few and far between, but now they are very many, and none who are observers of mankind can fail to be struck with this sense of fellowship with all things which is becoming increasingly common among us.

DION FORTUNE

From: The Training and Work of an Initiate 

[santmat]

Gospel of Thomas Studies - Message and Key Verses: Need For A Living One, Not Just Old Scriptures

52. His Disciples said to him: Twenty-four prophets preached in Israel, and they all spoke of you. He said to them: "You have ignored the Living One who is in your presence and you have spoken only of the dead."

59. Jesus said: "Look to the Living-One while you are alive, otherwise, you might die and seek to see him and will be unable to find him."

5. Know what is in front of your face and what is hidden from you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed.

(108) Yeshua said, Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me. I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to that one.

What the Living Master Reveals to the Student

17. The Master says: I will give to you what eye has not seen, what ear has not heard, what hand has not touched, and what has not occurred to the mind of man."

Or as Kabir Has Said

“It is the mercy of my true Guru that has made me to know the Unknown;

I have learned from Him how to

walk without feet,

to see without eyes,

to hear without ears,

to drink without mouth,

to fly without wings." 

After the Teacher Dies, All We Have Are Old Scriptures From Now On? Rather, There is Succession and a New Living One Appointed For the Next Generation in the Gospel of Thomas   

12) The students said to Yeshua, We know you will leave us. Who will be our leader?

Yeshua said to them, Wherever you are, seek out Yaakov the Just. For his sake heaven and earth came into being.

12. The Disciples said to Jesus: We know that you will go away from us. Who is it that will be our teacher?

Jesus said to them: Wherever you are, you will go to James the Righteous, for whose sake Heaven and Earth were made (came into being.)

For Whose Sake Heaven and Earth Came Into Being, an Old Hebrew Axiom of Wisdom Explained  

"Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, 'For my sake, the entire world was created.'" (Baal Shem Tov)

The Baal Shem Tov is sort of the "Rumi" or "Kabir" of Kabbalah (Jewish mysticism), an example of a towering figure and great mystic of one of the great schools of spirituality. The ending part, "For my sake, the entire world was created", is a variation of an ancient axiom of wisdom. A version of it even turns up in saying twelve of the Gospel of THOMAS: "The students said to Yeshua, 'We know you will leave us. Who will be our leader?' Yeshua said to them, 'Wherever you are, seek out Yaakov the Just [James the Just]. For his sake heaven and earth came into being.'"

Martin Buber elaborates and expands on this axiom in a way that includes us all: “Every person should know and consider the fact that you, in the particular way that you are made, are unique in the world, and no one like you has ever been. For if someone like you had already been, there would be no reason for you to be in this world.” (Ten Rings: Hasidic Sayings, Martin Buber)

Here's a big picture view from the Sikh scriptures of India, the Adi Granth, Peace Lagoon translation: "It was for the sake of the God-conscious beings that our True Lord created this earth, and began this play of death and birth".

[cadmar]

Comes to You

Have you ever noticed that the world comes to you? In fact, the entire universe comes to you! It all comes to you, and the question becomes: what is your answer?

"Comes to you" comes from all your sensory processes. You do not have to do anything. You don't have to lift a finger! It is a gift from the universe. The chemical-electrical signals of the universe enters inside of you. Then, what do you do with this gift?

You are in an enclosed bubble and the entire universe is outside. The universe enters inside your bubble, one input at a time. The amount the universe enters inside your bubble depends on your reaction. What do you do with all of this?

Your reaction is your answer. You push back. You take the very, small piece of the universe and you bounce it back to where it came from. A small piece of the universe stays with you and the rest bounces back. What stays with you, changes you.

The universe enters and the universe leaves. How much the universe leaves behind depends on you. That is how simple this is! This is what the universe left behind: The universe gave you life. Gave you consciousness. Gave you existence. And now, what do you do?

[victusinveritas]

[daz4i]

i likely won't get into genshin but it's probably for the best. bc from what i know abt the lore and world etc i will become the most annoying person in the world if i did

[crashhole]

I love this page of X-men cuz it perfectly illustrates how catalysts, upcoming circumstances, and the near future are essentially “mundane” forms of manifestation, or rather the ~vehicle~ of manifestation 🛩️

Each of these word bubbles allude to the themes of their respective spheres on the Kabbalah, hinting at the process of creation, aka the lightning flash.

X- Kether/Crown- IT is

Mystique- Chokmah/Wisdom- I feel IT

Bishop- Binah/Understanding- what is IT?

Archangel- Chesed/Mercy- what does IT mean?

Gambit- Gavurah/Severity- IT hurts

Psylocke - Netzach/Victory - IT is taking form

Logan - Hod/Splendor - this is what IT represents

Rogue - Yesod/Foundation- I perceive IT

“IT”, of course, being the thing, the circumstance or the reality manifesting in real time

[trueallyps]

Carte de la Création - Le Cycle des Cieux

[spiritualawakeningradio]

Quotes from Many Different Sources on the Spiritual Journey -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

Selected Quotes from Many Different Spiritual Masters, Mystics, Scriptures, Gnostic Gospels and Spiritual Classics

For the Sants of the East, all names of the One God represent the Nameless, Formless (Nirguna) God of Love and Compassion Who is Timeless (Akal), Spirit, and Eternal Truth (Sat).

The True Spirit of Simran Practice is Bhakti

“Simran” is a term which means “Remembrance”, the spiritual practice of remembering or being mindful of God by repeating his Name. Devotees sing or chant various names for God. Higher spiritually, and more “within” is the practice of “manas jap”, the mental repetition of God’s name or names “with the tongue of thought” — in other words, chanting names of God within one’s mind. The Sants have always placed much greater emphasis upon mental Simran over vocal chant.

There is however, more to Simran than the repeating of sacred names. Simran must be approached with the right attitude, the right spirit, for one’s intent determines how successful the practice will be, and what effect it will have upon one’s consciousness. Simran has never been intended to be a dry or lifeless mantra practice. The path of the Sants is a Bhakti path, a path of love and devotion for the Supreme Being. Thus, the true Masters have always instructed their students to repeat God’s Name with love and devotion, as a lover calling out to one’s Beloved, the Lord of Love.

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In Divine Love (Bhakti), Light, and Sound, At the Feet of the Masters, Radhaswami,

James Bean

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[chicagognosis]

All the great mystical traditions speak about the dangers of the initiatic path, how it is easy to have esoteric knowledge while lacking discretion, foresight, and wisdom. Many followers of spiritual and religious groups fail to truly enact the principles of their scriptures, thereby resulting in tremendous suffering, conflict, and ignorance.

These people are known as pharisees, fanatical adherents to the dead letter of religion who lack a comprehensive, experiential understanding of what their traditions teach. Such individuals in every spiritual teaching embody the terrible reality of the Fool, the Bohemians of the Tarot who believe they possess the totality of true knowledge when they only know a fraction of it.

This arcanum depicts the tragedy, failure, and downfall of the initiate who, while close to the end goal of Self-realization, does not know how to maintain chastity, thereby transforming him or her into a lunatic or follower of egotistical, mechanical nature. Discover the warnings of this arcanum through the works of the prophets, the Qur'an, the Sufis, Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the kabbalistic Zohar, and the mysteries of the Hebrew letter ש Shin.

[lezbianz]

i put succession on in the background so i could focus on writing my essay while having a familiar sound in the background but now i’m just rewatching succession

[ouroqoros]

"More than any other text of ancient Jewish mysticism, Sefer Yetzirah presented an elaborate cosmology which is grounded in the assumption that the way of creating the let­ters and arranging them in various ways is considered to be the clue to creation.

The more obvious technique of combining the letters is the use of one wheel, or possibly two (...) The forward movement was considered to be the positive process, namely the combinations of letters extracted in this manner being the creative permuta­tions, whereas the backward movement produced the negative combinations, which were considered as noxious, or destructive combinations."

—Moshe Idel

[santmat]

The Five Names of God: Simran Words - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast - A Satsang Without Walls

In many branches of Sant Mat we have a five-name (panch naam) mantra (five simran words). These are sacred names of God associated with the first five planes, heavenly realms of creation. From the glossary of Sant Mat we read: "Simran means Remembrance: repetition of names or thoughts; in Sant Mat, the simran of worldly thoughts is controlled through the Simran of the Five Charged Names, repeated by an initiate throughout the day, and when sitting for meditation, as a means of collecting the thought-currents at the Third Eye Center. These Divine names are also used as passwords of sorts to higher planes, and provide protection from Negative Power influences." (Repeat the Name)

Today: all about the Five Names of Sant Mat, their proper use as an essential technique to concentrate at the Third Eye Center and go within according to Hazur Baba Sawan Singh, Sant Garib Das, from the Satsang Discourses of Sant Ram Singh, as well as there is discussion about the origins and history of the Five Names dating back to the Kabir-Sant Dharam Das line of Masters. Also explored: the Five Sufi Names, and about the importance of the Most High name Radhasoami used by Sant Garib Das (Anmol Vachan) and Swami Ji Maharaj (Sar Bachan Radhaswami Poetry). In Sant Mat mysticism there are not five or seven deities but one God, the one Lord of the Soul  manifesting at the various levels of creation. As Guru Nanak has said in his Morning Prayer (Jap Ji): "There is One God, Truth is His Name." (One Love)

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Simran is described as a Bhakti practice to be done in a spirit of love and devotion, with passages on this from Sant Tulsi Sahib and Kabir. (God is Love)

Mention is made of a mystical Jewish Gnostic sect of antiquity referred to by scholars as the Sethians who also had a five-name mantra approach, only using five Hebrew names, which are to be found embedded in certain Nag Hammadi and other texts. Recommended are two books that compare contemporary Sant Mat with mystical Judaism including Kabbalah. The program concludes with selections from the mystical poetry of a mysterious figure called "the Master" and "the Teacher of Righteousness", mystic verses found in the Psalm Scroll of the Dead Sea Scrolls mainly about the experience of Divine Light, but one might also notice references to reincarnation, the liberation of the soul, the Third Eye, and spiritually hearing the Divine Word or Spiritual Sound. Note: practices associated with contemporary Sant Mat were also known in earlier times by followers of various cousin mystical movements and schools of spirituality that have existed over the centuries. Even ideas that became associated Christianity and Gnostic movements such as seeking out living masters or living ones (Odes of Solomon, Gospel of Thomas), vegetarian ethics, humane treatment of animals (scriptures attributed to Enoch and Isaiah), initiations, baptism in rivers of living water, a new covenant (Dead Sea Scroll texts), genesis interpretations that include a lesser demiurge figure and a sophia wisdom figure (Septuagint, Apocryphon of John), the view that the soul needs to ascend through a series of heavenly regions (Book of First Enoch, Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice, Ascension of Isaiah, Ginza Rabba) are ideas developed during the Second Temple period of Judaism. Continuations and interpretations of Judaic ideas were adopted by many sects and spiritual movements during the first and later centuries AD. (Education For a More Peaceful Planet!)

At the Feet of the Masters,

James Bean

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[cadmar]

We Are Time

What is time? We use time and observe time by our ability of measuring changes. To us, time is the measurement of changes. The sunrise to sunset, the full moon to the new moon, the seasons, the changing of our physical appearances as a new born baby to an old person in the grave, the time between each heartbeat, and so on.

Those are just our measurements of the observations we notice of changes. We do not realize that our brain time stamps each incoming sensory signal so that they can be accurately matched to the same event: seeing, touching, hearing, and hitting a ball all have sensory signals traveling at different speeds reaching the brain at different times. Otherwise, we would be in a constant state of confusion.

We also do not realize that our vision of receiving photons, all come at different time intervals from the same source. This then creates the perception of length, width, and height. When we see a building, or a tree, or a stick, we think we are seeing all at once the entire building, tree, or stick. In fact, thousands of photons from each different point and location of the building, tree, or stick, from the bottom, from the middle, from the top, are reaching our brain at different time intervals. Our brain just combines the bottom, middle, and top sections together as one moment. We then see the building as one thing at one moment, and not thousands of moments and of sections with each section and each moment having a photon reaching our brain at slightly different time intervals. So when we see width, length, and height, we are seeing time! But, that still is not the substance of time. It is still a measurement of our ability of observation!

We are time. The substance of time is us! Time is not out there. Time is us! What does this mean? Can I break this down to more elemental insights and understandings? What is the substance of time! What has been given to me for me to be time? How am I time? What makes me and you to be time itself! Time is me, and me is time! How can this be?

[dawn-eva]

The following film, #Soul Searching, is an abstract #audio-visual representation of commonalities and echoes I have found across studied texts, interviews and research undertaken for this project on the subject of the soul. I chose to anchor my research predominantly in my own western tradition and #religious/spiritual strands of thought that resonate most with my own experiences and unconscious cultural #paradigm. Through regular visits to the Alex Johnston Reference library, I developed focused #research around #concepts of the soul according to the western traditions of: - #Hermeticism - #Neoplatonic #Philosophy - #Rosicrucian Philosophy - #Transpersonal #Psychology - #Theosophy - #Gnostic Texts - #Alchemical Texts - #Jewish/Christian #Kabbalah and #Mysticism - #Ancient #Egyptian Texts. These traditions survived either through sectarian branches of monotheistic practice (as with Gnosticism and mysticism) or through practices directly outside of (and sometimes in opposition to) the canon of mainstream denomination. The use of language of these texts veil the meaning through subtle and abstract language forms. Some of these source materials purposely obscures the essential message so as to protect their pupils and to escape heretical accusations for its deviation from the cultural monotheistic dogma - however, in most traditions, adepts of the teaching schools are deliberately presented with analogies and shrouded messages, presented as gateways of knowledge, through personal engagement with the totality of Self. The ineffable is respected for its inherent qualities, by allowing its meaning to fall outside of the domination and restriction of language. Rather, it is found in the space between fixed language. As such, gentler, less directive language, that is subtle and allows the individual to arrive at their own implicit meaning making, is used in an attempt to describe the indescribable. Without earthly form and beyond the reaches of knowing through ordinary means, the soul is understood through our internal resonance, through subtle personal gnosis - that is, knowledge beyond intellectual knowledge, an inner knowing; through contemplation and experience. This film endeavours to propose an abstract representation of the ineffable in motion, inviting the viewer to contemplate and tune into their own inner knowing. For the purpose of this piece, I have set out to demonstrate the fluidity and dynamism of the soul, as well as its splicing with the representational facets we experience in our waking life; corporeality, matter, mind, consciousness, emotions - all properties through which we encounter the soul. These synergistic attributes are in symbiosis with the soul, both enveloped by it, and expressed within the function of its parts. Through the development and growth of individual parts, we grow the whole of our individual soul. Within the work I hope to infer the possibility of our individual soul as an expression of an #AnimaMundi , the ALL, a universal soul, enveloping and expressed through individual parts. A special thank you to interview contributors: Gary Kidgell - Professional Esoteric Astrologer and Author Mike hall - Qigong & Tai Chi Consultant, Theosophical Society Chair Marcus LeBroque - Kabbalist, Teacher Father James Cadman - Exorcist, Catholic Priest Luca McQuillan, David McLoone, Jamie L McKenzie & Charlene Morgan - Catholics List of Notable Books: The Way of Divine Union - Arthur Edward Waite Reincarnation; A study of Forgotten Truth - E.D.Walker Everyone's Book of the Dead - Tim Wyatt Cycles of Eternity - Tim Wyatt From Soul to Soul - John M Watkins Mansions of the Soul; The Cosmic Conception - H. Spencer Lewis Esoteric Psychology; The Seven Rays - Dr Douglas Baker The Soul’s Imperative - Harold Tarn The Philosophy of Witchcraft - J. Mitchell & Jn. Dickie Witchcraft, Magic and Alchemy - Grillot de Givry Egyptian Magic - S.S.D.D edited by W.W.Westcott The World Soul - H. Fielding Hall Transpersonal Development - Roberto Assagioli The Inner Journey; Pathways to the Higher Self - Gary Kidgell The Lamp Relit - Vestigo The Book of the Dead; Papyrus of Ani - E. A. Wallis Budge Cosmic Consciousness - Richard Maurice Bucke The Sevenfold Planes of Nature - Susan Bayliss (article) Who Do You Think You Were - Robert Woolley (article)