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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2022 16:27:37 GMT
Mystic:
A person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain unity with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths that are beyond the intellect.
"the poetry of the 16th-century Spanish mystic, St. John of the Cross"
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Post by Admin on Apr 27, 2022 16:53:49 GMT
Turn of an Age: The Spiritual Roots of Jungian Psychology In Hermeticism, Gnosticism and Alchemy by Alfred Ribi (Author), Lance S Owens (Foreword), Mark Kyburz (Translator)
In this book Alfred Ribi reaches back across two millennia, gathering and engaging an extraordinary collection of writings. With authority and fluency, Ribi draws together the antique texts of Hellenism, Gnosticism, Hermeticism and Alchemy, and illustrates how these nurture the visionary work of C. G. Jung.
Into this tapestry Alfred Ribi weaves personal insights gained over half a century of experience as an analytical psychologist. He illuminates how the dreams and visions of modern individuals intertwine with the tradition that Jung indicated to be a spiritual antecedent of his psychology.
This is the second volume of a two-volume work. The first volume, The Search for Roots: C. G. Jung and the Tradition of Gnosis was published in an English translation in 2013. That volume served as a general introduction to the more detailed and multifaceted exposition presented in this second volume. This volume is addressed to serious students of Hermeticism, Gnosticism, and the works of C. G. Jung. It will richly reward those who give it their diligent attention.
About the Author
Alfred Ribi was born in 1931. He studied medicine in Zurich, followed by specialization in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy FMH. In 1963, he began analysis with Marie-Louise von Franz—a close associate of C.G. Jung—and subsequently worked for many years as a colleague with Dr. von Franz. He is a diplomat of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, where he has served as Director of Studies, a teaching and control analyst, and a lecturer and examiner of the Institute. He is past President of both the Foundation for Jungian Psychology and of the Psychological Club in Zurich.
The book was edited and includes a Foreword by Lance S. Owens. It was translated into English by Mark Kyburz.
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Post by Admin on Apr 29, 2022 15:55:04 GMT
Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) www.academia.edu/9741448/Gnosticism_Transformation_and_the_Role_of_the_Feminine_in_the_Gnostic_Mass_of_the_Ecclesia_Gnostica_Catholica_E_G_C_The Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) suggests a heterosexual gender binary in which the female Priestess seated on the altar as the sexual and fertile image of the divine feminine is directed by the male Priest’s activity, desire and speech. The apparent contradiction between the empowered individual and the polarized gender role was examined by comparing the ritual symbolism of the feminine with the interpretations of four Priestesses and three Priests (three pairs plus one). Findings suggest that the Priestess’ role in the Gnostic Mass is associated with channeling, receptivity, womb, cup, and fertility, while the Priest’s role is associated with enthusiasm, activity, phallus, lance, and virility. Despite this strong gender duality, the Priestesses asserted that their role was personally and spiritually empowering, and they maintained that heterosexual and polarized gendered roles are necessary in a transformative ritual which ultimately reveals the godlike unified individual.
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Post by Admin on May 14, 2022 22:40:02 GMT
Gnosticism through the Prism of the Third Millennium: Or between God and the Creator by Alexander Maistrovoy (Author)
In the epoch of the late antiquity, Gnostic schools gave their own exhaustive answers for the eternal questions of humankind: Who are we? Where did we come from, and why do we exist? What gives rise to endless and inescapable evil and suffering? Jorge Borges describes the Gnostic view of lifethat we are a careless or criminal blunder, the fruit of engagement of the flawed deity and crude material. Thus, the Gnostic answers to these questions were radically different from those espoused by traditional religions of the time. Gnosticism through the Prism of the Third Millennium explores this Gnostic view of life and how they viewed a material world as a distortion of celestial spheresand how in humanity they saw a being doomed to suffering yet carrying inside the spark of the supreme, divine world. Author Alexander Maistrovoy offers a history of Gnosticism and its confrontation with the church, showing how despite the crash of Gnostic schools, its teachings and its questions did not disappear. Today we can make sense of Gnostic philosophy not through the prism of mysticism or mythology, but from the point of view of rationalism, scientific knowledge, and historical experience. And what we will discover is that Gnostic thought has meaning and relevancy today, shedding light on fundamental questions about the universe, ourselves, and the divine.
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Post by Admin on May 15, 2022 11:48:49 GMT
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Post by Admin on May 15, 2022 14:10:31 GMT
What is Christ Consciousness? (The Mystical Definition) Reading time: 13 mins by Aletheia Luna · May 15, 2022 lonerwolf.com/christ-consciousness/» Home » Rebirth What is Christ Consciousness? (The Mystical Definition) Reading time: 13 mins by Aletheia Luna · May 15, 2022 · 2 Comments Image of a fire heart symbolic of christ consciousness Regardless of where you are on the spiritual path and what your relationship is like with Christianity, there’s a pulsating core of mystical Divine Love at the heart of Jesus’ teachings. And this impassioned blaze of Love has been felt by people all over the world in many spiritual and religious traditions – not just Christianity. ‘Christ Consciousness’ is a term that I’m sure you’ve heard mentioned at least once on your inner wanderings, and it’s a phrase shrouded in mystery. What does Christ Consciousness mean? And how does it relate in a direct and intimate way to us on our spiritual awakening journeys? Firstly, let’s explore a simple working definition, and then go a little more in-depth: [Note: I’m aware that fundamentalist Christians and anti-religious people alike will likely take issue with this article. If you’re one of these people, you’d be best to leave (or else stay with an open heart) as this article is for the mystics-at-heart. I’m not interested in arguing or “proving who’s right” in the comments. Let’s try to spread love! Thanks and best wishes!]
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Post by Admin on May 19, 2022 17:46:21 GMT
Lost Christianity: Following The Threads Of Ancient Wisdom To A Deeper Psychological Reality thepulse.one/2022/05/19/lost-christianity-following-the-threads-of-ancient-wisdom-to-a-deeper-psychological-reality-2/One of the things that always intrigues me is the historical basis for certain philosophical and metaphysical concepts. We often simply take for granted that the memes or ideas of our time have always been the basis for “truth” – and in our scientific age that can be a huge distortion. I remember when I read A New Earth and Oprah hosted Eckhart Tolle in a webcast series, and many people calling in wondered at his references to the parables of Jesus, and whether there was a connection with Christianity. Oprah tried to soft pedal the fact that Eckhart’s teaching is secular, which is problematic for fundamentalist Christians – but is there a connection going further back? One of my favorite ideas from Eckhart’s work is his interpretation of the notion of the “Kingdom of Heaven” not as “someplace else” or in the sky, but rather as a state of being resulting from questioning, and ultimately not believing your thoughts. In the 20th century a major discovery was the Dead Sea Scrolls and similar documents that revealed the Gnostic Gospels – a different set of historical interpretations of the teachings of Jesus, that looked at sin as believing your thoughts – and resisting what is with mental struggle and turmoil. This resistance and suffering would, of course, be the opposite of the “Kingdom of Heaven”. In The Gnostic Mystery by Randy Davila, the author weaves an interesting thriller around such a newly discovered scroll and also takes the opportunity to summarize this discovery of an ancient Christian doctrine as a psychological teaching along the same lines – the researcher in the book says that the key to Gnosticism was nonresistance to reality, and suffering was viewed in the teaching as the result of struggling with what is and hypothesizing alternate realities that “weren’t”. This made me think of Gurdjieff, who was ever mysterious and veiled in his claims about the source of his teaching–which also included deep physical and psychological inquiry into the nature of thought. Gurdjieff posited the existence of three brains that need to work harmoniously in order to connect to higher wisdom and suggested that modern humans are asleep and oblivious to their true nature. But in addition to mentioning a map to “pre-sand” Egypt which fueled his journey to the pyramids (where he worked as a guide) Gurdjieff would suggest that his teaching was the “true” Christianity – preceding the life of Jesus, as well as the Egypt of the pharaohs with its source in “prehistory.” While much of Gurdjieff’s ideology can be viewed as “Eastern” and he may have traveled to India and Tibet, a deeper look at his cosmology and biological notions suggest that what he brought to light may have been the original and undistorted teaching of a superior civilization that eventually gave way to both Egyptian and Meso-American cultures that attempted to preserve its scientific wisdom. A modern philosopher and scholar who writes in depth about Gurdjieff in relation to modern issues, Jacob Needleman probes this aspect of the teaching in his book, Lost Christianity. In this book Needleman engages with a scholar and monk whose research has taken him deeply into the sources of Eastern Orthodoxy and more esoteric interpretations of scripture. Needleman writes: “What has been lost everywhere in the life of man is the confrontation within oneself of the two fundamental forces of the cosmic order: the movement of creation and the movement of return, the outer and the inner. The whole of what is known as “progress” in the modern world may be broadly characterized as an imbalanced attention to the outward-directed force of life, combined with a false identification of the “inner” as the realm of thought and emotion. The thoughts and emotions that are given the name of ‘inwardness” actually serve, as has been shown, the movement outward and degradation of psychic energy. In Christian terms, this is “flesh.” Thoughts and emotions are not the soul.” (222) What this suggests is that the original “pre-Christian” teaching was about inner energetic knowledge and the discovery of man’s true nature through deep inquiry and concrete experience. The quote above actually suggests the Advaita inquiry of Neti Neti – “not this, not this” – in the pursuit of reality and the resulting recognition that what “I am” as not my thoughts, not my emotions, and not my sensations; the body is experienced as yet another “external” object to one’s true being. This is indeed a very timeless notion of truth that we now may see as “eastern” or “mystical,” but one that has been preserved in stories since the dawn of time. Joseph Campbell brought many of these stories to light in his work (which inspired the Star Wars films) and one can find more information in Bernardo Kastrup’s latest book, More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief. Bernardo, who also wrote Why Materialism is Baloney eschews the low hanging fruit of fundamentalist religious dogma to probe more deeply the sources of wisdom in our psyche and in our historic heritage of myth that suggest connection to higher energies and influences. Of course science itself has given us the basis for this – we know that we use wifi (wireless) transmission of energy every day and our computer software encodes active conceptual intentions and produces results without human intervention – suggesting that mental energy and truth does not need a physical foundation in order to “exist.” In addition to these connected efforts to unearth the sources of wisdom that may have been lost, the actual historical civilizations that modern history seems to avoid even mentioning are covered books like Chariots of the Gods, by Erik von Daniken and more recently in Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock. It may well be that we are on the verge of rewriting not only our history of science and religion, but in fact the history of the origin of our species as we connect these various dots and rethink even the basis of religions we have always taken for granted: Judaism (with the Kabala and its mystical aspects) and Christianity as being sourced not in the teachings of Jesus, but in the ancient history of mankind itself.
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2022 22:49:19 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 15, 2022 20:36:18 GMT
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Post by Admin on Jun 26, 2022 19:15:41 GMT
THE COMING GNOSTIC WORLD CIVILIZATION Part 1: What constitutes a Gnostic Civilization? 1. In a Gnostic Civilization all the elements of society work together to support the spiritual evolution its members and the development of their Gnostic Consciousness. 2. Every aspect of a Gnostic Civilization must a balance of the male/female polarity. This includes a complete balance and equality among the genders, as well as a balance and unity between the structure and laws generated by patriarchal control and the compassion and freedom generated by matriarchal allowance. A perfect balance also needs to occur between Right Hand Path of religion and the Left Hand, Gnostic-Alchemical Path, and the need for both paths should be understood and accepted among the entire population. 3. Through an outer balance in society an inner balance and the reunion of the polarity will be engendered within every individual. This inner balance will synchronize the brain hemispheres, so that Left Brain intellectual reasoning will unite with Right Brain intuition to produce Gnostic Consciousness. It will also unite the polarity in the heart to generate more love, compassion and allowance. 4. Through the inner union of the polarity the evolutionary force of Kundalini will awaken and lead each person to the highest and most profound gnostic awareness of God-Realization. Within all the past Gnostic Civilizations, including those of the Essenes, Cathars, and Mandaeans, the above criteria has been effectively met on a small scale. According to prophesy, they will eventually be met on a global scale during the coming 5th World of Reunion. From: World Gnosis, The Coming Gnostic Civilization - Revised and Expanded
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Post by Admin on Jul 9, 2022 13:15:56 GMT
IAO/YAH/ABRASAXIAO "Just as the IAO of the mysteries was distinct from Jehovah, so was the later Iao and Abraxas of some Gnostic sects identical with the god of the Hebrews, who was the same with the Egyptian Horus. This is undeniably proven on "heathen" as on the Gnostic "Christian" gems. In Matter's collection of such gems there is a "Horus" seated on the lotus, inscribed [[ABRASAXIAO]] (Abraxas Iao) -- an address exactly parallel to the so frequent [[EIS ZETS SARAPI]] (Eis zets sarapi) on the contemporary Heathen gems; and therefore only to be translated by "Abraxas is the One Jehovah" (King's Gnostics, p. 327). But who was Abraxas? As the same author shows -- "the numerical or Kabalistic value of the name Abraxas directly refer to the Persian title of the god 'Mithra,' Ruler of the year, worshipped from the earliest times under the appellation of Iao." Thus, the Sun, in one aspect, the moon or the Lunar genius, in another, that generative deity whom the Gnostics saluted as "Thou that presidest over the Mysteries of the Father and the Son, who shinest in the night-time, holding the second rank, the first Lord of Death." - The Secret Doctrine, HP Blavatsky "It was from the divine name Yah that the Greeks took 'Ie' in the invocations of the gods, especially the god Apollo. The name 'Ie' was written from right to left and inscribed over the great door of the temple of Apollo at Delphi (Taylor, p. 183). Iao, a variant of the Tetragrammaton, was applied to the Graeco-Egyptian god Harpocrates or Horus. Horus was called Harpocrates by the Greeks. The ancient Greeks had an acclamation similar to Hallelujah (Praise you Yah). They used Hallulujee in the beginning and ending of their hymns in honor of Apollo."
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Post by Admin on Aug 6, 2022 16:25:00 GMT
Gnosis means knowledge, wisdom. Gnosis is the knowledge of a transcendental and tranaforming wisdom that teaches humanity to see, hear and know positively all these things that up to now were seen as great mysteries and enigmas. Gnosis is a true scientific school of initiation into life, that pursues a transformation of the human being, claiming that each man changes his basic principles and customs, to become a true man. Gnosis claims that each man should have a vast and lucid spirit which should try to establish a new rational scientific order in the general customs of living, inspired by the immutable laws of nature. The knowledge of the Gnostic science covers the four pillars of human wisdom; SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY AND MYSTICISM. Gnosis has a mystical philosophy as its lifestyle, [and] is based on a rational and scientific conception of the universe. - Samael Aun Weor
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Post by Admin on Aug 16, 2022 20:15:49 GMT
Gnosticism, Transformation, and the Role of the Feminine in the Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) www.academia.edu/9741448/Gnosticism_Transformation_and_the_Role_of_the_Feminine_in_the_Gnostic_Mass_of_the_Ecclesia_Gnostica_Catholica_E_G_C_The Gnostic Mass of the Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.) suggests a heterosexual gender binary in which the female Priestess seated on the altar as the sexual and fertile image of the divine feminine is directed by the male Priest’s activity, desire and speech. The apparent contradiction between the empowered individual and the polarized gender role was examined by comparing the ritual symbolism of the feminine with the interpretations of four Priestesses and three Priests (three pairs plus one). Findings suggest that the Priestess’ role in the Gnostic Mass is associated with channeling, receptivity, womb, cup, and fertility, while the Priest’s role is associated with enthusiasm, activity, phallus, lance, and virility. Despite this strong gender duality, the Priestesses asserted that their role was personally and spiritually empowering, and they maintained that heterosexual and polarized gendered roles are necessary in a transformative ritual which ultimately reveals the godlike unified individual.
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Post by Admin on Aug 18, 2022 13:21:35 GMT
Another fascinating talk by psychoanalyst Don Carveth, this time on psychoanalysis and religion and in particular the similarities between Freud's concept of psychoanalysis and the Gnostic tradition of "self-knowledge" (gnosis): "'Gnosis’ means ’knowledge’. And Gnosticism is the belief that knowledge will lead you to salvation. So that Plato believed that we achieve salvation - enlightenment - through acquiring knowledge - through the intellect. It is through the intellect that we acquire knowledge, and that’s why kings should be philosophers, and that’s why philosophers should be kings - because they have the ’gnosis’, the knowledge. This is profoundly alien to Christianity. Once again, this is a celebration of those who are ‘smart’, and ‘intelligent’ [i.e., 'left hemisphere'] - whereas Judeo-Christianity says ‘watch out for those smart intelligent people!’ you know - ‘they may not be good. They probably won’t be’. So there’s a fundamental ethical divide here. So Jung is an explicit Gnostic - he wore a Gnostic ring, he was aware that he was a Gnostic Christian, and there’s always been this tradition - both within Judaism and in Christianity - a hidden mystical element within the religion, that believes that it has special knowledge. What is [Freudian] psychoanalysis? It is salvation through self-Knowledge. You unravel the defences - what are the defences? It’s a theory of self-deception. And so we are led, by the help of the Analyst, to see through our self-deception, we acquire Knowledge of the truth about ourselves, and through this knowledge we are - set free. There is a kind of enlightenment that psychoanalysis seeks to achieve, through knowledge. Kabbala was a mystical tradition within Judaism, and Freud was deeply interested in it. And dream interpretation comes right out of Kabbala. And Freud’s interest in interpreting dreams comes from his Kabbalistic Jewish background." From the late 1920s until the end of his life, C. G. Jung wore on his left hand a ring with an ancient Alexandrian gem stone engraved with a coiled serpent. This was commonly referred to as Jung's "Gnostic ring." Watch the full webinar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeHOKh1NCqQ
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Post by Admin on Sept 14, 2022 8:48:32 GMT
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