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Post by Admin on Oct 3, 2022 22:53:48 GMT
Weren’t the Christians Up Against a Gnostic Religion? G.R.S. Mead at the Dawn of the Modern Study of Gnosticism www.academia.edu/39691523/Weren_t_the_Christians_Up_Against_a_Gnostic_Religion_G_R_S_Mead_at_the_Dawn_of_the_Modern_Study_of_Gnosticism_A discussion of how G.R.S. Mead shaped 20th-century Anglophone discourse about Gnosticism decades prior to the Nag Hammadi discovery, through his interpretation of the Askew and Bruce Codices, and his popularization of the work of Berlin Coptologist Carl Schmidt. Thanks in part to Mead, the reception-history of the Askew and Bruce Codices goes straight through histories of esotericism, occultism, and magic in the twentieth century.
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2022 3:34:27 GMT
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2022 4:10:21 GMT
If Christ consciousness is separate from Christianity and Jesus, why is it called Christ Consciousness? Im also curious as to the origins of this concept and if anyone has achieved this state and what they teach. "In reality, there is no Buddha and no Jesus, but only the Consciousness that shines through some people and sometimes takes the form of words. Nothing more. In reality, it is an illusion to believe that there is a person who has reached a certain level. The truth is that there is a person who is translucent enough, who has become so insignificant as a person that Consciousness can shine through him/her and then express itself as radiance or through words. But you can't equate it with a person." ~ Eckhart Tolle (translated excerpt from a german interview) Additional elaboration: When Consciousness is conscious of itself in a human form, the illusion of a wise person is created. If Consciousness forgets itself in another human form, the illusion of an ignorant person arises. There are neither knowing nor ignorant individuals, but only Awareness that is either aware of itself or not. Even the greatest 'masters' have nothing that you do not have – better said: None of them is what you are not. The Sanskrit word "Jnani" means "knower" and usually refers to a wise person that knows the Self, therefore an "Ajnani", as the "normal" person is called, is "ignorant" of the Self. However, there is no such thing as a wise person, or an ignorant person. Wisdom is the absence of the person, the absence of the belief of being limited to the personality and the body. From an absolute "point of view", the person does not exist. There is only the impersonal Self, infinite Consciousness. The only difference between a Jnani, the so-called enlightened one, and an Ajnani, the so-called unenlightened one, is the knowledge that they are not really different.
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Post by Admin on Nov 17, 2022 0:23:11 GMT
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Post by Admin on Nov 25, 2022 21:49:07 GMT
The Father of Jesus Christ is not the Creator
the Demiurge of this world: The true Father of Jesus Christ taught absolute forgiveness of sins through Christ, teaching to love not only oneself and one's neighbors, but one's enemies as well, with this also resonating sharply with the fact that the Christ-followers were taught to forgive even their enemies without being asked - the idea of radical extreme forgiveness is part of pure Christian doctrine, modeled after Christ, because no one remained pure in the broken world of the Demiurge's madness. So the Father of Jesus Christ revealed in Christ did not hate even his fellow men against the Romans, on the contrary, he not only communicated with the Romans as well, he communicated with complete openness and respect - see the healing of the centurion's son, or perhaps the story of the woman of Samaria, or the story of the merciful Samaritan. Quite publicly, for all to see and hear, Jesus Christ acted against the spirit of his time, the spirit of the outdated Old Testament - in John's Gospel he often expressed himself in the spirit that the Holy Scriptures were no more, because what they contained had ended with his coming, because the New Time had come, because the *real God* came among men in it, and whoever sees Jesus Christ sees the Father - the real *God*, or the actions of Jesus Christ showed the actions of his Father, who certainly had nothing to do with the Old Testament (affective, hateful) Demiurge - JHWH. This is what we need to understand, the Demiurge was trying to silence Christ so that he would not bring to others the Kingdom of God that was within him and every man - because every man contains the spark of God, or the vast potential of transformation to perfection and at the same time, according to the Father's gift to all, every man is already perfect, without exception. The message of Christ was and is clear - I love you here and now, sins are gone, you no longer have to be held captive by the Demiurge to false laws and revelations and Moses' two tablets of the Law and thus the 10 commandments, but you are free now and here. And that's why Christ came. The Demiurge didn't get it, he lost, and everything he built collapsed. He fell, the moment he had Jesus ignominiously killed - he committed outright murder through his demon possessed human servants and condemned himself by doing so - he absolutely lost by that murder because he had no chance to hold back the Son of God Jesus Christ by death, the cross was only a temporary ignominy, but only until the dawn of the third day. By what the Demiurge did, he took upon himself, in my opinion, the responsibility for all evil deeds since the beginning of the Universe, he became the owner of everything that is wormy, crazy, sinful, because he knowingly murdered Jesus Christ. The demiurge gained nothing, on the contrary the savior Jesus Christ went in eternity, in death, to the underworld and took away all people - past, present and future generations of people, so that the underworld will remain in eternity only for the one who was rightfully cast into it. And hell therefore remained empty in eternity without people - because no man has any business in it - absolute forgiveness cannot be transcended, either there is universal redemption for all, or it is just a game of deities for good and evil. But it says nothing about everyone having to be taught according to God's way before continuing on it through the Shadow Realm of Death. Everyone will go forward to the *real God* but they must go through an above-ground purification - completing their required time in the heavenly purification sanatorium before going on to the great and perfect University of Being, where they will become a universal knower and can either stay or descend back as a Buddhist Bodhisattva.
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Post by Admin on Nov 26, 2022 22:06:09 GMT
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