Enlightenment, Ascension, Samadhi, Apotheosis, the opening of the
Third Eye, the Great Revelation and lifting of The Veil; these concepts may not
be synonymous with
the concept of Gnosis, but they share the same goal; that of achieving the epitome
of spiritual understanding attainable during our time here on Earth. The
pathways to such a feat are as numerous as the stars themselves, and vary indefinitely. To some it is acquired
through isolation, by fasting for long periods of time, hiding from the world
in a cave or just by the mere sitting in silence under a tree. Others seek it
their whole lives and enroll themselves in as many schools of knowledge their
minds can endure. It is a wisdom that cannot be taught, but only observed
through experience. Yet, we try our hardest to teach this thing we all seek. We
search for it through word and book, through school and song and all other
methods of communicating with nature and with each other.
Ancient
teachings of mankind took a route towards spiritual Gnosis that included
science as a part of religion. Academics, morality, and spirituality were all
combined into the same mythic tales. These days all teachings are kept separate
and instill completely different frames of mind that cause conflict with an
individual’s beliefs.
In ancient
times, and for those now brought up in religious life, the first teachings
always include an almighty, all-powerful, Creator God and say that we owe our
existence to Him. These are then followed by the teachings that man is a
special creation, having more than any other form of Creation on Earth; that
being of a soul and/or a spirit. We are taught that the soul has, or can have
everlasting life and never dies. The physical body is shed upon death and
returns to the Earth from whence it came. The soul then is released and
continues on.
In ancient
times this was the first lesson, properly instilled into the mind before the
lessons in science that followed. Then came the laws of Creation, the infinite
wisdom of God and the arrangement of the luminaries, the order of the universe.
With this scientific knowledge man was enabled to grasp the wisdom and the
great divine love of the Creator. The understanding it wrought brought a
feeling of oneness with the Heavenly Father. The original sciences included in
ancient myth were taught in a form so simple to man that even then in an
uncultured state we could understand them. The concepts were stated as an
absolute, without theorizing, and not a semblance of technology was used. It was
plain and simple.
Today we are
taught tedious stages of science; separate, of course, from any semblance of
spirituality or divine sources. All scientific information is brought to our
understanding with hard empirical evidence; evidence of experiences within the
Creation that can be shared. We begin with a vague basic understanding and
through our many years of growth we are progressed to build upon them with
varied concepts, each more complicated and building upon the last. Slowly
through our indoctrination the tower is built. We attempt throughout these
sciences to grasp the mystery of the universe, yet through them it continues to
remain a mystery. It is all presented as materially sourced and factual. Yet,
softly we are informed that all these concepts route themselves deeply in
theory, and the sciences brought to our classrooms throughout the decades are
ever changing. Through this lack of foundation, the tower built from knowledge
falls. Its' route towards Gnosis becomes collapsed and scattered.
These
expiated teachings are presented as fact, but in the hearts of the student they
are not truly understood and are beyond sound logic. We are left ever searching
for further explanation; searching ever deeper down the rabbit hole for causes
to our effects. To those who continue to search, the question is always asked:
Why? The answer to which is: Because the ancient scientific garden has been
choked up with the rank weeds of theory, technology, theology, misconceptions,
inventions, capped with childish dreams which neither rhyme nor reason, and all
of which are totally at variance with the true natural laws which govern
throughout the universe.
This
deplorable state of understanding has been recognized in all ages and is not
unique to our modern times today. It is a stage in every person’s growth, and
is epitomized by a commonly shared negative outlook of society as a whole: the
‘status quo’, the current state of the populous, cut off from Source through
their own choice of desiring the state they are currently in, subject only to
the physical world around them and not desiring or accepting of change except
for that which makes their situation subjectively grander. These are those that
worship mammon, or for lack of a better word: Materialists. It is an unfortunate
state we all are guilty of. There is a thin veil of understanding that must be
pierced to perceive what propagates this materialistic view. Sadly, only few
can grasp the true concepts of spirituality and Creation. It is not something
that can simply be taught; and even when we come to realization, we so easily
forget again.
This
deplorable state is brought about by two major factors:
One: The
egotism of man, and his inordinate craving for publicity, wishing to be thought
of as the pinnacle of the mountain of understanding. We forget that there is
only one Great One. The only pinnacle man can really reach is the sublime
honour of being one of His (or Its') selected messengers of conveying this
knowledge of truth. Man forgets that he can only be a messenger, a conduit, and
that is the highest honour that can be bestowed upon him.
Two: Man so
easily turns from the worship of the Great One to the worship of mammon, and
through this worship of mammon he continually professes the worship of the
Great One. Through this false reckoning he deceives himself and those he
teaches, and thus is in fact a false prophet. These are innocent errors in
understanding which we all make, greater than those of the hogs that practice
in slavery. It is far more of an error than just being a materialistic person
and having the desire to acquire vast material gains and enslave fellow man. In
fact, many who have experienced Gnosis choose to continue to benefit themselves
from those that haven’t; instead of trying to aid all in achieving it
themselves. It is the simple attribution of effect within the Creation to be
propagated, in ultimate origin, from anything within the Creation itself, in
lieu of The Divine Source; for truth of the natural law of the universe
dictates that all effect within the Creation is ultimately emanated from the
Divinity. This simple misconception we all become guilty of in every moment
that we forget to be thankful to the Creator for all that He (It) maintains. As
long as this misconception clouds the mind of any individual, peace cannot rest
upon their heart.
Not down any
one path can any man find the great school for learning of true science. For
some, nature is the true science, for others it is found through technology,
for others it is exclusive through religion; and in each of these categories is
found a plethora of variances in understanding. In truth, all are fractals of
the whole. One must dawn the coat of many colours to view the Creation in all
its’ varied splendor. By acceptance of others’ beliefs, and the entertaining
thereof, can we put ourselves in someone else’s shoes and see the world through
their eyes; perceiving Creation empathically through another’s outlook and
expand upon our own.
It is equivocal, whether the universe is
beheld through sense perception as the content of an extroversive mystical
experience, or as a content of mental images during a vision, or as an
intellectual experience of ideas. Whichever may be chosen or experienced by an
individual, conscious or subconscious subversion, both the universe and self are
located in the mind of God, the Great One. The intellectual experience of the
primacy of mind constitutes an ontological shift, a transcending of vision and
a becoming of mind. This has been dubbed many things and is beyond the basic
understanding of Gnosis, but it does not change the fact that it occurs
regardless of whether or not it is known. It just changes the quality of the
experience via subversion of universal progeny.
The knowing of this is the Gnosis for
those who have received knowledge and taken it with wisdom. Once known it can
be learned to be wielded with precision, as some have likened it to becoming
God. It is an intellectual mystical union of Mind that contains the cosmos as
its thoughts. The Great One is the Mind that is imminent throughout the cosmos.
God is invisible and entirely visible. It is the spirit, or aether, that is the
seen and unseen; all entangled within and without the individual and pivot upon
it as its cornerstone.
The one who alone is un-begotten, without
Gnosis, is also unimagined and invisible, but in presenting images of all
things he is seen through all of them and in all of them. The lord, who is
ungrudging, is seen through the entire cosmos. There is nothing in all the
cosmos that he is not. He is himself the things that are and those that are
not. Those that are he has made visible; those that are not he holds within him.
What is bound on Earth is bound in Heaven, and what is loosed in Heaven is
loosed on Earth.
Having attained unity with the Great One
whose thought is the universe, one who has obtained Gnosis is presumably
empowered to work magic by commanding his thoughts. Those who have not, and
will not, wield it unknowingly in their subconscious, and mostly just allow
themselves to be subject to the will of their own subconscious and also to the
will of others.
Nothing
within the Creation is written in stone; or rather, it is not permanent. It can
all wither away, burn up, disappear, be replaced with an entirely different reality without our
realization. This can be said, but it is never properly understood until one
willingly accepts the journey towards Gnosis. Logically, the pathway must vary
for every individual, since the created world itself is in truth a virtual
sandbox laid bare before us, and appears differently to us all. Perception is
everything. Thought is reality, the physical is the illusion. As above, so
below. It is this concept that is presented in a plethora of forms through all
religion and spirituality, and it is never true until it is accepted.
This achievement of the epitome of
spiritual understanding, this Gnosis, is not desirable to most people. It is
not a requirement of everyone within their lifetime on Earth to obtain. We have
that choice. We may perceive this life, and live it however we choose.
To each his
own.
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