Gnosis: Forbidden Self Discovery

[Being]

"During this Christmas season there might be a few people on
earth who think about Christ and begin to wonder what he was
all about. Now, anybody who begins to think seriously about
Christ and His ministry here on earth, the first thing you do
is to have a sense of separation from Christ, of distance, of
unattainability, of mystery and bewilderment.

Now, you have been taught here in this room and will continue
to be taught that all attempts to solve the mystery of Christ,
of God, of spirituality, all attempts to solve it through words,
of what He lived for and stood for – all attempts to solve it by
thinking about it must fail.

Thought, idea, belief, opinion, religious creeds are always
separated from the spirit of Christ. Human beings who don’t
understand this, and furthermore who don’t want to understand it
immediately say, 'I do understand' and they build churches and
they write books which become best sellers and they quote and
they dress up on Sundays - and they become the enemies of Christ.
They become not even the passive enemy but the active, aggressive,
all-out enemy of everything that Christ stood for, and here is why.

Idea is always the enemy of spirit. The two don’t live together,
they can’t live together. They are not compatible. Idea doesn’t
want spirit and spirit doesn’t want idea. Light doesn’t want
darkness, darkness doesn’t want light.

So you have to study your own ideas and beliefs about Christ.
You have to study your own attitudes, beliefs - desperations even,
'God help me,' that sort of thing' – you have to study all your
acquired ideas about Christ and when you have studied them
thoroughly you must, if you are honest, sincere, you must come
to the conclusion that all memorized self-references about Christ
and God are the very thing that is keeping you distant and mystified,
that makes you feel that coming close to Christ and His truth is
unattainable, which it is as long as 'you' are trying to find God and
Christ."

Vernon Howard

The Higher Teachings of Christ - Part 1
Heavenly Help Awaits You - MP3 CD, track 9

[Dan_SF]

Originally Posted by Baile

A fascinating explanation. New Age philosophy revels at times in the negative, believes we must embrace the negative aspects of life in order to experience all of God and creation. I don't agree with that. I believe the purpose of spirituality ultimately is to learn how to rise above or transform the negative (mundane) aspects of life. At the same time though, it's hard to wrap my mind around this dualistic idea that God can be the one thing that exists, but not the other thing that exists. When everything that exists creation, is a creation of God.

It really depends on which You is seeing this. If it is the worldly you, then you need to use the mind to bring the Negative to the Positive (or darkness to the Light).
Only one can exist, only one is real, only one will last forever.

The eternal you is not affected by all this, and his Life continues, whatever happens on this plane.

[Baile]

Originally Posted by Dan_SF

It really depends on which You is seeing this. If it is the worldly you, then you need to use the mind to bring the Negative to the Positive (or darkness to the Light).
Only one can exist, only one is real, only one will last forever.

The eternal you is not affected by all this, and his Life continues, whatever happens on this plane.

Yes, I see what you are getting at here, and insightful and incredibly uplifting take.

[Being]

The Wisdom of the Knowing Ones: Gnosticism: The Key to Esoteric Christianity
by Manly P. Hall

If any group, which shared in the Christian mystery, possessed the esoteric secrets of the early Church, it was the Gnostics. This order preserved to the end the high ethical and rational standards which confer honor upon a teaching. The Church therefore attacked Gnosticism vigorously and relentlessly, recognizing these mystical philosophers as being the most formidable adversaries to the temporal power of Christian theology.

Download the book in PDF format:

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[Being]

"Goodness is intelligence. Intelligence is goodness. The more
you are truly virtuous in a spiritual way, the more intelligent
you are in a spiritual way. Intelligence and goodness go together.
They're like two oars that you're rowing the boat of your life
with, so that you can sense and see the harbor and row toward it.
You are in conscious command, conscious command of where you're
going which is toward the true harbor.

Otherwise, and you consider this now, be very reflective inwardly,
otherwise, if you don't have the two oars of goodness and intel-
ligence, the boat is going to be taken over. You don't have charge
of it; someone else will have charge of it. And what will have
command of your life will be the underground currents.

I'm talking about the subconscious parts of you. They don't care
where they take you. The currents themselves have no intelligence
and goodness, psychologically speaking. They'll take and send
adrift anyone who is not guided by being above the currents, by
being a good person, a nice person, a decent person, an intel-
ligent person. Now already you have a lot to think about."

from a talk given 2/15/1992
Vernon Howard's Higher World - MP3 CD Volume 33, talk 816, track 12

[Being]

The evil that is within

http://www.storygeist.com/2017/02/25...vil-within-us/

[Being]

Sparks of the Divinity:
Keats' Gnostic Vision of Soul-Making

by Maureen B. Roberts, Ph.D.

http://jungcircle.com/sparks.html

The New Mysticism and the Life after Death -

http://paulijungunusmundus.eu/hknw/l...mysticism1.htm

[Being]

Lu-tsu says,

"Accept the situation you are in. It must be the right situation for you; that's why you are in it."

Existence cares for you. It is given to you not without any reason. It is not accidental; NOTHING IS accidental.

Whatsoever is your need is given to you. If it were your need to be in the Himalayas, you would have been in the Himalayas. And when the need arises, you will find that either you go to the Himalayas or the Himalayas come to you.

It happens... when the disciple is ready, the Master arrives. And when your inner silence is ready, God arrives. And whatsoever is needed on the path is always supplied. Existence cares, mothers.

Osho

[Being]

Under this government, Jesus would have been done for extremism

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-for-extremism

[Being]

"WHAT FREEDOM SHOULD MEAN TO YOU

Except for the word 'love,' I doubt if any word is more loosely
used and less understood than 'freedom.'

Spiritually speaking, there is no such thing as financial, political
or geographical freedom. You can be a millionaire, live in a land of
liberty, have your home in a quiet countryside and still be imprisoned
by your own negativities. There is only one freedom — self-freedom.
All else is masquerade. I have seen much of this. I have given talks
in luxurious homes occupied by people living in mental dungeons."

The Power of your Supermind, Chap. 14, p. 176