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STAGE – REASON – Section 3

Earlier we said that we intend to employ Deductive Reasoning in a re-examination of the “greatest story ever told”, however before we can dissect it from within, we need to use Inductive Reasoning by taking in the information (reading) through our sense of sight. Subsequently we will start by taking one paragraph at a time; first using Inductive Reasoning, and then dissecting it from within through Deductive Reasoning to discover a deeper level of understanding.

The Good News An Alternate Theory begins with:

TIME TO
Really Believe and Trust in Something
Have Real Hope
Activate Internal Access to Truth

A noble thought, but what does it mean to you? Read the words over a few times and then ask yourself “Do I really Believe and Trust in God?”, or whatever the Divine is to you. We are not talking about whether you believe in God or not, but whether you believe and trust enough to risk everything? That was the message Jesus was giving us when he said, “Take up your cross and follow me.” He wasn’t speaking literally, but figuratively. “Your cross” is whatever you incarnated at this time to accomplish, and if you “Really Believe and Trust” then you “Have Real Hope.” The last injunction “Activate Internal Access to Truth” concerns Deductive Reason, but in order to achieve the last injunction you must engage in Trust, Belief and Hope. So we ask again, Do you Really, Believe, Trust and have Hope?

The Know Thyself Initiative requires absolute honesty. You are literally going to create new pathways in the brain and so you will need to examine every thought and feeling. We realize that this is far from easy, which is why we warned you earlier that this is not a feel good program. We will help you every step of the way as we have been through the process for more than a decade. For those of you that want to proceed let us examine the first 2 paragraphs:

The time is now and now is when Suzzan and Craig have been asked to bring forward information concerning the plan for the synthesis of humanity.

(Synthesis is defined as: the combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole.)  Now is the fullness of time, and each of us has an obligation to our evolving existence to come together with all matter for the good of the whole.  There is no one coming to save us; all the messengers are used to teach us, and now we must use what we have learned for the impending events of our time.

Again re-read the paragraph above and let the words permeate your mind. Think of the words “plan for the synthesis of humanity” and then re-read the definition for the word “synthesis”, “combining of separate elements or substances to form a coherent whole.” Replace the words “separate elements” with “different beliefs”, and then replace “a coherent whole” with “The Truth.” Do you see that the synthesis of Humanity is to unite us all in Truth? But so many people have different opinions as to what the Truth is. The Bible says that the truth is written on our hearts. In other words the Truth is within us.

The paragraph also says that we are all responsible for Evolution and that it doesn’t just concern our wellbeing, but also the wellbeing of the entire planet. The paragraph continues by relating that there is no outside help, because we have all been taught and it is time for graduation.

In the symphony of the Cosmos we are now being asked to follow the Conductor’s lead, as harmony and rhythm are crucial elements to the discerning ear of time.  We must become the instrument our higher self uses which will sound the notes at the last trump.  We know the melody but were never before asked to play it.  Not to worry, we are all given inherent sheet music.  All that remains is our physical transmutation through undying devotion to the Maestro and the music.  The universal oneness of all things, NO THING, composed the inherent sheet music and inspired that which steps forward to lead the orchestra … INTERESTED IN PERFORMING?

With the help of the Maestro, Craig and Suzzan have devoted the past eleven years to quieting the discord in their song of life on this plane of existence.  To better hear that still small voice within, it is important to have harmony in one’s life, which extends to the inner peace of living.  It is through such living that everyone will find their place in the orchestra, if they so desire.  This cannot be taught, only sought in truth and experienced through living by the guided direction of inner knowing, with confirmations from NO THING and similarity of experiences communicated in communion with others.

We combined the next 2 paragraphs because they both incorporate allegories that relate Spiritual Truth. Interestingly, the human consciousness is able to remember stories far more easily than just plain facts. This was why the ancient teachers; including Jesus and Buddha used parables, myths, and legends to impress their Spiritual lessons.

Referring to the Divine in terms of music relays the sense of harmony and flow. This paragraph also states that “we know the melody” even though we’ve never played it before, because we have the “inherent sheet music.” If you think about this, you could view it in terms of déjà vu. Many people theorize that the feeling of déjà vu comes from a past life experience. In other words the incident may have occurred before in a previous life.

The melody that we have the sheet music to play is the Truth that is written on our hearts. The Conductor represents both the Macrocosm and the Microcosm. Microcosmically the Conductor is your individual Spirit, and Macrocosmically, it is the Creator. The Maestro, which “composed the inherent sheet music” and inspires the individual Spirit is God.

Moving on to the next paragraph, where we read that “to hear that still small voice within” requires “harmony” and “inner peace.” This is not referring to peace and quiet as in what is obtained in a Spiritual retreat, but being at peace within yourself. You can have the most hectic and full life and still be at peace. Disharmony occurs when you are not following your path, which only you know.

The Hidden Codes of Life act as a trigger for the memories of your inner purpose, mainly through the Mystical Art of Archetypal images of the Tarot trumps/cards that appear the most in the Codes. Still it is up to you to discover if you are following your true path or not. The answer is there inside for you to discover. The key is in the injunctions “Believe and Trust.” If you can “Really Believe and Trust” and then ask with sincere Hope, everything will be opened to you. Then you “will find (your) place in the orchestra” should you “so desire.” Remember, “This cannot be taught, only sought in truth and experienced through living by the guided direction of inner knowing…”

Metaphors are wonderful aids when attempting to describe that which can only be sensed and hoped for, not clearly understood and proven.  NO THING (God) should not be metamorphosed into a being having human characteristics and emotions, yet we do it without even thinking or through force of speech in the form of a pronoun, such as “he” or “she”.  Along with such a process comes the probability of false certainty in understanding the association with a thing and not a dynamic experience.  Furthermore, in giving it a name we tend to imagine that thing outside ourselves as separate from us.  Without a name or verbal identifier it is most difficult to refer to anything in speech, as was exemplified when the entertainer Prince changed from using his name to using a symbol instead.  The point is, we are rather stuck with the process and hopefully we can appreciate: “What’s in a name?”

In the above paragraph we are warned not to take metaphors literally. The use of metaphors for the Supreme Being has resulted in many people thinking of God as some kind of grandfatherly figure that sits on a throne “conducting” life on Earth. Just 2 paragraphs back the Creator was referred to as the “Conductor”, with God or the Supreme Being as the Maestro; so why use the terms? What do the designations mean? Throughout our writings we have said that we learned that the Key to The Mysteries is hidden in the English language. This means that a deeper meaning or message can be found in the definition of the word or term. We have already demonstrated this in uncovering the Spiritual meaning of the saying “Spare the rod and spoil the child”, so let us apply the same process to the words Conductor and Maestro.

Webster’s Dictionary has three definitions for conductor. The first definition has two parts (a) “one who conducts especially one who is in charge of a railroad train, bus, or streetcar,” and (b) “one who directs an orchestra…” The second definition concerns physics and says a conductor is a “substance or medium that conducts heat, light, sound esp. an electrical charge.” Lastly the third definition is a “lightning rod…”

Maestro appropriately has only one main definition “a master in an art, esp. a composer.” Interestingly according to Webster’s Dictionary a maestro also means conductor. Nonetheless, although a conductor is skilled in reproducing the “composer’s” music he or she did not create it. To unearth the deeper meaning will require the use of both Inductive and Deductive Reasoning. Remember the Key to The Mysteries is hidden in the English language. Re-read the paragraph about the Conductor and Maestro, then as you read think of the difference between them. A Conductor is “in charge”, he or she doesn’t produce, own, or create; whereas the Maestro does all three.

So why did we use the metaphor of Conductor for the Creator? The answer is that in order for you to even begin to grasp the material in the following pages it is necessary to soften all preconceptions you might hold. Thinking of the Creator as part of a Divine structure of consciousness, rather than as a King-like ruler, which controls everything that happens, opens you to other possibilities and allows you to examine the way you think. Consequently try thinking of the Creator as a guide or director that “leads” (conducts) us into “physical transmutation” through conduction, which Webster’s Dictionary says means “the transmutation or conveying of something through a medium or passage, esp. for the transmission of an electric charge.”

One more thing about the definition “lightning rod” for Conductor/Creator is revealed through the use of Deductive Reasoning. Although “rod” in this case represents a metal bar attached to a building to “conduct” a bolt of lightning safely to the ground, let your mind wander to the other definitions for the word rod esp. concerning the saying, “Spare the rod and spoil the child. Say the word over in your head. If you are using your Deductive Reasoning your mind will open to deeper levels of understanding.

We said that there is a tendency to “metamorphose” “NO THING/God into a “grandfatherly” being with “human characteristics and emotions.” It is easy to see how this is done; you only have to read the Bible to see that we have been conditioned to think of the Supreme Being like a human father that we needed to obey to avoid being punished. And yet Jesus said that everything except “Blasphemy of the Holy Spirit” can be forgiven; even murder.

Having said that many of Jesus’ words have only added to the concept we have of the Supreme Being. For instance, at his trial Jesus told Pilate that he was going to “sit at the right hand” of God. Obviously he did not mean a literal hand, so what did he mean? Again we remind you that the Key to the Mysteries is hidden in the English language. The term “right hand” has come to mean, a trusted worker or assistant as in the term “right-hand-man.” So when Jesus told Pilate he was going to sit at the right hand of God, he was referring to a Spiritual Being, but obviously not the “boss” (Supreme Being) so to speak.

Another concern raised in the paragraph is how the use of the pronoun “He” can add to seeing the Supreme Being in human terms. Moreover the paragraph is concerned that this can lead to seeing God as outside ourselves, instead of part of us. Nonetheless, it is necessary for us to use letters or words to refer to NO THING (God) in order to communicate.

Unfortunately the names God, and Christ (not Jesus’ last name), as well as some others, have undergone the process that was just described, and many people today suffer misunderstanding because of it.  Many words associated with the Christian Religion actually invoke a mental gag, or shutdown response when used in communication with an idea or thought.  These words we speak of have been incorrectly or over used to such a degree that many people no longer want to hear them.  This is most disturbing because the divinely inspired writings and teachings were given to help us identify and participate in the evolutionary chain of events so rapidly now taking place.

The next paragraph laments how the names God and Christ can “invoke a mental gag.” There is just one thing we would like to add to this, 1 John 4:8 has the words “God is Love.” Through the Mystical Art of Numerology we discover that G=7 + O=6 + D=4 results in 17. Reducing this further i.e., 1+7=8 gives us a value for the word God as 8. Throughout the Initiative we will discover that like there are multiple levels in the human consciousness, there are multiple levels in the Mystical Arts. Without going in to this too deeply; one of the deeper levels to Numerology is Gematria. Gematria is a Kabbalistic method of concealing secret information by assigning additional meanings to Numbers. Appropriately the Number 8 represents among other things the Hebrew word Ahab, which translates into Love. So using the letters G-O-D is literally spelling out the message that God is Love.

The symphony is the plan of God (NO THING) moving humanity in concert to perform the evolutionary jump occurring within the lifetime of most of us living.  The Conductor is the Demiurge (Creator of the universe) working from the plan in unison with the mechanics of the universe defining the nature and structure of the jump.  We are the rhythm of notes forming the melodious body of music to the harmony of God’s plan.  This melodious body of music referred to is the body of Christ, not just Christians per say, but anyone who wants to be an instrument.  The energy and harmony of this body of humanity must be perfect and moving as one for the defining moment of synchronization (last trump) with the transformation and jump to a new plane of evolutionary existence.  Most of us have incarnated at this time to actively participate in the process.  Please, take a serious moment to decide whether you will honor or fear your commitment to just such an endeavor.

The above paragraph is all about the 777,000, and explains that just like an orchestra all playing in tune can produce the most beautiful, stirring, and moving sound, when the 777,000 “perform in concert” the “symphony” or “plan of God” is actualized, and the Human Race Spiritually Evolves. At this point the Conductor is identified as the Demiurge, which we will discover is an ancient term for the Creator. If we consider the role of the Conductor, the ancients were relating that the Creator wasn’t the Supreme Being, but can be seen as a son of God. An article on Wikipedia describes the term Demiurge thus:

…demiourgos, lit. “public or skilled worker” (from demos “common people” + ergos “work”) and hence a “maker”, “artisan” or “craftsman”. In later philosophical and religious language it became a term for a creator deity, responsible for the creation of the physical universe.

In the sense of a divine creative principle as expressed in ergon or en-erg-y, the word was first introduced by Plato in Timaeus, 41a (ca. 360 BC). It subsequently appears in a number of different religious and philosophical systems of Late Antiquity besides Platonic realism, most notably in Neoplatonism. In Neoplatonism Plotinus identified the demiurge as nous (divine mind), the first emanation of "the One" (see monad). Neoplatonists personified the demiurge as Zeus, the high god of the Greeks.

At this stage it is best not to get too hung up on the different terms, just remain open and don’t lock into any particular conclusion. If you trust the process, as you proceed your own Deductive Reasoning will open your mind to deeper levels of understanding. In this first Stage the goal is to introduce you to a different way of seeing things. This does not mean you discard all your previous knowledge and beliefs, just that you re-examine them and maybe add to, or adapt them a little.

To return to the role of the Demiurge/Creator in The Good News, the words “working from the plan in unison with the mechanics of the universe defining the nature and structure of the jump” defines the Creator’s role. He/She (The Divine is genderless) acts like an architect directing the construction of a building (universe). In talking of an orchestra in relationship to the 777,000 would appear to be saying that the individuals were either the musicians, or the instruments the musicians played. Yet the sentence, “We are the rhythm of notes forming the melodious body of music to the harmony of God’s plan” would seem to imply something different. These beautiful words were inspired by the dialogue from Battlestar Galactica. The “notes” that form the “melodious body of music” is likened to the Body of Christ, which includes “…anyone who wants to be an instrument.”

Can a note be an instrument? To answer this question, just think of an orchestra about to play a symphony. Without a conductor to direct the musicians they will not be able to keep time or know when to begin playing their part. Without the musicians the instruments remain silent, and without the notes that make up the “body of music” the musicians have nothing to play on their instruments. In other words, without the notes (human beings) the musicians, instruments and the Conductor cannot make music. This is emphasized in the next sentence, which bears repeating, “The energy and harmony of this body of humanity must be perfect and moving as one for the defining moment of synchronization (last trump) with the transformation and jump to a new plane of evolutionary existence.”

As you are taking the Know Thyself Initiative, it is accepted that each of you “incarnated at this time to actively participate in the process.” The realization of this can be overwhelming and sometimes the “fear of your commitment” can become extremely intense. The last paragraph of the Preface can assist you in dissipating the fear.

The Good News: An Alternate Theoryis a missive that is intended to activate a remembering and initiate break down of embodied walls of misunderstanding about Divinity in respect to life on this planet.  The reader is urged to let the words reside with them in a manner that points the way to truth in the most personal of instances, the way to the depths of NO THING.

The message here is that you can use the fear to “breakdown” your old mental construct. Remember you already know the Truth; it is written in your heart. All you need to do is deconstruct the walls your ego and “pain body” has built up to keep you in the dark. You do this with the use of your Deductive Reasoning.
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Moving on from the Preface, we have a short introduction. This brief introduction relates how we came to write The Good News.

There is good news in that there is a Divine Plan in place, which any and all of us may tap into if we so desire. This plan works hand-in-hand with the mechanics of the universe and evolution. The story of Jesus was given to us as a preview of coming events and a reference point for understanding this plane of existence and Spiritual Workings. The concept is simple if we accept that we are nothing more or less than Divinity’s interface with this material plane. As a spiritual being in symbiotic relationship with a human body, our primary function at this time is to choose whether or not to follow the plan.

The first paragraph relates that the “Story of Jesus” was given to us to help us understand “Spiritual Workings.” This in no way is saying that we think there is no history to the story. Jesus’ life was very real and even if some of the more colorful events can be attributed to later writer’s embellishments, the core events recorded in all 4 gospels are the “gift” we were given to help us Spiritually Evolve.

Without going into the story of Jesus, as we will be covering this in depth in the next Stage, the fact that the recounting of Jesus’ life mirrors many other Spiritual leaders only serves to add credence to Jesus’ legitimacy. Very early on we were told that “Even the errors” in the Bible would lead us to the Truth. Jesus’ life demonstrated that we are all “…a spiritual being in symbiotic relationship with a human body…” it is up to each of us as to whether we follow our calling or not. Talking of calling, the next 2 paragraphs describe 2 very common types of calling.

In the early 80’s on a lonely German back-road, Craig, like so many people who find themselves in a vulnerable position, made a deal with God. As the subcompact car rolled over, his head struck the roof and, while sustaining his full body weight, the metal buckled into his scalp resounding with the sickening sound of vertebrae compressing in his neck. Upright again Craig trapped and unable to feel his legs, realized he was really hurt. It was then he petitioned God, “If you get me out of this, I will dedicate my life to you.” More than a decade later he made good his part of the supplication, manifesting the real power in those words.

In November 1993, Suzzan stood in a psychiatrist’s office in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and murmured the words: “Something momentous is going to happen to me I have something important to do.” It was the first inkling that she may have a manifest destiny. For Suzzan’s part, she did not have a clue what her statement in that office meant, or where it would lead. Now, over ten years later, after many “adventures” and endless hours of study Craig and Suzzan both have a clearer understanding of their mission.

Many people have found themselves in a precarious position where they have bargained with God. Most people promise to reform and become a better man or woman. For a few, their Spirit will use the opportunity to compel the individual to “dedicate” themselves to a higher purpose. If the concept of God controlling everything is correct, then He or if you prefer She would appear to have manipulated the situation; causing the car to crash to gain a “willing servant.” But if you use your Deductive Reasoning you may see that conclusion does not make sense. Think of it, what would be the evolutionary benefit to have an individual through no fault of their own be put in a position, where through fear he or she “dedicates” their lives to serving God? In the first place we all have to learn through mistakes, like a child does. If we accept the premise that God caused the car accident, it would be akin to a parent having a child promise to give them their life’s income in return for the parent catching the child as he or she falls from a tree.

We realize that this is a poor analogy, but you get the picture. Free will is sacrosanct and can never be usurped. We are reminded of this universal law through several episodes in the inspired series Stargate SG1. In these episodes, the team (SG1) comes into contact with a race of ascended beings (individuals that transformed into light beings while still alive). In one of the plots the entire galaxy is under threat from a race of aliens. When “SG1” appeals to these ascended beings to help, they refuse point blank asserting that it is a universal law that higher beings do not interfere with events on the lower planes no matter how heinous the act. No, this calling is a perfect example of God being the supreme opportunist.

Your Spirit or Spark of God within you is always looking for the opportunity to awaken you Spiritually. Consequently, when you put yourself in danger through reckless behavior; such as driving too fast, it will use your fear to have you reach out for God. This is why we said that your fear can be used to break down the, “walls of misunderstanding.” Once an individual makes the bargain, he or she will eventually have to address it. This leads to the next question; did God affect the outcome? Or to put it more plainly, did God save the individual? The answer to this question is more complicated, because it involves the nature of reality. Suffice to say for now, if the individual has work to do then he or she will survive the crash.

The next calling although being less dramatic is just as powerful because it also involves emotions. Earlier we said that from the age of 14 to 21 your Spirit is trying to awaken you, which can lead to deep depression. However, sometimes what may appear as depression isn’t; it might be what is referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul. Once again, we are grateful to Wikipedia for providing a brief explanation of the traditional interpretation:

The phrase "dark night of the soul" emerged from the writings of Saint John of the Cross, a Carmelite priest in the 16th century. Dark Night of the Soul, the name of a poem and its theological commentary, are among the Carmelite priest's most well-known writings. The texts tell of the saint's mystical development and the stages he is subjected to on his journey towards union with God.

The Dark Night of the Soul is divided into two books that reflect the two phases of the dark night. The first is a purification of the senses. The second and more intense of the two stages is that of the spirit, which is the less common of the two. Dark Night of the Soul further describes the ten steps on the ladder of mystical love, previously described by Saint Thomas Aquinas and in part by Aristotle, referred to by medieval Catholic theologians as the Philosopher, for he established justification for the existence of one true God and thus refuted his master, Plato. The text was written while John of the Cross was imprisoned by his Carmelite brothers, who opposed his reformations to the Order.
Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, a 19th-century French Carmelite, underwent similar experience. Centering on doubts about the afterlife, she reportedly told her fellow nuns, “If you only knew what darkness I am plunged into.”

While this crisis is assured to be temporary in nature, it may be extended. The "dark night" of Saint Paul of the Cross in the 18th century lasted 45 years, from which he ultimately recovered. Mother Teresa of Calcutta, according to letters released in 2007, "may be the most extensive such case on record", lasting from 1948 almost up until her death in 1997, with only brief interludes of relief between. Franciscan Friar Father Benedict Groeschel, a friend of Mother Teresa for a large part of her life, claims that "the darkness left" towards the end of her life.

The "dark night" might clinically or secularly be described as the letting go of one's ego as it holds back the psyche, thus making room for some form of transformation, perhaps in one's way of defining oneself or one's relationship to God. This interim period can be frightening, hence the perceived "darkness."

In the Christian tradition, one who has developed a strong prayer life and consistent devotion to God suddenly finds traditional prayer extremely difficult and unrewarding for an extended period of time during this "dark night." The individual may feel as though God has suddenly abandoned them or that his or her prayer life has collapsed. In the most pronounced cases, belief is lost in the very existence of God and/or validity of religion, rendering the individual an atheist, even if they bravely continue with the outward expressions of faith.

Rather than resulting in devastation, however, the dark night is perceived by mystics and others to be a blessing in disguise, whereby the individual is stripped (in the dark night of the senses) of the spiritual ecstasy associated with acts of virtue. Although the individual may for a time seem to outwardly decline in their practices of virtue, they in reality become more virtuous, as they are being virtuous less for the spiritual rewards (ecstasies in the cases of the first night) obtained and more out of a true love for God. It is this purgatory, a purgation of the soul, that brings purity and union with God.

We had hoped to be able to provide you with an alternative interpretation, but when we asked Dr. Pokea to reprint his article on the Dark Night of the Soul, he refused to give us permission. Nonetheless, although the article is enlightening and insightful, as this is the Fullness of Time, Dr. Pokea’s information on the phenomenon needs to be adapted for the 777,000.

It is absolutely true that the Dark Night of the Soul was concerned with someone who had already begun his or her Spiritual journey. The ego and “pain body” will fight tooth and nail to regain control, if you begin searching for the Truth. However, because we are now in the Fullness of Time, the “symptoms” of apparent depression that accompany the phenomenon, can equally occur to a seemingly non-Spiritual individual as well as a Spiritual seeker. As we said, at this time the overwhelming emotions can reflect your Spiritual calling. In addition, because we are in the last few years before the transition, most Dark Nights of the Soul will be a temporary condition and will start to subside the moment you begin a two-way communication with the Divine.

The question that arises is how do you know whether your depression is the Dark Night of the Soul? As a rule of thumb, clinical depression is generally accompanied with an inability to function; i.e. unable to get out of bed. In our experience if you are going through the Dark Night of the Soul, although you are experiencing overwhelming and almost debilitating emotions, you should still be able to function.

Apart from the Dark Night of the Soul, a Spiritual calling can often follow a difficult and or emotional experience in your life; such as near death, sever illness, substance abuse rehabilitation, or the loss of a loved one. These are examples of the kind of emotional experience that can lead to you hearing the call. Once you feel called then your senses become more acute and you begin to see patterns and synchronicities in your life. This is epitomized in the inspired works of James Redfield’s trilogy of the Celestine Prophecy. Moreover, because this is the Fullness of Time, a Dark Night of the Soul can occur with no apparent outside triggers; it can appear to come out of the blue, so to speak. Still, whether the phenomenon is caused from “real” experiences or just happens “out of the blue” the purpose is the same; a Spiritual calling to awaken you to your true Self. Consequently, if you remain open to the subtle clues, as the paragraph above related, you will be led to discover your mission.

A crucial moment for Craig and Suzzan in their studies came when God led them to the Gnostic teachings. They then embraced the existence of multiple layers within the Spirit and Soul planes. The Catholic, meaning universal Church called the Gnostics heretics. (Note: At this time, there was no distinction between Catholicism and Orthodoxy.) However, they were surprised to learn that many scholars believe that some Gnostic sects were formed earlier than the Orthodox/Catholic; making the formation of these sects the closest to the time Jesus walked the earth. Until fairly recently, the only source we had about the Gnostics were the church fathers who were known as heresiologists writing to contest the Gnostic teachers of the second century. We said until recently because in 1945, near Nag Hammadi, Upper Egypt, a collection of Gnostic texts were found, many of which had teachings that were contested and therefore recorded by the second century heresiologists. With this new information the couple uncovered a very different interpretation of Biblical events.

After being called from Saudi Arabia to go to Jerusalem in 1994, we spent three months in Cyprus coming to terms with our calling. That July we came to America and after a 10,000-mile trip around the States, settled in the Pacific Northwest and began studying in earnest in the Fall of ‘94. We understood that our mission was primarily to discover the similarities in the world’s religions and uncover The Mysteries that Jesus spoke of.

Following our guidance, by a two-way communication we were led to investigate the Gnostic writings. We need to pause for a moment to address Spiritual guidance. God does not usurp freewill, but guides us gently by inspiration. For instance, we would be inspired to visit a bookstore where a certain book would stand out on the bookshelf. It was then we would ask if we should purchase the book. If told yes, when we read it we would invariably find the information was exactly what we needed at the time. As the paragraph says, “A crucial moment..”was when we were led to the Gnostic writings in the “Nag Hammadi Library.” Wikipedia describes the discovery, and reception of the Gnostic Gospels:

The story of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 has been described as ‘exciting as the contents of the find itself’ (Markschies, Gnosis: An Introduction, 48). In December of that year, two Egyptian brothers found several papyri in a large earthenware vessel while digging for fertilizer around limestone caves near present-day Hamra Dom in Upper Egypt. The find was not initially reported by either of the brothers, who sought to make money from the manuscripts by selling them individually at intervals. It is also reported that the brothers' mother burned several of the manuscripts, worried, apparently, that the papers might have 'dangerous effects' (Markschies, Gnosis, 48). As a result, what came to be known as the Nag Hammadi library (owing to the proximity of the find to Nag Hammadi, the nearest major settlement) appeared only gradually, and its significance went unacknowledged until some time after its initial uncovering.

In 1946, the brothers became involved in a feud, and left the manuscripts with a Coptic priest, whose brother-in-law in October that year sold a codex to the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo (this tract is today numbered Codex III in the collection). The resident Coptologist and religious historian Jean Dorese, realizing the significance of the artifact, published the first reference to it in 1948. Over the years, most of the tracts were passed by the priest to a Cypriot antiques dealer in Cairo, thereafter being retained by the Department of Antiquities, for fear that they would be sold out of the country. After the revolution in 1956, these texts were handed to the Coptic Museum in Cairo, and declared national property.

Meanwhile, a single codex had been sold in Cairo to a Belgian antique dealer. After an attempt was made to sell the codex in both New York and Paris, it was acquired by the Carl Gustav Jung Institute in Zurich in 1951, through the mediation of Gilles Quispel. There it was intended as a birthday present to the famous psychologist; for this reason, this codex is typically known as the Jung Codex, being Codex I in the collection.

Jung's death in 1961 caused a quarrel over the ownership of the Jung Codex, with the result that the pages were not given to the Coptic Museum in Cairo until 1975, after a first edition of the text had been published. Thus the papyri were finally brought together in Cairo: of the 1945 find, eleven complete books and fragments of two others, 'amounting to well over 1000 written pages' (Markschies, Gnosis: An Introduction, 49) are preserved there.

The first edition of a text found at Nag Hammadi was from the Jung Codex, a partial translation of which appeared in Cairo in 1956, and a single extensive facsimile edition was planned. Due to the difficult political circumstances in Egypt, individual tracts followed from the Cairo and Zurich collections only slowly.

This state of affairs changed only in 1966, with the holding of the Messina Congress in Italy. At this conference, intended to allow scholars to arrive at a group consensus concerning the definition of gnosticism, James M. Robinson, an expert on religion, assembled a group of editors and translators whose express task was to publish a bilingual edition of the Nag Hammadi codices in English, in collaboration with the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity at the Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. Robinson had been elected secretary of the International Committee for the Nag Hammadi Codices, which had been formed in 1970 by UNESCO and the Egyptian Ministry of Culture; it was in this capacity that he oversaw the project. In the meantime, a facsimile edition in twelve volumes did appear between 1972 and 1977, with subsequent additions in 1979 and 1984 from publisher E.J. Brill in Leiden, called The Facsimile Edition of the Nag Hammadi Codices, making the whole find available for all interested parties to study in some form.

At the same time, in the former German Democratic Republic a group of scholars - including Alexander Bohlig, Martin Krause and New Testament scholars Gesine Schenke, Hans-Martin Schenke and Hans-Gebhard Bethge - were preparing the first German translation of the find. The last three scholars prepared a complete scholarly translation under the auspices of the Berlin Humboldt University, which was published in 2001.

The James M. Robinson translation was first published in 1977, with the name The Nag Hammadi Library in English, in collaboration between E.J. Brill and Harper & Row. The single-volume publication, according to Robinson, 'marked the end of one stage of Nag Hammadi scholarship and the beginning of another' (from the Preface to the third revised edition). Paperback editions followed in 1981 and 1984, from E.J. Brill and Harper respectively. A third, completely revised edition was published in 1988. This marks the final stage in the gradual dispersal of gnostic texts into the wider public arena - the full complement of codices was finally available in unadulterated form to people around the world, in a variety of languages.

A further English edition was published in 1987, by Yale scholar Bentley Layton, called The Gnostic Scriptures: A New Translation with Annotations (Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1987). The volume unified new translations from the Nag Hammadi Library with extracts from the heresiological writers, and other gnostic material. It remains, along with The Nag Hammadi Library in English one of the more accessible volumes translating the Nag Hammadi find, with extensive historical introductions to individual gnostic groups, notes on translation, annotations to the text and the organization of tracts into clearly defined movements.

For us the most profound affect was the connection of Jesus and Paul’s teachings to “multiple layers within the Spirit and Soul planes.” While we were studying we wrote of the events surrounding our calling. These were recorded in our first book My Lost Love. Looking back now we realized that as we wrote the book within a year of our calling, it is written from a fairly traditional Judeo-Christian perspective. At that time we knew very little about the Gnostics. Over the next decade or so we gathered more and more pieces of the jigsaw puzzle until we had all the material for our second book: LOVE The Common Denominator My Journey to the Truth. The third book The True Philosophers’ Stone follows on from My Lost Love and relates the events from 1998 to 2002.
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Before we get to the first chapter of The Good News we will take a moment to address the answers to the questions in the 1st review. As stated, the answers to the 20 questions are all found in sections 1 and 2 of the Initiative:

• Which has a stronger Electromagnetic field, the brain or the heart?
• Answer - Heart
• Name the institute that discovered the answer.
• Answer – HeartMath Institute
• How many houses in a Natal chart?
• Answer - 12
• Who was known as the Father of Sacred Geometry?
• Answer - Pythagoras
• Which planet according to the Kabbalists represents the Number 5?
• Answer – Jupiter
• How many Tarot trumps/cards make up the Major Arcana?
• Answer - 22
• Which Tarot Card Archetypally represents Mother Nature?
• Answer – 3 – The Empress
• What did the Alchemists want to turn lead into?
• Answer - Gold
• Archetypally, which consciousness is represented by The High Priestess?
• Answer – Universal or Cosmic Subconscious
• What Archetypally does an old man with a scythe represent?
• Answer – Father Time
• Which Color represents the Moon?
• Answer – Blue (light)
• Which Tarot trump/card represents the 2nd Level of the Higher Self?
• Answer – 6 – The Lovers
• What are the Seven Sacred Planets?
• Answer – Sun, Mercury, Moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn
• What are the higher octaves of Mercury, Venus, and Mars?
• Answer – Uranus (Mercury) – Neptune (Venus) – Pluto (Mars)
• In the Spiral diagram, which chakra is the 7th?
• Answer - Heart
• How many letters in the Hebrew Alphabet are designated Mother letters?
• Answer – 3 – Aleph, Mem, and Shin
• How many times does the Color Red appear on its own in the Major Arcana?
• Answer – 3 times – 4 – The Emperor, 16 – the Tower, and 20 - Judgment
• At what age does a child usually forget its past life?
• Answer – 7 years of age
• What is the age of Spiritual Decision?
• Answer – 21 years of age
• At which University in England did Benoit Mandelbrot teach?
• Answer – Cambridge University, England, United Kingdom

 

You probably noticed that many of the questions concerned the Mystical Art of the Major Arcana of the Tarot. This is because the 22 trumps/cards encapsulate so much of The Mysteries. Moreover, the ability to recall the relevant information of the Tarot Tableau is extremely beneficial to developing your Deductive Reasoning. Consequently to help you in this endeavor we have created 2 additional documents. The first is a quick reference chart, and the second is a mini breakdown of some of the most relevant information. Also included are pictures of each card that can be used to visually imprint the information into your mind. As always, all information on the Major Arcana is taken from I.D.E.A.’s associate Daphna Moore’s book The Rabbi’s Tarot.

Although we will not be dealing with Daphna’s book until the Stage Knowledge, because it is an invaluable aid to the Initiative, we highly recommend you read a copy ASAP. Daphna has very kindly made her book available to the Initiative to bulk purchase for 50% less than the retail price. If you wish to acquire a copy, please email us. As soon as we receive enough orders for a bulk purchase, we will arrange to have the book shipped to you. Obviously there will be a shipping cost added to the purchase price, but no handling fee. As for the aids we created for the Major Arcana, you can download both documents by clicking on the links above.

Section 3 THE BEGINNING

THE BEGINNING

In Section 3 we related that after settling in the Pacific Northwest we were led to the Gnostic Gospels in the Nag Hammadi Library. At first we were surprised that the whole of Christendom hadn’t rejoiced at the discovery; after all these were some of the earliest Christian writings found that validated the existence of the New Testament characters. But as we dug deeper we began to see why; the writings gave the power and responsibility of salvation to the individual, and not an organized church.

This missive is freely given to everyone as a means to employ your Deductive Reasoning to the New Testament. We must emphatically state that this work was in no way channeled. It was merely accessed from the Kingdom of God Within through Deductive Reasoning. In order to get the most benefit from the contents, open your mind, and as we said, consider it as a hypothesis of an alternative interpretation of the characters and events in the New Testament.

As in Section 3 we will reprint the paragraph under discussion first. In some cases when there is more than one important thought in the paragraph, as in the one below we will break it up.

The Gospels of Mark and John begin with the Holy Spirit’s entering Jesus at his baptism. Likewise we feel that it is appropriate to start at the beginning, but is that the real beginning of the story? Gnostic teachers would answer with an emphatic No! They would tell us the beginning of Christ’s entry into this realm began with the fall of Sophia/Wisdom (herein after referred to as Sophia), the feminine side of the last pair of the Pleroma emanated…

As we will be investigating the Reason that only the Gospels of Matthew and Luke contain an infancy narrative in the next Stage, we will not get into a discussion about it here. The Gnostics believed that Christ entered the lower planes long before Jesus’ birth or baptism. They taught it concerned the “fall” of a Spiritual being they called Wisdom or Sophia.

At this point, we feel it may be beneficial to relate what God told us about the Divine realm “It is impossible for the human brain to comprehend how spiritual forces operate.” We can only identify with spiritual operation by relating to concepts we do comprehend. In point of fact, it wasn’t until the recent discovery of quantum physics that we began to understand energy, atoms and chemical forces. When the Gnostic teacher Valentinus wrote The Gospel of Truth, about nineteen hundred years ago, humanity didn’t even understand electricity, let alone atomic and sub-atomic particles. Consequently, the Gnostics tried to use terms that their contemporaries could understand. These analogies in no way meant that they saw the Divine realm in the same way as the mythical demigods whom the Greeks thought resided on Mount Olympus. Additionally we need to state that although we refer to God in “masculine” terms, this does not mean that we think of the Supreme Being as masculine. With this said, let us share what we came to understand about Gnostic emanations.

A good analogy to understanding the statement, “We can only identify with spiritual operation by relating to concepts we do comprehend” is how an aboriginal tribesman would understand the images on a TV for the first time. In his mind the only “rational” explanation could be that the objects and people have somehow been shrunk to fit in the box. Another analogy would be a parent soothing a frightened child in a thunderstorm by saying the noise is caused by God moving His furniture. To reiterate: “…it wasn’t until the recent discovery of quantum physics that we began to understand energy, atoms and chemical forces.” Before then our material world was considered to be solid. Think about it how would you explain the operations of a TV to someone who has absolutely no concept of electricity? This was the dilemma faced by Jesus and his followers 2 millennia ago.

In our opinion the most relevant information the Gnostics left us was the concept of different pairs of consciousness. In the Second Century around 150 C.E., the Christian church was struggling to survive under the Roman Empire. Less than 150 years after Jesus left the Earth, his followers were anything but united. There was one main distinction between the Gnostics and Orthodox (literally straight thinking) or Catholic (literally universal) church. In a nut shell the Gnostics position was that “salvation” came through Knowledge, as in The Mysteries, whereas the Orthodox/Catholic church maintained it came through Grace. The strange thing is that they are both partly right and partly wrong.

Within the Gnostics were several sub-groups which greatly varied in what they believed. The Gnostic teacher we were led to was Valentinus, the author of the Gospel of Truth found in the Nag Hammadi Library. Valentinus was a highly respected member of the Orthodox/Catholic church as he had been taught by Theudas a disciple of the Apostle Paul. He was so respected that he was in line to be elected Pope. That was before he had a vision that caused him to break from the church and form the Valentinians.

There are many church historians that maintain Gnosticism was a later offshoot from the Orthodox/Catholic church. However, there are equally as many scholars that dispute the claim, asserting Gnosticism predated the Orthodox/Catholic church. As we will be discussing this later we will return to the teacher Valentinus explaining Spiritual forces in terms his “contemporaries could understand.” So like the Greeks and Romans related different attributes to their gods, Valentinus related different levels of Spiritual Consciousness by assigning them different names.

We are grateful to Professor Elaine Pagels for her translation of the teachings of the Gnostic Valentinians into a cohesive understanding. Apparently the followers of Valentinus, who according to one report nearly became pope before his separation from orthodoxy told a mythical story to explain the beginning of everything. The myth said that the First Father or Supreme Being desired to be known, and so projected Himself into His consort, Silence, which brought forth two emanations, Mind (masculine) and Truth (feminine). This pair in turn brought forth the Logos (masculine) and Life (feminine), who brought forth the pair Humanity (masculine) and Church (feminine). (It is important to keep in mind these are ancient terms that have been translated into English and should not be confused with the definitions of the words church and humanity used today.) These six emanations, together with Silence and the Supreme Being, made up what the Valentinians referred to as the Ogdoad (8). The pair Humanity and Church also brought forth a pair who subsequently emanated another pair. Eventually, apart from the Ogdoad there were eleven more pairs, (22) which completed the thirty members of the Divine realm, which the Gnostics called the Pleroma. Each pair consisted of both masculine and feminine aspects working together in unison.

Remember this is not a literal explanation, but a general concept told as a mythical story. As we said, the human consciousness retains a lot more information in story form than bare facts. Wikipedia’s definition of the Pleroma is worth relating:

Pleroma …generally refers to the totality of divine powers. The word means fullness …("fills") comparable to…which means "full", and is used in Christian theological contexts: both in Gnosticism generally, and by Paul of Tarsus in Colossians 2.9.

Gnosticism holds that the world is controlled by archons, among whom some versions of Gnosticism claim is the deity of the Old Testament, who held aspects of the human captive, either knowingly or accidentally. The heavenly Pleroma is the totality of all that is regarded in our understanding of "divine". The Pleroma is often referred to as the light existing "above" (the term is not to be understood spatially) our world, occupied by spiritual beings who self-emanated from the Pleroma. These beings are described as aeons (eternal beings) and sometimes as archons. Jesus is interpreted as an intermediary Aeon who was sent, along with his counterpart Sophia, from the Pleroma, with whose aid humanity can recover the lost knowledge of the divine origins of humanity and in so doing be brought back into unity with the Pleroma. The term is thus a central element of Gnostic religious cosmology.

Gnostic texts envision the Pleroma as aspects of God, the eternal Divine Principle, who can only be partially understood through the Pleroma. Each "Aeon" (i.e. aspect of God) is given a name (sometimes several) and a female counterpart (Gnostic viewed divinity and completeness in terms of male/female unification)…

The Kabbalists also represented the Divine as different aspects, only they referred to the emanations as the 10 Sephirot on the Tree of Life. Nonetheless, as we will discover the 10 Sephirot are not the same as either the Gnostic 22 emanations of the Pleroma, or the 8 members of the Ogdoad. This is because, the Kabbalists believed that above the Sephirot was the Ain Soph (NO-THING), which they saw as representing the Supreme Non-reality. The Tao of Taoism can also be seen to represent NO-THING. Where the Gnostics differed from the Kabbalists was although there was nothing above the Pleroma, it wasn’t the same as NO-THING, because the emanations had consciousness. However, there was and is a very good Reason the Kabbalists referred to the Supreme as Ain Soph, because it is impossible to define it, which brings us to the next paragraph.

As we have said, the human mind can only conceptualize Divine powers in the most vague terms. This is why Jesus taught in parables and analogies; our vocabulary is wholly inadequate. Consequently, to attempt to put the pairs of emanations into our frame of reference is extremely difficult. Even so, God explained to us that rather than seeing these pairs in terms of couples, we should regard them as pairs of opposites, such as active and passive or positive and negative. Unfortunately the word “negative” has become connected to anything evil, but negative here needs to be seen as analogous to, relatively speaking, the negative prong of an electrical appliance’s plug working in conjunction with the positive prong. Both the positive and negative prongs are needed for the appliance to operate. Another example of how Divine potencies work together is the flower (passive) being pollinated by the bee (active); both depends upon each other.

Remember we retain more information in story form than bare facts. It is vital to keep in mind that the objective universe is above all else dual. This is necessary for without opposites there is no reality. Using your Deductive Reasoning think about it. How would we know that something is hot if we didn’t have its opposite cold? Or be able to understand there is a difference between day and night, without the concept of light and dark? In order for this universe to exist, we must have duality. And yet we are told that the darkness is evil. How can something necessary to existence be evil?

Remember the Key to The Mysteries is hidden in the English language. We were always struck with the word evil being the reverse of live. Sit with this a while and if you are open to your Deductive Reasoning you will find thoughts and questions arising from within. Take a moment to write them down and then contemplate what you have written. Now read the next paragraph of the Gnostic explanation of what went wrong, euphemistically called the “fall” in Christianity. Because the next 3 paragraphs are connected we will deal with them together.

Valentinus tells us the problem began as Sophia; the feminine side of the last pair to be emanated went in search of her origin without her partner, who was referred to as (What-has-been-willed). We wondered if “he” could be seen as the Divine Will?

Because Sophia acted without her male partner, What-has-been-willed, she went against the natural order. In seeking the Supreme Being, she turned back and, in the words of Valentinus, “Was in danger of being absorbed into the Father’s sweetness.” We understand this to mean that when she beheld the magnificence of God, she became mesmerized and moved to rejoin Him. This is akin to a moth flying too close to the flame. Like a moth gets destroyed or absorbed by the fire, Sophia was in danger of being annihilated. However, unlike the exposed flame, the Supreme Being is surrounded by a power, or in the modern vernacular, a force field, that is referred to as the Limit. The difference between this force field and others was the Gnostic Limit had consciousness, and had the capability of supporting and restoring Sophia to her rightful place within the Pleroma.

Unfortunately, the emotions Sophia experienced (fear, grief, confusion and ignorance) could not be absorbed into the Pleroma and were expelled from the Divine plane. This meant that she became separated from parts of herself. To use an analogy, this would be similar to a person’s gangrenous arm or leg being amputated. Because Sophia was a member of the Pleroma, she was entirely infused with Divine power. To avoid the rest of the Pleroma becoming contaminated, for want of a better description, a Veil was temporarily placed between the Divine realm and that portion of Sophia, which was expelled. Also to prevent it’s happening again, the Supreme Being emanated the Christ, along with His partner the Holy Spirit, to teach the members of the Pleroma of their progenitor.

The statement that Sophia “…went in search of her origin without her partner…” is key to understanding the myth. The “the pairs of emanations” should be seen as “pairs of opposites”, which like the negative and positive prongs of an electrical appliance are needed for the appliance to operate.” Working in unison together the pairs acted as a neutral or grounding that kept each of them in perfect balance. In other words, the 30 members of the Pleroma represented sublime duality, and when Sophia left her “partner” What-has-been-Willed she became unstable, and in a sense “no longer grounded.”

As Valentinus said, “Sophia was in danger of being annihilated” and needed rescuing by the Limit. Who or what was this Limit? Valentinus said that the Gnostic Limit had consciousness. We related that it was like “a force field” that “had the capability of supporting and restoring Sophia to her rightful place within the Pleroma.”

For the longest time we were unsure as to the identity of this Limit, but when we applied Deductive Reasoning to the problem, the answer surfaced. Let us examine the process. Deductive Reasoning lays out all the data gathered and then focuses down to dissect and refine it. First we asked ourselves what we knew.

• 1 - The Limit has consciousness
• 2 - The Limit acts like a protective force field
• 3 - The Limit surrounds the Supreme Being

What do these 3 facts tell us? They tell us that the Limit is different to the other Gnostic emanations, because unlike them, the Limit can be in close proximity of the Supreme Being without being “in danger of being annihilated.” This was key to our understanding.

Ouroboros

As we contemplated this information, a picture of the Ouroboros (Serpent swallowing it’s tail) surfaced. The Ouroboros represents eternity or timelessness, so if this “force field” “surrounded” the Supreme Being as timelessness or eternity, what happened when it “moved” to help Sophia? Timelessness is depicted as a closed loop, could the opening of that loop be the advent of Linear time? Before we move on, we will leave you with these thoughts to ponder and to employ your Deductive Reasoning to.

• The planet Saturn is often referred to as the Limit.
• Saturn is the first Planetary Round in the Doctrine of Rounds and Root-Races. (See Ancient Wisdom For Now)
• The planet Saturn represents the highest Sephirot Binah on the Severity pillar on the Tree of Life, above the Creative plane.(See Spiritual Evolution or From the Fool to the Hermit part 2 in Ancient Wisdom For Now)
• Saturn represents the Color Black and the element lead.
• According to Greek Mythology Saturn or Chronos (time) was the father of Zeus
• The ancient inhabitants of the Middle East were said to worship the planet Saturn.
• Saturn is the 7th planet in the Seven Sacred Planets.
• Is it a coincidence that the Jewish Sabbath is held on Saturday or Saturn’s Day?

Also consider how we have already used the term Limit in this Stage. We will be returning to the subject of who the Gnostic Limit was later.
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Unfortunately, the emotions Sophia experienced (fear, grief, confusion and ignorance) could not be absorbed into the Pleroma and were expelled from the Divine plane. This meant that she became separated from parts of herself. To use an analogy, this would be similar to a person’s gangrenous arm or leg being amputated. Because Sophia was a member of the Pleroma, she was entirely infused with Divine power. To avoid the rest of the Pleroma becoming contaminated, for want of a better description, a Veil was temporarily placed between the Divine realm and that portion of Sophia, which was expelled. Also to prevent it’s happening again, the Supreme Being emanated the Christ, along with His partner the Holy Spirit, to teach the members of the Pleroma of their progenitor.

This paragraph encapsulates the Gnostic interpretation of the reason for Creation. When Sophia separated from What-has-been-Willed and became unbalanced she metaphorically experienced a short circuit, which burnt out some of her wires. Just like an electrical appliance cannot operate with burnt out wires, neither could Sophia. It is best understood by understanding that anything other than Love cannot survive in the Divine plane. Sophia’s burnt out “wires/emotions” had to be removed from the Divine plane, and so Sophia was temporarily put in “quarantine” in order to be separated from them.

“Because Sophia was a member of the Pleroma, she was entirely infused with Divine power.” This sentence is key to uncovering the Reason for Creation. Although we must remember not to take the myth literally, often the names and components can hide the deeper meaning. Again this deeper meaning can be found through the use of Deductive Reasoning. First and foremost as God is Love, the Divine realm and All its occupants are made from the nature of Love. Rather than an emotion, Love here needs to be seen akin to the spark of Life. Remember Life was one of the 8 members of the Ogdoad. It may help to see the Gnostic Pleroma allegorically as the genes that make up the DNA of an organism. Irrespective of how small of a sample we take, the DNA is always the same.

Although, in the myth Sophia’s emotions (DNA) were separated from the Pleroma, because she was part of the Pleroma, she was connected to “everyone” in the Pleroma. Consequently, although the parts of Sophia that were contaminated were separated, they were still connected through the spark of God infused within their essence (DNA). Initially the Supreme Being emanated The Christ and The Holy Spirit “… to teach the members of the Pleroma of their progenitor”, and to prevent anyone else from making the same mistake as Sophia. Then as we said a Veil was set up to isolate the parts of Sophia that became contaminated.

Humanity has retained the memory of the union between these emanations through the myths and legends of creator gods and goddesses. These deities are known by different names throughout the world, such as; Shakti and Shiva, El and Astarte or Ashteroth, Baal and Baalti, and Zeus and Hera. Gradually the populations divided these pairs into sun/sky-gods and earth-goddesses. Civilizations that used brute force to rule and conquer their neighbors, gravitated toward the veneration of “sun/sky-gods,” which they saw demonstrated their power through manifestations of visible eclipses and thunderbolts. Tribal communities that relied on their survival by cooperation with “Mother Nature” came to venerate the feminine side of deity through the goddess. Regardless of later civilizations having given predominance to the male gods, the creative forces were always seen as dual. The concept of rulers as king and queen and emperor and empress, also reflected the union of the members of the Pleroma.

At this point the text pauses to equate the parallel of the worship of various gods and goddesses as reflecting the unconscious memory of the pairs in the Gnostic Pleroma.

Writing of the “birth” of Divine powers puts the process in some kind of sequential order. We live in a linear universe; however, this is only experienced beneath the Veil. There is no past, present or future above the Veil. There is only NOW. Consequently, the Supreme Being’s emanating the Christ and the Holy Spirit would have happened simultaneously with the other emanations.

The above paragraph explains that the “events” of the Gnostic myth of the fall of Sophia did not happen in Linear time. This calls to mind the role of the Gnostic Limit. Was the Limit the “Veil” the Supreme Being “… temporarily placed between the Divine realm and that portion of Sophia, which was expelled”? Could the Limit be the unfurled Ouroboros? Is that why Saturn is the last (or from a different point of view, the first) of the visible planets in the Solar System?

We mentioned earlier that the Archetype of Old Father Time was represented by trump/card 13 – Death, but as Death represents the sun-sign Scorpio, which is ruled by the planet Pluto, this would appear to be an error. Nonetheless, Death does represent Father Time, but that isn’t the end of the story. To explain we need to examine the various myths of Father Time and his connection to other “deities” to uncover the connection. Wikipedia as always provides the nuts and bolts of the issue:                           

Father Time (known as Pakiž in some countries) is a personification of time. He is usually depicted as an elderly bearded man, dressed in a robe, carrying an hourglass or other timekeeping device (representing time's constant movement). This image derives from many sources, including the Grim Reaper and Chronos, the Greek god of time.

In English, death is often given the name the "Grim Reaper" and shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe, and wearing a midnight black gown, robe or cloak with a hood, or sometimes a white burial shroud. Usually when portrayed in the black-hooded gown, his face is not to be seen, but is a mere shadow beneath the hood.

To demonstrate how Father Time or Chronos can also be the Grim Reaper, compare the 3 depictions below:

       
    Chronos                      Death or Mort               Father Time  

Because the Supreme Being emanated the Christ and the Holy Spirit they were superior, so to speak, to the other members of the Pleroma. In fact, this is where the concept of the Trinity makes entry; the Father (Supreme Being), the Son (the Christ) and the daughter (the Holy Spirit.) The term “only-begotten” is only applied to the Christ and has caused more confusion over the person of Jesus than any other designation. It has been interpreted as not born from God, but a part of God. God had told us the key to the mysteries is hidden in our language (English). This key can be applied to help us understand the difference between the Christ and Holy Spirit and the other members of the Pleroma. The members of the Ogdoad had resulted through the First Father/Supreme Being’s “projecting” Himself into His Consort, Silence. If we remember that a projector is used to “project” images onto a screen, we can see the difference. The word “emanates” means to bring forth from the source. In other words, the Christ and Holy Spirit, rather than being a projection or “image” of the Supreme Being, were of His substance. Despite the Church making the Holy Spirit masculine, as the partner of the Christ, she was feminine. Hence the Holy Spirit could be thought of as the “only begotten” daughter of the Supreme Being.

To us this information explained the concept of the Trinity, only it doesn’t portray all 3 as male, but assigns The Holy Spirit to the feminine vibration. As the above paragraph covers the deeper lesson found in the English language, we will move on.

All of the above is very difficult to understand in scientific terms. However, God communicated to us if instead of names such as Mind, Life, Humanity and Limit, we think in terms of frequencies as in light, sound, vibration, and molecular bonds, then it becomes closer to today’s scientific view. Later, we will return to this concept.

Again, as this paragraph is self-explanatory, not to mention that the contents will be discussed later we will again move on.

Desiring to rescue or recover her lost aspects, Sophia united with the Christ. Ptolemy, a successor to Valentinus taught that Sophia and the Christ transformed her fear into water, her grief into air, her confusion into earth and her ignorance into fire. These four elements were then used to create everything in the universe.

This paragraph explains why there is so much suffering on Earth. When we consider that all matter in the universe was made from Sophia’s emotions, then the Buddhist concept of life is suffering makes a little more sense. However, if we apply the Mystical Art of Archetypes through the Major Arcana or the Tarot, we can learn even more.

First we need to remember the 3 trumps/cards that represent the 3 Kabbalistic elements?

• Water is represented by The Hanged Man,
• Air is represented by The Fool
• Fire is represented by Judgment.

                             
      The Hanged Man            The Fool                  Judgment             

Now let us look at the emotions the elements represent.

• Water is Fear
• Air is Grief
• Fire is Ignorance

When we consider that a human being consists of at least 70% water, it is a little more understandable why the emotion of fear is so dominant in the world. With that said, all is not hopeless, because this is where Humanity’s purpose comes in.

The primary goal of the Initiative is to teach a critical mass Number of the Human Race how to change the way they think so that they can transform their heart. When this is achieved, the individuals literally transmute all negative emotions, which means that fear becomes courage. We are not referring to bravado or fearlessness, but as the saying goes, “the courage of your convictions.” To understand the importance of this again involves the deeper levels hidden within the language. So let’s examine the saying. Webster’s not surprisingly has the definition of conviction associated with a person breaking the law and being “convicted.” However, almost as an afterthought, it adds the definition “The act or process of convincing – The state of being convinced.” Finally it directs you to: see the synonym of “certainty”. Turning to “certainty” we find: (1) “The fact, quality, or state of being certain: certainty of death. (2) Something that is clearly established or assured.”

So conviction in the saying (“the courage of your convictions”) is referencing something you have clearly established and are “certain” of. We said that courage in the saying isn’t referring to bravado or fearlessness. Interestingly, it was one of you that provided the deeper level of understanding by informing us of the work of David Hawkins.

Gwendalyn has the distinction of being the first person to register for The Initiative and is the one that provided the connection; consequently we will let her introduce the work of David Hawkins:

“AFT has been heavily influenced by the work of David Hawkins MD., PhD. In his book Power Vs Force Dr. Hawkins describes how consciousness is organized into different levels. The problematic “levels of consciousness” are Shame, Guilt, Apathy, Grief, Fear, Desire, Anger and Pride. In the AFT model all emotional and physical disturbances arise out of thought and emotional patterns from these levels.

“Dr. Hawkins’ work also describes “higher” levels of consciousness above the pride level. These levels include courage, willingness, neutrality, reason, love, joy peace and enlightenment. For those interested in consciousness and spiritual development, Dr. Hawkins books: Power Vs Force, The Eye of the I, and I: Reality and Subjectivity are highly recommended.

“The bottom line is that there is a change point at the level of courage. Below the level of courage are states of consciousness that lead to suffering. At the level of courage, we have the courage to look at ourselves and recognize that we are at the source of our own suffering and we also have the potential to be at the source of creating our own joy and peace.

“AFT is dedicated to a) helping people eliminate their own suffering and b) helping people reach higher states of consciousness where people have access to experiences of increasing resourcefulness, happiness, peacefulness and eventually enlightenment.”

Below we reproduce an excerpt from the website Mars and Venus Counseling and Wellness Center on Attractor Field Techniques (AFT):

Attractor Field Techniques

Attractor Field Techniques (AFT) is an energetic and spiritual approach that can be used to work with:

• Physical Illness
• Pain Disorders
• Emotional Problems
• Spiritual Development and Self-Actualization

What are Attractor Field Meridian Approaches?

What we understand to be “reality” is only one aspect of the universe that is far greater and more awesome than our science can currently explain. Several hundred years ago science said the sun and stars revolved around the earth. The data seemed to prove this. It required a new perspective to discover a more accurate understanding of the universe. Within the last 60 years we have gone from thinking that matter and energy were different. We now understand that they are the same thing in two different forms. The understanding that the scientific world is beginning to realize is that the universe can be understood at many different levels. Each level has its own rules and truths…

Understanding and Energetic Approach to Human Problems.

Our physical bodies are only an aspect of what we truly are. In reality we are beings of light and energy. The concept of “the Force” described in the Stars Wars movies is surprisingly accurate. Our minds and bodies are shaped by our consciousness and our thoughts and intentions. Our bodies are the conduits of life energy that flows through the universe. When we run low on life energy we become “dis-eased” and eventually diseased. Just as matter and energy are interchangeable, thought and energy are interchangeable. Just like energy can be thought of as having a specific frequency (like tuning into a radio station at a certain frequency), thoughts have different frequencies as well. Not unlike radio waves or microwaves or light waves, they are broadcast beyond our specific brains.

Light waves are electromagnetic radiation that comes to us from the sun. Their frequencies are such that they have a positive impact on our bodies. Gamma radiation is also a type of electromagnetic energy at a different frequency that has a very destructive effect on our bodies. Thoughts and intentions also generate energetic fields that have either positive or negative effects upon our lives. The thoughts and intentions that have negative energetic effects on our spirit and our body include shame, guilt, anger, fear and false pride. These include activities such as criticizing, blaming, judging, withdrawing, hiding, punishing, attacking and so on. The thoughts and intentions that have positive energetic effects on our souls and bodies include acceptance, openness, love, joy, peacefulness curiosity, compassion, and reverence. They include activities such as acceptance, forgiveness, kindness, love, understanding connection, and empathy.

There are certain people whom everyone likes to be around. We often say, “I like their energy”. We are absolutely correct about this. These people do broadcast good energy. There are other people we do not want to be around for just the opposite reason. We are all aware of this. But it goes much deeper than this.

When we walk around criticizing, judging and blaming others or ourselves we weaken our life energy. When we go though our life being angry and negative towards others or ourselves we generate negative energy that makes us feel bad and makes us suffer immediately. The effect also continues to effect us over time. Eventually the energy fields of these negative thought patterns create negative energy fields that disrupt the body’s physical functioning and create disease. It also does not matter if we are conscious of these thoughts. In fact most of the time we are unconscious of these thoughts.

For the most part we have not said anything new here. These ideas have been stated by sages and saints throughout time. They have been stated by Jesus and by Buddha. They are in the Talmud and the Kabbalah. They are in Hindu texts, a course in miracles and countless other texts.

This is a perfect example of the use of Deductive Reasoning. Remember we all already know this information, we have simply forgotten how to access it. Thank you Gwendalyn for directing us to another source that demonstrates how the Ancient Wisdom is resurfacing. As we said, this Initiative is interactive and we welcome any and all input from you all.

To return to our discussion on the saying of having “the courage of your convictions”, we have determined that conviction in this case means the establishment of a fact or rather Truth. However, it is Dr. Hawkins interpretation of courage being a higher level of consciousness, which reveal the deeper meaning of the saying. Let’s recap what Gwendalyn said Dr. Hawkins teaches on courage:

“Below the level of courage are states of consciousness that lead to suffering. At the level of courage, we have the courage to look at ourselves and recognize that we are at the source of our own suffering and we also have the potential to be at the source of creating our own joy and peace.”

If we accept that courage is the opposite of fear and yet is not fearlessness we can begin to understand the role courage plays in our Spiritual development. The key is in the Archetypal image of the Tarot trump/card The Hanged Man that represents the element Water.

Remember the Gnostics assigned Sophia’s emotion of fear to the element Water, so the ancient sages hid the means to transmute the emotion of fear in the trump/card that represents Water. Many people think that to overcome fear means fighting it, but one of the most important messages Jesus gave us was to “resist not evil”, meaning don’t fight it. Nonetheless, Jesus did not mean that we should stand by and do nothing in the presence of “evil”, so what did he mean? The answer can be found in the analogy of the fact when matter and antimatter connect they annihilate each other. However, at this point we want you to ponder this yourself and come up with the answer through the use of Deductive Reasoning. Look closely at the image of The Hanged Man. What does it say to you? We will return to the question later.
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Earlier we discussed how the Human Race had retained the knowledge of the masculine and feminine powers by the worshipping of male and female “gods and goddesses.” You may have noticed that in the list of deities we didn’t include Osiris and Isis that is because they were actual historical figures. Also Isis represented Sophia and Osiris signified the Christ. There was a legend that Isis with her consort; Osiris corrected the watchers mistake with humanity. [In the ancient Book of Enoch, translated by Richard Laurence, the author relates that these “watchers” reveal the mysteries to mankind, which results in the multiplying of evil.]

In the mention of the “watcher’s mistake” we can discover an interpretation for the “fall” that may explain the deterioration of “morality” since the first human beings. We addressed this in Full Circle: the Mysteries Uncloaked on the Ancient Wisdom For Now page. The relevant excerpt appears below:

“Sometime after, 41,040 B.C.E., no one knows exactly when, a race of extraterrestrials visited the Earth, looking to mine the minerals of the planet. Although it is unclear as to exactly when the aliens visited the Earth, if we consider not only the huge ‘leap’ in advancement in 40,000 B.C.E., but also the disappearance of the Neanderthals in 35,000 B.C.E., it is a pretty fair bet that it was between 40,000 and 35,000 B.C.E. Moreover, 40,000 B.C.E. is only 1,040 years after the date for the emergence of the 3rd Root-Race. In evolutionary terms this is a mere blink of the eye. As reported, according to esoteric teaching, it was during the 3rd Root-Race that the sexes first became divided.”

   (Root-race 2 emerges)    (Root-race 3 emerges)   (Root-race 4 emerges)
   7,000,000 – 6,500,000      41,040 – 35,000 B.C.E    15,120 – 10,500 B.C.E

Diagram of the overlapping of the Root-Races and approximate dates of emergence

 

“Because, the extraterrestrials did not want to do the heavy work of mining themselves, they decided to create a workforce from one of the native hominid species. The species chosen was the Cro-Magnons, because to the aliens they were the least intellectually developed…

“At first, the aliens were unsuccessful as they tried to ‘splice’ the genes of animals and hominids. The result of this effort is recorded in the various myths of half-animal-half-man monsters. Eventually, they decided to ‘splice’ their own genes onto the Cro-Magnons, resulting in the species of Homo Sapien sapiens.”

This is an extremely complex subject, because it brings in the Doctrine of Root-Races, which we will cover in depth in the Stage Cycles. For now, just consider that the Human Race just might have been affected by an outside force.

In our 2nd book, Love the Common Denominator, Osiris was included in the Christ-like teachers. We also demonstrated that the rituals and rites of Isis were adapted into Mariolatry, the worship of Mary the mother of Jesus. In addition, we had discovered through our studying that Isis was known not only as Osiris’ wife but also his sister. Abraham and Sarah reflected this and this is why in many ancient civilizations the rulers were often brother and sister.

At this point we are concerned with the role that Osiris and Isis played in the Spiritual development of Humanity. The text points out the parallels between the worship of the mother of Jesus and the worship of Isis. We will be discussing the subject of the origins of Mariolatry in the next Stage, but for now let’s consider the statement in the paragraph about Osiris and Isis being brother and sister. If we remember that according to the Gnostics, The Christ and The Holy Spirit were both emanated together as apparent “siblings” by The Supreme Father, this would seem to imply that Osiris and Isis were reflecting “siblings”. However, although Osiris was an incarnation of The Christ, Isis wasn’t an incarnation of The Holy Spirit, which is a very important distinction to make. Still The Christ and Sophia were from the same family (Pleroma) and as such could also be seen in the light of brother and sister. As Egyptologists know, the Egyptian pharaohs imitated this by often marrying their sister, and so it appears did the Israelites.

Even though we have been speaking of Sophia in feminine terms “she” shouldn’t be seen as a goddess. God had said that humanity is destined to unite the opposites: darkness and light, male and female and spirit and matter. So to think of the Gnostic emanations in terms of male and female gods and goddesses could be an error. Rather, it would be more appropriate to think of them as androgynous. We had found it interesting to learn that the Greek term for spirit is pneuma, which is neuter, neither masculine nor feminine, but both.

The above paragraph is self-explanatory, but it is thought-provoking to think that the goal of Evolution is to unite all opposites. This isn’t as daunting a task as it would seem. Consider how much the lines of gender and “good” and “bad” are being blurred today. Nowadays, the differences have become a matter of perspective.

The elements of the universe made from Sophia’s Divine residue (emotions) became immersed in the Life Principle and lay dormant waiting to be awakened. So the seemingly interminable cycles of evolution began to transmute the elements (emotions) back into Spirit.

At this point we move to the Gnostics’ explanation for the purpose of the creation of the Universe. In order to redeem Sophia’s lost parts/emotions; because they were consciousness the parts/emotions had to be transmuted both mentally through Nous/Mind and emotionally through Life/Senses or Feelings. As stated Sophia’s contaminated essence became the 4 universal elements of fire/ignorance, air/grief, water/fear, and earth/confusion.

Due to the elements containing Sophia’s essence, they were of a dual nature, spiritual and material. They also contained both intelligence from Nous or Mind and the energy of life from Life. And so to redeem her residue, the Demiurge, was brought forth by Sophia and the Christ. The Demiurge, which the Gnostics called Ialdaboath, was the Creator and God of the Old Testament and has been worshiped throughout the world under various names. Because the Creator/Demiurge was beneath the Veil a new realm was created known as the Soul realm, which encompassed multiple layers including the astral plane. Every being beneath the Veil became ensouled.

After Sophia became separated from parts of herself, The Christ joined with her on the other side of the Veil to put into action a rescue plan, so to speak. The first thing they did was create an intermediary layer called the Soul Plane, and “peopled” it with Divine forces to administer the plan. It is important to always keep in mind that The Christ epitomized Compassion and Sophia represented Wisdom, consequently although the elements were produced from lower emotions, the structure of the Universe was of Love, Compassion and Wisdom.

Again we cannot stress enough that it is impossible for the human mind to understand Spiritual operations, so it is important not to get caught up in literal translation. Instead use your Deductive Reasoning and consider that the Gnostic myth might just explain the apparent suffering of All life in general. We realize that traditional religion says that suffering comes from Adam and Eve disobeying God; we are just asking you to consider an alternative explanation. The Valentinians believed that rather than the Creator punishing the whole of Creation, as the Architect of the Universe, Ialdaboath (a name the Valentinians used for the Creator) was a key part to its redemption. But let’s return to Sophia’s emotions becoming the 4 elements in order to “transmute” them “back into Spirit.”

In Section 1 we related the 7 chakra system, which correlated to the Seven Sacred Planets. Another term used in esoteric teachings is the 7 principles, which are:

• 1 or 7 — The Body (Rupa)
• 2 or 6— Vitality (Prana, or Jiva)
• 3 or 5— Astral Body (Linga Sharira)
• 4       — Animal Soul (Kama Rupa)
• 5 or 3— Human Soul (Manas)
• 6 or 2— Spiritual Soul (Buddhi)
• 7 or 1— Spirit (Atma).

As you can observe the principles can either follow an ascending or descending order. For the purposes of this part, we will follow the descending order. Eastern teachings associate the 4 lowest aspects of the soul to the “principles of physical nature.” Interestingly, the most prevalent element in the Universe, Hydrogen equates to the 4th principle or Animal Soul. This is very telling as we shall see, but first let’s examine what esotericism taught of the 4 lower principles. Our source is Katherine Hillard, in her book An Abridgement of H.P.Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine. (below are excerpts from LCD)

Ms. Hillard tells us, Madame Blavatsky pointed out that Hydrogen, is “the most stable of compounds,” because as “the lightest of all gases,” when it is combined with Oxygen it transforms into Water. Also, another reason Hydrogen is linked with our 4th principle is because the gas burns so hot. Consequently, she believed Hydrogen represented “Desire; the principle of animal desire, which burns fiercely during life in matter….”

According to Ms. Hillard, Madame Blavatsky, assigned the astral body our (5th or 3rd principle), to Nitrogen. The reason being the 5th principle is described as “the inert vehicle or form on which the physical body is moulded.” Nitrogen emulates the astral body, by being “an inert gas; the vehicle with which oxygen is mixed…”

The versatile and “compatible” gas “Oxygen” is assigned to the 6th (or 2nd) principle. Not surprisingly, according to Ms. Hillard, as all life depends on Oxygen it is referred to as “Life, the active power producing all vital phenomena.” This makes perfect sense as the 6th, or in some cases, the 2nd principle, is called in Sanskrit “Prana,” which translates to Life.

Finally, Carbon “the basis of all organic substances…” corresponds to the lowest 7th (or 1st) principle, the body or “gross matter.” Ms. Hillard explains that Carbon is “the substance,” which is “formed and moulded over the astral by the action of Life.”

The 3 highest principles were considered by esotericism to be beyond this plane of existence; consequently, they did not assign any elements to them. Still there is a wealth of information we can glean by using Deductive Reasoning.

Earlier we mentioned that the Kabbalists hid secret information by assigning various meanings to Numbers. Case in point, in Gematria the Numbers 1 to 103 are assigned an element from the Periodic Table. Number 1 is assigned to Hydrogen, which agrees with modern scientific discovery as Hydrogen is the most prolific element in the universe. Also another appropriate assignment was allocating the element Carbon to the Number 6. Considering that the material universe was created in “6 days,” this is not surprising. We said that one of the meanings Gematria assigned the Number 8 was Ahab or Love; however, Number 8 is also the atomic Number for Oxygen.

According to Wikipedia Gematria has existed from at least the Tannaim period, which ran from approximately 0 C.E. to 70 C.E. Does this mean that the Kabbalistic sages were aware of the Periodic Table of elements? History records that the Russian scientist Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev in 1865 is the “father of the periodic table.” Nevertheless, if Gematria can be dated to the 1st century, then maybe we should say the Dmitri Mendeleev “rediscovered” the Periodic Table.

Like the other “signs” of ancient knowledge, academia has tended to ignore nontraditional evidence. But we cannot ignore anything, if we want to change the way we think. And it is important to not discard anything out of hand. Your Deductive Reasoning will help you to sort out the gold from the dross. Remember Deductive Reasoning lays it all out. Try writing down everything you have learned about the subject so far. To demonstrate this we will give you an example of how this can be done.

•  - Since the Fullness of Time the spiral system for the chakra system has been in effect.
• – The Eastern 7 principles correspond to the 7 chakras.
• – Sophia’s emotions became the 4 elements – Ignorance/Fire, Grief/Air, Fear/Water, and Confusion/Earth.
• – Hydrogen represents the Number 1 and the 4th principle/heart chakra.
• – Oxygen represents the Number 8 and Ahab, which translates to Love.
• – Hydrogen is the most prolific element in the Universe.
• – Hydrogen represents desire, because it burns so hot - Fire?
• – Hydrogen and Oxygen combine to create Water.
• – The lowest principle corresponds to the element Carbon.
• – Carbon is assigned to the Number 6.
• – According to Genesis the Universe was created in 6 days.
•  – The Kingdom of God is Within the Heart.

Take a look at your list and consider the 4th principle or chakra’s position in the updated spiral diagram of the chakras. Then recall what religion teaches on Creation. Then ponder that science may support the Ancient Wisdom. If you open yourself to the possibility your Deductive Reasoning will do the rest.

The Gnostics believed that the Creator remained ignorant of his true origins, which they think is evinced with his statement in the Old Testament, “I am a jealous God etc,” whereas Jesus taught us that the Heavenly Father was Love. One of the first directives received was that our mission involved “vindicating Jehovah.” We learned this meant removing violent acts from his responsibility: more on this later.

This paragraph introduces the various schools of thought concerning the Creator of the Universe. At this point it is enough to say that there were Gnostic sects that held the Demiurge and Creation as evil. That was not the position held by Valentinus and the Valentinians.

The Demiurge/Creator’s role was as the Architect of the universe to administer evolution. He was unaware of the Divine sparks laying dormant in the elements, and so with the statement “Let there be Light” he unwittingly began the awakening of the sparks. Obviously the “Light” referred to in Genesis is not daylight or sunlight as this statement is made before the creation of the sun and moon or stars. We think the “Light” in Genesis should be seen in terms of Electricity. When we switch on the light in a darkened room we reveal the contents. In other words through the senses we become aware of the contents of the room. Even a blind person uses his or her senses of touch, smell and hearing to determine their surroundings. Consequently, if we connect Light with the enlivening of the Life Principle encased within the elements, then the Big Bang can also be associated with this event. This instant can also be considered as the beginning of the objective plane and linear time.

This paragraph offers more analogies to seeing the events in Genesis from a scientific perspective. Earlier we said that there appeared a connection between the Gnostic Limit and the Veil that separated the Soul Plane from the Pleroma. If as we speculated Saturn is involved, then in his aspect as Father Time he could well have been involved in the advent of Linear time. Again take a little time to think about this. Could it be possible that Linear time was created?

It may also help to think of the Divine sparks, dormant within the elements in terms of the sparks that fly off from a bonfire. They have no volition of their own and are completely at the “mercy” of the wind. The bonfire would represent the Supreme Being, however, the sparks that fly off into the night become separated from it. Many New Age philosophers teach that each human being is Divine and therefore does not need any Divine help. In a way they are correct. Every member of the Human Race is born with the potential of awakening the Divine spark within him or her. But, and this is a big but, until they give up thinking of themselves as separate individuals with complete autonomy, they are like the single spark that flies off into the night, they will eventually cease to shine.

Because the sparks immersed in the elements came from above the Veil, they had the capacity to co-create. All they waited for was the development of the intellect, which occurred with the development of Homo Sapien Sapiens, which enabled the Life Principle to access Mind/Nous to make this a reality.

The last 2 paragraphs are self explanatory. The first refers back to the need for unity, as in the Orchestra or Body of Christ, and emphasizes the need for cooperation with the Divine. The second relates that the expansion of the Life Principle into the human consciousness resulted in the ability to co-create. This event will be discussed in Section 5, but first it is time for the 2nd Review.
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As it seems you like the bullets, we will again encapsulate the main points in Sections 3 and 4, before the questions. The questions will be from Sections 1 and 2, in order to help you build on the information about the Mystical Arts, which you will be incorporating into all subsequent Stages of the Initiative.

• The plan for the synthesis of Humanity is to unite Humanity’s “separate elements” or different beliefs into a
  “coherent whole” , or Truth.”
• We are all responsible for Evolution.
• We are able to remember stories easier than facts.
• Christ-like teachers often used stories to teach Spiritual lessons.
• The Conductor represents both the Macrocosm and the Microcosm.
• The Maestro or individual Spirit is God.
• Inner peace isn’t about being quiet.
• Disharmony occurs when you are not following your path.
• The Mystical Art of Archetypal images act as a trigger for the memories of your inner purpose.
• Metaphors for the Supreme Being can be misleading.
• The Key to The Mysteries is hidden in the English language.
• A Conductor is “in charge”, he or she doesn’t produce, own or create; whereas the Maestro does all three.
• The “right-hand” of God is a Spiritual Being, but not the Supreme Being.
• A deeper level to Numerology is Gematria.
• Gematria is a Kabbalistic method of concealing secret information by assigning additional meanings to Numbers.
• The 777,000 is the orchestra all playing in tune together.
• The Conductor is the Demiurge an ancient term for the Creator.
• The Creator wasn’t the Supreme Being, but can be seen as a son of God.
• The Divine is genderless.
• All parts of the Body (orchestra), Maestro, Conductor, musicians, instruments, and music are needed for the
  “symphony” or “plan of God”.
• Fear can be used to “breakdown” your old mental construct.
• Apparent “errors” in the Bible can still lead us to the Truth.
• Jesus’ life demonstrated that we are a spirit within a body.
• Free will is sacrosanct and can never be usurped.
• The Spirit is always looking for the opportunity to awaken us Spiritually.
• If an individual still has work to do on Earth then he or she will survive a life-threatening situation.
• Traditionally the Dark Night of the Soul occurred when someone began his or her Spiritual journey.
• The Dark Night of the Soul is a spiritual calling to awaken your true Self.
• God does not usurp freewill, but guides us gently by inspiration.
• The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945.
• The Gnostics believed that Christ entered the lower planes long before Jesus’ birth or baptism.
• Less than 150 years after Jesus left the Earth, his followers were anything but united.
• The Gnostics position was that “salvation” came through Knowledge.
• The Orthodox/Catholic church thought “salvation” came through Grace.
• Both the Gnostics and Church were partly right and partly wrong.
• Within the Gnostics were several sub-groups.
• Valentinus was almost elected Pope.
• Valentinus was taught by Theudas, a disciple of St. Paul.
• Like the Gnostics, the Kabbalists represented the Divine as different aspects.
• The Kabbalists called the Divine aspects the 10 Sephirot on the Tree of Life.
• The 10 Sephirot are not the same as either the Gnostic 22 emanations of the Pleroma, or the 8 members of the Ogdoad.
• The Kabbalists believed that above the Sephirot was the Ain Soph.
• Ain Soph or NO-THING represents the Supreme Non-reality.
• The Tao of Taoism can also be seen to represent NO-THING.
• Working in unison together the pairs of the Pleroma acted as a neutral or grounding that kept each of them
  in perfect balance.
• When Sophia left her “partner” What-has-been-Willed she became unstable.
• The Gnostic Limit has consciousness, acts like a protective force field, and surrounds the Supreme Being.
• The Limit can be in close proximity to the Supreme Father without being annihilated.
• Timelessness is depicted as a closed loop.
• The Ouroboros represents eternity or timelessness, and is the same as the Gnostic Limit.
• The Limit or “force field” that “surrounded” the Supreme Being opened to become Linear time.
• The planet Saturn is often referred to as the Limit.
• Saturn is the first Planetary Round in the Doctrine of Rounds and Root-Races.
• The planet Saturn represents the highest Sephirot Binah on the Severity pillar on the Tree of Life, above the Creative plane.
• Saturn represents the Color Black and the element lead.
• According to Greek Mythology Saturn or Chronos (time) was the father of Zeus
• The ancient inhabitants of the Middle East were said to worship the planet Saturn.
• Saturn is the 7th planet in the Seven Sacred Planets.
• The Jewish Sabbath is held on Saturday or Saturn’s Day?
• Anything other than Love cannot survive in the Divine plane.
• The Gnostic Pleroma can be seen allegorically as the genes that make up the DNA of an organism.
• Sophia was connected to “everyone” in the Pleroma.
• The Supreme Being emanated The Christ and The Holy Spirit.
• A Veil was set up to isolate the parts of Sophia that became contaminated.
• The Gnostic myth of the fall of Sophia did not happen in Linear time.
• The Holy Spirit is of the feminine vibration.
• Water is represented by The Hanged Man.
• Air is represented by The Fool.
• Fire is represented by Judgment.
• Water is Fear.
• Air is Grief.
• Fire is Ignorance.
• There is a change point at the level of courage.
• Around 40,000 B.C.E., during the 3rd Root-Race the sexes became divided.
• There are parallels between the worship of Jesus’ mother and the worship of Isis
• Osiris was an incarnation of The Christ, and Isis was an incarnation of Sophia.
• The goal of Evolution is to unite all opposites.
• The purpose of the creation of the Universe was to redeem Sophia’s lost parts/emotions.
• Sophia’s parts/emotions had to be transmuted both mentally and emotionally.
• The Christ joined Sophia on the other side of the Veil.
• The Christ and Sophia created an intermediary layer called the Soul Plane.
• The Soul Plane was “peopled” with Divine forces to administer The Christ and Sophia’s plan.
• The Christ epitomized Compassion and Sophia represented Wisdom.
• The structure of the Universe was of Love, Compassion and Wisdom.
• The Valentinians called the Creator/Demiurge Ialdaboath.
• Ialdaboath was a key part to the universes’ redemption.
• The astral body or 3rd principle is assigned to Nitrogen.
• Oxygen is assigned to the 2nd principle.
• Carbon corresponds to the lowest or 1st principle.
• Esotericism considered the 5th, 6th and 7th principles to be beyond this plane of existence.
• Gematria has existed from about the Tannaim period.
• Since the Fullness of Time the spiral system for the chakra system has been in effect.
• The Eastern 7 principles correspond to the 7 chakras.
• Sophia’s emotions became the 4 elements – Ignorance/Fire, Grief/Air, Fear/Water, and Confusion/Earth.
• Hydrogen represents the Number 1 and the 4th principle/heart chakra.
• Oxygen represents the Number 8 and Ahab, which translates to Love.
• Hydrogen is the most prolific element in the Universe.
• Hydrogen and Oxygen combine to create Water.
• The lowest or 1st principle corresponds to the element Carbon.
• Carbon is assigned to the Number 6.
• According to Genesis the Universe was created in 6 days.
• The Kingdom of God is Within the Heart.

Like the first Review it is important to use Deductive Reasoning. So to recap: To benefit the most from this bullet method used to determine how much you have retained, read each one to see if it sounds familiar and brings to mind additional information. If nothing comes to mind at first, don’t give up, but continue to read the bullet a few more times. If after several attempts nothing happens, go back and locate the bullet information then re-read the section. In developing your Deductive Reasoning  you will find that the information will surface quickly in your mind, but again this is early days so give yourself a break and use the adage; if at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.

Because the Mystical Arts are so important to deciphering The Mysteries, the 20 questions below are taken from the material in the “mini breakdown” we provided you with in Section 4a. Again, this is designed to help you use Deductive Reasoning, so try answering the questions without referring to the document, then like the bullets if after several attempts nothing happens, locate the relevant information in the document.

• What 2 Colors together result in the Color for Creative Imagination?
• Which Mother Letter represents the element Fire.
• What Color represents the Super or Christ-Consciousness?
• What Planet is the higher octave of Mercury?
• How many Tarot trumps/cards are allocated the Color Violet?
• Which Planet is represented by the Color Indigo?