Giving & Receiving Practice

The foundation of authentic spirituality and Self-realization is the generation of love and compassion. It is love and compassion that opens our eyes to the Sacred Unity underlying all creation and reveals our dynamic interdependence and interconnection with everyone and everything in our environment. In Sophian teachings Christos is called the Pattern-That-Connects and, thus, the nature of the Christos is love and compassion.

St. Paul addresses this eloquently when he writes: “If I speak in the tongues of mortals and angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.” He concludes: “Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we only know in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we shall see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)

Just as many people in modern spirituality and the new age movement seek after psychic and spiritual gifts, likewise some claim higher levels of consciousness, such as Cosmic Consciousness, or even Supernal Consciousness or Enlightenment, yet have not generated the Sacred Heart of Love and Compassion. While, indeed, such individuals may have glimpsed something of a higher consciousness, apart from love and compassion the higher state of consciousness glimpsed is not embodied or realized – for the Sacred Heart of Love and Compassion is the very nature of the Light-Presence and it is the essence of Enlightenment and Liberation. According to Gnostic Christianity, love and compassion are innate to the Soul of Light that is in us and in generating love and compassion we cultivate our true humanity.

The first step in the Sophian Way is the development of the Presence of Awareness, which is accomplished through such practices as Silent Witness and Primordial Meditation. Once the Light of Awareness is present, the second step is the generation of the Sacred Heart of Compassion. All intermediate and advanced spiritual practices in the Sophian Way are evolved from this foundation and are essentially seeking to refine the Light of Awareness and Sacred Heart in us.

What sets Gnostic Christianity apart from orthodox and fundamental forms of Christianity is the view that we do not merely believe in Yeshua Messiah, but that we are able to directly experience the Living Yeshua – specifically the Risen Christ. Likewise, Gnosticism teaches not only that Yeshua embodied the Christos, but that we are also meant to consciously work on ourselves and evolve to embody the Light-Presence; hence that it is our destiny to attain Christhood, just as Lord Yeshua did. Thus, Christian Gnosticism gives us powerful teachings and practices through which we are able to entertain a conscious evolution towards Christ Consciousness and acquire Gnosis of the Risen Christ in our own experience.

Giving & Receiving Practice is the central method through which Sophian Gnostics generate the Sacred Heart of Love and Compassion. It reflects Gnostic teachings on the Mystery of the Crucifixion, the essence of which is incorporated into Giving & Receiving Meditation.

According to the Kabbalah, we must receive something in order to give it, and in order to fully receive something we must share it with others. Thus, first we must receive the love and compassion of the Light-Presence within us, and in giving it to others we fully receive the blessing of the Sacred Heart. For this reason the practice of Giving & Receiving must begin with oneself and extend from oneself to others.

The primary intention of Giving & Receiving Meditation is the generation of the Sacred Heart of the Christos – Spiritual Love and Compassion - yet it is also a way of healing and a way of receiving and imparting blessings. Essentially, Giving & Receiving Meditation is designed to dispel any form of negativity or obstructing karma and to generate positive energy and beneficial karma in place of it. This naturally opens the way for healing, whether physical, psychic or spiritual, and for the reception of all manner of blessings both material and spiritual.

The basic skills developed in the practice of Silent Witness, Primordial Meditation and Giving & Receiving appear in every other form of spiritual practice taught in the Tradition, from practices of Union with Partzufim and Palace of Light Meditations to Transference of Consciousness Meditations. All begin with the Silent Witness or Primordial Meditation and all use the image of the Spiritual Sun and Radiant Holy Breath found in Giving & Receiving. Thus, knowledge and skill with these three practices provide the initiate with keys to all other spiritual practices in the Tradition. Giving & Receiving is thus among the Six Foundation Practices known to every Sophian Gnostic. (The other three are the Middle Pillar Meditation, which is often incorporated into Giving and Receiving Meditation, and two Sacred Rituals, one that establishes Sacred Space and the other that facilitates the Gnostic Eucharist.)

Before we can actually engage in Giving & Receiving, we must first be able to invoke love and compassion in ourselves to some degree, which means we must be able to open our heart. In practice this can prove to be much more difficult than we might think, as typically speaking our source of love and compassion is hidden from us, and because we are unfamiliar with it, it can be hard to access. Fortunately, there are many special ways to access the heart taught in Gnostic Christianity that can help us invoke our capacity for love and compassion. Here we will consider a few that are most direct.

Remembrance of Being Loved: Consider a time when you have felt loved and the person who loved you. Recreate and envision that situation in your mind in as detailed a way as possible – a love someone showed you that truly moved you. For many people this might be their mother or their father, a grandmother or grandfather, or anyone who showed us love and kindness. Sometimes, even an animal friend can be used. Other times some of us might be able to connect with Lord Yeshua or Lady Mary whose love brought us the Light-Transmission, or perhaps our Root Tzaddik (Spiritual Teacher.) Anyone who has brought forth love from within us, and with whom we experienced being loved, can be used.

Envisioning this and letting it fill your mind completely, allow the feeling of love to arise in your heart again and pervade you with thanksgiving and gratitude. When you do this your love will naturally flow to whomever or whatever evoked it. Your heart will open, and though you may not always feel that you have enough love or may have forgotten your capacity for compassion, you will remember your love and compassion, for it will be present with you. You will remember that you have been loved and are worthy of love, and that in your heart you are a loving person.

Let your heart open fully, and let your love flow out to all living spirits and souls. First, to those who are close to you, then to friends and acquaintances and neighbors, and then to strangers. If you are able, let your love flow even to those who you might think of as enemies…let the whole world rest in your heart, as though in a womb of Light and Love. Abide with this holy awareness as long as you can.

Others the Same as Oneself: The truth is that we all desire the same fundamental thing – we all want to be happy and to be free from suffering. We want to be prosperous, successful, healthy and happy, however we might express it. This is true of all living spirits and souls. Essentially, if we can remember our basic sameness as human beings – living beings – we can open our heart to others.

Bringing this to mind, see your own desire for prosperity, success, health and happiness, and see the desire of others the same as your own. Let your heart open and genuinely wish for the prosperity, success, health and happiness of yourself and others all together. This will naturally help you open up in your relationship with others and become more aware of both your own and others’ needs and desires. Just image a world in which people considered one another in this way – happiness would be on the rise and suffering diminished!

Exchanging Places: If you know of someone who is suffering but have no clue how you might help that person, put yourself without reservation in that person’s place. Imagine yourself as that person – having that person’s experience – as fully and vividly as you can. Look and see how you would feel, and all of the fears and grief and suffering that would arise. Be that person in your mind and open your heart completely to his or her experience.

Any time we exchange places with someone we are naturally shifting away from our habitual self-grasping, and opening our heart to the experience and needs of others. If we make a habit of such a practice we will find that more and more a powerful empathy and affinity with others will arise, and that our heart will naturally open to others in our daily lives. Quite frankly, we will find that we are healthier and happier in just doing this, and when we can engage in active compassion – rendering whatever help or support we can – we will discover a certain radiance of the Sacred Heart spontaneously coming from us.

Envisioning a Friend: Sometimes we find we can’t so easily put ourselves in the place of someone who is suffering that we are not all that close to. When this is the case all we need to do is imagine someone we love, a friend or loved one, in that situation. The natural result of this is that one’s heart will swiftly open and one will experience an outpouring of love and compassion.

Some may fear that doing this with a friend might cause their friend harm, as though a psychic assault. However, nothing could be further from the truth. In doing this the love and compassion one generates goes out to one’s friend or loved one, as well as to the actual person who is suffering and in need, and it generates positive energy and karma for one’s friend. Essentially, one is drawing one’s friend into the Light-Continuum and invoking a blessing upon him or her, for he or she has facilitated the Light-Transmission by way of his or her love.

Opening to Compassion: Every day presents opportunities to open our heart and to experience love and compassion. Perhaps we pass a street person, or see someone with a lonely or angry face, or we see someone who is physically or mentally or emotionally challenged, or we see an animal dead on the roadside. Perhaps we hear of the plight of peoples in other countries or people experiencing ill fortune or suffering while watching the news. In life we see many people who are suffering and in need, and every time we see such things represents an opportunity to open our heart. In the face of the immeasurable suffering in the world, do not allow the opportunity for love and the sorrow it invokes to slip by you, but let the suffering and sorrow give birth to love and compassion in you. Then the great sorrow and suffering is not without purpose and meaning, but facilitates the manifestation of the Christ Presence within oneself and others. Let life itself invoke love and compassion.

In these ways we can open our heart and remember our capacity for love and compassion. Undoubtedly one can find many others ways as well. The point is very simple: in any way you can, access the love and compassion that is innate to you as a human being. This will bring you more satisfaction and happiness, and it will empower your Giving & Receiving Meditation.

Extending the Light of the Cross (Love & Compassion)

In the process of generating spiritual love and compassion we are not alone. Though every person must work out his or her own salvation (enlightenment and liberation), taking sanctuary in the Living Yeshua, the Gospel of Truth and the Mystical Body of the Anointed (the Sacred Circle), we receive blessings and grace from the Risen Christ. Likewise, we receive blessings and grace from the Holy Mother and Bride, and from all of the Apostles of Light who have gone before us. In truth there is a Great Luminous Assembly of Tzaddikim and Maggidim (Holy Ones and Angels, and all manner of Divine Beings) ready and willing to help us in the Great Work. Thus, we are not alone in any part of our divine labor, for the Divine Grace of the Holy Shekinah and the Luminous Assembly is ever present to empower us in the Work. We need only invoke the Shekinah and the Tzaddikim and Maggidim to receive Divine Assistance.

When we perform the Kabbalistic Cross, the intersection of the Cross of Light is in our Heart Center – the Sacred Heart. This Cross represents the Union of Logos and Sophia, Faith and Gnosis, and Love and Compassion; our Spiritual Love and Compassion being the power of the Light of the Cross. When we have generated the Sacred Heart and wish to extend the force of our love and compassion to other living souls, we can pray to the Holy Mother, Lord Yeshua, Lady Mary, and all of the Tzaddikim and Maggidim to help us do so. We merely need to invoke them and pray from the depths of our being that everything we think, feel, envision, speak and enact might serve to extend the Light-Presence in the world and be a blessing upon all living spirits and souls. As my beloved Tzaddik, Tau Elijah, said, “Empower me, O holy ones, to accomplish the Great Work and to bring Divine Illumination to all beings.” Pray that you might walk in beauty and holiness and be a blessing to all beings who come into contact with you and that you might be empowered to help uplift them into the Light-Continuum.

Any time you engage in spiritual practice or any good work, make a habit of consciously dedicating your activity as a blessing upon all beings. Always pray that the Light of the Cross is extended to all living spirits and souls, and that the blessings and grace of the Anointed might pour forth on all living beings. If one meditates deeply on spiritual love and compassion and recognizes the wisdom of compassion, one will realize that the only way to become fully empowered to help others is to embody the Light-Presence fully and, thus, to enter into Supernal or Messianic Consciousness. For, in truth, one’s own Enlightenment and Liberation is the greatest blessing one can offer to other beings and in this state of Self-realization one is empowered to be of the greatest help possible. Thus, compassion is the Divine Passion for complete Enlightenment and Liberation.

The Beginning of Giving & Receiving

When you wish to practice Giving & Receiving sit in a comfortable position and perform the Kabbalistic Cross, invoking the Light-Presence. Then settle in and abide in Primordial Meditation. The method of following one’s breath into the gap is best for the purposes of Giving & Receiving (See Primordial Meditation under “Foundation Practices”.) The Sophian teachings say that one becomes Spirit-filled when one is empty of oneself and completely open and sensitive to the Light-Presence. This is the esoteric meaning of the First Beatitude: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Gospel of Matthew 5:3.) It is from this state of emptiness, which becomes Spirit-filled, that we perform Giving & Receiving Meditation.

Giving & Receiving in the Environment: This method of Giving & Receiving focuses upon the atmosphere of one’s own consciousness and one’s immediate environment. As we are all aware, our moods and state of mind have a very powerful influence upon us. The ordinary person is essentially bound by whatever moods and mental states arise. According to our mood and state of mind we influence our environment and, in that we are part of the environment of other beings, our moods and mental states influence others. Thus, transforming our own moods and mental states, and uplifting our own consciousness, liberates us from the downward pull of negativity and helps uplift others in our environment as well.

Sit with your mind, heart and body, and let yourself tune in to how the body feels, your mood, thoughts and emotions – the general atmosphere of your consciousness. Envision the Spiritual Sun in your heart and shift your focus to this Light-Center. If you feel uneasy, or notice any form of tension or stress, or any negativity or darkness however subtle it might be, imagine that your breath is linked to the Spiritual Sun and that your breath becomes Light. When you inhale, breathe in whatever darkness or negativity is present and breathe out Light into your body-mind. Envision the negativity and darkness instantly transforming into Light by the Spiritual Sun in the center of your being. Breathing out, envision your whole body-mind becoming filled with Light. It is as though your whole body and consciousness-being becomes the Light-Presence of the Spiritual Sun in the material dimension.

When your body and consciousness-being have become the Spiritual Sun, envision the Light extending into your immediate environment, shining upon everything around you and transforming the environment into Light. Envision the environment as though it is a Palace of Light and yourself as the Light-Presence in the center of it.

Once you have transformed yourself into the Light-Presence and your immediate environment into an Abode of Light, you can conclude the meditation with a prayer to extend the Light and the Kabbalistic Cross. Alternatively you could abide envisioning the whole world, and everyone and everything in it, transformed into a Great Palace of Light, and then close the practice with prayer and the Kabbalistic Cross.

Giving & Receiving with Oneself: In this method one envisions the Spiritual Sun in the heart and oneself instantly transformed into the Light-Presence. Then one envisions a shadow image of oneself magically appearing before oneself. The Light Self is the aspect of yourself that is whole and complete, warm, loving, understanding and Spirit-filled – a Living Presence and Power of Light that is a good friend, willing to be there for you without judgment, regardless of whatever your faults or shortcomings might be. The shadow self is that aspect of yourself that feels wounded or hurt, rejected, unworthy, misunderstood, betrayed, frustrated, grief filled, resentful, angry or bound to all kinds of negativity.

When the Light Self and shadow self are present in your visualization, as the Light-Self, open your heart to the shadowy image of yourself, and smile upon the shadow self with love and kindness. Breathe in the negativity and darkness of the shadow self and breathe out Light and Love upon it. Envision the darkness as reddish brown sooty smoke or black inky smoke, and as you breathe it into the Spiritual Sun see it transformed into Fiery-Light. Drawing off the negativity and darkness, and breathing Light into the shadow self, envision the shadow self gradually transforming into a Light Self, until it shines as brightly as you. Then envision these two Light Selves breathing Light upon one another, so that there is Light upon Light, filling the whole environment. Once the surrounding environment is transformed into a Palace of Light, embrace this other aspect of yourself, envisioning it merging into you so that you form One Light-Presence, whole and complete. When the meditation is complete, pray that the Light of the Cross is extended to all beings and perform the Kabbalistic Cross.

This is a powerful method for physical, psychic and spiritual self-healing, and it is a central practice for self-purification corresponding to the esoteric meaning of baptism. Because our Inmost Being is the Light-Presence, any time we remove the veils and husks obstructing it, the Light naturally and spontaneously shines from within us. Enlightenment is a present truth we recognize and realize – it is the state of our True Being that we need only to remember. Thus, purified of forgetfulness, negativity and darkness, the Light-Presence shines from within us. As Lord Yeshua said, “You are the Light of the world.”

Giving & Receiving in an Actual Life Situation: In this method bring to mind a situation in which you have behaved poorly and that is a cause of grief to you – one that merely thinking about might make you feel quite badly. Envision the situation completely, exactly what you said or did, and the harm it brought to others and the darkness it released into the world. Feel it deeply and let it penetrate your heart.

Then, envision the Spiritual Sun in your heart, and as you breathe in accept full responsibility for what you have done in that specific situation, without any attempt to justify or minimize your actions or words, or dodging responsibility in any way. Look and see exactly what you have done and the harm it has caused, and from the depths of your being ask for forgiveness. Breathing in receive forgiveness, and breathing out give forgiveness and reconciliation – pray those who might have been harmed are healed and blessed, and that understanding might uplift one and all.

Essentially, you breathe in responsibility and blame, and you breathe out blessing, healing and the undoing of injury. As you do this, envision yourself filled with the Light-Presence, as though the Spiritual Sun expands to pervade your whole body, and envision everyone involved filled with Light and restored to wholeness of being.

Much of the time we avoid taking responsibility for the wrongs we have done to others and the harm we have inflicted. “I was doing my best,” or some such thing we will say, but this does not heal us or dissolve the negative karma, nor does it put an end to the inner conflict that holds us in bondage. We have to acknowledge and accept responsibility for our behavior in order to really let go of it and to receive forgiveness and be free of it. This practice is very powerful and may actually give us the strength to seek out individuals we have wronged or harmed and ask forgiveness from them directly. This relates directly to the esoteric meaning of “confession” – a bringing into the Light of all shadows and shades hidden within us. It has nothing to do with a spiritual mediator, such as a priest, forgiving us in the “name of god,” but rather it is about our ability to forgive ourselves and restore our Spirit-connectedness. If we are unwilling or unable to do this we will find our progress towards actual Self-realization sorely limited – for how can we support other beings’ reintegration to the Light-Continuum if we do not reintegrate the whole of ourselves? As the saying goes, “Physician, heal yourself” – “Savior, save yourself.”

Giving & Receiving for Others: Begin as you did in the method for oneself, but in place of the shadow image of yourself, envision someone you know who is suffering and in pain. Envision the Spiritual Sun in your heart and your whole body filled with the Light-Presence. As you breathe in, breathe in the suffering and pain of this person, and all of the negativity and darkness that plagues him or her, seeing it transformed by the Spiritual Sun into Light. As you breathe out, breathe out Light upon this person. Entertaining the Radiant Holy Breath, just as in Giving and Receiving with Oneself, gradually envision the person growing more and more self-luminous, until they shine with brilliant Light.

When the person is healed and made whole and filled with Light in your visualization, be confident that he or she is healthy and happy, completely liberated from the cause of suffering and pain, and envision the person exchanging Light with you, so that there is Light upon Light and the whole environment is filled with Light. Then see the person go his or her own way in the company of Luminous Beings, and close your practice with the extension of the Light of the Cross and perform the Kabbalistic Cross.

Through this practice many people have been liberated from bondage to unwholesome spiritual forces and ill fortune, and many have been healed physically, psychically and spiritually. Some have even experienced Divine Illumination.

The very essence of Giving & Receiving is represented in the Mystery Drama of the Gospel by the Crucifixion: It is the heartfelt wish to take the suffering and sorrow of others upon oneself, and to give others one’s own delight and joy, Light and Life; hence to exchange one’s happiness for the sorrow and suffering of others. In the Gospel of John (15:12-13), Lord Yeshua speaks of this when he says, “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” Understanding that friends, strangers and enemies are one and the same in the Christ Presence, and that all beings are our relations and all beings are our friends in Christ, this is the aim of our love and compassion for all beings.

When the practitioner has become familiar with this essential method of Giving & Receiving for Others, he or she will be prepared to practice the Complete Method of Giving & Receiving.

The Complete Giving & Receiving Meditation: Through the Divine Power of the Sacred Heart, we take on the sorrow and suffering of all beings – their negativity and darkness, fear, grief, frustration, anger, guilt, doubt, bitterness, rage, hatred and the like, and we give them all of our good and happiness, our light and love, healing power, well-being, peace of mind and fulfillment in the Light-Presence. Essentially, we make ourselves a Holy Sanctuary for others, and a vehicle through which others might be uplifted into the Light-Continuum.

Begin the practice by performing the Kabbalistic Cross and abiding in Primordial Meditation. Let yourself become empty, so that you might be Spirit-filled. When you feel clear and conscious in the Spirit, perform the Middle Pillar Meditation*. Once the Middle Pillar is in place, invoke the Holy Mother, Lord Yeshua and Lady Mary, and the Luminous Assembly of Tzaddikim and Maggidim, and open your mind and heart fully to their Divine Presence. Feel the Holy Ones filling you with love and compassion and empowering the Light-Presence and Sacred Heart in you – as though you become their Living Presence and Power in the material dimension.

*(In place of the Middle Pillar an initiate may perform a Meditation of Mystical Union with an appropriate Partzuf, such as Mother Sophia, the Risen Christ or Holy Bride, and perform Giving & Receiving as that Holy Being.)

Gather all the Light of the Five Centers into your Heart Center, continuing to see the Body of Light and Sphere of Light around you. (If you have merged yourself with the Divine Image of a Partzuf, then envision the Sun in the Heart Center of the image of yourself as the Partzuf.) Then bring to mind a person you know who is suffering and imagine that person magically appearing in the space before you. Let your heart and mind open to this person, and imagine this person’s sorrow and suffering as fully as you can in complete detail. Envision that the person’s suffering and pain gathers together as a great mass of reddish brown or black smoke-like substance at his or her Heart Center, or, in the case of physical disease, at the place of the disease in the body. (Before performing this part of Giving & Receiving, Divine Names may be chanted and Archangels may be invoked corresponding to the need of the person for whom you are performing the practice.)

Now, when you breathe into the Spiritual Sun in your heart, envision the mass of smoke-like substance dissolves, seeing the negativity and darkness liberated and transformed into Fiery-Light. As you breathe out, envision Light pouring out to the person from the Spiritual Sun in your heart. When you breathe in and take the person’s negativity and darkness into your heart, it is as though any remaining self-grasping in you is dissolved, along with the person’s negative karma, so that you and this person fully become the Christ Presence in this process and are both uplifted fully into the Light-Continuum. Continue this Radiant Holy Breath until you both shine equally with brilliant Light – envision the person healed of all dis-ease and liberated from all darkness, completely illuminated by the Light-Presence.

Contemplate the liberation of yourself and the person you are practicing for into the Christ Presence within the Light-Continuum; and contemplate the complete dissolution of your own self-grasping, and the unity of the Soul of Light and Christos in you with the Holy Soul and Christos of the person you are practicing for – aware of your complete interconnectedness and interdependence. Within the Radiant Holy Breath become aware of your unity with all that lives and your innate unity with the Christos. Let your soul be the Soul of Christ, your mind be the Mind of Christ, your heart be the Sacred Heart of Christ and your body be the Mystical Body of Christ. In this state of mystical union, listen and hear the invocation of blessing the Anointed One speaks for this person and let it be spoken through you. When this union transpires, envision the Fiery-Light transformed into brilliant Clear Light, a diamond-like Light sparkling with rainbow colors, and it is this Supernal Light that pours out to the person for whom you are practicing as you speak the Living Word. Envision this person also transformed in this way, so that he or she also shines with the Supernal Glory. See this person completely free of all sorrow and suffering, fully established in the Supernal Light-Presence.

Now, envision the person going his or her way in the company of Holy Ones. As he or she departs, envision yourself ascending upward, as though flying upward into the air to a point where you can see the whole earth. Envision yourself becoming a Great Light-Presence shining upon the earth and all who dwell in it. Imagine the negativity and darkness of the whole world gathered up into a great mass of smoke-like substance, just the same as when you worked with the person in need. As when you performed Giving & Receiving for the person, so now perform it for the world. Breathe into the Spiritual Sun all negativity and darkness of the world, and breathe out Light and Love upon the world – envisioning the whole world becoming as the World of Supernal Light: the Mystical Body of the Christos.

Then, envision that the world dissolves into fluid flowing Light and pours into your Sacred Heart, re-manifesting there as though the whole earth is in your heart, the Sacred Heart of Christ. Abide with this holy awareness as long as you can. When the heart moves or the mind is distracted, return them to their place, and when you are finished, close with a prayer to extend the Light of the Cross into all realms, worlds and universes and perform the Kabbalistic Cross. This concludes the Complete Method of Giving & Receiving.

There are variations of the Complete Giving & Receiving Practice that correspond to the different Partzufim Meditations and, likewise, there are extensions of this practice corresponding to inner and secret teachings given to adept initiates in the Tradition. However, all forms follow the same basic formula. Before extending the practice directly to strangers and to those one might consider “enemies” it is best to practice for loved ones and friends, in the same way it is best to practice for oneself alone before extending one’s practice to others. Always one must begin where one is and build one’s continuum of spiritual practice from that foundation. Of this practice my beloved Tzaddik said, “If an aspirant performed only Giving & Receiving Meditation and its Foundation (Primordial Meditation and Middle Pillar), he or she might well acquire full Gnosis of Yeshua Messiah and experience Divine Rapture when departing this world.” His words reveal the great power of this spiritual practice, for it is said to hold the very essence of the Gospel of Truth (Amet).

There are many different levels of teachings imparted in association with the Giving & Receiving Meditation, and there is also an Initiation that corresponds to the practice which is an Empowerment for the practice. Here one has the base teachings and instructions, and receiving these one has the blessing of the Apostles of Light to actively engage in the practice.

We pray Mother Sophia gives birth to the Sacred Heart of Christ in you and that you might be empowered to drink deeply from the Grail of Gnosis!

May the Light of the Great Seth be extended unto all beings! Amen.