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Ascension & Revelation: Agitation of the Heavens and Earth

According to Pistis Sophia the Risen Christ continued appearing to the disciples for eleven years to teach and initiate them into the mysteries of the inner and secret gospel, and passing into the twelfth year the disciples were gathered with Yeshua Messiah on the Mount of Olives when Adonai Yeshua became radiant with the glory of light and was taken up in ascension into the heavens. After about thirty hours the Risen Messiah appeared to them again with an even greater glory of brilliant light, so intense that Yeshua Messiah had to draw the emanations of the light into himself, restricting the light-power so that disciples could abide in his presence. During the time of the ascension, and at the time of his return and revelation, according to the gospel the heavens and the earth were agitated, along with his disciples.

The gospel says:

It came to pass then, when the light-power descended upon Yeshua, that it gradually surrounded him completely, Then Yeshua ascended or rose into the height, shining most exceedingly in an immeasurable light. The disciples gazed and witnessed his ascension, and none of them spoke until he had passed into the heavens; they all kept in deep silence. This came to pass on the fifteenth day of the moon, on the day when it is full in the month of Tybi.

And it came to pass, when Yeshua had reached the heavens, after three hours, that all the powers of the heavens were thrown into agitation, and all were set into motion, one against the other, they and all their aeons and all their dominions and all their orders, and the entire earth was agitated, and all who dwell therein.

And all of the powers in the heavens did not cease from their agitation, they and the entire world, and all were moved, one against the other, from the third hour of the fifteenth day of the moon of Tybi to the ninth hour of the following day. And all of the angels and their archangels, and all of the divine powers of the height, sang praises to the Interior of the interiors, so that the whole world heard their voices, and they did not cease their songs of praise until the ninth hour of the following day.

The disciples sat together in fear in an incredibly great agitation and were afraid because of the great earthquake that took place, and they wept together, saying, “What will come to pass? Will it be that the Savior will destroy all regions, the whole of creation?” Saying this, they wept together (Pistis Sophia, chapters three and four).

As the tale goes, an even greater fear and agitation came over the disciples when the Risen Messiah returned and appeared in full glory and power, and on account of their fear and trembling, and the deep troubling of their soul, Hayyah Yeshua has compassion upon them, withdrawing the greater glory of his supernal light-power into himself, restricting the glory of the supernal illumination.

According to the gospel, in the pleroma of light, the supernal abode, the angels, archangels and emanations of God, the True Light, rejoiced and sang praises, but in all of the dominions of the entirety, throughout all creation, there was a great tumult and agitation, and even the close disciples of the Master were afraid and agitated at a time when we might assume that they, too, might rejoice in the presence of God, the True Light, and worship God in spirit and truth. This, of course, speaks to initial experiences of supernal influx and initial experiences of light transmission – in the world and in ourselves we find very deep and powerful vital resistances to the supernal light, and on the level of the physical, vital, and mental being, we can experience fear and agitation, and significant recoils from the holy light.

Essentially, whenever there is a greater influx of this holy light in the world there is also an influx of great shadows, and with the initial influx of supernal light into an individual something similar occurs, klippot, husks of darkness, in the physical, vital and mental being are exposed and must be integrated – the klippot must be dispelled and the sparks reintegrated into the light-presence and light-power.

Whether in the world, the collective, or in the individual, there is a process of integration, development and evolution, during any influx of the supernal light, and therefore, surrounding any influx of the supernal light, the supernal consciousness-force, there is most often something of a tumult at the outset.

This is reflected in the canonical gospels by the story of Yeshua receiving the influx of the supernal light or spirit during baptism, and his need to go out into the wilderness of the desert to integrate the light-presence and light-power, where he was “tempted by Satan,” confronting all of the shades and shadows within himself, liberating the holy sparks bound up in the klippot. It is also reflected by the story of an early experience of light transmission among close disciples of the Master, the story of the transfiguration, when the disciples present become fearful and fall unconscious during the revelation of the light-presence and light-power in Adonai Yeshua on the mountain.

If we wish to understand something of this agitation we may look into some of our own initial experiences of light transmission. In those moments we are usually taken by surprise, and all of a sudden we look and see a tzaddik or apostle radiant with light or glory, and may experience the entire environment radiant with light or glory, including our own body. As this experience unfolds there is a very distinct energy and vibration that begins to move through our body, and as it continues to unfold it is as though our body becomes mostly space filled with vibrating particles of light or energy, and there can be a feeling as though we are going to vanish or disappear, and as though all reality is passing into cessation. This can be a very blissful experience, and we may experience a profound peace if we have purified ourselves and prepared ourselves – it can be illuminating and empowering; but very often, at first, we are not prepared, we are not surrendered on all levels of our being, and consequently fear and agitation may arise, especially on the level of the physical and vital being.

Generally speaking, during initial experiences with of the light transmission we are complete identified with name and form, personal history, and the egoistic self generated by it; when this is the case, grasping at name and form, and our old worldview, this experience becomes very unsettling, and we tend to fear that we are dying – this will cause us, in one way or another, to break off from the experience or block it before it comes full cycle, whether, for example, by averting gaze, an emotional outburst, or falling unconscious, overwhelmed by the intensity of the glory and power.

On occasion, this is not the case – when individuals have entertained a sacred friendship for a prolonged period of time, and they have engaged in the spiritual life and practice for some time, fully immersing themselves in it and refining their active and dynamic surrender, the experience may very well be very joyful, incredibly blissful; in most cases, though, at the outset, we are not truly prepared for this direct experience of the truth and light, and therefore it is troubling, deeply disturbing.

Interestingly enough, the fear that we are dying is not unfounded – we are undergoing a mystical death, a radical transformation, and in our soul we are recognizing an experience very similar, if not the same, as at the time of death when we pass fully into spirit and the spiritual world. Yet, if this experience is allowed to proceed full cycle, various gradations of light transmission may unfold, and in fruition an experience of full supernal influx can occur, along with the full recognition of the clear light essence.

In the inmost gradation of this light transmission, the tzaddik and disciple, and the entirety, do, in fact, “disappear” – there is only the Holy One of Being, this Supernal Light-presence (Christ) and Light-power (Holy Spirit). Reappearing, this light-presence and light-power takes up our person and life, and there is a radical transformation in consciousness – and this light-presence and light-power labors in us for the reintegration of our whole being, on every level, into Itself. It even labors towards the transformation of our physical being into the image and likeness of Itself, this fiery light, or spiritual nuclear fire, of Supernal Being.

In any instant of light transmission this holy light rays out into the entire physical world, as well as into worlds within metaphysical dimensions; when there is a full influx of supernal light, this raying out is even greater and more intense, so that the influence and affects of such moments in space-time are not isolate to those immediately present in the experience, but it extends far beyond them – both in terms of the light invoked, and the play of the shadows that oppose the holy light.

The play of light transmission that begins between a holy tzaddik, whether a living tzaddik in the world or a tzaddik in the inner dimensions, often comes to its fruition some time later, appearing as a direct movement of the Holy Spirit, Divine Grace, and yet, as we know and understand in our experience of the light continuum, in every instant of light transmission all moments of it are present, all of the experiences of light transmission we have had, are having, or will have, are, in effect, the same instant, for the continuum of light transmission transcends space-time, though manifesting within space-time.

The story of the ascension and revelation of the Risen Messiah on the Mount of Olives represents the first full influx and embodiment of the supernal light in this world, and yet, according to the gospel, this supernal light-presence and light-power had labored in secret for its revelation and manifestation, communicating something of itself through holy ones of the past, such as Abraham and Sarah, David, Solomon, Isaiah, to name just a few. Although this light-presence and light-power, Christ and the Holy Spirit, appears as Adonai Yeshua, and he appears to be the center of this divine action, according to the gospel this light-presence and light-power, this supernal influx, manifests through a matrix of souls, a matrix of individuals, Yeshua, Magdalene, and the entire circle of companions. Generally speaking, the supernal influx is not, and cannot be, centered upon one individual alone, but rather a matrix of individuals forms a holy vessel or vehicle for the supernal influx, although, indeed, individuals in that matrix may embody the supernal light to varying degrees, and in the midst there may be a holy one who embodies the full spectrum of the supernal light.

Here we may speak an open secret regarding those who gather around a holy tzaddik or apostle who embodies this holy light and who form a sacred circle or matrix with them – when there is a true heart connection, and the sacred friendship is ordained by the Shekinah of the Supreme (El Elyon), even before their realization they are light-bearers who have come to form a matrix for the reception and transmission of influxes, and at the level of the body of glory and body of emanation, in effect, they are inseparable from the holy tzaddik.

The gospel teaches us this when the Savior says to his disciples that he has put the power of one of the twelve saviors in each disciple, and speaks of orchestrating an entire matrix of souls for the revelation of the Human One of Light, the Messiah.

Anytime, anywhere, one person experiences the full breakthrough into supernal consciousness, and brings in, holds and anchors this holy light, something of this supernal influx occurs in an entire matrix of souls – at the time they might know one another, but many in the matrix might come to know one another sometime later.

Since the time of the first supernal influx, the first coming of Christ, are times of greater supernal influxes, when several individuals at various points in the world or entirety experience the full supernal breakthrough, and so several matrixes come into being simultaneously. According to the gospel, this can occur through a theurgic action by an apostle of light who embodies this living presence and power, or it can occur naturally and spontaneously during auspicious times when celestial and divine powers align according to the law, the sphere of fate.

This is reflected in the Pistis Sophia, for it teaches us that the threefold light-body of the Holy Apostle contains the entirety and pleroma, and that the Holy Apostle, the Risen Messiah, causes a shift in the movement of the celestial spheres and sphere of fate (the karmic matrix), causing them to turn to the left or to the right, towards judgment or mercy, contraction or expansion, thus facilitating the enlightenment and liberation of souls. On one hand, this implies times when influxes of supernal light may occur under the law, according to the sphere of fate, and implies times when influxes occur through conscious invocation or through an action of divine theurgy.

How this transpires, whether a natural event in the flow and ebb of spiritual powers, or as the result of a theurgic action, is revealed by a study of the Tree of Life in the Holy Kabbalah. At the level of Atzilut, the Supernal World, the Holy Sefirot or Divine Emanations are Names of God and Partzufim (personifications), at the level of Beriyah they are archangels and great cosmic powers, at the level of Yetzirah they are orders of angels and spirits, and at the level of Asiyah they are the celestial spheres. When there is an auspicious alignment of the celestial spheres, and the divine powers within and behind them, naturally and spontaneously supernal influxes can and do occur since the supernal light has been embodied. Likewise, if and when, through prayer, meditation and sacred ceremony, there is a theurgic action bringing about an alignment of the powers, supernal influxes also occur, more or less.

The threefold body of the Risen Messiah, and of all holy apostles of the light, spans these Olamot and is composed of the Sefirot in these various expressions – Names, archangels, angels and celestial powers.

Very often these two movements of which we are speaking, the natural movement under the law and the theurgic movement, may coincide, for when a holy tzaddik or apostle perceives a natural movement, or auspicious conditions, most often they will take up a theurgic movement to amplify and facilitate the spiritual movement underway.

In the sanctuary of grace formed by the Risen Messiah, however, we are no longer bound to the sphere of fate or the law, and therefore, through Divine Grace, the Holy Spirit or Light-power in us, we are empowered to invoke supernal influxes, more or less, depending upon the strength of our faith and gradation of gnosis (realization).

The capacity of a holy tzaddik or apostle to take up such theurgic actions, and the extent of the manifestation of the full light-presence and light-power in them, is dependent upon the quality of their retinue or circle of companions, for the full spectrum and transmission of the holy light is dependent upon a matrix of souls to receive and transmit the influxes of supernal light and divine powers in the world – in effect, the tzaddik and their companions are one body of light, one body of emanation and glory; the fuller and more complete the holy body, the greater the divine action of the light-presence and light-power moving with, in and through it, and manifesting as it.

This is reflected by the need of the Perfect Tzaddik, Master Yeshua, to restrain the full glory and power of the holy light, and restricting it on account of the fear and agitation it caused in his companions. Of course, his sacred circle was composed of souls of lofty grades and was an auspicious retinue, which reveals to us the immeasurable vastness and intensity of this light-presence and power, and how great a resistance to this holy light there is in these bodies and this world.

From the time of the fist coming of Christ to the time of the second coming of Christ, in effect, we labor for a much greater and larger matrix of souls for the generation and reception of supernal influxes and realization – we labor for a greater matrix composed of many matrixes; and in this play, natural and spontaneous influxes of the supernal light are occurring with greater frequency, whether we are ready for the acceleration and transformation of consciousness or not, or whether or not there are matrixes to receive it. Thus we labor to form fit vessels as the time of the Great Revelation draws near, the End-of-Days.

Here we may say that though vessels are formed, whether an individual or group, some are likely to fracture or shatter, as the Kabbalah teaches us, and as supernal influxes continue there is a need for the tikkune of vessels, their refinement, development and evolution – to act as a vessel or matrix of the supernal light-presence (Christ) and light-power (Holy Spirit) is an ongoing process and labor throughout our journey in this life and world, and beyond.

The key, of course, is self-purification, letting go of self-grasping, attachment and aversion, to become transparent to the holy light, a clear and conscious channel of the light-presence and light-power, reintegrated with the Light Continuum (Yahweh).

If and when there is trepidation or agitation, inwardly or outwardly, we seek to bring peace, we seek to accomplish the necessary tikkune.

Here we can speak of key practices to prepare ourselves for moments of light transmission, as well as for the invocation of supernal influxes – they are practices of union with partzufim and transference of consciousness as taught in the tradition, the actual cultivation of spiritual self-worth coupled with spiritual humility; that and the full development of sacred friendship and sacred circle, which is the vehicle of the light transmission here in this world.

There is much more that can be said regarding all of this, but for one time, no doubt, what has been shared so far is enough – more can be shared as the discussion unfolds.

Becoming agitated, may we find peace – may we realize perfect devekut with the Risen Messiah. Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

malochim · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

I'm really excited after reading this post. This agitation must be what is described in the second saying in the gospel of st. Thomas

"Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"

How does the Light-presence (Christ), Light-power (Holy spirit) and Light Continuum (Father) relate/correspond to each other and how do they fit into the process of the creation of the Olamot and the Light transmission and influx of supernal light?

Blessings and Shalom!
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”Only love has meaning, it raises the smallest action into infinity.” , Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska

Tau Malachi

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

Yes, indeed, this agitation is indicated by the second saying of the Gospel of St. Thomas and as we read the gospel we find Christ spoken of as light – in saying seventy-seven Yeshua says, for example, “I am the light above all things. I am all. From me all has come forth, and to me all has reached. Split a piece of wood. I am there. Lift up a stone and you will find me there.”

In this saying we find an open secret – the Holy Light that is “above” is everywhere “below,” it is the center of every particle of matter, the nature and substance of which is the same as the stars; and so we speak of Christ as the “Spiritual Sun,” the “Sun of God,” understanding Logos and Sophia in union as the Christos.

One physicist has spoken of matter as “frozen light,” and as we know matter is created by the death of stars – their dying is the life of the physical universe, their light sustaining all. If we contemplate the Divine Incarnation, and we consider the play of the resurrection and ascension, in the generation of the body of the resurrection it is as though light is thawed, as though the light bound up in matter is released, the matter composing the body being translated into pure light, pure energy, pure spirit; and so, even in the canonical gospels we read about a very different body and appearance in the resurrection, and in the Book of Acts we read of a divine rapture, the Sun of God dissolving into pure light.

The term “light” in the teachings is not metaphorical but is literal, and it is a direct expression of our actual experience – this Light from above, the Light of the Spiritual Sun, activates and brings forth the Light from below, from within us, and naturally as the Light-power in us is activated and brought forth, at the outset it is troubling, agitating, and yet in fruition is it liberating, so that we rule over all, we transcend the entirety.

In this regard we may consider the caterpillar that fashions a cocoon around itself and that transforms into a butterfly – a fuzzy earthbound creature becomes an incredibly beautiful airborne creature with wings, rather like a flying flower! No doubt, in the midst of such a transformation there must be agitation as one form dissolves and another form comes into being; and if we doubt the resurrection and ascension, we may merely consider such mysteries found in nature – nature herself reveals the possibility of radical transformation and evolution.

What we are talking about is a radical transformation, a radical leap in evolution.

This, of course, speaks from our perspective, but from the perspective of the Light Continuum (Yahweh) nothing changes – everything was light, is light and will be light, and though apparently emanating from the Light Continuum, everything emanating from it remains in it, all remains in the Light Continuum, though emanating from it.

This is the Living Father, this is the Holy Mother, and the essence and nature of this Holy Light is transparent or clear – it is Clear Light, “diamond-like brilliance.”

The Sun of God, the Human One of Light, is the emanation of this – the Light-presence, and the Holy Spirit is the active force of this, the Light-power; the Light Transmission is the manifestation and revelation of this Divine Presence and Power (Shekinah) raying out to actualize and realize Itself, to activate and awaken Itself. If and when this Light-presence and Light-power is awakened in us and embodied in us, naturally and spontaneously It rays out to activate or awaken Itself in others; in whomever the conditions necessary for this awakening are present, to whomever is receptive, open and sensitive to this Holy Light, the Light-presence rays out transmitting Itself, that raying out being the manifestation of the Light-power.

It is like fire igniting things on fire, releasing the energy contained in them – an so in the Gospel of St. Thomas we read that Hayyah Yeshua has “set the world on fire,” and that he is “tending it until it is ablaze!”

Indeed! This exactly describes the Light Transmission, and as it is written in the Holy Scripture, the Lord, Yahweh, is a “fire consuming fire, making all like unto itself.”

When we receive the Holy Light from above, and this Light-presence and Light-power becomes self-generating in us, this Holy Light takes up our person and life, and it begins to transform every level of our being, every level of our consciousness or soul, into the image and likeness of Itself; it begins to reintegrate all aspects of us into Itself, bringing forth Itself from within us – it even has the power to transform the very substance of matter, releasing the light-power or energy bound up in it.

The idea of the demiurge and archons “stealing the light-power” of Pistis Sophia in this ancient gospel proves very interesting, for science has proved that, in fact, light or energy is bound up in matter, as matter – the material body and world is a great klippah, husk, that binds light, sparks. Our ancient brothers and sisters were very perceptive – way ahead of modern science!

As yet, science does not know or understand where evolution is going, but in various wisdom traditions around the world, for thousands of years mystics have known and understood – while evolution develops and transforms the material universe, generating ever more refined and intelligent life-forms, it progresses into metaphysical dimensions, and it moves towards the transcendence of physicality and the material dimension, it moves towards more subtle and sublime levels of existence, being.

This is the “Good News,” the “Gospel of Jesus Christ” – there is a radical development and evolution underway, and we are destined to eternal life, the development of consciousness beyond the body, and a continuity of awareness in all states of consciousness, whether waking consciousness, sleep and dream, or death and the afterlife.

But, of course, from our perspective it is a journey into the great unknown, and we tend to project our fears upon the void of the unknown – so upon such a threshold of a radical leap, naturally there may be some fear or trepidation, some agitation.

So, now this Holy Light is active in us, and labors for our transformation, our full realization as children of light, the Human One of Light, Christ.

Yeshua says, “You who have seen me have seen the Father.” Indeed, the Light-presence is inseparable from the Light Continuum, and so also the Light-power is inseparable from the Light Continuum and Light-presence; and this Light Continuum, Yahweh, is the foundation of all, and this Light-presence, Yeshua, is within all, and this Light-power, Ruach Ha-Kodesh, moves with, in and through all, and is manifest as the all, the entirety.

The Pleroma of Light and the Entirety are inseparable from one another – even this apparent shadow land, this world, is, in fact, this Holy Light; all the universe, on all levels, is, in fact, this Holy Light – Or Ain Sof, the Light of the Infinite.

Although this Holy Light is within all, and is manifest as all, it transcends and is beyond all – the Father is this transcendence, and so Yeshua Messiah said, “I go to the Father.”

Now, in the Pistis Sophia we hear about Melchizedek as the “light purifier” and as the “light receiver,” and here in our discussion we may gain some insight into what is meant – frozen light, light bound up in matter, is impure, and the purification of light implies a thawing, a release of the light or energy bound up in matter, and its reception implies its full reintegration with the Light Continuum, or “going to the Father.”

Of course, in this self-realization, aware of the Light that is above everywhere below, there is nowhere to go, and in the development of consciousness beyond the body, ironically enough, we experience an influx of consciousness into the body – the Supernal Consciousness-Force, the awakening of Supernal Being in us.

Here and now we abide in the Light Continuum, and we are this Light-presence and Light-power, but few have eyes to see or ears to hear, therefore many remain in bondage, in sorrow and suffering, believing a dream to have an independent and substantial self-existence from the dreamer. In truth, however, all of the reality of our experience is a radiant or energetic display of the One Being-Consciousness-Force (Light Continuum) of which each individual is an emanation – it is a radiant display of us, our energetic being!

Many “intelligent” people these days believe the resurrection and ascension is a myth, or hearing about the divine rapture spoken of in the Holy Scriptures they will say that it is a fantasy – so they will claim all wonders are myths or fantasies; and yet, modern science and technology continues to draw closer to kinds of discovery and knowledge that might very well prove such “myths” are real and true.

It is not much of a question for those of us who may experience the Continuum of Light Transmission, though, for we have witnessed with our own eyes things recorded in the Holy Scriptures – we know the greater possibilities of human development and evolution.

Whatever this Fiery Intelligence in us can conceive and envision it can make manifest – even in terms of our material and technological developments we can see this; heck, we have gone to the moon and are considering going to Mars, and these days we fly through the air like birds, just as imagined doing for a very long time! And so the list of material achievements goes on and on, as does the list of psychic and spiritual achievements!

There is, of course, a reason I’ve brought up this subject at this time – in much the same way as fifteen years ago, in 1994, there was a great influx of Supernal Light, so there is another cycle of the influx of the Supernal Force at this time. This contemplation is a prayer and meditation, an invocation and opening, a co-labor in the Holy Spirit for the reception of the influx and an extension of the Holy Light; here and there, individuals are experiencing a breakthrough to the Supernal Consciousness, and matrixes are coming into being.

This is always ongoing in secret, and yet, at times, there is a more radical influx and movement – this is one of those times.

It is an auspicious time to deepen our prayers and meditations, and to go within and abide within, holding a conscious intention for the reception of the Holy Light from above – a very good time, indeed!

In this regard it is delightful that we are approaching the Feast of the Apostolic Succession – the celebration of this Continuum of Light Transmission flowing out through matrixes of souls awakened and awakening. Hallelu Yah!

In closing we can say, if you want to behold an image of these light matrixes, go out on the new moon, on a clear night, and gaze up at the constellations of stars in the heavens – these matrixes of souls look much like that, only they shine with a Holy Light far more brilliant and glorious, and one that’s thunderously intelligent.

Here we may recall what Adonai Yeshua teaches us in the Sermon on the Mount: “You are the light of the world.”

May the Light of the True Cross, the Great Seth, ray out into all realms, worlds and universes of the Entirety, and may the promise of divine rapture be fulfilled among us. Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

+rue · Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 93 Location: Austin TX

the descriptions of matrices is very inspiring. i imagine great networks of souls, like loosely woven fabric, with connections reverberating and shimmering interdimensionally. yes, this inspires me toward deeper work, more profound commitment and serving greater (more full) connections with others. also leaves me in awe, feeling humble (this is a good thing) as well as grateful.

blessings!
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Adonai Yeshua Messiah, have mercy on us.

Tau Malachi · Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:04 pm Post subject: Meta-Dimensional Being & Action

Salutations in the Light of the Messiah!

There is something more that can be said of influxes of the Supernal Light and the action of Supernal Consciousness-Force, and something more to be spoken of the agitation of heaven and earth.

In the Pistis Sophia, when describing the light that shone from the Risen Messiah it is said to ray out in diverse kinds and diverse types of light, and, likewise, it is said that the Risen Messiah has three light-vestures or light-bodies; this indicates the action of the Supernal Light, or Supernal Consciousness-Force, which takes up actions on multiple levels simultaneously, spiritual, causal, higher vital, mental astral and physical or material.

The light assumes many and diverse forms, taking up many and diverse modes and operations – all of these forms of light are, in essence, Clear Light, Supernal Light; when there is an influx of Supernal Light these various forms of light are purified and refined by the influx of the Supernal Light, and they are transformed into direct expressions of the Supernal Glory – even the false light of Klippah Nogah and the light manifest as matter may be transformed by the Supernal Light.

In the same way, the Supernal Consciousness-Force assumes many and diverse forms, becoming various gradations of consciousness, mental, vital and physical – all of the gradations of consciousness are, in their essence and nature, Ain, no-thingness, and their root is in Supernal Consciousness. Just as with the various forms of light-power, when there is an influx of Supernal Consciousness-Force these various gradations of consciousness are purified and refined by the Supernal Consciousness, and they are taken up as vehicles and expressions of Supernal Consciousness – as has been said, even the matter composing the physical body itself can be transformed by the Supernal Force.

“Agitation” implies the process of purification and refinement, the process of transformation as the Supernal Light, or Supernal Consciousness-Force, activates and draws out its power at these various levels – what is not in accord with this Holy Light and Consciousness-Force is dispelled, shattered, and what is in accord with it is preserved, refined and uplifted. In other words, this Holy Light and Divine Consciousness-Force acts to pacify, enrich, subjugate and transform (or destroy) klippot or husks of darkness – this divine action is the cause of the agitation.

Agitation further implies a setting in motion and acceleration – a quickening. In this regard, the Supernal Consciousness causes a quickening in consciousness, an acceleration of consciousness, and speeds up the burning off of karma and the pace of the development and evolution of consciousness. Truly, the Supernal Influx is the gift of a Fiery Intelligence, one that enlightens and liberates, though in it there is something of the play of Hesed and Gevurah, mercy and judgment, all depending upon whether or not spirits and souls cleave to the Holy Light, or cleave to the false lights, or to shades and shadows, the darkness.

This is reflected by the action of the Supernal Light-presence causing the celestial spheres to turn to the right and to turn to the left for certain durations, confounding psychics and astrologers, altering the sphere of fate and destiny; “right” indicates mercy and “left” severity, all in skillful means, and this is the metaphysical understanding of the power given to apostles of light by the Risen Messiah in the Gospel of St. John – the power to release and to retain sin or karma.

As we know, this empowerment comes with the reception of the Holy Spirit, the Light-power, the influx of the Supernal Light or Spirit, and this, in essence, is the action of the Supernal Light, or Supernal Consciousness-Force on all levels, to “release” or “retain,” all as is necessary to bring about the Great Transformation, the Great Ascension.

In the dawn of Supernal Consciousness or Messianic Consciousness we become aware of this divine action on multiple levels simultaneously – it is a profound awareness of meta-dimensional being in a meta-dimensional action of consciousness-force that spans from the supernal dimensions into the physical or material dimension; by nature this divine action is illuminating and liberating, whether by way of mercy, judgment or compassion, or by way of peaceful, wrathful or blissful movements. Although we may speak of many and diverse actions, at many and diverse levels, in truth it is one divine action, one great gesture, happening on various levels, fulfilling desires and dreams on various levels, while transforming or dispelling those desires and dreams that are false or ill conceived.

Thus, in effect, in Supernal or Messianic Consciousness a realized individual can engage in multiple actions on multiple levels simultaneously, and all of the various actions taken up on different levels do not diminish or interfere with one another in the least. It is rather like the consciousness or soul-stream of the realized individual enters into a quantum manifestation, akin to the Holy One in creation (Yahweh Elohim), assuming myriads of emanations or forms for the sake of the kingdom of heaven and harvest of souls.

These various emanations can occur at the level of the Body of Glory and Body of Emanation. The body of glory is emanations into dreamtime, afterlife states, and realms, worlds and universes of inner and subtler dimensions, and the body of emanation is physical or material appearances, whether as apparently animate or inanimate objects. In terms of incarnations, multiple incarnations at one and the same time are possible, various aspects of the soul of a realized being incarnating as several individuals, also, there is the play of ivurim, the impregnation of sparks of a realized soul into other souls, as well as the creation or generation of sacred relics, inanimate objects charge with the Light-power of Supernal Realization, akin to the legendary Grail and Lance.

Here we may share that it isn’t only apparently sacred objects that can be taken up as emanation body manifestations, but apparently mundane objects can be taken up as well, for “sacred” and “mundane” in this regard is only an outward appearance – inwardly all matter is composed of the same Holy Light on the inmost level.

This play of multiple actions and multiple emanations, of course, is deeply connected to the generation of matrixes or sacred circles that serve as vessels for the reception of influxes of the Supernal Light and as vehicles of the Light Transmission.

In speaking of the generation of matrixes or sacred circles, according to the Pistis Sophia, the Supernal Light-presence guides souls into incarnation that will form the matrix with a holy tzaddik or apostle, and likewise, sets something of the Supernal Light-power in them and then, in incarnation, in space-time, this is activated during a time of Supernal Influx, or a Supernal Influx is invoked, fulfilling what is predestined at the outset of incarnation. Such a matrix, of course, is not limited to the visible or incarnate members, but it includes all manner of sentient beings visible and invisible, and generally speaking the invisible assembly surrounding a tzaddik or apostle is far greater than the visible assembly – like the divine action of the Supernal Force itself, the matrixes formed are also meta-dimensional, and include all manner of spiritual beings-forces that serve the Continuum of Light Transmission.

According to the Holy Kabbalah, in between the Supernal Dimensions or Universe and the material dimension and universe are the universe of archangels and great cosmic forces, and the universe of angels and spirits. Thus, in the invocation of influxes of the Supernal Light and the play of Light Transmission these spiritual beings-forces are involved and are something like channel-ways between dimensions, and so maggidim, angels, labor with tzaddikim in the Continuum of Light Transmission.

As we know and understand, a holy apostle of light may even assume the form or archangels, orders of angels and such in body of glory to preach the Holy Gospel or extend the Holy Light; in fact, this is a common practice in theurgic actions in the Continuum.

In this, perhaps, we may acquire insight into the vast array of many and diverse actions the Supernal Light-presence and Light-power takes up on various levels through the body of glory and body of emanation arising from the body of truth (Amet), the threefold body generated by Supernal or Messianic Consciousness.

In the Pistis Sophia, of course, we are given two powerful ancient sacred chants of the light-vestures and Light Transmission – chants of the divine action of this Supernal Light-presence and Light-power.

The first chant is: zama zama ozza rachama ozia. According to chapter ten of the Pistis Sophia this is a chant in the tongue of the elder races and angels that indicates and invokes the mystery of the quantum emanation and meta-dimensional action of the Supernal Light-presence and Light-power, our innate unity in the Mystical Body of the Risen Messiah. This sacred chant is very powerful when it is well intoned and vibrated, and has been know to invoke experiences of Supernal Influx.

The second is: IAO. According to the Pistis Sophia this is a secret name of God, the True Light, and emanations of the True Light, and is a mystic word of power for Light Transmission and the Great Transformation. This sacred chant occurs in many ancient wisdom traditions, and from one tradition to another there are many different teachings given on its use and meaning, with various practices being associated with it. In the Pistis Sophia it is the word of power the Human One of Light takes up to extend the Holy and Supernal Light into all directions of endless space, akin to the sealing of directions taught in the Sefer Yetzirah using the Great Name of Yahweh in permutation.

Both is these sacred chants can help invoke experiential knowledge and understanding of the Continuum of Supernal Light Transmission – they are chants taken up in our own tradition.

As we look deeper into the teachings of the Pistis Sophia and see the clear implications of Supernal Realization and Light Transmission in it, perhaps it becomes obvious why “Pistis Sophia” is the namesake of our Gnostic church – it indicates our church or community as a vehicle of this Continuum of Light Transmission.

I imagine this extends our contemplation enough for the moment.

This evening as we take up the celebration of the Feast of Gnostic Apostolic Succession, no doubt, these two sacred chants will play a significant role, as will the invocation of maggidim and an oral transmission of these teachings.

May we be blessed and empowered in the Risen Messiah to bring in, hold and anchor influxes of the Supernal Light for the people, and may the Holy and Supernal Light ray out into all directions of endless space, blessing and illuminating all living spirits and souls in this world and beyond Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

Elder Gideon+ · Site Admin Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 315

Greetings Tau Malachi!

This thread of contemplation from Pistis Sophia is marvelous. Thank you so much for drawing out from this mystery where we have been in the solar year to where we are heading now. Summer Solstice--the Ascension and Pentecost--transformed the first circle of companions of Lord Yeshua and Lady Mirya into generators of Light Presence and Light Power; the Feast of the Gnostic Apostolic Succession is the mystery of these who were generated generating many more. What became manifest as a full matrix of light in the Ascension and Pentecost is now chain-reacting into many matrixes of light throughout the world. I sincerely appreciate your drawing this out from Pistis Sophia, for this point speaks beautifully to both of these feasts inseparably.

What I also continue to hear, regarding the manifestation of Light as Hayyah Yeshua is ascending and the agitation his ascent causes in the heavens, is everything Jewish legends say about the First and Second days of Creation. While this mystery of Elohim saying, '"Let there be light," and there was light,' speaks of the manifestation of Supernal Light in creation, we learn from the rabbis that what happens immediately in the Second Day, namely,'"Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water,"' is a legend, a midrash, of great relevance to this agitation caused by the Light. Essentially, while the Creation story appears to be describing the formation of material 'sky' so to speak, the separation in the heavens, say the rabbis, is a day not called "good", or "tov", because in this Second Day, the hells, the demons, and all souls unintegrated to the True Light from the former cosmic cycle are all awakened and reactivated.

The Supernal Light then, appears to awaken and amplify everything within an individual or collective exerience. As you pointed out above in Adonai Yeshua's awakening at the Baptism, He too had to integrate the unconscious aspects of His experience activated along with conscious aspects in the wilderness with the wild beasts. The response of agitation in my own experience, then, reminds me of all of me, even what was unconsciously hidden and dormant, is suddenly awakened and reactivated by the Presence and Power of Infinite Light. To see then, the First Day activating and amplifying everything IS the mystery of the separation, the agitation, of the Second Day.

What is positive and even empowering about this mystery of spiritual agitation in the Light Presence and Light Power, is that the Supernal Light could not touch, quicken, awaken or activate whatever wasn't Supernal Light already, however hidden or dormant. In other words, agitation is actually a recognition of Supernal Light that doesn't understand or surrender to Supernal Light. How mysterious. The causes of agitation which you pointed out above--grasping at limited name and form and autobiography--misunderstand Supernal Light, being Supernal Light trapped in distortions of karmic expectation. What is resisting Supernal Light in agitation can and will be harmonized and balanced with faith in the very power the Ascended Yeshua promises is with us, this very moment.

By going within, confessing what feels at odds or even threatened by Supernal Light, the Grace of Hayyah Yeshua empowers my repentance and transformation of inner opponents into allies. Perhaps honesty with the LORD, cleaving in hitbodedut (spiritual retreat) in this practice of confession, is the key to aerating and opening up all closed places within me, empowering repentance and a greater, un-agitated reception of this Supernal Force.

May the Light stored up for the Righteous pour forth! Feast Blessings!

Shalom!

Michael+

Tau Malachi · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 12:24 pm Post subject: Light of Salvation

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

In the outer church we are taught that the sacrifice of Christ was for an atonement of the sin of Adam and Eve, the “original sin” that we all “inherit.” Essentially, what’s proposed is that humankind damaged or impaired God’s creation and Christ came to rectify what humankind had done. The Holy Kabbalah and Gnosticism, however, put forth a different view, that the sin of Adam and Eve is the result of an imperfection or flaw on a cosmic level, or rather something partial and incomplete in creation, and therefore, more than an atonement for sin, Christ appears for the tikkune-healing of this flaw or imperfection, or in order to complete creation and fulfill Ratzon Elyon, the will of the Supreme.

Basically speaking, the imperfection or impurity is cosmic ignorance, the illusion of separation, which is personified by the demiurge in Christian Gnosticism; hence, the generation of cosmic ignorance, archons and demons on the second day of creation when Elohim divides the upper and lower firmaments, creating dualism in consciousness and an apparent separation between heaven and earth, God and creation. This is the cause of the sin of Adam and Eve, this ignorance or dualism in consciousness. Thus, Christ comes to dispel this ignorance or dualism in consciousness and creation – Christ comes as a Light-bearer and Gnostic Revealer imparting the spiritual knowledge and power that brings ignorance to an end.

As we know and understand, the arising of ignorance or dualism in consciousness is a natural byproduct of creation emerging from unconscious primordial unity and is overcome through a process of development and evolution in creation, or rather a development and evolution in consciousness, an awakening of consciousness. The fruition of this development and evolution of consciousness is Christ, the realization of Supernal or Messianic Consciousness, a non-dual realization.

On one hand, through an active and dynamic surrender to the Shekinah of the Supreme we co-labor with her to create the conditions necessary for this self-realization in Christ, this awakening of consciousness; but, on the other hand, ours is a union of grace, and this awakening or self-realization in Christ comes through Divine Grace, this Supernal Shekinah embodied in Hayyah Yeshua and in true apostolic succession.

There is a distinct gift of Fiery Intelligence imparted to us by Yeshua Messiah, a distinct Divine Presence and Power – the Holy Spirit or Supernal Shekinah, and for our part we need only cleave to the Messiah, the Human One of Light, and open to this Holy Light from above, the Mother’s Force, and this Holy Light illuminates and liberates us, dispelling falsehood and the unreal, and revealing truth and the Real, God, the True Light. In an active and dynamic surrender there is a co-labor and cooperation with Divine Grace, this Light-presence and Light-power in the Great Work, and yet, it is Divine Grace, this Holy Light, that accomplishes everything, that moves with, in and through us, and even as us, to fulfill Ratzon Elyon, the will and desire of the Supreme.

The play of mercy and judgment is merely the process of the affirmation of what resonates with the True Light and the negation of what does not resonate with the True Light as consciousness develops and evolves towards the realization of Supernal and Divine Being – it is for the sake of the education of souls, the drawing out of the Holy Light, this Fiery Intelligence, that is in them.

As we know in the Holy Kabbalah, Gevurah, Severity, emanates from Hesed, Loving-kindness, and as such it is ultimately the expression of mercy – a liberating action that negates or shatters klippot; thus we know that this agitation is merciful, and is an action seeking our freedom and fulfillment, even though at times we might be sorely adverse to it or afraid of it.

Yes, indeed, transparency is key, openness and sensitivity is key – or honesty in the presence and power of God, the True Light; liberation from the apparently internal or apparently external klippot is as simple as bringing them into the Holy Light of the Infinite, the Light of Awareness, and recognizing their true nature, the Ain Nature. In any instant that we bring shades and shadows into the Divine Light they are dispelled and vanish – they are transformed, the holy spark being released from them.

In this Holy Awareness everything self-liberates as it arises and there is no need for wrestling or struggle – the Grace of Christ sets us free!

This is not just an issue of human salvation or the enlightenment of human beings alone, however, but it is a labor for the salvation of all living spirits and souls, the enlightenment and liberation of all beings – even such beings as great cosmic forces and angels. Therefore, this Light Transmission rays out in various kinds or types, and acts on multiple levels, revealing Itself with, in and through all, as the all in all, and as much as an enlightenment of human beings it labors for the enlightenment of all.

What is special or unique about a human being? The whole of creation is in the Human One of Light, and in our soul we are the emanation of the Human One of Light, and therefore, in our soul, our consciousness, we span all of creation, the entirety; as we awaken, as we are “saved,” the whole of creation is awakened, saved. In terms of an incarnation in which this divine illumination is possible, an incarnation as a true human being is ideal, offering the best possible conditions and circumstances for the realization of Supernal and Divine Being – even an incarnation as a greater or lesser divinity would not be so ideal as our present incarnation.

The Holy Torah points to this by placing the creation of the human being last, as the culmination of creative evolution, and the Holy Gospel reveals this by the incarnation of the Sun of God in a human being – uniquely, the human being unites heaven and earth in her or himself, the Radiant Holy Breath of Yahweh Elohim and Matter, the “dust of the earth,” which, as we know, is star dust.

Thus, of all beings we are the ideal channels or vehicles through which this Holy Light can be brought in, held and anchored in creation, the entirety, and in this Holy Light we realize the union of heaven and earth, the pleroma and the entirety.

Here it must be said, however, that the heaven of Christ is beyond the seven heavens, the Supernal Abode transcends the heavens so often sought after in the unenlightened condition; yet, when this Holy Light is brought down and when it is brought out of the depths, the heavens and earths of the entirety are transformed, all becoming radiant with Supernal Glory – dualism in consciousness is brought to an end, the ignorance being brought into cessation.

In this, perhaps, we may understand something of the agitation and the need to disappear – what disappears is the self or klippah born of dualism, and what appears in this state of transparency is the Holy One, the Holy Light.

Here we can share something of an open secret: All of existence is a flickering between being and non-being all of the time, appearance and disappearance; in this Holy Light of Awareness we are merely recognizing and realizing Reality as It Is, God as God Is, nothing more and nothing less.

It is no wonder that it is said that Christ assumes so many different appearances, or that our soul assumes so many different forms throughout countless incarnations – that’s just the nature of this Being-Consciousness-Force of which we are all emanations; flickering in and out of existence all of the time, naturally it continually shape-shifts, assuming all manner of forms while transcending them all

There is profound peace and immeasurable joy in this self-realization, this Holy Awareness of Ani-Ain!

May we abide in this holy remembrance of the Divine I Am, the Divine I Shall Be, Adonai Messiah. Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

IAOHANNES · Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 117

Greetings in the Light of the Messiah !
These last posts have been really inspiring , Tau Malachi .
Thank you very much for sharing all that .
My question is about this matrix of individuals who come to be ( i don't know if this is the correct way to say it ) during these Supernal Influxes .
As you certainly is aware , today there are many people writing and talking about the "Indigo Children" , even "Crystal and Rainbow Children" , refering to the colors of the "auras" and "chakras" that these children , and adults, have .
When you wrote about the Supernal Influxes quickening the evolutionary process what came to my mind is that the Body of Light , to the degree developed by Yeshua in the Ressurection and Ascension , is actually the highest stage of this evolutionary process and that , bellow that , there are other transformations taking place , including in our DNA and body structures , and also on a social ,cultural and political level .
The Supernal Influx seems to affect all of our lives on the planet .
So , when you write about this matrix of individuals i wonder if they could be these "Indigo" souls ( so to speak ) , more evolved individuals who are born , very much like the Boddhisattvas in the Eastern tradition , to help in this evolutionary process or could they be also representatives of the "Elder Races", comming from God knows what planets and systems , incarnating here in order to help in the current planetary "agitation" and "tumult", that are actually the birth-pains of a new humanity ?
Can these individuals be seen as "mutants" , almost as a new species of human beings ?
These are some questions that your writings raised on my mind , Tau Malachi .
Thank you very much for writing these posts .
Blessings & Shalom !

Brooke · Posted: Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:02 am Post subject:

Shabbat Shalom, dear friends !

Indeed, it seems Brother Michael + and Brother Iohannes are talking about two different kinds of influxes in a cosmic cyle. I found this very interesting.

As Michael mentioned, on the second day,"the hells, the demons, and all souls unintegrated to the True Light from the former cosmic cycle are all awakened and reactivated." By contrast, as our cosmic cycle speeds up, there appears to be a greater influx of elevated souls -- perhaps the so-called "Indigo children," for one.

So, the unintegrated souls came in near the beginning of creation; while the more elevated (and therefore integrated) souls come in by "dribs and crabs" as needed to advance the movement and reception of Light during a cosmic cycle. But the real agitation comes with the greater influxes I suppose -- whether a mass of unintegrated souls near the beginning of the cycle or a mass of integrated souls at certain auspicious time during the cycle.

I guess we are in a stage now where the influx of souls of a "higher grade" is intensifying for the present. It's by no accident that Ecclesia Pistis Sophia is starting to come into its own at this time -- by the grace and power of the Divine Mother and the Human One of Light. It is with both spiritual humility and divine pride that we become aware of this -- as are other similar groups of light-workers around the world. It is an awesome and frightening realization at the same time. We labor to prepare our souls for individual enlightenment in order to extend the Light to others who we meet on the path. An awareness and acceptance of the flickering light -- along with the constant flame of hope, faith, and love burning brightly in our hearts -- will see us through this time and help us to carry out our missions as individuals and as part of a greater matrix.

Each matrix must be prepared to battle with the resistance that crops up as shades and shadows not only within ourselves -- but from the unintegrated souls who really resist or fear the light. Of course, by the word "battle" I don't mean to do them any harm -- but to gently show them the Light and, if needed, guard the Light until they are ready to receive, whether in this cosmic cycle or the next.

By the Grace of the Holy Shekinah, May We All Come to Greater Awareness of the Light Presence So the Light Power May Take Up Residence in Our Hearts, Minds and Lives!

Shabbat Shalom!
Brooke
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IAOHANNES · Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 117

Shabbat Shalom , Sister Brooke and all friends !
Very interesting what you have noticed about the two influxes , or the two movements caused by the Supernal influx actually .
I wasn't thinking about that when i wrote it , but it seems very correct .
Something that occured to me also , after writing the above post , is that this Supernal influx seems to awaken and remember the Light workers of their missions , of what they came to do .
It seems that its mostly during these special times that they start awakening to their true identities and calls .
They remember .In different grades , according to each one's situations of course .
But i really liked what you wrote about the "battle" between the Light and the Darkness "Of course, by the word "battle" I don't mean to do them any harm -- but to gently show them the Light and, if needed, guard the Light until they are ready to receive, whether in this cosmic cycle or the next. "
Thank you for putting that so clearly .Very nice indeed .It reminds us that this battle will only be won by the anchoring of the Supernal Light in ourselves and our lives , and that implies living in the most peaceful and compassionate way we can .
Maybe we have to be a little "wrathful" and severe sometimes , but always with compassion as the base for our actions .
Thank you for reminding me of that .
Blessings & Shalom !

Tau Malachi

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

I do not know that the primordial and supernal light flickers, as much as the light-forms emanating from it flicker into existence and out of existence constantly; the simple primordial light itself, however, constantly abides in its essence, the Clear Light, ever present and pervading all.

On the first day of creation Elohim says, “Let there be light,” and according to the masters of the tradition, this is the light stored up for the righteous, Supernal Light. As our discussion has revealed, this “righteousness” is a process of development and evolution so that those who evolve the capacity to receive and embody this Holy Light receive it, fulfilling the original intention of El Elyon, the Supreme, in creation.

In the prophecy given by Our Lady of Guadalupe on the sacred ayatl upon which she emblazed her image during her revelation there is an image of an angel or little child – this is said to represent children born of greater evolutionary development towards the end of days for the ushering in of the dawn of the Sun of Flowering, the Second Coming. Something similar occurs in various indigenous traditions, and likely this is where the ideas of “indigo children,” “crystal and rainbow children,” and such come from, that and from the psychic impressions of self-taught mystics generating some language to speak of their perceptions. Interestingly enough, though I haven’t heard the term before, if I were to use such terms for souls of higher grades destined to experience and embody something of the Supernal Influx, as an image of their energetic being “crystal and rainbow children” would capture something of the splendor and power of their light-image in the inner dimensions.

Always, in every generation, there are souls of higher grades incarnate among us, souls from among the elder races, including tzaddikim and maggidim; in the process of influxes of the Supernal Light the numbers of these souls incarnate among us increases, and likewise the numbers of souls awakening within this human life-wave increases. At the same time, though, towards the “end times” of a world as influxes of the Supernal Light occur there is also an influx of new souls into the human life-wave, “first timers” as they have been called. Thus, there is an increased influx of very advanced and mature souls, and very immature souls. This, no doubt, contributes to the tumult of the end times, and the great shades and shadows that arise along with greater influxes of the Holy and Supernal Light.

Yes, indeed, Supernal Consciousness is a relatively new development in evolution, superseding the former development of cosmic consciousness, and unlike cosmic consciousness, the peak development of mental being and therefore the present humanity, Supernal Consciousness does represent a mutation and transformation, a progressive development and evolution of a new species of humanity, a Divine and Supernal Humanity.

The present humanity represented by the larger collective is vital and mental, and is a transitional state of being; the new humanity is supramental, an evolution beyond mental being and mental consciousness. The supramental may take up the mental, vital and physical consciousness, refining and transforming them, but it is distinct from them – if physical development and evolution were to continue on earth, and if life spans were to increase, the Supernal Force would lead to the development of very different bodies, a very different species of being, as different from the present humanity as we are from great apes.

This is foreshadowed by the advent of the Messiah in Yeshua, for rather than just uttering a proclamation of Yeshua as the “Son of God,” a statement born often times of a complete lack of understanding, we may say that he heralds and represents a new species of being, an evolutionary succession from the present humankind. Indeed, this is reflected in our struggle to embody the Christ presence and the teachings of the Gospel some two thousand years later, for it appears much like the struggle of a chimp attempting to live by human standards, but not having the full mental faculties and capacities of a human being.

Thus, we may indeed speak of the Supernal Force as an Evolutionary Force – an impulse and force moving towards a radical leap in the development and evolution of life and consciousness.

Here we may remind of what is said in the Holy Scriptures, that the advent of Christ ushers in a new heaven and new earth, and a new humanity – a new species of being!

As it turns out, all the while this impulse or evolutionary force is in us, dormant or latent – it is revealed as Supernal Power when we receive the influx of the Supernal Light from above, and it is sublimated and uplifted to the crown star, opening the way for the full influx of the Supernal Consciousness-Force; that, or we may say that this great power in us is transformed by the Supernal Consciousness-Force, made into the image and likeness of Supernal Being. Either way, this Supernal Power is above and below – it’s everywhere, in everything.

The matrixes of souls for the reception of the influxes of Supernal Light, Supernal Force, are composed of souls of a higher grade, souls from among the elder races who have attained Supernal Consciousness in other worlds, as well as souls having developed and evolved through the human life-wave on earth who are now “ripe and mature” for the harvest, and they include souls of various grades, including those experiencing their first contact with the Continuum of Supernal Light Transmission. Necessarily so, for this is the purpose of these matrixes of souls, “preaching the Gospel of Truth” and extending the Light of the True Cross, the Great Seth (Shin-Tau). Their purpose is to join souls to the Mystical Body of Christ, this great light-body of the resurrection and ascension.

We know that souls of lofty grades are in these matrixes, for among the souls composing them are individuals who are inclined to the mystical journey in their youth, some of whom come into being at a relatively early age, rather like a spiritual child prodigy; apart from a significant realization in previous lives this phenomenon would not occur in our world – the psychic gravity of the ignorance, the darkness, is far too powerful here.

In fact, in these times, in a dark age, the psychic gravity is so powerful that many souls of higher grades are not able to come into being and embody their former realization in full, or embodying it, it is manifest in a partial or distorted form; much of modern spirituality, new age spirituality and occultism reflects this, just as it reflects psychic souls in imitation of the spiritual or elect souls. In other words, in a certain respect, it is a difficult and dangerous mission coming here, and truly it is rather like a battle, not against blood and flesh, but against archonic and demonic spiritual forces; as in any battle, there are casualties and losses along with the victories and heroic accomplishments.

In this regard, we see the need for the spirits of tzaddikim and the maggidim in the inner dimensions laboring in this Great Work with us, and we see the need for the sanctuary of grace manifest in the Risen Christ; likewise, we see the need for all of us who awaken to this Light-presence and Light-power to take up our labor in full, seeking to bring in, hold and anchor this Holy Light of Supernal or Messianic Consciousness to the furthest possible extent for the sake of the people and the glorification of El Elyon, the Supreme.

In the body, we are the world and the world is us, and as Adonai Yeshua teaches us, we are the light of the world – embodying something of this Light-presence and Light-power it is made manifest in the world, and it can act to bring about a radical leap in the evolution of life and consciousness.

In this process, receiving the Holy Light from above, the Force of the Supernal Shekinah, awakening the full spectrum of our energy-intelligence and the generation of the Body of Light is essential – it is through this “Solar Body” that we bring in and hold this Light-power, and it is through our physical body that we anchor it here while we live in this world.

In this we may understand the need for the continuum of the spiritual life and practice, and spiritual community – it is for the generation of this Body of Light, but even more so, through our study and contemplation, sacred discourse, prayers, meditations and sacred ceremony, we anchor and extend this Holy Light, laboring in a harvest of souls. It is not so much about our own self-realization in Christ as much as the manifestation of a greater continuum of self-realization in Christ – it is about ensuring that enlightenment and liberation is transpiring in our times.

There is something of an open secret in teachings on divine pride or spiritual self-worth, and the play of union with partzufim; taking the goal as the path, and living as if realization has transpired, but devoid of egoistic assertions or claims, something of this Light-presence and Light-power is embodied in us, and it acts with, in and through us to accomplish the Great Work, the Great Transformation, the will and desire of the Supreme, the Divine I Am.

When we identify ourselves with the Truth (Amet), and we enact Truth in thought, word and deed, in that very instant something of this Truth-Consciousness is in us – we actualize and embody the Truth, which we call Christ or Messiah. In this way we co-labor and cooperate with Divine Grace, and so Divine Grace enters into effect and the law is suspended.

Here we may say, when we cleave to Christ in this way the play of mercy and judgment is suspended, there is compassion, love, and the outpouring of Supernal Grace, and when we surrender in full to the Supernal Shekinah, this Supernal Light shines from within us, regardless of where we appear to be in the play of coming into being (becoming).

The Supernal Light embodied in Yeshua Messiah truly is a miraculous power that can and does work great wonders, the wonders of salvation, realization!

In speaking about the evolution of a new species of being, understanding that at some point a woman must give birth to a mutation for a new species to come into being, in closing I can’t help but contemplate the image of the Woman of Light in the Book of Apocalypse and her Holy Child – a child of divine rapture who appears to represent a very different and more evolved humanity.

May we abide in the holy remembrance of the Divine I Am and let this Holy Light channel Itself with, in and through us. Amen.

Shabbat Shalom!
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Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

malochim · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden

Shalom and Blessings,

In regards to building the body of light the "Solar body", this process is in the kabbalah also known as Massah Merkava (Workings of the Merkava). It is according to Aryeh Kaplan how a person can put himself into a state where he can attain a Merkava vision, a prophetic vision. This is described as making a "Chariot of Light". The word Merkava comes from the root Rakhav "to ride" and it indicates that God leaves the state of rest and transcendence and goes into the operation of movement and manifestation in order to bring the prophet the vision. As I've mentioned in an earlier post the word prophet in hebrew is Navie, there are several different interpretetions as to what the root of the word is. Some say that the word Boa meaning to "come/bring" is the root of Navie, this would indicate that one of the prophets main purposes is to bring down the Supernal light and act as a midwife/channel truely being the light of the world. The word for Creator in hebrew is Boreh which comes from Bo Re’eh (come see). The hebrew word for nature has the same numeric value as the hebrew word for creator. I believe that something of the process of the light transmission is hidden in these three words (profet, nature and creator). The process of realization might seem to be bidirectional, one force descending from above (the heavenly father) and one force ascending from below (the virgin mother). A bringing down (descent) of supernal light from the worlds above and beyond and a reception and ascent from below. But in reality it is a single movement, the two operations of the same force. This I believe is also aluded to in saying 50 in the gospel of st. Thomas

(50) Jesus said : "If they say to You, 'Where did You come from ?', say to them : 'We came from the light, the place where the light came into being of itself, established itself and revealed itself in their image. If they say to You : 'Who are You ?', say : 'We are its sons. We are the elect of the Living Father.' If they ask You : 'What is the sign of your Father in You ?', say to them : 'It is movement and rest.'

This is described by Tau Malachi in one of his post (http://www.sophian.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1032) :

"We may speak of an ascent of consciousness beyond the body; yet at the same time this divine work of creative evolution is a bringing down of Divine Consciousness into the body and the transformation of the body and world – as it turns out, in the direct experience of the Supernal or Supramental Being and Consciousness we find that this movement in apparently two directions is really a movement in one and the same direction, like a quantum leap forward in the evolution of consciousness, fulfilling the Divine Intention in the Human One.

In this great movement we may say that the Divine is entering and indwelling us and that we are entering and indwelling the Divine – in the end, as it turns out, all the while, in everything, even in the ignorance and the darkness and the evil, it was all the Divine, All the Supreme, all the Divine Play, all for the sake of Divine Joy."

According to Kaplan the vision of Ezekiel alludes to some of the techniques used by the prophets to set up this "Chariot of Light" and stages or barriers one must overcome in order to be successful. I believe that these barriers described in Ezekiel are similiar to what the apostles experienced.

"I looked, and behold, a stormy wind coming from the north, a great cloud of flashing fire, and a glow round about it, and from its midst, the vision of the Chashmal (talking silence), in the midst of the fire" (Ezekiel 1:4)

According to Kaplan the Zohar teaches that "the stormy wind", "the great cloud" and the "flashing fire" refers to three levels of the Klipah, the "Husk" that encapsulate the living kernel. In nature the husk protects the fruit before it is ripe and ready to fall to the ground and "die", if it falls into good earth the kernel within will bring forth a new tree/plant which only was a potential in the fruit residing in its kernel.

Also Elijah describes these three barriers "A great strong wind...an earthquake...and a fire... and after the fire, a still small voice" (1 Kings 19:11.12).

Kaplan writes in his book that the stormy wind, "stormy Ruach" (Ruach Sa'arah) is the first barrier the prophet encounters. This stage is described as a great agitation or an unsettled/stormy spirit which Kaplan interprets as being the natural agitations of the mind that are greatly amplified as the prophet reaches a high meditative state. If one considers the state of mind as vibrations then a higher state would indicate higher energy throughput and more rapid vibrations, in such a state the amplitude of the waves in the vibrations would greatly increased as well and a small movement of the mind would be greatly agitating. The bible indicates that an unripe human being wouldn't be able to be survive the full force of the voice of God. If one goes back to the analogy of the vibrations or waves then the voice of god would be at such a high frequency that it would almost seem to be at rest, this high energy would completly overwhelm a wave/vibration with lower frequency. In order to be able to withstand such a high frequency wave one would have to "tune in" to that frequency and become like it. These barriers indicate safety mesaures that ensures that the spiritual entity is prepared as he progress on his journey, the secret operation of the holy spirit.

The second Klipah or barrier is described in Ezekiel's vision as a great cloud. This stage follows the great agitation of the first klipah, it is a spiritual night of blindness.

The third Klipah is described in Ezekiel's vision as the fire in the great cloud. The fire would indicate the shame and dread experienced when in the presence of the great light.

The last stage described in Ezekiel's vision is that of the speaking silence
(Chashmal) in the midst of the fire. The fire has the property that all that it touches becomes like it and is transformed. And if one abides in the midst of this fire one becomes one with the Chashmal or the speaking silence in which the true divine vision can transpire.

Love,
Jonas
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IAOHANNES · Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 117

Greetings in the Light of the Messiah !
Well, these conversations are getting very , very interesting ...
I've read recently a book by a Brazilian psychologist (Ingrid Cañete) dealing with this "Indigo Children" issue and it was in her book that i also saw the mention to this "crystal and rainbow children" .
The book is called " Indigo Adults" .
Lets say i personally liked very much the book ...
But one of the things that she enphasizes in the book is the social ( including the family ) pressure and obstacles that these children , and the ones who survive to become adults , face to develop their inborn potentials .
This starts in the families and extends to the schools and the culture in general that are very refractary to new ideas and visions , specially comming from children ...
The teachers and those who (des)educate the children are not preprared to deal with children who seem to come with a knowledge that supersedes their own .
According to the author , these souls started to arrive in the 60's , and received a new influx , the " crystal" ones , in the 90's .Coincidence or not ...
It happens that as they come with an inborn higher level of energy they are being "diagnosed" ( or labled) as "hyperactive" and "disturbance of attention" and being drugged with ritalin and other heavy drugs that are called , incredibly ! , "the drugs of obedience" .
It is not to say that there can't be children who really have some behavioral or even neurological problems , but even that has to be investigated by a multi-disciplinary equip , including doctors , psychologists and spiritual advisors .
Anyway , the side effects of ritalin itself are much worst than any possible benefit .
I'm writing this because i think that these drugs like ritalin , prozac and so on are the new "straglehold" used by the system to block people , specially these crystal and rainbow children , to actualize their potentials .
It is the new inquisition , in an asceptic and modern acceptable way ...
So , unfortunately as you said Tau Malachi , there are casualties in this battle .
Maybe very promising children , maybe even some tzaddikim and maggidim , are in insane asylums or in jails , as "problem children" or "criminals" ( what is not the same of saying that there aren't children with problems and real criminals) .
But , in a very sick society as ours , what is the parameter of mental and spiritual health ? the DSM ? the fundamentalists interpretations of the Bible ( or whatever Holy Book , for one .)?
I don't think so .
I also felt that i should take a look at one of Jean-Yves Leloup's books after some interesting synchronicities happened , one that as i could see is not yet trasnlated to English ( unfortunately ) .
Is one called " The Complex of Jonas" .
There he discusses the Book of Jonas of the Old Testament in a very deep way .
Basically he says that the problem of Jonas is his fear of his call , a fear of the ostracism that it could cause him if he answered God's call to go the enemie's land ( Ninive , capital of the ancient Assirians , who were enemies of the Hebrews) and preach that they should repent from their sins and materialistic views .And , above all , a fear of his greatness , of his own worth and value, a fear of developing all his unique potential .
Of assuming his "Divine Pride" indeed .
And , of course , there is all his struggle and resistence to the call , his fight against God , that culminates in his being swallowed by the monster ( it is not a wale , as Leloup says ) .
That is his " night sea journey " as the Junguians would call it , his dark night of the soul .
But when he prays to the One who Is Himself , and say "Thy will be done" , the monster vomits him and he goes to Ninive and fulfill his mission .
Yet , there is a final episode where he argues with God about His Justice because God spared the habitants of Ninive , after they repented .
Jonas wanted punishment and vengeance , but God showed mercy and compassion .
And this was his final lesson ...
I see very clear the stages of Jonas path reflected in what Brother Malochim said about the "three barriers" of the prophetic revelation , according to Kaplan's explanation .
Thats why i mentioned it .
But both Leloup and Cañete say that , sometimes , these barriers are not so much inner resistences of the prophet but actually social and family barriers that turn almost impossible the blossoming and development of the person's full human potential ( that seems to always transcend our definitions of "humanity" ...) .
Some seeds sometimes fall in very hard and dry soils ...
And both also say that there are methaphysical forces that are behind these resistences and that are the subtle causes of all theses difficulties and obstacles .
Like you said " In other words, in a certain respect, it is a difficult and dangerous mission coming here, and truly it is rather like a battle, not against blood and flesh, but against archonic and demonic spiritual forces ".
Its always good to remember that ...
In order for us to remember who the enemy really is and take the right measures to protect ourselves and , specially , these kids who are coming .
They are the future .And like tender and soft little flowers they must be cared and cultivated until they can fully blossom .
In closing , i'd just like to say that even if there are certain distortions i think that it is a good omen that books like Cañete's , even with their "new age" flavor , are being published and read by many people , helping them to identify themselves and awake to their calls and missions .
May all the Children of the Woman of Light be protected and cared until they grow in the full measure of the Light of the Messiah and create a New Heaven and a New Earth ! Amen .Amen .

Tau Malachi

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

I do not know that the internal klippot or barriers that arise in the process of prophetic meditation are the same as the apparently external klippot that might impede souls of higher grades from coming into being, and likewise, I do not know that the experience of the internal klippot arising as we enter into prophetic meditation is exactly the same as the agitation caused by the experience of Supernal Influx. No doubt, there is a connection and relationship between various klippot that we might speak about because all share the same basic root, fundamental ignorance, self-cherishing, and the play of egoistic desire and fear; however, in truth, the dominion of the klippot or the “other side” is vast, and there are many different forms of klippot, and it is best not to confuse them with one another.

Indeed, just as there are many different forms and gradations of light, and many different forms and gradations of consciousness, ranging from the supernal to the material, so also are there many different forms and gradations of klippot, impure emanations or husks of darkness – the klippot are many, and all have their root in Klippah Nogah as discussed elsewhere.

Here we may speak something of an open secret – generally speaking, the term “dominion of the klippot” refers to the adverse manifestation of the Sefirot and Netivot, or to the other side or “night side” of the Tree of Life; hence, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. According to the masters of the tradition, however, the Sefirot and Netivot of an outer or lower Olam-Universe are klippot to those of an inner or higher Olam. Thus, to the Sefirot of Yetzirah, those of Asiyah are klippot, to the Sefirot of Beriyah those of Yetzirah are klippot, to the Sefirot of Atzilut those of Beriyah are klippot – the “dominion of the klippot” is also the outer or lower Olamot.

This is why in the Book of Apocalypse, as a new heaven and new earth come into being, and a new humanity in Christ comes into being, symbols of the dissolution or cessation of the seven Sefirot of Construction of Asiyah, Yetzirah and Beriyah appear – the seven seals, trumpets and bowls that represent the cessation of the old heavens and earth, and the old unenlightened humanity.

Talk about a tale of “agitation”! This certainly goes well beyond the tumult in consciousness experienced by a navi, a seer or prophet, as they enter into their visionary states – it represents an actual and radical transformation through a complete cessation, dissolution.

Here we might remind that the caterpillar enters into destruction as its transformation into a butterfly takes place – this cessation of the caterpillar being the generation of the butterfly.

Now we may say that the states of prophetic consciousness experienced and realized by the ancient Israeli navim, the prophetic succession, are klippot to the states of consciousness experienced in gnostic apostolic succession – while such higher states of mental consciousness may be like rungs along the way, they are husks or shells to state of supramental or supernal consciousness. The prophetic succession is founded upon mental consciousness, the peak of which is cosmic consciousness, but the gnostic apostolic succession is founded upon supramental consciousness, Supernal Realization. In order to bring about a full breakthrough and influx of the Supernal Consciousness-Force, the mental consciousness and the experience of cosmic consciousness must be brought into cessation – a soul must be able to abide in Clear Light Union, or rest in the Ain Nature; it is in this womb of profound emptiness or voidness that full Supernal or Messianic Consciousness dawns and Supernal Realization transpires.

If we look into the Pistis Sophia we find that the disciples abide in “deep silence” when they witness the ascension of Christ – this implies that they were in the inmost state of prophetic consciousness, having passed the three barriers to abide in Hashmal, the Speaking Silence; further, it implies that this Hashmal of the navim or prophets is also a klippah or barrier, for “deep silence” implies the cessation of Hashmal, which is the condition necessary for full Supernal Influx.

It is in this state, having surpassed the four barriers, that the disciples experience the agitation as the Supernal Light Transmission begins to unfold – that agitation is, thus, something more than the klippot experienced as we enter into prophetic states of higher mental consciousness.

The mental consciousness is inherently dualistic, even in its peak, cosmic consciousness and the overmind, and whatever apparent union with the Divine might seem to occur there remains a most subtle and sublime dualism, so subtle that outside of the experience of direct recognition of it we cannot speak it. Hinting at it we can only say, in a union with the Divine at the level of cosmic consciousness, if I am the Divine I cease to be myself, but in the Supernal, the non-dual realization, this is not the case – in union with the Divine I am the Divine and I am myself as the Divine, the individual and universal is in union, and in this union nothing is lost, whether the individual or universal. These words, or course, do not convey what we are talking about – they are very clumsy, but they point at what we are talking about.

If we look into the Old Testament, always with the navim or prophets of the old covenant there is this taint of mental dualism, the taint of the demiurge, in their experience of higher consciousness and prophecy, so much so that in Judaism is it blasphemy and heresy to propose that a human being can experience a full and conscious union with the Divine and embody Divine Being so as to be the Divine Incarnate.

Here we may point out how funny it is, or how sad it is, that the same ignorance, the same influence of the demiurge, has come to dominate mainstream Christian theology so that the same old ignorance is put forth as the Gospel of Truth, the Holy One forever separate and apart from us, now as “Jesus.” In this we see the great power of the psychic gravity, or the downward and backward pull here in this world – even when given a clear revelation of the truth that enlightens and liberates, very swiftly sleep and forgetfulness overcomes us, misperceptions form, and the same old ignorance restores its dominion.

The navim of the old covenant reached into very lofty heights of consciousness, and accomplished very significant grades of self-realization, but none of them spoke from a full and conscious union with the Holy One, or spoke as the Divine I Am as Yeshua Messiah speaks. Thus, in the gospels we are told that people marveled at the teachings of Master Yeshua, saying that he spoke with “authority,” not like the prophets, scholars and rabbis they were used to hearing.

We may also note, while we hear of the agitation of the prophets as they enter into higher states of consciousness, we do not hear about them becoming a cause of agitation to the powers of the heavens and the earth, or having any capacity to shift or alter those powers, as we do with Yeshua Messiah in his ascension – this indicates a very different realization and a very different kind of “agitation.”

This agitation is theurgic and shifts the karmic matrix, and while we may speak of our experience of agitation due to resistances to the True Light, the Supernal Light, there is something more in this agitation of heaven and earth, something much more.

The vision of Ezekiel is of the outermost grade of the greater prophets, transpiring at the level of Yetzirah, the world of angels, and the prophecy of such prophets as Moses, Elijah and Isaiah are of the inmost grades of the greater prophets, transpiring at the level of Beriyah, the world of archangels, the revelation of Hayyah Yeshua, and the true apostles of light, however, transpires at the level of Atzilut; and we may say this – rather than a vision of the Holy One, or the image and likeness of the Holy One, riding in the holy merkavah, a true holy apostle is the merkavah in which the Holy One rides, and as which the presence and power of the Holy One manifests.

In other words, they speak with the divine authority of the I Am, the I Shall Be.

Needless to say, speaking in conscious union with the Divine in this way, God and Godhead, what they speak comes to pass as they speak it, and this Light-power uttered by the Light-presence can bring about radical shifts and transformations in the karmic web or matrix, directing spiritual forces according to the will and desire of El Elyon, the Supreme.

The holy merkavah of the navim is, indeed, connected to their body of light, but as might be expected, there are various gradations of the generation of the body of light, material, astral, spiritual and supernal, corresponding with the gradation of self-realization or higher consciousness embodied, or the level of energy and frequency of vibration in consciousness. In this respect, the light body generated by lesser prophets is formed of astral light, and the light body of greater prophets is formed of spiritual light, and the light body of an apostle of light is formed of supernal light, the “solar body of the resurrection,” or “threefold body of Melchizedek.” This is a very different body of light than generated in the succession of prophets, just as it is a very different gradation of Light Transmission that is manifest in gnostic apostolic succession versus what was manifest in the prophetic succession – it is a body of enlightenment and liberation, freedom from the law and dominion of the demiurge, the ignorance.

Here we may say, the Mystical Body of the Risen Christ is the True and Holy Merkavah, and when we are joined as members of that Body of Light, we too become the Holy Merkavah, the Supernal Shekinah of Yahweh moving with, in and through us, and even becoming manifest as us.

In speaking of the dangers that might be faced by souls of a higher grade, or tzaddikim and maggidim incarnating in this world, in truth, if we are speaking of a very advanced soul that has previously entered into gradations of Supernal Realization the “danger” is akin to a very bad dream or nightmare, and the sorrow and suffering that arises from it, and the potential for a mission that is not accomplished due to becoming bound up in the dream and not being able to awaken in it – departing the incarnation, however, the soul is restored to itself as it is in the Holy One of Being, the forgetfulness swiftly banished.

The danger, generally speaking, is not that such a soul might be drug down into the hell realms, but it is a life of sorrow and suffering from which it may not be able to liberate itself until that life comes to its natural conclusion.

Appearances may be deceptive, though, for while it may seem that a soul of a higher grade was prevented from coming into being and fulfilling its greater purpose and mission, and that is relatively true, nevertheless, having taken on the karmic matrix of this world it is also true that when that soul passes through death and reintegrates with the Light Continuum, through Divine Grace klippot may be shattered and the sparks bound up in them liberated and uplifted – still something of their purpose and mission might be accomplished.

Likewise, assuming a full reintegration did not occur at the time of death or in the afterlife, but for some reason the soul did become bound up in the karmic web and gilgulim again, and did pass through some incarnations in realms of archons, fierce spirits or hell realms, the very same thing could be true – it might serve to shatter klippot and liberate sparks for the sake of other souls, in the end being something of a heroic action when all is said and done.

In any case, all of this is a magical or dream-like display of consciousness, and it is not as it appears from the perspective of the egoistic self or unenlightened condition. In this regard, when discussing the potential klippot or barriers that souls of a higher grade might face and that might prevent their full coming into being and fulfillment of their mission, we must pay attention to our own vital and egoistic grasping at the subject, and our tendency to melodrama, or to allowing the vision of sorrow to become a klippah obstructing Pure Vision, the Great Vision of Melchizedek.

It is enough to say that all souls here seeking self-realization are swimming upstream, much like salmon people when they spawn, and at times there are great obstacles to be overcome, such as white water rapids, waterfalls and such, so that during some time periods there is greater challenge. As with the salmon people, the key is that always some succeed in the movement, and their success is the success of all, all being integral to their success – it is not about any single individual, but is about the eventual salvation of all sentient beings, the fruition of the Divine Intention in creation.

All souls, of every grade, will face apparently internal and external klippot or barriers in their process of coming into being or awakening – somehow it is even integral to the process of coming into being.

In the end, though, all will awaken, all will be saved – salvation in Christ is universal!

Abiding in the holy remembrance of the Divine I Am may we be empowered in the heroic action of the Great Gesture, the Great Work of Salvation. Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
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Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

IAOHANNES · Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 117

Greetings in the Light of the Messiah !
Those were very fine distinctions , Tau Malachi .
Thank you very much .Very enlightening indeed .
The coming of the Messiah and the dawning of Supernal consciousness make a big difference .A much wider perspective .
Shalom !

Tau Malachi

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Sun of God, the Messiah!

There is much to be said of the influxes of Supernal Light in our experience of the Light Transmission – long before the experience of the full Supernal Influx we experience influxes of the Supernal Light in restricted forms at lower gradations, and very often the Supernal Light will conceal Itself in spiritual and astral light, nurturing us towards Itself, as it were, with perfect skill.

There is a very specific pattern of awakening with influxes of the Supernal, for rather than an opening of the interior stars from the bottom to the top, as we typically see with systems that aim at the realization of cosmic consciousness, in the experience of influxes of the Supernal Force there is an awakening from the top to the bottom as the Holy Light descends from above. Thus, there is a distinct awareness of a secret and transcendent interior star “above the head,” above the crown star, which is akin to a Light-presence and Light-power that is enthroned in the crown, and the awakening in our experience becomes centered in the brow star or heart star, the Holy Light shining “down” through the brow, or shining “out” from the heart; from these interior stars or centers, the Holy Light then rays out, opening the interior stars in succession, reaching down into the solar plexus, navel and root stars, and it awakens the serpent power in us, the force of this Fiery Intelligence in us, purifying and uplifting that great power to repose in the brow and cessation in the crown. This action that brings the serpent into repose and cessation in the true mystery of the crucifixion and leads to the experience of the full Supernal Influx and actual breakthrough to Supernal or Messianic Consciousness, the true mystery of the resurrection and ascension.

This opening from top to bottom tends to occur in secret – we may have glimpses and hints of it along the way, but early on we are largely unconscious of its workings; it tends to remain in secret until influxes of the Light from above reach down into the heart and penetrate the three lower interior stars that are more directly connected with our person and life, our incarnation. Thus, from many early experiences of Supernal Light Transmission we may experience very little conscious illumination and transformation immediately following our experiences, or at least so it will seem to us in the surface consciousness, and yet, within and behind the surface, on deeper and inner levels, this Light-presence and Light-power is taking action for our transformation and eventual salvation, our enlightenment and liberation.

There is great wisdom in this, for when the opening of the interior stars occurs from bottom to top, and when the serpent power is awakened before this Holy Light is brought fully down, generally speaking there are more klippot or barriers that arise, the greatest of them all being the deceptive klippah of cosmic consciousness confused with the Supernal Consciousness, the most subtle and sublime manifestation of Klippah Nogah, the false light.

You see, when significant developments seem to occur early on in the awareness of the egoistic self unpurified, not surrendered, the ego tends to grasp on to them and distort them, and likewise, greater resistance arises in the vital and mental being; however, when a significant percentage of the work is being done in secret by Divine Grace, and there is nothing for the ego to grab onto, much of this is circumvented, especially the egoistic klippah of great claims, or rating “where” one is in the journey of coming into being, at “this grade” or “that grade,” or at “this point” or “that point” on the path.

In this respect, there is much to be said of the wisdom of the Divine Mother who knows and understands her children, and who knows and understands their capacity as they grow and mature, and, therefore, whose Force often acts in secret until her children mature and are ready for their greater responsibility. This same wisdom is reflected in the outer teachings of the Holy Gospel, which call us to abide in faith, in the sanctuary of grace, confident of our salvation in the Risen Christ – confident in the Light-power of the Spiritual Sun laboring for our enlightenment and liberation in secret.

In terms of this opening of the interior stars from top to bottom in our Union of Grace, and the awakening of the serpent power by the Holy Light from above, what Master Yeshua says to us in the Gospel of St. John teaches us this – he says to us, “No one has ascended into heaven, save for the one who descended from heaven, the Son of the Human One (Seth, Shin-Tau).” Following this, he then speaks of the Son of the Human One as akin to the serpent uplifted by Moses in the wilderness, clearly indicating the awakening and uplifting of the serpent power through a descent of the Holy Light from above, the Mother’s Force.

If we study and contemplate the miracle of the wedding feast at Cana, and we understand the symbolism, we will know and understand that the very first “wonder” of this gospel speaks directly of this process, the way of this Union of Grace through the reception of the Light from above and an opening of interior stars top to bottom.

Here we may say that when the Holy Light awakens the serpent power, that serpent power is transformed by the Supernal Light, and when uplifted, the name and image of the Holy One revealed is not any that are know, transcending all names and images that are known, while yet being the true presence and power within all that appears and is known. In this, perhaps, we may understand an idea that occurs frequently in Gnostic Scriptures, that any name or form of god known in mental consciousness is the demiurge, or an archon, and that the True God as revealed in Christ, in Supernal Consciousness, is an “Alien God,” unknown to mental being until mental consciousness is taken up and transformed by the Supernal Force. This may also be echoed in Buddhism, which does not speak of god, but that would propose that what are called “gods” and “goddesses” are merely sentient beings like any other, impermanent phenomena in the great cosmic cycle, however immeasurably powerful and glorious they might seem to us.

This awareness of works or actions in secret by the Supernal Light is very important in our Union of Grace, for during any period of influx of the Supernal Light we may or may not be aware of the movement, but nevertheless, in faith, and based upon the gnosis we do have, even if we are relatively unaware of the movement we act as if it is occurring, trusting in the Mother Spirit, and in an active surrender in this way we open ourselves to the Holy Light, cooperating and co-laboring with Divine Grace. When we do this, even when we are unaware of the movement, greater progress is made, and very often we find that the Holy Mother grants us blessings and boons, spiritual and material – naturally so, for we are entertaining the dance with the Supernal Shekinah, the Holy Mother-Bride, joining ourselves in faith to the Spiritual Sun.

Thus, during any cycle of influx, individual or collective, it does not matter the extent to which we are conscious or aware of the influx and its workings – the same may be said following early experiences of Light Transmission; for our part, when an influx is called to our attention, or we experience something of the Light Transmission, we deepen our continuum of spiritual practice and labor for the full reception and integration of the influx of Supernal Light underway.

In this respect, it is essential that we understand the wisdom of lishma in a Union of Grace, the spiritual life and practice for its own sake, delivered from vital demand and lust for results, and all ego-grasping; the wisdom of a sacred dance with the Shekinah of the Messiah for the joy of the dance itself – “no goal but the path, the journey in the Way.”

In the midst of an ongoing cycle of influx of the Supernal Light it seems important that we remember this so that Divine Grace might have her fullest range of power and effect.

In closing we may also point out that this same process of opening from top to bottom on an individual level happens on a larger collective level through the advent of the Messiah or Divine Incarnation – the Human One of Light, or “Son of the Human One,” descending from the Pleroma of Light and then enacting the Great Ascension is the same action on a collective and universal level, the individual and universal being completely interconnected and interdependent, inseparable from one another.

Perhaps this carries our contemplation and discussion a little bit further, or if nothing else, perhaps it provides an essential key to the process of Supernal Realization, our Union of Grace.

May the Light of the Spiritual Sun shining in Sky Father reach into the depths of Earth Mother enlightening and liberating all our relations – May the Mother give birth to her children of Light and may they shine brightly in the Comity or Stars, the Great Pleroma of Light! This is our prayer in the Blessed Name of Hayyah Yeshua – the Living Yeshua. Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

IAOHANNES · Joined: 25 Aug 2008 Posts: 117

Greetings in the Light of the Messiah, Tau Malachi and all !
This last post of yours about the Supernal Influx was very interesting indeed .I've also read other authors commenting that in these times we are living that the awakening of the Kundalini happens from the top to the bottom or directly in the heart star , irradiating to the other stars .
Yet , what i really find fascinating about all this is that , in an experiential level , there really seems to be the perception of ascending and descending currents of energies .
I can't help remembering the Logion 29 of the Gospel of St Thomas

" 29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, that is a marvel, but if spirit came into being because of the body, that is a marvel of marvels.
Yet I marvel at how this great wealth has come to dwell in this poverty."( http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html)

I have Leloup's translation in Portuguese and the last phrase he translated in a very perceptive way as "How this Being who Is can inhabit this nothing ?"
If one realizes the Being who Is , Was and Will Be , whats the difference if he/she came from the "top" or the "bottom" ...?
The ascending and descending currents meet at the Heart that ,as all nondual traditions say, is the seat of our True Nature .
I guess that to watch and tender the two movements , the ascending and descending ones , is the Work .
We are always going up and down Jacob's Ladder , aren't we Tau Malachi ?
We go "up" in order for God to come "down" .
And God became human in Yeshua and Miria in order for us to become God !
Marvel of marvels ! Amen .
Blessing & Shalom

Tau Malachi · Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 6:28 pm Post subject: The Evolution of Vehicles

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

The non-dual realization does not negate relative distinction in the process of coming into being, nor does it negate the various gradations of consciousness, any more than in the union of the individual and universal in non-dual realization is there any negation of unique essence or the individual – the truth of one, many and none remains.

There is no doubt, in a movement from bottom to top, that if in a state of cosmic consciousness or the overmind there is recognition of a most subtle and sublime dualism, and it is brought into cessation, then the full Supernal Influx may occur; it is entirely possible for the Supernal Light-presence and Light-power to take up such – it could take up virtually any movement we might name. In these times, however, and in a culture that does not support a full spiritual retreat for the ripening of realization, the best method is from top to bottom; also in terms of the extreme egotism of these times it is best.

If we look into the twin currents, descending and ascending, the descending tends to be cooling and gentle, tempering, while the ascending tends to be hot and fierce, forceful – receiving the Light from above and setting the descending current into motion tempers the ascending force, or “serpent power” proper. Essentially, as disturbing as some experiences of Light Transmission might be at times, the Light from above and descending force dispels klippot in a relatively gentle fashion compared to the ascending force.

There is something to be said of preparation and purification, and the secret labor of the Holy Light from above before the awakening of the serpent power, for the serpent power itself is not enlightenment, and while it can generate very heavenly experiences, it can also generate very hellish ones. In terms of the apparently heavenly ones, interestingly enough, they can very well be some of the most powerful klippot of all, preventing the soul’s greater fruition and actual liberation.

If and when the Holy Light from above is brought down, such klippot are not so powerful, and are likely to be dispelled much more swiftly – especially if we have come to understand devekut-cleaving, and how to abide in the sanctuary of grace in this way.

Generally speaking, an opening bottom to top is tumultuous, and is commonly fraught with psychic abreactions at the outset, often leading to various gradations of dysfunction before resolution and true illumination. If we could afford not to work, but live in spiritual retreat, and if we were not seeking an integral self-realization, one taking up the full spectrum of life, then such dysfunctions for some time would be just fine; here in the West, and in these times, however, it is best to labor for our awakening in another way – hence our focus on the opening from top to bottom, or from the heart which is basically the same if observed closely.

That more and more individuals are noticing this descending movement reflects the influence of the Supernal Light within and behind, and reflects a development towards new and higher gradations of the Supernal Consciousness than what have been realized and embodied previously. You see, while we can speak of the first embodiment and transmission of Supernal Consciousness-Force in Yeshua Messiah and the Magdalene there were gradations of the Supernal Light Transmission that could not be imparted two thousand years ago, gradations that could not be embodied here in a greater matrix of souls.

It is very interesting, for if we look into this Union of Grace taught so long ago it is as though it was designed for our times – a time when almost nothing else could carry souls so far, or facilitate such radical leaps in the development and evolution of consciousness; in a word, it seems prophetic.

Here is an interesting contemplation: The angle of entrance, the way of approach, changes the realization, just as surely as various environmental conditions can change the growth of life and its fruition – this is connected to the awareness of the adept in their passage through Da’at that “things tend manifest as they expect them to manifest.” It is also connected to the awareness that the questions we ask determine the answers we receive – the question holding the answer within itself.

There is something about how consciousness has changed in humanity and the world, how our knowledge and understanding has changed in modern times, that allows for a different approach and, in turn, an experience of higher gradations of Light Transmission and Supernal Realization – most importantly, in the context of its raying out to a greater number of souls in the collective of humanity.

You might say that we are able to ask questions that disciples of the Master could not conceive of asking some two thousand years ago, and as a consequence we are able to receive answers that they could not receive.

Over time, methods that have been generated become obsolete, outdated, and no longer work so well for the people. We see this clearly in our own lineage today, for there are many methods that worked very well for my tzaddik and his companions that do not work so well for me and my spiritual friends; some teachings and practices continue to work very well, others must be modified in order to work, and still others must be cast away, and in this process some completely new teachings and practices must be generated for these times and the present generation.

This is where I much prefer experiments in modern spirituality and the new age, and various forms of alternative spirituality, to old age religion and various traditions unwilling to growth and change – evolution. In fact, even where such experiments appear to go awry or fail, as part of a greater movement seeking to be aware of the present and looking to the future, they are integral to the eventual success of a new and greater spirituality, and new and greater revelations of the Divine or Enlightenment.

Integral to a greater Supernal Realization in a larger number of individuals, it seems, is a labor to find and develop new ways, new approaches, and something of a play of experimentation, as in any other area of human development and study; only with the Supernal, to be successful, the inspiration must come from some gradation of Supernal Realization.

In this play, though, we cannot help but consider the generation of a new species through a process of trial and error in mutation, Nature enacting experimentation until the development of a new and viable species takes hold and thrives.

In this regard, there appears to be something essential about this shift in view of top to bottom instead of bottom to top – while the teachings about this appear to have been seeded a long time ago, now they seem to assume a sudden relevance to us and to the generation of vehicles of the Supernal Light Transmission for our times and for the future.

These were a few thoughts I felt inclined to include, adding another layer to the contemplation…

Having descended into the depths, may we ascend into the heights and bring all into fruition, returning to Makom (the Place). Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

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Tau Malachi · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 12:43 pm Post subject: Unique Essence & True Will

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

Yes, truly, the image of Sophia Stellarum, or the Virgin of Light, whose body is light, wearing a cloak of the starry night sky, is a perfect image of the Pleroma of Light as experienced in Supernal Consciousness. One the one hand, there is this single Holy Light, and on the other hand there are these many Holy Lights – there is the universal and the individual in union, the individual becoming the universal and the universal manifesting as the individual, and this Light-presence and Light-power rays out on a multiplicity of levels, throughout many and diverse dimensions, from the supernal dimensions, into the spiritual, causal, higher vital, mental, astral and material.

Perhaps most intriguing, most mysterious, and most wondrous, is how the unique essence is realized in this way, or how in this unity individuality remains.

Of course, this perception of the One in “quantum emanation” becoming Many is the mystery of Yahweh Elohim.

There is also something of the profound mystery of Eheieh in this perception – the I Am as the Holy One transcendent, and the I Am as a unique and individual emanation, immanent, these two aspects being inseparable from one another, one Living Presence and Power.

In other words, in the Supernal Consciousness there is a profound awareness of unity and individuality without contradiction, jut as there is a profound awareness of timeless-eternity and being, and time-eternity and becoming without contradiction – a vision of Great Beauty, Supernal Tiferet.

Here we may say, more than a gate or portal, the star, representing the soul of light, is a unique and individual emanation of the Pleroma of Light or Light Continuum, and though emanating from the Light Continuum, always it remains within the Light Continuum, as the Light Continuum. As a unique and individual emanation, it is a unique and individual actualization and realization of that Holy Light, there is a force of love and will in it unique to itself that, ultimately, it must realize and experience. There is Ratzon Elyon, the will and desire of the Supreme, but in us that Holy Ratzon is innate as our true will and inmost heart’s desires, and enacting our true will and our dreams we fulfill Ratzon Elyon in its unique manifestation in us, as us – in so doing another facet of this Diamond Being is realized, another emanation of the Holy One embodied.

The stars are dying, giving their life and light to the countless world-systems in the galaxies of the universe, and we may say that their shining is their true will and desire – if we contemplate this and meditate upon this, we may come to understand a very different interpretation of the single commandment given to us by Adonai Yeshua, “Love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, that they lay down their life for their friend.” Rather than a self-negation in some sort of false martyrdom, this is a self-affirmation of the fulfillment of our true will and desires, our true dreams, being who and what we are in the Holy One, in the Light Continuum. If we shine, if we follow our true will and desire, it will give life and light to all our relations, blessing them and uplifting them, facilitating their fulfillment along with our own.

We offer up our life, we give our life, by living our life to the fullest possible extent, living in Christ, as Christ, letting the Human One of Light shine from within us in all that we do.

In cycles of Supernal Influx, and in moments of Light Transmission, we are called to look and see our true will, and to look and see our inmost heart’s desire, and the empowerment is given to us to enact that holy will and desire, all as ordained in El Elyon, the Supreme.

In this we may know and understand something of the play of the co-creator with the Holy One in Supernal Realization – the great splendor of Yahweh Elohim Tzavaot.

When we speak of true will and desire we are speaking both spiritual and material in an integral weave of the sacred and mundane, the Pleroma and Entirety – and in this divine play of will and desire, the measure of righteousness and truth is love and compassion, and the union of the desire to receive with the desire to give. If and when there is love and compassion, whatever we do will be “righteous,” will be in the Light of Eheieh, the Divine I Am.

We may also say that true desire, true will, resonates with the Supernal Light – when our desire or dream is true, the Supernal Light becomes as the force of will fulfilling that desire or dream, for ourselves and for others; hence the play of synchronistic or auspicious flows, and wonderworking or theurgic actions.

In this, perhaps, we might gain deeper insight into the tumult or agitation that can occur in the experience of influxes of the Supernal Light. If, indeed, our true desire, or true will, resonates with the Supernal Light, then if there is a lack of resonance or there is agitation, it suggests a false desire or false will, a desire or will that is not in according with our soul of light and true being as we are in the Light Continuum. Essentially, in the experience of an influx of Supernal Light we are being purified of false desires, false wills, so that we might know and fulfill our true desire and will, the true dreams of our heart and soul.

Indeed, very often what we find, in terms of our desires and will, is that they are superficial, a phenomenon in the surface consciousness, something coming from outside of us instead of from within us – some imprint of family, environment, education and so on, which obscures and obstructs the recognition of our true desires and will, our true dreams. If the Supernal Light acts to dispel superficial or false desires, and acts to reveal and fulfill true desires, moving according to our true will, God’s will for us, then truly, this agitation is merciful and is compassionate, seeking our true satisfaction and fulfillment, delivering us from the cause of our sorrow and suffering, or lack of satisfaction.

The play of desire in heaven or on earth, when it accords with our true will, our true being, resonates with the Supernal Light – and that Holy Light tends to manifest that will and desire, in fact, it becomes that very movement, while remaining at rest, in repose.

As we might surmise, in the Supernal Consciousness, we discover this play of will and desire on many different levels, from the supernal dimensions to the physical, and it is all luminous, sacred and holy – all in the Divine Mother and all as the Divine Mother intends.

May we realize our true will and desire, and so live in Christ and acquire the gnosis of the Risen Christ, following our True Star and experiencing our fulfillment. Amen.

Shabbat Shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

Tau Malachi

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

There is something more to be said of the agitation of heaven and earth – according to the Pistis Sophia, a significant source of tumult arises from the Risen Christ shifting the movement of the celestial spheres and the sphere of fate, and the diminishing of the power of the archons associated with them.

According to the gospel the celestial spheres are made to turn to the left for six months and made to turn to the right for six months, and as we have said the “left” corresponds with Gevurah-Severity and the “right” with Hesed-Mercy. In speaking about the left and right, of course, the gospel is talking about the interaction of the law or karma and grace in Christ, the law remaining in effect until souls are fully established in the sanctuary of grace, and yet more, in non-dual realization or Supernal Realization.

If we look into the First Book of Pistis Sophia, chapter twenty-one, something very interesting is said. If an astrologer looks into the celestial spheres when they are turned to the left, then they will derive accurate predictions according to fate, the law of cause and effect, but if they look and the celestial spheres are turned to the right, their predictions will not be accurate. The same is said of those who consult and channel spirits for divination, if the archonic powers are turned to the left what they speak will come to pass, but if to the right it will not.

Now, six month cycles correspond to the periods between the equinoxes in the spring and autumn, for these are the times of the balance of power between light and darkness, the times of the shift to an increase of the light or increase of the darkness as the sun precedes towards summer or winter solstice. These times indicate a shift of consciousness towards the Pleroma of Light or the Entirety, for as we are told in the Gospel of St. Philip this world is “winter” and the world to come is “summer,” and they also correspond to the times of the transitions between aeons or ages, or great cycles of power.

If we look into the eight solar feasts in the Sophian Gnostic tradition, spring equinox corresponds to the feast of the crucifixion and resurrection, and fall equinox corresponds to the feast of the apocalypse or revelation – the fruition of the First Coming and fruition of the Second Coming.

This idea of six months of the year corresponding with Judgment and six months with Mercy does have a literal truth in the sphere of nature and the material world, especially in ancient times, and even not so long ago before industrial and technological advancements; the seasons do have this correspondence in our actual experience. Yet, on a spiritual level something more is being said – we have a capacity in our soul to transcend the stars of our birth, even to transform them, and in the sanctuary of grace, if and when we cleave and surrender to the Shekinah of the Messiah in full, the law of karma can be suspended or negated.

Here we can speak an open secret: If I am in Christ, if I cleave to the Risen Christ and enter into union, though I am in the world, I am not longer of the world – reborn of the Holy Spirit I am of the Pleroma of Light, and here and now I live in the Aeon of Light, the Age of the Holy Spirit, the Sun of Flowering. If I remember the Human One of Light in me, this Divine I Am, then I am no longer bound by the law or the stars of my birth, but my True Star, the Star of Grace, comes into effect.

This “True Star,” spoken of in the Gospel of St. Judas, is my true will, my true desire – it is my unique essence or divine spark (yechidah).

If we wish to gain insight into this we may contemplate it in connection to the five aspects of our holy soul – there is nefesh, ruach, neshamah, hayyah and yechidah.

Nefesh, our vital or bestial soul, and ruach, our human intelligence, are under the sphere of fate or the law – each incarnation they are formed anew, and the stars of our birth reflect the configuration of energy-intelligence that compose them. Until such time as we recognize and realize the inner aspects of the soul, for the most part ruach and nefesh are the expression of the karmic continuum of our soul in cosmic ignorance, “the dominion of the demiurge.” At the level of nefesh and ruach, apart from the influence of the holy neshamah and the inner aspects of our soul, we live in bondage to the ignorance and the law of cause and effect, karma.

Neshamah, our divine nature or supernal soul, is something of the threshold in us between the Entirety and sphere of fate, and the Pleroma and transcendence of the law – neshamah retains the karmic imprints or patterns, and yet she transcends the karmic continuum of the soul, being supernal and holding our supernal zelem-image in the eternal realm. This retention of karmic patterns is what facilitates the development and evolution of our soul towards awakening and Supernal Consciousness, but it is also what binds the soul, causing a backward and downward pull, retarding our progress.

Under the dominion of the demiurge, ignorance, and the dominion of the archons, the law, however saintly a soul might be, there is no freedom from the law and bondage – the law has never liberated any soul, but only through Divine Grace and Supernal Realization (gnosis of the Risen Christ) are souls delivered from bondage, enlightened and liberated.

Neshamah transcends the law, and so also do hayyah and yechidah – this is the soul of light in us, the nature of which is the Human One of Light, the Christ. Therefore, if we purify our nefesh and ruach, draw in the influence of our soul of light, we embody this transcendence, more or less.

Yechidah corresponds with Eheieh, the I Am, and corresponds with Ratzon Elyon, the will and desire of the Supreme, our own true will and true desire.

Here we can speak an open secret: If I cleave to the Risen Christ, and I enact my true will, my true desires and dreams, following my True Star, then all spiritual and celestial forces move in harmony with me, all subject to the Blessed Name of Yeshua I have “put on” – they turn to the right for me, and through Divine Grace all is accomplished.

As we are taught in the Gospel of St. Philip, in this way, if we have any need in the world we may ask our Holy Mother, and she will provide what we need from the “alien realm.”

Cleaving to the Risen Messiah, surrendering to the Shekinah of the Messiah, of course, I am no longer the doer, but the Messiah and Holy Spirit are the doer – Divine Grace accomplishes the actions of true will, the fulfillment of all dreams ordained by the Supreme; when the doer passes into repose and cessation in Union with Christ and the Holy Spirit, this Light-presence and Light-power, the soul is free from bondage to the law, and the soul transcends the stars of its birth.

Here we may remind, “when your will is the will of God, God’s will becomes your own.”

If I live as I am in the Holy Light, as I am in the Holy One of Being, then I embody the Divine I Am, and the Divine I Am becomes manifest as me – never having been born, the Divine I Am does not die; I Am, “without father, without mother, without genealogy (karma), having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but resembling the [Sun] of God, I abide as a priest of the order of Melchizedek forever.”

This Divine I Am is not bound by “stars of birth,” never having been born.

Here we may say that if we receive the full Supernal Influx and embody our neshamah, and the hayyah and yechidah within her, ruach and nefesh will undergo a radical transformation – we become most truly who we are, which is a very different person in Christ, and we receive new spiritual gifts and faculties.

On the one hand, the Holy One takes us up as we are; yet, on the other hand, taking us up, the Holy One transforms us into our supernal zelem-image, the image and likeness of Yahweh Elohim.

This is a great mystery and wonder!

Here we may say, when ruach and nefesh express hayyah and yechidah, and we embody our holy neshamah, ruach and nefesh become supernalized – in this is the generation of the Body of Glory and Body of Emanation from the Body of Truth (Amet).

Now here we can say, the Holy Light from “above,” the Holy Light from within, transcends the stars of our birth, and the opening of the interior stars from crown to root, or radiating from the heart, is the bringing in of that Divine Grace that transforms the stars of our birth – the opening from root to crown is under the dominion of the law, the opening from crown to root is under the covenant of grace, the Supernal Mercy of Christ.

Thus, in the initial movement, in the play of initiation, we seek the reception of that Holy Light from “above,” from the depths within us, which dispels the power of the ignorance and karma, and that brings about an opening and awakening from the “right,” the Mercy of Christ.

Here something must be said about true will and true desire – these are the vehicles of Light Transmission, and always in this play of self-realization in Christ as our self-realization unfolds a capacity for Light Transmission dawns, there is a distinct witness of the Holy Spirit. Thus, while we may not all be called as apostles or lineage-holders in our outward service, St. Peter teaches us that we all abide in sacred and holy priesthood, we are all light-bearers, healers and peacemakers, each according to our true will and true desire.

Indeed! Every action that accords with our true will and true desire – every dream given to us by the Holy Spirit, extends the Holy Light, brings healing and peace, and benefits our neighbors, all our relations; every such action brings tikkune, the shattering of klippot and uplifting of holy sparks.

This is true whether spiritual or material, apparently sacred or mundane.

Put simply, we are meant to shine as our True and Holy Star, realizing and embodying our unique essence, this I Am, on all levels – this is salvation, self-realization in Christ.

Based upon this, there is something more to be said of the turning of the celestial spheres – there is this play in the macrocosm and in the microcosm, and in Supernal Realization these two apparent manifestations of energy-intelligence are recognized as inseparable from one another. Indeed, in the generation of the Threefold Body, as much as the body of glory moves with, in and through the celestial spheres and heavens, they are all within the body of light.

There is something of an open secret here. When there is a reception of influxes of Supernal Light and an awakening, uplifting and bringing into cessation of the Serpent Power by this Holy Light, and true Clear Light Union transpires through Divine Grace, when the full Supernal Influx occurs, the body of light generated from this Great Natural Perfection is very different than before – it is a subtle body composed of the Pure Primordial Elements, corresponding to the Blessed Name of Yeshua. This, in turn, leads to the pure arising of the celestial spheres – the spheres turned to the “right,” and by way of movements of the Light-power in the Body of Glory and Body of Emanation the holy tzaddik or apostle can “make the stars dance,” internal and external, and so bears the Divine Power to cause celestial spheres to the left or to the right, binding or releasing energy-intelligences, karma.

We may contemplate this binding and releasing, invoking and banishing, this play of the pacification, enrichment, subjugation and destruction of spiritual forces – it is a very real and conscious play in the matrix of spiritual forces, divine, archonic and demonic, all in skillful means for the salvation of souls.

All spiritual forces are, indeed, subject to the Blessed Name of Yeshua – wearing this Body of Pure Vision, naturally and spontaneously all self-liberates as it arises.

On the most esoteric level, “agitation” indicates this tendency to self-liberation, and in closing we may say that it is liberation through “hearing the Word of God,” the True Light.

“Putting on the Perfect Light, Clear Light, the archons cannot see you so as to bind you” – you are free to the Great Ascension, Divine Rapture. Hallelu Yah! Amen!

May we be blessed to realize our Innate Perfection in Christ and to be taken up in Divine Rapture, drawing the whole world in ascent with us – descending, may we run and return in Christ. Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

Tau Malachi

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

There is something more that we might say of our True Star and our unique essence, our inmost being as a unique and individual emanation of the Divine I Am.

Essentially, our “true star” corresponds with our supernal zelem, our supernal image, and as we have said it corresponds with our true will, our true desire, the fulfillment of our soul’s mission, the fulfillment of our destiny. Here we may say that our zelem is a body of vision, the pure vision of our holy soul as we are in God, the True Light, and as with the visions beheld by the navim, the seers or prophets, it is an action, something to be enacted, lived and thus embodied.

As we discuss elsewhere, our true star corresponds with the power of Sabaoth the Good, which on the inmost level corresponds with the Divine Names and Partzufim – in the Holy Kabbalah, and as stated in Pistis Sophia also, “Sabaoth the Good” is Yahweh Tzavaot.

Yahweh Tzavaot is the Divine Name of Netzach, to which the celestial sphere of Nogah, Venus, or the “bright morning star” corresponds. At the level of Beriyah it is Archangel Haniel, the divine muse, and at the level of Yetzirah it is the Elim (or elohim), the greater and lesser divinities, or “gods and goddesses.”

In the Book of the Apocalypse we are told that the spiritual elect in Christ receive a new name, one known only to them and to the Holy One, and as we know and understand, that holy name given by God corresponds with our supernal zelem. In this we may gain some insight into our true star corresponding with “Sabaoth the Good,” for that true name we receive from the Holy Light is a Divine Name, and that image corresponding with the Name is a Partzufim, a personification of the Divine, a unique and individual emanation of the Divine I Am, Eheieh.

Our holy star, our true name and image, is a Name of God, the True Light, and is a personification of God, the Divine.

We may gain some insight into this by the mysteries spoken in the Pistis Sophia regarding the various souls and persons who appear in the Matrix of Light receiving and embodying the Soul of the Messiah, the Human One of Light – we hear of the Mother and Bride, and the Crone who gives birth to the Prophet, and we hear of the Prophet, the Opener of the Way, and Melchizedek, the Light-bearer, and of the Twelve Saviors who comes with the Christ, the Human One of Light; all of these are Partzufim below, embodying corresponding Partzufim above – they are emanation of Divine or Enlightened Being, unique and individual, yet the same in essence and nature.

We entertain something of this great mystery in our practices of Union with Partzuf, meditating upon various Partzufim and merging our mind, heart and body with them, in effect, becoming them and embodying their living presence and power. In the same way as these spiritual masters, when we embody our holy neshamah, and the hayyah and yechidah in her, or we “follow our true star,” we also become Partzufim below, and our ruach and nefesh is supernalized, taken up in divine rapture.

The attribute of “Sabaoth the Good” with Yahweh Tzavaot, corresponding with Netzach, gives insight into this process of self-realization in Christ.

First, Yahweh Tzavaot corresponds with the celestial spheres “turned to the right,” and to the subjugation of spiritual forces by the power of the Blessed Name – a drawing out of blessing from the stars of our birth and their transformation or “redemption” through the embodiment of the inmost aspects of our soul transcending them. Haniel, as the divine muse, reveals that this is a creative process, the labor of a co-creator, and that with each and every one of us this will be unique and individual, though the Human One of Light that shines from within us is the same in essence and nature. The Elim, as greater and lesser divinities, reveals that in this process we embody our divinity and become as divine beings, “gods and goddesses,” and as such that we bear the knowledge and power to consciously direct the forces of creation and to transform creation, or fulfill creation, as co-creators. Nogah, of course, indicates our role as “shining ones” or light-bearers, and as “heralds of the dawn of the Day of Be-With-Us,” the Age of the Holy Spirit or Sun of Flowering – the conscious evolution and labor for the Second Coming.

Nogah in Hebrew corresponds with the Dalet, the “door,” and here we may remind of what the Gospel of St. Philip teaches: “Do not despise the lamb for by it you see the door” – your true star, your fulfillment and exodus, transcendence.

Interestingly enough, this corresponds with being and becoming most truly yourself, being and becoming your Self as you are in Christ, as you are in God, the True Light – it is not copying someone else, but it is being yourself, your True Self, unique and individual, creative.

This reflects something of one of the greatest mysteries of creation, for in being who and what we are as co-creators, and enacting our true will, our true desire, having received everything from God, the True Light, it is ordained that in the fulfillment of our destiny we may actually give something more back, something new, the manifestation of the Holy Light according to our unique and individual essence actualized and realized, embodied.

This is our spiritual labor in the Holy Mother and in Christ – the generation of something new, unique and individual, realized in Sacred Unity.

May we be blessed to live in Christ in this way and so be empowered to be of benefit to all our relations. Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

Brooke

Tau Malachi · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 12:51 pm Post subject: Celebrating our portion

Greetings in the Light of the Messiah!

The Holy One has fashioned us as individuals – unique emanations, and underlying our individuality we exist in Sacred Unity; in fact, as much as our sameness in essence and nature, we can speak of our unique individuality as part of the Sacred Unity, for all creatures, all sentient beings, share this in common – each has a unique essence or divine spark.

Thus, being who and what we are as a unique individual honors Ratzon Elyon, the will and desire of the Supreme, and fulfills the intention of the Holy One in creation – this infinite diversity reflects the glory and greatness of the Holy One, the incredible splendor and beauty of creation is on account of this infinite diversity. Truly, it is a vision invoking holy awe and wonder – astonishment!

You touch upon an important point. Envy, coveting, is a terrible klippah or husk of darkness. It is for this reason that the Tenth Commandment, corresponding with Malkut-Kingdom, which is the First Commandment in ascent, is “do not covet.” This also implies “do not envy” and “do not be jealous.” If spoken in affirmation the commandment would be, “celebrate your own portion,” and “be who you are.”

Now the First Commandment, “You shall not place the gods of others before me,” and the Tenth Commandment, “Do not covet,” are intimately connected, and in the Pistis Sophia the “First Commandment” is among the Divine Names of the Holy One, as is “True Light.” The suggestion of the extension of one to ten implies that by celebrating our own portion, being who and what we are as unique individuals, we acquire knowledge of the Holy One and experience union with the Holy One. Indeed so, for God and Godhead indwells the inmost part of our soul, yechidah, the unique essence or divine spark, and therefore, to the extent that we express our true and unique essence we embody something of the Divine, God and Godhead (Eheieh, El Elyon).

Here we may say, hayyah and yechidah within neshamah transcends not only this world or Asiyah, but also transcends the world of angels and world of archangels, corresponding with Atzilut, the World of Sefirot, and Adam Kadmon, the World of the Primordial Human Being, the Messiah.

We are a unique and individual expression of the Human One of Light, but until we manifest our uniqueness, in effect, it does not exist, but remains only a potential not actualized.

There is something of an open secret in the correspondence of the Tenth Commandment and Malkut, the Holy Shekinah and kingdom of Ha-Shem; celebrating our own portion, enacting our true will, our true desire, and embodying our unique essence, is to manifest the kingdom of heaven on earth – this is how we experience the light realm within and all around us.

This is quite the opposite of the delusion of lack that covets and engages in self-negation, which we may say draws the soul into a hungry ghost realm or hell realm on earth – the plight of never being good enough, never having enough, perpetual dissatisfaction, immeasurable sorrow and suffering.

This delusion of lack, the illusion of separation, must be brought into cessation.

The powers of the archons are such things as pride and arrogance, greed and lust, envy and jealousy, fear and hate, and doubt – when it says that the archons steal the light-power of Pistis Sophia or our soul or light, this is exactly how our light-power is drained, when we give into negativity like this.

Pistis Sophia teaches us what to do when we see this happening, however; we confess and we repent, turning once again to the Truth and Light, and invoking the Holy Light we cleave to the Risen Messiah. Indeed, we let go of the shades and shadows of negativity, and restoring ourselves to spiritual self-worth and affirmation in Christ we reintegrate ourselves with the Light Continuum – we remember the Divine I Am, our divine spark, and we act so as to embody and express it.

If I am coveting, am I not putting the gods of others before the Holy One?

Here it must be said, when we enter into direct spiritual and mystical experience of the Risen Christ, acquiring gnosis of the Risen Christ, we receive our own gospel, our own knowledge, understanding and wisdom of the Gospel of Truth. In other words, we have our own unique and individual knowledge of God, the True Light, and of the revelation of Christ, the Human One of Light. In essence, each gospel is the same, but in expression, in manifestation, each is unique, different – and so it is meant to be.

Shall I covet the gospel of another, or seek my own Habad of the Gospel? Shall I covet the soul and gifts of another, or shall I seek to embody my own soul and cultivate and share my own gifts? What serves the will and desire of the Supreme, or what is ordained by the Supreme?

To covet on a spiritual or material level is just the same – the delusion of lack, the power of the demiurge and wiles of the devil in action, binding the soul and stealing its light-power.

We must recognize this – it is poison!

I cannot help but contemplate how very often a tzaddik or apostle may need to restrict the play of Light Transmission, the sharing of visions and play of wonderworking because self-negativity or agitation arising in their friends, the delusion of lack.

The shadow of the demiurge is rightly called Satan, the “adversary,” and Samael, “poison of the good” (or God).

We have to wonder how often, on account of this delusion of lack, we prevent the blessings and boons the Holy Mother intends for us from ever reaching us because of this fixation on various forms of self-negativity. The good news, though, is that at any moment we can let go of these shades and shadows, and, remembering the Truth and Light, we can restore our soul and reintegrate ourselves with the Light Realm and Light Continuum.

The Holy Shekinah cannot come to rest upon a depressed person, or a person filled with self-negativity and self-doubt; thus, we must cultivate joy, we must cultivate spiritual self-worth and confidence in Christ.

Here we may remind of a very simple, but very powerful practice. Instead of focusing on what is “wrong with us,” we focus upon what is “right with us,” one positive trait or quality; then we draw up another, and another, until we have many positive traits or qualities in our awareness, and we rejoice in the abundant goodness the Holy One has imbued us with, giving praise and thanks, and worshipping in the Shekinah of the Supreme.

Doing this with ourselves, we then also do this with others, celebrating the greatness and glory of our Creator, the Holy One of Being.

In this we honor the Holy One, for the presence of the Messiah is in us, and the Shekinah of the Messiah is with us, and it is the Holy One who has fashioned us in this innate perfection and beauty of Divine Light.

What does it mean to walk with Ha-Shem as Enoch walked with Ha-Shem, the initiate who was taken up in divine rapture and transfigured into Metatron, the Great Maggid of the Messiah? It means that we bring forth the Holy Light from within us, enacting our true will, our true desire, and thus embody our unique essence – it means we live as a unique individual in Christ and the Holy Spirit, this Light-presence and Light-power.

In closing we may say that the kingdom of heaven is much nearer to us than we think – truly it is within and all around us, we just need to have eyes to see it and the desire make it manifest in our lives.

Seeing the kingdom of heaven within and all around us, may we wear the body of vision we behold in the Risen Christ. Amen.

Shabbat Shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia

Tau Malachi · Posted: Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:49 pm Post subject: Ordeals of Initiation & Power

Greetings and blessings in the Light of the Messiah!

The story of the Pistis Sophia is basically a story of Light Transmission and spiritual empowerment – there is an energetic transmission woven with an oral transmission of teachings, the outset of which causes agitation, a disturbance in the matrix of spiritual forces and in the disciples of the Master.

It is the story of an empowerment because initiation only happens once – as the word “initiate” implies, it is the beginning, the first time we receive something of the Light Transmission, and everything following that is an empowerment, drawing upon that Seed of Light first implanted. The disciples have already received initiation, having lived with Adonai Yeshua for some three years, and having received teachings from the Hayyah Yeshua eleven years. Therefore, what transpires on the mount of Olives is an empowerment, one that brings their initiation and self-realization in Christ to fruition, fully empowering them as holy tzaddikim or apostles to teach and initiate at the level of the outer, inner and secret Gospel.

Today, for the most part, the inner and secret Gospel has become completely lost, preserved only here and there in some very small and obscure lineages, though there are some attempts to recover some aspects of it in alternative spirituality. The key of the inner and secret level of the Holy Gospel, however, depends upon energetic and oral transmissions, akin to what is being communicated in Pistis Sophia, a play of actual empowerments or Light Transmission, a play of Living Presence and Power based upon true gnosis, self-realization in Christ.

In this context, apart from the discussion in general about influxes of the Supernal Light, the Pistis Sophia is speaking about a process of initiation and empowerment, and the various cycles of our coming into being in the mystical journey as we entertain this dance of the Shekinah of the Messiah on an experiential level.

When speaking about the mysteries of Gevurah on the Tree of Life we often speak of the “ordeals of initiation” and “ordeals of power,” and in the Mystical Path of Guadalupe we know that power is called the “third enemy,” following fear and clarity as the first and second enemy, respectively. Given the length of time the disciples have been with the Master we may assume their agitation is an ordeal of power, an ordeal of empowerment.

Indeed, at the threshold, and crossing the threshold, of any new stage or cycle of our self-realization in Christ we will encounter shades and shadows, klippot, and something of an ordeal, a challenge, transpires as we labor for a “better resurrection,” a greater realization in Christ. Likewise, any time we take up the Light Transmission with our friends, archonic and demonic forces will be attracted and their influences will enter into play – we will confront both internal and external klippot, and they must be overcome.

Thus, when we enter into a movement of Light Transmission there is something of a continuum of preparation, self-purification and the generation of merit or light-power, and so also following such movements there is a similar labor in the Spirit, one seeking to dispel klippot and to reintegrate the sparks liberated from them. In fact, the greater labor of Light Transmission is not the instant of Light Transmission itself, but rather, it is the spiritual labor of preparation before hand and the spiritual labor of integration following – that’s our real labor or work in the spiritual life.

If we are unprepared, naturally the ordeals or challenges that may arise can be far more severe, far more disturbing; thus, whatever we may do to prepare ourselves for an influx of spiritual power and higher consciousness is wise. Likewise, if we do not consciously labor for the integration of peak experience, then whatever we might have experienced and glimpsed, or recognized, will not be realized, embodied.

Typically speaking, a lack of preparation leads to a lack of integration. We see this, for example, with premature awakenings of the serpent power when individuals are unprepared. Generally, they mistake their peak experience and recognition for realization, and therefore do not fully labor for its integration or actual realization, and most often they assume that they are far more advanced in the mystical journey than they actually are. The result, of course, is a very severe klippah that will prevent them from receiving further teachings and empowerments, or spiritual assistance, and that will likely prevent their full self-realization in this life – it is something of the “know-it-all syndrome” that prevents receptivity.

Similar to this, though, something of the opposite side of the coin, is when an aspirant falls into fear, insecurity and self-doubt.

As you might imagine, there are all manner of klippot that might arise in between these two extremes; but always they have one and the same root, self-cherishing, attachment and aversion – and we may say this plight of the ignorance is natural here, and we all will wrestle with it.

The ego and the shadow self are not personified as the demiurge and the devil for no reason, and all authentic wisdom traditions speak of archonic and demonic forces, and it is not without cause – it is a universal experience that we encounter significant klippot or barriers to our self-realization, or enlightenment and liberation. If that were not the case, no doubt, there would be many more Christs or Buddhas running around in the world – but as it is, they are relatively few and far between.

Thus, in speaking about the agitation of these disciples who are, without a doubt, souls of very lofty grades we are being taught about the need for an ongoing labor of self-purification and the generation of merit or light-power, both in preparation for initiation and empowerments, and for integration, the fruition of the movements of Light Transmission.

We see this in the continuum of prayer, meditation and sacred ceremony that tzaddikim or apostles keep when they are called to perform an initiation or empowerment for a spiritual friend – unless it is a movement in the power of the moment inspired by the Holy Spirit, always they labor in advance for their spiritual friends, laboring in secret for their purification and blessing, or for the most auspicious circumstances for the initiation or empowerment. Likewise, once the initiation or empowerment occurs they continue in their spiritual labor for their friends, uplifting them in prayer, holding them in their heart during meditation, and performing sacred ceremony for their friends as inspired by the Christ presence and Holy Spirit, helping in the process of integration on an energetic level. Indeed, this is part of the reason that the holy tzaddik or apostle is the first “object of refuge” in the inner dimension of the Threefold Sanctuary of Melchizedek – they actively extend sanctuary and spiritual assistance to their companions.

Naturally, though, we do not just rely upon the labor of our tzaddik, but seeking initiation or empowerment we ourselves take up the very same continuum, deepening our prayers and meditations, our spiritual practice, in preparation, and also in integration; and as we do this, we do not do so for ourselves alone, but for the sake of all our relations, praying that the way might be opened for others through our own efforts.

Whatever ordeals or challenges might arise, whatever klippot we might need to address, internal or external, we do so not only for ourselves alone, but also for our neighbors, all our relations, for we know that whatever we might overcome helps open the way for the victory of other living spirits and souls in Christ.

In this, perhaps, we might gain some insight into an esoteric meaning of “taking up our cross,” understanding that the tikkune or reintegration of our soul is the tikkune of the world, and more, the tikkune of the world of spirits and angels, the tikkune of the world of archangels and great cosmic forces, and the tikkune of the World of the Sefirot.

In this regard, as demonstrated by Master Yeshua, we are not concerned with the severity of the ordeals or challenges that we might face in this Great Work, but rather, if and when we face great challenges it is a boon, for overcoming them in the Risen Christ we will benefit others – the greater the challenge, the greater the Holy Light will shine when the challenge is overcome.

This is reflected by the teachings of St. James in the New Testament when he teaches us to consider it nothing but joy when we face trails and tribulations of any kind, for by it our faith matures and our gnosis of Christ is brought to fruition.

If in the midst of the agitation, or trial and tribulation, we can rejoice, how much more, then, in the realization of the kingdom of heaven, our full reintegration with the Light Continuum?

Here we may say, in Christ there is no issue of worthiness or unworthiness – all are made worthy in Christ; it is merely an issue of a co-labor and cooperation with Divine Grace, an active and dynamic surrender in which we take up our cross and enact our true will – a labor to live according to the Truth and Light revealed to us.

This seemed a good extension of our contemplation and discourse on the agitation of heaven, earth and the disciples.

May we rejoice in the labor and in the experience of the journey – rejoicing in the love-play of the Groom and Bride, while awaiting our fruition. Amen.

Blessings & shalom!
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Tau Malachi
Sophia Fellowship
Ecclesia Pistis Sophia