September 16, 2006

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  The Ten Major Principles of the Gnostic Revelation   From Exegesis, by Philip K. Dick The Gnostic Christians of the second century believed that only a special revelation of knowledge rather than faith could save a person. The contents of this revelation could not be received empirically or derived a priori. a priori is used in philosophy to refer to a type of knowledge that is independent of experience or non-empirical. They considered this special gnosis so valuable that it must be kept secret. Here are the ten major principles of the gnostic revelation:         1. The creator of this world is demented.  (Ok some evidence exists for this suggestion)  {yin-yang dualism~causality  } 2.The world is not as it appears, in order to hide the evil in it, a delusive veil obscuring it and the deranged deity. ( Agree but I don’t see much of a veil?)  3. The past and the future veil the present moment  form our sight and we are  the  deity that is our collective consciousness    (full marks on this point, and extra credit even!!)        4. There is another, better realm of God, and all our efforts are to be directed toward returning there  bringing it here (hum… a better world in th future? )  5. Our actual lives stretch thousands of years back, and we can be made to remember our origin in the stars. (the information exchange through our morphic resonance link to the conscious energy field explains this nicely)  6. Each of us has a divine counterpart unfallen who can reach a hand down to us to awaken us. This other personality is the authentic waking self; the one we have now is asleep and minor. We are in fact asleep, and in the hands of a dangerous magician disguised as a good god, the deranged creator deity. The bleakness, the evil and pain in this world, the fact that it is a deterministic prison controlled by the demented creator causes us willingly to split with the reality principle early in life, and so to speak willingly fall asleep in delusion. (a religious interpretation of the contrast between unconscious egoic mind and your conscious presence?) 7. You can pass from the delusional prison world into the peaceful kingdom if the True Good God places you under His grace and allows you to see reality through His eyes. (anthropomorphizing ia a common trend in all attempts to explain religious experiences… check minus for this one… maybe? Stay on the path .. become present in your life..and  you will know for yourself  “His?” grace and “His” eyes…are found as one within  your own presence )  8. Christ gave, rather than received, revelation; he taught his followers how to enter the kingdom while still alive, where other mystery religions only bring about amnesis: knowledge of it at the “other time” in “the other realm,” not here. ( Yes…. the kingdom is here and now)  He causes it to come here, and is the living agency to the Sole Good God (i.e. the Logos).  Probably the real, secret Christian church still exists, long underground, with the living Corpus Christi as its head or ruler, the members absorbed into it. Through participation in it they probably have vast, seemingly magical powers. (???)  9. The division into “two times” (good and evil) and “two realms” (good and evil) will abruptly end with victory for the good time here, as the presently invisible kingdom separates and becomes visible. We cannot know the date. (the end of duality …is this pointing? to the transformation of human consciousness from it’s current state of  dominance by the egoic mind)  10. During this time period we are on the sifting bridge being judged according to which power we give allegiance to, the deranged creator demiurge of this world or the One Good God and his kingdom, whom we know through Christ. (this one needs serious work but if you remove the idea of judgment and factor in the karma of responsibility of our misguided intentions it almost works  )  To know these ten principles of Gnostic Christianity is to court disaster. (really according to whom?)      given the state of human consciousness today      don’t we already have disaster firmly in our court?

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