Not the subjective reasoning of this day and age, of the scientists that try to explain these things, and in doing so, explain them in the wrong way. Not only of this solar system, but many solar systems. He then created the material world, which, like all creations, was a reflection of the personality of its creator. Haer. For his proclamation, he used John the Baptist. [9] That certainly fits the demiurges personality as described in their texts.). The sexual organs, the genitalia. He believed the name's second part to derive from Syriac: , romanized:abbh, lit. The first letter of Ain, is Aleph. But, how much solar energy we have within depends upon the quality of work that we do, in order to gather that force. [2][3] In the Apocryphon of John, "Yaldabaoth" is the first of three names of the domineering archon, along with Saklas and Samael. Thou shalt have no other (26 = 8, infinite, ) Elohim beyond my face. But if Jesus had been acting consistently and seeking a trusted companion who could facilitate his necessary martyrdom, then all the mental and moral garbage about the Jewish frame-up of the Redeemer goes straight over the side. A Separate God: The Origins and Teachings of Gnosticism. And he is impious in his arrogance which is in him. This is what you eat. To be sure, the idea that Barbelo, the divine mother of Christ, is identical to the Holy Spirit is seldom explicitly asserted in Gnostic texts. Consider the Apostle Pauls remarks to Peter on the Mosaic Law, the centerpiece of Judaism, in Galatians 2:11-21: We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ. The only one that I know who penetrated into the Ain, and then came out in order to help us, is the Master Aberamentho, Jesus of Nazareth. Ant. In the Gospel of Judas (hereafter GJ), Judas makes an important confession about the identity of Jesus, saying: "I know who you are and from what place you have come. It is the completion of all the work. So, that Mantra, that conjuration, is very strong. And the Spirit of El-Ha-Yam (the Sea-God, Binah) moved upon the face of the (sexual) waters. Thereafter, Genesis continues: And El-Ha-Yam (the Sea-God, Binah) said, Let there be light: and there was light.. 17 Mar 2023 04:31:05 A Master? Easy to understand, right? "This is Jacobs ladder, which goes from Earth to heaven. Sakla, Fool, Creator of Humans, The Fool of God, God's Eater, Samael, Evil Michael, Right Hand of. [14] Ptrement, Simone. [j][31], Gnosticism originated in the late 1st century CE in non-rabbinical Jewish and early Christian sects. All rights reserved. That is precisely the point. Truly I [say] to you, no hand of a mortal human [will fall] upon me. There are many beautiful churches, temples, etc of the different religions; if the adherents of those religions really practiced what they preach, those temples, synagogues, mosques, or any temples of any religion, would gather Christ. In English, we pronounce the two words in the same way. But since Jesus destroyed his kingdom instead of promoting it, Yaldabaoth had him crucified. But, when we learn to develop intuition, that instinct becomes an intuitive sense, and we say, "I hear the word of God." We are capable of achieving that too. Sometimes known as the Gnostic texts, they are the ones that were rejected as noncanonical when the early church made its vain attempt to standardize Christian dogma. Barbl is often depicted as a supreme female principle, the single passive antecedent of creation in its manifoldness. These are different titles for the same thing; what is the Treasury of the Light? God the Father, Barbelo the Mother, and Christ the Son form a three-member divine family. Barbelo, also known as Barbl, is the Aeon of impenetrability, stasis and ineffability and refers to the first emanation of Asherah in several forms of Gnostic cosmogony. ", The Pleiades are comprised of seven Suns; ours is the 7th. Before his martyrdom, Christ escaped from the bodily shell and returned in the spiritual world. Other articles where Barbelo is discussed: gnosticism: Adversus haereses: (eternal entity or age) named Barbelo and an unnameable Father, perhaps to be understood as female and male aspects, respectively, of the highest god. [e][12] This supposed attestation stemmed from a Targum and was merely a corrupted reading of Aramaic: , romanized: khth, lit. Introduction to Gnosticism: Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds. Vall. So, we have Kether-Chokmah-Binah. [15], Scholem's own theory rendered the name as Yald' Abaoth. The birthplace of Jesus was (the stable of) Beth-Lehem. Habel is related with our consciousness. Saklas is one of the false angels created by Yaldabaoth alongside the Archons to serve him. "because did there ( balal) confound (mix, blend, intermingle; mash) the language of all the earth: and from thence did scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.. But, the ritual of the Eucharist, when celebrated by someone that is truly following Barbelo, it is powerful. In the words of the Valentinian Gnostic Gospel of Philip, Some said Mary became pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Here we are not addressing the infinite; we are only addressing our own particular galaxy. From where did this Iod-Hei-Vav emanate? He is also the herald of Yaldabaoth in Human Realm. The History, Mythology, and Worldview of Gnostic Christianity. In ancient Gnostic texts, Barbelo is the Divine Mother of all and the Forethought of the Infinite One. [37] Gnostic Christian doctrines rely on a dualistic cosmology that implies the eternal conflict between good and evil, and a conception of the serpent as the liberating savior and bestower of knowledge to humankind opposed to the Demiurge or creator god, identified with the Yaweh from the Hebrew Bible. Malkuth and Yesod below, and Kether above. It is Bel, the solar light. Yaldabaoth appears as a rebellious angel both in the apocryphal Gospel of Judas and the Gnostic work Hypostasis of the Archons. Now, from the Omeyocan, from that Absolute Abstract Space, emerges any infinite. But when we consider the intellectual and spiritual environment within which Gnosticism arose one that was dominated by Platos long shadow, and where Christians were still trying to decide on the basics of their new religion and separate it from Judaism the Gnostic conception of the demiurge makes a lot more sense. Indeed, the Solar Absolute is not formed by one Sun, but by many. Because Kain and Abel are symbols of a permutation that we have to work with. According to their view Barbl lives "above in the eighth heaven"; she had been 'put forth' () "of the Father"; she was mother of Yaldabaoth (some said, of Sabaoth), who insolently took possession of the seventh heaven, and proclaimed himself to be the only God; and when she heard this word she lamented. Most famously so in the earliest known depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus, the Alexamenos graffito, where a Christian by the name of Alexamenos is shown worshipping a donkey-headed crucified god. When we read this, we have to comprehend that he is not addressing his physical personality, but his own spiritual force, his own archetype, which is one with that Solar Absolute. Any planet, in itself, is an amphora that receives and gives. p.393 A; in Esai. For he said, 'I am God and there is no other God beside me,' for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come." Apocryphon of John, ca. 4 p.361 c; in Amos iii. Master Samael says the infinite is symbolized with the 8. Yaldabaoth, otherwise known as Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth (/ j l d b e /; Coptic: , Latin: Ialdabaoth), is a malevolent God and creator of the material world in various Gnostic sects and movements, sometimes represented as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent. That solar light, Bel, is in Christianity called Belen. I talk, but, I am talkING that ING is the "son" of my throat, because it is from my throat that the words emerge. Yald' being Aramaic: , romanized: yald[g] but translated as 'begetter', not 'child' and Abaoth being a term attested in magic texts, descending from Hebrew: , romanized:Tzevaot, lit. Transcription from: Defense for Spiritual Warfare Course. There are men, which are Solar men; other men which are galactic men; other men which are infinite men and other men who are multi-infinite men, whose consciousness penetrates many infinites, whole universes. Several plausible etymologies of the name (, , , ) have been proposed. It is very sad to see, in this day and age, the intellectual souls or intellectual animas, the intellectual animals, scarcely do they have intuition; they have instinct. Instructor: Yes; the shape of the infinite, as we explained it, right? [23] From this arose a popular response to the Jewish accusation that Egyptians were merely worshipping beasts, namely that, in truth, the Jews themselves worshipped a beast, a donkey or a donkey-headed man, ie Seth. The union of many Barbelos is the Barbelo, the Solar Absolute wanted to enter into the womb of the unmanifested Mother, they can do that after penetrating into Aur, the Aurus, Horus. The wise man told the queen to have her subjects gather 100 mirrors. So, now you understand that when the Bible addresses Seth, it says, "And Adam has a son, and his name was Seth." This is why it is stated that Kain and Abel were brothers, because of the inner-relationship of the sexual glands with the pineal gland. From his lonely position where his madness and conceit could go unchecked, the demiurge gave birth to the archons (rulers[10]), beings who were like him and could help him administer the material world. You find that solar light in the volcano Kilauea; that volcano is vomiting the solar light in the form of lava, that is erupting from its center, within the earth. When we eat animals, who also collect the solar light, we gain that light. Early Christians were highly critical of many of the particulars of Judaism, asserting that Christ had come to correct what the Jews had gotten wrong. I can also speak Spanish, but, in English you understand this very well. That is why the law, which is called the Cosmic-Common-Trogo-Auto-Egocrat the law of the reciprocal nourishment of all species, on every planet; "eat, and be eaten" is related with the solar light. The Judas gospel puts legends most notorious traitor in a new lightas the man who enjoyed his masters most intimate confidence, and who was given the crucial task of helping him shed his fleshly mortality. Right before Passover, as the disciples are praying, Jesus sneers at their innocence. Introduction to Gnosticism: Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds. Very few. So, Barbelo is translated as, "the son of the Sun." And, Master Jesus of Nazareth (Master Aberamentho) said that he came from that region. 'son of shame/Ba'al'. This is how we understand that. But things only get more obscure and confusing as you continue reading the text. Now, let us penetrate, from the galaxy, into our solar system. Now, in the Bible, Seth is similar to Jesus Christ, in that way. Saturn. That means that particular individuality is in everybody. Bethlehem is showing you the solar light; the house of the bread of life. Egyptian receptions of the Exodus story were widely negative, because it insulted their gods and praised their suffering. Of course, this sphere, which we are showing in this graphic, is not easy to perceive like when we perceive the Earth; the sphere of the Earth, in comparison with the infinite, is nothing. That is why the scientists think that the galaxies are expanding outwardly into space; it's true. Of course, he is a Master of many previous cosmic days, and now he is manifesting as a Paramarthasatya in this cosmic day; but he fought for that. We need to fill that in us. Evil, Wrath, Corruption I have worked with it, and I am developing it. If any self-realized Master comes to us and says, "I am part of that region of Barbelo" we will understand that; any self-realized Master is part of that. In the graphic we see this beautiful image of the galaxy that is the neighbor of our own, which is called Andromeda: beautiful. You cannot sing it mechanically, because you will receive little benefit from it. If you don't know what the 7th symphony of Beethoven is, I advise you to listen to it; that is beautiful but, in comparison with hearing that in space; everything was completely dark, only the river of sound is what I saw and heard. We give to the gathering of many galaxies the name "infinite" there is no real name for it, in English. [37][34] Gnostic Christians considered the Hebrew God of the Old Testament as the evil, false god and creator of the material universe, and the Unknown God of the Gospel, the father of Jesus Christ and creator of the spiritual world, as the true, good God. [3] Lewis, Nicola Denzey. In the most famous variation of narratives alleging Jewish onolatry Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleucid king famous for raiding the Jerusalem Temple, supposedly discovered, that its Holiest of Holies was not empty, but instead contained a donkey idol. Here, we are addressing this in an objective cosmic way: When you divide the word Berashith , extracting from it the Bar , then we see that it is addressing that particular, individual son ( Bar) within us. It is only black to our sight, because with our physical sight we only perceive a narrow band of light. p. 55. Now, when we address the Tree of Life, in the world of Atziluth, we name each Sephirah with a sacred name that we have written in English (with Latin letters) and in Hebrew, and we place the word Ain-Elohim (Aelohim) in order to show you how this is hidden in the scriptures. Gender I have had many experiences in the interior worlds, where that ultra-violet light is, for me, darkness, because I still do not possess the common sense necessary to penetrate into that light. Each one of us, in ourselves, is an amphora, that takes in, and sends out. If we wonder, what is Belilin? The latter two also cited a supposed attestation for Aramaic: , romanized: bhth, lit. Barbelo in Gnosticism is the first emanation of God, often described as a mother-father figure. So the Gnostics attribution of the act of creation to someone other than the ultimate God was hardly radical by the standards of the Christianity and Judaism of their time indeed, it was downright conventional. 2010. Seth replaces Habel when we transmute the solar light, when we control Kain, and kill Kain. There we have something to meditate on. [14] 1 John 5:19 is even more blunt: We know that we are Gods children, and that the whole world lies under the power of the evil one.[15], The Christians of the first and second centuries, including the Gnostics, were tasked with the monumental project of figuring out what to do with the Old Testament that they were supplanting with their own New Testament. In the words of Simone Ptrement, they were attempting to limit the value of the Old Testament within a religion that nevertheless preserves it.[16]. If that initiate of the Solar Absolute, if that Barbelo you could also call it Barbelo, individually speaking but Barbelo is something expanded, it is beyond the infinite. Naming and associations. Matter however interpreted it to mean 'chaos', thus translating Yaldaboath as "child of darkness [] an element of chaos". [32] In the formation of Christianity, various sectarian groups, labeled "gnostics" by their opponents, emphasised spiritual knowledge (gnosis) of the divine spark within, over faith (pistis) in the teachings and traditions of the various communities of Christians. You might ask, "A river of music?" Audience: Could you explain the first slide with the extract from the Pistis Sophia, mentioning that only one is element is brought from Barbelo, and that the others are from the treasury of the Light? vi. Thus, Babel, is the gate of the Sun. 'bringing forth'. So, we receive the energy of the Sun, the solar Kether, from the upper V or upper angle of the rune Ingwaz. According to The Hypostasis of the Archons and On the Origin of the World, it was Sophia, who rebuked him and gave him this name, Samael. The amphora absorbs, takes the energy from its base, and from the bowl that is above, into our heart; this is why we sing, "Amphora of Salvation, I would like to be next to thee" Who is this "thee"? Daniel McCoy 2019-2021. "Materialism has no power over me," because I am filled with the solar light. Naming and associations The Ophites accepted the existence of these seven archons (Origen, Contra Celsum, vi. I have brought the water and the fire out of the region of the Light of the lights of the Treasury of the Light; and I have brought the wine and the blood out of the region of Barbelo.. [7] Meyer, Marvin. You find Belilin in Psalm 49: 12. Translated by John Bowden. Bread, or the solar light, is in the Middle East symbolized with wheat. Because that light is dark to our eyes. Their Triad was represented by () Seth, () Kain, and () Abel; Kain ( nest) represented the flesh and Abel ( vanity, the Bel) the mediator (the mediator is the Christ, the Son, the solar force). But never mind these trifling failures of analogy. Ye-S-Od is formed by the serpent, Kain, which represents that nest, together with the Yod. But, if they say that the origin of that expansion is the big bang, an explosion, that is wrong. Of course, we are talking about the Ing-land, England, of ancient times. An atomic weight table of the elements of nature. The square in the center of Ingwaz relates to Tiphereth; the human soul, or Bel-Ing the son of Bel. The first name is Yaltabaoth, the second is Saklas ["fool"], and the third is Samael. [3] Yaldabaoth made a covenant with Abraham, in which he was obligated to serve him along with his descendants. So, in other words, the energy that we collect by chanting Belilin is in accordance with our level of consciousness. But, they think that they are just moving further and further away from one another, into the empty space in a never ending way No: The infinite has a limit; it is called the Teuhtlampa. Shut up, Morning Star. We find the solar light in the plant kingdom; when we eat any plant, we absorb the vitamins from that plant. Several texts mention Saklas and Satan (the enemy) as . [f] Additionally, Scholem argued that based on the earliest textual data, which termed Yaldabaoth "the King of Chaos", he was claimed to be the progenitor of chaos, not its progeny. After all, the Gospel of Luke (4:6) and the Gospel of Matthew (4:8) assume that Satan is the ruler of the world when Satan offers Jesus the world in exchange for his worship. In the Apocryphon of John c. AD 120180, the second name of Yaltabaoth is Saklas ["fool"], and the third is Samael. How could we personify the Absolute Abstract Space? In Hebrew, the word Lin, Leen means; to lodge, stop over, pass the night, to dwell, abide, (make to) murmur, to stop (usually overnight); abide (all night), continue, dwell, be left, lie all night, (cause to) lodge (all night, in, -ing, this night), remain, tarry (all night, that night). When we say planets of Christ, we are again addressing those Suns; a Sun is a perfectly developed planet. Harvard University Press. The Omeyocan is the navel where the Diverse becomes Universe. [12], In his proposed 1967 etymology Adam[de], already diverted from the then majority view and translated Aramaic: , romanized: yald similarly to Scholem, as German: Erzeugung, lit. The word Belilin means the manner, and outcome, of the gathering of those forces, those energies, of Bel. But, if we are intelligent, we can take advantage of that solar energy in us, in order to become solar men. For example, he lied when he claimed to be the only god and that Adam and Eve would die if they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; he insulted his mother and father by refusing to acknowledge their existence; he made a graven image of the divine when he modeled the material world on his corrupt and ignorant misunderstanding of Heaven; and he committed adultery by attempting to rape Eve. Since God does not enter into the material world because it is impure, Barbelo is an intermediary realm from which the material world can be created without contaminating God. When Heracles is sent by Elohim as "a prophet of the uncircumcision" to overcome "the twelve evil angels of the creation," i. e. the maternal angels, Babel, now identical with Omphale, beguiles and enfeebles him (p.156; x. This is what the scientists see in their telescopes; the galaxies moving from each other in the infinite space. We feed ourselves with solar light in many ways. The first Belilin that we sing, brings the forces from above. In my experience they were asking about my own particular cosmic development, and I was about to answer, when the other Christian said, "No, I am Christian." p. 46. Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Do we have that faculty? This fragment may or may not be related to the Nag Hammadi librarya collection of gospels, including those of Thomas and Mary Magdalene, that were unearthed near an ancient Egyptian monastery in 1945. Barbelo, the solar light permeates the space; Bel is everywhere, just as Prana is everywhere, as quanta is everywhere, in the form of energy. saklas and barbelo. Let us understand that infinite is a sphere, in its movement. This is how the Master Jesus addresses this in the Pistis Sophia. No, they knew that the Sun was the physical body of one of those Suns, of the Solar Absolute, which they called Ra. Given how many discrepancies there are between the four remaining Gospels of the New Testament, one can almost sympathize with Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria, who in an Easter letter in the fourth century tried to boil down the number of approved books to 27. But, Akash is matter as a substance; not concrete, but matter that has the possibility of having form. Darkness alone filled the boundless all, for father, mother and son were once more one, and the son had not awakened yet for the new wheel, and his pilgrimage thereon. - Stanzas of Dzyan 1:5. [20], The story of the Exodus, featured in the Hebrew Bible, speaks of the Jews as a nation betrayed and subjugated by the Pharaoh, for whom Yahweh subjects Egyptians to ten plagues destroying their country, defiling the Nile, and killing all their first-born sons. The Barbeloites were a baptizing group that in the mid-2nd century fused with Christian baptizing groups. This he interpreted however to describe more broadly 'the power of generation'; thus suggesting the name to mean 'the bringing fourth of the power of generation'. To keep the angels in subjection, Yaldabaoth generated the material universe. The number 8 is the symbol of the infinite. For instance, it is written in the Bible that Moses could talk face to face with God. The inexhaustible bag of great possibilities has the shape of a spiral galaxy. Gnosticism Explained strives to provide a reliable, accessible, and engaging introduction to the type of early Christianity known as Gnosticism, with scholarly sources cited throughout. Barbl is found in other Nag Hammadi writings: In Zostrianos, Barbelo has three sublevels or subaeons that represent three distinct phases:[2]. The Protocosmos is formed by millions of Suns. We do not see the ultra-violet light. Well, we will state, according to my understanding, that those black holes is what we call the Omeyocan. Thus it inspired Egyptian works retelling the story, but changing its details to mock the Jews and exalt Egypt and its gods. But in the time when Gnosticism arose (the late first or early second century AD), that wasnt really the case. For Plato and other pagan Greek and Roman philosophers who followed him, the material world was the creation of a divine craftsman who made the world the best reflection of the perfect spiritual world of the Forms that was possible given the constraints of matter. The emanation of Barbl may be said to function as an intermediary generative aspect of the Divine, or as an abstraction of the generative aspect of the Divine through its Fullness. That is a type of intelligence that controls this infinite and that is in union with all of the Suns of this infinite, which, in turn, are related with all the galaxies of this infinite, including our solar system. And she intimated that what has been taken from the Mother on High by the archon who made the world, and others with himgods, demons, and angelsmust be gathered from the power in the bodies, through the male and female emissions. If we become solar men that is what the Absolute wants; for us to become Solar men, Solar human beings, in order to be one, as Jesus is, with the infinite. The Judas gospel would make one huge difference if it was accepted. That is the purpose of having a physical body; to transmute that solar light. 6th Heaven and 7th Heaven . But the Gnostics influences all portrayed these divine helpers as benevolent and their work as in harmony with the wishes of the perfectly good ultimate God. The Sethian Poets, in their Odes, sang such a persecution. Amphora of Salvation, I would like to be next to thee. The creative power of his thought is Barbelo, the invisible virginal spirit, the supreme female (bearing = creating) principle. Indubitably, Barbelo is what in Kabbalah is called the Ain Soph Aur, which is the third aspect of the Absolute Abstract Space. 31; a nearly identical list is given in On the Origin of the World): Yaldabaoth, called also Saklas who emerged later, Archon of fornication and Samael. or even just smaller christian sects like gnostic idealogies because there is just so much to explore with like saklas and the demiurge or barbelo which i think can be so much scarier than fucking idk beelzebub who ive seen like 100000x times. You can experience that region as a "tourist" but that doesn't mean you belong there. The Spirit bestowed five powers upon her: image of the invisible spirit, foreknowledge, indestructibility, eternal life and truth. When we sing this mantra, in this way, we understand that Bel is the solar energy that is entering into our three brains.
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