“I am first thought, the thought that is in light. I am movement that is in all, she in whom the realm of all takes its stand, the firstborn among those who came into being, she who exists before all. She is called by three names, although she exists alone, since she is perfect. I am invisible within the thought of the invisible one. I am revealed in the immeasurable, ineffable things. I am intangible, dwelling in the intangible. I move in every creature. I am the life of my afterthought that is within every power and every eternal movement, and in invisible lights, and within the powers and angels and demons and every soul in Tartaros, and in every material soul. I live in those who came into being. I move in everyone and I enter them. I walk upright, and those who sleep I awaken. And I am the sight of those who dwell in sleep. I am the invisible one in all. I counsel those who are hidden, since I know the whole realm of all that exists in it. I am numberless beyond everyone. I am immeasurable, ineffable, yet whenever I wish, I shall reveal myself. I am the head of all. I am before all, and I am all, since I am in everyone. I am a voice speaking softly. I am from the beginning. I am in the silence that surrounds every one of them. And the hidden voice is in me, in intangible, immeasurable thought, in the immeasurable silence. I descended into the underworld and shone down on the darkness. I poured water. I am hidden in radiant waters. I gradually dawn on all by my thought. I am weighed down with the voice. Through me knowledge comes. I am in the ineffable and unknowable. I am perception and knowledge, uttering a voice by means of thought. I am the real voice. I cry out in everyone, and they recognize it, since a seed lives in them. I am the father’s thought, and through me came the voice: the knowledge of everlasting things. I am as thought for all. I am joined to unknowable and intangible thought.” ~Three Forms of First Thought
The First Thought
The First Thought is God’s Thought. We can’t really say that it is God’s first thought, but it is God’s first thought that began the true creation, the creation of spirit. It is the first thought that is significant to us. The quote from the Gnostic text known as “Three Forms of First Thought,” has God using the feminine “She” as a self-reference. This is rather unusual, but it should be noted that it is not incorrect. God is as much female as male, Mother as well as Father. The quote also says that this first thought is “the movement that is in all.” Today, of course, we all know that light moves, and moves fast, so if the first thought took the form of Light, then the first thought moves and moves fast. Yet it doesn’t seem to move so fast down here on earth. That is because the material realm that we live in is so far away from God that everything here moves much more slowly.
Intangible Dwelling in the Tangible
God is intangible but also dwells in the tangible. Even matter has spirit in it, and where there is spirit, there is God. Therefore, the First Thought that came from God is also in the intangible places of spirit as well as the tangible ones of matter.
Those who Sleep I Awaken
This doesn’t mean that First Thought awakens us from physical sleep, although it may sometimes affect our physical sleep through dreams. What it means is that those who are spiritually asleep are awakened by First Thought, which is also God’s Light. But then, why are most people still asleep, including most of those who claim to be awake? It is because a spiritual awakening rarely happens by accident. It must be sought and sought in the proper place. Seeking a spiritual awakening in dark, cave-like churches doesn’t work. Seeking an awakening by staring at the moon at night doesn’t work. It is the Sun that is the messenger of God, not the moon. It is the Light of the Spiritual Sun that awakens those who are ready to be awakened, and that means more than just those who wish to be awakened. They must want it for the right reasons, those reasons being to help people including themselves develop spiritually, and to aid God in the Divine Plan to save the world. Seeking it for selfish reasons doesn’t work.
Through Me, Knowledge Comes
Real Knowledge, the kind that the Gnostics called Gnosis, isn’t found in books or in sermons. It is found in connecting with higher levels of consciousness. As we develop and raise our own consciousness, we are able to connect with higher and higher levels until we reach the highest level where we connect with God and First Thought. Then we will have Gnosis.
From the SUN TALK collection by Harold Boulette