“The perfect majesty is at rest in the ineffable light, in the truth of the mother of all these, and all of you that attain to me, to me alone who am perfect, because of the word. For I exist with all the greatness of the spirit, which is a friend to us and our kindred alike. Since I brought forth a word to the glory of our father, through his goodness, as well as an imperishable thought, that is, the word within him, it is slavery that we should die with Christ, with imperishable and undefiled thought. This is an incomprehensible marvel, the writing of the ineffable water, which is the word from us: I am in you and you are in me, just as the father is in you in innocence.

“Let us gather an assembly together. Let us visit that creation of his. Let us send someone forth in it, so that he may visit the thoughts in the regions below. And I said these things to the whole multitude of the great assembly of the rejoicing majesty. The whole house of the father of truth rejoiced that I am the one who is from them. I reflected upon the thoughts that came out of the undefiled spirit about the descent upon the water, that is, the regions below. And they all had a single mind, since it is from one source. They ordered me, and because I was willing, I came forth to reveal the glory to my kindred and my fellow spirits. For those who were in the world had been prepared by the will of our sister Sophia because of her innocence that has not been uttered. And she did not ask anything from the realm of all, nor from the greatness of the assembly, nor from the pleroma, when she previously came forth to prepare lodgings and places for the son of light and the fellow workers. She took materials from the elements below to build bodily dwellings from them. But having come into being in an empty glory, they ended in destruction in the dwellings in which they were. Since they were prepared by Sophia, they stand ready to receive the life-giving word of the ineffable One and the greatness of the assembly of all those who persevere and those who are in me. I visited a bodily dwelling. I cast out the one who was in it first, and I went in. And the whole multitude of the rulers became troubled. And all the matter of the rulers as well as all the powers born of the earth were shaken when they saw the likeness of the image, since it was mixed. And I was the one who was in the image, not resembling him who was in the body first. For he was an earthly man, but I, I am from above the heavens. I did not refuse them even to become Christ, but I did not reveal myself to them in the love that was coming forth from me. I revealed that I am a stranger to the regions below.

“There was a great disturbance in the whole earthly area, with confusion and flight, as well as in the plan of the rulers. And some were persuaded, when they saw the wonders that were being accomplished by me. And all those fled, those of the race that descended from the one who fled from the throne to the Sophia of hope, since she had earlier given”

-The Second Treatise of the Great Shem

The Perfect Majesty

The Perfect Majesty is God. It might be said that God is “at rest in the ineffable light.” but it is more accurate to say that God is the Light. Shem is saying that he exists within the Light of God and he is perfect because of “The Word.” Shem is apparently a Christ. It may be a reference to Jesus or to some other angelic being who came to Earth as a Christ.

Spirit is Our Friend

Shem says Spirit is “a friend to us and our kindred,” which is saying that spirit is a friend to all. You might say that Spirit cannot be a friend to murderers, despots, etc. but it is. Spirit is a friend to all because it offers all an opportunity for eternal life in the Spiritual World. Of course, those who do abhorrent things such as murder will not be able to go to Heaven, but that doesn’t change the fact that Spirit is a friend to all.

A Single Mind

The Angels of God all think alike since they all serve God. In a sense, they are all a part of God, so they are all of a single mind which is the mind of God.

Gather Together

Shem says “Let us gather an assembly together.” Some people who consider themselves spiritual disagree with that. They thing we should all develop our spiritual Self alone. While to some degree, they are correct, there is also much that can be gained by being part of a group and developing with the group. One benefit is that the members help guide each other as they develop. Another is that they can protect each other from the forces of Darkness.

Empty Glory

This part of the quote seems confusing because we generally read of Sophia (Wisdom) as a good thing, but here Shem is associating her with something that isn’t so good. He had Sophia creating material dwelling places for those who have fallen to the realm of Matter. But Shem says those dwellings were destroyed because they had no Glory in them. I think he is telling us that the things of matter are not important, and while we need them while we are in a physical body, we should avoid getting too attached to them.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

This past Saturday’s readings were from The First Letter of John and The Second Prophecy to the Americas Chapter 32: On the Error of the Old Churches (pp 219 – 222)

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In Light+,

Gene

“Because they do not know the Father of all, who was revealed by him alone who came and who knew him. It remains for us who have been counted worthy of the knowledge of both of these to provide you with an accurate explanation of the nature of the law and of the legislator by whom it was ordained. We shall draw the proofs of what we say from the words of the savior, which alone can lead us without error to the comprehension of reality. First, you must learn that the entire law contained in the Pentateuch of Moses was not ordained by one legislator, I mean, not by God alone; some commandments are Moses’, and some were given by men. The words of the Savior teach us this triple division. The first part must be attributed to God himself and his legislating, the second to Moses—not in the sense that God legislates through him, but in the sense that Moses gave some legislation under the influence of his own ideas—and the third to the elders of the people, who seem to have ordained some commandments of their own at the beginning. In some discussion with those who disputed with the savior about divorce, which was permitted in the law, he said, ‘Because of your hardheartedness Moses permitted a man to divorce his wife; from the beginning it was not so.’”

-The Letter to Flora

Three Sources of Law

If you have been in Cosolargy for some time, you are aware of the teachings of Cosolargy regarding the three sources of law, which are a little different from the three sources listed in the quote. The quote lists the three sources as God, Moses, and other humans. In Cosolargy, we see the three sources of law as God, Nature, and Man. We are also taught that God’s Law is supreme, nature’s law is second to God’s law, and man’s law is the lowest in the hierarchy.

God’s Law

God’s Law is supreme, especially for those who wish to have an immortal life in Heaven. The forces and beings of Darkness try to convince us otherwise, but they lie. Some people will have to learn this the hard way.

Natures Law

Most of us are familiar with some of the Laws of Nature. Gravity and inertia are good examples. We can create machines that allow us to overcome the Law of Gravity to some degree, but we cannot simply declare that gravity doesn’t exist and make it so. The same is true of other natural laws. Some think that the Laws of Nature are superior to the Laws of God, and even God must obey those laws. That is simply not true. God can change the Laws of Nature anytime he wants to. We should also note that the Laws of Nature apply to the physical universe only. The spiritual universe has completely different laws, and those are the Laws of God.

Man’s Law

Laws created by human agencies are the lowest level of the three, though you would not know this by the laws that humans pass. Many of Man’s Laws defy the Laws of God, yet that doesn’t really change them. We are all still obligated to live by the Laws of God. So Man can pass laws that allow killing of other people under certain circumstances, but that doesn’t change God’s Law that forbids such killing. Man can cancel the old laws that made Sunday a day dedicated to God, but that doesn’t change the reality of it. Man can pass laws allowing some people to keep others as slaves, but that doesn’t change the Law of God that forbids it.

Likewise, humans cannot pass laws that cancel or change the Laws of Nature. Men can write a law that says there will be no gravity on Friday, but that won’t change the reality. Humans could write a law that says we can live indefinitely as physical beings, but that will not change the nature of birth, growth, and death.

Hierarchy of Law

So we must all remember that there is a hierarchy of laws, and we must follow that hierarchy. God’s Law is supreme, followed by the Law of Nature, and then the Laws of Men.