Wednesday, December 11, 2024

This past Saturday’s readings were from the apocryphal Book of Wisdom (The Wisdom of Solomon) and The First Prophecy to the Americas, Chapter 8: On the Judgement of the Ungodly (pp. 95 – 97).

Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.

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In Light+,

Gene

“Now I make ready to go downstream to the Abode of Light, that Wisdom and Truth may be carried to the appointed place under the everlasting stars and there made secure to men in generations yet to grow up in the Light. They will be seen in generations to come.

“I shall go on the Wings of the Sun before the retinue of the Breaker of Heads. I am one acknowledged as pure of hands and shall be with those who serve under the head of the Great One.

“My name henceforth, shall be Hemnetar, and I shall not eat of fish or beans until I come to the place appointed to fit my station. I shall wear linen, and my sandals shall be made of grass, so that none shall perceive my greatness. I will hide great things within my heart, and a bridle will hold my tongue in check.

“I shall pray among the empty hearted, but my prayers will not be as theirs but as those offered in the days of our fathers, who sat in silence two hours beforehand. Now, the marks are changed by the hypocrisy of men.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MAN:29:12-15)

Downstream to the Light

The author of this chapter of the Kolbrin Bible (the book has many authors) says he is making ready to go downstream to the Abode of Light. The Abode of Light is Heaven, so we can assume that this writer is elderly and preparing to leave the physical world of matter. It is a standard metaphor in spiritual writings to refer to the movement of Light as flowing like a river of water, so I believe the writer is saying that he will return to the Source of the Light, although that would be upstream, not down.

Generation Yet to Grow

The author seems confident that there will be future generations that “grow up in the Light”. It is possible that a few generations did grow up in the Light after this was written, but it wasn’t long before people turned more and more to the pleasures of the material realm and grew denser and denser material bodies. Fortunately for us, we have the Sun of Righteousness shining down on us now to help us all awaken to and grow up in the Light. Naturally, the forces and beings of Darkness are fighting against us, which is why we are seeing such polarization of people into those of Darkness who believe in anger, hate, greed, and bigotry as virtues, and those of Light who see Love, Wisdom, Truth, and Humility as the true virtues, as has been taught in all real religions and mystery schools throughout the ages.

On the Wings of the Sun

Even when this book was written thousands of years ago, spiritual people were careful about what they said in public or wrote in books to prevent the people of darkness from learning things they should not know. So when the author says he will travel to Heaven “on the wings of the sun,” we can interpret this as meaning that he will reach those higher levels of consciousness with the help of the Light of the Spiritual Sun.

My Name Shall be Hemnetar

It was a common practice in the past for people to choose a new name when they developed their spiritual Self. That is what I think the writer is talking about here. As for the name, “Hemnetar,” I can find no meaning for it, though It may have had one in the language of the author. Few people follow this practice today.

Wear Linen and Grass Sandals

The writer says he will wear linen and sandals made of grass so that “none will perceive my greatness”. It seems that wearing linen and grass sandals was something the poor people of that age would do. This seems to imply that the author wishes to hide his material wealth, but I think he is using this description symbolically. What he means is that he will act like the materialists around him to hide the fact that he has developed his spiritual faculties to a high degree.

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

This past Saturday’s readings were from TheTestament of Levi (Chapter V) and, again, from The Second Prophecy to the Americas, Chapter 35: On the Existence of Divine Reason (pp. 231 – 238). Click here to read the first scriptural reading, and click the audio button below to hear the reading from our Second Advent scripture.

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In Light+,

Gene

“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.