“Where there is envy and strife, there is an incompleteness; but where there is unity, there is completeness. Since this incompleteness came about because they did not know the father, from the moment when they know the father, incompleteness will cease to exist. As one’s ignorance disappears when one gains knowledge, and as darkness disappears when light appears, so also incompleteness is eliminated by completeness. Certainly, from that moment on, form is no longer manifest but will be dissolved in fusion with unity. Now their works lie scattered. In time unity will make the spaces complete. By means of unity each one will understand himself. By means of knowledge one will purify himself from multiplicity into unity, devouring matter within himself like fire and darkness by light, death by life.

“Certainly, if these things have happened to each one of us, it is fitting for us, surely, to think about all so that the house may be holy and silent for unity. Like people who have moved from a house, if they have some dishes around that are not good, they are broken. Nevertheless, the householder does not suffer a loss but rejoices, for in the place of these defective dishes there are those that are completely perfect. For this is the judgment that has come from above and that has judged every person, a drawn two-edged sword cutting on this side and that. When the word appeared, who is in the heart of those who pronounce it—it was not merely a sound but has become a body—a great disturbance occurred among the dishes, for some were emptied, others filled; some were provided for, others were removed; some were purified, still others were broken. All the spaces were shaken and disturbed for they had no composure nor stability. Error was disturbed, not knowing what she should do. She was troubled, she lamented, she was beside herself because she did not know anything. When knowledge, which is the abolishment of error, approached her with all her emanations, error was empty, since there was nothing in her. Truth appeared; all its emanations recognized it. They greeted the father in truth with a power which is complete and which joins them with the father.

“Each one loves truth because truth is the mouth of the father. His tongue is the holy spirit. Whoever touches truth touches the mouth of the father by his tongue at the time when one will receive the holy spirit.”

-Gospel of Truth

Envy and Strife

Envy and strife happen when greed abounds. We see much of this in the world today. The greedy who take far more than they need are considered by most to be heroes instead of sinners, but greed is still one of the seven deadly sins, and in one way or another, karma will catch up with the greedy. At a minimum, we know that those who choose the pleasures of the physical world, will not move on to the spiritual realm when they die.

Ignorance Disappears

Ignorance does disappear when one gains true Knowledge. There are, however, two kinds of ignorance. One can have ignorance of the physical world due to a lack of experience and education. However, even highly educated people regarding the physical realm can be ignorant of the spiritual, which is the worst kind of ignorance as it endangers the immortal Soul.

Purify with Knowledge

With Knowledge and Truth, we become purified, in the sense that we know right from wrong rather than just accepting the opinions of others on what is right and wrong. When we have true Knowledge, we also have universal Love, Love for all beings, love for all that God created. That doesn’t mean that we accept all kinds of horrid behavior, but it does mean that we separate the behavior from the person. Perhaps if more people practice this, we would have less evil behavior in the world. When a lot of people are sending negative thoughts and negative energy towards such people, that energy only makes them worse. If they were sent more love, at least some of them would start to change, and a few be completely changed into the loving beings God intended us to be.

Dishes

When The Word appears, as it has now in the Sun of Righteousness, some “dishes” will be filled, some left empty, some purified, others broken. This is an allegory. Dishes here represent the human spirit and soul. Those who seek and take in The Word found in the Light of the Spiritual Sun will be purified and saved. Those who cling to materialism will not be filled by the Light and will perish as do all material beings. So seek completeness by taking in the Light of the Spiritual Sun, don’t remain incomplete.

“Western civilization and religions are based on the belief that God, or gods, are external, anthropomorphic beings. The Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans had pantheons full of them. The Jews had Yahweh. Baal was a god worshiped in many ancient Middle Eastern communities, especially that of the Canaanites. There were thought to be many other deities in the ancient Western world, and so when Jesus of Nazareth came along, the idea was taken for granted that God or gods existed outside of human beings and the physical universe. But, as will be explained, that is apparently not what Jesus believed or taught. I think it is safe to say that his teachings were misunderstood because of the cultural conditioning of the age in which he lived. Today, however, a major revolution in our understanding of the universe is occurring, and that is that consciousness, mind, and intelligence do not exist outside of or separate from creation. They are within, or immanent—if you prefer that terminology—and form the ground of being of all that is. John Samuel Hagelin, a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth with a Ph.D. from Harvard in Quantum Physics, has elaborated on such a theory, comparing the unified field, which many scientists believe is what existed before the Big Bang, to the field of pure consciousness known as “Veda,” a Sanskrit word meaning “to know” or “knowledge,” which is described in the ancient religious texts of India called the Vedas.

-Stephen Hawley Martin

Anthropomorphic God

We humans do have a tendency to think of God as being anthropomorphic, which is to say, very much like us. We take the statement that God created us “in His image” the wrong way. It doesn’t mean we look like God, at least on the physical level, it means that God created us by forming an image in His mind. Whenever He does that, the thing becomes real.

Another thing we do is turn the messengers of God into God. We do it with Jesus, Buddha, and other messengers or messiahs who very often stated quite clearly that they were messengers of God, not God Himself.

God Outside of the Physical Universe

Actually, God does exist outside of the physical universe, but to a degree, also exists in the physical universe. Even though the physical universe was created by the Demiurge, the false god, it was created from the original universe of spirit, so it still has some spirit in it, and therefore, has God in it. We need to stop thinking of God as a being in the same sense as a human or a dog or a bear. God is not a being, but all beings together.

Major Revolution of Consciousness

There is a major revolution going on with the understanding of consciousness. Something that most believed was something generated by the physical brain is now understood to exist without the brain, while the brain serves like an antenna or radio receiver to receive information from consciousness. As the quote says, some scientists are now relating consciousness to the unified field believed to have existed before the “big bang” that created the physical universe. This tells us that not only does consciousness exist outside of the brain, it existed long before the brain did. So more accurately, God is all Consciousness, all Truth, all Knowledge.