“Then I said to them, ‘In no way would I destroy the commandments of the Savior. But if you reproach me on account of wheat bread, because I have said, “It is necessary to eat of it,” this the savior has done; as it is written, that when he had blessed it and shared it with his students, “over bread he said a blessing and gave it to them.” Was not that bread from wheat? The scripture points out that he reclined to eat with tax collectors and idolaters. Likewise, he also reclined to eat in the house of Martha and Mary on the occasion when Martha said to him, “Lord, do you not care enough for me so as to tell my sister to help me?” and the savior said to her, “Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.” Consider, moreover, how even the students of the savior ate bread from women and idolaters and did not separate bread from bread, nor vegetable from vegetable; nor did they eat, while laboring in the toil and tilling of the land, as you do today. Likewise, when the savior sent his students out to preach in each place, neither mill nor oven did they carry with them, but made haste, taking one garment. . . ‘

“Then Mani said to them, “Consider these famous men of your law, those who saw these visions, who were moved by them and proclaimed them as good news to others. Likewise, I too practice everything I was taught by them.” “While I was speaking to them, reducing their words to nothing, suddenly they became angry and violent, and one of them even got up and hit me. They huddled around me and beat me. They grabbed my hair as though I were an enemy. They shouted at me in a loud voice that grew bitter and angry as at someone who was superstitious. Out of malice, they wanted to strangle me. Because Pattikios, the master of the house, begged them not to be impious toward people among them, they were ashamed and released me. After I went through this trial, I withdrew to one side and stood praying. I prayed for our lord to come to my aid.”

-On the Origins of His Body (a Manichian scripture)

Mani on Eating Bread

It is not clear who Mani was, though he calls himself a disciple of Jesus. He was the leader of a Gnostic group that we now refer to as Manichians. In the first part of the above quote, he is addressing someone who has apparently objected to Mani and his followers eating wheat bread and eating bread from “unclean” sources. He points out that Jesus and his apostles did the same. He notes, however, that Jesus blessed the bread before sharing it with the apostles. The implication is that his blessing removes all negative characteristics from it. We know today that most types of bread are not as healthy as people believed for centuries, but it isn’t the nutritional value that Mani is talking about.

Ate Bread from Women and Idolaters

Mani adds that the students of the savior ate bread that came “from women and idolaters”. It is not clear if he means bread that was made by such people, or simply served by them. Perhaps both. He adds that they even ate vegetables from such people. Why anyone should be concerned about eating bread or other foods from women is beyond me, but apparently there were people in the time of Mani who objected to doing so.

Mani adds that when the followers of Jesus traveled, they did not carry an oven with them. The implication is that they did not bake their own bread, but relied on the people they were visiting to supply them with food, no matter who those people were.

Such things sound silly to most people today, but we have those who avoid buying products from some companies because of their politics.

Reducing Their Words to Nothing

Mani changes the subject here and is now telling the story of a time he was attacked by a crowd of people he was speaking to for “reducing their words to nothing”. In other words, he was contradicting long-held beliefs of theirs and many people will turn on someone who does that rather than admit they were wrong. We still see a lot of this today. Many politicians take advantage of this fact to manipulate and control people. We see this in Cosolargy where we lose a number of students after six or seven months of study because they reach some teaching in the books that contradicts a belief they are not willing to change. They don’t see that if you can’t change, you can’t move forward.

“Before all the worlds came into being there was a sole enormous fruit, and when the enormous fruit entered a fruit, the great and glistening King of Light began. An ether of radiance existed. From the ether of radiance came the living fire. From the living fire there was a light. By the power of the king of light came the great fruit and life. The great fruit came alive and in it rolled the Jordan, which is also a garden. The great Jordan came alive, and the living water was in it. Luminous water came alive from the living water. I, life, came alive and all the uthras—the light beings—found space.

“When the fruit was in the fruit, when the ether was in the ether, when the great and glorious Mana was there from whom powerful manas came, whose radiance is enormous and light is great, no one was before them in the fruit abundant and without end, whose radiance is too abundant for the words of the mouth, and whose light, which was in that fruit, too great for telling with the lips. From the fruit came a thousand thousand fruits without end and a myriad myriad of beings of light, the shkinas, beyond count. In each fruit were a thousand thousand beings of light. They stand and praise the great and glorious Mana, who lives in the great ether, within the Jordans of white water made by the Mana, whose aroma is fragrant and inhaled on all the roots of light and on the great first radiance. The long Jordan was made to go on uncounted and endlessly. Plants grow next to it. They are happy. They praise and stand in perfection, and from the great Jordan came uncounted Jordans endlessly.”

-The Ginza

A sole Enormous Fruit

This is obviously an allegorical statement. It was written in a way that people with little scientific knowledge could understand. It is simply saying that there was one undivided Whole, a Oneness. This was before God created anything. This oneness is sometimes called the Godhead.

King of Light

The King of Light is God. From the phrase “ the great and glistening King of Light began,” it sounds like God is being created, but that is not exactly true. God always existed and always will. He is outside the limitations of time and space. I think this refers to God beginning his creation. It is confusing when we always think in terms of time and space, but even though God had to create the Worlds of Light and the beings of Light, those worlds and those beings have no beginning and no end as they too are outside of the limitations of Time and Space. I am illustrating this article with an image of what is supposed to be the hand of God creating. I used that image because it is a popular way of illustrating creation, but God is a spirit and doesn’t have hands. In any case, it is the mind of God that creates, not his hands.

From The Light Came Life

From the Spiritual Light of God comes Spiritual Life. Physical life is an altered version of Spiritual Life and is created by the Demiurge, not the real God. From the Light, powerful Manas also were created. Mana is a Hindu word that refers to the Spiritual Mind, so this is telling us that the Light not only produced spiritual bodies, but also spiritual minds.

Myriad Beings of Light

The quote then says that Beings of Light came from the Light, or in other words, were created by the Light. These are the beings that most of us call angels. They were created before humans were created, so while some angels may have spent time in physical form on Earth, angels are not created from dead humans. They were angels before they became human. In other words, we were Spiritual Beings before the Great Fall in which we became beings of matter.

Jordans of White Water

The Ginza says that the Mana created many Jordans. This is allegorical. The Jordan river was considered sacred to the ancients so what this means is that the Spiritual Mind of God created a great flow of Light full of Grace, truth, and Wisdom. Those rays of Light are the Jordans of White Water.

December 6th, 2024

It was a quiet Friday evening, and I was reading, sitting on my bed. The hour was close to 8:45pm, when I saw a movement to the right of my vision. I turned and saw a brilliant sun entity coming through my window on the northeast side of our parsonage. It was about ten inches across and a brilliant turquoise in color. It seemed to be aware of me as it moved about the room.

The entity was bright and clear, and did not fade as my eyes followed its movements. This movement continued for approximately 60 seconds. The emotion in my body changed quickly to extreme happiness. Then, during this beautiful moment, the sun symbol changed into the most perfect, clear solar cross while still a brilliant turquoise in color. Then after fifteen seconds in this new form, it slowly departed my room through the wall.

Another part of this wonderful experience happened as I fell asleep that evening. I felt a very strong tapping on my right shoulder, so strong was this touch that I sat up and looked around expecting to see someone near me. It was as if I was being reminded that my experience was very real.

The following evening, the entity returned at approximately the same time, in the form of our solar cross and placed itself over a photo of Bishop Gene Savoy Sr and slowly faded over a period of 10 seconds. The emotion of happiness was again very strong.

The three signs that I perceived were a sun, our solar cross, and the color turquoise.

From our Community book on dreams and visions, a sun in a dream or vision is a very significant sign presaging some kind of Spiritual revelation, in which the individual can expect profound changes for a new life.

Then we have a cross: “to see, a good omen implying holiness.” And finally, the color turquoise, a sign of physical well-being and strength. It is also a symbol of regeneration.

Rev. Robert Roy

Written by Rev. Robert Roy. Illustrating photo by Stephan Fuelling.

“ For it was ludicrous. It is I who bear witness that it was ludicrous, since the rulers do not know that this is an ineffable union of undefiled truth, as exists among the children of light, of which they made an imitation, having proclaimed a doctrine of a dead man and lies so as to resemble the freedom and purity of the perfect assembly, and having joined themselves in their doctrine to fear and slavery, worldly cares, and abandoned worship, being small and ignorant, since they do not contain the nobility of the truth. For they hate the one in whom they are and love the one in whom they are not. For they did not know

the knowledge of the greatness that it is from above and from a fountain of truth and not from slavery and jealousy, fear, and love of worldly matter. For that which is not theirs and that which is theirs they use fearlessly and freely. They do not desire because they have authority, and they have a law from themselves over whatever they will wish. But those who have not are poor, that is, those who possess nothing, and yet they desire something. And they lead astray those who, through them, have become like those who possess the truth of their freedom, so as to bring us under a yoke and constraint of care and fear. This person is in slavery. And one who is brought by constraint of force and threat has been guarded by god. But the entire nobility of the fatherhood is not guarded, since he guards what is his own by himself, without word and constraint. He is united with his will, he who belongs only to the thought of the fatherhood, to make it perfect and ineffable through the living water, to be with you mutually in wisdom, not only in word of hearing but in deed and fulfilled word. For the perfect ones are worthy to be established in this way and to be united with me, in order that they may not share in any enmity, in a good friendship. I accomplish everything through the good one, for this is the union of the truth, that they should have no adversary. But everyone who brings division—and such a one will learn no wisdom at all because he brings division and is not a friend—is hostile to them all. But one who lives in harmony and friendship of brotherly love, naturally and not artificially, completely and not partially, this person is truly the desire of the father. This is the universal one and perfect love.”

-the Second Treatise of the Great Seth

Rulers do not Know Truth

The above quote was written thousands of years ago, so rulers who don’t know the Truth is nothing new. Of course, some rulers are very intelligent and know worldly things, worldly truth, but very few know Divine Truth. Today, however, we are seeing rulers who not only lack spiritual knowledge, but often have limited worldly knowledge as well.

Some centuries in the past, it was common practice for rulers to consult with advanced spiritual leaders so that they could maintain a balanced government that was both good on the material level and also on the spiritual level. Some governments today still have an office for a spiritual or religious leader, but the presidents and kings rarely consult them or follow their advice. When they do, it is often because the ruler chooses as the government’s religious leader someone who agrees with him most of the time.

Doctrine of a Dead Man

What Seth calls the Doctrine of a Dead Man is the laws or rules of a materialistic ruler. He is a dead man because he hasn’t awakened and developed his immortal spirit, so when he physically dies, he will be truly dead. The doctrines of such people are full of fear and slavery. Not slavery in the normal sense, but slavery in that one becomes attached to the material world that is constantly changing. Doctrines based on fear are never a good thing.

Knowledge of Greatness

The Knowledge of the Greatness from above does free us from fear and slavery. This is the Knowledge of God, of Truth, and of Wisdom. It is what the Gnostics called Gnosis and it come to those who awaken their spiritual faculties and develop them to the point where they reach the highest levels of consciousness where Heaven is and where God and the Angels of Light dwell. When we become one with that level of being, we lose all fear and are no longer slaves to capitalism or materialism. Then we join the Perfect Ones.