Much can be gained from systematic comparative analysis, and at this time in human history with vast Mid East warfare looming, it is also highly relevant to personal life. The cosmic perspective so essential to the Gnostic message and praxis finds great response in modern times - both from renewed popular and scholarly interest in their work, as well as from some equally subjective "received information." This meeting of old and new is valuably combustible, and has strengthened (at least for me) the validity of each of the sources involved. Ra also explains Yahweh's hidden relations with humanity in terms quite close to the Gnostics", and puts them in a multi-dimensional context related to what they call, the "negatively-oriented Orion Empire." In no uncertain terms, we are talking here about War in Heaven (as above, so below"). To this academic recounting - using several Nag Hammadi (Egyptian source) texts, scholar Hans Jonas' classic The Gnostic Religion, and the more freewheeling Lacarriere's The Gnostics - I will also add information from The Ra Material, a set of channeled sessions published in 1981 that also speak at length about Yahweh. In this essay we will take a close look at the complex set of issues surrounding the Gnostic view of Yahweh, the Old Testament god of the Jews and so-called creator of the world. Yet, when the scope of our inquiry into spiritual literature is expanded to include select modern New Age sources (equally abstruse and arcane), some provocative correlations with the Gnostic cosmos can be made. It may be a result of their commitment to the symbolic approach to religious systems (holding a view that religious content is merely figurative), or perhaps some kind of innate recognition by these "experts" that cosmic matters are rightly beyond their ken. Indeed, such possibilities are not even considered by the conventional Gnostic scholars. Scholars imagine this strange reformulation of the Hebraic god to simply indicate the Gnostics' rejection of local Jewish authority.Īccording to this approach, whatever degree of metaphysical truth the Gnostic views might have (as a potentially accurate assessment of real cosmo-dynamics affecting Earth in real time and space), is also totally ignored. According to a rational approach to the academic study of the development of religion, the early Near Eastern Gnostic conception of an evil world-creating "Demiurge" (identified with the Old Testament Yahweh or Jehovah), is generally understood as merely an imaginative invention to help support the growth of their religion. For specialists, it may also clarify some the origins of the Gnostic view and the debacle of the Middle East in human history. Image: RC 225 Thoth Votive Mummies, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum.Having read widely among Gnostic texts in translation and modern New Age sources, I've come across an interesting linkage that may shed light on a few esoteric dynamics of Earth life. Thoth suggested that if a problem couldn’t be solved, then a group should get together as an assembly and discuss it. Thoth always provided guidance for the deities and regulated common everyday complaints and created new laws. However, if the heart was heavier than the feather then the person did not pass. If the person’s heart (spirit) balanced with Ma’at’s Feather of Truth, they passed. He was responsible for recording the verdict of the heart-weighing ceremony that determined if the person was able to continue on to the Afterlife. Thoth helped the funerary deities as a messenger and bookkeeper for them. Since he was the god of the moon, he had celestial functions and replaced the sun god, Ra, in the sky at night. Thoth was credited with creating the art of writing, inventing the calendar, and controlling space and time. He was always closely associated with Ra and the concept of divine order and justice. His Egyptian name was Djehuty, which means “He who is like the Ibis.” He was depicted as an ibis bird or a baboon.Īccording to one story, Thoth was born from the lips of Ra at the beginning of creation and was known as the “god without a mother.” In another story, Thoth is self-created at the beginning of time and, as an ibis, lays the cosmic egg that holds all of creation. Thoth was the god of the moon, sacred texts, mathematics, the sciences, magic, messenger and recorder of the deities, master of knowledge, and patron of scribes.
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