Kenosis to Gnosis

The meaning of life

 

 

The entire brain replaces itself every 2 months, so if you are 20 years old, you would've had 120 brains. The entire body replaces itself every seven years, but you are still here. The very core of your consciousness that makes the descisions and thinks is still there, even if the rest of the body changes. That part is the only thing that is living. Nothing physical was defined as being life by the ancients, life means the true self. Life does not decay, get replaced or degenerate, life lasts forever. When people discuss what the meaning of life they only think about their material body and what they are here for. There is no meaning with the material body and world, aside from surviving and everything else that comes from base instincts. There is only meaning with the true self. The meaning of life is to get it back.

 

The philosophical paradox called the Ship of Theseus is related to the idendity of the body and the soul. The paradox was written down by Plutarch in the Life of Theseus and has been discussed for thousands of years. The paradox asks the question that if every part of a ship gets replaced over time, would it still be the same ship? Apply that to the body and the mind that controls it. This question has turned up in certain science fiction stories, where every body part gets replaced, but there is still a "ghost in the shell" that is still the same today as it was in the past.    

 

The Exegesis on the Soul, 134:5, "Now it is fitting that the soul regenerates herself and become again as she formerly was. The soul then moves of her own accord. And she received the divine nature from the father for her rejuvenation, so that she might be restored to the place where originally she had been. This is the resurrection that is from the dead. This is the ransom from captivity. This is the upward journey of ascent to heaven. This is the way of ascent to the father."  

 

The Thunder, The Perfect Mind, "Give heed then, you hearers and you also, the angels and those who have been sent, and you spirits who have arisen from the dead. For I am the one who alone exists, and I have no one who will judge me. For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins, and incontinencies, and disgraceful passions, and fleeting pleasures, which (men) embrace until they become sober and go up to their resting place. And they will find me there, and they will live, and they will not die again."

 

Corpus Hermeticum I, "If you have understood, tell me: why do they deserve death who are in death?"  

The Great Pyramid of Egypt is the most famous tomb in the world, but the sarcphagus is empty. The biggest tomb in the world is honoring someone who isn't dead, but alive. The Great Pyramid is explained in more detail on these pages, Pryamid Prophecy and The Hermetica.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gospel of Matthew.

 

8:21 Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

 

22 But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."

 

This is the first mention of zombies in history. Jesus is saying that the living can be dead or the living dead. Religions, mystical societies and their leaders don't define anything physical as being alive. They define the spirit as life. Anyone who is not in touch with the spirit, the soul or the true self is dead and from the point of Jesus Christ and other spiritual teachers that is worse than physical death. Jesus considered these people, who were much more religious than people are today, as being dead, but people today are much more materialistic and fleshy and the situation is much worse today.

 

9:23 When Jesus entered the ruler’s house and saw the flute players and the noisy crowd, 24he said, “Go away. The girl is not dead but asleep.” But they laughed at him. 25After the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took the girl by the hand, and she got up. 26News of this spread through all that region.

 

The part of this passages where Jesus saids, "The girl is not dead but asleep." is a cryptic statement that many Biblical scholars haven't figured out. Jesus is saying here that forgetting about who you are before you entered the body is death. Being asleep in the Matrix is also death. The more fleshy someone is the dead they are. Resurrection means resurrecting the soul or the true self. This passage is about a miracle from Jesus in resurrecting a girl's body from the dead but the deeper message in this passage is about resurrecting the soul or the true self as well.

 

10:37 “Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; 38and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. 39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

 

This passage is not talking about physical death, but rather the death of the fake physical idendity and becoming the soul again. If someone gains in their physical life and their false idendity, they will lose themselves. The statement, "and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.", is saying that you need to die and be resurrected like Jesus. It doesn't mean that you need to join a group, adopt a label and do everything the group tells you to do for the rest of your life. Nor does it mean that you need to wear a crucifix around your neck or have crucifixes in your house etc. By die I mean the death of the artifical self and by resurrected I mean resurrecting the soul or your true self. If you resurrect yourself then you will be worthy of Jesus.

 

16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 25For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it. 26What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

 

This is similar to the passage in Matthew 10:37. The part in this passage that says, "he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.", means that someone must deny their physical self and their identity and become their soul or themselves again. Taking up the cross means they they must die and be resurrected themselves like Jesus. Then comes this famous line, "What good will it be for a man if he gains the gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?". This line is saying that the soul, or you, is more important than than the world and everything in it, even if most people can't understand it, but the world is an illusion and nothing in it can be prescious because it doesn't exist. This passage from The Apocryphon of James, 6:1-15, in the Nag Hammadi Library is relevant to what this statement is about , "The Lord answered and said, "Verily, I say unto you, none will be saved unless they believe in my cross. But those who have believed in my cross, theirs is the kingdom of God. Therefore, become seekers for death, like the dead who seek for life; for that which they seek is revealed to them. And what is there to trouble them? As for you, when you examine death, it will teach you election. Verily, I say unto you, none of those who fear death will be saved; for the kingdom belongs to those who put themselves to death."

22:23 That same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to him with a question. 24 “Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and have children for him. 25 Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died, and since he had no children, he left his wife to his brother. 26 The same thing happened to the second and third brother, right on down to the seventh. 27 Finally, the woman died. 28Now then, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be of the seven, since all of them were married to her?”

 

29 Jesus replied, “You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. 30 At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. 31 But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, 32 ‘I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."

 

The ancient Hebrews and modern Jews don't really speculate what the afterlife is like because the Old Testament doesn't really talk about it. That may explain why this passage says the Sadducees believed there is no resurrection. But this passage also reveals how clueless the religious authorities were about the nature of the spirit world, they had a materialistic or worldly view of spirituality. There are two cults, the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Seventh Day Adventists, who teach that there isn't any spirit as strange as that seems. The important thing about this passage is that Jesus says that resurrection is about the resurrection of the soul, spirit or the true self and that was how Jesus defined it. Resurrection isn't about resurrection of the flesh, that is a materialistic way of seeing things. Jesus and other religions never defined anything physical as being life, only the spirit is life. Compare the last statement, "He is not the God of the dead but of the living." with the passage in Matthew8:21-22, "Another disciple said to him, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." But Jesus told him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead." These two passages clearly show that Jesus only defined the spirit as being life God is the God of the spiritual and not the fleshy.

 

27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

 

Bring me back to life.

 

The music video shows her trying to climb up the building in a dark city to a higher level, but towards the end of it she falls. When you combine this imagary with the lyrics, it is clear that this imagery is about her spirit trying to reach a higher level but she falls back down. At 1 minute 49 seconds she walks past a room with people in masks having a party. The masks represent the bodie's face as well as the physical identity. The party may represent how they are oblivious to reality. At the start she is in bed, this represents the dreamworld that Gnostics say is the physical world and at the end of this music video she falls back down into the bed. This represents the Fall of Man. The movie called Never Ending Story is also about someone turning into nothing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How can you see into my eyes like open doors?
Leading you down into my core where I’ve become so numb (The core is the soul and the statement, "I've become so numb", means that her spirit is numb and it can't feel.)
Without a soul my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold
until you find it there and lead it back home (The statement, "my spirit's sleeping somewhere cold", means that her soul or her true self is asleep and somewhere cold means the body and it can mean ignorance as well. The statement, "until you find it there and lead it back home", means the soul being led home to where it came from, ie Heaven or reality.)

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside (This means waking up the soul or the true self that is inside.)
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me) (Waking up the soul is salvation. That was the definition of what salvation in Gnosticism and the Hermetica.)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become (When the soul is asleep it is nothing. Nothing is the opposite to the All that is referred so many times in the Gnostics gospels.)

now that I know what I’m without
you can't just leave me (She now knows she is without herself).
breathe into me and make me real (The soul is the breath of life and it will make her real once she becomes it again).
bring me to life ("make me real" means making her into the soul or the true self. "bring me to life", which is the name of this song means that the spirit is life, she wants to come back to life.)

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become

Bring me to life
(I've been living a lie, there's nothing inside) (She's been living a lie in her physical life in ignorance. The statement, "there's nothing inside, " means that she is in ignorance and is fleshy and she has lost herself, therefore she is empty inside.)
Bring me to life

frozen inside without your touch
Without your love, darling
only you are the life among the dead (These three lines sound like romance, but considering the meanings of the other lyrics, it suggests taht her love is either her soul, God or both. The statement, "only you are the life among the dead", is saying that the spirit is life and the dead are all the people who are ignorant of themselves.)

all this time I can't believe I couldn't see
kept in the dark but you were there in front of me (She is spiritually blind but God is infront of her).
I’ve been sleeping a thousand years it seems
got to open my eyes to everything (She's been spiritually asleep for a long time, but she opens her eyes to the All).
Without a thought, without a voice, without a soul (Like in the song called One, by Metallica, her soul or her true self is crippled and has no thoughts and no voice).
don't let me die here
there must be something more
bring me to life

(Wake me up)
Wake me up inside
(I can’t wake up)
Wake me up inside
(Save me)
call my name and save me from the dark
(Wake me up)
bid my blood to run
(I can’t wake up)
before I come undone
(Save me)
save me from the nothing I’ve become

(Bring me to life)
I’ve been living a lie, there’s nothing inside
(Bring me to life)