Chapter 17 and 18 You Are the Perfect Day and Within You Dwells the Light Chapter 17 begins with a familiar parable of the “Good” shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to find the one who has strayed away, but then quickly takes a sudden twist
Chapter 17 and 18 You Are the Perfect Day and Within You Dwells the Light Chapter 17 begins with a familiar parable of the “Good” shepherd who leaves the ninety-nine to find the one who has strayed away, but then quickly takes a sudden twist
Rolling Stone magazine recently published an article asking, “What If Trump Wins?” that sounds all the sorts of extremist alarms about ending Democracy and arresting political opponents and targeting late night comedians who made jokes about him and of course the largest mass deportation in American’s history. But, I’d like to ask another question: “What Happens When Trump Loses?” I know winning this election won’t be a slam dunk for Kamala Harris and there are all sorts of “what ifs”... Read more
When the Light had Spoken Through His Mouth “Knowledge of the Father and the revelation of his Child gave them means of knowing. For when they saw him and heard him, he let them taste him and smell him and touch the beloved Child.” [16:
In Chapter 14 of the Gospel of Truth, the author continues to ponder the mystery of human consciousness and awakening to the reality of Oneness: “I am not saying that those who have not yet come into being are nothing, but they come into
“Truth came into their midst and all its bounty knew it” (13:1) The promise of the coming of Truth is what we want to talk about now. When Truth comes into our presence, we know it. We welcome it. We realize that the Truth is
Devouring Matter Within Like Fire One thing I really love about The Gospel of Truth is how poetic the text can be. This is especially true in Chapter 11 which reads like a verse from Rumi or Gilbran. “Now their works lie scattered, but in
Like many of you, I’ve been watching the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris and the other night I saw this interview with Gold Medalist Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone that I can’t get out of my head. After talking to her about her previous Olympics experiences and winning the Gold Medal in the Women’s 400 Meter Hurdles (and breaking the World Record while doing it), the interviewer asked her what set her apart from all the other athletes in her field and this... Read more
Unveiling the Hidden Self of God “The Father reveals his bosom, and his bosom is the Holy Spirit. He reveals what’s hidden of himself; what’s hidden of himself is his Son – so that through the mercies of the Father, the generations may know him
In spite of my attempts to argue for the illogical nature of the claim in the Gospel of Truth that “those who are ignorant until the end are creatures of forgetfulness [who] will dissolve with it,” it seems that Valentinus (or whoever wrote this text)
I’ve written an entire book about the origins of the doctrine of Hell, Jesus Undefeated: Condemning the False Doctrine of Eternal Torment, but the other day I found myself in a conversation about the topic that gave me another perspective. We were talking about how the fire metaphor took hold of the early Christian imagination as the concept was introduced from pagan sources, and how the Hebrew Scriptures never breathe a word about the idea of an eternal state of... Read more
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