“In this world, those who are slaves serve those who are free. In the Kingdom of Heaven, those who are free will serve the slaves. Those who are in the Bridal Chamber are at peace. They need nothing else. Contemplation alone satisfies them.
“In this contemplation, they dwell among the bodies of glory. Christ immerses them in water to purify them and leads them to their fulfillment in his Name. As he said, ‘It is befitting to fulfill all that justice requires.’
“Those who say that we must first die in order to be resurrected are mistaken. Whoever is not resurrected before they experience death knows nothing and is dead. Those who have received baptism will live. Baptism is a great experience.
“The Apostle Philip says that Joseph the carpenter planted trees in his garden because he needed them for his work. The cross was made with the trees he planted, and the fruit of his seed was hung from the wood that he had planted.
“His seed was Jesus. The cross was the plant.
“The Tree of Life lives in the middle of another garden. It is the olive tree from which the oil of anointing is drawn. Thanks to this, the resurrection is possible.” (The Gospel of Philp, vs. 87- 92)
There is a radical inversion of worldly hierarchy in this text. In God’s Kingdom, it is not the powerless who serve the powerful; it is the powerful who serve the powerless. But this begs the question: Who is truly powerless and who is truly powerful?
In our world, those with wealth, power, and fame are served by those who are poor, weak, and anonymous. This hierarchical system is borne out of the “animal” mindset. The Ego dominates others. It demands to be served. But in God’s Kingdom, this idea is reversed: “Those who are free serve the slaves.”
This reversal of the anticipated hierarchy serves to illustrate the meaning of freedom and the reality of slavery. Those who are awakened to the Oneness of all things are free. Those who are still asleep are the ones who continue to operate from this “animal” mindset of Ego and domination. Therefore, those who can see are obligated to serve those who are blind out of love and compassion for their condition.
Freedom is not the privilege to dominate and control others. Instead, true freedom is the fruit of liberation from the egoic illusion of separation. Those who are free naturally become the servants of all because love expresses itself as self-giving (kenosis).
At the deeper reality of all things, there is no hierarchy. Only interconnection. Every particle in the Universe exists in relationship to all others, and all things are unique expressions of only one thing: The Quantum Field. As energy flows, influence is reciprocal. Nothing exists in isolation from anything else. The freer we are at the quantum level, the more fully we participate in this relational dance of Divine love.
Spiritual freedom is not about autonomy. It’s about communion.
This is why Christlike service is not subjugation. It is the highest expression of unity.
“Those who are in the Bridal Chamber are at peace. They need nothing else. Contemplation alone satisfies them… they dwell among the bodies of glory.”
As we’ve seen over and over again, the metaphor of the Bridal Chamber symbolizes the restoration of unity and the healing of the perceived division between Spirit and Soul, or between the Human and the Divine. To enter this Bridal Chamber is to transcend the illusion of separation and to become defined by the fullness of God (Pleroma).
To “dwell among the bodies of glory” is to perceive reality beyond the material surface. It is to live wide awake as the resurrected self that is in harmony with the Source.
When our consciousness awakens, we perceive multiple layers of reality at once. We understand the interconnectedness of all things. We see the “glory” of God within everyone.
Contemplation is the means by which the inner and the outer realities align. This is where the illusion collapses the waveform and the deeper truth of the Universe is revealed.
“Those who say that we must first die in order to be resurrected are mistaken. Whoever is not resurrected before they experience death knows nothing and is dead.”
Resurrection is not a future event that takes place after we die. Instead, it is a present reality where we are transformed “in the twinkling of an eye” and receive “heavenly bodies” that are awakened to the truth. If we wait until after we are dead to experience the resurrection, we will have missed everything. We all need to be transformed and “resurrected” in this life and to experience the internal paradigm shift from darkness into the light.
Quantum physicist David Bohm talked about the “implicate order,” where the deepest reality is always present and simply unfolds into our awareness. In this way, resurrection is the human recognition of the divine order that has been the underlying ground of all existence from the very beginning.
To be resurrected, then, is simply to perceive the world as it truly is, through the luminous clarity of an awakened mind.
Resurrection is about our state of consciousness, not what happens after our bodies die.
“Those who have received baptism will live. Baptism is a great experience.”
Baptism is another metaphor that transcends the literal. Even as resurrection is not about dead bodies coming back to life, baptism is not about dipping under the water in a religious ceremony. Instead, baptism is about immersing ourselves into a new way of perceiving reality.
“Those who have received baptism…” are those who have entered into the reality of Divine unity, awakened to their true identity in Christ, and cleansed the illusion of separation from their minds.
It’s about a shifting of our consciousness, not about going underwater.
“Joseph the carpenter planted trees… the fruit of his seed was hung from the wood he had planted. His seed was Jesus. The cross was the plant.”
Joseph, the carpenter, plants seeds and these seeds become trees. The wood from those trees becomes the cross where Jesus is crucified.
Jesus is also a “seed” who is planted into the ground and bears much fruit.
There are several layers of meaning to unpack here. Humanity planted the seed. Humanity fashioned the cross. Therefore, Humanity participates in their own liberation.
The cross is not meant as a symbol of punishment or torture. It is an image of growth. This is why it says the cross grows from a seed. It is organic and alive. It is not a tool of Divine wrath but a symbol of transformation. The cross is the Tree of Life disguised as the Tree of Death.
This is part of the Quantum Unfolding. Seeds become trees. Energy becomes matter. Matter becomes life. Consciousness becomes awareness.
Here, the cross is a symbol of the interconnected nature of all things. It is where the vertical connection with God meets the horizontal connection with Humanity.
The Gospel of Philip sees the story of Christ as one that is not merely literal or historical. It is an archetype of reality. Jesus is the seed that embodies the Divine potential planted within all of Humanity.
What we plant is what grows to transform us. What we fear becomes our path to freedom. What we surrender becomes our means of resurrection.
To understand this passage, and the rest of the Gospel of Philip, we have to enter into a mystical, relational, and transformational mindset where service is an expression of freedom, contemplation is the doorway to Oneness, resurrection is an inner reality, baptism cleanses us from the illusion of separation, and the cross is a symbol of the organic unfolding of the Divine seed implanted within all Humanity.
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