“Before leaving this world, we must become Human Beings inhabited by the Breath. Whoever receives fullness without truly welcoming it is not yet in peace. They will wander in the intermediate world of their incompletion. Only Christ knows the end of all that is becoming.
“The holiness of the Holy Ones includes their body. They bless the bread and break it, and all that they touch is purified. How could their body not also be purified?
“Jesus blesses the waters of baptism and rids them of their power of dissolution. This is why we can be submerged in them without dying, and in them receive a breath different from that of the world. When the latter breathes in us, it gives rise to winter, but when the Holy Spirit breathes in us, it gives rise to spring.
“Whoever has experiential knowledge [ginosko] of the truth is free. The free Human is righteous. Those who transgress are the slaves of transgression.
“Truth is our mother. Experiential knowledge is the promise of our union with her. Those who do not go astray are called free by the world. The knowledge of truth lifts their heart, making them free of all bonds. It is love that moves them.
“Those who have become free through this knowing become loving servants of those who do not yet have this freedom.
“Knowledge [ginosko] makes us capable of this because we are free, even of our freedom. Love refuses nothing and takes nothing. It is the highest and most expansive freedom possible. All exists through love. It does not say, ‘this is mine,’ but ‘all is yours.’”
(The Gospel of Philip, vs. 107-110)
The insights contained in the Gospel of Philip regarding spiritual transformation consistently point to the need for deep changes in the very nature of our being. This is not about intellectual wisdom about religion or doctrine. It’s entirely about the experience of encountering the Divine Presence and becoming transformed in the process.
Using sacramental imagery, mystical psychology and a dash of metaphysics, the author of this Gospel describes the emergence of the “True Human Being” which is central to Valentinian Christianity. When compared to insights found in Quantum Physics, the text becomes illuminated as a map to awakening.
To “become Human” means to be fully alive and awake. To be aligned with the Divine Breath (Pneuma) is not about breathing oxygen, but sharing in the Divine Life which animates the original Adam and Eve. It is to be filled with the Divine Presence that descended upon Jesus at his baptism and anointed him as Christ.
All of this points to becoming conscious participants in the Unified Field; the interconnected fabric in which particles are not separate but are instead individual expressions of the field within the continuum.
In other words, as the mystics insist, we do not receive the Divine Breath from outside of ourselves. Instead, we awaken to the Breath that has always been the ground of our being.
To be “inhabited by the Breath” is to realize that we ourselves are an expression of the One and interconnected with everything, everywhere. Therefore, to receive fullness (pleroma) without actually welcoming it is like intellectually grasping these truths without personally experiencing it.
Only Christ knows the destination of those who are becoming, because Christ is the pattern of the fully integrated Human in harmony with the Divine Field.
“The holiness of the Holy Ones includes their body… all that they touch is purified.”
This statement exposes the false separation between spirit and matter. Both Valentinian Christianity and Quantum Physics agree that matter is never merely material. Matter is vibration, energy, frequency and light. Matter is interconnected. So, the awakened human being radiates the energy of Christ. To be holy is not to escape the body but to experience the Divine within the body.
“Whoever has experiential knowledge [ginosko] of the truth is free.”
In Valentinian Christianity, the experience of God is everything. This deep recognition of the interconnected reality aligns perfectly with other mystical traditions and quantum physics which both affirm that everything is connected. To be free is to escape the illusion of separation, and the lie of the Ego which is all about the “Us vs Them” mindset.
To know [experience] the Truth of Oneness is to sense ourselves as participants in the Unified Field, which is One Life, One Love, and One Being.
“Truth is our mother. Experiential knowledge is the promise of our union with her.”
In Valentinian theology, Truth (Aletheia) is the mother of all spiritual beings. She represents the unveiling of reality. This verse presents Truth not as a doctrine but as something that gives us life, shelters us, and draws us back into Divine Union. The “promise of our union” is that the more deeply we encounter Truth, the more we remember our identity in the One.
To be “free of all bonds” is the same freedom described by mystics like Meister Eckhart who said, “The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.” This is a recognition of inseparable unity, and it is love that animates people who understand this experientially.
“Those who have become free… become loving servants of those who do not yet have this freedom.”
Awakening is never self-centered. It is self-less. As the Spirit animates us and guides us we begin to understand the quantum truth that no system is independent and that every particle influences every other particle. Therefore, to be awakened to the reality of our union with all things is to understand our nature as compassionate beings who serve spontaneously because Love is the frequency of the Divine Union.
“Knowledge makes us capable of this because we are free, even of our freedom.”
What does it mean to be “free, even of our freedom”? To be free is to act without compulsion or coercion, even to the concept of liberation itself. This is a paradox of the mystically aware state of mind: the Ego dissolves as the authentic Self emerges.
This is what many mystics call enlightenment or theosis. It is how we become the Perfect Human where our life is grounded in pure Being. So, being “free of our freedom” is about acting out of the effortless flow of Divine Love rather than out of obligation related to our Ego. This is the highest form of freedom imaginable.
“Love refuses nothing and takes nothing. It is the highest and most expansive freedom possible. All exists through love. It does not say, ‘this is mine,’ but ‘all is yours.’”
This final line crystallizes the entire passage into pure mystical clarity. Love is the nature of the universe. It is the unifying force at the heart of all Being. Love is what quantum physicist David Bohm was describing when he said that the Universe was “an undivided wholeness in flowing movement.”
The fullness of God is held together by an eternal, unbreakable, invincible Love. This love is not possessive or coercive. It audaciously refuses to claim ownership of anything, even though it is everything. This is a Divine Love that gives itself away, over and over again, without fail. “It does not say, ‘this is mine,’ but ‘all is yours.’”
This is the mind of Christ. It is the final stage of awakening to Unity without domination, freedom without measure, and love without control.
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