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\u201cOne day a disciple asked the Lord about the state of the world. He told him, \u2018Ask your Mother, and she will speak to you of what is other.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThe apostles said to the disciples, \u2018May our entire offering acquire salt.\u2019 They called Wisdom (Sophia) \u2018salt.\u2019 Without it, no offering is acceptable. But Wisdom [is] barren without the Son. Therefore, salt is only a trace. What nourishes them is the Breath [Pneuma] and its offspring are many.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWhat belongs to the father belongs to the son, but while he is still young, he is not entrusted with what belongs to him. When he becomes mature, the father gives everything to him.<\/em><\/p>\n \u201cThose who\u2019ve been begotten by the Spirit know not where they go; the same Breath that lights the fire also extinguishes the flame. <\/em><\/p>\n \u201cAkhamoth is one thing and Echmoth another. Akhamoth is simply Wisdom, but Echmoth is the Wisdom of Death, and to know death is a small wisdom.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n (The Gospel of Philip, vs. 34b-39)<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n I think there are several ways to understand this teaching from the Gospel of Philip. One way is that, when the disciple asks Jesus about \u201cthe state of the world\u201d (or worldly things), his answer is to go and \u201cask your (earthly) mother and she will speak to you of what is other (the world).\u201d<\/p>\n In other words, the disciples\u2019 curiosity about \u201cthe world\u201d or worldly things, is best confined to this world. This is why Jesus responds by suggesting this disciple should ask his mother about it, as she is the source of his earthly life. One way to paraphrase this would be something like, \u201cIf you want to know about worldly wisdom, go to the one who is the source of your earthly life (your mother).\u201d But, in contrast, if you want to know about the wisdom that is from above, you would need to ask the One who is the source of your spiritual life, (your Father).<\/p>\n This second part is only implied and not outright stated verbatim, but I think it\u2019s fair to say that this might be one way of understanding this statement.<\/p>\n I also think this reading is in line with the verses that follow: \u201cThey called Wisdom (Sophia) salt\u2026Wisdom is barren without the Son\u2026what nourishes them is the Breath (Pneuma), and its offspring are many.\u201d In other words, earthly wisdom is \u201cbarren\u201d without the Divine Human (Son) and the Source of our spiritual life (Pneuma) which \u201cnourishes them\u201d and produces numerous \u201coffspring.\u201d<\/p>\n Another way of understanding this section may be to refer back to the previous section where we were told there were three that always traveled with Jesus: His Mother, His Sister and His Wife (or Companion). If so, then the suggestion to \u201cask your Mother\u201d may be referring to the Spirit of God (the Breath or \u201cPneuma\u201d) rather than to an earthly source of life.<\/p>\n Sophia is often personified as a female embodiment of wisdom. So, it wouldn\u2019t be inconsistent to personify Sophia as our \u201cMother\u201d in this case.<\/p>\n Therefore, when it says that \u201cWisdom (Sophia) is barren without the Son\u201d and that the \u201csalt is only a trace\u201d and that \u201cwhat nourishes (us) is the Breath (Pneuma),\u201d this could all be to say:<\/p>\n \u201cOur Mother (Wisdom\/Sophia) is barren (or empty) without the Divine Human and that all we need is a trace of her wisdom (or salt) since \u2018what nourishes\u2019 us is the Spirit (Breath) of God (or Pnuema), which is not barren but has innumerable offspring.\u201d<\/p>\n This, also, is an acceptable reading of this section of Philip\u2019s Gospel.<\/p>\n The next few verses explain that the Father withholds understanding (or wisdom) from the son while he is immature. Even though \u201cwhat belongs to the father belongs to the son,\u201d the son is not capable of handling infinite wisdom at such a young age. Maturity is the process of transformation whereby we come into our inheritance as the Children of God.\u00a0 This early immaturity is expressed in the following verses:<\/p>\n \u201cThose who are born of the Spirit know not where they go; (because) the same Breath that lights the fire also extinguishes the flame.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n In other words, until we are mature enough to discern the Spirit\u2019s coming and going, we are incapable of understanding. For now, we still see through a glass darkly, but one day all things will be made clear to us.<\/p>\n This section ends with a curious reference to two other forms of wisdom: Akhamoth and Ekhmoth. In Gnosticism, \u201cSophia Akhamoth\u201d (the wisdom called Akhamoth), is the daughter of Sophia (pure wisdom). As one source explains:<\/p>\n \u201cA Gnostic Aeon, Sophia was so filled with the desire to generate out of herself, without a spouse, that she gave birth to the whole cosmos, including a daughter Sophia Akhamoth, who in turn began to generate, but on a lower and denser place. It is Sophia Akhamoth who in turn began to generate but on lower and denser plane.\u00a0 It is Sophia Akhamoth who brings wisdom to humankind.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n The \u201cordinary wisdom\u201d comes from \u201cAkhamoth\u201d who is the daughter of Sophia (Pure wisdom), but there is another wisdom called \u201cEkhmoth\u201d which is \u201cthe wisdom of death,\u201d and this wisdom is not \u201cordinary\u201d but it is necessary for us to move into the maturity we seek to achieve in our inheritance. This \u201cwisdom of death\u201d, while necessary, is not fully explained here, but it is enough to say that, until we have learned this wisdom, we are not yet mature enough to understand the ways of the Spirit (Pneuma).<\/p>\n <\/a> The new book, \u201cThe Quantum Gospel of Mary and the Lost Gospel of Truth\u201d<\/strong><\/a>is now available on Amazon.The book from Keith Giles, \u201cThe Quantum Sayings of Jesus: Decoding the Lost Gospel of Thomas<\/strong>\u201d is available now on Amazon. Order\u00a0HERE><\/a>Keith Giles is the best-selling author of the Jesus Un series. He has been interviewed on CNN with Anderson Cooper, Coast to Coast Radio with George Noory, USA Today, BuzzFeed, and\u00a0John Fugelsang\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u201cTell Me Everything.\u201d<\/em>He co-hosts\u00a0The Heretic Happy Hour Podcast<\/strong><\/a>and his solo podcast,\u00a0Second Cup With Keith<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0which are both available on Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Podbean or wherever you find great podcasts.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cOne day a disciple asked the Lord about the state of the world. He told him, \u2018Ask your Mother, and she will speak to you of what is other.\u2019 \u201cThe apostles said to the disciples, \u2018May our entire offering acquire salt.\u2019 They called Wisdom (Sophia) \u2018salt.\u2019 Without it, no offering is acceptable. 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