No Boundary

No Boundary

A seminal text which must be read and reread. Keep looking at Chapter 6.

The representation of the transformational process as a pregnant woman speaks to a deep truth of our existence, namely, in relation to the REALITY OF SPIRIT we are all feminine and "with child" ...


'The Pilgrim's Companion', F Aster Barnwell

The Jesus Mysteries (JM)

29-30

Osiris-Dionysus had such universal appeal because he was seen as an 'Everyman' figure who symbolically represented each initiate.

The heart of Islam

The essence of Islamic wisdom has been kept alive by the great Muslim mystics known as the Sufis. While fundamentalists interpret Muhammad’s concept of jihad … as a call to wage holy war against the infidels, the Sufis understand the jihad as an internal battle to overcome the ego …

‘Children on the path drink the milk of the Qur’an and understand only its literal sense. The mature have their own understanding of its inner significance.’ (Rumi)

JLG 3

p. 139


Every child that is born is God asking, 'Who am I?' and every lifetime is a unique attempt at finding an answer, yet at our common centre we already are what we are. In the stillness of our essence there is no coming or going. No incarnation. No evolution. No realization. Only blissful Gnosis. The Mystery knowing itself.


The purpose of the secret teachings of the original Christians is to guide us on our journey of becoming until we reach the destination, which is consciously being, to help us stop identifying with the psyche-body and become aware of our deeper nature, as the mysterious source of all. This fulfils the primal aspiration which inspired Consciousness to create the cosmos. When we know we are the Mystery, the Mystery knows itself.


p. 147


The purpose of manifestation is for the unconscious Oneness [...] to be conscious of itself. But the One can only be conscious of itself by appearing to be two. Consciousness requires the duality of subject and object, and objectification creates ignorance. Ignorance is a stepping-stone to Gnosis ...


148


Gnosis is Consciousness of Oneness.

JLG 2

Life is a mystery. A mystery so awesome that we insulate ourselves from its intensity. To numb our fear of the unknown we desensitise ourselves to the miracle of living. We perpetuate the nonchalant lie that we know who we are and what life is.

Yet behind this preposterous bluff the Mystery remains unchanging, waiting for us to remember to wonder. It is waiting in a shaft of sunlight, in the thought of death, in the intoxication of new love, in the joy of childbirth or the shock of loss.

One minute we are going about our business as if life were nothing special and the next we are face to face with profound, unfathomable breathtaking Mystery. This is both the origin and consummation of the spiritual quest.

Jesus and the Lost Goddess (JLG)

page 72ff


In truth they are God, but whilst this is unknown, or a theory only, they experience their own essential identity as a superior being outside themselves. Whilst they think of themselves as a person, they experience God as a Big Person ... In the realization of Gnosis they finally come to know themselves to be indistinguishable from the Mystery of God.


Hylics either don't bother to think about God at all, or have a religious relationship with what they imagine to be the ultimate external authority figure. In the psychic stage of initiation, this gives way to a softer conception of God as a wise parent who nurtures us on our personal journey through life's trial's and tribulations. Picturing God as a big person allows us to have an intimate relationship of love, devotion and friendship with the ineffable Mystery, which could otherwise seem remote, abstract and inaccessible ...


As pneumatic initiates we come to understand our own nature in impersonal terms and so no longer imagine God as a big person, but in impersonal terms such as the One, the Good and so on. As we approach the realization of Gnosis we progressively transcend duality and so all relationship with God is subsumed by the Oneness. There is no longer God and devotee, only the Mystery of God in love with itself ...

Israel

Israel - which we get from the Greek, is originally in the Hebrew, "Yisrael". 
Yisrael means, quite literally, "He has striven with God," or "He has been saved by God," based on which translation of "sra" was meant to be used.

"Yi", in the Hebrew, is the masculine form "he". "Sra", in the Hebrew, comes from the Semitic root "Sry", which means "to strive or to save." The word "El," in the Hebrew, is a form of the word for God.

When you see 'el' in any Hebrew name, it is a form of the word for God. See other names such as Ishmael (God has heard), Michael (Who is like God), and Daniel (My judge is God).

To better understand which meaning of Sra we are to use, we need to understand the origin of the name Israel. The origins came from Genesis chapter 32 where Jacob struggles with a man all night long until he is blessed. The man asks Jacob's name, then tells him that his name is no longer Jacob, but Israel, because he has striven with God and with man. (Genesis 32:28)

Veni

Veni veni, Emmanuel captivum solve Israel, qui gemit in exsilio, privatus Dei filio.

Gaude! Gaude! Emmanuel, nascetur pro te Israel!

Veni, O Sapientia, quae hic disponis omnia, veni, viam prudentiae ut doceas et gloriae.

Veni, veni, Adonai, qui populo in Sinai legem dedisti vertice in maiestate gloriae.

Veni, O Iesse virgula, ex hostis tuos ungula, de spectu tuos tartari educ et antro barathri.

Veni, clavis Davidica, regna reclude caelica, fac iter tutum superum, et claude vias inferum.

Veni, veni O Oriens, solare nos adveniens, noctis depelle nebulas, dirasque mortis tenebras.

Veni, veni, rex gentium, Veni, redemptor omnium, ut salvas tuos famulos peccati sibi conscios.