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Introduction: For the Gnostic Christians, the Sophia was a central element in their cosmological understanding of the Universe. A Feminine figure, analogous to the human soul but also simultaneously one of the Feminine aspects of God and the Bride of Christ, she is considered to have fallen from grace in some way, in so doing creating or helping to create the material world. For the Gnostics, the drama of the redemption of the Sophia through Christ or the Logos is the central drama of the universe. The Sophia resides in all of us as the Divine Spark. According to the Pistis Sophia, Christ is sent from the Godhead in order to bring Sophia back into the fullness of Pleroma following her repentance. In Gnostic tradition, the term Sophia (Σoφíα, Greek for "wisdom") refers to the final and lowest emanation of God.
The words in italics are the symbols we extract and interpret according to the Mx formula.
[1] The subject matter for this blog is from the scriptures, in which the term ‘rather than’ relates to a choice between X on the one hand and being afflicted; judgmental; ignorant; a door-keeper; desiring only gold and silver. This suggests a choice commonly regarded as a spiritual calling.
[2] What is described as a soul has many and even complex definitions, all of which are impossible to prove. But even though there is no agreement on the existence of a soul we still need to strive to find a method to communicate with the unconscious mind/Mind. We have a duty to make a trial of it and try demystifying it.
[3] Accelerated learning systems such as Lozanov’s suggestopedia use Baroque music at 64 beats p/min together with 4 sec data chunks and 4 sec pauses with 7-8 words in different combinations. We know that it involves brain waves and that meditation helps control the body-mind relationship (brain-Mind). Music is another internal factor with complex quantum components that we need to explore.
[2+3]: The synthesis suggests a developing a method around discoveries in super-learning potentials. The challenge for us specifically is to develop an Alternative Language of Thought (Mx) as a learning system.
We need to ask how the symbol resurrection relates to a super-learning system as a core issue? The number three is somewhat significant: In the Tree of Life the top three sephirot relate to higher knowledge and understanding that requires a special formula or state of mind to get the wisdom necessary to cross the language barrier into higher consciousness. Three is Binah which stands for understanding and beauty; In the I Ching the three represents intuition; In Tarot it is the Empress who symbolizes the gateway of birth and death. In Christianity their eyes were prevented from seeing Christ and they were slow to believe the prophets. Resurrection also suggests we take the spirit body more seriously as a link to higher consciousness and Mind, and consider the implications to trying to teach the brain something that the Mind already knows.
In the West we mistakenly believe that the ego is in charge and grudgingly accept that Fate will play a hand. Although humans have potential to use another language of thought to think at higher level of consciousness it is also clear that this depends one’s spiritual gravity. As far as the masses are concerned, Fate directs a prolonged nightmare of death such as war, and suffering, from which only a small percentage of the masses appear capable of awakening to the falsity of their society’s beliefs and values.
We have a responsibility to develop creative minds i.e. to strive to understand what the potential of mind/Mind is. In terms of the method: knowing that a job is made for one requires faith in a creative mind. The challenge is to eliminate negative thinking.
It is a normal outcome to drift to the techniques the East developed to work with the subtle body, such as with the various breathing meditations. Jung warned that Westerners think differently and should therefore develop complimentary methods.
The advice to overcome negative conditioning is to work with the upper 3 partzufim of the Tree of Life. I believe we need to look at the sacred marriage between Chokhmah and Binah in terms of whole-brain thinking, to get the two minds working together in harmony and in a way that opens a gateway through which the mysterious waters of the feminine can be safely tapped as Sophia’s wisdom.
Binah, meaning "Understanding" is the second intellectual Sephirah on the tree of life. … it may be alternatively related to the "left eye", "left hemisphere" of "the brain" or the "heart." Binah is often defined as the ability to understand one thing from within another. In Western occultism, Binah is seen to take the raw force of Chokhmah, and to channel it into the various forms of creation. For example, in a car, you have the fuel and an engine. While Chokmah is the fuel, pure energy, Binah is the engine, pure inert mechanism. Either one without the other is useless.
Ze'ir Anpin meaning "small countenance", is an important term in Kabbalah. Ze'ir Anpin is the partzuf of the midot, corresponding to the emotive faculties of the soul. Initially, the midot consists of the six Sephirot from Chesed to Yesod. These six midot develop, in the rectified world of Atziluth, into the full partzuf of Ze'ir Anpin, by the addition of the three mental powers drawn into them by means of the partzufim of Abba and Imma above them.
Right-action relates to the symbol Horus [Christ] son of Osiris and Isis, the great falcon. He is the suffering child but is always healed through the power of magic and the intervention of the gods. From the Chaldean Oracles it is written that God is called silent by the divine ones, and is said to consent with Mind, and to be known to human souls through the power of the Mind alone. This suggests adopting the right relationship to a universal Mind, in much the same way that we accept the relationship between computer (brain) and the internet (Mind).
This download raises the paradoxical dangers of living in a realm of leisure, and that active imagination can conjure up more than free play or ‘fun’. Playing games with the mind, together with advancements in technology, will continue to evolve in ways that must we must learn to balance with a moral sense that can only come from listening to a higher Self.
Prayer needs to be revised to move from being religious to being spiritual. There are many paths such as the Japanese Zen ‘mu’ which is recited with faith to clear the upper layers of consciousness and bring the deeper forces of the psyche into play; and mantras that can be likened to a brook that murmurs in the heart.
Nietzsche had something to say about the fury of resentment: That law in the world represents the very war against the reactive feelings, … by the powers of activity and aggression, … Justice is practiced, justice is maintained … The foundation of law … violation … “right” and “wrong” first manifest after … Life is essentially something which functions by injuring, oppressing, exploiting, and annihilating ... From his book The Genealogy of Morals.
This makes us wonder at what will happen when more and more people start realizing that their future has been stolen, that Global Warming is the rising feminine that Jung and others warned about. There is no line demarcating the point of no return, just as there is no boiling point at which Gore’s frog is going to recover from.
