Written by Allan Cronshaw

The Reality of Gnosis

Science Proves The Gnostic Vision: Gnosis is the Greek word meaning Knowledge received directly from God -- which means that when religious people condemn Gnosis/Spiritual Knowledge as heresy, they are in every way condemning and rejecting the Divine Manna imparted to the most religious and spiritual of mankind, as heresy.    The Source of this Spiritual Knowledge has often been portrayed as the Indwelling Logos/Son of God -- but few possess the insight to understand that this access to this higher knowledge that is beyond carnal man's comprehension, is always via one's higher reality of soul.    But since few believers or unbelievers have ever come to understand the ancient adage to Know Thyself -- and to Know who and even  what man's true nature and higher reality is, few ever come to possess the vision of the True Mystic and what is portrayed in the word Gnosis.  

While the word knowledge, and the word Gnosis, both denote a type of knowledge, the Knowledge portrayed in the word Gnosis has absolutely nothing to do with knowledge derived from this world.   Gnosis is beyond organic human reasoning -- it cannot be read in a book -- it cannot be taught by a teacher -- or even written in the literal text of scriptures.    Therefore, the term Gnostic scriptures is an oxymoron drawn out of the mouth of the person who uses the phrase -- because, the objective of all scriptures are the same -- and all scriptures are equally Gnostic.    And in this respect, an interesting statement was made by Dead Sea Scroll expert Prof. John Allegro in is book, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity, where he writes: “It is a fact that the Qumran Library has profoundly affected the study of the Johannine writings and many longheld conceptions have had to be radically revised. No longer can John be regarded as the most Hellenistic of the Evangelists; his Gnosticism, and the whole framework of his thought is seen now to spring directly from a Jewish sectarianism rooted in Palestinian soil, and his material recognized as founded in the earliest layers of Gospel traditions.”   What Prof. Allegro failed to understand, is the fact that all the Gospels are equally Gnostic, and their primary objective is to lead the disciple down the path of TheWay, and gain access to the higher reality of the soul and spiritual natures, and ultimately the Inner Kingdom that Jesus commanded to seek and find.

Quoting Valentinus, the early Christian who was considered one of the foremost Gnostics:  "Gnosis was distinct from the secret teachings they only revealed to initiates once they had reached a certain level of progression."   What Valentinus is stating, is that the spiritual concepts which have been historically portrayed as the secret teachings associated with many Gnostic groups was not at all what is defined to be Gnosis -- but rather, AT BEST, these secret teachings were the esoteric knowledge of the cosmology of one's own mind -- how the disciple must live -- and the foundational truths that must be built upon, that are necessary to bring about the expansion of mind and consciousness that enables the disciple to begin the process of acquiring True Gnosis -- i.e., a Spiritual Knowledge that cannot be comprehended by the untransformed organic mind of man.    That those who portrayed themselves as Orthodox, were totally incapable of understanding the nature and reality of this higher knowledge which they ignorantly condemned as heresy -- remains totally true to this very day.   No person who understands the higher reality of Gnosis, would condemn Gnosis -- and what they would condemn, is the manmade carnal understanding of Gnosis.   Historically, it has often been pointed out that the Gnostics rarely ever defended themselves against the onslaught of doctrinal attack waged by those who portrayed themselves to be Orthodox -- and unless one comes to understand why those known as Gnostics rarely ever attempted to defend themselves, then man's own higher reality will remain forever elusive and beyond comprehension.   

To even begin to comprehend the higher reality of the soul and what is called the Kingdom of God, requires the development of man's higher facilities of mind.   In truth, you would have greater success at teaching kindergarten children advanced calculus, than you would attempting to teach organic man about his own higher natures and reality of mind and being.   And this is not an elitist statement -- but rather, one based upon the fact that it is impossible to receive and comprehend True Gnosis, unless the higher areas of mind are developed.   What this means is that in the same way that it is impossible to convey to the believers of the simple faith this higher knowledge that is dependent upon the development of man's higher facilities of mind to comprehend, the same is true of the intellectuals who reject the scriptures as myth and a hoax.   In the same way that you can't use a kitchen spoon to dig a foundation, and then use this spoon to mix and lay the proper foundation in a great house, neither can the organic mind of man even begin to comprehend man's own higher soul and spiritual reality.   

In the Homilies of his disciple Clement, the Apostle Peter portrays the scriptures as the "books with the power to deceive" those who fail to understand both the traditions, and the nature of these writings.    Concluding that "...even the falsehoods of Scripture are with good reason presented for a test.” (see  http://DivineManna.com#deceive ).    Peter explains that in the case of most people, all that they see and think they understand, is basically what they already believe -- and that anyone can confirm their previously held beliefs in the written words of the scriptures.   Why?    Because, few men who do not Know Thyself -- and remain ignorant about their own higher soul and spiritual reality that is beyond man's organic comprehension -- are capable of perceiving the true meaning of the scriptures that remains safeguarded beneath the allegory of the written words.    Why is the esoteric knowledge concealed in this manner?   To both preserve it for those who can put it to use, and safeguard it from those who would destroy it.          

The vast difference between what would be called the knowledge of man, and the higher spiritual reality portrayed in the Knowledge that is defined as Gnosis, has begun to be demonstrated by the modern scientific community.    Quoting at the link http://UnityOfMind.org#blemish : In his book, Urbausteine der Materie, physicist Walter Thirring wrote about matter that modern physics “...has put our thinking about the essence of matter in a different context.   It has taken our gaze from the visible - the particles - to the underlying entity, the field.   The presence of matter is merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field at that place; something accidental, one could almost say, a ‘blemish’.   Accordingly, there are no simple laws describing the forces between elementary particles… Order and symmetry must be sought in the underlying field.”   One of the primary realities that science has to come to terms with in order to advance beyond their present level, is the fact that physical matter is the result of the forces in the Etheric Field coming together, causing what Walter Thirring above describes as a "blemish" that we observe with our organic physical senses.   And what this is, is Darwinism in reverse -- i.e., modern science has proven that the Field is the Source which impresses the aspect of mind and consciousness which is represented in the form of matter that we observe.   The problem is that to the organic mind of both the faith-based believer, as well as the Atheist, what modern science has proven is simply beyond their ability to even contemplate.

What man calls knowledge, is the wisdom and understanding gained through his study of what Walter Thirring called the "blemish" -- i.e., the illusion of what we perceive as physical matter.    Reality, states the physicist, can only be found in the (Etheric) Field -- and it is the Field that both surrounds all physical matter, and is the source of what we perceive with our physical senses as what we call matter.   Which again, is reverse Darwinism -- in that, Darwinism attempted to demonstrate that this physical world came into being apart from any unseen supernatural forces -- and modern science has now proven that this world is the direct result of unseen forces that would be defined as supernatural or beyond what is seen with the physical senses.   Further, what science has yet to uncover is the fact that there also exists a Source beyond the Field -- and Gnosis is the Knowledge which can be called the Divine Manna, that lies beyond even the Field.   And at the level where the reality of Gnosis or Divine Manna exists, the soul of the seeker perceives that there is nothing but Mind projected into Creation -- and all that exists, exists, because the Source which we often call God, is Thinking what religious men call Creation into Being. 

Man Perceives Creation Through The Filter Of His Beliefs About Life: While many will become both offended and simply dismiss the statement of the Apostle Peter in the Homilies that men see and understand only what they are programmed to perceive by virtue of the filter of their beliefs, or the Organic Laws of the earth that predisposes them to a specific preordained opinion, the text of Itzhak Bentov’s book itself reveals that: “The quantum theory asserts that there is no way one can measure some sets of things, like momentum and position, together very accurately... because the consciousness of the experimenter interacts with the experiment itself. Therefore, it becomes possible that the attitude of the experimenter must also influence the outcome of any particular experiment”.  
Thus, we begin to contemplate the interrelatedness of mind and matter and the fact that our whole politically correct culture has become an obstacle to the advancement of mankind.  In the very narrow linear perception of the “fossilized” world-view that is taught in science class in our schools today, the idea that the mind of the experimenter can impact the results of the experiment itself, is simply beyond the scope of man's cultural understanding.   If everything man sees is a detached, stand-alone, separate inanimate object, then genuinely intelligent men must recognize that in his present cultural world view, there is a great void in their understanding that inhibits them from even contemplating how the mind of a person can affect the outcome of a given experiment?   And thus, what the Apostle Peter warns with respect to his statement that each person who reads the scriptures only sees what he he predisposed to see, modern quantum mechanics has gone beyond this fact, and proven that the mindset and thinking of a scientific investigator can somehow impact his findings and results.   

That there is an unseen connection between mind and matter, and man is able to consciously and unconsciously effect what we perceive as inanimate objects with his own patterns of thought, means that our present-day cultural and quasi-scientific perception of Creation itself is defective.  Moreover, when we attempt to interpret the scriptures through the filter of our flawed vision and predisposed inherent understanding, it is impossible for us to even begin to perceive the true depth and revelation of the Word of God!   The problem is that we can never start to embrace man’s true reality, until we begin to acknowledge and recognize that what we see is only a fragment of the whole picture of any given object -- and this is true not only from a religious doctrinal perspective, but a scientific one as well.
Robert Jastrow, an astrophysicist who heads NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, pointed out that the big bang is not exactly an explanation of cause. He is quoted in The Aquarian Conspiracy: “If a scientist really examines the implications, he would be traumatized. As usual, when the mind is faced with trauma, it reacts by ignoring the implications - in science this is called ‘refusing to speculate’ - or by trivializing the origin of the world by calling it the Big Bang, as if the universe were merely a firecracker”.
Mr. Jastrow then continues and states: “Consider the enormousness of the problem: Science has proved that the universe exploded into being at a certain moment. It asks, what cause produced this effect? Who or what put the matter and energy into the universe? Was the universe created out of nothing or was it gathered together out of pre-existing materials? And science cannot answer these questions... It is not a matter of another year, another decade of work, another measurement, or another theory. At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation”.

In the realization that traditional scientific inquiry can never provide the answers to life, thoughtful physicists in greater number have begun to notice the curious parallels between their own findings and ancient mystical descriptions of reality -- mystical descriptions that have been totally dismissed by our modern culture.  These similarities were pointed out in the book, The Tao Of Physics, by Fritjof Capra, and The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav. Zukav’s book takes its title from the Chinese expression for physics, wu li, which he translates as “patterns of organic energy”, and writes: “Bell’s theorem not only suggests that the world is quite different than it seems, it demands it. Something very exciting is happening. Physicists have ‘proved’ rationally that our rational ideas about the world in which we live are profoundly deficient”.

Bell’s theorem, which was proposed in 1964 by J.S. Bell, a physicist working in Switzerland, was first confirmed experimentally in 1972.  Physicist Henry Stapp, in a 1975 federal report called it the most “profound discovery of science”.  Bell’s theorem succeeds in exhibiting the bizarre nature of the subatomic world.  Experiments show that if paired particles which are identical twins in their polarity fly apart, and the polarity of one is changed by an experimenter, the polarity of the other particle changes instantaneously.  Thus, even though from a physical perspective the two particles appear to us as separate, it has been proven that the particles remain mysteriously connected regardless of the fact that there is no physical connection.  

The only explanation that the flat-earth scientists refuse to acknowledge, is that the particles are connected in another non-physical dimension that is beyond man's organic vision to detect -- i.e., what is above portrayed as the Field.    In the words of Einstein: “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality” (quoted in M. Capek, The Philosophical Impact of Contemporary Physics).   What this confirms is that reality is in the Field that is beyond the organic vision and senses of man, and the physical world we perceive and interact with, is not only a result of this higher reality that we can't see, but in many instances is an illusion that is controlled by our predisposed beliefs and philosophical opinions.    Moreover, what this further confirms is that the Darwinist mindset that is presently taught in our schools is not only wring, but is programming young school children into a vision and thought pattern that will inhibit them from understanding man's own higher reality that is manifest in the Field -- or the Etheric realms that the organic senses of the body cannot normally detect.    And herein lies the crux of the problem as seen in the fact that the mind of man in it’s natural organic state is simply incapable of perceiving the far-reaching ramifications of this great truth -- and even less prepared to comprehend the results of the intertwining connections that are maintained not only between individuals and groups of people, but between the past, the present, and future.   What is portrayed in the above is merely science beginning to crack open the door to man's own higher reality -- a reality that he can only begin to grasp, by discarding almost everything that he presently thinks he knows.

 The Allusion Of The Forms Of Matter: Quoting at the link http://UnityOfMind.org#GreatMind : In his 1951 textbook on quantum theory, Bohm offered some interesting speculations on the analogies between quantum processes and thought processes, thus carrying further the celebrated statement made by the astronomer James Jeans two decades earlier: “Today there is a wide measure of agreement… that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”; and the statement by astronomer Arthur Eddington:  “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”.   More recently, cyberneticist David Foster described “an intelligent universe” whose apparent concreteness is generated by cosmic data from an unknowable, organized source.   The reality of the holographic theory says that: “…our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space.   The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.”

If you understand what is being said, then you can begin to understand why Mystics who have walked the spiritual path in search of Gnosis and the Divine Manna of the Kingdom of God, have traditionally warned others that what they see with their physical eyes -- i.e., the objects that appear to their organic senses and mind as being concrete and solid matter -- is merely an illusion.    And if we ask the question, what does this mean?    What we are confronted with is a reality that few biblical skeptics are even prepared to embrace -- i.e., that the allegorical nature of the scriptures is merely an extension of man's own consciousness, mind and being.    In the above reply to The God Who Wasn't There, I demonstrate that the most enlightened religious/spiritual authorities all portray the literal text of the written word of the scriptures as an allegory which conceals esoteric truths that are beyond the understanding of untransformed organic man -- to the degree that the man who is known as the Apostle Paul portrayed the literal text of the scriptures as the "letter that killeth" (see Letter).    But what  both blind believer and critic fail to recognize is the fact that the scriptures are in fact a written allegory that is necessary to prepare the seeker/disciple to begin to grasp the greater allegory of the outer world -- a world that in the analogy of Plato's Cave, is portrayed as a world of illusion that must be escaped!

In the February 1979 Psychology Today interview with brain scientist Karl Pribram, the world which he attempted to describe confirmed the vision witnessed by the Hebrew mystics and prophets who authored the scriptures -- and when properly understood, confirmed the reality of the Bible that neither true believer or staunch critic is even prepared to acknowledge and understand -- i.e., Pribram wrote: “It isn’t that the world of appearances is wrong; it isn’t that there aren’t objects out there, at one level of reality. It’s that if you penetrate through and look at the universe with a holographic system, you arrive at a different reality, one that can explain things that have hitherto remained scientifically inexplicable: paranormal phenomena… synchronicities, the apparently meaningful coincidence of events” (see  http://UnityOfMind.org#illusion ).   And thus, it is this world of illusion that is created by the limitations of each person's own mind that is portrayed by the Gnostics as the Demiurge of a counterfeit creator, and it is this same illusion that man must escape in the analogy of Plato's Cave .  

Man's Ultimate Reality is that there is nothing but Mind -- and this and all other dimensions of Reality is a Great Thought that man is experientially evolving within.    And what this confirms is the fact that the objects in the outer world that we observe with our physical senses, are in reality allegorical symbols of mind impressed into the forms of matter by the forces in the underlying Etheric Field -- and the forms that we observe, represents a psychic/mental impression of the thought form of mind that it denotes to our own, and the Universal Consciousness.   And once this higher reality is properly understood, is the very reason why it would appear to the unenlightened mind of the Atheist and critic, that one religion borrows the mythological symbolism from another -- when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth.   Moreover, this is why, while Eastern mysticism portrays the forms of concrete matter that we observe in the outer world as an illusion, Western Gnosticism understands that the illusion is more factually, an allusion.  

What is the difference between an illusion and an allusion?    When properly understood, they are in fact worlds apart.   If all that we see in the outer world is the result of the forces in exerted in the Field -- i.e., the words of Einstein that “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality” -- the form that is impressed into the shape that we see, is an allegorical representation of the aspect of mind that the symbol expresses.   In the same way that a phallic symbol which was used by the ancients expresses the male generative power, the penis itself expresses an aspect of mind that is universal.   And this is true not only of all the parts of the body, but also everything that exists in the outer world -- which is merely a larger scale and pattern of mind expressed and impressed into matter.    Which means that a dog, appears to us in that physical forum that we see and interact with, because of the underlying aspect of mind and consciousness that is represented in the form of a dog.   When Jesus warned not to give what is holy to dogs, what he was presenting was the reality that a dog represents a condition of mind projected into the forms of matter that we see -- and people who are ruled over by this condition of mind, are incapable of comprehending what is holy.   And from an enlightened perspective, a swine, is a swine, because of the underlying aspect of mind and consciousness that is represented in the form of the swine.  

The Egyptians expressed themselves in hieroglyphs -- and much of the Chinese languages represent thoughts impressed into symbols -- everything that we see and interact with in the outer world, is merely the thoughts of the Great Mind expressed in the allegorical forms of matter.   If you could take the vast realities of our own mind and express each aspect of mind in the form of a symbol that would animate the thought that each represents, then you would begin to grasp the reality of man as dwelling within an illusion that is an allusion -- i.e., a Matrix of mind expressed into symbols which animate each thought that is the building blocks of consciousness.   And thus, we can begin to grasp the higher reality expressed by G.R.S. Mead, a foremost authority on the Gnostics, in his book entitled Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, where this explanation of the true nature of the scriptures is put forth: “…what the Gnostics projected onto the screen… [in the form of a ] picture of the universe was in reality a picture of their own minds. Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate one, of the forces which operate in the structuring and evolution of the human personality”.   And upon encountering these same patterns of thought in the dreams and thinking of his patients, was the reason that Carl Jung called the Gnostic Christians the worlds first and foremost psychologists who understood the very fabric of human consciousness.   That there is an Inner Source of Knowledge that is beyond even the most enlightened wisdom of this world, is in fact the very reason why the Apostle Paul wrote: “For the truth about God is known to them instinctively; God has put this knowledge in their hearts” (Rom 1:19 TLB).    Which are in fact parallel statements presented in the above -- i.e., that of astronomer James Jeans who stated that: “Today there is a wide measure of agreement… that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”; and the statement by astronomer Arthur Eddington:  “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”.   More recently, cyberneticist David Foster described “an intelligent universe” whose apparent concreteness is generated by cosmic data from an unknowable, organized source.   The reality of the holographic theory says that: “…our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space.   The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.”

Once the reality that this world is an illusion that is an allusion is understood, what this means is that from a biblical perspective, the swine is an unclean animal, because of the thought-pattern and consciousness that is represented in the (allegorical) form of the swine as presented to our organic senses.   The swine which is condemned as an unclean animal in the Bible, is also rejected in the Qur'an -- and while the unenlightened Atheist may point to this commonality between the scriptures and conclude that Mohammed borrowed from Moses, nothing could be further from the truth.    The swine is unclean, because of the thoughts that are embodied when projected into the allegorical form of nature that created its image and actions.    The commonality is founded upon the fact that both the authors of the Torah, as well as the Qur'an, were aware of what these thoughts projected into the (allegorical) forms of mind represented in the symbols of consciousness impressed into the symbol that is presented to the mind of man as he observes the allusion of the outer world.   And because we are observing and interacting with Universal Consciousness, this esoteric reality of mind is true of all the forms that we observe in the outer world -- and especially the human body, which is an allegorical blueprint of our own minds impressed into the forms that make up the body-vessel in which we dwell.  And the fact that these universal (allegorical) symbols of mind which are impressed into the forms of nature, is the basis of why it appears that religions borrow beliefs from other religions (see http://brotherofyeshua.blogspot.com/2008/09/reply-god-who-wasnt-there.html ), represents the folly of the Atheists and critics who condemn what they lack the depth of mind to even begin to understand.    And in the same way that the unenlightened religious believers cling to doctrines of manmade belief, the pseudo-intellectuals and Atheists invent half-baked theories such as Evolution, to explain away that they fail to understand with respect to the forms observed in the outer world.  

The folly of the pseudo-intellectuals who attempt to portray those Native Americans as copying from Europeans, Asians or Africans, something such as the wheel.   Because the underlying forces of mind and being are common to all seekers the world over -- and the forces that must be overcome are universal -- so, too, is the solutions.   Thus, in the same way that the Europeans required wheels to roll on the ground and transport what they needed to carry, so too did the Asians, the Africans, and the Native Americans.    So to even suggest that one group of people needed to copy from another, in order to resolve this universal dilemma and need, is ludicrous.   Yet, in their ignorance with respect to the underlying forces (of mind) in the Field, the pseudo-intellectuals who are blind to the reality of the Field, promote their folly to those who look to them as authorities.    In the same way that science has proven that paired particles remain connected in a dimension of the Etheric Field that can't be observed with man's organic senses, on a deeper level all of Creation remains connected -- and all that man sees and interacts with, is merely aspects of mind impressed into the forms of nature that comprise the physical universe and the world in which each person lives -- and all these forms are subject to the filter of beliefs of the individual interpretation of each person.    

Mystics are those who seek to become spiritual scientists.   In the Wikipedia, the word scientist is defined as: "A scientist, in the broadest sense, refers to any person that engages in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge or an individual that engages in such practices and traditions that are linked to schools of thought or philosophy."   By this definition, a Mystic is a scientist without self-imposed limits that are brought about by predefined doctrines of belief.   Further, once it is recognized that all of life is an expression of mind impressed into symbols of matter that are representative of aspects of thought, then the "fossilized" doctrines of modern science must be recognized as little more than flat-earth theories that have absolutely no basis in fact and higher reality.    And in the same way that those who portrayed themselves as the Orthodox religious faith promoted Gnostic Scriptures that they failed to understand, it is in like manner true that most of modern science is merely an extention of this same blind belief in Darwinism, who was totally ignorant of even the very substance of the reality expressed into the esoteric forms and symbols of nature.

Man, who sees only the symbols of the thought-patterns of mind impressed into the forms of matter, remains ignorant as to the aspect of mind that is represented in these forms which are impressed into nature.    In the recognition that man who fails to look beyond the form, does not know what each form represents, they recognize the fact that to understand what they see, they must begin to seek the source.   Darwinism, which is perhaps the epitome of this carnal ignorance, attempts to conclude that the forms of matter observed in the outer world is independent of any other underlying source -- and by virtue of this error, modern science has proven that nothing is further from the truth.    The scriptures are allegorical, in order to prepare the disciple to understand the esoteric reality of the outer world -- and the outer world is an allegorical allusion, which is in fact a blueprint of the Divine Pattern of Mind and Being that is represented in the reality of the Universal Consciousness.    And thus, the scriptures have absolutely nothing to do with history -- but rather, in the above words of G.R.S. Mead: “…what the Gnostics projected onto the screen… [in the form of a ] picture of the universe was in reality a picture of their own minds. Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate one, of the forces which operate in the structuring and evolution of the human personality”.

In recognizing that men do not understand the true reality of what they see and perceive with their physical senses, mystics have become enlightened to the fact that, in order to understand man's higher reality, those seeking knowledge must perceive and comprehend the underlying source in the field that is creating the allegorical form that organic man observes projected into matter.   Darwin was not only totally blind and oblivious to the reality of the Field, but he lacked the necessary enlightened spiritual vision to perceive these underlying forces in the Field that was responsible for creating the forms and expressions of life that we observe in the countless images presented to our senses by nature.   Where, in Darwin's blindness to these underlying forces, he imagined the survival of the fittest -- he failed to understand that what he was observing was the final form representing an allegorical image of that aspect of mind which is portrayed in the symbolism that presented itself to the senses of man in the limitations of his organic vision and understanding.  

One of the primary problems that has shackled man to ignorance about both himself, and the reality of the world in which he presently lives, is seen in the fact that man has permitted himself to become anchored to an erroneous perception of both himself, and all of Creation.   If one begins on a erroneous assumption, then it is difficult to arrive at a higher understanding, without first re-examining the erroneous starting point.    Which means that in our present time where Darwinism is used to counter what is called Creationism and/or Intelligent Design -- i.e., a Fundamentalist perception of the written words of the scriptures -- the obstacle that inhibits man's progress is far more political, than factual.    While the Fundamentalist who assigns the label of Orthodox to his own interpretation of the scriptures, lacks any understanding of the esoteric meaning of the symbols that make up the written text -- the pseudo-intellectuals and Atheist critics are themselves blinded by the limitations of organic consciousness, and they lack any understanding of the esoteric meaning of the allegorical symbols that re impressed into the forms of nature.   And while Darwin and his theory of evolution remains the holy grail of the Atheist and Secular Humanist who are the architects and guardians of our modern-day godless culture, even the more enlightened scientist readily sees the flaw in this very mechanical and limited perception of life.  

In the words of Niles Eldredge of the American Museum of Natural History: “The old explanation that the fossil record was inadequate is in itself an inadequate explanation.”  Why?  The fossil record is inadequate because everything that we see and perceive in this realm is directly caused by patterns of force being exerted upon matter from beyond the bounds of this three-dimensional world in which we presently dwell.  But Darwin himself, knew this fact with respect to the inadequate record, and questioned the validity of his own theory when he wrote: "Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain, and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and gravest objection which can be urged against my theory" (Charles Darwin, On The Origin Of Species).   According to Darwin's theory, the geological record should be full of species that are slowly increasing in complexity over time.  Since evolution relies on time, chance, and incremental steps, sudden leaps are not possible.  But this is exactly what the fossil record shows, which directly contradicts the theory of evolution!   Yet, pseudo-intellectuals who maintain absolute control over what is taught in our schools and universities, continue to promote the folly of Darwinism, in the same way that a snake oil salesman continues to peddle his worthless product for his own personal enrichment.   

Whales are portrayed as one-time land mammals that returned to the sea, and grew breathing holes in the top of their heads, as well as flippers and fins that surrounded their legs.   Those who embrace this convoluted reasoning promote the idea that these land mammals over the course of eons, never again stepped foot on dry land, while these radical changes took place in their body.    And in the same way that the Fundamentalist expects us to believe that the world was created in six days six thousand years ago, the pseudo-intellectuals expect us to believe that over the course of these eons when these same mammals still had legs, they were somehow not attacked by sharks and other predators who were hunting virtually helpless mammals on the surface of the water for food.   We are not talking about a small group of land mammals going back in the water for short periods -- but rather, a rather large group of mammals going back in the water -- over the course of lifetimes of having legs which enabled them to walk on the land -- and over the course of eons of refusal to use those legs, we are being told that very slowly their legs began to atrophie, as fins began to ever so slowly grow over the legs -- and that they grew blowholes in which to breathe out of.    One of the reasons why this theory has been embraced, is seen in the fact that within the fins of most whales, exists what appears to be legs -- but in not understanding that the body of the sea mammal is the result of mind being projected from the Field into the form of nature as perceived in the pattern of thought that it represents, the Darwinists have embraced the folly of absolute irrationality.    To prove their absurd reasoning, perhaps they should volunteer to live in the ocean to see if their offspring over the course of eons, become mermaids.    Mind you, something would have to motivate their countless generations of offspring, into never stepping foot on land, and utilizing the natural qualities of their legs.    

Unlike the pseudo-intellectuals who promote their half-baked ideas that are gravely flawed, the mystic is the spiritual-intellectual who is willing to follow the flow of truth and knowledge wherever it leads them.   The Mystic as the true scientist, must therefore cast off all manmade religious dogma and doctrines -- the theories of the philosophers of this world -- as well as the illusions that his own senses present to him as he looks to the outer world.   In the same way that you can't get to what is called the Kingdom of God by traveling outwardly -- mystics are those who explore the inner resources of mind and being in search of what Jesus taught was the Inner Kingdom (Lk 19:20-21).   In Judaism, the river Jordan means "descender" -- and would be interpreted as the connecting link between the physical and the Inner Spiritual.    Allegorically, Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River -- and what this portrays is that the only true baptism is via a Spiritual Power or Anointing (Messiah/Christ) directly from God through this Inner Source of our Spiritual Being that is not of the earth.   In Hinduism, the River Ganges was said to be a flow of water from the heavens into the earth -- and this is an allegory of the energy flow that empowers our minds -- with its source deep within our layers of consciousness.   If, as astronomer Arthur Eddington states, that “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff” -- then the only way to explore beyond the borders of this world of illusion, is to develop one's own mind to pierce the cloak that limits the physical senses of organic man to the three dimensions of this world.    Thus, from an allegorical perspective, one must seek to the Source of the vital life-force that animates our outer physical being -- breaking down the barrier and opening a bridge to our inner reality of soul and spirit -- becoming Anointed (Messiah/Christ) through the pure flow of what is allegorically portrayed as the River Jordan or Ganges.  

It is the voice of the Mystic that has perpetually stated to the rest of mankind: If you want to see and know that I have seen, and know what I have come to know, then you have to do and accomplish what I have myself done with my own mind and life!   So, what the Mystic is in fact stating, is that while the minds of all people are equal in their innate potential, in the reality of this world all minds are not the same -- and the mind can and must be trained and matured to see and comprehend what other people's minds remain blind to.    Is this Gnostic elitism, as the Orthodox have traditionally attempted to portray those who claim to possess the secret esoteric teachings of Jesus that was not revealed to the multitude of people?   In speaking of the reality which Jesus portrayed as the "outer darkness" (see Outer Darkness) which presented the fact that the vast majority of mankind dwells under the illusion of carnal organic blindness, Jesus stated: “For this people's heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.' But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear. For I tell you the truth, many prophets and righteous men longed to see what you see but did not see it, and to hear what you hear but did not hear it” (Matt 13:15-17 NIV).    And while the modern believer would like us to accept at face value that they are fulfilling the mandates of Paul and his rejection of the outward rituals of the carnal Jews, are we so gullible to believe that the Church assists the flock of believers to do as Paul commanded when he instructed that they must "Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature" (Col 3:5 NIV). To the degree that Paul warned: “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live” (Rom 8:13 KJV).   Why?   Because the consciousness of the organic flesh of the body-vessel is totally subject to the illusions of this world which must be overcome, in order to begin to perceive man's higher reality o soul and spirit and what Jesus portrayed as the Kingdom of God within one's own mind and being (see http://GateOfEden.com ).    Therefore, Paul rightfully tells the believers to reject the outward rituals of the Jews who failed to comprehend the allegorical nature of the scriptures, and to overcome the inherent blindness of the disciples on organic carnal nature, in order to escape the inherent ignorance of this world.

The fact that one of the primary objectives of the Mystic is to observe this world from a point just outside of the illusion of physical matter, demonstrates that it is the Mystic who has proven the assertion of the modern physicist who has stated that "...The presence of matter is merely a disturbance of the perfect state of the field at that place; something accidental, one could almost say, a ‘blemish’." (see above).   The Mystic has therefore found that with the right training, discipline and development through the process of expansion of mind beyond organic limitations, that he can move into "...the perfect state of the field", and observe this world from the perspective of the Etheric Field -- i.e., the source, rather than the illusion of the symbolism of what man's sees as concrete matter.  

With respect to the perception of the physical senses and limited understanding of the organic mind of carnal man, Jesus said of those of his disciples who followed in TheWay: “Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand” (Mark 4:11-12 KJV).   Why did Jesus warn that the senses and understanding of organic man were blind to this higher reality -- i.e., "...see, and not perceive"?   What made the outer multitude of people blind to what Jesus portrayed as the Mysteries of God?   And what enabled his disciples to see, what could not be seen, with man's normal organic senses of the body?    And again, why did the people "...hear, and not understand”?   Why is the hearing of one group of people different, than the hearing of those outside of that group?   While the multitude of men have been told the answer to these questions many, it is the answer that they don't want to confront and acknowledge.    Unlike the spiritual man -- i.e., the Gnostic who walks the mystical path of TheWay -- the organic mind of man is blind to not only the realities in what the modern scientist has demonstrated to be the Etheric Field that is the source of all the forms of this world -- and that the Gnostic sees what organic man is blind to, and understands the higher reality of the soul and the Mysteries of the Kingdom, because he has removed the beam from his own eyes, that he may see what others are blind to: "Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?  Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye?  You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye" (Matt 7:3-5 RSV).   

The Gospel is in fact a declaration that while all men have the potential to open their mind and senses to the higher reality beyond the three-dimensional limitations of this world that the Gnostic has long portrayed as an illusion that is an allusion, few people are actually willing to live the Consecrated Life that Jesus taught was necessary to Expand and prepare the mind to be Anointed -- which opening enables the person to see and understand the higher reality of all things -- both in this world, and beyond.   And while pseudo-religious men and pseudo-intellectuals have attempted to dismiss the mystical Gnostic foundations of all religions -- proclaiming that if they can't personally see beyond the three dimensions of this world, then it simply doesn't exist -- and yet, modern science has succeeded in breaking through the barrier of ignorance with which organic man has immersed himself in the illusion of doctrinal and philosophical confusion.    And the fact that modern science has now begun to open the door that proves the fundamental truths that the teachings of Jesus and the Gnostic foundations of religion has long expressed -- scientific truths that are presented above and at http://UnityOfMind.org --  indicates that if the scientist now wishes to begin to prove his own findings beyond his present state of maturity, then he will have to begin to listen more intently to Mystics, and especially True Gnostics, who have not limited themselves to the fossilized thinking of man's past -- i.e.,  “The present scientific establishment has grown somewhat fossilized by its current world picture and is locked into a view of reality that has outlived its usefulness.  It has begun to limit mankind’s growth and has so increased its sense of specialization, separateness, materiality, and mechanical computer-like functioning that it is in real danger of self-extermination” (William A. Tiller, Materials Sciences Department, Stanford University).   Science has proven that the world is not what it appears to be to the physical senses of the body -- and those who were declared heretics throughout history, were often the few who were right.  

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