“Nothing redeems us from this world but we are of the All, and we are saved. We have been saved from start to finish. Let us think about it in this way; let us accept it in this way”. ~Meyer, Marvin W.; Robinson, James M.. The Nag Hammadi Scriptures (p. 54). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition.
It is past time that we take back and regain the terms and
concepts that orthodoxy, fundamentalism, and evangelicalism stole from the
mission and message of Jesus. It is time to recognize that oh so fearful word,
heretic is just a word used by people to gain control over other people. There
are so many terms that orthodoxy repurposed for control that overturning it will
be a big job.
One such term that I will address today is resurrection. It
is only fitting to do so on resurrection Sunday! Another that has to be
included is “the fall.” So, before I deal with the resurrection, I will briefly
deal with the fall. What really was the fall? It was a fall into forgetfulness.
That was the central message of the Gospel of Truth. What was forgotten? The
fact that we are pre-existing divine souls. It is similar to the emptying that
Paul wrote about in his letter to the Philippians. Upon incarnating into
material reality, we empty our knowledge, in other words forget that we are
indeed an aspect of the divine Logos, or the divine mind. That is our spiritual
nature. Thus, being redeemed from the fall simply means that we are able to
regain the knowledge of who we really are. This was the message and mission of
Jesus of Nazareth. He chose to do this before the foundation of material
reality.
How then does the resurrection redeem us from the fall? If
we take the message of Jesus that was spoken while he was living and couple
that with the resurrection, we have a solid proof that we are indeed partakers
of the divine nature, and that we can remember and exploit that knowledge. It
is the catalyst for love within us. Jesus’s message was that we are the
offspring of a loving parent. He went on to teach that we are incarnations of
the divine mind, or divine Logos. Paul said, let the same mind be in you that
was in Christ Jesus. What mind was that? It was the mind that believed that God
was a loving parent, (in deity there is both the masculine and feminine aspect.)
It was a mind that believed our purpose here on earth was to develop love for
one another. It was a mind that knew he was eternal and eternally the offspring
of God.
The proof of this message was substantiated in the
resurrection from the dead. It was the proof that individual souls are indeed
eternal. Let’s face it. Jesus’s sacrifice happened when he incarnated. At that
point he was going to die at some point. To die at the hands of the Roman
occupation, at such an early age, was a way to stamp an exclamation point on
his sacrifice. God did not sacrifice his son. The sun sacrificed himself as a
proof of our divinity. Think about it, God did not need a blood sacrifice to
forgive humanity for being the way it was created. It is archaic to think that
animal sacrifice was necessary to appease the wrath of a God who is defined as
love; defined as agape love; a love that keeps no record of wrongs.
I do not believe all of Valentinian Gnosticism. But the
above quote from the Nag Hammadi scriptures is from the “Treatise on Resurrection”
and that’s why I share it. The truth is we are all saved! The truth is we are
all eternal! The truth is that we are all divine!
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