The Teachings Of Apostle Philip
Apostle Philip
1. A slave can hope only to become free.
A slave cannot expect to inherit the estate of the master.
Yet
a Son is not only a Son,
but also a Co-owner of His Father’s estate.
2. An Israelite makes an Israelite,
and such a person
is called an Israelite.
But a new member does not make a new member.
Those
Who came from the Truth
are as They were initially.
And
They beget other Men of Truth.
The latter need only to be born (in It).
3.
There are those who inherit the perishable.
They belong to
the perishable,
and thus they inherit the perishable.
Those
Who inherit the Imperishable are imperishable.
They become owners of both the Imperishable and the perishable.
People
of the perishable inherit (really) nothing.
Because what can a perishable man inherit?
4. A pagan does not die because has not (really) lived.
So, there is no point in speaking about a pagan’s death.
But
those who have accepted the Truth begin to live,
and there is a danger of dying for them because they live.
5. Since the day of Christ’s incarnation,
the prosperity
came,
the cities revived,
the death moved away.
6. When we were Israelites,
each of us had only
a mother.
But since we became Christians
we have both the Father and mother.
7. Those who sow in winter reap in summer.
The
winter is the earthly,
but the summer is another eon.
Let
us sow on the Earth in winter
so that we may reap the harvest in summer!
Therefore,
we should not pray to God for the winter,
because the winter is followed by the summer.
But
the one who tries to reap in winter
will not really reap but only pluck out the
sprouts.
8.
The one who does not follow this — will not reap the
harvest. Moreover, such one will not only be without the harvest, but will have
no strength in the Sabbath.
9.
Christ came to “ransom” some: to liberate, to save. He
“ransomed” strangers making them His own.
Afterwards, He set apart His own — those whom He ransomed by His will.
He laid down Himself (on the
Path of sacrificial service) when He Himself willed it — not only when He
revealed Himself to people, but from the very day of the Creation of the World,
He laid down Himself.
10.
Light and darkness, life and death, right and left — are
brothers of one another; they are inseparable (in earthly people). Because of
this, among them — the good are not good, the bad are not bad, and their life
is not life, and their death is not death.
So, one should begin with separating all these in oneself.
Those who have detached themselves from the earthly become whole, eternal.
11. The importance attached
to earthly things is a great delusion, for they divert our thoughts from the
One Who is eternal to that which is transient. And in this case, the one who
hears about God does not perceive (behind this word) the Eternal, but thinks
about the transient. In the same way, behind the words the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, the Life, the Light, the
Resurrection, and the Church —
people do not perceive the Eternal, but think about the transient, unless they
have already cognized the Eternal (through personal spiritual experience).
These words are only misleading to earthly people.
12. One name is not uttered
among the earthly — the name which the Father grants to a Son. It is above all.
This name is the Father. The Son would not
have gotten this name if He had not become the Father.
Those who bear this name know this, but They do not speak about this. But those who do not bear this name do not know Them.
Names in this world are invented because it is not possible to cognize the Truth without them.
The Truth is one, but It is
presented as Many. This is for our sake: to lead us to the cognition of the One
through love for Many.
13.
The earthly rulers wanted to deceive people, since they
understood that people have the same origin with the really worthy. They took
good names and gave these names to bad things in order to deceive people and
bind them to the bad in this way. And now these earthly rulers suggest to
people that they keep away from the “bad” and cling to the “good”. These
earthly rulers strive to make formerly free men slaves forever.
14. There are powers which give (power) to people, not wishing to save them. They do this (in order to subjugate them).
People, wishing to be saved, made sacrifices. But a reasonable one (understands clearly that) sacrifices are not necessary and animals should not be offered to deities. In fact, those who offered animals as a sacrifice were themselves like animals (by the level of their development)…
When a sacrifice was made (animals were offered to deities). Though animals were offered alive, they died.
But the one who offers
oneself dead to God — ( verily) will live.
15.
Before Christ came, there was no bread of Heaven. It was
like in paradise at the time of Adam: there were many trees — food for animals,
but no wheat — food for man. Man used to feed like animals.
But when a Christ — Perfect Man — comes, He brings the bread from Heaven so that people may eat human food.
16.
The earthly rulers thought that what they did they did by
their own power and will. But in reality the Holy Spirit in secret accomplished
all that through them — accomplished as He considered appropriate.
Also they sow everywhere the true knowledge, which existed since the beginning. And many people see it while it is being sown, but only a few of them recall about it by the time of the harvest.
17. Some said that Mary
conceived by the Holy Spirit. They do not understand what they say. When did a
woman ever conceive by a woman?
Mary at the same time is the immaculacy, which was not defiled by violence.
She is a great temptation to Hebrews, both to those who preach and to those who listen to their preaching.
Her immaculacy, which was not defiled by violence, is pure. But the mighty of this world defiled themselves (through their fantasies).
And the Lord (Jesus Christ)
would not have said, “My Father Who is in Heaven,” if He had not had another
father. He would have said simply: “My father”.
18.
The Lord said to the disciples, “Enter the House of the
Father. But do not take anything in the House of the Father, nor carry anything
out.”
19.
Jesus is a human name. Christ is a title. For this reason
the name Jesus is not found in other languages; He was just named Jesus.
20.
Christ has everything in Himself: both human and angelic,
and even more mysterious, and the Father.
21.
They who say that the Lord died first and then rose up are
in error, for He rose up first and then died (by the body).
The one who has attained the
Resurrection will not die. For God lives and will be living always.
22.
One never hides a thing of great value in a large vessel,
but very often countless treasures are placed into a vessel worth an assarion. It is the same
with the soul. Being a precious thing, it is placed in a contemptible body.
23. There are people who
are afraid of rising naked. This is because they want to rise in the flesh. Yet
they do not understand that those who wear the flesh are naked (in front of
spirits and God).
But those who undress themselves (of the flesh) in order to become naked (i.e. “naked” souls) — they are not naked anymore.
Neither flesh nor blood can enter the Abode of God.
So, what is that which will not enter? It is that which is on us.
And what is that which will enter? It is that which belongs to Jesus and to His Blood.
Therefore, He said, “They who will not eat My Flesh and drink My Blood will not have the (true) life in them”.
24. In this world, people
mark themselves in the society by their garments.
But in the Kingdom of
Heaven, the garments of the chosen are on Those Who robed themselves in the
Flow and Fire, on Those Who purified Themselves.
25.
Usually obvious things are cognized through the obvious,
and secret things — through the secret. But in some cases, the secret is
symbolized through images of the obvious.
26.
To everyone, He revealed Himself as much as they could
comprehend. He did this so: to the great He appeared as great, to the small He
appeared as small, to angels — as an angel, and
to people — as a man. At the same time,
His Divinity was hidden from all. Some, seeing Him, thought that they saw a
person equal to them.
But when He revealed Himself to His disciples in the whole glory on the mountain — at that moment He was not small but truly Great. But before this, He made His disciples great, so that they could see His Greatness.
On that day, thanking the
Father, He said: “O He, Who united His Perfection and Light with the Holy
Spirit, unite us also with the images of angels!”
27.
Do
not neglect the Lamb, for without Him one cannot see the Gate.
And no one will be able to
come to the King remaining “naked”.
28.
The Man of Heaven has many more Sons than an earthly man.
If the sons of Adam are many, although they die, how much more are the Sons of
the Perfect Man, Those Who do not die and are begotten again and again!
29.
The Father created a Son, but a Son cannot create a son. Because
the One Who was born in that way (by the Father) cannot beget. A Son makes
brothers for Himself, not sons.
30.
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31. There are those who feed from a mouth if the word of God comes from it. If one feeds like this — one can become Perfect.
The Perfect can be conceived by a kiss and be born thus.
For this reason, we also
kiss one another to become conceived from the grace which is in each one of us.
32.
There were three who always walked with the Lord: Mary,
His mother; His sister; and Mary Magdalene, who was called His companion. So,
there were three Maries: His mother, His sister, and His companion.
33. The Father and the Son are single names.
But the Holy Spirit is a Double name. For They are everywhere: They are above, They are below, They are in the hidden space, They are in the open (space).
(At that) the Holy Spirit
is open below and hidden above.
34. Saints are served by
evil powers as well. These powers are blind because of the Holy Spirit: they
think that they serve their men, but in fact they work for the saints.
Once, a disciple asked the
Lord about something of this world. The Lord answered him: “Ask your mother;
she will give you of the things which are alien to Me”.
35.
The apostles said to their disciples: “Let all our gift s
contain salt”. By salt they called wisdom. Without it, one’s giving must not be
performed.
36.
But wisdom cannot be well-grounded without a Son…
37.
What the Father possesses belongs also to His Son. While the
Son is small, He is not entrusted with what belongs to Him. But when He becomes
adult, the Father gives Him all that is His.
Those people who go astray
from the Path were born on the Earth also according to the will of the Spirit
of God. Yet, they go astray from the Path also according to His will. Thus,
lamps are kindled and put out by the same Spirit.
38.
There is simple wisdom. But there is also wisdom
consecrated by death: this wisdom has cognized death. The wisdom which has not
cognized death is small wisdom.
40.
There
are animals devoted to man like cows, donkeys, and others. And there are those
not devoted to man, which live apart in the desert.
Man plows in the field with the help of devoted animals. Thanks to this, man provides with food both oneself and the devoted animals, but not those undevoted.
In the same way, the Perfect Man works with the help of those who are faithful and prepares everything that is necessary for their being. Thanks to this, everything is at the right place: the good and the bad, the right and the left.
But the Holy Spirit takes
care of everyone and controls everything: the faithful, the hostile, and the
indifferent. He unites them and separates them in order that they all may gain
power when He decides it is necessary.
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42. First, adultery takes place; then a murderer is born from it. He was a son of a devil before; therefore, he becomes a murderer of people now and kills his brothers.
Every (sexual) intercourse
of dissimilar people is adultery.
43.
God is like a dyer. Just as good dyes, which are called
colorfast, get destroyed only with the things dyed in them; it is the same with
God. Because His dyes do not fade; they are immortal thanks to His work of the
“dyer”.
God baptizes those whom He
baptizes in the Flow.
44.
It is not possible to perceive anything of the
Imperishable unless one becomes like It.
In the world of the True Life, everything happens not in the same way as among earthly people: they perceive the sun, although they are not the sun, they perceive the sky and the earth and all other objects, not being them.
But in that world, you perceive something, and you become it. Thus you perceive the Holy Spirit, and you become Him. You perceive a Christ, and you become a Christ. You perceive the Father, you become the Father.
In that world you perceive
everything, but you do not perceive yourself. But you perceive yourself as That
One, because you become the One Whom you see.
45.
Faith begs. Love gives.
One must not receive without faith. One must not give without love.
Therefore, in order to beg we believe, and in order to give truly we love.
But the one who gives
without love does not benefit from such giving.
46.
The one who has not received the Lord yet is
still a Hebrew.
47.
The first apostles called Him thus: Jesus Nazarene
Messiah, that is Jesus Nazarene Christ. The last word is Christ; the first is
Jesus; in the middle — Nazarene.
The word Messiah has two
meanings: Christ and King. Jesus in Hebrew means Savior. Nazara is Truth.
Nazarene is the One Who came from the Truth.
48.
A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is not
despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not become more valuable.
But it is always valuable to its owner.
49.
If you say, “I am a Jew!” — no one will move. If you say,
“I am a Roman!” — no one will be disturbed. If you say, “I am a Greek, a
barbarian, a slave, a free man!” — no one will flinch. But if you say, “I am a
Christian!” — everyone will tremble. Oh, if I could receive this rank, which is
unbearable for the earthly rulers!
50. God is an Eater of men. Men are consumed by Him.
Formerly men sacrificed
animals. But their souls were consumed not by God.
51.
Glass
vessels and clay vessels are both made by means of fi re. But glass vessels, if
broken, can be remade, for they came into being through a breath. Clay vessels,
if broken, are thrown away, for they were made without breath.
52.
A donkey, walking around a millstone, has walked a hundred
miles.
When it was untethered, it remained at the same place.
There are men who walk
much, but advance nowhere. And when evening comes for them, they have seen
neither city nor village to which they were going, they have cognized neither
the nature of the Creation nor the Power (i.e. God-the-Father), nor even
angels. Futile was the work of these miserable.
53.
Our thanksgiving —
to
Jesus! In Syriac, He is called Pharisatha, i.e. the One Who exists everywhere.
Jesus came to show the crucifixion
of that which belongs to this world.
54.
The Lord once came to the dye-works of Levi. He took 72
different dyes and threw them into the vat. Then He took all fabrics from it,
and they were white. He said, “Even so the Son of Man works”.
55.
A woman who has not given birth to children may become a
mother of angels. Such a woman was Mary Magdalene, a companion of the Son. The
Lord loved her more than He loved all other disciples and oft en kissed her on
her mouth. The other disciples, seeing Him loving Mary, said, “Why do You love
her more than us?” Answering them, He said, “Why do I not love you as her?”
56.
When a blind person and a sighted person are both in the
darkness, they are not different from each other.
But when light comes, then
the one who sees will see the light, and the one who is blind will remain in
the darkness.
57.
The Lord said, “Blessed are those who verily existed
before were born (on the Earth).
“The one who verily exists
now was like this and will be.”
58. The superiority of man is secret: man has mastery over animals, which are stronger than man is, which are greater by appearance and power. However, it is man who provides them with food. But if man moves away from them, they begin to bite, slay each other. And they will eat each other if they do not find any food.
But now they will have food
because man has tilled the soil.
59. If those who were immersed in the Flow and having received nothing in It say nevertheless “I am a Christian!”, then they take this name on credit.
But if one has really received the baptism in the Holy Spirit, then such a person has the name ‘Christian’ as a gift.
The one who received a gift
does not have to give it back, but from the one who received a credit, this
credit may be taken back.
60. The mystery of marriage is similar to this.
Those who are in a pure marriage are honorable. For without this, one cannot find peace.
Man is the main essence of everything on the Earth. And the main (earthly) function of man is marriage.
Cognize the pure marriage, for it has great power!
As for its impure form, it
exists only as an outer appearance.
61.
Among
evil spirits there are both male and female ones. Male ones long for uniting
with the souls which inhabit female bodies, and the female spirits — with souls in male bodies, with those who live alone.
And no one can run away from such spirits when they seize an embodied soul, unless they combine in themselves the power of man and woman, i.e. in a marriage. Thus, one receives this power in a marriage, which is a symbolic prototype of uniting in the Bridal Chamber.
When primitive women see a man, sitting alone, they come to him, flirt with him, and defile him. In the same way primitive men, when they see a beautiful woman sitting alone, molest, rape, and defile her.
But if they see a husband and a wife sitting nearby, they do not approach them.
In the same way, it can be when one unites by the consciousness with an angel; then no evil spirit dares to come to such a man or a woman.
Those who have come out of the earthly cannot be seized by evil spirits, as it can happen when one is in the earthly. Now they are above passion… and fear. They become masters of their own nature; they are above earthly desires.
… Sometimes it happens that evil spirits see a single man and seize him, torture him… And how can he escape them, being subjugated by his own desires and fear? Where can he hide from them?…
It happens oft en that some
people come and say, “We want to become believers in order to get rid of evil
spirits and demons”… But if the Holy Spirit had been with them, then no evil
spirit would have cleaved to them!
62.
Do not fear the flesh, nor love it.
If you fear it, it will become your master.
If you love it, it will devour and subjugate you.
63.
Either to live in the material world — or to rise in the highest eons! But not to be found outside!
In this world, there is good and bad. However, that which is considered good in fact is not good. And that which is considered bad in fact is not bad.
Verily the bad exists outside of this world of matter! It is that which is outside. It is perdition there.
While we live in this world, it is necessary for us to acquire the Resurrection, so that when we strip off the flesh, we may be found in Calm, but not walk outside.
Yet many go astray from the Path.
It is good to leave this
world having not committed sins!
64. There are people who neither desire nor can work (on self-improvement).
Others desire but do not do this. And therefore, they do not benefit from such a desire. This only makes them sinners.
As for those who can but do
not desire, they will get their deserts: both for the lack of desire and for
the lack of deeds.
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… I am speaking not about
the fi re which has no manifestation (i.e. symbolic, mythic), but about the
real one, which is white, which radiates the beautiful Light, which gives the
Truth.
67.
The Truth is not given to this world in clear form, but in
symbols and images. It is not possible to give It in other forms.
So, there are a birth (in the highest eons) and its symbolic image (an earthly birth). One has to reconstruct the Truth through this image.
Or: what is the Resurrection in reality?
In that way, image after image, man rises.
The same is with the Bridal Chamber: image after image, comes the Truth, which is Mergence.
I say this to those who are not just interested in the words “the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”, but who gain Them truly for themselves.
But those who do not gain Them thus — then even these words will be taken from them.
Verily, one can gain Them by the blessing of God in the realization of all the fullness of the power of the Cross, which was called by the apostles the Right-and-Left.
The One, Who has cognized
this, is no longer a Christian but a Christ.
68.
The Lord has everything important in the form hidden from
this world: the baptism, the blessing, the transfiguration, the purification,
and the Bridal
Chamber.
69.
The Lord said, “I came to
bring the lowest to the Highest and the outer —
to
the inner. And to unite them THERE.”
He said about THAT place in symbols and images.
Those who say that God is above are wrong. Because about Him, Who is in That place, one may say that He extends below. And at the same time, He to Who belongs also everything hidden from this world — He is above everything!
In fact, it is just nattering: “the inner and the outer, the outer from the inner”…
Also the Lord called the place of destruction the outer darkness. And the entire world is surrounded by it…
He also said, “My Father Who is in the hidden”.
He also said, “Go into your chamber, close the door, and address your Father Who is in the hidden”. That is — to the One Who is in the depth beneath everything.
But the One Who is in the depth beneath everything is the Primordial Consciousness. Beyond Him, there is no one residing deeper.
Also they say about Him: “He Who is above everything”.
70.
Before
Christ’s coming, many people came out (from this world). They could not return
(immediately) to the place from which they came out. And they could not come
out (immediately) from the place to which they came.
But Christ came. And now
those who came in can come out, and those who came out can return.
71.
When Eve was in Adam, there was no death. When she was
separated from him, death appeared. If she enters in him again and he accepts
her, there will be no death anymore again.
72.
“My God, My God, why, O Lord, have You forsaken Me?” He said
these words on the cross.
Then He separated from that place That Which was Divine.
The Lord rose again (in a body) from the dead. He came as He was before. But now His body was perfect, though it was flesh. But this flesh was from the Primordial.
Our flesh is not from the
Primordial; we possess only a likeness of it.
73.
The Bridal Chamber is not for animals, nor for men-slaves
(of passions), nor for women driven by passion.
It is for pure women and
men who gained Freedom.
74.
Thanks to the Holy Spirit we are begotten on the Earth.
But we were born again thanks to Christ.
We are baptized in the Holy Spirit.
And after our birth in Him, we united with Him.
75.
Nobody
can see oneself, either in a flow or in a mirror, —
without
light.
And vice versa: you cannot see oneself in the Light without the Flow and without a mirror.
For this reason, it is necessary to be baptized in both: in the Light and in the Flow.
In the Light we receive the blessing.
76.
There
were three buildings in Jerusalem for making sacrifice. The one, opened to the
west, was called the holy. Another,
opened to the south, was called the holy
of the holy. The third, opened to the east, was called the Holy of the Holiest, the place where a priest enters alone.
The baptism is the holy.
The redemption of others (through one’s own sacrificial service) is the holy of the holy.
But the Holy of the Holiest is the Bridal Chamber.
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… What is a bridal chamber
if not a symbolic image of the Bridal Chamber? The latter is above all evil.
Its veil is rent from the
top to the bottom, as an invitation for the chosen to enter.
77.
Evil spirits do not see and cannot seize Those Who dressed
Themselves with the Perfect Light.
Let such dressing with the
Light be secret Mergence.
78.
If the woman had not separated from the man, she would not
have died along with the man. The separation from him was the beginning of
death.
Therefore, Christ came to
correct the separation, to unite them, and to give the True Life to those who
died in separation, uniting them.
79.
So, let a woman unite with her husband in the Bridal
Chamber. Because Those Who have united in the Bridal Chamber will no longer be
separated.
Eve separated from Adam
because she united with him not in the Bridal Chamber.
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81. On the bank of Jordan, Jesus revealed (to John the Baptist) the Primordial Consciousness of the Kingdom of Heaven, Which was before the beginning of everything. Later He appeared (to John) again. Then He manifested Himself as a Son (of the Heavenly Father). Then He was blessed (by the Father to serve people). Then He was taken by the Father (from this world). Then He began to take (to the Father).
82. Since it is allowed to me to reveal this mystery, I say: the Father of everything united (in the Bridal Chamber) with the Bride Who afterwards came down (to crucified Jesus), and the Light illuminated Him then. And He (leaving that place) came to the Great Bridal Chamber. Therefore, His body, which appeared in the next days, came out from the Bridal Chamber. This body was similar to a body born from a unity of husband and wife (i.e. similar to a usually born body). Jesus made in it (in His new body) everything similar to the image (of a usual body).
It is necessary that each
disciple enter the Chamber of the Father.
83. Adam came into being from two virgins: from the (Holy) Spirit and from the uninhabited Earth.
Therefore, Christ was born
from (only) one virgin to rectify the mistake which occurred in the beginning.
84.
There are two trees in the midst of paradise. From one of
them originate animals, from another — men. Adam ate of the tree which
originates animals. He became an animal and then brought forth animals.
Therefore at present, animals like Adam are held in respect.
So, the tree of which Adam ate a fruit is the tree of animals. This is why his children became so numerous. And all of them also ate the fruits of the tree of animals.
As a result, the fruits of the tree of animals begot numerous people-animals who now honor only man-animal.
But God creates Men. (And
these) Men create God.
85.
Earthly people also create “gods” and worship their
creations. So let these “gods” worship these people — it will be just!
86.
The deeds of man result from man’s power. Therefore, they
are regarded as eff orts.
But man also begets children, which are conceived in calm.
The power of man is manifested in deeds, and calm — in children.
You may find that man is similar
to God in this respect. Because God also
performs
His deeds (in the Creation) thanks to His Power, but it is in Calm that He
begets His Children.
87.
In
this world, the slaves serve the free. But in the other world, the free will
serve these slaves.
However, the Sons of the Bridal Chamber will serve the sons of earthly marriages.
The Sons of the Bridal
Chamber have one and the same name. Calm is Their common estate. And They are
in need of nothing.
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90. Those who say that they will die first and then rise are in error. If they do not receive the Resurrection while being incarnated, they will receive nothing aft er leaving their bodies.
It is the same with baptism:
it is significant only if it is received by the incarnate.
91.
It is I, Apostle Philip, saying: Joseph the carpenter
planted a garden because he needed wood for his handicraft. It was he who made
a cross from the trees, which he himself planted. And the Child of his semen
was hung to that which he had planted.
The Child of his semen was
Jesus, and the planted — the cross.
92.
The true tree of
life is in the middle of paradise. It is an olive tree, from which blessings
come. It is from this tree that the Resurrection is.
93.
94.
This world is a corpse-eater. And all that is eaten (by
humans) is contemptible as well.
But the Truth is a life-eater. Therefore, nobody who is nourished by the Truth can die.
Jesus came from that place,
and He brought food from there. And to those who desired, He gave thus the
(True) Life, and they did not die.
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… Paradise is the place where I will be told: “Eat this or do not eat that — as you wish!” It is the place where I will eat anything, because there grows the tree of knowledge. It is this tree that destroyed Adam. However, it made man live actively.
The Law (of the Jewish
Bible) was this tree. It may suggest what is good and what is bad. But it does
not remove man from what is bad and does not strengthen man in what is good.
And it created destruction for those who ate of it. For when it commanded, “Eat
this, do not eat that!” — this became the beginning of death.
95.
The blessing is superior to the baptism, because it is
thanks to the blessing that we were called Christians, not thanks to the
baptism.
And Christ was called so thanks to the blessing. Because the Father blessed the Son, the Son blessed the apostles, and the apostles blessed others.
The one who was blessed will gain the Resurrection, and the Light, and the Cross, and the Holy Spirit.
To Him (to Christ) the
Father gave this (blessing) in the Bridal Chamber; He received this.
96. The Father was in the Son, and the Son was in the Father. Such are affairs in the Kingdom of Heaven.
97-98. Fragment 97 is damaged in the original text.
Fragment 98 contains an idea which is a continuation of the previous one;
therefore, it cannot be interpreted as well.
99.
This
world came into being (probably) by mistake. Because the one who created it
wanted to create it imperishable and immortal. But he (probably) died, not
attaining his goal, because the world did not become imperishable, as well as
the one who created it.
There is no imperishability of the fruits of material deeds, but there is only (the imperishability of the deeds) of the Sons and Daughters. And there is nothing that can attain Imperishability except only a Son and a Daughter.
The one who cannot even
accumulate one’s own power — how much more such one is unable to help others!
100.
The cup of prayer contains wine and water, serving as a
symbol of blood, over which thanksgiving is performed. And it becomes filled
with the Holy Spirit.
It belongs to the Perfect Man (to Christ).
When we drink it, we will become Perfect Men.
101.
The Living Flow is like the Body (of the Holy Spirit). It
is necessary that we dress ourselves in the Living Body. Therefore, if you go
and submerge in the Flow, you must become naked so that you may be dressed in
It.
102.
A horse begets a horse, a human being begets a human
being, God begets God.
The rest of this fragment is damaged in the original text.
103-104. Let me say about
the place where the Children of the Bridal Chamber abide.
In this world there is a union of man and woman. This is mergence of energy and calm.
In the highest eon there is another form of a union; we just use the same words. In that eon other Consciousnesses abide; They are above all words; They are beyond anything coarse, dense. This is in the place where the Power (i.e. the Father) is; in the same place are the Chosen of the Power.
Those, Who are there, are not the one and other: They all are One there.
And those who live here
cannot even leave their fleshly bodies…
105.
Not all who have a body are able to cognize their own
Essence. And those who cannot cognize their own Essence cannot use the
possibilities given to them for enjoyment.
Only those who cognized
their own Essence will enjoy truly.
106.
The Perfect Man cannot be captured (by evil spirits) and cannot
be seen by them. Because they can capture only those whom they see.
There is no way to acquire this boon but by being dressed in the Perfect Light and by becoming the Perfect Light. If one becomes dressed in It, one merges with It.
Such is the Perfect Light.
107.
It is necessary that we become men of Spirit before we
leave this world (i.e. before the end of this incarnation).
The one who acquired everything in this world, being its master, will not be able to become a master in another world.
Jesus cognized the whole
Path up to the end. But, nevertheless, He came to this world as a simple man (
i.e. He did not behave like a “master” ).
108. The Holy Man is holy entirely, down to the body. If one gives bread to the Holy Man, the Holy Man consecrates it, as well as water or anything else that may be given. All this becomes purified. And how will the Holy Man not purify bodies also?
109.
When performing baptism, Jesus “poured” life into bodies
and “poured” death out from them.
Therefore, we submerge now
in the Flow (of Life), but not in (the flow of) death, so that we are not
carried away by it to the spirits of this world. When these spirits blow,
desolation happens. When the Holy Spirit blows, bliss comes.
110. The one who cognized the Truth is free. The free one does not commit sin: because the one who commits sin becomes a slave of sin (i.e. burdens one’s own destiny, first of all).
The true knowledge is like a mother and a father (i.e. likewise teachers, advisers, and guardians of their child).
Those who are not capable of sinning are said to they have attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises them even more. This makes them both free and above this world.
But only love creates. The one who becomes free thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of knowledge yet. Such one brings the knowledge to them and this develops them because it calls them to the Freedom.
Love takes nothing: how can
it take something? Everything belongs to it. It does not say, “This is mine!
And this is mine!” But it says: “This is yours!”
111. Spiritual love is like wine and myrrh. Those enjoy it who were blessed (by God).
But others also enjoy it — those who stay with the blessed ones. But if the blessed go away, those who are not blessed fall back to their stench.
The Samaritan gave nothing but wine and oil to the wounded man. And it was nothing else but blessing. Thus he healed the wounds.
And love covers a multitude of sins.
112.
Those born by a woman resemble the man she loved. If he
was her husband, they resemble the husband. If he was her lover, they resemble
the lover. It happens that she unites with the husband, as she is obliged to
do, but her heart is with her lover with whom she also unites; then her
children resemble the lover.
But you, who are with the
Son of God, do not get attached also to the earthly! Rather be only with the
Lord, so that those begotten by you be not similar to the earthly but similar
to the Lord!
113. A human being unites with a human being, a horse — with a horse, a donkey — with a donkey. Representatives of any species unite with those similar to them.
In the same way, the Spirit unites with the Spirit, and Logos — with Logos, and the Light — with the Light.
If you become a human being — a human being will love you. If you become the Spirit — the Spirit will unite with you. If you become Logos — you will unite with Logos. If you become the Light — the Light will unite with you.
If you become one of
earthly rulers — the earthly rulers will
associate with you. If you become a horse, or a donkey, or a cow, or a dog, or
a sheep, or any other animal whether smaller or bigger, you will not be able to
associate either with human, or with the Spirit, or with Logos, or with the
Light, or with earthly rulers, or with those who under their rule. They will
not lie in bed with you, and will not accept your love.
114. Those who were slaves against their will may get freedom.
But those to whom the freedom
was granted by the mercy of the lord, but who, nevertheless, put themselves
into slavery again, — they will no longer be able to become free.
115.
Farming in this world requires four essences: water,
earth, air, and light.
In the same way, the farming of God consists of four essences: faith, aspiration, love, and knowledge.
Our “earth” is faith in
which we are deep-rooted; “water” is aspiration which carries us; “air” is love
thanks to which we live; and “light” is knowledge which allows us to mature.
116. The beginning of this fragment is damaged in the original text.
… Blessed be those who have not caused grief to any being.
Such was Jesus Christ. He greeted all in this world and did not burden anyone with Himself.
Blessed be those who live like this! For they are perfect men!
For Logos is like this.
117.
Ask us about Him! For we cannot reproach Him for anything!
How can we reproach this Great One? He gave Calm to everyone!
118.
First of all, one should not distress anybody: either big
or small, unbeliever or believer; then one should off er Calm to those who live
in peace and good.
There are Those Who can give Calm to those living in good.
Mere kind people cannot do this, because they themselves are still dependent.
And They cannot cause grief, (unnecessary) suffering.
But those, who are still on the way to becoming like Them, distress people sometimes.
The One Who has mastered the secrets of the Existence brings joy to good people!
However, there are those
who grieve and feel angry because of this.
119. A householder has acquired all sorts of things: children, slaves, cattle, dogs, pigs, wheat, barley, straw, grass, dog’s food, and best food, and acorns. As a reasonable man, the householder knows which food is for whom and thus gives bread and olive oil to the children; castor oil and wheat — to the slaves; barley, straw, and grass — to the cattle; garbage — to the dogs; acorns and bran — to the pigs.
So are disciples of God. If they are wise, they comprehend the discipleship. Fleshly forms do not deceive them, and speaking with someone they look at the state of the soul of that person.
There are many animals with
human appearance in this world. Disciples of God identify them and give
“acorns” to the “pigs”; “barley”, “straw”, and “grass” — to the “cattle”;
“garbage” — to the “dogs”; “sprouts” — to the “slaves”; and the perfect “food”
— to the “children”.
120.
There is the Son of Man (Christ), and there is the Son of
the Son of Man. The Lord is the Son of Man. And the Son of the Son of Man is
the One Who was created by the Son of Man.
The Son of Man received
from God the ability to create. But He can also beget.
121.
The one who has the ability to create (earthly things) —
creates (them). The one who has the ability to beget (children) — begets. The
one who creates (earthly things) cannot beget (at the same time).
But the One Who begets can also create. And the One Who creates — also begets. The progeny of such (Perfect) One is this Creation. This (Perfect) One begets also (another progeny) — not earthly children but Likenesses of Oneself.
The one who creates (earthly things) acts openly, not hiding. The one who begets acts secretly, in private. But this progeny is not like the progeny of the (Perfect) One.
The One, Who creates,
creates (also) openly. And the One, Who begets, begets the Sons and the
Daughters (also) secretly.
122. Nobody can know when a
husband and a wife united with each other, except themselves. Because their
marriage is hidden from the outsiders.
And if an impure marriage is hidden, then how much more a confidential mystery is the pure marriage! It is not fleshly, but pure; it is determined not by passion, but by sober will. It belongs not to the darkness and night, but to the day and light.
A marriage, if exhibited, becomes adultery. A wife is considered unchaste not only if she unites with another man, but even if she leaves her bridebed and is seen by others.
Let her meet only with her parents, friends of the husband, and the children of her bridal chamber; they may enter her bridal chamber every day. But let others dream of hearing her voice there and of enjoying the fragrance of her incenses! And let them be satisfied, like dogs, with the crumbs that fall from the table.
The Husbands and Wives (of
God) belong to the Bridal Chamber. One cannot see Them unless becomes as They
are.
123. The beginning of this fragment is damaged in the
original text.
… Abraham in order to perceive the One Whom he had to perceive performed circumcision of the foreskin, showing by this (symbolically) that we should rid ourselves of the fleshly — that which is of this world.
Then the original text is damaged partly.
… As long as the intestines
of man’s body are hidden, the body is alive. But if the intestines are
uncovered and fall out, the body dies.
It is the same with a tree: while its roots are hidden, the tree blossoms and grows. If the roots are uncovered, the tree withers.
It is the same with any phenomenon in the world, not only in the material but in the hidden one as well. Thus, as long as the root of evil is hidden it grows and is strong. When it gets known, it begins to bloom. But if its root is uncovered, it perishes.
Therefore, Logos says, “Already the axe lies at the roots of trees! If it does not cut up completely, that which was cut will grow again. Hence, it is necessary to drive the axe deep enough so that it tears out the roots.”
And Jesus destroyed those roots in the place where He worked. And He also did this partially in other places.
As for all of us, let us cut into the roots of evil, which we find within ourselves, and tear out evil with its roots from the soul!
We can tear evil out only if we know it. If we are ignorant of it, it will continue to grow its roots and multiply itself in us. Then it will get the complete control over us; we will become its slaves. It will enslave us more and more, forcing us to do that which we do not want to do and forcing us not to do that which we want to do… It is very powerful until we know about it in ourselves!
While it exists, it acts. Ignorance of it is the mother of evil in us. Ignorance leads us to death. And those who have not become free from ignorance have not existed yet as (true) people, are not existing, and will not exist!
Those who are in the true knowledge fill themselves with Perfection as the Truth reveals Itself to them.
For the Truth, even as ignorance, — while it is hidden, it rests in itself; but when it is revealed and recognized, it blooms, being praised.
How much more powerful it is than ignorance and errors! It gives us Freedom!
Logos said, “If you know the Truth, it will make you free”.
Ignorance is slavery. Knowledge is Freedom.
Seeking the Truth, we
discover its seeds within us.
124. Possessing manifest
things of the Creation, we regard them as significant and respected, while that
hidden from our eyes — we regard as useless and despicable.
But the reality is opposite: manifest things of this world are useless and despicable; but those found in the world hidden from us are significant and worthy of worship.
The mysteries of the Truth are revealed only through symbols and images.
125. The Bridal Chamber is
hidden. It is the innermost.
At first, the veil concealed how God controls the Creation. But when it is rent (for spiritual warriors who come close to it), and the One Who is inside reveals Himself, then one leaves this house of separation (the body). Moreover, it will be destroyed (dematerialized).
… But the Divine of a spiritual warrior does not enter the Holy of the Holiest at once, because It cannot unite (at once) with the Light, with Which It has not been united yet, and with the Primordial Consciousness, the gate to Which has not been opened yet (for entering). The Primordial Consciousness will be under the wings of the Cross and under Its Arms. This meditation will be the saving ark for the spiritual warrior even if the flood comes.
There are some of the companions of Christ who then will be able to enter inside behind the veil together with the High Priest (Christ).
The veil (of Jerusalem temple) was not rent at the top only. If it were so, then the entrance would have been opened only for those who are of high rank (on the Earth). And it was not rent at the bottom only, because then it would have pointed only to the lower ones (of social hierarchy). But it was rent from the top to the bottom.
The entrance is opened also for us who are low, so that we may enter the Treasury of the Truth.
In it, there is the One Who is by right held in high regard, Who is imperishable.
Yet, we make the Way to that place through disdained symbols and ephemeral images. They are disdained by those who hold the earthly glory. Yet, there is Glory above glory, and there is Power above power.
The Perfection opened for us the Treasury of the Truth. The Holy of Holiest was opened for us, and the Bridal Chamber invited us in!
… As long as all this is hidden from people, evil leads them to the futile. And they have not separated it from that which was sown by the Holy Spirit.
Such people are slaves of evil.
But when This approached,
the Perfect Light embraces every one (of those who enter It). And those who are
in It receive the blessing. Thus slaves become free, and those who were
captured become liberated!
126. Every plant which was planted not by My Heavenly Father will be torn out.
Let they who are separate — unite (in the highest eons) having become Perfect!
All Who enter the Bridal
Chamber will kindle the Light of Truth more, for They are not begotten in the
darkness as those begotten in earthly marriages! The Fire will burn in the
night and flare up stronger, because the mysteries of this Marriage are
performed in the Light of Day! That Light of Day will never cease (for Them)!
127. If one becomes a Son of the Bridal Chamber, it means that He has cognized the Light (of the Holy Spirit) before.
The one who has not cognized It in the world of matt er will not receive It in That place.
The One Who has cognized
the Light (of the Holy Spirit) cannot be seen and captured (by evil spirits).
And (evil spirits) cannot torment such Perfect Man even (incarnated in a body)
in the world of matter. Such Perfect Man has cognized the Truth and dwells now
in the Abode of the Primordial Consciousness! And It is opened for such Perfect
One — in the Light of the Holy Day!