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Thursday, March 25, 2010

NOTICE

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Jef

Monday, March 22, 2010

Blossoming Forth (Revised)

“From me did the All blossom forth” #77 Gospel of Thomas

If it is not the destination that brings us happiness, rather the journey, then the infinite journey, the unending story, is a wonder of wonders.

Know thyself; as above so below…as I AM, so we are…if we presume God to be infinite then we are infinite. I ask, can the infinite ever know itself absolutely, completely? If we answer no, as we must, then knowing thyself becomes an infinite journey; the neverending story…a wonder of wonders.

How agonizing it would be, I think, to be “God who knows all absolutely.” If there is a god that knows all, then the ennui of knowing all would be a sentence of eternal and infinite suffering. No discovery, no mystery, no magic. If this is our god, then let us pray he has a unconceivable power to rise above his own suffering and never burden his children with such an awful and terrible gift. Rather let us pray he would give us a life of coming to eternally know ourselves, rather than a life whose “only” goal is “coming home,” “becoming one,” a life of eternal peace, an eternity of gazing into our navel.

I pray, Lord let me experience and know of strife and suffering, of joy and happiness; Lord let me know the peace and rest of coming home to you and becoming one with you; Lord let me know of the departing from you to explore the eternal Self, the eternal All That Is, to eternally discover who you and I are. Lord let me experience the wonder of eternally becoming and passing away anew, all that we are, will become and have been…movement and rest. Lord, make me a humble instrument of Gnosis in service to you and the infinite sparks lost in the night.

Let us pray,
Great Mystery, we are grateful that your compassionate and loving knowing reflects within our being the gift of eternally coming into being, of eternally coming to know ourselves and of All That Is and all that which will be. We marvel at your wisdom in creating the ephemeral, hidden and mysterious and that these too are also mirrored gifts to be discovered in our own selves and lives. May the Unity and Diversity which divinely abounds always be at the forefront of our minds to remind us of that which within you eternally blossoms forth through all existence.
Amen
Tomasis Marie

Saturday, March 20, 2010

reBlog from Tomasis: Come to Be as You Pass Away - Enter and Know you are God

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I found this fascinating quote today:

Pre-existence….For me it is a fact of knowledge…Gnosis. I won’t get into the semantics of what pre-existence means as it will all come out in this post. For me, my current incarnation was by contract, a contract with All That Is and with GodSelf, I contributed to the design of my life and I agreed to be incarnated into the family and situations of it. Indeed, the bulk of my life was by design, predetermined...by me...in cooperation with All that I AM and All That Is. Again, this is a matter of Gnosis, transcendental information unattainable by my physical mind alone. I know this for myself and have no expectation it is true for others except those who claim it for themselves. I can understand this because if I accept God as infinite, omni-everything, then he can be all things to all people. I can hypothesize that an aspect of Self in creation of time/space asked, chose, ‘needed?’ to know what life might be like, as say one who believes the here and now is all there is (and not metaphysically) and let’s make love for tomorrow may never come, that there is no afterlife, as someone else suggested somewhere in my wanderings recently. So you can see, for some (like myself) the mystery, the contemplation, the seeking is so joyful that to know for certainty would ruin it all. (admittedly, this may be a product of too much Gnosis) Indeed there are still aspects of my Self-knowledge and my agreements to be here now that are still hidden and in which I relish the eternal self-discovery.The process of coming to know ourselves will, I believe, disclose why our beliefs, religions, Gnosis and/or transcendental experiences pertaining to such, including incarnation and re-incarnation may not agree. If your Gnosis be real be faithful to it, is what I teach, regardless of what others Truth may be. If our truth cannot exist side by side with different truths, I ask the aspirant to go deeper.Let me explain for example again using myself, where I differ from someone whose Gnosis contains reincarnation my Gnosis contains no recollection of having lived a previous life or lives in this particular timeline and reality (except I do have haunting thoughts of being cremated alive) and it seems I chose to be born at this time only (for now at least). Thus is re-incarnation real? For me it isn’t (yet), but I believe my Master Teacher when she shares her past lifetimes, unquestionably. In fact I use to be quite discouraged that I had no memories and that caused me a lot of distress until I went deeper to know this is my first incarnation (or for whatever reason, I/we decided that I shouldn't recall previous incarnations in this timeline and reality).Now to enter deeply into some of these concepts would take a lot of splainning Lucy. But let me try to be brief, when I explore the concept of pre-existence (ignoring semantics again for the moment), this would suggest like God that we have always been, which leads us to one possible pathway to knowing God, amongst many. It is the answer to the question, “Who am I?” the question begged by what I believe is the supreme commandment, “Know thyself.” Here I can then say that I was pre-existent is prolly a misnomer. If God, Self, is infinite, infinite in all directions, in all time and all space and transcending all directions, time and space then coming to know thyself becomes the infinite journey with infinite adventures. Thus, further, if all things are possible then Truth becomes relative, we become as we pass away (paraphrase of Gospel of Thomas 42).Such understanding, such knowledge is humbling to the extreme for me and I experience not only my own humility, but God humbling hirself before All That Is.Tomasis, Come to Be as You Pass Away - Enter and Know you are God, Mar 2010

You should read the whole article.

Placebo - Running Up That Hill

This is the song Miguel Conner ended his weekly broadcast on Aeon Byte (http://www.thegodabovegod.com/) with titled Alchemy and Becoming God. My friend Charlotte Cowell creator and principal blogger of Alchemical Weddings, Magical Charms and Destination Weddings (http://alchemical-weddings.com/) without asking found the YouTube video allowing me to cross another task off the eternal to do list. Thank you both Miguel and Charlotte! Enjoy my seekers and knowers.

Infinite Pre-existence

Pre-existence….For me it is a fact of knowledge…Gnosis. I won’t get into the semantics of what pre-existence means as it will all come out in this post. For me, my current incarnation was by contract, a contract with All That Is and with GodSelf, I contributed to the design of my life and I agreed to be incarnated into the family and situations of it. Indeed, the bulk of my life was by design, predetermined...by me...in cooperation with All that I AM and All That Is. Again, this is a matter of Gnosis, transcendental information unattainable by my physical mind alone. I know this for myself and have no expectation it is true for others except those who claim it for themselves. I can understand this because if I accept God as infinite, omni-everything, then he can be all things to all people. I can hypothesize that an aspect of Self in creation of time/space asked, chose, ‘needed?’ to know what life might be like, as say one who believes the here and now is all there is (and not metaphysically) and let’s make love for tomorrow may never come, that there is no afterlife, as someone else suggested somewhere in my wanderings recently. So you can see, for some (like myself) the mystery, the contemplation, the seeking is so joyful that to know for certainty would ruin it all. (admittedly, this may be a product of too much Gnosis) Indeed there are still aspects of my Self-knowledge and my agreements to be here now that are still hidden and in which I relish the eternal self-discovery.

The process of coming to know ourselves will, I believe, disclose why our beliefs, religions, Gnosis and/or transcendental experiences pertaining to such, including incarnation and re-incarnation may not agree. If your Gnosis be real be faithful to it, is what I teach, regardless of what others Truth may be. If our truth cannot exist side by side with different truths, I ask the aspirant to go deeper.

Let me explain for example again using myself, where I differ from someone whose Gnosis contains reincarnation my Gnosis contains no recollection of having lived a previous life or lives in this particular timeline and reality (except I do have haunting thoughts of being cremated alive) and it seems I chose to be born at this time only (for now at least). Thus is re-incarnation real? For me it isn’t (yet), but I believe my Master Teacher when she shares her past lifetimes, unquestionably. In fact I use to be quite discouraged that I had no memories and that caused me a lot of distress until I went deeper to know this is my first incarnation (or for whatever reason, I/we decided that I shouldn't recall previous incarnations in this timeline and reality).

Now to enter deeply into some of these concepts would take a lot of splainning Lucy. But let me try to be brief, when I explore the concept of pre-existence (ignoring semantics again for the moment), this would suggest like God that we have always been, which leads us to one possible pathway to knowing God, amongst many. It is the answer to the question, “Who am I?” the question begged by what I believe is the supreme commandment, “Know thyself.”

Here I can then say that I was pre-existent is prolly a misnomer. If God, Self, is infinite, infinite in all directions, in all time and all space and transcending all directions, time and space then coming to know thyself becomes the infinite journey with infinite adventures. Thus, further, if all things are possible then Truth becomes relative, we become as we pass away (paraphrase of Gospel of Thomas 42).

Such understanding, such knowledge is humbling to the extreme for me and I experience not only my own humility, but God humbling hirself before All That Is.

So yes I am pre-existence or rather, at the root, I am omni-existence, omni-present, omni-reality, omni-everything. Fully cognizant of such, hardly, not in this human incarnation with this limited brain, but when I slip into the eternal now, I know, I feel, I experience, I AM.

Jesus said this: When you should look upon he who wasn't begotten out of a woman prostate yourselves onto your face and worship your Father. - Gospel of Thomase #15

If my Gnosis is your Gnosis, then whenever you see yourself in the mirror you will see s/he who was not born of woman becuase we have no beginning, we have always been.

The disciples said to Jesus: "Tell us how our end will be."
Jesus said: "Have you already discovered the beginning, that you are now asking about the end?
For where the beginning is, there the end will be (too). Blessed is he who will stand in the beginning. And he will know the end, and he will not taste death."

I love this saying, it has so much hidden meaning and some amusing understandings. So often people assume the goal to knowing the end is finding the beginning. I think Jesus is joking on his disciples who are for whatever reason eager for the end to come. If you grasp and find my discussion above to jive with your Gnosis, then the disciples will spend all eterninty looking for the beginning...I find that hilarioius! When we find the eternal now, we stand where the beginning is constantly becoming and the end is constantly falling away (and vice-veresa), it is an almost organic experience. Certainly one comes to know and realize the beauty and wisdom of transience, of the ephemeral. To stand in this place, is the Kingdom of God.

As always your mileage will prolly vary.

Tomasis Marie

Sex and The Bible, Part 1

Hear ye, oh Israel! From henceforth thou shalt not watch Cinemax!

Promo Picture from 'The Ten Commandments', Paramount Pictures

The sexiest Gnostics of all time

by Miguel Conner

The Tolkien epic between Atheism and Theism rages on. The two sides have daringly defaced each other’s billboards, dueled over the honor of an old lady on a postage stamp, and even fought to make sure children pledge the right words before a boring school day of gang violence and escalating dropout rates.

It was only a matter of time before this Titan battle for civilization spread into the domains of human sexuality.

A recent Christian Web News report states that at the University of Texas in San Antonio, Atheists students offered to trade pornographic material for religious textbooks. The Atheist stance was that religious books are worse than pornography.

The Theist stance was that The Bible is the word of God and you’re going to Hell, Dawkins-worshippers (or something like that).

Both sides, as always, are missing the larger picture in their heroic efforts to save either the souls or non-souls of humanity.

There is no reason for a trade, since all one is doing is trading pornography for pornography. After all, The Bible is one of the sexiest books ever published. A mere glance at The Old Testament makes one wonder if Jehovah must have mistakenly confused his Penthouse Forum letters with the notes he meant to hand to Moses and the other Patriarchs.

Queue bad jazz music:

In the Beginning (Genesis 4:1). ‘And Adam knew his wife; and she conceived.’ There has never been an archeological finding of their wedding invitations. Things start bad and go downhill from there.

Lot’s Daughter Gone Wild (Genesis 30). The ‘righteous’ Lot is exhausted after courageously offering a lusting mob his two virgin daughters instead of superhuman angels, escaping the destruction of the Vegas of his days, and rushing to a Cave-6 beyond the fireworks. There are many dead gays and his nagging wife has been left behind to be banned by the New York City government. Life is good, so it’s time to rest for a few days.

The problem is that his daughters are history’s first blondes. They think all of humanity has been destroyed by Jehovah. The rocket surgeons decide to get Lot stoned on Jagermeister and seduce him in order to perpetuate the human race. The look on their faces must have been precious when they rode into the next town and cursed the fact that Planned Parenthood wasn’t going to exist for another 3,500 years.

There’s something about Onan (Genesis 38). God kills Onan’s brother and forces him to marry his wife. When Onan decides not to be ‘The Master of his Domain’ in order to avoid having more mouths to feed, ‘The Master of the Universe’ rewards him with 20,000 volts of ‘clean’ energy.

Jacob’s Adder (Genesis 29). Here we now have either history’s first jock or first usage of rufis. Jacob is in love with Rachel, but her father Laban wants him to marry his other daughter, Leah.

Laban somehow tricks Jacob into entering the tent where Leah lives. Jacob doesn’t realize who he has spent the night with until the hangover morning. After chewing his right arm off, Jacob does the honorable thing and stuns the universe by actually asking directions to Rachel’s tent.

The rest of this Nip/Tuck drama has Jacob playing pinball among different women of the household including slaves and other wives. It’s desperate housewives, maids and probably Jacob’s stamina.

What the Pointer Sisters left out (Judges 13-16). As a Judge of Israel, Samson is supposed to be the holy representative of God on Earth. Instead, Fabio’s ancestor spends much of his time in brothels, seducing Philistine women and squabbling with his wife and her family about unimportant domestic issues. Delilah should have used her scissors for a better use.

And you thought the scene with the boiled rabbit was bad (Judges 19). A wandering Levite and his concubine are taken in as guests by an unnamed man. Some of the frat-boys from Sodom and Gomorrah must have escaped because they suddenly appear demanding the Levite’s goods. Using the wisdom of Lot, the host instead offers them his virgin daughter. The crowd decides to take the Levite’s concubine, who is then graphically raped all night. The next morning, the concubine crawls to the doorstep and tells the Levite she quits (okay, she dies). The Levite cuts her up into twelve pieces and sends each one to all the tribes of Israel as a call to arms. Legend says that some of the pieces were mixed with the pieces of Osiris, thus creating Lady Gaga.

David does Jerusalem (2 Samuel, 1 Jugdes, 1 Kings). Besides being The Messiah, David was the Tiger Woods of his era (and wilder if you consider his rumored affair with Jonathan and his habit of doing the Macarena skyclad in holy places). His most famous escapade is sending his best friend, Uriah, to a certain death in the battlefield while he seduces his wife, Bathsheba. Both Jehovah and David know that something honorable has to be done to correct the situation, especially since Bathsheba is preggers. God kills the baby as soon as it’s born and David immediately beds Bathsheba. Their second tryst produces King Solomon, making future Freemasons very happy.

Make sure to import Viagra along with the Lebanese cedars, Hiram (1 Kings). Solomon has 700 wives and 300 concubines. Being the wisest man in history, he quickly bans all aspirin from Israel. None of this bothers The Lord of Hosts, until Solomon begins hanging out with foreign women who redecorate The First Temple with knock-off idols made in China.

The Chosen People never believed in one-night stands. Right. Abraham pimps his geriatric wife, Sarah, to several noblemen (Genesis 12). Judah has casual affairs with a Canaanite woman and his daughter-in-law (Genesis 38). The sons of Eli make bacon outdoors with several women at the very door of the Tabernacle (1 Samuel 2). Amon rapes his half-sister, Tamar, and that’s the end of that (2 Samuel 13). Isaiah has relations with a prophetess; God, in his cruelest act ever, forces their child to be named Mathershalalhashbaz (Isaiah 8). And there are plenty more Melrose Place instances, just ask David, Solomon or Samson.

These 9 ½ Weeks on Red Bull scenarios are only the tip of the…well, here’s the entire catalog.

The obvious question is why the huge divide between Jehovah’s puritanical laws regarding sexual conduct and the accepted and often encouraged Boogie Nights behavior of the Israelites. The answers might have to do less with God’s heavenly morality and more with finally addressing a very serious health problem predominant during much of The Bronze Age:

Venereal disease.

In ‘Sex, Drugs, Violence, and the Bible’, Chris Bennett and Neil MacQueen propose that many of the symptoms of God’s ‘plagues’ are eerily similar to those of sexually-transmitted diseases (p. 91-93). After all, many of the laws in Leviticus 15 contain ‘strict and complicated rules dealing with discharge causing uncleanliness’, an ancient reference to venereal disease.

The book quotes Josephus as relating that Moses ‘ordered that those who had gonorrhea should not come into the camp.’ Instead of Manna from Heaven, God would have been more merciful to angel-drop penicillin to the wandering Israelites.

The warnings are scattered all throughout the Old Testament, an example being Psalms 38:7 where The Messiah complains that ‘my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.’

I’ll give you three guesses and the first two don’t count, David.

Making matters worse, Bennett and MacQueen give evidence that bestiality was acceptable to many of the ancient Semitic cultures in Palestine. In other words, all the laws against bestiality where put into place because the ancient Israelites were already out of control playing lonely shepherd with animals.

Outbreaks of sexually-transmitted diseases were probably commonplace and destructive in those days. The Old Testament authors nimbly wrote that it was Jehovah who was punishing them for various sins, when in reality it was nature who was doing the punishing for not keeping it in their tunics.

As the Old Testament history progresses, the ‘Laws of Moses’ eventually won out the day against Bronze Age mentality. Israel was able to find discipline and seclude itself from the more playboy societies (just in time to be conquered by the oh-so conservative Babylonians, Greeks and Romans).

It seems The Old Testament and secular libertinism are both similar in literally letting it all hang out and then getting preachy about it (‘don’t make out with goats but take foreign women as slaves!’/’as long as you wear protection nothing will happen!’). But both have failed in finding that Green Zone for human sexuality, since venereal diseases, dysfunctional relationships and sex crimes are as rampant in Biblical times as they are in our modern enlightened society.

Can The New Testament or the Gnostic writings have answers that civilization overlooked?

We’ll find out in our second part, Mathershalalhashbaz.

Here I stand, I can do no other.

Sex and The Bible, Part 1

Thursday, March 18, 2010

God and Know Thyself

Know thyself. Nobody knows exactly how old this statement is or who originally said it. It was claimed to be inscribed at the entry way to Apollo’s temple at Delphi (4th century BC) and there is even suggestion it dates back to prehistoric worship of Gaia or the Divine Feminine. Know thyself most assuredly is a commandment of probably the most primal question of sentience there is, “Who am I?”

If we accept, even hypothetically for the moment, that Know Thyself is the most primal commandment and is of utmost importance to us, what does this say in light of, “As above, so below”?

Is the above engaged in knowing itself as we are below; does God ask, “Who am I?”

These hypothetical questions then lead me further into the nature of why and how did this all come about that the above is engaged in knowing itself, that asks hirself, "Who am I?" Certainly 90% of all religions tell us God is Omni-everything. If this is so, then certainly God knows who s/he is, right? Of course if God is Omni-everything, then the answer and exploration of, "who am I?", would take all eternity to explore, I suspect. I must admit, the revelation of what I am sharing has been shared with me through meditation and with the aid of spiritual guides. But interestingly the revelatory answers expand farther and deeper than my first comprehension. I do not know why my gnosis takes me in this direction but my first revelation on this line of thought was the simple Christian expression, God is Love.

I could write many blogs on my search for and attempts to understand love. The truth is...I still have no answer. But it did enlighten my knowledge (gnosis) if only for a short time until further revelation came along that is.

See, what becomes an issue for me is, why is there otherness. Nondualist ultimately deny there is otherness, ancient Gnostics insisted otherness and materiality was real and was evil. But if otherness is only illusion or evil, how is their love? For their to be love otherness is essential, isn’t it? Else love would simply be a narcissistic experience or at best there is only the experience of self-love, never lover for another. So the beginning of this gnosis, God is love, and why otherness came about, is that God needed someone to love. Yet if God needed something, then s/he isn’t so perfect. This is kewl by me as perfection is always flawed, in my opinion. But still, if God is perfect then there would be no need for other, and love, if it were real, would indeed be only a narcissistic experience.

So as suggested above, my most recent journey into the mind of God revealed that it isn’t that God doesn’t know hirself, but the journey of knowing oneself, God, is an unending journey of self-discovery. And Love, otherness? Well can one know themselves sincerely without other...without God?

I leave you for the moment with that.

Tomasis Marie

Thursday, March 25, 2010

NOTICE

Monday, March 22, 2010

Blossoming Forth (Revised)

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

reBlog from Tomasis: Come to Be as You Pass Away - Enter and Know you are God

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Infinite Pre-existence

Sex and The Bible, Part 1

Thursday, March 18, 2010

God and Know Thyself

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

NOTICE

Monday, March 22, 2010

Blossoming Forth (Revised)

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Saturday, March 20, 2010

reBlog from Tomasis: Come to Be as You Pass Away - Enter and Know you are God

Placebo - Running Up That Hill

Infinite Pre-existence

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Sex and The Bible, Part 1

Thursday, March 18, 2010

God and Know Thyself

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