In the Western Mystery Tradition, Shakti-Pat is the ‘laying on of hands’–connected also, to the phenomena known as the ‘Wandering Bishops.’ These semi-mythical Gnostic bishops are said to be the one who transmitted the Light of the Gnosis from time immemorial through to today. Gnosis doesn’t recognize authority in its churches, but rather generates authenticity as it reaches out to foster genius in its congregations.
The outer world is a mob mentality; that as a whole is an amalgam of all our thoughts, and more powerful than any one of us, individually. This the zeitgeist that we, in our individual sovereignty, need to objectify, as we turn our attention to the voice within ourselves. The sleeping mob would destroy one’s soul if you let it. Be in the world quietly, as your real self, express and bring forth that which is within you.
To begin the process of working the spiritual virtue called Detachment, we get to the heart of how to ‘know thyself. It’s where the Will pushes forward its subtle voice; out into the world. And from the perspective of the world, the Will is able to find an objective Idea of itself; free from all and any subjective obsession. I shows itself, as a mirror of the Self to the Self and the ruminating ego.
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How can we connect to the true inner Coin? Let us attempt to create, to craft our own agreements, to mold and shape the world around us. Let begin with works of art, stories, and the mastery of our faculty of perception.
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Our Eucharist represents an alchemical formula that relies on the creative expression of an abstract idea that builds the body that houses Spirit into a formulation of Soul and a leap to immortality. It is that L.V.X. that truly issues from the early dawn of our Universe, as a Rose extending its Divine effulgence into all beings and all things. There is no part of me that is not of the gods! Know this for yourself, and Know Thyself, that you may be called ‘one who knows himself,’ and you will understand the depth of the All.
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At the center of the Gnostic Spirit is the restoation of Virtue to the Goddess, who has been abused, because hidden by men in the Tetragrammaton, and turned into a Beast by Daniel and the Christians. She is all but completely ignored by the Muslims, as the female is so hated in Arabic culture. We again celebrate the creative aspect of the Divine, and do not hate it like so many hate the Demiurge.
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We all grow up to some level of maturity that provides for us, functionality in the world, and perhaps, functionality in our own private lives. And indeed, there is some Spirit in this, as such behavior and mental attitudes provide for us some semblance of liberty. But the height of Spirit is a fully developed Soul that must then attain to Gnosis. This special form of liberty can be referred to as absolute freedom. It is a fusion of spiritual knowledge with a functional capacity to impress our being on the world; that the world is something that much more for us having dwelled within it.
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The Gnostic Church of L.V.X. is proud to present our first of what we hope will be a regular service; our Rosicrucian Mass exclusively presented by our donors and produced by Nadia Goodwin. In an effort to show off the Genius of our congregation, each month, we hope to present sermons by various congregants, as they share their own Gnostic experience. And this month we’re proud to lead the way with Joshua Burns and his knowledge lecture: On Not Knowing.
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Both our morals an our morale are intimatly tied into our Will. To live and to thrive in this world of contending forces requires that we adapt to external and internal circumstances in order to develop a functional code of conduct for ourselves. Besides secular law, there is one’s development of a response to that law and a reliance on one’s own experience of life and living.
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Thought emerges out of the unconsciousness of our birth, and as we develop our intellect, we actively construct our soul. Inspiration feeding the soul is a teleological force that connects the soul with Spirit. But yet, the soul must be moved and put itself out into the world by constructively contributing something of value to others to carry into human culture. Through this, immortality is obtained.
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