“Initiates in the cults of the Great Mother underwent a sublime learning experience, revealing to them through non-ordinary awareness the cosmic origins of life on Earth. Then they turned back to ordinary life to teach what they had learned.” – John Lamb Lash, Not In His Name – Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology and the Future of Belief.
I promised that I would share more about this book when I’d finished reading, so here it is.
‘Library Hypatia by Alfred Seifert 1901’, image courtesy mharrsch and Visual Hunt
Initiates of these ancient Mystery Schools, which were the universities of the time, were often polymaths, being proficient in astronomy, cosmology, anthropology, geometry, languages (and secret languages such as runes), the arts, herbology, medicine and pharmacology, dream-healing techniques, and much more.
They spread literacy to the native populations – but let’s not skip too quickly past the words ‘non-ordinary awareness’ in that opening quote.
Pagan initiates received direct instruction by the ‘Mystery Light’. They describe a milky supernatural, luminous and visible light that, literally, enlightened them. Beholding this supernal light was their form of initiation, and it was an interactive experience. “In some manner the divine luminosity communicated with those who beheld it.”
That might sound bizarre, but it turns out that some of their insights are corroborated by modern science. For example, the 20-22-base system of the Celtic tree alphabet and the 64-unit code of DNA in the I Ching, an ancient Chinese tool of divination, reveal that the ancients had an intimate knowledge of molecular biology; likewise, Peruvian ayahuasca shamans’ ability equals and even surpasses that of modern technicians working in fully equipped laboratories.
‘Today’, medical intuitives like Edgar Cayce, Caroline Myss and Anthony Williams, the Medical Medium, stagger us with their ability to ‘read’ our bodies and diagnose conditions; Silva Mind Control is a program that teaches anyone to do this. These extraordinary abilities are everyone’s birthright, and I feel that we are finally moving away from the mechanistic view of the body to the more ancient perspective of it as a light-body, where the biofield is a valid ‘body part’, as ‘Sabrina’ and Beverley Rubik state, and healing modalities are less intrusive than the conventional ‘cut, burn and poison’ model, and also more wholistic and effective.
‘M20 Region’ courtesy HypatiaPhoto and Visual Hunt
That supernal light was an ‘all-seeing Light’ that has been equated with the Philosopher’s Stone. What’s more, we each carry the seed of this wisdom: “our learning potential is deathless because it is rooted in divine intelligence, but it needs to be carefully guided, and this was the role of the Gnostic ‘telestai’ – those initiates who were dedicated to serving the world by nurturing and guiding human potential, one person at a time, until that person became self-guiding.”
The telestai were committed to something other than themselves, and herein lies the difference between a true leader and the egotistical elites who erect pedestals for themselves and try to control others.
These pagan leaders were consecrated (root: sacred) to introducing their students to “a narrative framework, a guiding story. Within the story, each individual found his or her sacred calling and became self-directed, a free agent. The essence of the telestic program was deep insight into what it means to be an instrument for coevolution, consecrated to Gaia-Sophia”, the Earth Mother.
Rather than the Darwinian model of evolution as a competitive process, “The telestai saw in coevolution the way for humanity to participate wisely and lovingly in the web of lifeencompassing all species, and even to align itself with the planetary entelechy…” [the vital guiding principle of an organism or the totality of life itself, according to Aristotle].
‘M31 Deep Sky West’ image courtesy HypatiaPhoto and Visual Hunt
We call the Earth ‘Gaia’, in recognition of her as a living, intelligent, sentient superorganism; the Gnostics called her ‘Sophia’, meaning wisdom, but Sophia is also the mythological name of Gaia before she became Earth.
Those ancient writings, such as the Nag Hammadi Codices, reveal an astronomical story about the Source of everything and the ‘Fall’ of Sophia from the Godhead into a realm of chaos as the consequence of a dream.
This story unfolds over aeons and encompasses the spawning of a species of inorganic beings, the Archons, and Gaia-Sophia’s need to reorient to the cosmic centre. Humanity’s challenges are mirrored here: “to find [our] evolutionary niche, overcome the intrusion of Archons, and define [our] role in the designs and purposes of Planet Earth.”
I don’t confess to understanding much of this 429-page wonder, which might make you wonder why I’m so enthusiastic about it, but I do feel that it has an important message. I’d have liked John Lash to have explained some of the big ideas in more basic terms, but he wrote Not In His Image 15 years ago, so I guess it’s on me to do some more research!
The key message that is relevant for us now is that the conclusion to this sacred story cannot be written until we have imagined and lived it.
Which brings me to our My Place Jimboomba event this Friday night: We have a guest speaker, Michael Otts, who spent 30 years in the military, witnessing much of its dark side, and who firmly believes that we have the power and the responsibility to envision the future we want and bring it about.
If you’re in South-East Queensland, send me a line and I’ll give you the details so that you can join us on Friday night. Our first event two weeks ago was a blast! Our purpose is to take action on creating the kind of society we want to live in and leave to our children/future generations.
– A few other bits and pieces:
Errata: In my last blog I referred to the government declaring that doctors and pharmacists will be personally liable for the damages caused by the ‘vaccine’. That was incorrect. The information did not come from the government – of course! – but from AMPS: the Australian Medical Professionals Society.
Some thought-provoking information:
• A New York Times article about the 10 Myths told by Covid Experts Now Debunked. You will feel vindicated, reading this!
• Important albeit disturbing ‘Counterflow with Buck Johnson’ podcast, Episode 250: “Our Coming Digital Prison with Aman Jabbi”. Please do watch that interview – every second packs a punch; and also this shorter presentation by a woman to the Glastonbury council in the UK about 15-minute cities, Agenda 21 and the Climate-Change Scam.
• Azra Dale is a writer with a Substack that I’ve been finding very interesting. Among articles about political developments and the persecution of a women’s-rights activist by trans activists, is a story about a mother who was able to “shift her daughter out of the downward spiral of self-harm and abuse she was following under the influence of the toxic trans agenda being pushed by her friends and therapists.”
I still have to pinch myself to come to grips with this new weird world we are living in… The W.H.O. is endorsing teaching primary aged children as young as Grade 1 about sex and masturbation; is encouraging transgenderism; and it looks like the LGBTQI acronym is about to have MAP added to it, for Minor-Attracted Person’, which replaces ‘Paedophile.’ How does that sit with you?
• I’m also following Naomi Wolf’s substack. I particularly enjoyed her article, “The Death of Culture: How Lies Killed Books”, though it was a sad read. She also writes an Apology to Conservatives re Jan 6.
Love and blessings, hold the vision, hold the fort, these are character-testing times for sure!
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