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This episode presents two more verses from the Tao Te Ching, and mines the gnosis from them for your enlightenment. The Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, is an ancient Chinese collection of 81 wisdom verses. In Gnostic terminology, the Tao spoken of by Lao Tzu refers to the Father. The principles of organization that have informed our universe since the moment before creation refers to the Fullness of God. Non-being refers to clearing your personal Unit of Consciousness of egoic memes and karma to reveal your truest Self. Non-action refers to allowing the Fullness of God to direct your actions for the greater good.

Verse 1, the Mitchell translationThe tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.

The unnamable is the eternally real.

Naming is the origin of all particular things.

Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.

Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness. Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

A Simple Gnostic Explanation of Verse 1The information and principles of organization imagined in ideal form in the Pleroma are more perfect and complete than we can ever articulate.

Pure conscious awareness without time and space exists outside our universe.

Abstract thought on the part of the Pleroma defined creation prior to the Big Bang. In our universe, we are only able to recognize objects and concepts we have named.

When we set down our meme bundles we are freed from personal preference. In that clear state we may perceive the workings of the universal model and our role in it. Remaining attached to our memes obscures the inflowing Aeonic patterns and keeps us tethered to our familiar material and relational patterns.

Pure, undifferentiated consciousness dwells in the unformed darkness of the Father. The thought patterns that produce light and matter arise out of the Son and the Fullness, but the manifestations of these patterns takes place within our universe. The portal into our universe is the gateway to all understanding.

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Verse 31 Simple Explanation translation

Even the finest instruments of war cannot bring good fortune; All units of consciousness  seem to detest them. Therefore, one who is aligned with the Father's will avoids them.

Consciousness prefers the passive,