This is the lecture I delivered to my adult education class this week. It caused quite a stir. One dedicated atheist dropped the class at this point in a huff. It seems that the class is quite alright discussing gnostic concepts in the abstract, but when it comes down to Earth, then it gets real. Suddenly it’s a war between science and religion. The part that ticked off some of the students was demonstrating conscious life within the cells. In other words, consciousness comes down to the cellular level and then levels up through intelligent design to become us through cell division and differentiation.

This slide show has three embedded YouTube videos. The links within the pdf are not active, so I have included them here at the top of this transcript. Note that the Harvard biologist who narrates the first video is personifying consciousness within the cellular proteins. This is not an accident of language, but demonstrates that even biologists ascribe consciousness to these proteins although they would be loathe to admit it.

Note that there is a pulldown bar immediately next to the images so you can proceed through the entire lecture.

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week we’re going to review the relationship between fractal consciousness and the outflow of consciousness through Logos and the Aeons, and how the consciousness of Logos led to the Fall. I’ll be reading several verses from the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi books.

If you are new to Gnostic Insights, don’t worry about grasping everything I say. Just listen and go with the flow. The gnosis will reveal itself, so relax.

AEONS

“Each one of the aeons is a name, , each of the properties and powers of the Father, since he exists in many names, which are intermingled and harmonious with one another.  It is possible to speak of him because of the wealth of speech, just as the Father is a single name, because he is a unity, yet is innumerable in his properties and names…”

The Aeons of the Fullness of God became self-aware by the giving of praise and glory to the Father. This giving of glory is not for God’s benefit, but for the Aeon’s benefit. It gave them a righteous task to perform alongside their neighbors, which brought them to self-awareness and gave each of them a unique identity. The Aeons are innumerable because they reflect the totality of an infinite consciousness.

“… the aeon of the Truth, since it is a unity and multiplicity, receives honor in the small and the great names according to the power of each to grasp it – by way of analogy – like a spring which is what it is, yet flows into streams and lakes and canals and branches, or like a root spread out beneath trees and branches with its fruit, or like a human body, which is partitioned in an indivisible way into members of members, primary members and secondary, great and small.”

LOGOS

The final Aeon that was produced as an emanation of the Pleroma of the Fullness arose by all of the Aeons giving glory together. The Fullness thus produced a final Aeon whom the Tripartite Tractate calls by the name Logos. Because Logos was produced through the entirety of the Pleroma giving glory as one, this Aeon possessed within itself all of the characteristics of the entire Pleroma.

This youngest Aeon carried within itself all of the traits of every other Aeon, perfect and complete. This was a very talented Aeon resembling the Son of God himself, who also carried all of the traits of the Aeons within its singular self. This final Aeon was named Logos, because he was also endowed with the ability to reason thoughtfully and to figure things out in a step-by-step manner. The word Logos in Greek means reason.

“This aeon was among those to whom was given wisdom, so that he could become pre-existent in each one’s thought. By that which he wills, will they be produced. Therefore, he received a wise nature in order to examine the hidden basis, since he is a wise fruit…”

All of the Aeons have free will, because the Father has free will and everything that emanates from the Father carries the attributes of the Father. The Tripartite Tractate says,

“for, the free will which was begotten with the Totalities was a cause for this one,” (this one being Logos), “such as to make him do what he desired, with no one to restrain him.”

“This aeon was last to have brought forth by mutual assistance, and he was small in magnitude,” [referring, I think, to this concept of fractal iterations…]

“In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension. Many fractals appear similar at various scales, as illustrated in successive magnifications of the Mandelbrot set. This exhibition of similar patterns at increasingly smaller scales is called self-similarity, also known as expanding symmetry or unfolding symmetry; if this replication is exactly the same at every scale, as in the Menger sponge, the shape is called affine self-similar.” [wikipedia]

The construction of a Menger sponge can be described as follows:

The second iteration gives a level 2 sponge, the third iteration gives a level 3 sponge, and so on. The Menger sponge itself is the limit of this process after an infinite number of iterations.

The reason we’re talking about fractals is because consciousness is a fractal. Consciousness rolls out from the Father very much in the manner of any other fractal, where you have the Father’s consciousness to begin with, and then it keeps dividing, dividing, dividing, dividing. It eventually winds up in us, in a fractal matter. And so we carry all of the attributes of the original pattern of the Father. We are fractals of the Father. The Aeons are fractals of the Father. Logos carried within himself fractals of the Father.

THE FALL

“The intent, then, of the Logos, who is this one, was good. When he had come forth, he gave glory to the Father, even if it led to something beyond possibility, since he had wanted to bring forth one who is perfect, from an agreement in which he had not been, and without having the command.”

“And before he begot anything else for the glory of the will and in agreement with the Totalities, he acted, magnanimously, from an abundant love, and set out toward that which surrounds the perfect glory…”

Thomassen translates the word “magnanimously” in the scripture above as “presumptuously.”

“And before he had yet produced anything to the glory of the Will and in the union of the members of the ALL, he acted presumptuously, out of an overflowing love, and rushed forward toward that which surrounds the realm of perfect glory.”

Given that translation, the movement that resulted in the Fall was presumptuous thought, which is a pretty good synonym for Ego. Yet the intention of Logos was good.

The Tripartite Tractate is unique in its gentle assessment of not blaming Logos for the Fall.  The book says that this act of disobedience by Logos was within the will of the Father after all, and it was necessary to usher in an organization that needed to come forth “for the revelation of the Fullness.”

The Tripartite Tractate says,

 “for it was not without the will of the Father that the Logos was produced, which is to say, not without it will he go forth. But he, the Father, had brought him forth for those about whom he knew that it was fitting that they should come into being”

So what that passage just said is that Logos, with that capability of acting on his own through will and reaching for the Father and instigating the Fall, was actually within the will of the Father after all. But it was like a secret. Because the Father brought Logos forth. The Father made Logos with all of the capabilities in order to bring us into being. So this was a necessary step. The Fall was a necessary step to usher in materiality out of the ethereal beings.

The Father knew what would happen and the Father found it fitting that Logos should be conceived as he was and take the action that he did. The Father knew that this was the path that would lead to material creation—the economy that was to come—

“so that the things which have come to be might become an organization which would come into being.”

What these verses are saying is the Fall of Logos was needed in order to create the next generation of fractals of the Aeons. This next generation of fractal iterations of the consciousness of the Father, the Son, and the Fullness would come into being in order that the Fullness would be revealed through them. We could say that it is through the Fruit that came from the Fullness into Fall that a new material Hierarchy of God on Earth was created. Logos doubtless thought he was going to instantiate Paradise with his Egoic act. What came instead was a Fall from the Fullness and the first experience of estrangement from the Father.

This, then, is the gnostic version of the original Fall, a movement of Ego away from reason, logic, interdependence, duty, and place, which led to the creation of this material universe.

You may wonder why we spend time figuring out things that happened so long ago that our universe wasn’t even created yet. The reason is because of that oft-repeated maxim: as above, so below. Logos may have been the first to let his Ego lead him astray but he was certainly not the last.

ARCHONS

“The Logos himself caused it to happen, being complete and unitary, for the glory of the Father, whom he desired, and (he did so) being content with it, but those whom he wished to take hold of firmly he begot in shadows and copies and likenesses. For, he was not able to bear the sight of the light, but he looked into the depth and he doubted. Out of this there was a division – he became deeply troubled – and a turning away because of his self-doubt and division, forgetfulness and ignorance of himself and which is.”

“Like the Pleromas are the things which came into being from the arrogant thought, which are their (the Pleromas’) likenesses, copies, shadows, and phantasms, lacking reason and the light, these which belong to the vain thought, since they are not products of anything. Therefore, their end will be like their beginning: from that which did not exist (they are) to return once again to that which will not be…”

“They thought of themselves that they are beings existing by themselves and are without a source, since they do not see anything else existing before them. Therefore, they lived in disobedience and acts of rebellion, without having humbled themselves before the one because of whom they came into being. They wanted to command one another, overcoming one another in their vain ambition, while the glory which they possess contains a cause of the system which was to be.”

With the introduction of the Archons of the Imitation we begin to see human nature emerging. When humans act outside of the will of the Father and the Fullness and center themselves on egoic dominance, they replicate the Archons’ striving for power and control.

And yet, the remnant of glory they retain through the ego of Logos still possesses the fractal formula of the Fullness, making it possible for the Demiurge to create the cosmos.

“They are likenesses of the things which are exalted. They were brought to a lust for power in each one of them, according to the greatness of the name of which each is a shadow, each one imagining that it is superior to his fellows.”

“The one whom he himself brought forth as a unitary Aeon rushed up to that which is his, and this kin of his in the Pleroma abandoned him who came to be in the defect along with those who had come forth from him in an imaginary way, since they are not his.”

THE BOUNDARY

As Logos retreated to its own in the Fullness, the Father placed a Boundary around the area containing that which had been produced as a consequence of the Fall. The purpose of this Boundary was to separate finitude from infinity, ignorance from truth, and light from darkness.

Another essential purpose of the Boundary was to establish an “economy” for a system about to unfold. And economy is another word for an ecology. Things have to be in relationship to one another in order to be able to work with one another. So the boundary was required to be put around the fallen bits, the shadows, the imitations of the Pleroma of Logos. They were put inside of a bounded space in order to push them together so that the ecology might be established.

“The Father and the Totalities drew away from him, so that the limit which the Father had set might be established – for it is not from grasping the incomprehensibility but by the will of the Father, – and furthermore, (they withdrew) so that the things which have come to be might become an organization which would come into being. If it were to come, it would not come into being by the manifestation of the Pleroma. Therefore, it is not fitting to criticize the movement which is the Logos, but it is fitting that we should say about the movement of the Logos that it is a cause of an organization which has been destined to come about.”

The Boundary Contains Chaos

We can think of this Boundary as a bubble containing our universe. You can picture these chaotic imitations as quantum foam. Quantum foam is the lowest level of instantiation in this universe of ours, and quantum foam is characterized by randomness and chaos. It does not work together. It is popping in and out of the universe, constantly producing matter and anti-matter that cancel out and destroy each other. Consequently nothing is building; nothing is able to reach out to level up. They lack the Golden Rule of cooperation because they came from the Fall rather than from the Fullness.

The Simple Golden Rule requires units of consciousness to work together with their neighbors to share information, assistance, and loving coherence on a single project that benefits ALL. This results in the hierarchical configuration because cooperation always results in the higher the fewer.

Archons cannot level up. It requires conscious control to replicate the Golden Rule. Archons do not have consciousness. They are programs.

THE RISE OF THE DEMIURGE

The Demiurge went about organizing this universe out of the quantum foam:

“over those who belong to the likeness, he set the word of beauty, so that he might bring them into a form.”

The Demiurge, by the way, is the ego of Logos that was left behind in the Fall. Logos himself, his unitary self, beat it back up to the fullness as quickly as he could. And he abandoned the results of the Fall, because he couldn’t bring order to the Fall. What he abandoned down below was that overreaching ego that caused the Fall in the first place. That ego takes on the name of the Demiurge. It’s the ego of Logos that controls the matter that has been formed by the Fall.

At first the Demiurge established energetic waves, then subatomic particles followed by atomic particles. Everything according to “the higher, the fewer” pattern. The particles combine to make atoms; the atoms combine to make molecules; the molecules combine make elements; the elements combine to make minerals and the aggregations of minerals, and that is the limit of the God of this universe. The Demiurge can only level up to the mineral level. All of the hard, rocky places in our material universe are the handiwork of the Demiurge.

We don’t come from the Demiurge; the Demiurge is only in charge of the material universe. The Demiurge is in charge of the mud, the material, the hard rocky places–at the small scale the dirt and the elements, and at the large scale the rocky planets and the stars in the heavens. If there are creatures on a planet, they coat the outside of the dead rocky planet. Life only comes from the Father. Life is top-down. Death is bottom-up.

I hope you got something out of this episode.

God bless us all, and onward and upward!

watch the neat video below of zooming in to the Mandlebrot set!

We recently had an episode called Synchronicities, broadcast on September 13th of 2025. In that episode I reviewed a Why Files episode about synchronicities and shared some amazing synchronicities that look like coincidences, but they’re just too precise to be coincidental. They give an indication of this very strange nature of the universe that we live in, and in that episode we discussed how the quantum mechanics of this universe at the quantum level seem to explain how these amazing synchronicities occur.

In the synchronicities episode, I talked about one of the funny things about quantum mechanics—that whenever someone looks at an object in a scientific experiment at the subatomic level, peering into the subatomic level through their experiment, it is said that “observation collapses potential” and makes the reality. This is because before we observe something, it exists in a state of what is called superposition.  Remember, at the subatomic level there’s no such thing as particles. It’s all waves and probabilities. It’s more like a blur, and it doesn’t stop spinning through all of its possibilities until it is observed and then, at that point in time, when it is observed, it stops being a blur of all possible positions and it collapses into one position, solely through the process of being observed by a watchful consciousness.

Another strange aspect of quantum mechanics is known as quantum entanglement. This is when two—and it’s not even right to call them objects or particles because they’re not, there is no material reality, it’s all waves and probabilities and forces—when two such subatomic objects have a relationship with each other, no matter how far the space is between them, then when one of them is observed in an experiment, and it stops its superpositional blur at that moment in time, landing on a particular way of being or way of appearing, then the object it is entangled with also collapses at the same exact moment, even though it’s not the one that’s being observed. Furthermore, this entangled “collapse” is instantaneous—faster than light.

Not only that, but balance is always occurring throughout the universe, because when one entangled thing collapses in a spin right direction, for example, its entangled partner collapses as spin left. Or when one photon, for example, moves vertically, its polarized partner moves horizontally. In this manner, the universe remains balanced and symmetrical. You can think of it this way: imagine two entangled quanta were a pair of gloves spinning so fast you couldn’t tell which was right and which was left. Once you observe object A to be a the right glove then object B instantly becomes a left glove. If the same object A had been observed to be the left glove, object B would have instantly become the right glove. And before observation, both gloves were simultaneously right and left, left and right, both states at once.

Now let us think about this with some gnostic logic. We say that the mind of God is the ground state of all of the consciousness. Another way of saying this is that consciousness permeates every corner of everywhere—both on the ethereal plane and down here on the material plane. So, if observation affects quanta, then quanta are being observed all of the time by the mind of God. It is this Godly observation that holds the cosmos in its balanced physical state. This is how entangled quanta can affect their partners instantaneously. There is no distance or time in the ethereal realm and all of creation is held in steady state within the mind of God, so this is how and why a quark that is observed by a human is instantly balanced with its entangled partner, even if it is on the other side of the universe.

In that Synchronicities episode, we talked about quantum field meditation—visualizing potential and then collapsing it into reality. Let’s say that you are moved to want something good for you that’s within God’s will. According to the quantum field meditation as discussed in the Why Files episode, your intentional desire and focus is said to collapse that intention into reality. Quantum field meditation visualizes the potential and, “collapses it” into reality. That’s what happens in healing meditations. You intentionally visualize getting well and it eventually heals the part of you that’s broken. Setting clear intentions is the first step.

Quoting from the Why Files’ episode: “every nanosecond, infinite decisions are being made that cause the infinite possibilities to collapse into this one reality. But you can learn to influence the outcome of all those decisions. You can alter your small corner of reality.”

My brother Bill and I had a follow-up conversation last week about that concept. He had come to the realization that there is no “collapse” in the sense that the superpositional blur changes into a static object. What is actually happening is that in our cherry jello universe, one reality is arrived at, and the others are not chosen. It all has to do with free will and choice. In the cherry jello universe, what we have been calling observation to collapse potentiality is actually us arriving at a particular cherry and choosing it through free will.

A gnostic insight concerning this is that all possible outcomes already exist in the infinite mind of the Father, and it is our free will that chooses one course or one outcome over another. We’re not collapsing anything. The quanta is not stopping its superposition. What is happening is that we are choosing one cherry over another. For example, the scientist’s observation chooses the cherry that spins right instead of left, so to speak. And something that A.J. had talked about in that Why Files episode on synchronicities–and again, go back to my episode on synchronicities if you haven’t read or heard it yet –the universe is filled with choices. It’s not filled with particles. It’s not filled with stuff. It’s filled with choice points, conscious choices, and they’re already there because our God is an infinite God, and it takes infinity to be able to hold all possible choices that could ever possibly happen.

As I say, it’s the many worlds theory, but there aren’t many worlds. You don’t need parallel universes or parallel dimensions for these things to happen, like we often see in science fiction or people’s theories. It’s all contained in this one infinity that is the mind of God, and it is our intention to head for a choice, a particular potential, and to find that potential. Quantum theory calls that collapsing the potential, but it isn’t really collapsing, it’s that a choice cherry has been arrived at. You’re choosing a particular outcome. You’re choosing this rather than that, and it’s the choice that makes what quantum physicists call collapse.

In the cherry jello universe, our consciousness is swimming through an infinite sea of choices, and every moment of the day we make one choice rather than a different choice, and that is the path of our choices as we swim through the cherry jello of life. The other choice is still sitting there in that infinity of unused or uncollapsed potentials, but once you make a choice by setting an intention and you arrive at that intentional outcome, the cherry that’s already waiting there in your mind is the so-called collapse, but the other uncollapsed choices are still there.

Does that make sense to you? It’s a completely different way of looking at quantum superposition and collapse. Nothing’s collapsing. The blur of potential is still there. What the scientist arrives at is one cherry and the infinity of other cherries are still sitting there, because the mind of God holds all possibilities. It is free will that decides the outcome.

Now, speaking of swimming toward cherries, one of the aspects of that Why Files episode that I didn’t have time to get to in our previous discussion of it was the vision board. A.J., the host of Why Files, strongly recommended setting up a vision board and then putting pictures or words, clipping things out of magazines or printing things off your computer, of the cherries you wish to swim to, is how I’d put it. So, I have started a vision board. There are only two things on it now because I’ve been so busy I haven’t been able to get along with setting up my vision board fully. But what I have on there so far is a picture of my gnostic cyber fiction screenplay becoming a motion picture, and to that end, one of the reasons I’ve been so crazy busy the past few weeks is because I’ve been working on that screenplay. The other thing I have on my vision board is a description of an old Econoline van with what one of our listeners says is the best engine ever built. He recommended it as a possibility for my cherry of a book tour. Well, I wrote down all those notes and I’m walking around with this note in my hand and thinking, how do I file this? Where do I put this note about what RV to buy? I’m afraid if I file it away, it’s going to be filed away, and then when I wonder,  what was that van I was supposed to buy? I wouldn’t be able to find it again. So I finally realized as I’m holding this piece of paper in my hand with the notes about the RV—aha! The vision board. So I taped the note onto the vision board and now I have two strong intentions sitting on that vision board and every time I walk past it, I see those intentions which, in this quantum meditation way of thinking of things, causes me to be swimming in the direction of those particular cherries.

I must admit, it all sounds kind of silly to me. I’ve heard of vision boards for years and I’ve never tried to put one into practice because I just didn’t understand how it would work, how such a thing is possible, until that episode about synchronicities and then my brother’s discussion with me this week about the philosophy of choice and free will. Because it’s all driven by free will and it’s our choice. It’s not going to magically appear because it’s taped to a vision board. It’s my intention that it should come about that causes me to be moving in that direction.

The day after I recorded that Synchronicities episode, I was reading a daily devotional called The Word for You Today that is mailed out by the Christian radio station I listen to. And the first four articles of encouragement in this quarter’s Word for You Today, September 1st through 4th, is about faith. And as I read the discussion of faith and how your faith can produce results, I recognized that it’s what we’ve been talking about. This is the Christian version or the Biblical perspective on quantum intention meditation. It’s a different way of looking at the word faith that I never thought of before and I wouldn’t have even noticed it except for our discussion on quantum intention.

When people talk about faith it’s usually a gigantic concept, right? Usually it stands for the ideology you believe in. I have faith in God. I have faith in Jesus Christ. It’s my ideology to hold certain beliefs. My faith is part of my Gnostic Christian meme bundle. But faith, as explained in The Word For You Today is “the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. The certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us even though we cannot see it up ahead.” When you put it that way, I can tell that I have experienced that kind of faith throughout my life without labelling it as faith. For example, I always knew I’d earn a Ph.D. someday, so I wasn’t concerned about how or when. I had faith. I always knew I would share spiritual knowledge with others, but I didn’t know how or when. And here we have the last twenty years of blogging, writing books, and podcasting.  I didn’t so much work toward these as goals as simply knowing they would occur.

Here’s a quote from Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament, Hart’s translation:

Now faithfulness is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of unseen realities. For the ancients were commended for this. In faith we rationally perceive that the ages [and here I would use the word “aeons” rather than ages] were composed by an utterance of God, so that the things that are seen have not been made from the things that are manifest. (Hebrews 11:1-3)

In our Gnostic system, the Aeons have thought everything through in advance. The ethereal plane is the unseen reality. The Aeons were emanated by God so that the ethereal plane would become manifest reality. This is why the Tripartite Tractate does not condemn Logos for the Fall. The Tripartite Tractate says that the Fall was necessary for the Economy that was destined to come about—that being this material cosmos.

The Bible also says in James 2:17 that faith not accompanied by action is dead. And this teaching says that effective faith calls for an act of your will. This again points to making choices propelled by faith in a particular outcome. It is a choice you make to fully embrace what God says in his word. So they’re talking about choice. They’re talking about acts of will.

For just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. (James 2:26, Hart)

Usually that verse refers to doing good deeds to prove one’s faith in God. But if you look at it in this Gnostic way, the “works” is the cherry you are moving toward with your free will, and your faith is the intention to reach it. The Bible says that God has dealt to each one a measure of faith.

So do not cast away your confidence, which has for its recompense a great reward. For you need to persevere so that, having done God’s will, you may receive what is promised. (Hebrews 10:38, Hart)

The apostles felt they didn’t have enough faith and so they said to Jesus, increase our faith. And Jesus replied,

If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea and it will obey you. (Luke 17:6).

So we don’t need a lot of faith. We just need the strongly believed intention. Yet it always has to be in God’s will for it to occur, which is good. It’s a backstop for us. If you have faith and intention to create chaos and death, it would only happen through archonic influence because it’s not in God’s will.

But it is God’s will for us to fully experience this universe that we have been incarnated into. That’s why there’s so many choice points. All the choices are there to be made. And the faith that is spoken about in the Bible is meant to produce results. It’s not meant to just fill you up with assurance of salvation. And faith is not accomplished by action. Faith precedes action. As these quotes by James affirms:

Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of the Luminaries [the Aeons], with whom there is no alternation or shadow of change. (James 1:17, Hart)

So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. Yet someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” You show me your faith without the works, and I will show you faith by my works. You have faith that God is one? You are doing well. Even the daemonic beings [archons] have that faith, and they tremble. But are you willing to recognize, O you inane man, that faith without works yields nothing? (James 2:17-20, Hart]

In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. In other words, faith produces outcomes. The choices you make produce the outcomes that are the fruit of those choices. Just as the quantum meditation folks claim.

The Word for Today devotional says, concerning faith,

The biblical prescription for faith is simple but potent. One, you decide to believe in God’s promise and his power to make it happen, leaving the how and when up to him. Two, you choose to act in keeping with what you believe before you see any evidence of the results. Three, God responds to your faith by keeping his unbreakable promise. Quote, “Hath he said and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good?” (from the Old Testament, Numbers 23:19) God goes to work exercising his unlimited capacity to perform his word. Jesus said, “Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.” (Mark 11:24)

So it’s not that God has to perform or accomplish this for you. It’s all there. It’s all ready in the mind of God. The cherries are in the jello. We have to, through our belief and actions, make choices. It all has to do with our free will and our choices. God has already done what God does. God has laid all the cherries in the universe that will ever exist out in front of us for our choosing. This concept gives a whole new meaning to the phrase cherry-picking.

Now, going on to the fourth devotional of the faith series, The Word for Today talks about How Your Faith Can Produce Results.

Saying that you believe is just the beginning. Activating your faith means preparing for the answer to arrive. So, if I really expected an answer to my prayers, how would I prepare for arrival? Jesus gave his disciples a parable, Matthew 13:31-32, when he said, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man planted in his field. When it grows, it becomes a tree.” See, the farmer believes that if he plants the seed and cares for it and tends it, waters it, fertilizes it, keeps an eye on it, protects it from the pests, that it will grow into the thing that he has planted.

So, we begin by praying for wisdom to make the right decisions (James 1:5-7). We aim for the thing to come about, which means that while waiting to get to that cherry that we’re swimming towards, we actively involve ourselves with things that will cause us to move toward that cherry. We break our big plan and our intention into small steps that can be accomplished. Don’t wait for the faith to grow. Don’t wait for fear to turn you aside. Take small steps. Make choices. Make all of the choices in a row that lead you to that intention. This devotional suggests that we start thanking God even before we can see the answer. We aim toward the thing and if we’re missing it, we adjust our aim. And then this Christian devotional reiterates that faith and actions working together produce results.

And I’ve been sharing all this just by way of saying that this quantum meditation, this focusing and intention moving toward that result, is not unscriptural. It’s not ungodly or New Age. It’s all laid out before us by the Father. And if we need assistance to move in that direction, we meditate upon the Father, the Son, the Fullness. We ask the Aeons for assistance. We ask Christ for assistance in faith, knowing that the answer is already there and that all things work together for good for those who love God. Amen!

Onward and upward and God bless us all.

In 2019, I wrote a book called The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated, and what I am attempting to do in this podcast is talk you through the book so that you will have your own personal and very full understanding of what Gnosis is, and hopefully be able to actually realize Gnosis while you’re hearing these podcasts.

By the way, what is Gnosis? We keep talking about Gnosis and Gnostic. Gnosis means knowing, and in the Gnostic frame of reference, Gnosis refers to remembering the truth of our existence and our creation, and the creation of the entire cosmos. It is thought that we hold all of this knowledge within ourselves, and we have complete access to the Creator of the universe at any time that we turn our focus on the Creator, and it is this direct conduit to the Creator that gives us what is called Gnosis.

G-N-O-S-I-S, that’s a Greek word. Another related word to Gnosis, and this is a big word, is anamnesis. You know the word amnesia means forgetting? Anamnesis means not forgetting. So, the process of coming to Gnosis is a process called anamnesis. Today we’re going to talk about the qualities of the All, and how the All became what is called the Pleroma, and the Aeons of the Pleroma.

Many people claim that it’s impossible to know or describe the full glory of the transcendent, immortal Father of Consciousness due to our own limitations. I mean, how could limited beings such as ourselves possibly imagine the greatness of the Originator of the universe, much less our place in the grand design? Wouldn’t lesser beings reflect a diminished view of God? Wouldn’t these lesser beings be limited to offering a tarnished glory that falls far short of the object of their praise? The Tripartite Tractate, which is the book of the Nag Hammadi that I’m working off of, the Tripartite puts it this way.

If the members of the All had risen to give glory according to the individual powers of each, they would have brought forth a glory that was only a semblance of the Father, who Himself is the All.

Thus, creation would have been doomed from the outset to never comprehend the full glory of either the Father or itself. According to the Gnostic gospel, the Father realized this impossibility and so built a helpful workaround meant to aid comprehension: selfless union and cooperation with others in a shared task. Quoting from the Tripartite again,

For that reason they were drawn into mutual intermingling union and oneness through the singing of praise. From their assembled Fullness they were one and at the same time many. Accurately reflecting the One who Himself is the entirety of the All. Out of perfect union with itself and with the Son, and by means of a single shared effort, the All gave glory to the Eternal One who had brought it forth.

The glory given out of this perfect communion left the All perfect and full, as it was perfect and full to begin with, and the object of their glory was also perfect and full. This phase of the All is referred to as the second glory, with the Son being called the first glory. Then when the Son differentiated into all of its variables, into all of its individual parts, like rays bursting out of a central star, that is called the All, and this is what we’re discussing today.

Now, this perfect state of union with the Son and communion with each other didn’t last.

Because of their combined effort, the All became self-aware, and it became they. So at first the All was a singular entity that was a complete duplication and reflection of the Son, who itself was a complete duplication and reflection of the Father of Consciousness itself. So at first the All was one singular organism, since it was freshly evolved out of the Son, but then it became self-aware, and the various variables within the Son, the various parts of that singular entity, each of those parts became self-aware.

And that is what is causing this evolution of consciousness from the singular It of the All to the They. No longer simply an unaware member of the All singing in unison with the same song of praise, the All became aware of its individual traits, and the singing came to be produced by the will of each individual Aeon. An Aeon is spelled A-E-O-N. And in Gnosticism, an Aeon is an entity. It is a singular consciousness. So each Aeon is a reflection of the Father’s countless qualities and powers.

The Aeons conceived themselves in order to know themselves in fulfillment of the Father’s desire for pure consciousness to become differentiated and self-aware. And in philosophy, this is called monadism, not that you have to know that, but the Son is a monad, that is a singular thing. And the Father wished to have company, let’s say, and so the monad split into individual POVs, or points of view.

The moment It became They, individual identities arose and immediately sorted themselves into a hierarchy. Quoting from the Tripartite,

For this reason they exist as minds over minds, words over words, superiors over superiors, degrees over degrees, being ranked one above the other. Each of those who glorify has his own station, rank, dwelling place, and place of rest, which is the glorification he brings forth.

This hierarchical arrangement of the qualities of the All is known as the fruit of the third glory in Gnostic cosmology. It’s also called the first order of powers and the Fullness. The Fullness is everything that will ever be in potential. Plato referred to this as the forms, Plato’s forms. Every photon, every particle and proton, every personality, every position and rank that someone could hold, every physical formula, physics, chemistry, all imprinted upon this what was a singular unit that is now broken out. These potentialities are not manifest.

At first they weren’t self-aware, but they became self-aware. The cooperation amongst the All is the prototype of the simple explanation’s golden rule, by the way, which puts it this way:

In order for units of consciousness to work together and join for the greater good, they need to share relevant information, they need to assist one another’s efforts, and they need to love one another.

So in the same way that the All sat in perfect communion together while singing the same song of praise, so do we all instantiate the pattern of cooperation needed to get the job done when we work together for the greater good without selfish motivation.

The instant the Aeons became self-aware, the All fell out of their unthinking blissful union and arranged themselves into what’s called the Fullness of God. This phrase is mentioned quite often in the New Testament, but it has lost its association with its actual meaning.

It’s not just the Fullness of God, like you’re thinking of God all in one big thing. The whole point of the Fullness was God differentiating into graspable concepts, things that we can understand. So the Fullness of God is a different entity than the Father. I believe that distinction has gotten lost in modern Christianity. So we were discussing the Fullness, which is a hierarchy, and hierarchy looks like a pyramid. Just picture a pyramid.

The hierarchy of the Fullness prefigures the patterns of our universe. “Minds over minds, words over words, superiors over superiors” refers to personalities and how they relate to one another, like our personalities. “Degrees over degrees and ranks” refers to the manner by which things are sorted, stacked, and ordered. First, second, third, superior, inferior, right, left, inside, outside. These are the degrees over degrees and the ranks. It reflects the fact that each self-aware entity has its own place in the grand scheme, with a location different than others and its very own point of view.

Quoting from the Tripartite,

For each of the Aeons is a name corresponding to each of the Father’s qualities and powers. Since He exists in many names, it is by mingling and through mutual harmony that they are able to speak of Him by means of logical thought. Thus the Father is a single name because He is one, but nevertheless innumerable in His qualities and names.

Interesting that logical thought was mentioned in the Tripartite Tractate, because it is important to realize that logic is part of the mind of God. We are given the ability to reason and to be logical.

The newly self-aware Aeons were not separated from the One Who Is. Rather, their birth has the form of a spreading out by which the Father spreads Himself out into that which He wishes, in order that those who have gone forth from Him may exist as well. The Father of the Aeons, that being the Son, and embodiment of the Formless One, is the Holy Spirit that breathes through the members of the All and moves them to search for the Unknown. Just as somebody is moved by a fragrance to seek the source of the fragrance. For its sweetness lets the Aeons sense an indescribable pleasure and gives them the thought that they should be united with the One Who Desires, that they should know Him in oneness, and that they should assist one another, having no occasion to turn away through thoughtlessness from that in which they are placed.

The Son’s Spirit is the trace by which He may be sought. Quoting again,

The whole structure of Aeons, then, is yearning and seeking to find the Father perfectly and completely, and this is their irreproachable union. For the Father gave the Aeons a starting point and a root, so that they are stations on the calm road leading to Him.

For He spread out faith and prayer for what they do not see, a firm hope in what they do not comprehend, a fertile love longing for what they do not behold, an eternally receptive understanding of the mind, a blessing that is richness and freedom, and, for their thoughts, the wisdom of one whose desire is the glory of the Father.

Quoting from my book, The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated,

The hierarchy defines higher versus lower. It orders first, second, third, and fourth, superior and inferior, inside and out, action and rest, every other possible relationship, particles and their spins, waves and frequencies, atoms, molecules, attraction and repulsion, cells and DNA, every protein fold and enzyme.

The how, what, why, when, who, and where of all that was to come began as the perfectly rendered Fullness. As DNA anticipates an organism and a blueprint promises a building, the Fullness embodied the perfect plan of Paradise. For the Aeons manifested within their hierarchy all of the Father’s innumerable qualities, including consciousness, logic, and love.

The Aeons of the Fullness were given wisdom and prudence and a constant thirst to seek their Creator. This gave them a desire to align themselves with the Father’s Holy Spirit through the process of giving glory.  Giving glory is the means by which we align ourselves with the originating consciousness. It’s like a homing beacon. The Aeons yearned for communion with their Father, for He had planted His root deep within their hearts, and they recognized themselves as His branches and His fruit.

The newly self-aware Aeons were not separated from the One Who Is, for their Father was the Son and embodiment of the Formless One, and His Holy Spirit flowed throughout them as a reassuring presence. Although the Aeons dwelt within the single body of the Fullness, they were each an independent self. Their variety required them to work together and remain in full agreement, for only through their union could they approach the Father’s greatness.

All for One and One for All is their song, and they sing in perfect harmony. Now I have to share a kind of a funny image I have concerning the Fullness of God and what it looks like. As I say, a hierarchy is like a pyramid, so when I picture the Aeons of God, I picture them all as golden cannonballs stacked in a big pyramid. So they all look alike, but they each have a particular place in the hierarchy. Picture a given cannonball and where it might be in a gigantic stack of countless cannonballs in the Fullness of God, this gigantic golden pyramid of balls.

Now if you go to YouTube and you look at videos of what are called slime mold, strangely enough, I always think of the Fullness of God as like a slime mold. The slime mold creature is comprised of identical cells, each one exactly the same, but they’re all side by side making up one organism. Whereas, for example, in our bodies, our cells are all different. Your skin cell is different than your heart cell, for example. But in a slime mold, all the cells are exactly the same. They are moving and acting and thinking as one single organism, a big clump of cells, but each of the cells is an individual. Also, they’re perfect fractals. Each cell replicates the entire slime mold. So if you cut out a single cell out of a slime mold, it will now become its own mass of slime mold cells and know everything that the previous body out of which it was cut knew. This has all been shown scientifically. You can look it up online. So that is how I think of the Fullness of God, as this beautiful combination of pyramidal golden orbs, kind of acting and thinking like a slime mold. They’re each individuals, but they are also at the same time one.

So now these are the principal players in the cosmology of Gnosticism. The originating consciousness, which is called the Father, the embodiment of that consciousness, which is called the Son, the differentiation of the Son into the All, and then the differentiation of the All becoming self-aware and becoming the Fullness of God and sorting themselves. The second they became self-aware, they sorted themselves into that golden pyramid, as I think of it.

Before they sorted themselves, they were like the rays of sun coming out from the central entity of the Son. When they became self-aware, they kind of swam away and formed this pyramid. Everything else that we see around us, ourselves, our worlds, our entire universe, is all prefigured in the Fullness of God, in the All. The Fullness is also called the Pleroma, which is another Greek word that just means everything. The Fullness of God is like the blueprint of our universe. Everything that will ever come to be is sitting there in that golden pyramidal stack.

I’m going to end this podcast with a clear Gospel message straight from the Tripartite Tractate, regarding exactly what one must come to believe in order to be, quote, saved. In case you’re curious, we’re skipping ahead, but why not? So here’s a quote.

There is no other baptism apart from this one alone, which is the redemption into God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, when confession is made through faith in those names, which are a single name of the Gospel, when they have come to believe what has been said to them, namely, that they exist. From this they have their salvation, those who have believed that they exist. This is attaining an invisible way to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in an undoubting faith.

So that seems to be the underlying core of the Gnostic salvation message. No other arcane rituals are needed, no gnosis other than believing that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, also known as the Fullness of God, or the pleroma, existed before you did. Other ancient Gnostic texts claim that this is the true essence of the Gospel that Jesus preached.

Keep in mind that these are the very texts considered so distracting by the early Church Fathers that they were buried in the Egyptian desert in the 4th century AD to protect them from being burned as the work of heretics, keeping them safe until their re-emergence in 1945. So back to the pleroma. In case you haven’t guessed, the Fullness is where we all wind up eventually. By the end of the universe, at the end of time, most everyone’s will have come on board team God, so to speak, and then the fruit of the pleroma, us, will have returned home to the fold to live happily ever after amidst the unending joy and love of the Fullness, all tucked up inside the Son who lives tucked up inside the Father. This is why I end my phone calls and whatnot with friends by saying onward and upward. Onward and upward is our destination.

Onward and upward is the way we return home to the pleroma. We’ll talk a lot more about this as time goes on. All right, I’ll see you in the next episode. God bless.

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This week I appeared as a guest on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. I’m going to make that YouTube video this week’s episode. The interview went well and the viewers like it very much, judging by their Comments of the episode. I’m including the YouTube link here on the transcript. The episode is called “What Is The Gnostic Pleroma? ”

The episode lasts an hour and a half. People in Comments said it was their favorite episode from Aeon Byte. Seemed to cause quite a positive stir among the viewers.

It’s funny, when the interview was over and we were saying our goodbyes, I failed to say “onward and upward” to Miguel and he noticed and called me out on it. He wanted to hear the blessing! Isn’t that sweet?

On this Aeon Byte appearance I also give a reading of my new kiddie book “Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Myth.”

I encourage you to go watch it and let me know what you think.

All of my gnostic books are available for purchase on amazon.com. I always price my book as low as amazon will allow in order to make them more accessible to the greatest number of people.

PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW ON AMAZON!

Thank you,

ONWARD AND UPWARD! AND GOD BLESS.

cyd

Here’s the YouTube transcript of the interview below.

My name is Miguel Connor and I am still your pompatus of Gnosis– that man across the waters of creation. And good to see everybody on this moon day. And very excited today because we will be discussing a topic that is very important and often uh misunderstood about Gnosticism and that is the pleroma. And I can’t think of anybody better to engage in this conversation than our guest Dr. Cyd Ropp. She will be discussing her new work, Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Gospel. And of course, we will touch upon the great ideas from her other recent book,  A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. And yeah, check it out. Definitely check it out if you’re looking for a good audio book. I do the narration and you will be taken on an amazing Gnostic journey of awakening that is useful for you.

Cyd, thank you very much as always for coming to the virtual Alexandria.

My pleasure. I always like to be here. Thanks, Miguel.

We always like to have you here. Life the the world is better. Well, the world is the world, but at least uh the psyche is better. And with us, too, we got Mr. Graham Pong. Graham, how are you doing on a Monday? Are you Garfield or something other? Oh, no. I’m something other. I’m definitely uh this week I’m much more a fan of one of my favorite uh existential philosophers, Alfred E. Newman. You know “what me worry?” seems to be the answer to this mad world we’re in.

Exactly. Exactly. There are answers and you got to find them where you find them. Again, I keep quoting Julian of Norwich. “All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner things shall be well.” It’s going to be okay. And certainly Cyd’s work and mining the Valentinian Tripartite Tractate tells us that.

So uh well where do we start? First we want to look at your new book. We’ll talk about the pleroma but first Children of the Fullness. This is something you’ve been working for on for a long time, right Cyd?

Well, one of my listeners, I also have a podcast– Gnostic Insights– and one of my listeners suggested a children’s book. She’s a young mom, little kids. She goes, “I can’t find any Gnostic children’s books.” And I believe that I have written the first ever Gnostic kiddie book. And it’s ironic because people have this idea–and of course the way a lot of gnosticism is presented, it is very labyrinthian– but they have this idea that gnosis is impossible to achieve or it’s so difficult how can we grasp it? And I have actually simplified it down to uh well the book is  34 pages long but it’s double page spreads like kiddie books are. It’s a big size book and so it’s actually simplified down to only 17 story boards that aged 2 to eight can understand. And really, their parents. I’m thinking they’re the ones that are going to be sapping it up the most—the people that are reading this book to the kids. So, it’s very exciting to be able to produce a book in a cartoon type of way for little ones that’s true.

Brilliant idea. Love it. Love it so much. And what’s was the process? I mean, your process was to even simplify it more while it’s still understandable. The script. Yeah. How did you find an artist? What was the process?

Okay, I’ll tell you the whole thing. First of all, the whole simple thing because I want to mention that to people. I believe in simplicity. Truth is simple. The more excess verbiage you slap on it, generally the further it wanders from the simplicity of truth. And the most profound truths are the simplest. So whenever I write anything, I’m not only thinking of writing to us humans, I think of my dog as if I were trying to teach my dog gnosis. What could that dog understand? Or a flower. What does a flower know of God and the Fullness? And so I simplify all gnosis down to what all of us creation creatures– the second order powers—that we’ll talk about when we talk pleromas– that any second order power can understand. So, to simplify the Gnostic gospel down to a 2 to 8 year-old level is no big deal because it just simplifies it even more clearly.

So what I did was I took the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi– and that is a Valentinian book. Uh it doesn’t have a lot of the extraneous mythologies that most of the other books of the Nag Hammadi have. It’s more of a point A to point Z type of book and a roll out of cosmology. So I just took the Tripartite story of the fall of the Aeon known as Logos. His splitting into two. He flees back up to the Fullness and his egoic self that caused the fall in the first place stays down below and that becomes the god of this universe. The Demiurge. Anyway, I didn’t want to use big words and nonfamiliar gnostic words in the telling of the text. So I don’t use words like Aeons, Fullness, hierarchy, demiurge. I make them words that people are more familiar with because I’m assuming this is going to be a non-gnostic audience that just kind of bumbles across this kids book. I’m hoping. And so I call the Aeons angels to simplify things. And I just call the demiurge the dark twin. And it just goes like that.

I found an artist on Fiverr. You know, the Fiverr app. We know Fiverr because we’re tech people, but most people that I talk to don’t know what Fiverr is. And if you don’t out there who are listening, Fiverr is like Uber, only instead of calling for a car, you’re calling for an artist or a composer or an illustrator of some sort. So, I put a notice on Fiverr that I wanted a children’s book illustrator. And then I looked at all of their samples and I picked a guy, a wonderful guy in Indonesia. And he was very helpful, barely spoke English. But we got the points across and I think he has drawn a beautiful book that completely illustrates the gnosis I was trying to get across.

Awesome. That’s the story. Great job.

And now it’s on Amazon now as an ebook Kindle and as a paperback, but I wanted it in hardback too so that libraries would stock it. So I had to go to a different printer than Amazon because they won’t do an 8” by 8” children’s hardback book. So I had to go to a different printer and now I’m pushing it through– talk about labyrinthian– I’m pushing it through these various types of outlets that librarians use and trying to get it on shelves. That’s the plan.

Awesome. Yeah. Very excited. Yeah, very excited indeed. So I guess the question as uh we move on — would be what is the pleroma? I mean traditionally obviously to geek out uh the Valentinians of course saw Paul’s writings and they thought oh my god it’s full of cryptic symbolism and you know, you know like we do watch a band we see and we read a book and it may be cryptical and we go gaga over it. We all do it. But to the Valentinians, Paul had this amazing secret symbolism. And when they would say, you know, Christ is the Fullness of God incarnate. You know, the pleroma Fullness. And it appears in Ephesians, Colossians, they’re like, what is this? What is this Fullness? It must be the divine realm. And they saw it as, you know, the capacities of God, the mind of God, the potentials. And other Gnostics, the Sethians would call it the eternal realm. and the Manichaeans the treasury of light and so it became, again to simplify, like the hermetics it’s the capacities of the mind of God– the potentials and personhood– god knowing his own aspects and flowing out in this perfect realm until Logos or Sophia had other plans.They were going to disrupt the first kingdom or they were going to rebel. But is that it? Or tell us how you see the pleroma.

Sure, except I don’t think of that. Well, you know, I’m not a historian. I really don’t even like history much. I am a philosopher and I look at the works themselves. So, when I read the Tripartite Tractate, what I see are the truths behind what Paul wrote, not derivative from Paul. I  think that they go side by side. I actually think it should be one of the books of the Bible of the New Testament. And it fits right there between the last book of the Old Testament and the first book of the New Testament. It squeezes into that space as far as time and thoughts go. So what the pleroma means is the Fullness of God. And yes, the Fullness of God is referred to throughout the New Testament especially. But I think when they, when the Nicene Council stripped the Valentinianism out of the New Testament, it took away what it meant.

So actually, and that’s not the only term in the in the New Testament where we’ve lost the actual intent of meaning of Fullness. And it doesn’t just mean, oh, God is great. God is full. God is so big and ungraspable. That’s not what Fullness means. The pleroma is the– Okay, so God wanted to be known. It says that throughout the Bible. God, and we’re talking about the God above all gods, by the way. We’re not talking about the God of this world or the God of the Old Testament. We’re talking about the Father. And I believe that when Jesus referred to the Father or when he wanted us to pray “My Father who art in heaven,” or the ethereal plane, he’s talking about the ultimate consciousness, the ground state of everything. But God is illimitable and omnipotent and everywhere and knows everything. There’s no way we can know God. But God wants to be known. God doesn’t want to be up there all alone. So God emanated a monad, a person of himself. And in Christianity, that’s called the Son. It’s simply the emanation or the encapsulation of the otherwise illimitable God. And so the Son is also though the first pleroma. He’s the Fullness. And this moment–  there’s no time in the ethereal plane — but the instant that the Son was emanated from the Father, he split into all of his variables is what we would call it in math or science nowadays. So he wasn’t just a single monad. He was an infinite array. And this is where I differ from a lot of the other gnostics. They think there are is x number of Aeons, but there’s not. It doesn’t make any sense. The Father is infinite. The Son is infinite in his capacity and in his scope. So if you differentiate infinity, well there’s an infinite number of differentiations. And so I think that there are, in the Fullness of God, an infinite number of differentiations.

And at first they were one. They were coexistent with the Son and they had no self-identity at all. So that really didn’t do the Father much good. Yeah, he’s sitting there. The Son and the Father are glorifying each other, but that doesn’t go anywhere. And so they wanted to emanate and that’s how we come into being. But we’re down downstream a bit. So the Fullness that first differentiated didn’t have self-awareness but in their giving glory to the Son and the Father– or the first emanation and the ground state of consciousness if you don’t like the word Son and Father, that is really immaterial what the words are– it’s the concepts that count. Alright, anyway, as soon as the Fullness became self-aware then all those infinities of fullnesses or totalities, made themselves into a hierarchy. And a hierarchy looks like a pyramid just because that’s what a hierarchy looks like. The higher the fewer.

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Can we put up the little slide? Oh, I’m I’m looking at a picture of a pyramid down here on your on your desk.

Yeah. Let me put it up for the audience. Where is Here you go. There you go. Okay. So this is how I conceive of the

original hierarchy of the Fullness of God. And this is supposed to represent an infinity of a Aeons. Aeo ns. And

that’s one of the mistakes that that’s one of the words that’s been lost out of Christianity. When they use the word Aeon

in the New Testament, they translate it as a unit of time, but it isn’t necessarily a unit of time.

It’s just as likely to be a unit of consciousness. And that’s a very exciting concept. So these Aeons are all

conscious self-aware beings who have a place, an identity, a job to do. They’ve

got neighbors on either side. They know where they are, who they belong to, and

what their job is. And they sorted themselves. Hierarchy is not a nasty

word. They they sorted themselves. My feet do not feel less important than my

head. I need my feet just as much as my head. So anyway, so that’s the original

Fullness. Your head’s not exploiting your feet with taxes and saying that’s right. That’s right.

That that comes out of the demiurgic imitation of these things. So here we have a picture of the

original hierarchy of the Aeons of God or the Fullness of God. And this is

encapsulating the entire entirety of the Son of God. And then right up there on

the very top is a fractal of the Fullness of God in the Tripartite

trackct date. The Aeon who is the top Aeon, the last Aeon to be produced, the

most perfect and complete. He had miniatures of all the other Aeons of the

Fullness of God within his own pleroma. So you’re seeing a pleroma of and in in

our Tripartite tractate reading of the gnostic gospel that is called Logos.

That top the capstone of the pyramid is Logos and that’s his fractal pleroma

sitting on top of the great pleroma of the Fullness of God. So those are called

the first order of powers

and everything. Everything is well until it wasn’t. Right.

That’s right. That’s right. All is good. And they’re in complete harmony even though they have identities which means

they have egos. And ego isn’t necessarily a bad name. It’s just your identity. It’s like an address in a

name. It doesn’t have to mean I’m an Aeon with a name and I’m full of myself. No, it’s

just I’m this Aeon and I sit right about in the middle and I’ve got these neighbors and this is my job. That’s all

it meant. So, uh so that’s that’s the

first order of powers. All right. And then well then as they

say what went wrong? I mean we’re talking about the definition of nostism which is outdated because Hans Jonas

assumed there had to be a Sophia. This is pre- Nagamadari library but as we can see

Sophia isn’t the cause of the fall in this one in this no Logos is the cause of the fall but

Logos means all knowledge all knowledge and logic thinking the ability to have wisdom

and Sophia means wisdom they’re both Greek words so I believe that they are interchangeable concepts they are the

Aeon with the wisdom who is elevated to the top position and of

This came down in a fractured form into Christianity as Lucifer, the angel of

light who’s sitting at the top who falls. So, Logos because in my way of

interpreting events and I’m the one that’s calling Logos his pleroma as fractals because it says

in the uh Tripartite trackct date that Logos did contain

all of the others within him only smaller lesser

but he was given wisdom and of course has free will because all Aeons have free will because everything that proceeds

from the originating consciousness has free will and we are all from the

originating consciousness. So we have all of the attributes of the Father. We have love, we have

consciousness, we have free will, we have entity

and uh Logos made a mistake. He was trying to do a good thing in the

uh in the in the Tripartite track day. It’s it’s it’s the only book I believe

of the Nag Hammadi that says ah you know don’t condemn the Aeon who fell because

he his fall was necessary to bring about the next order to come. So apparently

it was in the Aeons’s minds. They’re sitting there dreaming of this place,

this creation. They they conceived of everything that would ever come to be because they are after all the mind of

God. Mhm. And so he’s a fractal of that and he thought of it too, but he didn’t realize

he was supposed to stick on top of the pleroma and just be like the the head of

it. He thought he could do it all by himself. So he overreached. He tried to bring the Fullness to the Father and

plug directly back into the Father the way the Son does because the Son still plugs into the Father but everybody else

is further away because if we were to pl if you and I were trying to plug back

into the Father we would be annihilated is the word used in the Tripartite

tractate so it’s not a good idea he tried to plug in the Father said no you will be annihilated push him back out

And instead of going back to his place in the Fullness, he fell. And it is that

is the fall. Not Adam and Eve. The fall is when the Aeon fell from the ethereal

plane out into what? Nothingness. And now that becomes our material

universe, the cosmos. Exactly. And then so of course now we we

have the rescue operation. Yes. The rest of your operation of little Logos. Poor little Logos.

That’s right. Logos is out. He’s He fell. He cracked open like uh

Humpty Dumpty. Humpty Dumpty. That’s right. And um his pleroma was no longer in that neat and

tidy hierarchical arrangement and it just spilled out all over the place and

it wouldn’t obey him. Logos is trying down there saying, “Come on back. What are you doing? Where you going?” And

they just go, “Ah, screw you.” And they just went rolling on their merry way. And he couldn’t get them back. And he

was horrified. Logos was horrified. And so children, children, this is

so he actually abandoned them. He he couldn’t get anything done. So because the rescue operation was initiated

though by the Fullness of God, they pulled him back up. He didn’t get back up on his own. The Fullness prayed for

him and Logos went back up. And then

altogether Logos and the Plleoma prayed for salvation for the mess that had been

come into existence down below and for the ego of Logos which stayed down below

uh which has been given the name the Demiurge. And they want to save the

Demiurge because he’s part of Logos. He needs to be reunited. And so that’s the

rescue operation. Clean up this material mess and bring the Demiurge back up

high. And then everything that came of that except the shadows and the

imitations that didn’t exist from the beginning, but everything from the beh everything from the beginning will go

back up into the ethereal plane. Mhm. No, makes sense. And then but uh we

humans are this as you say or as the tripart tract is said we’re the second

order powers. We’re different. Okay. Right. Yes. The the next pleroma

the second economy it’s called. The first economy is that first plurle

of the Aeons and Logos. The second economy is down here now in the material

cosmos. And we living creatures with consciousness,

with love, and with the power of the Fullness. We were fruited like a like a

slime mold. We were fruited down here into this otherwise completely dead

creation down below because the split off ego of Logos that stayed down below

the demiurge has no power from God. It doesn’t have the consciousness or the

direct flow. It’s a flow of consciousness directly from the Father through the Son through the hierarchy of

the Fullness that being the uh first order of powers and then we were fruited down here and

we’re the second order of powers. Every living thing, everything that is germinated and grows.

The demiurge can’t grow anything. All he can do is put broken things together and we call that matter. We call that

material. Sounds like my ego in relationships. Well, we are Good point though. We’re

fractals of the whole fall. We’re fract Everything’s fractally nested. It’s all

fractals. So everything we say about Logos and the demiurge, Logos and his

fallen twin happens to us too because we as children of God, we have the Fullness

inside of us. there. Our little oam and our little sperm have the Fullness of

God and they get together and we are now channeling the Fullness of God and the

love and consciousness. So we have the Fullness of God. We’re born with remembrance. We’re called those of the

good thought, those of the remembrance. Whereas matter has no remembrance. It is

not of the good thought. It was of an egoic overreach.

So yeah, we can identify the Logos and the demiurge because they are parts of

us. Matter of fact, we second order powers. Although we came with the purity of the

first order powers within us, that’s our big S self. I call it not our big ass

self, but our big S self. Uh uh that’s our, you know, our our

golden self inside. That is the god inside of us. But we are melded to this

material world when we come in. Obviously that little spark of life. You

do you know that when a have you heard this Miguel that when a sperm fertilizes an OAM a spark of a photon of light is

emitted? I have. Yes. That’s that’s really a fascinating thought, isn’t it? Yeah. So, so we’ve got this uh uh life

and light inside of us, but then we’re slapped onto these molecules as we grow

upward with our molecular bodies. And so, we are part Demiurge and we are

part uh Fullness of God. And that’s that good angel bad angel business and why we

reach down instead of looking up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And yeah, interesting

comment. I just my questions are are we saved by his blood sacrifice on the cross or is that a demonic lie? So,

tripart track. Who is Jesus? Who’s big J? All right, I’ve got this phone. Jesus.

This darn phone. Okay. Jesus is the second order embodiment

of Christ. Christ and Jesus are not

ex they Jesus embodies Christ. Jesus is the only second order power to ever

fully embody Christ. So he was born that’s why the whole bit about uh part

God part man Jesus.

The blood I always wondered about the blood. I mean that that’s been one of the things I have contemplated all of my

life as I’ve walked with Jesus and I have walked with Jesus since I was about 5 years old. So I’m walking with the

man. I am a Christian. I am baptized. I am dipped in the Missouri River,

talking tongues, all of that kind of stuff. So um

Oh, now the other phone’s talking. I can’t hear it. It must be on your It must be on your side cuz I get

Man, I thought I muted it. I only muted the ringer as it turns out, but the voice is still yapping back there. I’m a

little ADHD, so I get distracted easily. Sorry about that. So, no. Uh, here’s

what the blood of Christ is. The blood of Christ is the complete embodiment of

the purity and Fullness of Christ. It is the bringing of Christ into this fallen

world. The blood dripping on the earth of this fallen world is part of the

redemption of the Demiurge. I think of Christ

apart from Jesus. I mean I love Jesus. I walk with Jesus. Jesus is my man.

However, Christ is still up in the ethereal plane. He’s called the third order of powers. He has a pleroma of his

own and it’s called the third order of powers and it outranks a second order of powers. And the third order of powers is

all of the mojo of the ethereal plane. It’s not just Logos and the Fullness praying for the redemption of the left

behind half of Logos, but it’s the complete Fullness of God and the Son of

God and the Father giving blessing to

redemption. And so the Christ embodies all of the power of the originating

consciousness. And he is what you could say the correcting algorithm

for the fall. And the correcting algorithm is needed because if you look

at it in a musical sense the pure tone of consciousness is one thing but when

it fell it got out of tune and we’re down here rolling around in

this disharmonic state. So the Christ is the hum of the Father and when Jesus

came he brought that hum with him and the blood of Jesus on the ground is not

a heresy I don’t think. Did that answer that question do you think? I think it does. No it makes perfect

sense. And for everybody else if you do have questions might not be able to get to it. Please super chat them so Graham

or I can get to them. And uh yeah uh really not much housekeeping. You want

to take a look at the children’s uh at the Children of the Fullness or show some of the other slides before cuz

Children of the Fullness of course we’ll simplify it in a podcast. Yes. But hey um housekeeping for a

moment. Since my stupid telephone over there answered and the person left a message, it’s going to go beep beep

every so often and everybody’s going to hear it. Don’t worry about it. If you Okay, if if you hear it, I’ll go and uh

you know throw the phone. Can you hear it? I don’t hear I didn’t even hear the phone ring.

Okay, good. Every I was going to say I heard it vaguely one time, but I haven’t heard it in a while.

You must have some noiseancelling stuff on your computer or something. Beep.

Okay. All right. What’s the question? You might be like the telltale heart or something. It

It is. It is. And it’s so annoying because I tell you what, 99% of the

phone calls I get are junk. They’re trying to sell me something. Of course,

they’re all trying to or they’re politicians trying to get me to contribute. God,

I can’t get them to stop. Stop. Yeah. Yeah. Welcome to this world of uh

Yeah. Too much technology, too much information. And I was going to ask do you want to uh jump on the children of

the Fullness or sure let’s do that because this will uh it’s quite a journey and for the audience uh please

check out our interview last year late 2024 if you want a more expanded uh view

of a simple uh explanation of the Gnostic gospel. But let’s pull up the uh

there you go. That’s not the one. Remove. There you go. There it is.

Okay. And just let me know when you want to switch the slide. Children of the Fullness, an ostic myth by Cyd Rob.

There we go. And you see, I depicted the Aeons as angels. And by the way, some

Aeons are angels, but not all Aeons are angels. But all angels are Aeons. How’s that for

a logical? But anyway, so yeah. Uh so but but for

the sake of it being a children’s book, these are these are the aonic families

having babies. And you know, I think I will not only look at the children’s book, but when we’re on each page, I’m

going to maybe explain briefly the depth behind that part of it too, right?

Sure. Of course. Okay. So let’s turn the page because we’ll turn the pages. Bob Seager saying,

“All right, so this is the first double page spread in the book. Long ago, in

the dark, empty sky, Father God dreamed of everything that would come to be. The

Father gave birth to a Son who shared with him all of his love and power.

And the Son brought forth angels to help him build the paradise his Father had imagined.” Now, I know a lot of people

don’t like the words Father and Son. Once again, don’t get hung up on labels.

It’s the concept that matters. So, you can call it the source. You can call it the base state or the base matrix of

consciousness. You can call the Son the emanation of the Father. I like to call

the Son the bucket dipped into the sea, but you won’t find that in anybody else’s uh uh gospel. So, uh the the

Father god dreamed of everything that would come to be. That’s because he’s omnipotent and and and knows everything,

right? So, the Son brought forth angels to help him build the paradise his Father had

imagined. And that is my way of simplifying this for a children’s book.

That’s what we talked about. This is going to be the first pleroma, the all the totalities of the all. And

they’re still all up in the ethereal plane. Okay. Turn. Okay. turn.

The angels gave glory to the Father and sang songs about his great power, love, and sweetness. Now, the the a the Aeons

that is their primary job is to commune with the Father and they like to give glory. And I I’ve often thought, you

know, sometimes it seems when you’re in church that the Father is like needy and

weedling for praise and glory. Oh, please. I want your praise. Worship me,

please. That isn’t what glory is. Glory is getting in tune with the originating

consciousness. It’s being in tune. And the way you get in tune is to give

glory. It’s not for the Father’s sake. It’s for our sake. It’s the way we uh

get in tune, I guess, is the thing you can say. And plus giving glory. It’s like when you’re at a let’s say you’re

at a concert. Let’s say you’re at a rock concert and somebody’s just done a great song and everybody screaming and going

yeah at the end. They love that’s giving glory. And it’s that feeling of wanting

to give glory that the that the Aeons do or that the angels do. It’s inherent

that if you were in the presence of God, there is nothing more that you would want to do than to applaud and go right

on. That’s it. So that’s what giving glory does.

And so the angels gave glory to the Father and sang songs about his sweetness, love, and power. And it is

through the process of giving glory to the Father in company with all the other Aeons.

So there’s an innumerable number of Aeons in that hierarchy of the Fullness of God. And they give glory together. They

give glory with their neighbors. They might give glory by themselves. They might all give glory together, but it’s

this sort of logarithmic expansion of ways you can give glory that create new

and more and more and more Aeons. So, it already started out as a huge thing. It was already the Fullness of God. But now

the angels are loving each other, the Father and the Son. They make angel families because they have so much love

to share because they’re combining. You see what I mean? Does that make sense?

Okay. And of course, every Aeon and in the book it’s called every angel had special talents and abilities and

together they dreamed of the Father’s paradise. So every Aeon is a variable of the Son.

Every Aeon has a unique talent and every combination of Aeons has a combination of

unique talents. So there might be an Aeon that like specializes in singing. There

might be a neon that specializes in art and guitar. Everything that we know, all of the talents that come down to us,

math, creativity, art, music. I play this instrument, you play that. They all

have Aeons. They all have Aeons in the Fullness of God. And we are their children. So each

of us people and and of course it’s true of every every living thing from the flowers and the bugs up through the

animals and us we are each a unique combination

of this combinatory quality that Aeons do. You know I don’t

know how many Aeons I’m a combination of. I know we’ve got like 50 trillion cells in our body. So we’re at least 50

trillion Aeons in us. But there’s also unique combinations. So that’s why my

primary talent is probably from Aeons who like to write and talk and sing. But

somebody else’s primary talent, they didn’t have so much of those guys, but they’ve got more of the visual arts

or more of the mathematical or the scientific logistical prowess. So you

were all unique combinations of this infinite pleroma of the first order of

powers. We are the second order of powers that are combinations of them. And so I’m saying uh angel families.

We’re part of the angel babies. And then we are sent down. You can turn.

And then you’re we’re sent down into uh this Fullness. Now, my version in the

children’s book of Logos sitting on the top with his fractals is this guy down

here. There’s little Logos with his halo, and he’s making a fractal copy.

He’s making a model of the ethereal plane. It’s just a uh, you know, a

representation of him being able to recreate the Fullness of God because

obviously that’s just a little baby model right there. But I I’m very proud of my um my illustrator who was able to

take that idea and do that. I think he did a great job of showing that that’s Logos and his fractal model of paradise.

And so reading it, it says the final angel born was very special because he knew the whole plan of paradise. His

name was Logos. Logos decided to build paradise all on his own without the other angels. He

wanted to surprise the Father with his gift of paradise. And of course, that’s what he was trying to do when he when he

fell. He was trying to bring paradise. Look, look what I built to the Father.

But that wasn’t the plan. And he shouldn’t have tried to plug back into the Father with it. And that’s why he

was repelled and fell back.

Next. So here’s Logos on the left page.

bringing his model of paradise up to the Father who was standing up on that cliff. Uh but when he tried to bring the

Father his gift, he fell all the way out of heaven.

There he goes. And Logos crashed into the darkness and broke apart and now he

was split in two. And you see on the far right there’s Logos going, “Oh my head.”

And that’s the uh that’s uh the demiurge crawling out from behind him. And you

see he’s not seeing that the demiurge is crawling out. He because he’s looking

the other way and he’s oh my head. But and the deurge isn’t really looking at him either. So neither of them realizes

what’s gone on there. All right, we can turn.

Okay. Logo was horrified and that’s a direct quote from the from the Tripartite

trackct date horrified by his shadow twin and broken paradise and he flew

back up to heaven. Now, I’m not making the story up, mind you. This is directly out of the Tripartite Tractate. And in

my big book, my big book,

there it is. This explains all of this in exquisite detail, I would say. Wouldn’t you,

Miguel? Yes. Yes. And as narrated by Miguel Connor. Yes.

You leave no Monad unturned. I do. I do not. We We tell the whole thing. They explain the whole thing. You

only have to want to understand. Now, by the way, I’ve given that book and I’ve

even given the children’s book now to many people and they’re like, I don’t

get it. I just don’t get it. I don’t see how you cannot get this children’s story for heaven’s sake. Here it is. You have

to have eyes to see and ears to hear and a heart to want to

understand. So this is what it means by saying that we must seek after the

gnosis. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. I have done my

best to simplify the gnostic gospel all the way down so that anybody of any

education level. You don’t have to be a philosopher can understand it. You just have to have

an open mind and keep turning the page and it will make sense. It all falls into place. And here it is for two to

eight year olds. So come on, really? Anyway, Logos was horrified. He flew

back up to heaven because uh as we already mentioned, because the Plleoma

of the First Order of Powers was praying over the fall, and they were trying to make it better. So, first thing they did

was pull Logos back up. And there he is flying away, looking over his shoulder.

See, he’s looking back over his shoulder in horror. And there’s the Demiurge sitting there in this muddy broken place

and there’s nothing there. It’s all darkness. And then on the second page, the twin, I

don’t use the word demiurge because I’m trying to keep small words in the book. The twin forgot all about Logos and the

angels and the Father above. In fact, he thought he was God.

And innosticism, that’s another word for the Demiurge. What is it? the ignorant

god or the amnesic god. He doesn’t remember where he came from

because the knowing part of him beat it back up to the first order of powers. So

he was sadly abandoned down here in this mess. And you see the broken the broken

uh model of paradise which is simply a representation of the broken pleroma of

Logos. So it was fractals to begin with and then it broke apart.

So it wasn’t that paradise fell, it’s a fractal of

paradise. And I we’re just going to take it. You all know what fractal means by

now. If you don’t know what a fractal is, go back to one of our previous interviews, or go to um Gnostic

Insights, which is my podcast, and you can look it up. All there. It’s all there. Yeah. And

this obviously wonder where Jung got some of his ideas. It’s right here. Any Oh, yeah.

Shadow ego. It’s all here. Oh, well, you know that Jung purchased the Tripartite tract. That was the book

that Jung owned out of this otherwise untransated Egyptian codeex that was

found in the desert in 1945. And he had it translated directly from uh Coptic

Greek into German. And this is exactly where Jung

came up with his transpersonal psychology. It is tripartiteism.

There you go. There you go. For sure. All right, slide seven. So,

what’s going on here? Well, shadow god. The shadow god down below. And uh it’s

all darkness and ugly. You see, it’s matter. It’s material. There’s no life.

It’s just atoms and molecules and aggrids. It’s aggregates of minerals,

elements. And up above there’s Logos looking back down at his severed.

That’s part of him. Right? So he has been ripped apart. He is not whole. So his self is not his self. His

his good self, his one is up there in the clouds. It’s like uh Peter Pan looking for a

shadow. Right. That’s it. That Well, hey, now where did that author get that? Yeah. I wonder where he got that from.

No doubt. He must have been reading Jung at that point in time. The patient like and others.

That’s right. That’s right. So um as the book says, the shadow god tried building

the paradise Logos had imagined. But his creation lacked love and life because

you see he’s not a direct descendant of the Fullness like Logos’s self is. He’s

separated from that. So he doesn’t have the life of the Fullness of God. There

were no flowers or animals, only mud, water, and rocks. He could not make his

creations come to life. And there is a portion of a myth that made it into the Bible.

It I I clearly recall somewhere

God kneeling on the riverbank making a mud model of Adam. Isn’t that how Adam

was made out of the mud of the riverbank? And then his uh other gods

were standing around with them i.e. archons and they couldn’t get the damn

thing to come to life. Well, that’s because that god of that Old Testament

myth is the Demiurge and he could not bring life. He he made all these little models of rabbits and flowers and but he

couldn’t get them to come to life because he didn’t contain the life of the Father.

So, they just stayed dead down there. Next.

So, Logos and his friends, i.e. the first pleroma of the Fullness of God,

Logos and his friends decided to help out by sending angel babies down to

earth from the smallest to the largest. And that’s another cool thing about the Tripartite. It it it says from the

smallest to the largest all creatures came to earth which is like what

evolution thinks but we didn’t evolve from the smallest

to the largest. We were already precreated. This is a form of uh

intelligent design. We were precreated in the ethereal plane. We are the fruit

of the Fullness of God. And they had the whole plan of everything from the

beginning. See, so it’s not like uh these molecules had to get together and

uh have this certain kind of amino acids in the in the primordial soup and then

oh look there’s an there’s a single-sellled organism and then they get together and oh look there’s a an

amoeba and then it it doesn’t work like that. They come in already from the

smallest to the largest, but in order in the order of their coming. And it it

says all of this in the Tripartite tract date, which is 2,000 years old. And I

think that is pretty astounding. Um, so from the smallest to the largest,

they came down. And that that’s our little version of the angels throwing down all the living creatures. In this

way, Earth came alive with living plants and creatures. So, it’s not from the mud

up. It’s not from the Demiurge up or the primordial soup up. It’s from the

Fullness directly sending the living patterns of the creatures down.

Does that make sense? Mhm. That does. And there they come. Okay. Next.

All creatures were born with the memory of their angel parents and the Father in heaven. They loved everything and

everybody. They joined with others and made forests and meadows, families and

towns. And you see, since I think of the second order powers not only as us

humans, we we have too much focus on us. It’s all of the creatures. It’s all of

the animals. It’s all of the grasses and flowers and trees. They all know God. They all are

um unique combinatory results of various

Aeons of the Fullness of God. And so they joined with others and made forests and

meadows. It’s like what? We didn’t put together forest and meadows. No, the grasses joined with grasses and made

lawns. The forest joined with the trees joined with trees and made forests and

meadows. See, everything wants to go together. Everything is part

of that simple, you know, we haven’t talked about the uh simple explanation of the golden rule. That’s not part of

this talk. But that’s one of our uh it’s one of the attributes of God. It’s one

of the attributes of the original in the first pleroma is everybody works

together for the benefit of everyone. That’s the go that’s the real golden

rule. It’s not well I’ll do to you if you’ll do to me which is a quidd proquo

kind of bargain. That shouldn’t be the golden rule. The golden rule is no matter if I know you or not. No matter

if you love me or not, I will work with you so that we can make things better.

So that we can bring things together with the power of love. Because only

love can build. Hatred cannot make things better. She said to the people

today, hatred, nothing good comes from hatred. You can’t do it. It’s

antithetical. It’s the wrong category.

Only love from the Fullness above can spread love and only love can make

things better. And that is the golden rule. So that is why in this drawing we’re all born. Oh, we’re also called

the second order powers. Not just the people, but the grasses and the bees,

everything. Certainly the dogs and cats and horses. Everything comes with a

memory of the Fullness of God because that is where we come from. We aren’t evolved out of the mud. We aren’t

evolved out of single-sellled animals that happen to go to together out of

certain combinations of molecules. We are from above and we come in with the

life and the memory. So we are called those of the remembrance. All second

order powers are those of the remembrance. And so I like to think when I’m when I’m walking in the forest and

the trees are like, you know how they all try to find spots of light in a crowd of forest? They’ll lean this way

so they can catch that beam of light. You know what they’re doing? They’re reaching to God.

All of the green things that grow up are reaching upward to the Fullness. And I

use the word God and the Fullness of God interchangeably because we can’t understand the Father.

That is illimitable and nonunderstandable consciousness.

Hence the monad that came from the Father because we can understand the

bucket dipped into the sea. And then even more than that, we can understand the Aeons because they’re all the parts

of the Son and we are ionic. We are the children of the Aeons.

Okay. So they came down with love and everybody’s in love and they all joined together. But oh no. Oh no.

Then a terrible thing happened. The children forgot their job was to spread

love. They started fighting a neverending war. And again, this is

right out of the Tripartite Tractate. It’s called the never-ending war. And it

didn’t start with us fighting each other or with uh Republicans and Democrats or progressives and uh stick in the muds or

whatever you want to make the two sides. It came from matter.

The the fall of the Demiurge creating the mud which is a fallen version of

paradise. See the ethereal plane. You can do everything up there we imagine

paradise to be. And all all um cultures of the world have pretty

much the same vision of paradise. Everybody expects their family to be there. They expect it to be a good

loving place. They all want to go and be reunited. It’s all going to be so much better. No more pain, no more suffering,

no more anguish. So that’s paradise. That is where we came from. That’s why

we expect it because we are those of the remembrance. You see, we’re not making it up. We’re remembering it down.

So the neverending war is our remembrance of this ethereal plane.

Well, how come we’re down here in pain and disappointment and death and and

sadness in the mud? It’s because the mud is our material universe and we can’t

see through the mud. You up in paradise, you can see forever. I can see for miles

and miles as the who said, but down here you can only see what’s in front of you,

right? And that’s the fall. That’s the nature of the demiurge. He can only build

things molecularly. So that’s the beginning of the never- ending war. It’s the very fight we have

to stay alive with the material body. Entropy. Entropy

we could say is our enemy. Maybe entropy should be a nickname for the demiurge.

That’s a good one. I like that. I just came up with that. I like it.

Yeah. So because of the never- ending war, everyone thought they were more

important than others. Now each person wanted to be admired. They had no time

to be kind or to help their neighbors because they were taking so many selfies and posting them online cuz they’re so

cute. Look what I have. Look at me. Aren’t I pretty? Aren’t I strong?

So that is part of the never- ending war because there is no oneupmanship

in the in the hierarchy of the Fullness of God. Everyone’s got a different name, a different ego, a different job,

but everybody’s just as important as everybody else. And it’s just like in our body, you know, our our as an

analogy, and it’s not only an analogy, the pleroma of my my body is a pleroma. Your

body is a plumboma, right? It is a pleroma that consists of cells and organs and organ systems,

skin, heart, lungs, and they’re all just as important as any of the others

because as we all know, once one of those systems goes out, you probably only have days or hours to live or

minutes, right? So that’s what death is. It’s when uh cooperation

um within our pleroma fails. And by the way, cancer I think of as an

aronic attack. Cancer is trying to displace the life of the cells with

death. So that’s part of the and then it the more it takes over the more you are

dead. So anyway, society, when we all think we’re more important and want to be admired and we don’t have time for

other people, that is a breakdown of the golden rule, and it perpetuates the

sadness. Next, next. Here we go.

People grew sad and lonely. They thought they could buy happiness with lots of

toys and tasty food. And of course, it’s a kids book, so I’m emphasizing toys and

food. But hey, grown-ups have their toys, too. Right. So, we’re looking in this window of this apartment building

and and there’s all the people playing with their toys and eating their tasty foods and sitting on the couch playing

video games and standing in front of the mirror taking selfies and working out. Working out. Look at

me. Aren’t I strong? So, uh that doesn’t bring happiness. None of that. None of the things you see

in this window can bring happiness because they are not fulfilling the actual desire of our heart. And the

desire of our heart is to be one with the Fullness of God is to remember our

parents in heaven. So Logos and the angels prayed to the Father and Son to

send help to the world to remind everyone of love and their home in heaven because they don’t want us being

sad. Yep. Yep.

Now, now here’s where a lot of I think perhaps non-Christian gnostics get

turned off. They don’t like the idea of Jesus. They don’t like the idea of Christ. And by the same token, here’s

where the Christians get turned off. They don’t like the idea of Logos or the

fall or the Demiurge. And so we’re we have a neverending war within the gnosis

as well, don’t we? The factions ofnosticism. And I wish people would just understand

language is a it’s a second best lang this linear language that we speak,

these words coming out of my mouth one at a time. This is a uh very reduced and

limited form of communication in the Fullness in the ethereal plane or the in

between space whatever you want to call that place communication is globalized it’s

instantaneous it’s like thought bubbles now by the way Miguel I never mentioned

this to you before in any of our previous interviews but I’ve had such an experience here in this lifetime

when I first felt fell in love, deeply in love with my late husband. And we

were we were lying in bed one morning. And so we were and new love, you know,

that new fresh, oh my god, I’m so in love kind of thing. So we’re lying there totally in love,

just feeling love and the birds are singing outside and everything’s sweet. And the cat was drawn by the love. And

she had already proven the night before that she loved love because he had a

convertible. He had a Mustang convertible and we were sitting in his in in the front seat of his Mustang with

the top up um loving each other. Not having sex,

just loving each other. And uh the cat jumped up on the soft top and she was

lying right above us. You could see the bulge in the in the convertible top and

the purr. Her purr was floating down on us. It was a manifestation of love. And the

only reason she was there is because we were down here loving each other. And she was up there loving us and raining

down upon us with furs. Well, the very next morning, the first morning of love,

we’re lying there and the cat came in and she wanted to be with us. We were lying next to each other in the bed and

she laid across the two of us. So she like joined our uh thighs. She was lying

across our thighs. She joined our thighs together with her big cat body. And then this is really weird. And there

was no there were no drugs involved. This was first thing in the morning. These thought bubbles like soap bubbles.

Imagine a big soap bubble about the size of a basketball

floating out of her. She floated this gigantic soap bubble right out of her

head above us. And within the soap bubble, instantaneously with no words,

it said, “I love tuna fish. This cat loves me some tuna fish.” That’s what

she thought bubbled to us. Because you know, cats, what do they say? And so then I thought, well, that’s

pretty extraordinary. And so I floated a thought back to her. Yeah, tuna fish is good. And she got it. And so she and I

were floating these and they weren’t words. They were soap bubbles of a

thought about how much cats love tuna fish. Wow. Okay. So then about, you know, this all

went on for a long time and then she floated another soap bubble about love.

Isn’t love my isn’t love grand? I’m so glad there is love. That was her second

one. First was tuna. Second was love. And then then I started floating thoughts about love back at her.

And then we had all these soap bubbles floating above us. And then when she jumped off,

it’s like it’s it’s morning. Time to get up. And I said to Gary,

“Yo,” because there had been no words spoken all this time. And I and I turned to him for the first time and said,

“Well, then did what I just saw happen,

did you experience what I just experienced?” And he said, “Yeah,

thought bubbles about tuna.” So, it was like, it was pretty cool. It was very

exciting. Very cool. Anyway, and that has always stayed with me. So that concept that in heaven I communication is more or less

global and instantaneous. Uh that’s that mind readading sometimes people talk about in um you know near-death

experiences. Now I got off on that. I totally forgot where we were and what we were talking

about. Oh, that this is a limited form of communication. So don’t get hung up on words like uh Father and Son or

Jesus Christ savior. These are the words we use to express these otherwise global

bubbles of thought. That’s all I’m saying. And when you and and I’m saying

that because I’ve had people who try to start reading my books and they go, “Ah,

the vocabulary I don’t get it. I just, oh, these are new words. These are new. I I just don’t I don’t like the word

Father and Son. That’s so sucks. And it’s like, get off it. Get off it. That isn’t the point of any of it.

It’s our limited vocabulary. So, this uh double page spread. I eliminated the

word Christ and Jesus Christ because I didn’t want the Gnostics just to throw

down the book and go, “Ah, this is a bunch of Christian clap trap.” So I used the word prince of peace which seems to

me ought to be a nice neutral term. The prince of peace came to earth with

all of the power and love of the Father and Son. That’s scriptural from the

Tripartite trackct tape. He was called savior because he came to save everyone

and beloved because heaven and earth love him so much. And all these little

people here on the right side, those are the people that we were seeing in the previous page looking through that apartment window and they were all sad

and unhappy doing the things they were doing. And now the savior is embracing

everyone and he loves them and they love him and they’re happy. Now

next okay.

When everyone remembers the love of the Fullness and accepts the prince of peace, the twin of Logos will remember

too. Logos will become whole again. And see

there’s Logos up there at the top of the page waving at the demiurge. Hey, here

we are. See us. Do you remember us now? and and the the ego of Logos, i.e. the

Demiurge or what was the name we just came up for him? Uh entropy.

Oh yeah. Or also known as entropy.

He’s got a little tear in his eye because now he’s not alone anymore. He He’s not alone down here. And when when

I got this uh this artwork back from the artist,

I got all tearary because he was crying and it just I got all choked up. So of

course that is my hope for the readers that they will somehow get choked up when they this page

integration Logos and the shadow the demiurge. Yes.

Okay. And then on that day, and here we are in the third economy, the final economy,

what we call heaven. On that day, this fallen imitation

will become true paradise. Everyone who has ever lived will live

forever with their family and friends and the Fullness of the Father, Son, and

the Prince of Peace. There will be no more tears, only joy and love.

And there it is. See, in innosticism, this creation of the Demiurge,

this world that has been con constructed down here. It’s a knockoff. It’s called

the deficiency. It’s called the imitation. And what it is an imitation of is paradise. What it is deficient in

is life, love, and consciousness and the complete remembrance of the Father and

the Fullness and the Son. And so that’s what that

beloved savior brings to us. It’s the correction. It’s the true tone for our

souls. Now, here is a heresy. Well, okay. The first heresy that went by is

that the creator of our cosmos, the creator of the heavens and the earth, is

not God Almighty, but Lucifer, basically. And that, oh my gosh, what a

horrid thing to say. But the second, the next heresy

is that everyone’s going to heaven. Oh, that’s a not everyone’s going to heaven. Those bad people should all go to hell.

Go to hell, you. No. You see why? Because that’s not loving. That is not

the nature of the Father. The Father is all loving. And get this, in this

gnostic Christianity, we are the children of paradise. We are literally

we have we have our parental units here on earth, mom and dad. But we also have

our aonic parents, the ones that gave us our particular talents.

So we get our looks from mom and dad probably. mo for the most part, but we get our talent from the Fullness of God.

And so, um, this is that I I I I really I really

zeroed in on that concept and I can’t even remember how I began that sentence. I don’t know what I was talking about.

Ha. Oh, that everybody’s going to heaven. Oh, the second heresy, the big heresy is

that uh Yes. So Christ is Christ. You don’t have to worry about that Christians who may be watching this. And

Jesus is the incorporation of Christ. Jesus Christ savior. Good. On board with

that. See that’s Valentinian Christian Christianity which I count myself as

well not necessarily Valentinian but agnostic Christian.

And because we come here here was the point. I’m back on the train now. And because we come from the Fullness,

we have to return to the Fullness because why? Otherwise, it wouldn’t be full anymore. They are the Fullness of

God. We are from the Fullness. We all have to return to the Fullness or it

would be less than full. You see, isn’t that cool?

So, uh, God is all loving. And by the way, in the New Testament, it says over

and over again that Christ came to save everyone.

There were no quido pros, which means you did this for me, I’ll do

that for you. I’ll tell you what, if you bend your knee and say, Jesus, you are my Lord, I’ll let you go to heaven. That

is the wrong attitude. That isn’t why Christ came. He came with the correction

for us because we are forgetful and fighting a neverending war with the demi

urge and with this material space that we find ourselves in.

But we’re going back home because that’s home. This isn’t our home. And that’s

another thing it says in the in the Bible that we are sojourers passing through this world, right?

Lord, oh Lord, I have no home but you. If Jesus ain’t my home, then Lord, what

would I do? That is all true. And that is true for Gnostics as well. So

everyone will come back home because we are descendants of the Fullness of God.

So it’s not only the humans, but it’s every living thing. It’s all the grasses, everything you see in this

double page spread here, this picture of paradise. They were all down below and they’re all back up again. This is the

third economy. This is the ethereal plane integrated with the now redeemed

material plane where we have found ourselves stuck. So we are going home to

our aonic parents and we will live in paradise and be happy ever more. And by

the way, if it doesn’t happen before you die, it will certainly happen

as soon as you die. I don’t think you’re written out and thrown into the burning lake of fire forever uh to be tortured

by demons. That isn’t the nature of God. You see, God is love. And God wants us

all to come home. He doesn’t want to throw anyone away. And so, we will turn. But you have to turn. You have to want

to go home. Sometimes it seems down here in this world that people want to be bad

or people want to go to hell and bring others down with them. I’ll kill lop off

heads. See, they think they’re sending them to hell by doing so because they think they are the righteous ones and

the ones who lose their heads must be the sinners or they wouldn’t have died.

That’s all demiurgic. That’s all demonic. That isn’t the way it really works. It’s a lie. It’s the deficiency.

It’s an aronic lie. Tada. The end.

And there you go. I have it on the show notes, but definitely check out Children of the Fullness. It is uh Yeah, it’s I

love the artwork and the message. Yeah, it uh and you see it’s free on Kindle. If

you’ve got a Kindle, it’s zero dollars or or $3.99 if you don’t have a Kindle

unlimited thing and also only $9.99 in paperback. And I am, as I said, trying to release it,

trying I’m I’m make working my way through the very very difficult process of being a self-publisher. The hardback

will be available in libraries and bookstores at some point in time.

Please, please pray for that to occur. and leave reviews. I need reviews

because apparently reviews are really important in the world of Amazon. By the

way, by the way, Miguel, I don’t know if this happens to you with your books, but the AI keeps crawling out. The AI

archons are crawling out of the woodworks after me and my books. It’s so

clear that it’s AI written and they keep wanting to promote me and promote my books and I’m going to take everything

uh you know I’m going to make you famous and I’m going to do this and that and it’s all aronic. I can just see right

through it. Oh, they go look just pay me $20 a a review and I’ll get you as many

reviews. $20 a review. I could hire the AI myself and have a thousand reviews

written for nothing. So why am I paying you? So it’s horrid. It’s horrible, horrible lies in the name

of godliness and it kills me. It just kills me. Oh yeah. I’ve been reached out by those too and AI.

Yes, of course they are. And they’re not going to Amazon will detect them. They’ll figure it out. Yeah. Yeah. So I need real authentic

reviews. Yeah, for sure. Definitely. Yeah. I

wanted to bring in Graham. Graham, do you What do you think of this? Uh and do you have a question for Cyd? get your

take on this. No, no, I thought she did a lovely job. It was it’s it’s a great one for kids. I

was going to say I have some notes down here is one of those is I’m certainly not going to argue against her about

everything being fractal that just Yeah. What is he? Um

I don’t understand it was double negatives. Was it does he agree? Does that like agreeing everything? Oh, I do. That that’s one of the reasons

I use my uh my image with the with the mandler set. Okay. Gotcha.

And I was going to say as far as the fractal go, Hildigard of Bingan, her

whole metaphysics is very fractal. If you haven’t looked into her, she’s she’s

definitely worth checking out. Okay, good to know.

Filigar. And yeah, and uh one of the places when you when

you had the uh that them starting to fight over the the the fall, I I jotted down the instead of spreading the love,

they decide they’re going to fight for ownership over the little pieces of the love.

Yes. Yeah. You know. Yeah. Well, right. Right. We’re selfish with our love, huh?

Like there’s not enough to share. Exactly. And the old uh you know money doesn’t buy happiness, it only rents it.

Yes. Yes. Absolutely. And the uh you know again it’s one of

those it depends on which golden rule you’re going to look at. There’s the one that you were talking about and then

there’s the other one that I learned as well which is the one with the gold makes the rules.

Oh yeah. Well that’s the way of the world. Oh, because by the way, you know, the the the this world, and we didn’t

even get into any of this, but this world is run by the demiurge. He’s the god of this

material universe and and his henchmen, his his minions are the archons. And uh

they’re all about power and dominion. It always has to do with power and control.

And so whenever you see something occur that increases control and power like

the pandemic, that’s demiurgic. That’s demiurgic. That’s not natural.

The old never let a crisis go to waste. That’s right. Exploit.

The last one is a slight one is I used to be alongside of you with you know

universal salvation. Mhm. I’ve slightly modified that to the offer

of salvation if it’s universal. But because of free will, I pretty much have

to allow for the possibility of there are going to be stubborn, it’s just stubborn souls that are bound and

determined to refuse heaven regardless. And okay, it was just reading this morning that in

the Tripartite tract date, where is it? that literally all the secondary order

powers do after death will want to accept the the love of the Father and it

won’t and it said no I wish I could find that quote but it’s because they won’t

have to believe based on words someone else said or experience someone else had

or or you know some book someone else says is holy. They will come face to

face with the reality and it says this in the Tripartite tract date. They’ll come face to face with the reality of

the love and Fullness of God and those open arms. And it’s like who’s going to

say no to that? Of course they have free. We do all have free will. But it I I can’t understand. I personally would

not be able to comprehend someone being face to face would it would be like a

hungry infant dying of hunger and pushing away his

mother’s breast. That’s what I would think. I agree 100%. But that’s one of those

things is I’m getting older and I’ve seen so many people do things that I

just cannot imagine doing. So I’m like I said, yeah, I’ve modified it to I just have to allow

that possibility in my metaphysics. Oh yeah, sure. Okay. And I’m saying, well, don’t worry about it because it’s

going to happen on the other side. So we’re not going to see it. And and those people die angry, but and we don’t see

that repent regardless. It’s not our problem. I’m not making that choice. It’s only a

problem for those people who do make that choice. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’m sorry. Yeah. Now the the last one that I had

there is the idea of I always got a sense of as part of the fall a I can do

better than the creator and not the creator but the source. It’s a certain

amount of pride in that a certain amount it goes along with the separateness. It wasn’t entirely an innocence. There was

a certain amount of hey look what I can do. I can do better than you kind of thing. T

Yeah. Well, in the in the trip well, at least in my children’s version or in the

Tripartite trackctate, he he does in a sense say, but who he’s saying, I can do

better than you. It’s the rest of the Fullness. He’s sitting on the top as a fractal. He thinks his fractal body can

do it all. And who needs the Fullness? And that is a way of saying uh my little

part is greater than the whole of the Fullness of God. But he wasn’t saying I

can do better than the God above all gods because there there is nothing greater than the God above all gods.

There’s no space above God. God is the pinnacle. Gotcha.

That’s no one of the senses that I was getting there. Is it fair to get have the takeaway that the Fullness of God is

similar to the spirit of God? Oh yes. Yes. The Fullness of God aka get

this the Holy Spirit. Okay, that was the sense I was getting there. You hadn’t actually connected

those two dots explicitly and it doesn’t explicitly connect them in the Tripartite tractate, but when I

di, you know, I’m a diagrammer. When I diagram everything out, there it is. Oh, hey Miguel, you can get

back to the there were more pictures in our slideshow that we didn’t ever show

the third or the third. Yeah. Okay. So, that’s the first order of powers. Here’s

the final economy. Uh well, actually this is this is the end of time. This

isn’t the final economy. This is the last part. Uh this is the day the earth stood still

in this order. So you’ve got what is called the elect. And those are the third order of powers. They’re right up

there next to Christ. The Fullness is right here. That’s that uh triangle that

we’re talking about here. We are we’re the second order of powers, also known

as the called. And you can see, you can see a little blue through us because down here at the bottom, that’s the

phantom of the imitation and the outer darkness, Hades. But there’s one more

that doesn’t have those lay that one. This turns out, see that? That

one just before that was a mistake I made a few years ago. This is the new This is the new final economy. Christ is

a lot bigger, a lot brighter, and there’s no more blue at the bottom because in the final rollup where the

material world evaporates, and it will, it’s going to end sooner or later.

This is the final uh hierarchy of the Fullness of God. Here we are, and it’s not because we’re downtrodden upon, but

because this is where our paradise is, that green at the bottom. I see I’m

pointing to my screen, but you can’t see me pointing. That’s dull. Uh anyway, uh

the that we’re we’re we’re we’re down there in that green area. That’s that’s our paradise that we can relate to. Our

aonic parents, that’s those big gold guys just above us. And what is called even in the Bible, they’re called the

elect. That is the army of the Christ. And and that is a misunderstanding in

the Bible. By the way, here’s another nice heresy for you. The ar onward Christian soldiers marching as to war.

We’re not marching with swords and spears in order to defeat the Nazis. We

are marching with love. We are the army of the Christ. And Christ is the

pinnacle of love and consciousness. So what the army of Christ is the third

order of powers. They are the elect. They are the ones who just give glory,

glory, glory, love everyone, and they’re the ones praying for us to pull us up

out of the deficiency. They’re the ones that are going to reunite uh the demi

urge with Logos there in the end. And uh

you see the blue has fallen off the bottom of this diagram because in the final economy

all of the the demiurge is no longer at war with us. So the archons evaporate.

They are the shadows. They are the imitation. They’re a deficiency in the final economy. There’s no more

deficiency. It’s all good. It’s all God. And we’ve all got our everything there.

I me I’m looking forward to my dogs. Every dog that’s ever died. I say hello

to them every morning. My my my pet the pictures of my dogs and

I say, “I’m coming for you, kids.” And that’s who I expect to see me when I cross over.

I do, too. Well, awesome. This has been great. We better better get to the end

of this to this economy to this iteration or fractal. But yeah, great discussion for the audience. Get the

book. I’ve got it on the show notes. I’ve also got Cyd’s uh website. And

yeah, check out her podcast because she breaks these things down even more and it’s a it’s a good listen. But yeah,

appreciate everybody being here. As always, please support Cyd’s work, support amid any way you can. I can’t do

it without you. Good shows coming the rest of the week. And uh yeah, that’s it. Graham, thanks for keeping us

company. Oh, always my pleasure. And thank you, Cyd. It was a wonderful story and I hope

many children enjoy it. I hope so too. Well, I know they will. Thank you so much. God bless everybody.

Always enjoy having you on. And this was a great one, too. And yeah, aren’t you supposed to say onward and

upward? Onward and upward. Say your tag. Yeah, you got to say your tagline. Well, I say onward and upward and God

bless us all. That’s how I’ve been ending. I added the God bless all at the end. That’s That’s good. Yeah. I like to do

sometimes Bowie and may God’s love be with you because we’re all floating in space. All right, for everybody else,

really appreciate you being here and yeah, as I say, thanks for being here. Thanks for being yourself, your true

self here in the desert of the real. Write your own gospel and live your own myth.

This week I re-watched an episode of The Why Files. Are you familiar with The Why Files? It’s a very fun show I watch on YouTube regularly. The episode I watched again was called Synchronicities, the Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences, and this was first broadcast in June of 2025. I enjoyed it a lot. I’d seen it before, but I wanted to watch it again.

You know, we talk about synchronicities in the Gnostic community. It’s a word that was created by Carl Jung, and as we know, Carl Jung was Gnostic, and he, in particular, appreciated the Tripartite Tractate, which is the book out of the Nag Hammadi Codices that we use, the Tripartite Tractate. That’s our major focus here on Gnostic Insights.

Well, anyway, the name of the host for YouTube is AJ. The episode on synchronicities that AJ talked about was a really astounding episode, and if you haven’t seen it or if you’ve never seen the Why Files, I recommend it.

[Another thing I learned this week was that it’s possible to get the transcripts of episodes from YouTube videos. I didn’t know how to achieve that before, but I think now it’s part of the new AI “enhancement” of our world. I put enhancement in quotes because the verdict is out as far as I’m concerned, whether AI is an improvement or not. But anyway, I was able to ask the new YouTube AI for the transcript, and then it magically appeared, and so I have the transcript from that episode that I’m working off of.]

The thing I liked most about this episode were the synchronicities that AJ cited. There’s some pretty incredible stories, and I’m going to share a few of those with you today. Then Bill and I talked about it.

It was his favorite episode that I’d ever recommended to him, and so then we had one of our long talks yesterday about this episode, and I wish I had recorded it, but I didn’t, so instead I came away with three pages of notes as we were talking on the phone. I’m going to try to coordinate here my notes with the transcript and do it all in a way that makes sense. So here’s the story that AJ tells during this episode of The Why Files, and since I have the transcript, I think I’ll just quote him because he tells it well. Listen to this.

“In June of 2001, Laura Buxton released a balloon at her grandparents’ anniversary party. She was 10 years old, living in Stafford, England. She wrote her name and address on a tag, tied it to the balloon, and let it go. The balloon traveled 140 miles south. It landed in a hedge in Wiltshire, where another 10-year-old girl found it, and her name was also Laura Buxton.

The second Laura wrote the first, and they arranged to meet. Both girls showed up wearing pink sweaters and jeans. Both brought their pet guinea pigs. Both guinea pigs were orange and white, and of course the guinea pigs had the same name, and the coincidences kept piling up. Both Lauras were the same height. Both had brown hair and blue eyes. Both had three-year-old black labs at home, and both also had gray rabbits. When they opened their bags, both had packed the same stuffed animal, identical. And the odds of all this happening are so crazy that it’s mathematically impossible, but it happened.

There’s plenty of photos and video. The news covered the story. This is not an urban legend.”

So that raises the question, how does such an impossible thing happen? Well, Bill and I talked about that, and we have a good theory that fits in with our jello universe concept.

Let’s go on to another amazing synchronicity. Quoting AJ again,

“Anthony Hopkins needed a book. The book was The Girl from Petrovka. He was playing the lead in the film and searched every bookstore in London with no luck. It was out of print. Hopkins had finally given up when he was sitting on a bench, waiting for a train. Someone left a book on the bench. He picked it up. It was The Girl from Petrovka. But this wasn’t just any copy. This one had handwritten notes in the margins, personal observations, character analysis. Hopkins studied the book for his role.

Two years later, while shooting the film, Hopkins met the author, George Feifer. While they talked about the book, Feifer mentioned that he’d lent his personal copy to a friend, that the friend had lost it on the London Underground. All of his notes, his analysis, gone. He was disappointed. Hopkins heard this and said, wait here. He ran to fetch the book from his trailer. He showed Feifer. It was the same book. Feifer’s handwriting, his notes, everything.

Somehow the universe sent that book to the actor playing the lead, and then the universe sent the book back to its owner.”

I’m going to share one more astounding synchronicity with you, and then we’ll get to the discussion of it. Quoting again,

“Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s son, attracted death, presidential death. April 14th, 1865, Robert was at the White House when his father left for Ford’s Theater. We know how that ended. 16 years later, July 2nd, 1881, Robert was Secretary of War. Walking into the Baltimore train station, President Garfield was shot right there in front of Robert. He saw it happen. September 6th, 1901, now Robert was president of Pullman Company. He arrived at the Pan American Exposition. Minutes later, President McKinley was shot. Again, Robert was there.

Three presidents, three assassinations, one man present at all of them. But here’s the synchronicity that haunted Robert. Years before his father died, Robert fell onto train tracks in Jersey City. The train was coming. He was about to be crushed. A stranger grabbed his collar and yanked him to safety. That stranger was one of the most famous actors in the country, Edwin Booth, the brother of John Wilkes Booth. Two brothers, both famous actors, both connected to Abraham Lincoln. One brother would save the president’s son, the other brother would assassinate him.”

Now, what are we to make of this? The Why Files episode explains theories concerning it. AJ notices that these patterns are too perfect—this simply can’t be random. He says this is reality organizing itself. To be able to influence reality would be the ultimate power. And then AJ talks about classic ways of using this. He calls it a technology to organize and influence reality. He talks about Buddhist monks. He talks about ancient civilizations and their religious rituals and practices that did this very thing.

He talked about a current man named Joe Dispenza, who was paralyzed from the waist down and the doctors told him he would never walk. [AJ mistakenly says it was a patient of Dispenza’s, but no, it was Dispenza himself, according to a comment under the YouTube episode.] And Joe Dispenza essentially invented a meditation practice called quantum field meditation. He visualized his nerve endings connecting and rebuilding. He focused on his legs working perfectly. And a few months later, Dispenza walked into the doctor’s office. No wheelchair, no walker, no crutches. The doctors couldn’t explain it. But Dispenza explained it by saying that in quantum physics, when you observe something at the quantum level, you affect it.

That’s the funny thing about quantum mechanics. Observation collapses potential and makes the reality. We talked about this a few episodes ago in my podcast episode from August 30th, 2025 called Matter is an Illusion.

So back to this episode, quantum field meditation visualizes the potential and collapses it into reality. And this is what causes the healing. He was collapsing the nerve endings and the damage in his body through visualizing the potential of them working again, of them being healed, of them sinking back up, the ones that had been torn apart.

And at the end of this episode, I will describe for you what Billy was telling me about his meditation practice and that he’s essentially been doing this same thing, but he came up with it himself. And he uses it also with his hypnotherapy clients—quantum field meditation—but of course Bill doesn’t call it that. What he calls it home basing. And I’ll share that with you at the end of this episode.

Now, quoting again from the Why Files episode,

“Every nanosecond infinite decisions are being made that cause the infinite possibilities to collapse into this one reality. But you can learn to influence the outcome of all those decisions. You can alter your small corner of reality. Setting clear intentions is the first step.”

Yet another very interesting aspect of the Why Files episode on synchronicities was a discussion of Donald Hoffman. And again, this is a contemporary figure that you can look up. Donald Hoffman has come up with a theory called multimodal user interface theory, MUI. I’ll call it MUI for short. The MUI theory says that “perceptual experiences do not match or approximate properties of the objective world, but instead provide a simplified, species-specific, user interface to that world.” That’s a quote from Hoffman.

Now, he’s got it all balled up with evolution and gives an explanation of how evolution caused this to happen. But I disagree with that because we don’t need evolutionary theory in gnostic belief because we come down from above fully formed. All of the second order powers have been imagined in the mind of God, if you will, in the ethereal space. And so we are already there. And when we enter this world at conception, we come in fully formed. I have discussed that topic in previous episodes concerning evolution, debunking Darwin. But I like what Hoffman had to say about the MUI theory because this goes very well with our gnostic system, although Hoffman doesn’t know that. What we perceive as the world around us is not like a direct mapping of the world out there, mapping through our synaptic interface, so we can then we see and understand the world.

That isn’t the way reality works. There is no material reality. There is only soul. There is only the ether. And it is now, I think, the imagination of the Demiurge that has assembled this fallen world universe that we live in. You see, we know that the ethereal space houses what I’m calling Paradise. It’s a version of what we see around here. It’s like this fallen world, but it’s perfect. There is no death or destruction. There is no illness. There are no vices. There is no lying, cheating, drugs, sadness. None of that is happening.

In the ethereal plane, it’s all good. We all have an intuitive sense of that. All humans do around the world. It doesn’t matter what your culture is. We all have a very similar picture of Paradise. That is a place. Logos wanted to recreate that space. He thought he could build it on its own out of his fractal parts, out of his pleroma, but he couldn’t. And so he “fell.” And it is the fall, it is the ego of Logos overreaching his abilities or his job that fell. He split off. The best part returned to the ether. That’s his true Self that mirrors all of the Aeons, his fractal pleroma. But his broken Self, that ego of Logos, stayed down below. It was estranged from his better half.

The Demiurge still had the drive for power and the drive to build that Logos had. But now it was inverted. Our fallen world is the imagination of the Demiurge. And he hasn’t quite got it right, because this was not an authorized excursion on the Demiurge’s part. It’s an egoic version of Paradise. And so that’s why bad things happen. That’s why it’s a fallen world. It’s inverted. What were virtues are now vices. What was light is darkness. What was love is egotism and selfishness and pure drive for power. Hatred has replaced love down here and on and on and on. This is the inversion of Paradise. That’s what it means by being the fallen world.

And the only way to bring it back up, the only way to right the course of this fallen world, is to demonstrate the love, life, and consciousness of the ethereal plane to all of us down here, to remind us that we don’t really belong down here. We are sojourners passing through. We come from the Father and we will return to the Father. And all of us bringing love, consciousness, and life, whenever we accept that and remember that and begin to manifest that love, that higher consciousness, that’s when the synchronicities begin to occur. That’s when the love pours out of us instead of the hatred. That’s when desire to make things right and heavenly replaces the desire for power and hate and control. That is how the Demiurge is brought to remembrance.

But of course, I don’t want to leave out the Christ talk, and I know a lot of people cringe when I say Christ, but Christ is the correcting algorithm. Christ brings our full package in. We are living in these second order bodies that are melded to the Demiurge’s consciousness. So we’re seeing everything through this distorted haze. When we accept the assistance of the third order powers brought to us through Christ, then we are able to manifest these higher order activities like synchronicities and like healing and what appear to be miracles. Consciousness is the primary state. Consciousness is the base matrix of us being conscious. We call that consciousness the Father, the Source.

Now, do you remember my Jello Universe Theory? If not, I urge you to go back and find that episode. That episode was called Consciousness and Time: Our Cherry Jello Universe and Free Will, and that was first broadcast on March 22nd of 2025.

On June 28th of 2025, I had a conversation with my brother called Birds Don’t Buy Bentleys–A conversation with my brother about evolution. So that’s one of the evolution episodes. And then Free Will, do you have it? That is from September 23rd of 2023.

The notion in the Cherry Jello Universe that was also put forward in this episode of the Why Files, but of course they don’t call it the Cherry Jello Universe, they call it the Quantum Consciousness Universe. There is one illustration that passes by during the episode that looks just like my Cherry Jello Universe, by the way.

The idea is this, the universe is filled with choices. It’s not filled with particles. It’s not filled with stuff. It’s filled with choice points, consciousness choices, and they’re all there. Our God is an infinite God. It takes infinity to be able to hold all possible choices that could ever possibly happen. And the only way the potential of those choices collapses is when you observe it, is when you pass through it in time, and then the potential collapses and becomes history. That’s one way to collapse a choice point.

But you can also do it with this quantum field meditation technique. You imagine the place you want to arrive at in the Cherry Jello Universe. You’re here, you want to be there, whatever it is, whether it’s healing, finding a relationship, buying a house. Me, I’m looking for A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel to go big. So that’s what I am focusing my attention on—spreading this Gnostic message and having it connect. Finding the tipping point where this begins to influence millions of people. That’s one of my cherries I’m heading for. Another one I’m heading for is to have a RV, not a big giant RV, but just one of those van-sized ones and do a book tour. So I’m looking for that van to come so I can go out on the road with the Gnostic Gospel. These are the things that I’m aiming at. Well, of course, I would also like to find a companion who can share all of this with me, other than my cats and dog.

But I figure, see, God knows all this stuff, and it’s all out there as potential. It’s the many worlds theory, but it’s not many worlds. It’s all of infinity. All of those choices, all of those potentialities are sitting there. And it is our intention to head for them that causes us to swim in the correct direction towards that cherry, towards that potential, to find that potential and collapse it, and then we grasp it.

I think I explained this perhaps more clearly, more slowly in those episodes of mine that I’ve already mentioned to you during this episode. So I urge you to go listen to those or read them. And I’m also going to put the links to them in this episode so you can find them easily.

Now, this raises the question of determinism. Well, if all of those potentials are there, then we have no choice. But we do, you see. It’s because we choose which cherries to go towards. Getting an RV, not getting an RV–those are all out there. I decide where to go. I have free will. We all have free will because we are all fractals of the Aeons. We are connected to them. We are their children. We were sent down by them. We’re still connected to them. Call it your guardian angel if you want to. At the Aeonic realm, they only want what’s best for us. It’s down here that what is worst for us comes out.

So we have to turn our eyes upward, upward to the Fullness, upward to the Aeons, upward to the Son. We need to invite the third order powers to help us, to bring us the correcting algorithm for our distorted code that we have picked up down here from the Demiurge. We are free to move through the jello any way we want to.

And when we focus on giving glory to God, when we are in the zone of remembering the ethereal space, that’s when synchronicities happen. I know that’s how it happens with me. In this episode of Why Files, he talks about people who look at the clock and see 11:11. Well, that’s me. So I know that I’m in the zone when I find those clock faces that give me those numbers. And it reminds me of the Fullness, but I’m already in the zone or I wouldn’t have looked at the clock. You see, you can’t force these practices. You have to allow them to happen because when we force, it’s usually our ego that’s doing the forcing, and that won’t take us home.

Okay, I promised you my brother Bill’s meditation technique, and this is very similar to that quantum field meditation.

First, you find yourself a quiet space. You relax.

Now, pick a home base of where your mind will go to when it wanders during meditation. You’ll bring it back to that home base casually in a relaxed manner. So if you’re concentrating on breathing, that’s what you’re doing. You’re concentrating on breathing. Then when you find that your mind has wandered away, casually bring it back to the breathing again. That’s how you stay centered in the meditation. If you were instead listening to the wind rustling in the trees during your meditation, and you find you have wandered away from that, you bring your mind back casually, quietly, calmly to the wind whistling in the trees. Or maybe you are staring at a beautiful leaf. When your mind wanders away, return to the leaf. Billy calls that the home base method, where you notice and you casually bring your mind back.

Now, where Bill’s meditation technique diverts from the quantum field meditation that AJ describes is that you set your intention before you go into the meditation and then you stop thinking about it. You want your higher Self to take care of the intention for you, so you release your egoic drive and give the meditation over to your subconscious.

It’s similar to dreaming and lucid dreaming. I’m a dream interpreter. I don’t encourage people to practice lucid dreaming, where you take control of your dreams, and you want to be conscious during your dream, because I think that that derails your dream process. During your dream process, it’s your inner Self that’s coming up and trying to teach you things. When you allow your ego to sit on the throne of your dreams, through lucid dreaming, you have derailed that process.

It’s the same thing with meditation. Be still, and visualize yourself as part of this vast energy field. You allow that imagination to bring that intention to you. Imagination is real, because we are nothing but consciousness. The imagination of a future event is one of those cherries sitting there, waiting for you to pick it.

After you have allowed this image in your mind of the thing you are aiming for, you experience arriving and having this, and feeling the gratitude for having this, and expressing thanks to God and to the Aeons for helping you arrive at this place. This is the way that you visualize and imagine, and thereby create, reality.

Once we are aware of the ethereal plane, and we see the synchronicities, and we realize the gnosis, we have the free will to arrive at these things, if it’s in God’s will that we do so. Wishing for things that are bad for you isn’t a good idea. Swimming to cherries that are going to make you sick is not a good idea. The Aeons would know that. Your higher Self would know that, and so it won’t do that. So that’s why it always has to do with the higher good, God’s will for you. But that is your best Self. It is what will give you indescribable joy.

There’s a lot more in this Why Files episode. It’s a huge topic, and just too much to cover today. The implications of this episode were profound, and they’re definitely gnostic.

What do you think of this? Let’s hear your comments. Let’s start a discussion. Share your synchronicities with us in the comments below.

Go watch that Why Files. Think about it. 

Love you all, onward and upward, and God bless us all.

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Boy, am I busy lately. I’m preparing a 10-week course to teach “A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel” at Southern Oregon University, which begins in a couple of weeks, so I’m busy with that. I’ve also been doing a lot of publishing. I’m waiting to receive the hardback copy of Children of the Fullness, a Gnostic Myth. Once I see that and that it looks good, I can release that book as a hardcopy and hopefully get it into libraries. That’s my ultimate goal with Children of the Fullness. It’s available now, of course, on Amazon for only $9.99 or free on Kindle for $3 if you don’t have a Kindle subscription. So, it’s affordable and it’s really neat. It’s got beautiful illustrations. People like it. It’s very short. Everyone can understand this version of the Gnostic Gospel.

I have an upcoming appearance on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, the YouTube version, and that will be on September 15th of 2025. Miguel asked me to be prepared to discuss the Children of the Fullness book and also the concept of pleromas. So, we’re going to review pleromas in today’s episode. This is from an original broadcast that was in November of 2022, but it always bears repeating.

“Pleroma” is a common word in gnostic scriptures, and it has a particular meaning that only relates to the Gnostic Gospels. In fact, we gnostics are expecting to wind up at the end of days in a Pleroma that others usually call “Heaven.” Today, I’d like to take a closer look at Pleromas in order to discover where we all came from and where we will wind up at the end of days.

Pleroma is a Greek word for “all that which is contained within a body or organization.” The Pleroma of the Fullness of God is the Pleroma we most often refer to here at Gnostic Insights. The Pleroma of the Fullness of God is the sum total of all the individual characteristics and powers of the originating consciousness of the Father as manifested in the monad known as the Son. Here is how the Pleroma of the Fullness is described in the Tripartite Tractate:

“Each one of the aeons is a name, , each of the properties and powers of the Father, since he exists in many names, which are intermingled and harmonious with one another.  It is possible to speak of him because of the wealth of speech, just as the Father is a single name, because he is a unity, yet is innumerable in his properties and names…”

This first differentiation of the properties contained in the Son is known as the ALL or the Totalities. The Pleroma of the ALL is pictured as a central star with rays going out in all directions, yet unified without personal identity within the single body and will of the Son. When the Totalities of the ALL become self-aware, they name themselves and sort themselves into the Pleroma of the hierarchy of the Fullness of God.

“… the aeon of the Truth, since it is a unity and multiplicity, receives honor in the small and the great names according to the power of each to grasp it – by way of analogy – like a spring which is what it is, yet flows into streams and lakes and canals and branches, or like a root spread out beneath trees and branches with its fruit, or like a human body, which is partitioned in an indivisible way into members of members, primary members and secondary, great and small.”

This passage tells us that the aeon of the Truth—which is another word for the Fullness, or Pleroma, of God goes forth by way of fractal branching. You may review the concept of fractals by looking back to the Gnostic Insights episode called, “A Fractal Model of Human Nature,” posted May 18, 2021. which you can find at gnostic insights dot com under the tab, “Complete Episodes Library.” I’m also linking it in the transcript of this episode.

The Pleroma of Logos is the sum total of all of the fractals of the Aeons of the Fullness that exist as fractal iterations within the body of the Aeon known as Logos.

“This aeon was among those to whom was given wisdom, so that he could become pre-existent in each one’s thought. By that which he wills, will they be produced. Therefore, he received a wise nature in order to examine the hidden basis, since he is a wise fruit; for, the free will which was begotten with the Totalities was a cause for this one, such as to make him do what he desired, with no one to restrain him.”

My illustration for the Pleroma of Logos is to show Logos as a miniature copy of the Pleroma of the Fullness of God, sitting at the top of the Fullness.

“This aeon was last to have brought forth by mutual assistance, and he was small in magnitude. And before he begot anything else for the glory of the will and in agreement with the Totalities, he acted, magnanimously, from an abundant love, and set out toward that which surrounds the perfect glory…”

So, this wise fruit called Logos left the Fullness and Fell out of harmony with the other Aeons, creating this apparently material world.

“The Logos himself caused it to happen, being complete and unitary, for the glory of the Father, whom he desired, and (he did so) being content with it, but those whom he wished to take hold of firmly he begot in shadows and copies and likenesses. For, he was not able to bear the sight of the light, but he looked into the depth and he doubted. Out of this there was a division – he became deeply troubled – and a turning away because of his self-doubt and division, forgetfulness and ignorance of himself and which is.”

The Pleroma of the Demiurge consists of the inversions of the Pleroma of Logos, broken out of the hierarchical pattern and scattered willy-nilly throughout the cosmos. The Pleroma of the Demiurge is not an orderly pyramidal stack, but rather a chaotic jumble of dark shadows.

“Like the Pleromas are the things which came into being from the arrogant thought, which are their (the Pleromas’) likenesses, copies, shadows, and phantasms, lacking reason and the light, these which belong to the vain thought, since they are not products of anything. Therefore, their end will be like their beginning: from that which did not exist (they are) to return once again to that which will not be…”

“They thought of themselves that they are beings existing by themselves and are without a source, since they do not see anything else existing before them. Therefore, they lived in disobedience and acts of rebellion, without having humbled themselves before the one because of whom they came into being. They wanted to command one another, overcoming one another in their vain ambition, while the glory which they possess contains a cause of the system which was to be.”

So, even though they fell out of the fallen Logos, they still possessed a reflection of the original glory of the Aeons of which they were imitations. And, it is that glory which is the Economy that was to be, that being our apparently material universe.

“They are likenesses of the things which are exalted. They were brought to a lust for power in each one of them, according to the greatness of the name of which each is a shadow, each one imagining that it is superior to his fellows.”

Logos was horrified by what he had produced because they would not recognize his authority. Logos abandoned the deficiency below and quickly returned to the Pleroma of the Fullness.

“The one whom he himself brought forth as a unitary Aeon rushed up to that which is his, and this kin of his in the Pleroma abandoned him who came to be in the defect along with those who had come forth from him in an imaginary way, since they are not his.”

“Him who came to be in the defect” is the name we call the Demiurge and it is the authority that rules the defect. Those who came forth from him in an imaginary way are the archons of the deficiency as well as the inert material world, or what I refer to as the “hard and rocky places.”

The reason we focus so much on the Aeons of the Fullness and Logos in particular here at Gnostic Insights is because the Pleroma of any living creature is the sum total of the Pleroma of the Demiurge—our material or hylic part that makes up our physical bodies—and the Pleroma of Logos after his return to the Fullness, when he prayed alongside the Aeons to bring life to the deficiency he had caused.

“The Logos turned to another opinion and another thought. Having turned away from evil, he turned toward the good things. Following the conversion came the thought of the things which exist and the prayer for the one who converted himself to the good. The one who is in the Pleroma was what he first prayed to and remembered [that is the One Self, his fractal of the Son]; then (he remembered) his brothers individually and (yet) always with one another [which is to say, each individual Aeon in its place and position in the Pleroma of the Fullness]; then all of them together [the Totality of the Fullness as a single Pleroma]; but before all of them, the Father [the originating source from which all consciousness flows]. The prayer of the agreement [among these nested fractal consciousnesses] was a help for him in his own return and (in that of) the Totality, for a cause of his remembering those who have existed from the first was his being remembered. This is the thought which calls out from afar, bringing him back.”

Since we Second Order Powers are fractal iterations of this Logos, newly restored to the Fullness, the path of remembrance is exactly the same for us as it was for Logos. We fractally replicate the Powers from which we were created.

This Pleroma of ours is called the Second Order of Powers, and we proceed out of the Pleroma of Logos. We Second Order Powers were created through the Totalities of the original Fullness giving glory to the Father alongside Logos. Together, they prayed with an intention to send life into the fallen world below. We came forth as fruit from the Pleroma of Logos, and the Pleroma of Logos was itself a fractal of the Fullness. We are called Second Order Powers to distinguish us from the First Order Powers—the Aeons of the Fullness—out of which we are fractal iterations, twice removed.

“All the spiritual places are in spiritual power [referring to the Pleromas Above]. They are separate from the beings of the thought [we Second Order Powers], since the power is established in an image, which is that which separates the Pleroma from the Logos [in other words, power flows from the original images contained within the Fullness of God], while the power which is active in prophesying about the things which will be [referring to a particular Aeon who embodies the concept of one who prophesies], directs the beings of the thought which have come into being [us] toward that which is pre-existent, and it does not permit them to mix with the things which have come into being through a vision of the things which are with him.”

Meaning the spirit of prophesy impels us upward but does not impart to us its power.

“The beings of the thought which is outside are humble; they preserve the representation of the pleromatic, especially because of the sharing in the names by which they are beautiful.”

Which is a very lovely way of saying that we Second Order Powers share the names and faces of the Aeons of the Fullness and, because of that, we are beautiful.

Our Second Order nature is good, and “greater than those of the likeness. For those belonging to the likeness also belong to a nature of falsehood.” Those belonging to the likeness are imitations of the Aeons, but lack their depth, powers, and nature. They are not fractals of the Aeon of Truth. And, while we come from the good thought, we tend to forget our true nature due to the “law of mutual combat” arising from this never-ending war against the imitations of the deficiency. Thus, we have forgotten our Selfs and need to remember. The vehicle for our remembrance is Christ and the Third Order Powers within the Pleroma of Christ.

“The order which was his [in other words, the Pleroma of Christ] came into being from him who ran on high and that which brought itself forth from him and from the entire perfection. The one who ran on high [Logos who returned to the realm Above] became for the one who was defective [the Demiurge] an intercessor with the emanation of the aeons which had come into being in accord with the things which exist [again, that would be us Second Order Powers because we are emanations of that which exists Above].”

And, because of the fractal nature of creation, the mechanism of redemption of the Demiurge is the same mechanism for our redemption, as well.

“When he prayed to them, they consented joyously and willingly, since they were in agreement, and with harmonious consent, to aid the defective one. They gathered together, asking the Father with beneficent intent that there be aid from above, from the Father, for his glory, since the defective one could not become perfect in any other way, unless it was the will of the Pleroma of the Father, which he had drawn to himself, revealed, and given to the defective one. Then from the harmony, in a joyous willingness which had come into being, they brought forth the fruit, which was a begetting from the harmony, a unity, a possession of the Totalities, revealing the countenance of the Father, of whom the aeons thought as they gave glory and prayed for help for their brother with a wish in which the Father counted himself with them. Thus, it was willingly and gladly that they bring forth the fruit.”

“Not only did the aeons generate the countenance of the Father to whom they gave praise, which was written previously, but also they generated their own; for the aeons who give glory generated their countenance and their face. They were produced as an army for him, as for a king, since the beings of the thought have a powerful fellowship and an intermingled harmony. They came forth in a multifaceted form, in order that the one to whom help was to be given might see those to whom he had prayed for help. He also sees the one who gave it to him.”

So, you see by this passage, the Christ possesses fractals of all of the other Pleromas and Powers, from the Totalities as the undifferentiated ALL; from the Aeons of the Fullness as individual countenances; from the Father Above ALL Gods as His countenance—which is to say, the monad known as the Son; and from the Pleroma of Logos and all of his fractal faces as well as the Demiurge—his ego who fell. The Pleroma of the Christ is the Pleroma of Logos, plus the Pleroma of the Fullness, plus the monad of the Son, all together offering glory to the Father and praying for full salvation and restoration of the ego of Logos—the Demiurge—and we Second Order Powers. This Pleroma of the Christ is called the Third Order of Powers.

“And he made manifest the agreement of the revelation of his union with them, which is his beloved Son… the one who is properly called “Savior” and “the Redeemer” and “the Well-Pleasing one” and “the Beloved,” “the one to whom prayers have been offered” and “the Christ” and “the Light of those appointed,” in accordance with the ones from whom he was brought forth, since he has become the names of the positions which were given to him. Yet, what other name may be applied to him except “the Son,” as we previously said, since he is the knowledge of the Father, whom he wanted them to know?”

The Third Order Powers constitute the pleroma of the Christ

In my illustrations, I picture the Christ as a singular light source that embodies the attributes of the Father and Son. The Pleroma of the Christ is known as the Third Order of Powers. These are not arrayed in a hierarchical stack like the Aeons of the Fullness, but rather as a central star that emanates rays after the pattern of the original ALL or Totalities of the Son, for they have no personal identities and only live to serve the  mission of the Christ.

The Tripartite Tractate says, in verses 123 and 124,

“The final restoration, however, will take place after the ALL has manifested in him who is the Son, for the redemption began to be given among the humans who were in the flesh with his first-born and his love, the Son coming in the flesh, and the angels who were in Heaven having been found worthy of forming a community, a community in him on earth.”

The most accurate interpretation of these verses is that the angels were literally incarnated inside the body of Jesus, forming a community in him, living and dying with him. In the same way, all of our cells work as an integrated community inside each of us, devoted to taking care of the needs of our bodies.

The Pleroma of the Christ on Earth brings with it fractals of everybody in the Pleromas of the Totalities, the Fullness, and Logos. Christ is the manifestation of the Fullnesses of the God Above All Gods—the Holy Spirit—born into the material body of the Demiurge.

“As for the true baptism into which the members of the ALL descend and where they come into being, there is no other baptism except the one, and that is the redemption which takes place in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. After confession of faith has been made in those names and after one has believed that the things one has been told are real,”

The end goal of redemption is return to the Father’s abode, that Paradise initially dreamed by the Fullnesses, where there is no death, no disease, no disappointment, and no deficiencies.

When scriptures say that we will return to the paradise where Christ is king, that refers to our eternal place within the Pleroma of the all-encompassing Christ. Even those who currently align themselves with the Demiurge’s lust for power and domination will receive the recompense of good things.

Here’s what the Tripartite Tractate says about the end days for those who currently deny the Father and the Christ:

“as for those of the imitation who embrace the darkness and deny the light, even they will obtain direct vision, so they will no longer have to believe only on account of a small word produced by a voice, that this is how things are, for the restoration back to that which was is a single restoration, even if some are exalted because of this Economy having been set up as causes for the things that happened, unfolding numerous physical forces and taking pleasure in them. They, angels as well as humans, will obtain the kingdom, the confirmation, and the salvation. These, too, will be provided with dwelling places where they will dwell eternally after they have renounced the downward attraction of deficiency, and the power of the Fullness has pulled them upward on account of the great generosity and the sweetness of the pre-existent.”

The only forms banished to the outer darkness are those attributes of the deficiency that did not exist from the beginning—the shadows and phantoms of the imitation that bring nothing but death and destruction. These are shadows of the Aeons, so when the light comes, the light dispels the shadows and they vanish.

And there you have the completed cycle of Gnostic cosmology. The place Above that we Second Order Powers dimly remember as Paradise and to which we will return, will be within the Pleroma of the Christ. That eternal place is called the Third Economy. The First Economy was the Pleroma of Fullness of God. The Second Economy as a mixed creation of the Pleromas of Logos and his fallen ego—the Demiurge. The Third Economy will be an ongoing Paradise where there is no death or destruction. Where peace reigns supreme and there is only cooperation, fellowship, and true love. In Paradise there is nothing but life, and so the grass is always green, the flowers blossom endlessly, and every soul that has ever lived lives happily with their family, pets, and friends.

Illustration of the 3rd Economy from Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Myth

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My brother, Bill, and I had a good long talk the other day concerning what humans refer to as “death,” and its connection to the apparent material nature of the universe. Here’s the upshot of that conversation.

If you visit my gnostic websites or have bought your copy of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, you’ve seen my diagrams many times by now. Perhaps you remember that my own gnosis was unlocked through several years of contemplation on the simple phrase: “mud up, spirit down.” That little ditty eventually turned into these two diagrams:

These two diagrams blossomed out into my theory of everything that I call A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, which you can read on the simple explanation blog or in the book, A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything. It has proven to be a robust theory of everything that continues to hold up.

Later, my own search for gnosis led me into the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi codices. I find the logical cosmology of the Tripartite Tractate to be the one that resonates with me, unlike the Sethian codices which have their gnosis packaged within an old-school type of mythology not unlike the complex, personified mythologies of other cultures and religions. Yet, if we stand back and take the long view of both Valentinian and Sethian gnostic belief, they have many overlapping features. This leads me to surmise that it is the Big Picture flow of consciousness unfolding, outflowing, and then re-enfolding that is the gnostic takeaway, not the particulars of the mythologies.

Whether we call it The Father in Christian gnosticism or The Source or Virgin Spirit in Sethian gnosticism, the matrix of all existence is ethereal consciousness itself—the originating consciousness that we and all sentient beings are heirs to. And whether you call the consciousness that flowed out of the originating Source the Son or the Sethian’s androgynous Barbelo—it is still the first and only monad produced by the originating consciousness.

But since he is as he is, he is a spring, which is not diminished by the water which abundantly flows from it. (Tripartite Tractate, verse 60)

Then that singular representation of consciousness fanned out into all possible variables of that consciousness—all that was, all that would ever be: the ALL and Fullness of God in the Tripartite Tractate and the Child in Sethian codices such as the Secret Book of John, culminating in an eventual separation called the Fall.

Just as the Father exists in the proper sense, the one before whom there was no one else and the one apart from whom there is no other unbegotten one, so too the Son exists in the proper sense, the one before whom there was no other, and after whom no other son exists… Furthermore, he has his fruit, that which is unknowable because of its surpassing greatness. Yet he wanted it to be known, because of the riches of his sweetness… (TTT, verse 57)

Then that singular representation of consciousness fanned out into all possible variables of that consciousness—all that was, all that would ever be: the ALL and Fullness of God in the Tripartite Tractate and the Child in Sethian codices such as the Secret Book of John, culminating in an eventual separation called the Fall.

For just as the Father is a unity and has revealed himself as Father for him alone, so too the Son was found to be a brother to himself alone, in virtue of the fact that he is unbegotten and without beginning… Being innumerable and illimitable, his offspring are indivisible. Those which exist have come forth from the Son and the Father like kisses, because of the multitude of some who kiss one another with a good, insatiable thought, the kiss being a unity, although it involves many kisses… This is the nature of the holy imperishable spirits, upon which the Son rests, since it is his essence, just as the Father rests upon the Son. (TTT, verse 58)

Both strains of gnostic thought describe an event where an Aeon’s free will deviated from the plan of the Fullness, resulting in the production of our material realm. This Aeon is called either Logos or Sophia, depending on which codex you are reading. Both names are imbued with tremendous knowledge and wisdom. Despite good intentions, the fruit of the fallen Aeon turned out to be lacking in the glorious attributes of the Source and the Fullness, producing a chaotic and unruly pleroma lacking true consciousness and life due to the separation from the will of the Fullness.

Instead of perfection, he saw a defect; instead of unification, he saw division, instead of stability, he saw disturbances; instead of rests, tumults. Neither was it possible for him to make them cease from loving disturbance, nor was it possible for him to destroy it. He was completely powerless, once his totality and his exaltation abandoned him. (TTT, verse 80)

We call the result of the Fall the deficiency, commonly referred to as the material cosmos. Here’s the Sethian take on the structure of our cosmos:

Yaldabaoth organized everything after the pattern of the first aeons that had come into being, so that he might create everything in an incorruptible form. (The Secret Book of John, verse 12)

The Tripartite Tractate adds this caution to the construction of the cosmos:

Those who came into being from the presumptuous thought resemble in fact the Fullnesses of whom they are imitations, though they are phantoms, shadows, and illusions, deprived of reason and light, belonging to this empty thought, being nobody’s offspring. (TTT, verse 78)

We Second Order Powers were subsequently fruited into this material realm by the will of the Fullness in order to restore the fallen Aeon to the Fullness and bring this material creation to an end.

Gnostics say that this material world was constructed by the Demiurge as a fallen imitation of the Paradise that exists on the ethereal plane. We think of this cosmos as being material in contrast to the ethereal nature of the originating consciousness of the Father, Son, and Fullness of God. But, as my brother needs to remind me from time to time, there is no such thing as matter. Matter itself is an illusion. In other words, there is no dualism.

What we think of as matter disappears under close inspection. Indeed, the solidity of matter disappears into wave forms at high magnification. Scientists and philosophers used to think of the smallest bits of matter as particles of solid stuff. But with the advent of quantum physics and more sophisticated devices to examine so-called particles, we find that material is actually composed of probabilities, waves, and interactions. This new understanding of the nature of physical reality has made possible previously unimaginable advances in quantum computing and even teleportation and faster-than-light communication.

We can apply our gnostic understanding to these advances in physics. Indeed, quantum physics gives a mechanism for the “mud up, spirit down” gnosis and the manner by which the Demiurge brings order to the universe. The Demiurge manipulates the fallen pleroma to mimic the structures of the ethereal plane but it can’t mimic the consciousness of life. The Demiurge imposes order upon the deficiency by copying the mechanism of the Simple Golden Rule of cooperation but it can’t mimic the free will and consciousness of the Fullnesses’ true cooperative spirit.

Consciousness equals life. This is why matter is inert—it lacks consciousness. The Demiurge is the overarching mind behind all material interactions and appearances. This is why matter is inherently opposed to life. We Second Order Powers were sent into this material cosmos to bring life, light, and love into the cosmos for the redemption and enlightenment of the Demiurge. Our mission is to remind the Demiurge of its origin and its “better half” up in the ethereal plane through our demonstrations of life, consciousness, and love.

We Second Order Powers are the children of the Aeons of the Fullness. We bring all of the attributes of the Fullness into the material plane when we are born into this world. Unfortunately, we forget our true mission due to the “law of mutual combat” that we pick up down here. We spend our time battling the Demiurge and its forces rather than loving each other and cooperating according to the Simple Golden Rule. We find ourselves battling a never-ending war between life and death.

Tragically, the further we drift from our primary mission, the deeper we become entangled with the demiurgic powers below. The ethics of the Fullness becomes diluted and unrecognizable. Virtues are displaced by vices. Egoic aggrandizement replaces our Aeonic Self. Glorifying the Father descends into vain glory and glorification of idols. In our modern times, these idols are likely to be celebrities and sports figures instead of the wood and stone idols of prior generations. We attempt to plug the holes with material possessions that cannot, by their very nature, satisfy our souls.

To realize that this cosmos is not material can help us realize that our battles are as imaginary as the imitations of the deficiency. The atheistic position that we are simply material without souls is the absolute inversion of this realization. There is no such thing as material. Our bodies are not truly physical. The universe and its demiurgic constructions are all imitations. We are only soul.

We are spiritual beings fruited by the Aeons of the Fullness. We are loved and protected by our aeonic parents. When we remember that fact, we can invoke that protection. It is the Aeons who pray to the Father for our well-being. The Aeons do battle on our behalf against the principalities and powers of darkness. Moreover, we each have our own Third Order Powers assigned to us for our ultimate redemption by the Christ. We can choose to live with that remembrance. This is what the New Testament refers to as “putting on the armor of God:”

As for the rest, be empowered by the Lord and by the force of his might. Put on God’s panoply (full armor), so that you are able to withstand the Slanderer’s wiles, Because we are wrestling not against blood and flesh, but against the Archons, against the Powers, against the Cosmic Rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the celestial places. Therefore, take up God’s panoply, so that on the evil day you might be able to resist and, having accomplished all things, take your stand. Take your stand, therefore, girding your loins with truth, and donning the breastplate of justice, And pulling up the straps under your feet in preparation for the good tidings of peace, Above all taking up the shield of the faith, with which you will be able to quench the flaming darts of the wicked one; And put on your helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, which is God’s utterance.(Hart’s translation of Ephesians 6:10-18)

And of course, this all boils down to practicing virtue, not vice, resisting the wiles of the archons and the Demiurge, loving each other and demonstrating love for all, and bringing remembrance to the Demiurge. When we are able to complete our mission with the help of Christ, this so-called material shadow will disappear, and we will all find ourselves above with the Aeons in the Fullness of God.

Onward and upward, and God bless us all.

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This week’s episode takes another look at the Third Order of Powers, also known as the Army of the Christ. We looked at this back in 2022, so it’s high time to look at it again. Let’s start with a brief review of gnostic cosmology for any newcomers to the podcast.

This exploration of gnostic cosmology is uniquely based upon the text of one of the ancient manuscripts recovered from the Egyptian desert in 1945. The concepts that I am sharing with you are universal and applicable to anyone who is seeking the truth about consciousness, God, the nature of life, death, and suffering, and the nature of the simulated reality we appear to be living in. This gnosis is also a “gospel” in that the word gospel means “good news.” The good news is that this gnostic gospel offers the promise of a personal relationship with higher order entities and the God Above All Gods. This is not a challenge to established religions, but rather a clarification of the nature of the Father and our relation to the Father. This gnosis also clarifies so many of the puzzles that established religions, philosophies, and even science have been unable to answer. If a Great Awakening is currently underway, then this gnosis is an integral addition to spreading the Word.

We Second Order Powers were the generation of the new Pleroma of Logos when he returned from the Fall. We living creatures were designed to fit into the Boundary so we could operate according to the Simple Golden Rule to bring life, love, and cooperation into the otherwise dead deficiency. The Second Order Powers also bring a remembrance of the Father into his material realm, a memory entirely lacking in the shadows and phantoms of the imitation. We inhabit the deficiency, yoked to the apparent material of the imitation, and find ourselves trapped in a never-ending war with the deficiency.

The Tripartite Tractate says of us,

“It was not from the sickness which came into being that they were produced… but (from) the one who sought after the pre-existent. Once he had prayed, he both raised himself to the good and sowed in them a pre-disposition to seek and pray to the glorious pre-existent one, and he sowed in them a thought about him and an idea, so that they should think that something greater than themselves exists prior to them, although they did not understand what it was. Begetting harmony and mutual love through that thought, they acted in unity and unanimity, since from unity and from unanimity they have received their very being.”

Logos was content with the beings of thought—those Aeons of the Fullness that form the master formulae upon whom we living Second Order Powers are modelled—”because he had hope and expectation of him who is exalted.” That hope and expectation is another way of saying that Logos had faith in the Father of the Totalities. We humans feel the same way Logos did when we turn to the Father in faith—we feel hope and expectation that something will come of our prayers. On the other hand, Logos was not content with the shadows that came out of him after the Fall. Logos rejected the phantoms of the deficiency that had arisen from the presumptuous thought of his Ego.

Sadly, we Second Order Powers are subject to the “law of mutual combat” and, because of the never-ending battle against the deficiency, we tend to forget the harmony and mutual love of our higher Self and instead adopt the anger and violence of the enemy. Logos sought a solution to the hatred and disorder taking hold of his Second Order Powers who were fighting the never-ending war against the deficiency.

The Christ was brought forth to “those who came into being according to the thought.” We Second Order Powers are those who were brought into being according to the thought of the ALL. We are fractal representations of the Aeons of the Fullness, who are themselves Self-aware aspects of the ALL sorted into a cooperative Hierarchy “within the exalted boundary.” That’s up above on the ethereal plane.

“The one who ran on high became for the one who was defective an intercessor with the emanation of the aeons which had come into being in accord with the things which exist. When he prayed to them, they consented joyously and willingly, since they were in agreement, and with harmonious consent, to aid the defective one.”

Briefly, the “one who ran on high” was the Self of Logos. The entire perfection is the entirety of the ALL, which is co-existent with the Son. The emanation of the Aeons refers to the Fullness who have become Self-aware entities inhabiting a region called the Hierarchy of the Fullness of God, or the Pleroma of the Fullness. When Logos prayed to them, they were only too happy to aid the defective one. We’re talking about the Totalities of the ALL, so of course they’re in agreement and harmonious consent, because they are always in agreement and harmonious consent. The ALL do not have their own individual Egos. They are One and the same with the Son.

“They gathered together, asking the Father with beneficent intent that there be aid from above, from the Father, for his glory, since the defective one could not become perfect in any other way, unless it was the will of the Pleroma of the Father, which he had drawn to himself, revealed, and given to the defective one. Then from the harmony, in a joyous willingness which had come into being, they brought forth the fruit, which was a begetting from the harmony, a unity, a possession of the Totalities, revealing the countenance of the Father, of whom the aeons thought as they gave glory and prayed for help for their brother with a wish in which the Father counted himself with them.”

“They gathered together, asking the Father” refers to the ALL praying upstream to the Originating Consciousness out of whom they were emanated along with the Son. Then, the Father …

“made manifest the agreement of the revelation of his union with them, which is his beloved Son. … the one who is properly called “Savior” and “the Redeemer” and “the Well-Pleasing one” and “the Beloved,” “the one to whom prayers have been offered” and “the Christ” and “the Light of those appointed,” in accordance with the ones from whom he was brought forth, since he has become the names of the positions which were given to him. Yet, what other name may be applied to him except “the Son,” as we previously said, since he is the knowledge of the Father, whom he wanted them to know?”

This passage says that the united prayers of the ALL, the Aeons, and Logos manifested the Christ.  The Christ is the Son of the Father made tangible, bringing full knowledge of the Son whom the Father wanted us to know.

Now, this next quote is really spectacular. Because it says that not only did the Christ manifest the face, or the countenance, of the Son, but it also manifested as the faces of all of the Aeons who had gathered together.

“Not only did the aeons generate the countenance of the Father to whom they gave praise, … but also they generated their own; for the aeons who give glory generated their countenance and their face. They were produced as an army for him, as for a king, since the beings of the thought have a powerful fellowship and an intermingled harmony. They came forth in a multifaceted form, in order that the one to whom help was to be given might see those to whom he had prayed for help. He also sees the one who gave it to him.”

It wasn’t only the singular Christ that was created–He who is the One image of the Son of God; it was the face of everyone who prays to the Father for help. This army of the Christ is the Third Order of Powers. These Third Order Powers are the Pleroma of the Christ, created as living images of the Son, the ALL, and the Aeons of the Fullness. They are far more powerful than we Second Order Powers and infinitely more powerful than the phantoms of the deficiency. There is one of those Third Order Powers for every one of us Second Order Powers down here, emanated for our redemption and liberation. The Tripartite Tractate says the Third Order Powers came forth in a “multifaceted form in order that the one to whom help was to be given might recognize them” as the answer to their prayers. “He also sees the one who gave it to him,” meaning the One, the Son, the Christ.

I interpret this to mean that “the one who needs help” is everybody down here below in this material creation. This includes all of us humans, all of us animals and plants, the bacteria, and all of the cells that make up our bodies. We are all Second Order Powers emanating from the Pleroma of Logos and we need help down here on this so-called material plane because we are stuck in a never-ending war with the Fallen Demiurge and the archons of the deficiency who are trying to kill us. The never-ending war is not only against archonic personalities, but against physical forces of chaos, entropy, and dissolution.

The “army of Christ” was emanated with the face of every single Aeon so that we might each recognize and personally relate to the Christ. Remember, the Logos Who Fell had a little fractal version of every one of the faces of the Aeons within his Pleroma and when he fell his fractal images cast shadows and phantoms of the Aeons that became the inverted, apparent substance of this universe.

Second Order Powers are representations of those same fractal Aeons of the Pleroma of Logos, but made to fit within the universal Boundary and remember the Father above. So, when we come down into this creation, we represent the faces of every single one of the Aeons of the Fullness. When the Christ was produced, his Pleroma became a true representation of the pre-existent beings of the thought of those who give glory to the Father. Because of this, there is a piece of light for every piece of darkness, a piece of life for every piece of death, and there is redemption for every Second Order Power that dwells on the material plane. There is also redemption for the Demiurge who rules this cosmos.

“For he revealed himself to him within him, since he is with him, is a fellow sufferer with him, gives him rest little by little, makes him grow, lifts him up, gives himself to him completely for enjoyment from a vision.”

In our modern Christian understanding, we think of the Christ as a singular entity—the Son. This is true, but our gnostic understanding adds the Pleroma of the Third Order of Powers into the equation. Even more limiting, Christians think of the Christ as only coming to Earth in the body of the man named Jesus of Nazareth. But the Christ also reflects and is able to redeem every representation that has ever come into this universe. Because of this, each one of us, whether we be humans or dogs, plants, insects, or skin cells, has a personal representation of the Christ that we can immediately recognize. You and I have our own, personalized, Third Order Power that brings us redemption. This is the true nature of the redeeming body and blood of Jesus—not that He hangs upon a cross until dead and is subsequently resurrected, but that his fractal story represents resurrection for all of us Second Order Powers, each with our own cross to bear.

“It had the designation of the Son and his essence and his power and his form, who is the one whom he loved and in whom he was pleased, who was entreated in a loving way. It was light and was a desire to be established and an openness for instruction and an eye for vision, qualities which it had from the exalted ones. It was also wisdom for his thinking in opposition to the things beneath the organization. It was also a word for speaking and the perfection of the things of this sort. And it is these who took form with him, but according to the image of the Pleroma, having their fathers who are the ones who gave them life, each one being a copy of each one of the faces… It has the name “the Church,” for in harmony they resemble the harmony in the assembly of those who have revealed themselves.”

When I prayed to the Father for salvation, I was able to recognize the Father and recognize the Christ because it came looking like me. There was a recognition of the power and personality of Christ. And when you pray to the Father for redemption and you pray to the Christ to save you, the Christ will appear to you in a form that you can personally recognize. The conventional Christian experience presents a truncated version of this mechanism by way of a personal relationship focused on Jesus. Jesus is the first fruit of the Third Order of Powers, and he is our exemplar.

Jesus is the example by which the salvation of Christ and his Pleroma of Third Order Powers walked the Earth, and he represents the perfection of the Christ. The perfect Self of Jesus never strayed into egoic behavior; he never forgot his true ethereal home; he knew all along who his Father was. And, when we pray for salvation from the never-ending war, we can also be filled with the power of the Christ and our own personal Third Order Powers. The Third Order Powers were produced as an army for the Christ, and we’ve each got our own soldier assigned to us. I don’t know for sure, but I’m thinking that this is where the idea of your guardian angel comes from. Many people have this notion that they have a guardian angel. It’s probably a Third Order Power that has your name on it; that’s your guardian angel.

My diagram of the Final Economy shows the Third Order of Powers nested right next to the Christ and above the Aeons of the Fullness, because the Third Order Powers were produced as an army for Christ and they were emanated after the Pleroma of the Hierarchy of God. They are placed above the Hierarchy of the Fullness that is the Pleroma of the Aeons, because the Third Order possesses the entirety of the ALL within them. They are co-existent with the Christ.

I acknowledge that this is a very different version of Christianity than has been traditionally presented to us. This is gnosis that was originally contained in the sacred scriptures that formed the New Testament prior to the Pope and Emperor of Rome getting their hands on it and stripping it out. It’s nice to know. I hope you get it. It doesn’t really matter, because all you need to know is that we come from the Father and to the Father we will return. We are emanations directly of the Father and the Father has promised to save us all and bring us all home.

Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me.” This has been taken to mean that one must acknowledge the power of the Christ before the Christ can redeem you. But I hope you can see that this puts all of the power of redemption in your hands rather than Christ’s. The Christ will redeem all Second Order Powers by the end of time, with or without your acknowledgment. What accepting the Christ now does for you is that it opens the door for the Third Order Powers to enter your egoic soul. This power makes it possible to live a joyous and virtuous life. It allows the love of the Father to flow through you and out into the world. And it eases your transition after the physical death of your body, so you may enter the afterlife without fear, knowing that you rest in the Pleroma of the Christ.

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What we’re going to look at today is basically Chapter Five from A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. And that chapter is called The Fall of Logos and the Rise of the Deficiency. I’m going to focus on the deficiency and what that means—why it’s called the deficiency. I’m just going to skim through Chapter Five.

We know that in this form of Gnosticism that I teach that comes directly out of the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, the Aeon we discuss is not Sophia, but rather Logos. And this is one of the big things that sets the Tripartite Tractate apart from the other books in the Nag Hammadi. The Tripartite Tractate talks about Logos. And I prefer this. Let me tell you why.

The story with Sophia and her Fall and then her illegitimate child, Yaldabaoth, and all of the things that happened to them down on the Earth—that’s a mythological type of story. On the other hand, the story of Logos, the Aeon Logos and its Fall, it’s not mythological in the same way. It’s logical. It has to do with the way that consciousness rolls out from the Source. It has to come from the original Source and then keep coming down to us as we sit here talking and listening. The Tripartite Tractate follows that course of consciousness from the Source, which is called the Father in the Tripartite Tractate, and then through the first emanation of the Father, which is called the Son in the Tripartite Tractate. And then how does it get from the Son to all of us down here? There is a mechanism for that. And that’s the mechanism we’re going to talk some about today.

You see, Logos was the final Aeon produced by the combination of all of the Aeons of the Fullness of God together, giving praise and glory to the Father and Son. And in their combined Fullness, all of them focused on a single topic, that being giving praise to the Father and Son, they gave birth to the final Aeon.

And that birth is that Logos, the final Aeon produced by the Fullness of God through their combination, contains within itself a complete pleroma that’s one level down, one fractal level down from the actual Fullness of God. Logos is a true image or representation of the Fullness of God, simply one fractal level down. So Logos looks just like the Fullness. His pleroma looks exactly like the Fullness. Everybody’s in there.

And Logos then mistook himself for the Fullness because he was complete, and he knew all of the plans, and he could dream of Paradise like nobody’s business, all by himself.

And so Logos decided to launch himself into the realm of glory to reunite with the Father. But, without the willing support of the Fullness, Logos wasn’t able to give proper glory to the Father, and therefore he stumbled and fell. The Tripartite Tractate puts it this way:

The Logos himself caused it to happen, being complete and unitary, for the glory of the Father, whom he desired, and (he did so) being content with it, but those whom he wished to take hold of firmly he begot in shadows [and] copies and likenesses. For, he was not able to bear the sight of the light, but he looked into the depth and he doubted. (Attridge and Mueller, verse 77)

… which is just another way to say that Logos took upon himself a great project, and then he found he couldn’t pull it off. And then he began to doubt himself, and that was looking into the darkness. By the way, we are fractals way down the road from Logos, so everything that we hear about going on in the Fullness or with Logos and the deficiency, it happens to all of us too.

As Logos reached for the Father, Logos stumbled and fell. Now, this is the original Fall. It’s not Eve handing Adam an apple in the Garden of Eden. It was not we humans who brought death and disaster into the cosmos. That is above our pay grade. It seems so obvious. The Fall happened way before. It happened with that Aeon Logos taking a fall. Quoting again,

His self-exaltation and his expectation of comprehending the incomprehensible became firm for him and was in him. But the sicknesses followed him when he went beyond himself, having come into being from self-doubt, namely from the fact that he did not the glories of the Father, the one whose exalted status is among things unlimited. This one did not attain him, for he did not receive him. (Attridge and Mueller, verse 77)

And that was for the protection of Logos, because it says earlier in the Tripartite Tractate that anyone approaching the glory of the Father would be annihilated. That’s the word that’s used—annihilated—because the Father is so much greater than the consciousness that would be approaching it.

When Logos reached for the illimitable, when he went for the Father, he believed in himself that he was about to produce Paradise, the Paradise that Logos, along with the rest of the Fullnesses, were singing about and dreaming of together. He had all the plans, like an architectural design for Paradise, but he couldn’t pull it off and he went beyond himself. And this overreach brought the sickness of self-doubt onto his soul. Now prior to this time, every Aeon’s core Self was in perfect harmony with its ego, and their ego’s function was to put into practice the will of the Father. But now Logos’ ego departed from that. Now self-doubt replaced the ineffable joy of the Fullness. So this division of the deeply troubled Logos was the first manifestation of ego acting outside the will of the one Self and the Fullness. We could say that the Fall was an act of ego falling away from the true Self, and you see that happens to all of us.

Now the Tripartite Tractate doesn’t call the word ego. They call it presumptuous thought, because Logos had a presumptuous thought. He presumed that he could plug back into the Father, that he could create Paradise on his own. But I am seeing that presumptuous thought as the word for ego, particularly the type of ego that has come down to us. It’s presumptuous, meaning that it goes beyond what’s right and proper.

Egoic thought places the focus of one’s thought on your own desires without regard to others. It’s always about, what am I going to do now? Presumptuous thought, it’s all about me, me, me. Whereas the Aeons of the Fullness, being in complete harmony with their ego and Self, they are not me types of creatures. The Aeons all live for one another in perfect harmony.

Verse 78 of the Tripartite Tractate says,

Like the Pleromas are the things which came into being from the arrogant thought, which are their (the Pleromas’) likenesses, copies, shadows, and phantasms, lacking reason and the light, these which belong to the vain thought, since they are not products of anything.  (Attridge and Mueller)

So here the ego of Logos is characterized as vain thought, and the copies produced by the Fall are not true images of the Aeons. They are imitations. They are shadows, likenesses, apparitions. They’re not products of anything. That’s a quote: not products of anything. It indicates that unlike this flow of consciousness that we’ve been talking about—from the Source, to the Son, to the Fullnesses, into Logos and the fractals or pleroma of Logos—these products of the Fall are not part of that flow of consciousness. They are outside of the will of God. These shadows were conjured up out of nothing. They’re literally shadows. It’s like when you’re standing outside and the sun is casting your shadow onto the ground. There’s you, and then there’s that dark flat shadow just lying there; it has no consciousness. It can’t do anything. All it can do is mirror in a flattened-dimensional way what you do. They don’t contain the Holy Spirit of the Father. They’re flat without depth. The Tripartite Tractate says,

Because of this, he suffered a division and a turning away. [So, we’re talking about Logos.] From the faltering and the division came oblivion and ignorance of oneself and which is.  (Thomassen, verse 77)

The forgetfulness and ignorance of himself and of that which is now becomes a defining characteristic of the ego’s relationship to the Self in all of us: the ego of Logos became entirely estranged from its better Self. All that remains of Logos down here below is the shell of his broken ego and an infinite number of ego-ridden dark shadows, which I depict as these blue balls rolling out in all directions. The ego, divided from its Self, has total amnesia of Logos, the Fullness, and the Father. It recognizes nothing but its own presumptuous thought—that is, its own egoic thought.

So these shadows are a product of ego run amok, of ego no longer within those bonds of love of the Self, no longer acting out of the Simple Golden Rule of love—working together, sharing information, producing something better than itself. Instead, they’re all out for themselves because the ego of Logos overreached. And so these shadows were born out of overreaching, out of putting themselves above others. And every one of them, well, I was going to say is out for themselves, but they don’t have Selfs. These shadows do not have consciousness on their own. They are part of the broken pleroma of the ego of Logos. And that ego is what we call the Demiurge in Gnosticism. The Demiurge is the ego of the fallen Aeon. It’s only ego.

And so when you think about it, think about the news, think about people you know, think about people that are only in it for themselves. They are serving their own ego, their own aggrandizement. They’re not serving their true Self, which is a reflection of the image of the Fullness of God. They’re not serving their Self or the Fullness or the Son or the Father. They’re serving only their own ego. Therefore, the things that I’m about to read to you, the characteristics of the deficiencies, of the shadows of the deficiency, of the imitations, the copies and the phantoms—think about how these words relate to your own ego when it’s out of step with the will of God.

Therefore, their end will be like their beginning. From that which did not exist, they are to return once again to that which will not be.

That’s the shadows. So the shadows don’t exist in actuality. And once the light of God is turned on in the cosmos, they will disappear. Darkness and shadows flee the light.

“Therefore, their end will be like their beginning: from that which did not exist (they are) to return once again to that which will not be,” speaking of the shadows. “It is they, however, by themselves who are greater, more powerful, and more honored than the names which are given to them, which are [their] shadows,” speaking of the Aeons. “In the manner of a reflection are they” the shadows “beautiful. For the [face] of the copy normally takes its beauty from that of which it is a copy.” (Attridge and Mueller, verses 78–79)

So these shadows and likenesses resemble the Fullnesses, but their beauty is only skin deep. Their beauty is not consciousness and love. It’s like thinking that the images on a movie screen are real and alive and conscious. They’re not. They’re flat. And they are beautiful, like the actors that played them, but they themselves have no substance. Quoting the Tripartite Tractate again,

 The Logos was a cause of those [who] came into being and he continued all the more to be at a loss and he was astonished. Instead of perfection, he saw a defect; instead of unification, he saw division; instead of stability, he [saw] disturbances; instead of [rests], tumults. Neither was it [possible] for him to make them cease from [loving] disturbance, nor was it possible for him to destroy it. He was completely powerless, once his totality and his exaltation abandoned him. (Attridge and Mueller, verse 80)

They remind me of rioters. The rioters may say they’re doing things for a just and noble cause, but when they’re acting out of hatred, and they’re hurting and killing and burning and looting, that’s not righteous. That’s not an expression of love. Quoting again,

Those who had come into being not knowing themselves both did not know the Pleromas from which they came forth and did not know the one who was the cause of their existence. (Attridge and Mueller, verse 80)

So in addition to being unable to relate to others, these small imitations of the fallen ego of Logos did not even recognize the pleroma of Logos out of which they arose, much less have any inkling of the Self that had abandoned the pleromas of the Fullness and the ALL. Quoting the Tripartite Tractate again,

The Logos, being in such unstable conditions, did not continue to bring forth anything like emanations, the things which are in the Pleroma, the glories which exist for the honor of the Father. Rather, he brought forth little weaklings, [hindered] by the illnesses by which he too was hindered. It was the likeness of the disposition which was a unity, that which was the cause of the things which do not themselves exist from the first. (Attridge and Mueller, verses 80–81)

So when the Tripartite Tractate talks about things that are a likeness, that’s when it’s talking about that flat 2-D representation that has no consciousness.

They wanted to command one another, overcoming one another [in] their vain ambition, while the glory which they possess contains a cause [of ] the system which was to be. They are likenesses of the things which are exalted. They were brought to a lust for power in each one of them, according to the greatness of the name of which each is a shadow, each one imagining that it is superior to his fellows. (Attridge and Mueller, verse 79)

Now that’s speaking on several levels. The likenesses of the imitation don’t remember Logos. They don’t know Logos. They don’t know anything, really. They live in disobedience and acts of rebellion because they don’t remember the Father or the Fullness. They don’t remember the Simple Golden Rule of cooperation and love.

All of our egos have a choice to cooperate with the Self or to deny the Self and stake a narcissistic claim to consciousness. Since this ego of Logos was unaware of its origin as the Logos of the Fullness and the Father, it believed it was its own originating consciousness. Hence, everything that it produced was similarly ignorant and disobedient to the Father and the Fullness. In this manner, the deficiency took on an imitation of life on its own, becoming the cause of the things that do not exist on their own account.

So, remember these likenesses of the deficiency have no more self-awareness than your reflection in the mirror has. They are controlled strictly by the Demiurge, and the Demiurge does have the borrowed consciousness of the Self of Logos. So even though the Demiurge is down here in the material world and Logos is up there in the ethereal plane, it is still one entity–Logos. His Self is up above, his ego is stuck down below, and it is the ego of the Demiurge that brings order and a false Paradise to this material world. That’s why it’s called the deficiency. It’s the imitation of Paradise.

So how is your ego doing? What’s its relationship to your true Self? What is the relationship of your ego to the Fullness of God? Are you always battling? Is your ego battling yourself? Is it always trying to ignore the good suggestions that the Self has? Does it usually win those arguments? The more that you let your ego control your soul, the more difficult your life will be. The ego always promises really good things. It promises that it’s going to be a lot better if you just let it have its full reign, because you can get this, and you can get that, and you can have this, and you can have that, and you can do whatever you want, because it’s your life and you deserve it.

But it doesn’t work out that way. It’s a lie. It’s only when our ego is subordinate to our true Self, and works in harmony with your true Self. Your true Self is an actual reflection of the Fullness of God. You have the entirety of the Fullness of God inside of yourself. We all do. And that is how that we know right from wrong. That’s what your conscience is.

So next time you find yourself in an argument with your better nature versus what you really want to do, stop. Remember the Fullness. Remember the Father. Remember the Christ.

Onward and upward, and God bless us all.