Today I'd like to share with you my version of a Gnostic Easter message. As you know from previous episodes, Valentinian Gnosticism is a Christian form. That is because we believe that there is a Redeemer, an Anointed One. In English, this is called the Christ. The Christ is a very special fruit of the Father, the Son, and the Fullness of God that has been sent to our dimension to remind and to save us; to bring us home again.
The good news in Gnosticism is that no one will be condemned in the very end of time; everyone will be redeemed, including the demiurge. So why would we even think about Christ before the end of time? What do you care, if you are resistant to the notion of “being a Christian”? Why would you want to believe in the Christ at all, if you are completely resistant to that notion?
If so, you're really caught in a hard place here if you are interested in Gnosticism and you consider yourself to be a seeker of truth. Because, in my way of thinking, and in the way of thinking presented by the Nag Hammadi, especially the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, there is no other conclusion to come to other than that we come from the Father and to the Father we will return. We are the fruit of the Pleroma and to the Pleroma we will return. And this physical existence that we are caught in now, this is the fallen world according to Gnosticism. This is not Paradise. And the reason we need the Christ is to help us realize Paradise again.
It's not so that we may be saved, because everyone is going to be saved. It says in the Nag Hammadi that ”everything that was from the beginning” will return to the Pleroma. So that is our eternal souls, our eternal drop of the essence of God. The One Self that I speak of is how I identify it. That will certainly return to the Pleroma because it is of the Pleroma. And all of us, all living creatures, everything that contains life, contains the spirit of God because it is the Holy Spirit that breathes life into otherwise inert mineral existence. So, all forms of life will return to the Pleroma as well. The trees, the flowers, the cats, the dogs, humans, even bacteria. They're all going back.
So, what what's not from the beginning? What will be left behind?
That is the material universe because the material of this 3D universe that we live in, this was not from the beginning. Meaning the material of our universe--the particles in the atoms, the molecules, the elements, the aggregations of minerals, the rocky hard planets--these are the products of the Fall. These are what are called “the deficiency” and “the imitation”.
Then, what is this material? It is an imitation of the Hierarchy of God. It is an imitation of the Fullness of God, the Pleroma. It is not the actual Fullness of God, because that doesn't exist down here in this 3D material universe; the actual Pleroma of God exists above. Onward and upward.
So, when our souls exit this material plane of existence, they rise, and if we are not coming back again, if we are not being reincarnated back into this earth, we will stay up in the Pleroma in the special area that has been built for us Second Order Powers. And that is the place that we call Paradise. That is the place that we remember as Paradise. We all have an inherent remembrance of the Fullness of God, of the Son, of the Father, and of Paradise, because this is where we come from.
The Christ has never fallen. The Christ didn't fall. The Christ was a new fruit that came after the Second Order of Powers. The Christ came down voluntarily in order to save creation and return the entirety back up to the Fullness of God.
And the Christ’s mission doesn't depend upon us. We are not in control of salvation.
