Babel is formed with two words: Ba , which means gate, and Bel , which means Sun. [37][34][40], Yaldabaoth is primarily mentioned in the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite writings of Gnostic literature,[4] most of which have been discovered in the Nag Hammadi library. Bar, which means son, and Bel (Belo or Belus) which means Sun. Barbelo is the perfect aeon. But never mind these trifling failures of analogy. It is written that before the Lord comes to manifest, Elijah has to manifest first. Comprehend that scientists state that energy and matter are aspects of the same thing, that they think know very well, and which we are studying here, from this kabbalistic perspective. There, it is written: And Adam visited the abode of Bel ( - heart) to rule over ( - Behemoth) the beasts of () his blood. But, if we are intelligent, we can take advantage of that solar energy in us, in order to become solar men. Gnosticism Explained strives to provide a reliable, accessible, and engaging introduction to the type of early Christianity known as Gnosticism, with scholarly sources cited throughout. Egyptian receptions of the Exodus story were widely negative, because it insulted their gods and praised their suffering. Obviously, you have to sing that with concentration. 4, 3), as a form of Barbl, which may have the same meaning. This is how the Master Jesus addresses this in the Pistis Sophia. Gender Spelling differs based on assumptions of the name deriving from a, For example it was repeated in 1831 in a textbook by, A Gnostic reception of this account can be found in the, "Part I: The Self-deifying Rebel "I Am God and There is No Other! In the beginning of the verse, it says the king of Israel is Iod-Hei-Vav-Hei. The one above is rooted in Kether, and the one below in Yesod. But, this isn't something that only happened in the past; this is something happening right now. That force, in Sanskrit, we call Akasha (a substance that permeates the space). [17] Galatians 2:11-21, NRSV. That means that particular individuality is in everybody. And we found my brother Michael's faulty copy. [3], In the Secret Book of John and other classic Gnostic texts, Barbelo is portrayed as the mother of Christ[4] (who, in much early Christian literature including Gnostic literature, is thought of as a divine being who existed long before he was ever incarnated in human flesh through Mary[5]). HarperOne. This is how we gather these forces. The New Testament tells us firmly that Jesus went to Jerusalem at Passover to die and to fulfill certain ancient prophecies by doing so. And he is impious in his arrogance which is in him. Of course, at the center of Andromeda is the Sun that controls the galaxy of Andromeda, but, in our galaxy, the Central Sun is Sirius. [2][3][4] He is identified as the Demiurge and false god who keeps the souls trapped in physical bodies, imprisoned in the material universe. Imagine with your common sense, the infinite: it is a sphere. v. 26, p.151). [33][34][35][37], In Gnosticism, the biblical serpent in the Garden of Eden was praised and thanked for bringing knowledge (gnosis) to Adam and Eve and thereby freeing them from the malevolent Demiurge's control. Barbelo is often a kind of sub-deity or perhaps emanation of "divine stuff" that comes from "the Father" or "the Great One." . Materialism has no power over me (because you are filled with the solar light). Here in this physical world this is something impossible to see but, the music was flowing from the Abstract Space into the space. The Omeyocan is the place where we find only darkness and wind in reciprocal whirlwinds, like chaos. That is why the law, which is called the Cosmic-Common-Trogo-Auto-Egocrat the law of the reciprocal nourishment of all species, on every planet; "eat, and be eaten" is related with the solar light. [9] That certainly fits the demiurges personality as described in their texts.). We are talking here about energies. We have stated in other lectures that the word Bar-Belos is formed by two words: Bar, which in Aramaic means son: And, Belos which derives from Bel, which in Greek is written as Belos, and in Latin as Belus, and are rooted in the Chaldean word Bel, meaning tower of fire. This pseudo-variant was translated in Jastrow's popular Aramaic dictionary as 'confusion'. When we address Elija, we are addressing the solar light, the Solar Logos in other words, which is precisely Barbelo. The light being Sophia caused the fall of man through the serpent. [6] Ehrman, Bart. The emanation of Barbl may be said to function as an intermediary generative aspect of the Divine, or as an abstraction of the generative aspect of the Divine through its Fullness. What is a church? The Gnostics were steeped in the Greek philosophical tradition, so their description of the demiurge as having a lions head was probably intended to show that he was a being who couldnt or wouldnt control his base urges. The sexual organs, the genitalia. Now, the reason we quoted that from the Bible is to show that in Hebrew the name Abel is written with the letter Hei followed by the word Bel people translate that word as Abel, but in reality, in Hebrew, we say Habel, which means "the Sun." This book has the same cast but a very arcane interpretation. You have to be an Aurus in order to enter into the unmanifested Isis. The Sethian Poets, in their Odes, sang such a persecution. That is why the next verse says, Jehovah Tzabaoth, which means the army of Jehovah, the army of all of those elements that are in each one of you. Well, we will state, according to my understanding, that those black holes is what we call the Omeyocan. When we talk about somebody who for instance is called Sam; Sam has three brains, but the whole body, the whole organism, is formed by many organs; and each of those organs by many cells. p. 55. If any self-realized Master comes to us and says, "I am part of that region of Barbelo" we will understand that; any self-realized Master is part of that. Intuition is that common sense, about which many people talk. In the spinal medulla, we have the seven churches. p. 137. All they know of the universe, according to their own measurements, is about 4%. Imagine, if Master Jesus were to sing Belilin, he would gather the energy of many infinites, and send it from himself outwardly. All things receive and give. In the Apocryphon of John, a tractate in the Nag Hammadi Library containing the most extensive recounting of the Sethian creation myth, the Barbl is described as "the first power, the glory, Barbl, the perfect glory in the aeons, the glory of the revelation". The common sense really can become very well-developed; in accordance with our work. The Bar is Ing, son of the Earth. We find the solar light in all of the mineral kingdom; as in the example of Kilauea and other volcanoes. [12] Brakke, David. The text describes her thus: This is the first thought, his image; she became the womb of everything, for it is she who is prior to them all, the Mother-Father, the first man (Anthropos), the holy Spirit, the thrice-male, the thrice-powerful, the thrice-named androgynous one, and the eternal aeon among the invisible ones, and the first to come forth. Indubitably, Barbelo is what in Kabbalah is called the Ain Soph Aur, which is the third aspect of the Absolute Abstract Space. It is everywhere in the space; everywhere in the infinite; everywhere in the galaxy; everywhere in any constellation; everywhere in any solar system; everywhere in any nature, and, it is in us. Where is the Solar Absolute, Barbelo, in other words, in us? [33][34][35][37] Gnostics considered the most essential part of the process of salvation to be this personal knowledge, in contrast to faith as an outlook in their worldview along with faith in the ecclesiastical authority. When we say, "space" people think that we are referring to that space above, in the cosmos, in the heavens No, the space is everywhere. An Angel? Instructor: That daily bread of the prayer of the Lord is not the bread that we eat physically. How many infinites are there in the space? But, that Elijah that is being addressed here is not a person, but the solar light that has to build, within each one of us, the solar bodies. The instructors who teach the lectures and courses are volunteers from a wide variety of backgrounds. Vall. Now, where do you find the word Belilin in the Bible? He names them in different ways in order for us to understand what is the Treasury of the Light? Until 1974, etymologies deriving from the unattested Aramaic: , romanized: bhth, supposedly meaning "chaos", represented the majority view. What you gather inwardly, you send outwardly; that is why you sing: Belilin, Belilin, Belilin (you gather those solar forces, inwardly). Behold how the intelligence of the Absolute Abstract Space becomes the center of an infinite. We need to fill that in us. At Sophia's instigation, Yaldabaoth arranged for the generation of Jesus through the Virgin Mary. The Master looked at him and said, "So, you know yourself? That is the redeemer. We will say that the Omeyocan is that Chaos within the second aspect of the Abstract Absolute Space. Naming and associations The Ophites accepted the existence of these seven archons (Origen, Contra Celsum, vi. To be sure, the idea that Barbelo, the divine mother of Christ, is identical to the Holy Spirit is seldom explicitly asserted in Gnostic texts. In the words of the Valentinian Gnostic Gospel of Philip, Some said Mary became pregnant by the Holy Spirit. Do you understand that? [2] Lewis, Nicola Denzey. The amphora absorbs, takes the energy from its base, and from the bowl that is above, into our heart; this is why we sing, "Amphora of Salvation, I would like to be next to thee" Who is this "thee"? 17 Mar 2023 04:31:05 2013. That Sun that rotates around Alcyone is also Barbelo; any Sun is Barbelo, "the son of the Sun.". Beth, which means house; and Lehem, which means bread. Here he is a lion-faced archon, half flame, half darkness. the late first or early second century AD. People think that it means that Moses was literally talking face to face with God about what? The connection to God and the immortal realm became extinct. Marcion.hated heretic or influential maverick?Twitter: @andrewmarkhenryFacebook: www.religionforbreakfast.com/facebookBlog: www.religionforbreakfast.comAni. To be a Christian is not merely to say, "I am a Christian because I was born into Christianity." At the moment of the baptism organized by Yaldabaoth, Sophia took on the body of Jesus and through it taught people that their destiny was the Kingdom of Light (the spiritual world), not the Kingdom of Darkness (the material universe). This is understandable, right? Malkuth and Yesod below, and Kether above. 'chaos'. The union of many Barbelos is the Barbelo, the Solar Absolute wanted to enter into the womb of the unmanifested Mother, they can do that after penetrating into Aur, the Aurus, Horus. Oxford University Press. Introduction to Gnosticism: Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds. Then form another circle outside of that, and another outside of that, etc." [3] Because of their lack of worship, he caused the Flood upon the human race, from which a feminine power such as Sophia or Pronoia[42] (Providence) rescued Noah. But, of course, when we are addressing Bel, we are addressing the light. That is Elija. That is a type of intelligence that controls this infinite and that is in union with all of the Suns of this infinite, which, in turn, are related with all the galaxies of this infinite, including our solar system. You might ask, "A river of music?" The first Aleph of Aelohim represents Ain, the unknowable; as we said, the letter Aleph relates to the Abstract. Master Samael states that in that Protocosmos exists what we call the planets of Christ. That is why the Master said that the universe is sustained by music; from my understanding, I see that it is true. There is intelligence in the Chaos, this is what we have to understand: it is a type of intelligence that is beyond our comprehension, because it is abstract. The infinite is reversible towards the navel, that is in all quantifiable points. For instance, it is written in the Bible that Moses could talk face to face with God. But you'll do more than all of them, because you'll sacrifice the human who bears me. In the graphic we see this beautiful image of the galaxy that is the neighbor of our own, which is called Andromeda: beautiful. Above that is another Trinity; and we are showing this with the word Hei. When that is developed, then we understand what God is doing, at our own level. In China they say, I don't like tortillas, nor bread, give me rice. Many. What is that stable of Bethlehem? He is also the herald of Yaldabaoth in Human Realm . At least, our own sphere, which is our own physicality. The human soul, or in other words Tiphereth, receives from above and from below. [12], In his proposed 1967 etymology Adam[de], already diverted from the then majority view and translated Aramaic: , romanized: yald similarly to Scholem, as German: Erzeugung, lit. p. 17. Give me, physically, an example of that which you call intuition, the faculty of inter-penetration. The first Belilin that we sing, brings the forces from above. [7], The same view is attested in Gnostic literature, too. The development of the pineal gland (Habel, the Bel) is dependant upon the sexual organs. `I am (Aleph) the first, and I am (Tav) the last, Which, as the Master Samael explains, is the Greek Alpha and Omega, but from the Hebrew language it is translated as, "I am the first and the last. Now, we stated that the physical Sun that shines upon us in this physical world is only the physical body of one of those (Spiritual) Suns. Jesus means Savior, and Christ relates to the light. That aspect is an archetype that in Christianity is called Jesus Christ. That is why, when people say that common sense is the most common of the senses, I say, that is wrong. The most common of the senses are our sight, our smell, touch, hearing but common sense itself? The Child, also called Autogenes (the pre-existing Christ), meaning "self-generated," is produced from Barbelo either spontaneously or from a spark of the Father's light. The word Barbelo comes from the Aramaic language. The Biblical prophets were to proclaim Yaldabaoth's glory, but at the same time, through Sophia's influence, they reminded people of their higher origin and prepared for the coming of Christ. Easy to understand, right? But, animals use instinct to defend themselves, to do what they have to do that instinct is intelligence that is related to the consciousness of that animal, or anima in Latin, which means "soul." The word Barbelo comes from the Aramaic language. Eventually, Yaldabaoth expelled them from the ethereal region, the Paradise, as punishment. In the Pistis Sophia Barbl is named often, but her place is not clearly defined. So, that Mantra, that conjuration, is very strong. The most transcendent hidden invisible Spirit is not depicted as actively participating in creation. 2008. Which is cognate with Hebrew: , romanized:be, a term used to replace the name Ba'al in the Hebrew Bible. How did the Gnostics get the idea that the demiurge was instead malevolent? All rights reserved. When we eat animals, who also collect the solar light, we gain that light. Eve represents our physicality, and our sexual organs; while, Adam represents the brain. [38][39] They were regarded as heretics by the proto-orthodox Early Church Fathers. ), Now ask yourself, why did the church take so long to exculpate the Jews as a whole from the collective and heritable charge of deicide? Ye-S-Od is formed by the serpent, Kain, which represents that nest, together with the Yod. [18] Brakke, David. [37][34] In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, Yaldabaoth (Yahweh) is regarded as the malevolent Demiurge and false god of the Old Testament who generated the material universe and keeps the souls trapped in physical bodies, imprisoned in the world full of pain and suffering that he created. So, since we are part of the universe, it is obvious that we are part of that light. Any mystic who learns how to operate outside of the physical body by will is guided by (Belilin) the Sun of Midnight, by the Cosmic Christ." The ten Sephiroth can be reduced into three tables: "1. [24], Accusations of onolatry against the Jews, spread from the Egyptian milieu, with its understanding of the donkey's Seth-related importance, to the rest of the Graeco-Roman world, which was largely ignorant of this context. You cannot sing it mechanically, because you will receive little benefit from it. This particular Sun, the Sun of our solar system, which is called Ors, is one of those particles of Barbelo. God doesn't "create" Barbelo per se; instead, she comes from him by some indirect means. In the beginning of the Bible, we always address the first verse, which says: Bara Elohim The son of AElohim, Aleph-Tav in the Hei of Schamayim Thou Heavens, And Aleph-Tav in the Hei of Aretz And thou earth" - Genesis 1: 1. But, let me tell you; when you develop your common-sense, your intuition, the type of intellect that you develop expands in another level, and is difficult for person that is a fornicator to understand that type of intellect.
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