Dear friends, Lynn and I wanted to share with you how we see our work on this Gospel unfolding during each session. At least a week before each session you will receive the commentary for the analogue we will be studying. We recommend you print it. In Lynn's translation (The Luminous Gospels, by Bauman, Baurman and Bourgeault) the gospel is divided into analogues, seventy four in total. We recommend that you read the commentary carefully, probably several times. The commentary refers to images. They are NOT included in what you will receive. You will see the images during our time together and you will receive them afterwards for further reflection. We will begin each session with some silence. Lynn will then spell out the essence of the analogue. We will then open up the space for questions about the commentary. Using one or maybe two of the questions for reflections , which are included in the commentary, we will then break you out into groups of 4-5 for collective discus
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Analogue 45a
Analogue 45 The Manifest and the Un-manifest In the ordinary world, if something appears to be absent or is not manifest to us (to our ordinary senses), we imagine it to be outside of or beyond this world. Conversely, if something is known and obviously present to us (if we can perceive it), we define it as being a product of or caused by other things in the horizontal world in some material way. But imagine if these categories are entirely insufficient to define reality. These are simply our categories, based upon the senses, imposed upon our world. In our reality, that which fails to be detected by the sense cannot be said to exist—at least in materialist philosophy. The truth, however, is that much of what we know to be reality, exists beyond sensory awareness. From the viewpoint of this Gospel multiple conditions (seen and unseen, manifest and un-manifest) exist and neither condition excludes the other. If we allow an exclusion (or fail to recognize an excluded dimension) that woul
Analogue 44b
Analogue 44 Signs and Images of the Mysteries Truth did not come to us in this world naked. Rather it was clothed with symbol and image, for it cannot be received in any other way. There is rebirth into another time, and there is the image of that rebirth, but it is truly imperative that one not be reborn in symbol only. So what, then, is the resurrection and its image or symbol—for resurrection comes through the icon? And what is the image of the Bridal Chamber—for through its icon one is brought into the truth of the restoration of all things? It is crucial, then, not simply to come to birth through the Father, the Son, and the Sacred Spirit in name only, but to be born through them in actuality. Whoever is not given birth by them will also have their names, which one received in the anointing that comes from the power of the cross, removed. These individuals have not simply received the anointing—which the Apostles called the union of the opposites of the right and the left—but t