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...
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Analogue 58
Analogue 58 The Embrace of Reality The embrace of opposites occurs in this world: masculine and feminine, strength and weakness. In the Great Age—the Aion —something similar to what we call embrace occurs as well, but though we use the same name for it, forms of union there transcend what can be described here. For in that place there exists that which is stronger than the greatest force and those who are superior to all force. There is being and there is non-being, but Reality is One and Whole, but still it is not able to enter into anyone who only has a heart of flesh. SYNOPSIS A metaphysical statement is made in this analogue about complementarity—the embrace and union of opposites to form a whole. Non-duality is described as an “embrace” which energetically is a form of love. The Oneness of Being and the Wholeness of Reality are metaphysically equal. The Transcendent Unity of All things that overcomes duality is manifest in transcendent forms of union...
Analogue 57
Analogue 57 Alchemy and Transcendent Humanity The Eucharistic chalice contains wine and water symbolizing the blood over which thanks is given. The cup, however, is filled with Spirit, which is for the perfecting of humanity. Whoever, therefore, drinks from the cup becomes a completed being. Likewise, the living water is itself a being in order that we might become clothed with that living body. It is for this reason, then, that whoever goes down into the water stripped naked, emerges out of it clothed with divine Being. Horses naturally give birth to horses, humans to humans, and God gives birth to God. This is the way that sons and daughters are born from the Lover and Beloved in the Bridal Chamber. Jews did not come into being from Greeks, and Christians came into being not from Jews, but from other anointed ones. It is good, then, to call the offspring who have been chosen by the Sacred Spirit, the “True Humanity” and “Sons and Daughters of The Human One,” born from the ...
Analogue 56
Analogue 56 Enlightened Emergence from the Kosmos The oil of anointing is superior to the waters of immersion, for because of the anointing we too are also called “the Christ” just as Yeshua was called the Anointed One because of the anointing oil. For the Father anoints the Son, and the Son anoints the Apostles, and the Apostles have anointed us. The One who was first anointed, however, received it completely: its resurrection, its light, its cross, and its Sacred Spirit. All of this the Father bestowed upon him in the Bridal Chamber, for he received it there. The Father lives in the Son and the Son lives in the Father. This, then, is the Realm of the Heavens. From a place of profound understanding the Master said: “Some have attained the Realm of Heaven laughing.” These came forth from out of this world rejoicing, for they went down into the water as anointed ones and rose out of it again as masters over all. They did not consider what they had done as some mere divers...