Gospel of Philip

 

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  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...