Gospel of Philip

Question for exploration in small groups: How have you experienced this admixture of opposites as a form of play or as a kind of warfare? Explore your own response to Philip’s view of good and evil when you are confronted by genocide, ethnic cleansing, slavery, etc. Are these not entirely evil? How does Philip’s telling affect the way you understand these clear examples of evil in our day.

  ANALOGUE FIVE The Realm of Duality Introduction to Analogue 5 by Lynn Bauman   Light exists with darkness, life with death. The right-hand and the left-hand belong together as siblings. It is not possible, then, to separate them from their mutual complementarity. Good is never entirely good, nor evil pure evil, or life without death, nor death without life. Each entity unfolds towards its origin from the beginning point, and everything which transcends this world is no longer mortal, but is brought forth into eternal reality.   •     A discourse on duality understood as the complementarity of opposites,    paradoxes, oppositions and other ambiguities. •     The world as we know it and experience it is filled with these dualities from which we cannot escape while we live in space and time. •     This duality is what we call the "real world" of temporal existence but it...

ANALOGUE FOUR   Introduction to Analogue 4 by Lynn Bauman The Messianic Imperative   The Anointed One has come! And in coming some he ransoms, others he releases and restores, and there are those whom he rescues. He ransomed strangers and made them his own. Those who came to him, he restored. All this he gave as a self- offering out of his own love and desire. Not only did he willingly give himself at his appearing, from the very beginning of the kosmos it was his longing to do so. And so now in this way he comes to receive back what he has always loved—releasing all who were held captive by thieves of the soul, redeeming everything in the kosmos, both good and evil.   •   In this Analogue the defining elements are given of the Messianic Work to save the world. It is the Messianic Imperative and Messianic because it is anointed with Spirit. •   It takes an inner anointing to do it and yet it is clearly to be d...