Originally posted by Ersatz
Hi Tamahu, thanks for all that;
I was not really trying to find Jeshua (I personally prefer a more Dionysian point of reference).
My understanding is that the Dionysian Mysteries point to the same Christic Initiation as the Christian Mysteries.
So either way, we can experience the same Gnosis.
You mentioned St Paul as one of the gnostics in an external source and I included a link that deals with Saul/Paul to see if you had an opinion
on the contents relating to Paul; posterity will decide wether Jesus existed or not, I am not that fussed.
Masonic Light and I were discussing Paul in a thread starting with
this post,
from an esoteric perspective.
As for gnosis it just means knowledge
Exoterically that is.
...you can add all the other ingredients if you like but it makes the gravy too thick and in the end you have a definition wich is vain because
you describe it
If you just leave it at "knowledge" it is vain, and only stays at the exoteric level.
The profane "scientists" have plenty of knowledge, however look at what they're doing to this Planet and the minds of it's inhabitants.
But you're right in that Truth, Gnosis can't actually br described.
As Masonic Light reminded us in that thread, of the Taoist maxim: "The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao".
and insignificant because every individual on this planet has direct, personal experience.
Every individual including said scientists may be having direct, personal experience... but of what?
Suffering.
Gnosis in the Buddhist context(yes, Buddhism is Gnosis) is that Gnowledge that liberates sentient beings from suffering.
And suffering is based on i-gno-rance(The main Root Poison in Buddhism which is the anti-thesis of the Dharmakaya/Ancient of Days).
It is one of the Three Traitors of Christ/Chiram Abiff, the former who is Pilate/Ortelut.
So the knowledge that the ego(suffering) indentifies with through the intellect, we could say is Gnosis inverted, or Agnosis(not Gnosis).
"Demonius est deus inversus"-"The Demon is the will of God inverted."
Speaking of Dionysius, let us look at the two kinds of Dionysian Intoxication:
The Three Mountains
Unquestionably, Mammon and Dionysus can never be conciliated because they are incompatible in their summaries as well as in their contents.
In an irrefutable axiomatic way, we can and even must define Mammon with two terms:
A) Intellectualism
B) Money (gold, material wealth)
It is urgent to correctly define Dionysus in the following precise and blunt way:
A) Voluntary transmutation of the sexual libido
B) Transcendental Mystical Ecstasy
Now it is opportune to cite (amongst the lucky dates of this wretched pygmoid humanity) the date February 4, 1962 and the hour between 2:00 and 3:00
in the afternoon in which all the planets of our solar system were reunited in supreme cosmic council, precisely under the brilliant constellation of
Aquarius, in order to initiate the new Age within the august thunders of thought.
Since that memorable date and under the regency of Uranus (the very venerable and very meritorious Lord of Aquarius) the Dionysian Wave is intensely
vibrating within the entire nature.
It is important to emphasize within this present chapter the transcendental news that such a cited planet has been, is, and always shall be the
brilliant star that intelligently rules and governs the endocrine sexual glands.
Now you will be able to comprehend by yourselves the intrinsic motive which the intensive Dionysian vibration originates in these moments.
Nonetheless, the concrete fact that the terrestrials in their overwhelming majority were not at the same level of the circumstances is evident, clear,
and manifest. Earthlings were not capable of positively polarizing themselves with such a Cosmic Wave...
Therefore, to define the two aspects, positive and negative, of this cosmic vibration is relevant, urgent, and indispensable.
Positive Dionisian Pole: Sexual enjoyment by means of sublimation; voluntary transmutation of the entity of semen; awakened Consciousness;
objective knowledge; superlative Intuition; transcendental music of the great classical Masters, etc., etc., etc.
Negative Dionisian Pole: Sexual degeneration; infrasexuality of many types; homosexuality, lesbianism; demonic pleasures within the infernal
worlds by means of drugs, mushrooms, alcohol, etc., infernal music such as the “music” of these modern days, etc., etc., etc.
To comprehend in depth the intimate processes of these two poles of the Dionysian Wave is something very urgent...
As a living example of these pair of diametrically opposite poles which correspond to the mentioned undulation, it is now opportune to cite here as a
mode of illustration two contemporary revolutionary movements.
Plainly speaking, I want to clearly and delicately refer to the Universal International Christian Gnostic Movements and also to the obverse of the
Dionysian coin known with the ill-famed or infamous name of the Hippie Movement and subsequent cultures.
Unquestionably, the two mentioned psychological antipodes constitute, “per se,” a living, manifested demonstration of these pair of opposite poles
of the tremendous Dionysian vibration.
When judiciously arriving at this part of the present chapter, the necessity of a didactic confrontation is unavoidable.
Dionysian inebriation, Ecstasy, Samadhi, obviously is indispensable when one is trying to experience that which is the Truth, the Reality. Such
exaltation is one hundred percent possible by means of the technique of meditation.
Psychedelia is different. This term must be translated as this: psyche = “Soul”; delia = “drug.”
By specifying we will state: Psychedelia is the anti-pole of Meditation. The inferno of drugs is within the interior of the planetary organism on
which we live, under the very epidermis of the terrestrial crust.
Hallucinatory mushrooms, L.S.D., pills, marihuana, etc., etc., etc., evidently intensify the vibratory capacity of the subjective powers, but it is
ostensible that they could never originate the awakening of the Consciousness.
Psychedelic drugs fundamentally alter the sexual genes and this is already scientifically demonstrated. The birth of monstrous children is evidence of
the sequence of such negative, genetic mutations.
Meditation and Psychedelia are incompatible, opposite and antagonistic. They can never be mixed.
Unquestionably, these two factors of the Dionysian inebriation refer and indicate psychological rebellion.
Gnostics and Hippies were annoyed with the vain intellectualism of Mammon. They were bored with so many theories. They arrived at the conclusion that
the mind, as an instrument of investigation, is abundantly miserable...
Zen? Gnana Yoga? These are superlative. Faculties of cognition which are infinitely superior to the mind exist in a latent state within us. We can
experience that which is the Reality, that which is not of time, in a direct way by means of these faculties.
Unfortunately, the Hippie Movement preferred the inferno of drugs. Indubitably, they defined themselves perversely.
We, the Gnostics, plainly disappointed with the stubborn intellectualism of Mammon, drink the wine of meditation from the cup of perfect
concentration.
Radical and in depth psychological changes are urgent when we are disappointed with the scoundrels of the mind.
To return to the original point of departure is what is wise. Only thus is a radical transformation possible.
Sexology? Bless my soul oh God and Hail Mary! This theme horrifies the puritans...
It is written in the sacred scriptures with words of fire that sex is a stumbling stone and a rock of offense...
The evidence stands out; we are not the offspring of any theory, school or sect.
In the crude root of our existence, we only find the coitus of a man and a woman...
We were born nude, somebody cut our umbilical cord, we cried, and then we searched for the maternal breast...
Clothing? Schools? Theories? Erudition? Money, etc., etc., etc.? All of these came later on, as an addition.
Beliefs of all types exist everywhere. However, the unique force which can transform us in an integral and unitotal way is the force which placed us
on the carpet of existence. I am referring to the creative energy of the first instant, to the sexual potency.
The delightful love, the erotic enjoyment, is by logical sequence the greatest joy...
To know how to wisely copulate is indispensable when a definitive psychological change is sincerely longed for.
The Hippies forebode all of this when they revolted against Mammon, but they erred in their way. They did not know how to synchronize themselves with
the positive pole of Dionysus.
We, the Gnostics, are different, we know how to enjoy. To transmute and sublimate the libido is enjoyable for us. This is not a crime.
The Hippie Movement and subsequent cultures resolutely marches on the devolving, descending path of infrasexuality.
The Universal International Christian Gnostic Movements victoriously progress on the ascendant revolutionary path of suprasexuality.
[edit on 30-7-2006 by Tamahu]