I have been concentrating way too much on the concept of Pleroma in my posts and many people might think that I am a dualist. So in order to clear out those misconceptions I am going to unleash the real Kraken in this post. I am concentrating too much on the concept of Pleroma rather than talking about Non-dualism because that's a path of attaining Non-dualism which people have forgotten, very few people take that road to reality nowadays and I emphasized on Pleroma so that people can see and understand how radically different the concept of Non-dualism really is than what you hear from spiritual gurus or from New Age fellows. I stressed on Pleroma so that people can understand the true implications of the idea of Non-dualism.
What if I am going to say to you that Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela are equivalent to Adolf Hitler, Osama Bin Laden and Abu Bhakr Al Bhagdadi?
The former and the latter persons are equivalent to one and another because they are neither responsible for the good and evil actions that they did or committed. Mahatma Gandhi was not a Mahatma and neither was he a great human being and nor Adolf Hitler was a bad human being. Now one might ask how is Adolf Hitler not a bad human being when he was responsible for the death of millions of Jews? This is where the whole world slips. According to the Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Valentinianism and the pagan mystery religions we human beings really have no free will, we are not in control of our lives, everything we dream of, think of and possess is not really ours.
Just as the Demiurge secretly moved by Sophia thinks that he acts alone the same also with human beings.
- Excerpt of Theodotus, Valentinian Christian
God is really the demon of Rene Descartes who deceives us into falsely believing that this world is real, that these bodies are ours, deceiving us that the voice which speaks inside us is us, deceiving us into believing that the psyche or the character is what make us who we really are only to wake up to realize to the truth that the dreams which we are chasing all our lives are not truly ours but instead it was someone else's to begin with. Its like we all are being set up to fight, to kill and to love each other without being aware of the fact that none of our thoughts are truly originating from us.
Western psychology has a very loose definition for the concept of Pride or Ego but in the traditional Indian psychology "Ego" is directly identified with God. In fact this is the whole essence of the Gayatri verse that many people chant it blindly today that God is the one who stimulates our thoughts.
- God is the one who makes us commit sins and he is also the one who brings the wrath upon us for those sins.
- God is the one who murders people and he is the one who saves us.
- God is both evil and good.
- God is both heat and cold.
- God is both fire and water.
- God is both love and hate.
- God is both moral and immoral.
- God is both our enemy and our friend.
- God is both omnipresent and he is also omniabsent.
- God is omnibenevolent and he is omnimalevolent.
- God is omniscient and he is omniweak.
- God is the one who sends us to hell and he is the one who sends us to heaven.
- God is the one who makes us cry and he is the one who makes us laugh.
- He is the one who forces us to take revenge upon others and he is the one who makes us to forgive those who do bad to us.
- God is the one who make us commit adultery and fornification and he is the one who makes us be loyal to our husbands or wives.
- God is the one who makes us fall in love and he is also the one who breaks our heart.
- God is the one who brings famine and drought and he is also the one who brings harvest and rain.
- God is the one who implants bombs at Churches, Mosques and at Temples and he is the one who sends aid to those who are killed at those places.
Can you see where am I going with this? To make you guys understand the real message out of this I have to quote the words of a great Quantum Physicist, Erwin Schroedinger who was deeply immersed in the Upanishads and contemplated its true implications.
"Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found with in the world picture because it itself is the world picture."
- Erwin Schroedinger, From Science to God by Peter Russell
Nārada Muni continued: What I referred to as the chariot was in actuality the body. The senses are the horses that pull that chariot. As time passes, year after year, these horses run without obstruction, but in fact they make no progress. Pious and impious activities are the two wheels of the chariot. The three modes of material nature are the chariot’s flags. The five types of life air constitute the living entity’s bondage, and the mind is considered to be the rope. Intelligence is the chariot driver. The heart is the sitting place in the chariot, and the dualities of life, such as pleasure and pain, are the knotting place. The seven elements are the coverings of the chariot, and the working senses are the five external processes. The eleven senses are the soldiers. Being engrossed in sense enjoyment, the living entity, seated on the chariot, hankers after fulfillment of his false desires and runs after sense enjoyment life after life.
Ego is a much more higher concept than Intelligence and the casket of Intelligence by itself cannot do anything without someone from behind stimulating our thoughts and that chariot driver is none other than Ego or God or in terms of Advaita Vedanta, it is Ishvar.
Now are we really in this world picture? Think about it, if none of our thoughts, our inner voice, our tastes, desires, dreams, our looks and characters are not truly ours then is there anything left that makes us who we are.
We all are prisoners of the cave whose souls are caught up in this world and this world is the cave of Mithras, now we have got two choices after realizing this truth, we can take the blue pill and continue to lead our lives experiencing all the pain, joy, sorrow, torments, insults, injustice, abuses, love, hate, kindness and cruelty that life has to offer us or take the red pill and escape from this world and realize who we really are.
There is no doubt that our souls are captivated in this world otherwise what's the whole point of trying to attain salvation. Now many believers of Advaita Vedanata have a false notion that they have already become Brahman or God since Non-dualism insists that "Thou are Brahman or God". They find the view that Brahman is caught up in this world and is being subject to suffering irreconcilable with the view that Brahman is all knowing and all blissful.
A question which I asked on Quora just to let people know that they have misunderstood Advaita Vedanta if they already thought that they have become God or Brahman since Advaita Vedanta says so.
We must accept the fact that our souls are caught up in this world and we are still in duality and not falsely believe that we have become one with God when we are not truly there yet. Remember, to attain Non-dualism one must ascend to all the higher heavens just like the apocalypse of Saint Paul and how he went high up to the Ogdoad to meet the Holy Father and just like the Egyptian priest in Mithras liturgy ascended to various heavens to finally meet King Helios Aion Mithras in order to receive immortality. That's how crazy the idea of Non-dualism really is, if you think you can attain Non-dualism by meditating silently at the footsteps of the Himalayas then you are wrong. You have to be the next Saint Paul of Tarsus or at least get caught up in some of the higher heavens because only a pure soul can pass over the guardians of the heavens.
Most people are just embarrassed to hold such a view of Non-dualism in this 21st century age, everyone wants to talk about Quantum Physics and science so that somehow it gives them some kind of credibility and more respect to their shitty ideas by mentioning some scientific words and by the invocation of few reputed scientists. Sorry jackasses if you want to attain Non-dualism you need to be the next Dante or the next Carl Gustav Jung, you need to rise up to the Ogdoad and meet the Holy Father in the heavens, that's how crazy it is so don't even imagine in your dreams that you know Brahman or God just by reading a few Upanishads and texts of Shankara and trying to find parallels to it from Modern Physics.
Carl Gustav Jung, the famous psychologist and Gnostic cracked this mystery through his studies of the Nag Hammadi Library which we can verify from his Red Book and the Seven Sermons to the Dead. (The Spiritually dead refers to the orthodox Christians).
Sermo II
In the night the dead stood along the wall and cried:
We would have knowledge of god. Where is god? Is god dead?
God is not dead. Now, as ever, he liveth. God is creatura, for he is
something definite, and therefore distinct from the pleroma. God is
quality of the pleroma, and everything which I said of creatura also is
true concerning him.
He is distinguished, however, from created beings through this, that
he is more indefinite and indeterminable than they. He is less distinct
than created beings, since the ground of his being is effective
fullness. Only in so far as he is definite and distinct is he creatura,
and in like measure is he the manifestation of the effective fullness of
the pleroma.
Everything which we do not distinguish falleth into the pleroma and
is made void by its opposite. If, therefore, we do not distinguish god,
effective fullness is for us extinguished.
Moreover god is the pleroma itself, as likewise each smallest point in the created and uncreated is the pleroma itself.
Effective void is the nature of the devil. God and devil are the
first manifestations of nothingness, which we call the pleroma. It is
indifferent whether the pleroma is or is not, since in everything it is
balanced and void.
Not so creatura. In so far as god and devil are
creatura they do not extinguish each other, but stand one against the
other as effective opposites. We need no proof of their existence. It is
enough that we must always be speaking of them. Even if both were not,
creatura, of its own essential distinctiveness, would forever
distinguish them anew out of the pleroma.
Everything that discrimination taketh out of the pleroma is a pair of opposites. To god, therefore, always belongeth the devil.
This inseparability is as close and, as your own life hath made you
see, as indissoluble as the pleroma itself. Thus it is that both stand
very close to the pleroma, in which all opposites are extinguished and
joined.
God and devil are distinguished by the qualities fullness and emptiness, generation and destruction. Effectiveness
is common to both.
Effectiveness joineth them. Effectiveness,
therefore, standeth above both; is a god above god, since in its effect
it uniteth fullness and emptiness.
This is a god whom ye knew not, for mankind forgot it. We name it by its name Abraxas. It is more indefinite still than god and devil.
That god may be distinguished from it, we name god Helios
or Sun. Abraxas is effect. Nothing standeth opposed to it but the
ineffective; hence its effective nature freely unfoldeth itself. The
ineffective is not, therefore resisteth not. Abraxas standeth above the
sun and above the devil. It is improbable probability, unreal reality.
Had the pleroma a being, Abraxas would be its manifestation. It is the
effective itself, not any particular effect, but effect in general.
It is unreal reality, because it hath no definite effect.
It is also creatura, because it is distinct from the pleroma.
The sun hath a definite effect, and so hath the devil. Wherefore do they appear to us more effective than indefinite Abraxas.
It is force, duration, change.
The dead now raised a great tumult, for they were Christians.
Sermo III
Like mists arising from a marsh, the dead came near and cried: Speak further unto us concerning the supreme god.
Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas. Its power is the greatest, because man perceiveth it not. From the sun he draweth the summum bonum; from the devil the infimum malum; but from Abraxas life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil.
Smaller and weaker life seemeth to be than the summum bonum;
wherefore is it also hard to conceive that Abraxas transcendeth even the
sun in power, who is himself the radiant source of all the force of
life.
Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of the void, the belittling and dismembering devil.
The power of Abraxas is twofold; but ye see it not, because for your eyes the warring opposites of this power are extinguished.
What the god-sun speaketh is life.
What the devil speaketh is death.
But Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time.
Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness,
in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.
It is splendid as the lion in the instant he striketh down his
victim. It is beautiful as a day of spring. It is the great Pan himself
and also the small one. It is Priapos.
It is the monster of the under-world, a thousand-armed polyp, coiled knot of winged serpents, frenzy.
It is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning.
It is the lord of the toads and frogs, which live in the water and go
up on the land, whose chorus ascendeth at noon and at midnight.
It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness.
It is holy begetting.
It is love and love’s murder.
It is the saint and his betrayer.
It is the brightest light of day and the darkest night of madness.
To look upon it, is blindness.
To know it, is sickness.
To worship it, is death.
To fear it, is wisdom.
To resist it not, is redemption.
God dwelleth behind the sun, the devil behind the night. What god
bringeth forth out of the light the devil sucketh into the night. But
Abraxas is the world, its becoming and its passing. Upon every gift that
cometh from the god-sun the devil layeth his curse.
Everything that ye entreat from the god-sun begetteth a deed of the devil.
Everything that ye create with the god-sun giveth effective power to the devil.
That is terrible Abraxas.
It is the mightiest creature, and in it the creature is afraid of itself.
It is the manifest opposition of creatura to the pleroma and its nothingness.
It is the son’s horror of the mother.
It is the mother’s love for the son.
It is the delight of the earth and the cruelty of the heavens.
Before its countenance man becometh like stone.
Before it there is no question and no reply.
It is the life of creatura.
It is the operation of distinctiveness.
It is the love of man.
It is the speech of man.
It is the appearance and the shadow of man.
It is illusory reality.
Now the dead howled and raged, for they were unperfected.
Jung is speaking the same thing in terms of Gnostic terminology as what Erwin Schroedinger said that we are nowhere to be found within this world picture and that all the dualities of life is carried out by the supreme God Abraxas.
But do we really have the choice even to take the blue pill or the red pill, isn't it true that even that is preordained by God. Then how can we say that it is by our effort and by our works of the Law that we attained redemption. Did we? Really? This is where the grace of God comes into the picture. Obviously such a God is not worthy of worship who turns us away from him and at the same time brings the wrath upon us for not loving him when we have absolutely no freedom over the choices that we make.
Our only hope and belief is to believe that this God is good and he will free us from this bondage through his grace for us. In fact this is the belief in the pagan mystery religions that God is preparing all of us to make ourselves free from bondage so we must stop weeping for every small things that goes along with our lives.
There is no concept of Devil in the pagan mystery religions and also in the Upanishads and the Vedas. Now in a typical Christian environment all the good things would be attributed to God and all the evil things that happens in one's life would be attributed as done by the Devil. This is not our view, according to us both Good and Evil is carried out by the Supreme God for everything is working according to the Will of The Father and our true self is nowhere to be found with in this world picture.
All our souls have the potential within themselves to become God but the potential in us can only be extracted by God alone through his grace for us, he has to bring us to his feet and he has to make us pray for him and he has to show us the real truth as to who we really are.
Where then is boasting?
Isn't this the death of Ego and the emergence of the truth of Non-dualism that "I am God, God and I are One"?
I'm
currently reading the latest 25 books I purchased a week ago, and some library
books:
o
Hellenistic myths and mystery religions
o The
controversy over Copenhagenist quantum mechanics
o
Tenseless (illusory) time
o
Several ~$85 books on determinism, including in Stoic thought
o
Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious
Category
The
Gnostics, like the mystery initiates, understood the threat of block-universe
fatalism to human freedom, and were motivated mainly by hating such a
metaphysically disempowering jail cell of "astrological" cosmic
determinism, and by *wanting* and *attempting* to find a way of transcending,
in some sense, the frozen space-time cosmos.
Whether
they succeeded, in some sense, at transcending the ego-killing trap of
illusory/frozen time is a matter of debate and a matter of investigating the
notion of transcendence. All the hatred
and loathing of my block-universe idea exhibited by some contemporary Gnostics
only serves to confirm the plausibility of my portrayal of how the ancients had
mixed feelings about the Fatalism they perceived and believed in.
I'm not
interested in truth per se, but by making sense out of
mystery-experiencing. I'm constructing
a simple, consistent model of how our personal power of will and self-control
sits with respect to the time dimension, and how the ancients experienced
initiation in the mystery religions.
The ancients were concerned above all with the problematic metaphysical
aspects of personal freedom.
We cannot
say, with low-level detail, that their myths had only one meaning, regarding
our metaphysical freedom or lack of it, or our transcendence of metaphysical
unfreedom. But we can certainly say
that the Gnostics and mysteries had one high-level, overarching meaning:
grappling with the problematic nature of personal metaphysical freedom.
Each
Gnostic group or thinker, and each mystery tradition, and each myth, may have
drawn different conclusions or told the religious story in different ways, but
there is one commonality across all this diversity: they all were concerned
primarily with the problematic nature of personal metaphysical freedom. When certain contemporary Gnostics rail
against my model of the frozen block universe, they only add support to the
above thesis of what concern, what issue, what *problem* unites all the variant
traditions of the diverse Gnostic groups and mystery traditions.
I have
cracked the code, penetrated the mysteries, and solved the puzzle, by
identifying the question, the problem, what was really at issue. The way to finally make sense of the various
Hellenistic myths in an encompassing way is through reading them as encoded
allegories of mystic-state encounters with the problematic nature of personal
metaphysical freedom. Cries by certain
Gnostics against the frozen block-universe model only strengthen this
thesis.
o Is the universe in fact frozen, with time
being illusory?
o Is our power and freedom a frozen illusion
as well?
o Can we meaningfully transcend such deathly
freezing or rock-embedding of the entire time axis?
o Is there a legitimate and coherent way that
we can, like Mithras, exit from the rock-womb and become legitimately
free?
These are
matters for debate and do not overthrow the value of my model of time and
personal control, as a fundamental and basic model to consider as a hypothesis
and reference point that all initiates must know. No one should believe that time is an illusion, along with our
personal power to author our own future, but *everyone* should *know* this idea
as a fundamental hypothesis and point of reference.
sole reality, the world is an illusion” — such a totally ruinous deduction is the final outcome of that philosophic dictum.