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Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Last week I shared for you the first verse of the Letter to the Colossians, out of David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament, which I highly recommend. Hart translated directly from the original Greek manuscripts, rather than deriving his translation the way most Bibles have been translated, which is from the Latin Vulgate and on into King James, and out that way—they just keep massaging the Latin. But Hart went back to the original Greek for the actual meaning of the words and the phrases.

And last week we talked about the fractals of Colossians, because when it speaks of the fullness of God, which it does often in the Book of Colossians, these are nested fractals. We are tucked up, we are nested upward in a pyramidal type of sense into the Aeons of the Fullness of God. We are their fruit, we are derived from them, so our consciousness flows downward out of the Fullness of God. And the Fullness of God is sitting there with what is called the Son of God, which is the only emanation from the original ground state of consciousness, the original state of the Father, the big G, the God Above All Gods. He emanated only one emanation, and that’s called the Son. And it encapsulates everything that the Father stands for and is, but in this monad, a singularity type of form. I think of the Son as this big, like, a big round gaseous ball. That’s the way I picture it in my mind. And then as soon as the Son was emanated, He also had his own emanations, because He is the exact spirit of the Father. And so as the Father created the Son, the Son created the Fullnesses, the Totalities, the Aeons of God.

I’m going to pick up in chapter 2 here of the letter to the Colossians, and he says,

For I want you to know how great a struggle I have for your sake, and for those in Laodicea, for so many who have not seen my face in the flesh, so that their hearts, being joined together in love, might be encouraged on toward all the riches of full certainty in understanding, for full knowledge of the mystery of God, of the Anointed, in whom are all the hidden treasures of wisdom and of knowledge.

He’s talking about gnosis when he speaks of full certainty and understanding, full knowledge of the mystery, the hidden treasures of wisdom and knowledge. That is the gnosis that Gnostics are mining. And I think that we here at Gnostic Insights are on the right track, and I thank you for joining me.

A lot of people who call themselves Gnostics and are out there exploring various Gnostic sites and scriptures and doctrines, these are, in my opinion, rabbit trails that don’t necessarily lead to true knowledge, true wisdom, true Fullness and certainty in the knowledge of God. It’s just one more thing, one more thing, one more thing. Got to find this, got to listen to that speaker, got to do this, got to do that.

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