called a proselyte. But a proselyte does not make a proselyte.
Those Who came from the Truth are as They were initially.
And They beget other Men of Truth. The latter
need only to be born (in It).
Proselyte is a person who recently accepted faith.
Those Who came from the Truth are Those Who came from
the Abode of God-the-Father. They can lead Their disciples into
this Abode, thus allowing them to be “born” in It.
2. A slave can hope only to become free. A slave cannot
expect to inherit the estate of the master.
Yet a Son is not only a Son, but also a Co-owner of His
Father’s estate.
A Son of God-the-Father, coessential to Him, is a Co-owner
of His property.
3. There are those who inherit the perishable. They
belong to the perishable, and thus they inherit the perishable.
Those Who inherit the Imperishable are imperishable.
They become owners of both the Imperishable and the
perishable.
People of the perishable inherit (really) nothing. Because
what can a perishable man inherit?
If the one who leaves the body inherits the True Life,
it means that such One is not dead but will live.
The One Who has attained the Father through efforts on
self-development achieves the True Life after the death of the
body. He or She becomes a Co-owner with the Father both of
the Heavenly and of the earthly.
4. A pagan does not die because this person has not
(really) lived. So, there is no point in speaking about a pagan’s
death. But those who have accepted the Truth begin to live,
and there is a danger of dying for them because they live.
To die in this context means to go astray from the Path to
the Father. This is a spiritual death.
5. Since the day of Christ’s incarnation, the prosperity
came, the cities revived, the death moved away.
6. When we were Hebrews, each of us had only a
mother. But since we became Christians, we have both
the Father and mother.
In the Judaic tradition, God was called Father. And Jesus
suggested to His followers that they call only God — Father, not
the earthly parent.
Philip says that the true followers of Christ now have the
True Father.
7. Those who sow in winter reap in summer.
The winter is the earthly, but the summer is another
eon. Let us sow on the Earth in winter so that we may
reap the harvest in summer!
Therefore, we should not pray to God for the winter,
because the winter is followed by the summer.
But the one who tries to reap in winter will not really
reap but only pluck out the sprouts.
In warm regions, people sow in winter, not in spring as it is
done in cold regions.
The Greek word eons
denotes spatial dimensions; among
them are those called hell, paradise, the abode of the Creator.
In “winter”, i.e. while we are on the Earth, we have to
work in order that in “summer” we live in sufficiency and bliss
of the highest eons.
8. The one who does not follow this — will not reap
the harvest. Moreover, such one will not only be without
the harvest, but will have no strength in the Sabbath.
The one who does not work hard to make oneself better
during the entire incarnation will not receive good fruits after
it.
Philip symbolizes the period of time allocated for this work
with the images of “winter” and “workweek”; then the time
for rest comes — “summer”, “Sabbath-Saturday” (Saturday is
the Jewish day of rest).
9. Christ came to “ransom” some: to liberate, to
save. He “ransomed” strangers making them His own.
Afterwards, He set apart His own — those whom He
ransomed by His will.
He laid down Himself (on the Path of sacrificial service)
when He Himself willed it — not only when He revealed
Himself to people, but from the very day of the
Creation of the World, He laid down Himself.
He was embodied, and afterwards He — when He
willed — withdrew Himself. He was in the hands of robbers
and was taken captive. He liberated Himself and
saved also those who were regarded as good and bad in
this world.
10. Light and darkness, life and death, right and left
— are brothers of one another; they are inseparable (in
worldly people). Because of this, among them — the good
are not good, the bad are not bad, and their life is not
life, and their death is not death.
So, one should begin with separating all these in oneself.
Those who have detached themselves from everything
worldly become whole, eternal.
The one who has entered on the spiritual Path has to separate
in oneself the true, eternal, and valuable for life in the
highest eons — from the false, which belongs only to this world.
Then one has to cultivate in oneself the first and get rid of the
second.
Those Who have accomplished this become eternal in the
Divine eons.
11. The importance attached to earthly things is a
great delusion, for they divert our thoughts from the One
Who is eternal to that which is transient. And in this case,
the one who hears about God does not perceive (behind
this word) the Eternal, but thinks about the transient. In
the same way, behind the words the Father, the Son, the
Holy Spirit, the Life, the Light, the Resurrection, and the
Church — people do not perceive the Eternal, but think
about the transient, unless they have already cognized
the Eternal (through personal spiritual experience). These
words are only misleading to worldly people.
If they were in the (Divine) eons, they would not use
these words among worldly concerns and things, because
these notions are related to the (Divine) eons.
In the same way, in Russia many people use the exclamation
“Lord!” as a swear word in situations when other similar
people use obscene language.
And God-the-Father, Who is the Universal Ocean of the
Primordial Consciousness, is pictured on Orthodox icons as an
old man sitting on a cloud.
Hardly one of the “pastors”, not to mention the “flock”,
can answer the question “Who is the Holy Spirit?”.
Most “believers”, as well as atheists, understand the word
life only as life in a body, mourning those who left their bodies,
pitying them…
12. One name is not uttered among that which is
worldly — it is the name that the Father grants to a Son. It
is above all. This name is the Father. The Son would not
have gotten this name if He had not become the Father.
Those who bear this name know this, but They do not
speak about this. But those who do not bear this name do
not know Them.
Names in this world are invented because it is not
possible to cognize the Truth without them.
The Truth is one, but It is presented as Multitude1.
This is for our sake: to lead us to the cognition of the One
through love for Multitude.
People who have not cognized the Father personally are
not capable of seeing, recognizing a Son. And if a Son tries to
speak to them about His coessentiality to the Father, such people
only become angry with Him.
1 This sentence speaks about the United We — the Totality
of All the Perfect Ones Who flowed into the Primordial Consciousness
and Who represent Its Essence.
13. The earthly rulers wanted to deceive people,
since they understood that people have the same origin
with the really worthy. They took good names and gave
these names to bad things in order to deceive people and
bind them to the bad in this way. And now these earthly
rulers suggest to people that they keep away from the
“bad” and cling to the “good”. These earthly rulers strive
to make formerly free men slaves forever.
14. There are powers which give (power) to people,
not wishing to save them. They do this (in order to subjugate
them).
People, wishing to be saved, made sacrifices. But a
reasonable one (understands clearly that) sacrifices are
not necessary and animals should not be offered to deities.
In fact, those who offered animals as a sacrifice
were themselves like animals (by the level of their development)…
When a sacrifice was made (animals were offered to
deities). Though animals were offered alive, they died.
But the one who offers oneself dead to God — (verily)
will live.
Here, the last paragraph needs to be commented.
The fact is that man is not a body. Man is a consciousness,
a soul. So, it is wrong to say that man is dead if the body has
died. It is the body that died, but the man did not.
One can also consider death of man (as a soul, i.e. spiritual
death) in the sense implied by the words of Jesus: “Follow Me,
and let the dead bury their dead!” (Matt 8:22; Luke 9:60).
But in this part of His Gospel, Philip means another death
— the death of one’s lower individual “I”, and this implies the
realization of the Higher I, i.e. Mergence of the developed consciousness
with the Creator. Such a person attains the Eternal
Life in the Abode of the Creator in Mergence with Him.
15. Before Christ came, there was no bread of Heaven.
It was like in paradise at the time of Adam: there
were many trees — food for animals, but no wheat — food
for man. Man used to feed like animals.
But when a Christ — Perfect Man — comes, He brings
the bread from Heaven so that people may eat human
food.
People without the true knowledge about their predestination
and the Path, live a life quite comparable to the life of animals.
God, through a Christ, gives them spiritual food appropriate
to humans.
16. The earthly rulers thought that what they did they
did by their own power and will. But in reality the Holy
Spirit in secret accomplished all that through them — accomplished
as He considered appropriate.
They also sow everywhere the true knowledge, which
existed since the beginning. And many people see it while
it is being sown, but only a few of them recall about it by
the time of the harvest.
The Holy Spirit directs the acts of people when necessary,
but people usually are not aware of this.
He, among other things, creates — through vicious people
— difficulties in the form of temptations and enticements (such
as false doctrines) for other embodied people. This is done for
the sake of their intellectual development. After all, they are
sent here to learn, and not just to live.
The meaning of our lives on the Earth consists in our self
development, which must go in three main directions: intellectual,
ethical, and psychoenergetical. And our Teacher is God.
Diligent students, after graduating from this School, are in
vited by the Father, if they are worthy of this, to His Abode to
merge there with Him forever.
But remedial students remain forever “repeaters”, become
slaves of this world.
The time of the “harvest” is the end of the world: the
School is closed, the worthy students move to the Abode of
God-the-Father, enriching Him with Themselves; the lot of the
rest is the outer darkness: destruction, death of the souls.
… A special comment has to be made concerning the use of
the pronoun They with regard to the Holy Spirit in this fragment.
This is not an error: the Holy Spirit is indeed an aggregate
of former humans who attained in their development the
right to be in the Highest eons.
17. Some said that Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit.
They are in error. They do not understand what they say.
When did a woman ever conceive by a woman?
Mary at the same time is the immaculacy, which was
not defiled by violence.
She is a great temptation to Hebrews, both to those
who preach and to those who listen to their preaching.
Her immaculacy, which was not defiled by violence, is
pure. But the mighty of this world defiled themselves
(through their fantasies).
And the Lord (Jesus Christ) would not have said, “My
Father Who is in Heaven,” if He had not had another father.
He would have said simply: “My father”.
In Greek, in which the Gospel was written, the Holy Spirit
is of feminine gender. This is the reason for the irony of Philip
in the beginning of the fragment.
18. The Lord said to the disciples, “Enter the House of
the Father. But do not take anything in the House of the
Father, nor carry anything out.”
The last phrase of Jesus is a joke, because in “the House of
the Father” — in the highest eon — there are no material objects
that can be carried out as from the house of an earthly
father.
But to enter the Abode of the Heavenly Father and to settle
there forever is the Goal of the evolution of every person.
19. Jesus is a human name. Christ is a title. For this
reason the name Jesus is not found in other languages; He
was just named Jesus.
Christ in Syriac is Messiah; Christ is a Greek word.
Other languages also have this word — according to their
spelling.
The Nazarene means “The One Who came from the
Truth”.
Christ is not the last name of Jesus as some believers
think. Christ is the One Who attained the Abode of God-the-
Father, became a Part of Him, and then came to the Earth as a
Divine Teacher coessential to the Father.
Christ, Messiah, Avatar — all these are just different expressions
of the same phenomenon in different languages.
Jesus Christ was one, but there were many Christs
throughout the entire history of mankind. Jesus was the only
and the first Christ for those people with whom He communicated
directly during His earthly life.
20. Christ has everything in Himself: both human and
angelic, and even more mysterious, and the Father.
In the Gospel of John, there is a statement of Jesus where
He compared Himself with a vine: its trunk is above the surface
of the Earth, and its root comes from the Abode of God-the-
Father. Since He, as a Consciousness, is present everywhere,
He can veraciously tell people about the highest eons and represent
God-the-Father to them in the material world.
21. They who say that the Lord died first and then
rose up are in error, for He rose up first and then died (by
the body).
The one who has attained the Resurrection will not
die. For God lives and will be living always.
The true Resurrection is the Resurrection in the highest
eons, and not in the world of matter. Jesus attained this a long
time ago and came to the Earth as a Part of God-the-Father.
The One Who has traversed the Path up to Mergence with
God-the-Father — attains the true immortality and after the
death of the body rises in the eon of the Father in Mergence
with Him.
But Jesus “rose” for embodied people in this world as well,
by materializing His new body every time. He could do this by
His Divine Power.
22. One never hides a thing of great value in a large
vessel, but very often countless treasures are placed into
a vessel worth an assarion. It is the same with the soul.
Being a precious thing, it is placed in a contemptible
body.
Atheists as well as most of those who call themselves
Christians believe that man is a body.
But in reality man is a soul, a consciousness. And the body
is just a temporal container, in which man has to go through
the next stage of studying in the School in the material world.
Incarnate states of people are usually much shorter parts
of their lives as compared to non-incarnate states.
However, the development of man can take place only in
the incarnate state. It is for this reason that incarnations are
necessary, it is for this reason that God creates material
worlds.
The point is that the body is a “factory” for transformation
of energy. In the body, the energy extracted, first of all, from
ordinary food can become the energy of the consciousness, of
the soul. It is thanks to this that the process of qualitative and
quantitative growth of the consciousness can take place.
23. There are people who are afraid of rising naked.
This is because they want to rise in the flesh. Yet they do
not understand that those who wear the flesh are naked
(in front of spirits and God).
But those who undress themselves (of the flesh) in order
to become naked (i.e. “naked” souls) — they are not
naked anymore.
Neither flesh nor blood can enter the Abode of God.
So, what is that which will not enter? It is that which
is on us.
And what is that which will enter? It is that which belongs
to Jesus and to His Blood.
Therefore, He said, “They who will not eat My Flesh
and drink My Blood will not have the (true) life in them”.
What is His Flesh? — Logos. And His Blood is the Holy
Spirit. The one who has received These has true food,
drink, and clothing. And I cannot agree if someone says
that This Flesh will not rise.
So, people got confused. If you say that the Flesh will
not rise, then tell me, so that I may honor you as a rea
sonable person, what will rise?
You better say that the Spirit is this Flesh and the
Light is this Flesh. And Logos is also this Flesh. So, all
what you mentioned is this Flesh. And one must rise in
this very Flesh, since everything is in It.
In this fragment, Philip uses a “play on words”, which is
typical of this Gospel, as a means for stimulating the reader’s
thinking.
Philip begins this fragment with scoffing at the fear of rising
naked: the shame of nakedness of the body is not an objectively
significant ethical law, but just a moral norm of certain
groups of people embodied on the Earth. There are no such
“norms of behavior” in the highest eons.
Individual Consciousnesses in the Abode of the Creator
abide in the mutually dissolved, merged state, forming a
Whole. However, They can separate again as Individualities
with the purpose of performing a specific task in the Creation.
Spirits retain their separateness, as well as the appearance
and tendencies, habitual for them in the last incarnation. But
they also can transform into lumps of energy or assume for a
time someone else’s appearance when they converse with incarnate
people.
God and spirits hear not only the words which we say but
also our thoughts, even the most “secret” ones.
They also see everything existing in the world of matter, in
all detail. Not only clothes, under which we hide our bodies,
but even the intestines of our bodies are absolutely open to the
sight of any non-incarnate being.
But embodied people usually do not know about this, do
not notice, and even if they knew and noticed, they would not
have a chance to hide their nakedness. We are naked before
the whole Ocean of non-incarnate universal Consciousness and
before many individual consciousnesses. We are visible to all.
They examine us, admiring or compassionating, respecting or
making fun, loving or hating, despising, foretasting our future
suffering… But we do not know this, and even if we knew — anyway
we do not have any place where to go, where to hide…
… Then Philip proceeds with discussing that which Jesus allegorically
called His Flesh and Blood.
Jesus-“Vine”, for incarnating in a body, “stretched” a part
of Himself-Consciousness from the eon of God-the-Father — to
the world of matter. And He explained to the disciples that the
Path to God-the-Father consists for them in transformation of
themselves into similar “Vines”, but they have to grow in the
direction opposite as compared to Jesus: not from God-the-
Father — to the matter, but from the matter — to God-the-
Father.
The one who grows by the “roots” to the Abode of Godthe-
Father and merges there with Him in the embrace of Love
— becomes a Christ with time.
In order to traverse this Path, one has to “eat” that “food”
which is provided to people from the eons of the Holy Spirit
and God-the-Father. This is the “food” of the Divine
knowledge. And “Logos” (i.e. “Speaking One”) is the One Who
brings this knowledge.
The one who gets born in the highest eons during the life in
a material body and who grows one’s own Divine “Flesh” in
these eons is a true follower of Christ, a true Christian to become
a Christ. After the death of the body, such a person truly
rises, attains immortality, and for sure will not die even at the
end of the world.
24. In this world, people mark themselves in the society
by their garments.
But in the Kingdom of Heaven, the garments of the
chosen are on Those Who robed themselves in the Flow
and Fire, on Those Who purified Themselves.
The Flow is motion of the Consciousness of the Holy Spirit.
One’s entering in it is similar to submersion in a cosmic river of
Living Divine Consciousness. Different variations of this meditation
are called Latihan and Pranava (see more details in [1]).
This represents the real baptism in the Holy Spirit. As we see, it
is not similar at all to what is understood as baptism in various
sects.
The Holy Spirit pervades all layers of the multidimensional
Creation. A Manifestation of the Holy Spirit above the Earth’s
surface can be associated with a Flow. His Manifestation inside
the planet is designated by Philip as Light. Another Manifestation
of Him is Fire. And the Perfect Light is God-the-Father in
His Abode — in the Bridal Chamber.
Baptism, performed sequentially in each of these layers,
provides the next stages of purification and refinement of the
consciousness of a spiritual warrior.
25. Usually obvious things are cognized through the
obvious, and secret things — through the secret. But in
some cases, the secret is symbolized through images of
the obvious.
Thus come the image of water in the Flow and the
image of fire at the blessing (of God-the-Father).
26. Jesus conquered the hearts of people without revealing
His Essence. To everyone He revealed Himself as
much as they could comprehend. He did this so: to the
great He appeared as great, to the small He appeared as
small, to angels — as an angel, and to people — as a man.
At the same time, His Divinity was hidden from all. Some,
seeing Him, thought that they saw a person equal to
them.
But when He revealed Himself to His disciples in the
whole glory on the mountain — at that moment He was
not small but truly Great. But before this, He made His
disciples great, so that they could see His Greatness.
On that day, thanking the Father, He said: “O He, Who united
His Perfection and Light with the Holy Spirit,
unite us also with the images of angels!”
In this saying of Jesus there is a “play on words”. Its meaning
is: “Do so that the disciples, at last, become looking like
angels!”. Behind these words of Jesus there is a regret that
even some of His closest disciples could not comprehend Him.
One of the peculiarities of people’s development is that
souls, incarnated by God in human bodies, have a very different
age, which does not correlate with the age of the body. This
determines, first of all, the ability to comprehend information
of different levels of complexity (and to a much lesser degree
it depends on the age of the body, the nature of upbringing,
education, and so on). Souls become mature during many incarnations,
about this Jesus, as well as His Apostles, told.
A wise teacher provides help to people taking into account
the peculiarities of their age and their abilities to comprehend.
A teacher should not give to the students information which is
too complex and beyond their comprehending abilities.
The spiritual Path is like a stairway consisting of many
steps. And it is necessary to help disciples to get on the step
which is next for them, and not to suggest to them to jump
through a flight of steps.
27. Do not neglect the Lamb, for without Him one
cannot see the Gate.
And no one will be able to come to the King remaining
“naked”.
The sacrificial Lamb is Jesus Who went to His cross death
in order that the knowledge, left by Him, save people from
hell.
The second phrase of this fragment is a continuation of the
idea from fragment 23. The “naked” ones are those who show
off on the surface of the Earth in material bodies identifying
themselves with the bodies and thinking that what they do in
secret from other embodied people will be a secret for all. But
in fact, they are in full view of all spirits and God. In fact, they
are laughable as if they stay naked among other embodied people
and do not notice their nudity.
But one cannot visit the King in a body, thinking about oneself
as of the body. One can go to the King only by not identifying
oneself with the body, only by having achieved the real
freedom from it through meditative training. Indeed, the stages
of meditative practices (meditation is work on the development
of the consciousness) allow one to receive the true baptism and
not the “toylike” one, allow one to be born and become mature
in new eons.
28. The Man of Heaven has many more Sons than an
earthly man. If the sons of Adam are many, although they
die, how much more are the Sons of the Perfect Man,
Those Who do not die and are begotten again and again!
The Perfect Man is Christ. His Teachings — at the cost of
His cross death and the work of His Apostles — remained on the
Earth and continue to beget new and new spiritual Children,
Who achieve Immortality in the Abode of God-the-Father.
29. The Father created a Son, but a Son cannot create
a son. Because the One Who was born in that way (by the
Father) cannot beget. A Son makes brothers for Himself,
not sons.
The earthly reproduction is not attractive to a Son of
God. Therefore, He begets not earthly children, but spiritual
ones — brothers and sisters.
30. This part of the original text is damaged.
31. There are those who feed from a mouth if the
word of God comes from it. If one feeds like this — one
can become Perfect.
The Perfect can be conceived by a kiss and be born
thus.
For this reason, we also kiss one another to become
conceived from the grace which is in each one of us.
A Perfect Teacher feeds disciples with the word of God
from the mouth. And this can bring them to the Perfection.
Having been prepared by previous incarnations, psychogenetically
mature disciples can be awaked to further advancement
by Love of the Teacher. And then they can be born in the
highest eons.
The emotions of tender love help disciples in their spiritual
work, supporting, inspiring, and imbuing them with power.
32. There were three who always walked with the
Lord: Mary — His mother, His sister, and Mary Magdalene
— who was called His companion. So, there were three
Maries: His mother, His sister, and His companion.
33. The Father and the Son are single names.
But the Holy Spirit is a Double2 name. For They are
everywhere: They are above, They are below, They are in
the hidden space, They are in the open (space).
(At that) the Holy Spirit is open below and hidden
above.
2
I.e. in a collective sense, denoting concrete Divine Individualities
— the Representatives of the Creator.
The Holy Spirits, coming from the Abode of God-the-
Father, are present in Their different states above the surface
of the Earth (“the open space”) and inside our planet (“the
hidden space”).
However, the Holy Spirits below the surface of the Earth
can be seen by a spiritual warrior and can be invisible above it
to a worldly person.
34. Saints are served by evil powers as well. These
powers are blind because of the Holy Spirit: they think
that they serve their men, but in fact they work for the
saints.
A disciple once asked the Lord about something worldly.
The Lord answered him: “Ask your mother — she will
give you of the things that are alien to Me”.
The coarser in their energy nature individual consciousnesses
are, the coarser and farther from God-the-Father are
the eons where they live during their non-incarnate state. They
have no ability to enter the abodes of more perfect consciousness
and do not see those who live in the eons more close to
God-the-Father.
However, more perfect creatures of the spiritual world are
able not only to enter coarser eons, but also to control their
inhabitants, and the latter may not even know about this.
God personally or through worthy spirits controls all other
spirits and embodied people, including the most primitive ones.
And they are used by Him for correcting other embodied people
— both sinful and righteous, for example, when the latter need
to reform, to be redirected, and so on.
35. The apostles said to their disciples: “Let all our
gifts contain salt”. By salt they called wisdom. Without it,
one’s giving must not be performed.
The apostles advised disciples to not merely give, for example
by healing, but to accompany this with preaching the
Path to the Perfection. Without this, a spiritual person should
not give, because such gifts will not bring real benefits to their
receivers.
36. But wisdom cannot be well-grounded without a
Son…
Then the original text is damaged.
The true Wisdom can originate only from God-the-
Father. And the most perfect Mediator of the Father’s
Wisdom is His Son-Christ.
37. What the Father possesses belongs also to His Son.
While the Son is small, He is not entrusted with what belongs
to Him. But when He becomes adult, the Father
gives Him all that is His.
Incarnated in a body, an infant Christ cannot manifest all
His Divine abilities. They are given to Him as His earthly body
matures.
38. Those people who go astray from the Path were
born on the Earth also according to the will of the Spirit
of God. Yet, they go astray from the Path also according
to His will. Thus, lamps are kindled and put out by the
same Spirit.
First, God puts obstacles on the Way to Him: by overcom
ing them we develop ourselves. And only those people who are
worthy, i.e. mature enough, can overcome these obstacles.
Second, there is another point that God possesses all the
Power and Authority necessary for preventing unworthy people
from approaching His eons: no one can enter the Abode of the
Father against His Will.
The worthiness of spiritual warriors is determined from the
ethical and intellectual criteria, which are closely related with
each other, and from the degree of the subtlety of the consciousness.
39. There is simple wisdom. But there is also wisdom
consecrated by death: this wisdom has cognized death.
The wisdom which has not cognized death is small wisdom.
Most people live on the Earth not thinking about the fact
that our opportunity to change our own destinies for hundreds
(usually) of years between incarnations and for the next incarnation
(if it will take place) is limited in time. Later, it will be
impossible even to dream about such a change.
But if people live remembering about the coming end of
the incarnation, then this prompts them to advance on the spiritual
Path and allows them to differentiate perfectly between
that which has value and that which has not — in front of the
coming death.
The most radical and effective decision of a spiritual warrior,
for whom the knowledge about death has become an ally,
is the decision to master the control over death through developing
the ability of dematerializing the body.
If such a person has also passed through clinical death and
has been to the other world without impediments from the material
shell, then this becomes a very essential addition to the
meditative experience and provides absolutely reliable
knowledge about life there and about what is necessary to do
in order to fulfill everything to the maximum.
40. There are animals devoted to man like cows, donkeys,
and others. And there are those not devoted to
man, which live apart in the desert.
Man plows in the field with the help of devoted ani
mals. Thanks to this, man provides with food both oneself
and the devoted animals, but not those undevoted.
In the same way, the Perfect Man works with the help
of those who are faithful and prepares everything that is
necessary for their being. Thanks to this, everything is at
the right place: the good and the bad, the right and the
left.
But the Holy Spirit takes care of everyone and controls
everything: the faithful, the hostile, and the indifferent.
He unites them and separates them in order that
they all may gain power when He decides it is necessary.
The Holy Spirit, Who acts from the Abode of the Father, is
the Main Supervisor of the destinies of embodied people. For
realization of their destinies, He, for example, directs thoughts
and desires and corrects even the fulfillment of different physical
acts of people, arranging in this way their meetings with
each other. Thus He brings together disciples with teachers,
criminals — with their victims, those seeking a sexual partner —
with their future partners, and so on. But He also separates
people by using the same methods when their relations become
unnecessary from the standpoint of their spiritual advancement.
He controls the faithful and the unfaithful to Him, the
good and the evil ones, those who know Him and those who do
not know.
However, for us, of course, it will be easier and more
pleasant, as well as more efficient, to learn from Him if we be
come disciples who love Him and God-the-Father.
An incarnate Perfect Teacher, of course, is more convenient
for the disciples, because He or She speaks with them in an
easy-to-understand language. But, on the other hand, such an
earthly Mission is more difficult for the Teacher, because being
embodied in an earthly hell, He or She is attacked by many evil
people. Therefore, such a voluntary incarnation is a manifestation
of the Teacher’s Great Sacrificial Love.
Due to understandable reasons, such Teachers teach directly
only to those who are faithful to Them.
41. This part of the original text is damaged.
42. First, adultery takes place, then a murderer is
born from it. He was a son of a devil before; therefore, he
becomes a murderer of people now and kills his brothers.
Every (sexual) intercourse of dissimilar people is adultery.
Adultery is the sexual intercourse between people that God
does not approve. This notion has nothing to do with the one
used by “pastors” of many Churches to intimidate their “flock”,
“pastors” who try to control people’s destinies on behalf of
God, though God did not entrust this to them!
From God’s standpoint, there is a concept of adultery. And
He can even punish for committing it, as we have read in this
fragment, by incarnating a devilish soul in the body of a child
to be born, or through birth of ugly children, imbeciles, and so
on.
God is not against sex in general. It is according to God’s
design that the population of human bodies on the Earth is
maintained thanks to sex. Through sexual interactions people
also learn — under the guidance of the Holy Spirit — what kind
of a person they should be and what kind they should not be.
Sexual relations between people are also a means by which God
teaches us love, wisdom, and power.
The most general principles of correct behavior in the
sphere of sexual relations are:
— tactfulness, abandonment of egoism, acting not for oneself,
but for the sake of the partner, for the sake of mutual
harmony,
— abandonment of coarseness in emotions, words, deeds,
attempts to cultivate in oneself and to give to the beloved the
subtle tenderness — the most precious emotion on the Path to
the Perfection.
May one change partners? Or must one live the whole incarnation
with one partner? The answer is: of course, one may!
Because by changing partners we can learn much more in the
art of giving our love.
However, birth of children certainly imposes duties on both
parents.
But if one is obsessed with seeking sexual pleasure, having
forgotten about everything else, this will be the sin of adultery,
and God will point out this mistake, for example, by inflicting
venereal diseases.
In the second paragraph of this fragment, the Author
writes about another kind of adultery, and this is related, first
of all, to people who already walk the spiritual Path.
It concerns the adequacy of the partner. An adequate
partner is not just the one whom you like and who agrees with
you, and with whom everything goes well (though this is also
important), but the partner must be a completely like-minded
person and the closest companion on the Path to God-the-
Father.
If there is a significant difference in the age of souls, in the
degree of the energetical refinement of the organisms and subtlety
of the consciousnesses, if one of the partners is not firm
in following the killing-free
nutrition, which is the only ethically
and bioenergetically correct one, then such relations will be
a serious obstacle for another partner who is more faithful and
closer to God. And this will be adultery from God’s standpoint,
i.e. an inadmissible and punishable act.
43. God is like a dyer. Just as good dyes, which are
called colorfast, get destroyed only with the things dyed
in them, the same happens when God works. His dyes do
not fade. They are immortal thanks to His work of the
“dyer”.
God baptizes in the Flow those whom He baptizes.
The first baptism, given by God, happens in the Flow of the
Holy Spirit. God gives it only to the worthy ones. Such a baptism
transforms them so that His “dyes” are never washed out.
44. It is not possible to perceive anything of the Imperishable
unless one becomes like It.
In the world of the True Life, everything happens not
in the same way as among worldly people: they perceive
the sun, although they are not the sun, they perceive the
sky and the earth and all other objects, not being them.
But in that
world, you perceive something, and you
become it. Thus you perceive the Holy Spirit, and you become
Him. You perceive a Christ, and you become a
Christ. You perceive the Father, you become the Father.
In that
world you perceive everything, but you do not
perceive yourself. But you perceive yourself as That One,
because you become the One Whom you see.
Philip shares His personal impressions from the highest
meditations taught by Jesus, in this case from the meditations
of Mergence with God.
45. Faith begs. Love gives.
One must not receive without faith. One must not
give without love.
Therefore, in order to beg we believe, and in order to
give truly we love.
But the one who gives without love does not benefit
from such giving.
46. The one who has not received the Lord yet is still
a Hebrew.
These words were written for readers-Hebrews. Their
meaning is:
The one who has cognized God stops perceiving oneself as
a representative of a particular nationality, religion, gender, or
age group: all these become things of the past and there remains
only the perception of oneself as a consciousness aspiring
to the Beloved.
47. The first Apostles called Him thus: Jesus Nazarene
Messiah, that is Jesus Nazarene Christ. The last word is
Christ, the first is Jesus, in the middle — Nazarene.
The word Messiah has two meanings: Christ and King.
Jesus in Hebrew means Savior. Nazara is Truth. Nazarene
is the One Who came from the Truth.
So, Christ is King. Thus, Nazarene is King and Jesus is
also King.
48. A pearl, even if it is cast down into the mud, is
not despised. And if one covers it with balsam, it does not
become more valuable. But it is always valuable to its
owner.
It is the same with the Sons of God: wherever They
may be, They are still of value to Their Father.
49. If you say, “I am a Jew!” — no one will move. If
you say, “I am a Roman!” — no one will be disturbed. If
you say, “I am a Greek, a barbarian, a slave, a free man!”
— no one will flinch. But if you say, “I am a Christian!” —
everyone will tremble. Oh, if I could receive this rank,
which is unbearable for the earthly rulers!
50. God is an Eater of men. Men are consumed by
Him.
Formerly men sacrificed animals. But their souls were
consumed not by God.
The meaning of that which we call organic life on the
planet Earth consists in the development of consciousness in
carnated in its containers — the living bodies.
Having began their evolution as primitive energetic mi
croformations on the lattice of minerals, having passed then
through many incarnations in vegetal, animal, and human bod
ies, some souls finally become Godlike and flow into the Creator
— the Primordial Universal Consciousness, thus being consumed
by Him. This constitutes His Evolution. We are its participants.
Moreover, spiritually developed people, at the final stages
of the personal evolution, sacrifice themselves, their individualities
— for the sake of Merging in Love with the Primordial
Consciousness. For such people it is natural, because they are
in the state of highest love for the Highest Beloved! From the
outside, it may seem as sacrificial self-annihilation.
In ancient times, the echoes of wishes of God about sacrificial
love reached the human masses. And people began to kill
animals as a sacrifice to Him, eating afterwards their corpses
and offering souls as a gift to God or to imaginary “gods”.
Jesus Christ was against such primitivism, suggesting that
people must refuse killing animals as a “sacrifice to God” or for
using their bodies for food.
51. Glass vessels and clay vessels are both made by
means of fire. But glass vessels, if broken, can be remade,
for they came into being through a breath. Clay vessels, if
broken, are thrown away, for they were made without
breath.
It is possible to melt down pieces of glass and make new
vessels from them, while pieces of burned clay can only be
thrown away.
There is a wise allegory here.
Both glass and clay, when used for production, go as if
through “baptism in fire”.
Glass also goes through “baptism by the breath” (the analogy
with the Flow of Pranava), but clay does not. The baptism
in the Pranava must precede the baptism in the Divine Fire.
Therefore, “baptism in fire” of clay vessels cannot give a lasting
result.
The point here is that in spiritual work it is necessary to
move from stage to stage: one must not jump over several
stages, it is impossible to remain in the Divine Fire without
strengthening oneself first in other variations of Mergence with
God.
52. A donkey, walking around a millstone, has walked
a hundred miles.
When it was untethered, it remained at the same
place.
There are men who walk much, but advance nowhere.
And when evening comes for them, they have seen nei
ther the city nor the village to which they were going,
they have cognized neither the nature of the Creation nor
the Power (i.e. God-the-Father), nor even angels. Futile
was the work of these miserable.
The efforts can yield good fruits only if the Goal and the
methods of its cognition are clear. Or it is necessary to take the
hand of the Teacher and hold tight to it. (The Teacher is the
One Who knows the Goal well and is capable of leading another
person to It).
53. Our thanksgiving — to Jesus! In Syriac, He is called
Pharisatha, i.e. the One Who exists everywhere.
Jesus came to show the crucifixion of that which belongs
to this world.
We have spoken already about the possibility and necessity
not only of qualitative but also of quantitative growth of individual
consciousnesses. The consciousness of an ordinary man is
not larger in size than the man’s body. But thanks to special
meditative training, it can be grown up to sizes comparable to
the size of the planet and even larger. Only having fulfilled this
(together with many other things), one becomes worthy of entering
the eon of God-the-Father.
Jesus traversed this Path long before His incarnation,
which is well known to modern people, and He indeed became
the One Who exists everywhere. For example, He, being on the
Earth, was at the same time in the Abode of the Father.
He also proved with His death on the cross and with His following
appearances to His incarnate disciples that the consciousness
does not die together with the body and that one
can sacrifice one’s body for the sake of realization of the highest
goals.
54. The Lord once came to the dye-works of Levi. He
took 72 different dyes and threw them into the vat. Then
He took all fabrics from it, and they were white. He said,
“Even so the Son of Man works”.
Philip describes one of the miracles performed by Jesus. By
this miracle, Jesus showed His disciples the following principle
of the work of a Teacher: a Teacher takes a group of disciples
who originally are very different (multicolored) and “whitens”
them in the common “vat” of the spiritual School. They, as
souls, should become white like the Divine Fire.
The phrase “the Son of Man”, by which Jesus often called
Himself, means: “A part of the Father incarnated among people
in a body born by a woman”.
55. A woman who has not given birth to children may
become a mother of angels. Such a woman was Mary Magdalene,
a companion of the Son. The Lord loved her more
than He loved all other disciples and often kissed her on
her mouth. The other disciples, seeing Him loving Mary,
said, “Why do You love her more than us?”. Answering
them, He said, “Why do I not love you as her?”.
This fragment describes, among other things, the relationships
between Jesus and His favorite female disciple (i.e. the
best of His female disciples) Mary Magdalene. These relationships
were filled with tender and affectionate emotionality.
Demonstrating this to His disciples, Jesus gave an example of
optimal relationships between people in common spiritual
work. United by the emotions of love-tenderness, a group of
worthy disciples works much more effective. Relationships between
the Teacher and disciples can be of the same kind.
56. When a blind person and a sighted person are both
in the darkness, they are not different from each other.
But when light comes, then the one who sees will see
the light, and the one who is blind will remain in the
darkness.
When a Teacher from God comes, only those capable of
seeing the Divine Light awake for the spiritual life; the rest re
main in their darkness of ignorance.
57. The Lord said, “Blessed are those who verily existed
before they were born (on the Earth).
“The one who verily exists now was like this and will
be.”
Jesus spoke about the evolution of units of consciousness.
Psychogenetically young people can live only an instinc
tive-reflexive life similar to the life of primitive animals.
Those who represent a qualitatively and quantitatively developed
consciousness are capable of truly conscious, rightly directed,
disciplined existence on the Path to the spiritual Perfection,
on the Path to the Father.
But the maturing of the consciousness is a quite slow process,
and it lasts many incarnations.
The more mature people are the fewer mistakes they
make, and they have fewer chances to fall down from the
stairway of the spiritual ascent. The statement of Jesus is
about this: first, for such people who come into this earthly life
being mature enough it is easy to live. Second, if we see such
people, this means that they were prepared to such a level of
existence before the beginning of the present incarnation.
58. The superiority of man is secret: man has mastery
over animals, which are stronger than man is, which are
greater by appearance and power. However, it is man who
provides them with food. But if man moves away from
them, they begin to bite, slay each other. And they will
eat each other if they do not find any food.
But now they will have food because man has tilled
the soil.
In this parable, mankind on the Earth (mankind which consists
mostly of psychogenetically young and immature people) is
likened to domestic animals in the “Estate” of God. Despite the
fact that animals obey the Master, nevertheless they remain
beasts in relations with each other if they are given the freedom
of actions, and particularly, if there is a lack of food for
them.
The Author of this parable hoped that now when Man-God
Christ gave people the true and eternal spiritual food — all
people-beasts will be satisfied and will stop being beasts…
59. If those who were immersed in the Flow and having
received nothing in It say nevertheless “I am a Christian!”,
then they take this name on credit.
But if one has really received the baptism in the Holy
Spirit, then such a person has the name ‘Christian’ as a
gift.
The one who received a gift does not have to give it
back, but from the one who received a credit, this credit
may be taken back.
John the Baptist performed the rite of the water baptism
of repentant sinners.
Jesus and the Apostles baptized by the Holy Spirit, asking
Him to manifest Himself by influencing the consciousnesses of
the baptized people. (Let us notice that it is not equal to the
birth in the Holy Spirit).
The esoteric meaning of such a baptism is to give beginners
the first experience of what the Holy Spirit is. In the future,
the memory about this experience can inspire the baptized to
dedicate the life to changing oneself according to this Standard,
to strive for attainment of Mergence with the Holy Spirit.
But other people, who just stood during the baptism and
got nothing, nevertheless, assume the title of Christians for
themselves. If they in addition will not work on selfimprovement
in order to become worthy of this title, then they
will be considered debtors who did not repay their debts to
God. By this, they will burden significantly their destinies.
60. The mystery of marriage is similar to this.
Those who are in a pure marriage are honorable. For
without this, one cannot find peace.
Man is the main essence of everything on the Earth.
And the main (earthly) function of man is marriage.
Cognize the pure marriage, for it has great power!
As for its impure form, it exists only as an outer ap
pearance.
We have said already that a marriage is a remarkable op
portunity for self-development of people longing for the Truth.
We have also discussed what adultery is. It happens: a)
when people are obsessed with seeking pleasure — to the det
riment of their duties before God and other people, and b)
when partners, engaged in sexual relations, are too different
from each other from the standpoint of their spiritual advancement,
i.e. partners that need to study in the School of
God in different programs, not in the same one.
And now we have to consider what the marriage is.
There is a state registration of matrimonial relations. It
fixes de jure spouses’ relations concerning their property and
the rights of children. Such social regulation of marriage is absolutely
correct for most people who follow only self-interest
and discharge their obligations to other people only under the
compulsion of law.
There are also Church marriages. Some Churches assume
the right to give or not to give the permission for sexual relations
between people, allegedly on behalf of God. Why? — Because
Church leaders want to keep the “flock” in awe and obedience.
But God calls by husband and wife those two who form a
firm spiritual union, the sexual relations are a component of
this union. God wishes to manage these affairs of people Himself:
whom to unite and when, and whom to split. He does this
very easily, for example, by regulating the emotions of the
partners towards each other.
Defiled forms of matrimonial relations can exist not only in
the two forms of adultery mentioned above but also in the disgusting
qualities of one or both spouses: such as egoism, harshness,
arrogance, violence towards the partner in sexual and
other relations, desire to offend and insult the partner.
61. Among evil spirits there are both male and female
ones. Male ones long for uniting with the souls which inhabit
female bodies, and the female spirits — with souls in
male bodies, with those who live alone.
And no one can run away from such spirits when they
seize an embodied soul, unless they combine in themselves
the power of man and woman, i.e. in a marriage.
Thus, one receives this power in a marriage, which is a
symbolic prototype of uniting in the Bridal Chamber.
When primitive women see a man, sitting alone, they
come to him, flirt with him, and defile him. In the same
way primitive men, when they see a beautiful woman sitting
alone, molest, rape, and defile her.
But if they see a husband and a wife sitting nearby,
they do not approach them.
In the same way, it can be when one unites by the
consciousness with an angel — then no evil spirit dares to
come to such a man or a woman.
Those who have come out of the world cannot be
seized by evil spirits, as it can happen when one is in the
world. Now they are above passion… and fear. They become
masters of their own nature; they are above earthly
desires.
… Sometimes it happens that evil spirits see a single
man and seize him, torture him… And how can he escape
them, being subjugated by his own desires and fear?
Where can he hide from them?…
It happens often that some people come and say, “We
want to become believers in order to get rid of evil spirits
and demons”… But if the Holy Spirit had been with them,
then no evil spirit would have cleaved to them!
In this long fragment, Philip, in a parable-allegory manner
peculiar also to Jesus, brings the reader to the idea of Union in
the Bridal Chamber between a person, as a consciousness, and
God-the-Father, as it happens between people in a harmonious
marriage. Such a Union provides full protection from evil spirits.
On the early stages of the Path to God-the-Father, spiritual
warriors can receive such protection through the real union of
the consciousness with the Holy Spirit or just with a pure spiritangel.
62. Do not fear the flesh, nor love it.
If you fear it, it will become your master.
If you love it, it will devour and subjugate you.
One can solve this problem radically only by switching the
attention to the Highest Goal — God-the-Father.
63. Either to live in the material world — or to rise in
the highest eons! But not to be found outside!
In this world, there is good and bad. However, that
which is considered good in fact is not good. And that
which is considered bad in fact is not bad.
Verily the bad exists outside of this world of matter!
It is that which is outside. It is perdition there.
While we live in this world, it is necessary for us to
acquire the Resurrection, so that when we strip off the
flesh, we may be found in Calm, but not walk outside.
Yet many go astray from the Path.
It is good to leave this world having not committed
sins!
64. There are people who neither want nor can work
(on themselves).
Others want and can, but do not do this. Therefore,
they do not benefit from such a desire. This only makes
them sinners.
As for those who can, but do not want, they will get
their deserts: both for the lack of desire and for the lack
of deeds.
65. This part of the original text is damaged.
66. The beginning of this fragment in the original text
is damaged.
… I am speaking not about the fire which has no manifestation
(i.e. symbolic, mythic), but about the real one,
which is white, which radiates the beautiful Light, which
gives the Truth.
It is about a manifestation of God in the form of Divine
Fire. It is quite real. But one can see It only with the eyes of
the developed Consciousness, and not with the eyes of the
body.
67. The Truth is not given to this world in clear form,
but in symbols and images. It is not possible to give It in
other forms.
So, there are a birth (in the highest eons) and its symbolic
image (an earthly birth). One has to reconstruct the
Truth through this image.
Or: what is the Resurrection in reality?
In that way, image after image, man rises.
The same is with the Bridal Chamber: image after im
age, comes the Truth, which is Mergence.
I say this to those who are not just interested in the
words “the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”, but who
gain Them truly for themselves.
But those who do not gain Them thus — then even
these words will be taken from them.
Verily, one can gain Them by the blessing of God in
the realization of all the fullness of the power of the
Cross, which was called by the Apostles the Right-and-
Left.
The One Who has cognized this is no longer a Christian
but a Christ.
Sometimes it is difficult to find appropriate words peculiar
to the material world, when we speak about the phenomena of
the highest eons. Therefore, there is no other way but to use
symbols and images. They become quite clear to those spiritual
warriors who have matured to realize them in meditation.
In the last paragraph, Philip describes — again in symbols
and images — one of the highest meditations, which is performed
in the highest eons. The One Who masters it in the eon
of the Father — soon becomes a Christ.
68. The Lord has everything important in the form
hidden from this world: the baptism, the blessing, the
transfiguration, the purification, and the Bridal Chamber.
As we already saw from the written above, the outer ritual
forms and outer descriptions have nothing in common with the
true realization of the things mentioned in this fragment.
69. The Lord said, “I came to bring the lowest to the
Highest and the outer — to the inner, and to unite them
THERE.”
He spoke about THAT place in symbols and images.
Those who say that God is above are wrong. It is so
because about Him, Who is in That place, one may say
that He extends below. Yet, at the same time, He — to
Whom also belongs everything hidden from this world — is
above everything!
In fact, it is just nattering: “the inner and the outer,
the outer from the inner”…
The Lord called the place of destruction the outer
darkness. And the entire world is surrounded by it…
He also said, “My Father Who is in the hidden”.
He also said, “Go into your chamber, close the door,
and address your Father Who is in the hidden”, that is,
the One Who is in the depth beneath everything.
But the One Who is in the depth beneath everything is
the Primordial Consciousness. Beyond It, there is no one
residing deeper.
Yet, at the same time, it is said about It: “The One
Who is above everything”.
God-the-Father is the Primordial Consciousness existing
throughout the whole universe. He is above and below, and in
all sides, and beneath each object of the material world, including
our bodies.
He is in the depth beneath everything, in the deepest,
primordial eon.
So, He can be cognized not above, to which direction people
usually raise their hands and eyes, but in the depth of the
developed spiritual heart, grown up to the galactic size.
Having cognized the entrance to His eon, one becomes
able to come through it to any point of space, including the
points beneath one’s own body.
In the last two paragraphs of this fragment, there is a
“play on words”, which is typical of this Gospel. Its meaning is
the following: the One Who is beneath everything rules everything.
70. Before Christ’s coming, many people came out
(from this world). They could not return (immediately) to
the place from which they came out. And they could not
come out (immediately) from the place to which they
came.
But Christ came. And now those who came in can
come out, and those who came out can return.
Christ helped His disciples to become closer to Perfection.
And now they can, during meditations, leave the world of matter,
visit the highest eons, and return again to the world of
matter.
Moreover, some of them, being stoned to death for their
sermons, afterwards came back to their bodies and continued
working in them.
Jesus and the Apostles also raised the “dead” to their
earthly bodies.
71. When Eve was in Adam, there was no death. When
she was separated from him, death appeared. If she enters
in him again and he accepts her, there will be no
death anymore again.
This is again a witty “play on words” with a great meaning.
The point is that Adam and Eve are not the names of the first
two humans, as it is said in the contradictory ancient Jewish
fairy tale included in the Bible. Adam
means just man, in the
aggregate sense of this word. Eve
means life.
When life, i.e. soul, leaves the body, clinical death happens.
But the soul can return to the body.
72. “My God, My God, why, O Lord, have You forsaken
Me?” He said these words on the cross.
Then He separated from that place That Which was
Divine.
The Lord rose again (in a body) from the dead. He
came as He was before. But now His body was perfect,
though it was flesh. But this flesh was from the Primordial.
Our flesh is not from the Primordial; we possess only a
likeness of it.
Jesus materialized for Himself a new body, which was a
concentrated product of the pure Divine Energy, in contrast to
His former body born by Mary.
73. The Bridal Chamber is neither for animals, nor for
men-slaves (of passions), nor for women driven by passion.
It is for pure women and men who gained Freedom.
One’s birth in the eon of God-the-Father, maturing in it,
and Mergence with God-the-Father constitutes the completion
of the individual evolution of the soul. Only those who are highly
developed intellectually, ethically, and psychoenergetically
can attain this. They must also liberate themselves from worldly
passions and attachments and achieve the purity and Divine
subtlety of the consciousnesses.
74. Thanks to the Holy Spirit we are begotten on the
Earth.
But we were born again thanks to Christ.
We are baptized in the Holy Spirit.
And after our birth in Him, we united with Him.
The Holy Spirit, Who controls destinies of people, also con
trols their birth in earthly bodies.
Then the Author speaks about the stages of cognition of
the Divine.
The first stage is baptism, when during the appropriate
meditation a spiritual warrior enters (or is led in) the appropriate
eon and for the first time feels the Consciousness Which
dwells there.
Then one has to learn to enter this eon by one’s own efforts
and to stay in it. It is called the birth in it.
And after the birth and the following maturing in this eon
— again thanks to mastering special meditative techniques —
one comes to Mergence with the Consciousness dwelling in it.
75. No one can see himself or herself in a flow or in a
mirror without light.
And vice versa: you cannot see yourself in the Light
without the Flow and without a mirror.
For this reason, it is necessary to be baptized in both:
in the Light and in the Flow.
In the Light we receive the blessing.
In this fragment, two points need to be commented.
The first point is the allegorical meaning of the word mirror.
This is self-examination (looking at oneself) for the sake of
discovering vices (with the purpose of getting rid of them) and
defects in the development of good qualities (with the purpose
of further development of them).
The second point is the word blessing. It has two meanings:
a) blessing for doing something (analogue — “to give consent”)
and b) transmission of good energy to another person. The full
blessing of a Teacher is when both components are merged together.
Practically, in the Light we can receive the highest bliss
and the blessing with the instructions on providing spiritual
help to incarnate people and blessing with particular pieces of
advice about entering the eon of God-the-Father.
76. There were three buildings in Jerusalem for making
sacrifices. The one, opened to the west, was called
the holy. Another, opened to the south, was called the
holy of the holy. The third, opened to the east, was
called the Holy of the Holiest, the place where a priest
enters alone.
The baptism is the holy.
The redemption of others (through one’s own sacrificial
service) is the holy of the holy.
But the Holy of the Holiest is the Bridal Chamber.
In the middle of this fragment the original text is damaged.
… What is a bridal chamber if not a symbolic image of
the Bridal Chamber? The latter is above all evil.
Its veil is rent from the top to the bottom, as an invitation
for the chosen to enter.
In the last paragraph, Philip speaks about the symbolic
meaning of the fact that the veil (curtain) in the Jerusalem
temple was rent from the top to the bottom at the moment of
the cross death of Jesus.
The most important stage preceding one’s entering the
Bridal Chamber is sacrificial service to God through spiritual
service to people.
77. Evil spirits do not see and cannot seize Those Who
dressed Themselves with the Perfect Light.
Let such dressing with the Light be secret Mergence.
According to these recommendations, the first task of spiritual
warriors is to arise in the eon of Light.
The second is to become mature in it, to become a suffi
ciently large, active, and able consciousness.
The third is to merge with the Consciousness of this eon.
Evil spirits do not see Those Who dressed Themselves with
the Light, but only when They stay in the eon of the Light.
78. If the woman had not separated from the man,
she would not have died along with the man. The separation
from him was the beginning of death.
Therefore, Christ came to correct the separation, to
unite them, and to give the True Life to those who died in
separation, uniting them.
Philip again jokingly refers to the biblical fairy tale about
Adam and Eve. The explanation will be given in the next fragment.
79. So, let a woman unite with her husband in the
Bridal Chamber, because Those Who have united in the
Bridal Chamber will no longer be separated.
Eve separated from Adam because she united with
him not in the Bridal Chamber.
The true and eternal mergence of the Perfect happens in
the Bridal Chamber of God-the-Father.
80. This part of the original text is damaged.
81. On the bank of Jordan, Jesus revealed (to John
the Baptist) the Primordial Consciousness of the Kingdom
of Heaven, Which was before the beginning of everything.
Later He appeared (to John) again. Then He manifested
Himself as a Son (of the Heavenly Father). Then He was
blessed (by God-the-Father to serve people). Then He was
taken by the Father (from this world). Then He began to
take (to God-the-Father).
82. Since it is allowed to me to reveal this mystery, I
say: the Father of everything united (in the Bridal Chamber)
with the Bride Who afterwards came down (to crucified
Jesus), and the Light illuminated Him then. And He
(leaving that place) came to the Great Bridal Chamber.
Therefore, His body, which appeared in the next days,
came out from the Bridal Chamber. This body was similar
to a body born from a unity of husband and wife (i.e.
similar to a usually born body). Jesus made in it (in His
new body) everything similar to the image (of a usual
body).
It is necessary that each disciple enter the Chamber
of the Father.
83. Adam came into being from two virgins: from the
(Holy) Spirit and from the uninhabited Earth.
Therefore, Christ was born from (only) one virgin to
rectify the mistake which occurred in the beginning.
This is irony, nothing more.
84. There are two trees in the midst of paradise. From
one of them originate animals, from another — men. Ad
am ate of the tree which originates animals. He became
an animal and then brought forth animals.
Therefore at present, animals like Adam are held in
respect.
So, the tree of which Adam ate a fruit is the tree of
animals. This is why his children became so numerous.
And all of them also ate the fruits of the tree of animals.
As a result, the fruits of the tree of animals begot
numerous people-animals who now honor only mananimal.
But God creates Men. (And these) Men create God.
The most part of this fragment is irony, this time — bitter.
Such a mood of Phillip is especially understandable because of
the recent killing of Man-Christ by people-animals.
But the last paragraph in the end of the parable deserved
to be analyzed seriously.
From God-the-Father Men-Christs come. They hasten the
evolution of individual consciousnesses on the Earth, and by
this They contribute to fast arrival of the high quality “Food”
(see fragments 50 and 93) into God-the-Father.
85. Worldly people also create “gods” and worship
their creations. So let these “gods” worship these people
— it will be just!
This is irony about pagans inventing gods for themselves.
So let the invented “gods” look after these people!
86. The deeds of man result from man’s power.
Therefore, they are regarded as efforts.
But man also begets children, which are conceived in
calm.
The power of man is manifested in deeds, and calm —
in children.
You may find that man is similar to God in this respect.
Because God also performs His deeds (in the Creation)
thanks to His Power, but it is in Calm that He begets
His Children.
The sexual function can be realized fully only in the deep
calm of both partners. Therefore, Philip speaks about children
as about the result of the calm of people.
The state of God-the-Father in the Bridal Chamber is the
deepest tender Calm. His Sons and Daughters come from It.
87. In this world, the slaves serve the free, but in the
other world, the free will serve these slaves.
However, the Sons of the Bridal Chamber will serve
the sons of earthly marriages.
The Sons of the Bridal Chamber have one and the
same name. Calm is Their common estate. And They are
in need of nothing.
In this fragment there are three profound themes connected
together by the common literal “pattern”.
In the first part, there is a theme about the predetermination
of the future destiny according to our present behavior.
Thus, haughtiness, arrogance, violent attitude, cruelty — disgusting
manifestations of the hypertrophied “I” in some people
— will be destroyed in them by God through placing these people
in the situation of slaves subjected to power of similar to
them people-animals. If such vicious people do not want to
struggle with their vices voluntarily, God will have to destroy
these vices in them using other disgusting people.
But the Holy Spirits gladly bring Their Love to people, serving
them.
All Who have settled in the eon of God-the-Father and
merged with Him are the Father. They have attained everything
possible to attain in the universe. And They exist in the
blissful highest Calm.
88-89. This part of the original text is damaged.
90. Those who say that they will die first and then rise
are in error. If they do not receive the Resurrection while
being incarnate, they will receive nothing after leaving
their bodies.
It is the same with baptism: it is significant only if it is
received by the incarnate.
For changing oneself, one needs to have a material body,
which is a “transformer” of energies. Without a material body,
a non-incarnate soul exists in the state in which it was at the
end of its last incarnation. It cannot move to another eon on its
will, and no one can do this for it.
91. It is I, Apostle Philip, saying: Joseph the carpenter
planted a garden because he needed wood for his handicraft.
It was he who made a cross from the trees, which
he himself planted. And the Child of his semen was hung
to that which he had planted.
The Child of his semen was Jesus, and the planted —
the cross.
Joseph took care only about the material and received
from God a dire symbolic hint.
92. The true tree of life is in the middle of paradise.
It is an olive tree, from which blessings come.
It is from this tree that the Resurrection is.
The idea of the previous fragment continues: it was necessary
for Joseph to look after not the material trees (or not only
after them) but after the paradisiacal tree of life, growing beyond
this world. Then he could gain the Resurrection.
93. This world is a corpse-eater. And all that is eaten
(by humans) is contemptible as well.
But the Truth is a life-eater. Therefore, no one who is
nourished by the Truth can die.
Jesus came from that place, and He brought food
from there. And to those who desired, He gave thus the
(True) Life, and they did not die.
Almost all people of “this world” consider the pleasure of
eating food as the most important thing in life. To change the
gustatory habits even slightly is beyond the capabilities of most
of those who call themselves Christians, despite the direct recommendations
of Jesus — not to kill animals for food. The nu
trition based on killing animals does not allow — because of bioenergetical
laws, not to mention the ethical ones — entering
the Bridal Chamber or even the Light of the Holy Spirit.
There is no doubt that it is necessary for us to eat material
food, otherwise we cannot do anything on the spiritual selfdevelopment.
But the nutrition with the material food must not
stand against the nutrition with the food “from the Truth”.
94. The beginning of this fragment is damaged in the
original text.
… Paradise is the place where I will be told: “Eat this
or do not eat that — as you wish!”. It is the place where I
will eat anything, because there grows the tree of
knowledge. It is this tree that destroyed Adam. However,
it made man live actively.
The Law (of the Jewish Bible) was this tree. It may
suggest what is good and what is bad. But it does not remove
man from what is bad and does not strengthen man
in what is good. And it created destruction for those who
ate of it. For when it commanded, “Eat this, do not eat
that!” — this became the beginning of death.
Philip plays in this parable with the biblical story about
paradise.
God-Teacher shows people both what is good and what is
bad. Moreover, having explained to people the principles of advancement
towards the Highest Goal, He provides them with
the freedom of will — the freedom of choice of where and how
to go.
People have to go by themselves, finding the correct Path,
developing themselves through this. God only suggests the Path
— secretly or obviously, sometimes jokingly. And the choices
are made usually by people.
This provides people with the experience, maturity, and
wisdom. Having obtained wisdom, one can overcome all difficulties
and through such a struggle become Perfect. Only for
such a person God-the-Father will open the door to His Bridal
Chamber.
95. The blessing is superior to the baptism, because it
is thanks to the blessing that we were called Christians,
not thanks to the baptism.
And Christ was called so thanks to the blessing. Because
the Father blessed the Son, the Son blessed the
Apostles, and the Apostles blessed others.
The one who was blessed will gain the Resurrection,
and the Light, and the Cross, and the Holy Spirit.
To Him (to Christ) the Father gave this (blessing) in
the Bridal Chamber; He received this.
96. The Father was in the Son, and the Son was in the
Father. Such are affairs in the Kingdom of Heaven.
The second humorous phrase does not provide any significant
information, it only stimulates the reader to solve the
mystery of the first phrase.
In the first phrase, there is a description of the interaction
of the Consciousnesses of the Father and the Son: Mergence,
Coessentiality.
97-98. Fragment 97 is damaged in the original text. Fragment
98 contains an idea which is a continuation of the previous
one, therefore, it cannot be interpreted as well.
99. This world came into being (probably) by mistake.
Because the one who created it wanted to create it imperishable
and immortal. But he (probably) died, not attaining
his goal, because the world did not become imperishable,
as well as the one who created it.
There is no imperishability of the fruits of material
deeds, but there is only (the imperishability of the deeds)
of the Sons and Daughters. And there is nothing that can
attain Imperishability except only a Son and a Daughter.
The one who cannot even accumulate one’s own power
— how much more such one is unable to help others!
The first part of the fragment is just a joke, which serves
as an artistic beginning of the parable.
Then there is a point that the only valuable fruits of all the
activity in the entire Creation are Those Who have gained absolute
Imperishability and Eternity — the Sons and Daughters of
the Heavenly Father, i.e. Those Who have entered His Bridal
Chamber.
In the end of the fragment, there is an idea that the one
who strives to help others must first help oneself through efforts
on self-development: the one who can do nothing — how
can such one help others?
100. The cup of prayer contains wine and water, serving
as a symbol of blood, over which thanksgiving is performed.
And it becomes filled with the Holy Spirit.
It belongs to the Perfect Man (to Christ).
When we drink it, we will become Perfect Men.
To drink the Cup of Christ does not mean to take commun
ion in a church, even if one does it a hundred times.
To drink the Cup of Christ means to walk His entire Path up
to the Bridal Chamber, and go through His Calvary.
101. The Living Flow is like the Body (of the Holy Spirit).
It is necessary that we dress ourselves in the Living
Body. Therefore, if you go and submerge in the Flow, you
must become naked so that you may be dressed in It.
The Body of the Holy Spirit is an image that helps medita-
tive perception of the integrity of the Holy Spirit. He is indeed
Living, Perceiving, Loving, Guiding, Speaking.
In order to experience the Body of the Holy Spirit, one has
to become “naked”, to get rid of all shells and layers which are
coarser than the Holy Spirit. Thus we find ourselves in the same
eon where He is and receive the baptism, birth, and blessing in
this eon.
102. A horse begets a horse, a human being begets a
human being, God begets God.
The rest of this fragment is damaged in the original text.
103-104. Let me speak about the place where the
Children of the Bridal Chamber abide.
In this world there is a union of man and woman. This
is mergence of energy and calm.
In the highest eon there is another form of a union,
we just use the same words. In that eon other Consciousnesses
abide, They are above all words, They are beyond
anything coarse, dense. This is in the place where the
Power (i.e. the Father) is; in the same place are the Chosen
of the Power.
Those, Who are there, are not the one and other:
They all are One there.
And those who live here cannot even leave their fleshly
bodies…
Philip explains the symbolism of the text: in the Bridal
Chamber of God-the-Father, They do not have sex as incarnate
people do. But They merge in Love and exist there as One.
105. Not all who have bodies are able to cognize their
own Essence. And those who cannot cognize their own Essence
cannot use the possibilities given to them for enjoyment.
Only those who cognized their own Essence will enjoy
truly.
To cognize the highest enjoyment, one has to make great
efforts on self-development. Only the one who succeeds in the
cognition of God-the-Father attains this.
The cognition of one’s own Essence is the realization of
oneself (as a Consciousness) in the Abode of God-the-Father.
He is our Higher I, which is cognized when we flow into Him.
106. The Perfect Man cannot be captured (by evil spirits)
and cannot be seen by them. Because they can capture
only those whom they see.
There is no way to acquire this boon but by being
dressed in the Perfect Light and by becoming the Perfect
Light. If one becomes dressed in It, one merges with It.
Such is the Perfect Light.
One should seek salvation from evil spirits not in the “protective
magic”, not in cursing them, not in the methods of “bioenergetical
protection” or in the incantation of sorcerers, but
in Mergence with God.
107. It is necessary that we become men of Spirit before
we leave this world (i.e. before the end of this incarnation).
The one who acquired everything in this world, being
its master, will not be able to become a master in another
world.
Jesus cognized the whole Path up to the end. But,
nevertheless, He came to this world as a simple man (i.e.
He did not behave like a “master”).
108. The Holy Man is holy entirely, down to the body.
If one gives bread to the Holy Man, the Holy Man consecrates
it, as well as water or anything else that may be
given. All this becomes purified. And how will the Holy
Man not purify bodies also?
A truly holy Man becomes a natural healer.
109. When performing baptism, Jesus “poured” life
into bodies and “poured” death out from them.
Therefore, we submerge now in the Flow (of Life), but
not in (the flow of) death, so that we are not carried
away by it to the spirits of this world. When these spirits
blow, desolation happens. When the Holy Spirit blows,
bliss comes.
110. The one who cognized the Truth is free. The free
one does not commit sin: because the one who commits
sin becomes a slave of sin (i.e. burdens one’s own destiny,
first of all).
The true knowledge is like a mother and a father (i.e.
like wise teachers, advisers, and guardians of their child).
Those who are not capable of sinning are said to have
attained freedom. The knowledge of the Truth raises
them even more. This makes them both free and above
this world.
But only love creates. The one who becomes free
thanks to knowledge, because of Love remains a slave of
those who have not managed to attain the Freedom of
knowledge yet. Such one brings the knowledge to them
and this develops them because it calls them to the Freedom.
Love takes nothing: how can it take something? Everything
belongs to it. It does not say, “This is mine! And this
is mine!” But it says: “This is yours!”
111. Spiritual love is like wine and myrrh. Those enjoy
it who were blessed (by God).
But others also enjoy it — those who stay with the
blessed ones. But if the blessed go away, those who are
not blessed fall back to their stench.
The Samaritan gave nothing but wine and oil to the
wounded man. And it was nothing else but blessing. Thus
he healed the wounds.
And love covers a multitude of sins.
It does not make sense to comment shortly on this fragment,
because its meaning can be comprehended only by those
who have personal experience of love-service to a large number
of different people.
112. Those born by a woman resemble the man she
loved. If he was her husband, they resemble the husband.
If he was her lover, they resemble the lover. It happens
that she unites with the husband, as she is obliged to do,
but her heart is with her lover with whom she also unites,
then her children resemble the lover.
But you, who are with the Son of God, do not get attached
also to that which is worldly! Rather be only with
the Lord, so that those begotten by you be not similar to
worldly people but similar to the Lord!
113. A human being unites with a human being, a
horse — with a horse, a donkey — with a donkey. Representatives
of any species unite with those similar to them.
In the same way, the Spirit unites with the Spirit, and
Logos — with Logos, and the Light — with the Light.
If you become a human being — a human being will
love you. If you become the Spirit — the Spirit will unite
with you. If you become Logos — you will unite with Logos.
If you become the Light — the Light will unite with
you.
If you become one of earthly rulers — the earthly rulers
will associate with you. If you become a horse, or a
donkey, or a cow, or a dog, or a sheep, or any other animal
whether smaller or bigger, you will not be able to associate
either with human, or with the Spirit, or with Logos,
or with the Light, or with earthly rulers, or with those
who are under their rule. They will not lie in bed with you
and will not accept your love.
114. Those who were slaves against their will may get
freedom.
But those to whom the freedom was granted by the
mercy of the lord, but who, nevertheless, put themselves
into slavery again, — they will no longer be able to become
free.
Christ showed people the Path to the full Liberation in the
Abode of God-the-Father. But only a few accepted this offer.
Well, this is a grievous choice of others…
115. Farming in this world requires four essences: water,
earth, air, and light.
In the same way, the farming of God consists of four
essences: faith, aspiration, love, and knowledge.
Our “earth” is faith in which we are deep-rooted;
“water” is aspiration that carries us; “air” is love thanks
to which we live; and “light” is knowledge that allows us
to mature.
116. The beginning of this fragment is damaged in the
original text.
… Blessed be those who have not caused grief to any
being.
Such was Jesus Christ. He greeted all in this world and
did not burden anyone with Himself.
Blessed be those who live like this! For they are perfect
men!
For Logos is like this.
117. Ask us about Him! For we cannot reproach Him
for anything! How can we reproach this Great One? He
gave Calm (of the Bridal Chamber) to every one (of us)!
Let us notice: the Great Ones give calm. The opposite of
them, demonic and devilish people bring enmity, hatred, chaos,
violence, devastation, suffering.
118. First of all, one should not distress anyone: either
big or small, unbeliever or believer; then one should
offer calm to those who live in peace and good.
There are Those Who can give Calm to those living in
good.
Mere kind people cannot do this, because they themselves
are still dependent.
And They cannot cause grief, (unnecessary) suffering.
But those, who are still on the way to becoming like
Them, distress people sometimes.
The One Who has mastered the secrets of the Existence
brings joy to good people!
However, there are those who grieve and feel angry
because of this.
119. A householder has acquired all sorts of things:
children, slaves, cattle, dogs, pigs, wheat, barley, straw,
grass, dog’s food, and best food, and acorns. As a reason
able man, the householder knows which food is for whom
and thus gives bread and olive oil to the children, castor
oil and wheat — to the slaves, barley, straw, and grass —
to the cattle, garbage — to the dogs, acorns and bran — to
the pigs.
So are disciples of God. If they are wise, they comprehend
the discipleship. Fleshly forms do not deceive
them, and speaking with someone they look at the state
of the soul of that person.
There are many animals with human appearance in
this world. Disciples of God identify them and give
“acorns” to the “pigs”, “barley”, “straw”, and “grass” —
to the “cattle”, “garbage” — to the “dogs”, “sprouts” —
to the “slaves”, and the perfect “food” — to the “children”.
Using images of animals, Philip writes about psychoclassification
of people according to the psychogenetic age and the
qualities which every one of them developed during the personal
evolution. Each of these groups needs “food” appropriate
only to it.
120. There is the Son of Man (Christ), and there is the
Son of the Son of Man. The Lord is the Son of Man. And
the Son of the Son of Man is the One Who was created by
the Son of Man.
The Son of Man received from God the ability to create.
But He can also beget.
See explanation after the next fragment.
121. The one who has the ability to create (earthly
things) — creates (them). The one who has the ability to
beget (children) — begets. The one who creates (earthly
things) cannot beget (at the same time).
But the One Who begets can also create. And the One
Who creates — also begets. The progeny of such (Perfect)
One is this Creation. This (Perfect) One begets also (an
other progeny) — not earthly children but Likenesses of
Oneself.
The one who creates (earthly things) acts openly, not
hiding. The one who begets acts secretly, in private. But
this progeny is not like the Progeny of the (Perfect) One.
The One, Who creates, creates (also) openly. And the
One, Who begets, begets the Sons and the Daughters (also)
secretly.
This fragment has much “play on words”. This can be seen
very clearly if one rewrites it without explanations in brackets.
The word to create in the second paragraph means to materialize;
this concerns the creation of the world by God-the-
Father and the ability of Christs to materialize different objects.
This world created by God-the-Father can be also regarded
as His progeny. The Christs beget new Sons and Daughters.
They do this secretly from the people of the material
world.
122. No one can know when a husband and a wife
united with each other except themselves, since the tranquility
of their union is a secret for the outsiders.
If an impure union is hidden, then how much more a
confidential mystery is a pure union! It is not fleshly, but
pure. It is not determined by passion, but by sober will. It
does not belong to the darkness and night, but to the day
and light.
A (sexual) union, if exhibited to others, becomes adultery.
A wife is considered unchaste not only if she unites
with another man, but even if she leaves her bride-bed
and is seen by others.
Let her meet only with her parents, friends of the
husband, and the children of her bridal chamber; they
may enter her bridal chamber every day. But let others
dream of hearing her voice there and of enjoying the fragrance
of her incenses! And let them be satisfied, like
dogs, with the crumbs that fall from the table.
The Husbands and Wives (of God) belong to the Bridal
Chamber. One cannot see Them unless one becomes as
They are.
No one except the Father can see and know the Greatness
of Those Who attained the Bridal Chamber, unless one attains
the same level of development.
123. The beginning of this fragment is damaged in the
original text.
… Abraham in order to perceive the One Whom he had
to perceive performed circumcision of the foreskin, showing
by this (symbolically) that we should rid ourselves of
the fleshly — that which is of this world.
Then the original text is damaged partly.
… As long as the intestines of man’s body are hidden,
the body is alive. But if the intestines are uncovered and
fall out, the body dies.
It is the same with a tree: while its roots are hidden,
the tree blossoms and grows. If the roots are uncovered,
the tree withers.
It is the same with any phenomenon in the world, not
only in the material but in the hidden one as well. Thus,
as long as the root of evil is hidden it grows and is strong.
When it gets known, it begins to bloom. But if its root is
uncovered, it perishes.
Therefore, Logos says, “Already the axe lies at the
roots of trees! If it does not cut up completely, that which
was cut will grow again. Hence, it is necessary to drive
the axe deep enough so that it tears out the roots.”
And Jesus destroyed those roots in the place where He
worked. And He also did this partially in other places.
As for all of us, let us cut into the roots of evil, which
we find within ourselves, and tear out evil with its roots
from the soul!
We can tear evil out only if we know it. If we are ignorant
of it, it will continue to grow its roots and multiply
itself in us. Thus it will get the complete control over us,
and we will become its slaves. It will enslave us more and
more, forcing us to do that which we do not want to do
and forcing us not to do that which we want to do… It is
very powerful until we know about it in ourselves!
While it exists, it acts. Ignorance of it is the mother of
evil in us. Ignorance leads us to death. And those who
have not become free from ignorance have not existed
yet as (true) people, do not exist, and will not exist!
Those who are in the true knowledge fill themselves
with Perfection as the Truth reveals Itself to them.
Because the Truth, just as ignorance, — while it is
hidden, rests in itself, but when it is revealed and recognized,
it blooms, being praised.
How much more powerful it is than ignorance and errors!
It gives us Freedom!
Logos said, “If you know the Truth, it will make you
free”.
Ignorance is slavery. Knowledge is Freedom.
Seeking the Truth, we discover its seeds within us.
If we unite with It, It will receive us in the Primordial
Consciousness.
Philip discusses the mechanism of repentance and insists
on the necessity of paying serious attention to the intellectual
work.
Repentance is purification of oneself from vices. Two
foundations of all our vices are the following:
1. The ability to intentionally cause suffering to other beings
(for example, just by “distressing” them); by doing this we
manifest our egoism, the vicious “I”, and a lack of developed
love in ourselves. With the hypertrophied “I” and without developed
love, one cannot really approach God-the-Father.
2. The absence of permanent orientation of the attention
to God-the-Father, the absence of aspiration to Him.
In connection with this, let us discuss faith. Faith as a simple
“yes” as an answer to the question “do you believe?” — is
too little. The true faith is indeed the permanent and unshake
able remembering about God-Teacher, Who teaches us all the
time; it is especially important to remember about this at the
moments of critical situations, which are also His lessons for us.
The thing which brings one to such a level of faith is large and
long intellectual work done under His guidance.
Only thanks to such efforts of spiritual warriors, God becomes
for them a Living Reality, and not just a symbol, an abstraction
which you are supposed to worship. Thus faith turns
into knowledge about Him.
On the highest level of its development, the faith changes
— necessarily through the stage of knowledge about Him,
knowledge of Him — into passionate Love, which alone can help
one to become close to Him and then to enter His Abode and
merge with Him.
… Penitential work is not just recalling aloud in front of a
“father” all your true and imaginary deeds-sins. Penitential
work is studying of oneself as a soul and transforming oneself
by introspection and self-education. It is necessary to note that
“sins” are not the main things we have to struggle with: they
are just manifestations of qualities of the soul which are called
vices. Therefore, it is vices that one has to struggle against
with the help of the axe about which Jesus and Philip told. And
this struggle can be launched in full strength only after one realizes
God — as a Living Teacher.
… The result of the entire work on purification and development
of oneself is one’s birth and maturing in the highest
eons. As this happens, all the material, fleshly become less and
less significant and then is “cut off” completely (at what Abraham
hinted by his circumcision).
Then only He remains.
124. Possessing manifest things of the Creation, we
regard them as significant and respected, while that hidden
from our eyes — we regard as useless and despicable.
But the reality is opposite: manifest things of this
world are useless and despicable; but those found in the
world hidden from us are significant and worthy of worship.
The mysteries of the Truth are revealed only through
symbols and images.
We, born in material bodies on the Earth, get accustomed
to look from the matter of the body at the world of matter
around it.
But those walking the Path pointed by Jesus, after being
born and having matured in the highest eons, learn to look and
see in these eons, and from them.
Philip writes about His own impressions of such seeing.
125. The Bridal Chamber is hidden. It is the innermost.
At first, the veil concealed how God controls the Creation.
But when it is rent (for spiritual warriors who come
close to it), and the One Who is inside reveals Himself,
then one leaves this house of separation (the body).
Moreover, it will be destroyed (dematerialized).
… But the Divine of a spiritual warrior does not enter
the Holy of the Holiest at once, because It cannot unite
(at once) with the Light, with Which It has not been united
yet, and with the Primordial Consciousness, the gate to
Which has not been opened yet (for entering). The Primordial
Consciousness will be under the wings of the Cross
and under Its Arms. This meditation will be the saving ark
for the spiritual warrior even if the flood comes.
There are some of the companions of Christ who then
will be able to enter inside behind the veil together with
the High Priest (Christ).
The veil (of Jerusalem temple) was not rent at the top
only. If it were so, then the entrance would have been
opened only for those who are of high rank (on the Earth).
And it was not rent at the bottom only, because then it
would have pointed only to the lower ones (of social hierarchy).
But it was rent from the top to the bottom.
The entrance is opened also for us who are low, so
that we may enter the Treasury of the Truth.
In it, there is the One Who is by right held in high regard,
Who is Imperishable.
Yet, we make the Way to that place through disdained
symbols and ephemeral images. They are disdained by
those who hold the earthly glory. Yet, there is Glory
above glory, and there is Power above power.
The Perfection opened for us the Treasury of the
Truth. The Holy of Holiest was opened for us, and the
Bridal Chamber invited us in!
… As long as all this is hidden from people, evil leads
them to the futile. And they have not separated it from
that which was sown by the Holy Spirit. Such people are
slaves of evil.
But when This approached, the Perfect Light embraces
every one (of those who enter It). And those who are in
It receive the blessing. Thus slaves become free, and
those who were captured become liberated!
126. Every plant that was not planted by My Heavenly
Father will be torn out.
Let they who are separate — unite (in the highest
eons) having become Perfect!
All Who enter the Bridal Chamber will kindle the Light
of Truth more, for They are not begotten in the darkness
as those begotten in earthly marriages! The Fire will burn
in the night and flare up stronger, because the mysteries
of this Marriage are performed in the Light of Day! That
Light of Day will never cease (for Them)!
127. If one becomes a Son of the Bridal Chamber, it
means that this One has cognized the Light (of the Holy
Spirit) before.
The one who has not cognized It in the world of matter
will not receive It in That place.
The One Who has cognized the Light (of the Holy Spirit)
cannot be seen and captured (by evil spirits). And (evil
spirits) cannot torment such a Perfect One even if this
One still abides in the world of matter (in a body). Such a
Perfect One has cognized the Truth and dwells now in the
Abode of the Primordial Consciousness! And It is opened
for such a Perfect One — in the Light of the Holy Day!
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