Gnosticism Course

This blog is for the Master of Gnosticism course offered through the Universal Life Church Seminary. We discuss the course lessons, aspects of Gnosticism and essays from the students who have finished the course.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Master of Mystical Christianity Lesson 23


Questions For the Heart and Mind

  1. Defining alchemy allegorically and symbolically, what base metals in your life need to be transformed into gold? What steps are you taking to accomplish this? The base metals in my life needing to be transformed into gold are the strengths and dedication I need to be a genuine disciple of Jesus Christ. I am working on this by reaching out to God through a daily program of prayer. I also wish to continue deepening my understanding of God by reading sacred writings and reflecting on them. I am studying the Master of Mystical Christianity hoping to strengthen and deepen my knowledge about Jesus Christ and spirituality, and wish to continue to do further study once the course is completed.
  1. If you are past the age of 40, recall your passage through mid-life and the astrological transits of Saturn, Uranus and Chiron. What changed in your life? If you are under the age of 40, how can you use this information to assist you through this time of transformation? My mid-life transition was an strong experience. My outlook on life changed. At the time I was entering my mid-life time, I was in an accident which affected my mobility. As a result I reflected and a great change took place within me. My own experience has led me to believe that the change was God at work within me, helping me to move to the next dimension of my life.
  1. Have you ever consciously experienced kundalini energy? If you have, what were the symptoms and what was the result? I understand kundalini energy as energy for developing strength, awareness, character and consciousness. Yes, I have consciously experienced kundalini energy as I entered my mid-life and a time of transition. The symptoms were a feelings of deep change occurring within my spirit, and the result was that I followed the call to become a minister.
  2. How would you bring sexuality and spirituality together in your life today? I would bring sexuality and spirituality together in my life by rejoicing in the identity God has gifted me as a woman.

Catherine Whittle

Re: Master of Mystical Christianity Lesson 27


Questions For the Heart and Mind

  1. What do you believe our world will look like in 2012? Our world in 2012 looks, as always, in development. Strides continue to be made in technology and other areas. Many needs are experienced in different areas of our world. Our world also continues to search for meaning.
  1. How do your feelings and emotions impact your spiritual journey? Are they your friends or foes? My feelings and emotions impact my spiritual journey as they form my emotional identity. They influence my daily thoughts and prayer to God as I search for answers to situations in my life. They are my friends as they inspire me to thought, and to pause before taking action to reflect on possible consequences, thus smoothing my path through life.
  1. If you are a piece of God, what is your biggest challenge in answering your spiritual "call"? What is your "call" asking you to do? My biggest challenge is to be authentic as a daughter of God. My call is asking me to continue on my path in growth of relationship with God and others.
Catherine Whittle



Master of Mystical Christianity Lesson 26


Questions For the Heart and Mind

  1. What effect has your spiritual journey had on your emotional body? What is your fulcrum point? My spiritual journey has profound impact on my emotional body. My experience with God is that of relationship and communication;  this impacts on my emotional life as the relationship continues. My fulcrum point is the fixed point around which my entire life revolves. That point for me is God.
  1. Have you had encounters with angels and/or ascended masters? What did you learn from these encounters and how did you feel? Yes, I have had encounters with angels. I learned from these encounters that I am deeply cherished and carefully watched over. I felt deeply valued and peaceful.
  1. How is the ascension journey of Mother Earth and/or yourself affecting your daily life? What is the biggest change that you have noticed? The ascension journey of earth I believe to be the ongoing process of God's inspiration to me to recognize myself as member of His human family, and to live in accordance with this reality. This affects my daily life by challenging me to make choices after prayer. I believe the more we are attuned to ourselves and each other as beings living in reality graced by God, the more our actions will influence for good in our earthly reality. The result is that Earth and all in it will live in honour as creation of the Loving God. The biggest change I have noticed is there is heightened awareness among so many of our human family of the need to join hands together as a global village, to protect and care for each other and our earthly creation.
  1. Do you trust that the universe is a safe place and that anything you manifest will be positive and beneficial to your life? Why or why not? The universe is not always a safe place. We may trust, but physical and mental hurt still come our way from time to time. The reason I believe this is that this has been my lived experience. However, I do believe that God is watching over all, and that any situation I undergo will manifest eventually as positive and beneficial, as God works steadfastly in my life to bring the greatest good for me out of the occurrences that form my daily life.
Catherine Whittle


Master of Mystical Christianity Lesson 25


Questions For the Heart and Mind

  1. What is your definition of ascension? Do you feel ascension is for the special few or is it possible for anyone, including yourself? My definition of ascension is the taking up of both physical and spiritual body into the state called heaven. In the Scriptures it is told that Jesus ascended after His Resurrection, and Elijah did not die, but ascended into heaven. My view is that ascension is at the Will of God. According to my life experience, I have not witnessed any ascension.
  1. Have you had close encounters with your etheric, astral and spiritual bodies? Have you ever had an out-of-body experience? Reflect on being a spiritual being having a physical experience. Yes, I have had encounter with my soul. I have experienced that there is more within me than just my physical body. I believe that my God-created spirit is experiencing earth through my human body. My reflection is that my experience through my spiritual and physical senses is a time of blessing and personal growth in close communion with my Creator, God.
  1. Do you experience your world as multi-dimensional? In what ways has this affected your life? What challenges and opportunities does this potential bring? I experience my world as multi-dimensional, with more to the world than the physical dimension. This has affected my life in that I felt inspired to follow the Great Creator, God, by becoming a minister. This potential has brought the challenge to share with others the blessings I have received from God. The opportunities this potential brought to me are experiences and friendships as I minister.
  1. How have you experienced the truth that thoughts and words are vibrations that create and manifest around you? I have experienced this truth by the sense of being aware of the mood of others. If another is feeling positive and happy, their thoughts and resultant words lift my spirit. If I sense unhappiness and negative feelings in another and receive negative words from them, I feel a resultant lowering of my mood. 
Catherine Whittle


Wednesday, April 25, 2012

The Beginnings of Christianity

How does Christ's person and work constitute the beginning of Christianity.
 
          Jesus was an extraordinary person he was able too reason at an early age which is shown via his observation skills .it was not until after he was Baptised by his cousin John the Baptist that his skills came to the attention of the public, the way he embraced mans laws and added his own which was to go one step forward as oppose to being negative.  His positive skills and the manner he expressed himself caused a large following he was able to speak so even the uneducated could follow his beliefs even by treating none Jews as equals in his ministry would have been a first a religion that embraced all regardless of gender and race would have been so advanced for his generation it must have scared the elders and also the Roman army.

          Despite the above Jesus was still able to teach his followers the disciples even though he had visitors who wished to hear him speak or heal them, most religions or cults would have turned people away while the Teacher was training his followers this more so made Jesus and his teachings unique.

          When Jesus was crucified some followers would have fell by the wayside as their leader or rabbi had left them it must have seemed the end of everything dear ,but the resurrection secured Christianity because he was seen to have spoken to numerous persons complete with the wounds he was given from the crucifixion and from the spear this then caused the following to strengthen not only was this event the foundation it was the foundation stone with all men being the children of god.

          Jesus as the rock and Christianity as its foundation created the biggest religion which was global in its teachings and beliefs.

Rev. Andrew Langsden

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Gnosticism Course

So fare my list is full of knowledge or food that the ONE gives us all! Understanding and love for other people. 
 I relay enjoyed this lesson thank you!  


Emily Stevenson.
Wise Owl

Esha'al Reja


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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Gnosticism



When Jesus came of age within the Essenes he purified the structure of the Mystery traditions and re-instated the original Gnostic faith. Hence, the Gnosticism of Jesus is not superior to other Gnostic traditions, but is a refinement or adaptation of an age-long tradition. Indeed, the Gnosticism of Jesus brought together Egyptian, Greek and Mystery Cult traditions (such as those of Eleusis and Mithra) into one coherent system. The iconography of Judaism played a small part but was insignificant in comparison to, for example, the Greek Mystery cult tradition. To understand this “nexus” of the Gnosis we really need to jettison the old model which sees gnosticism as a Jewish or Christian heresy. As has been documented in such texts as the Jesus Mystery and Jesus Christ, Sun of God ++++++ it is more likely that Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity are pagan and Gnostic heresies! 
While there may be vigorous complaints and denials it is now even well known that so-called Jewish Kabbalah primarily derived from a reworking of Neo Platonic mysticism which into Jewish religious language.

These teachings, however, did not remain available forever. As society changed and a new regime came to power the teachings of Jesus were suppressed and replaced with the political faith of Emperor Constantine, and accordingly the Gnosis went underground to ensure its survival.  What we have in today's religious movements are not the original forms of Judaism and Christianity, but apostate faiths masquerading in their place. The Bible itself has been tampered with to such an extent that only through much critical study can we restore just some of its inner meaning.  The Institute upholds the original inner teachings of Jesus as part of a continuum of wisdom which spans from Pagan to so-called Christian sources.

But it is perhaps desirable to state unequivocally that the teachings here, however, fragmentary and incomplete belong neither to the Hindu's, the Zoroastrian, the Chaldean, nor the Egyptian Religion, nor to Buddhism, Islam, Judaism or Christianity exclusively. The Secret doctrine is the essence of all these.

The Secret Doctrine,
Madame Blavaskty.

Ask me where I learned this if you want to know, but it is Gnosticism.  Please understand this info came to me after my revelations talked about next and please note that I only found he who I mention through trying to become like him following my heart.


However, as Albert Einstein said, ‘knowledge is limited; what really counts is intuition.’

And in Proverbs it says,
“Ask someone with experience and not a scholar.”
Proverb
     

and in the taittiriva unasnishad it states
“If you have doubts, what may be the right behavior,
then model yourself on the great men, whose judgment is well proven, who are sincere, and devoted to truth.According to these principles direct your acting!
  
This is the rule, this is the tenet and this the commandment of the Holy Scriptures.”
Taittiriya-Upanischad
“Inspiration is more important than knowledge,
because knowledge is limited.”
Albert Einstein

So I think it may be time for the book blind people to take the head out of the book and trust our hearts again. for there is a great man amongst us again. and we were taught from the start to look for the divine spark in everything. if one cannot see this then ascension must take place of the spirit to raise consciousness to the level where one can accept the god/infinity within each of us as proven by quantum physicist Gregg Braden to be the translation of our DNA encoding.
as well as this all ancient traditions teach of this very same.

that god/infinity/divine spark is within every living thing.
when one can see this then one is ready to accept the Christ as the Christ.  eg look through Christlike eyes,  then when this happens one can accept the Christ. how else would you know? only through inner knowing  this is the mass awakening going on worldwide at this very time. to help us all to elevate our consciousness for the decision we shall face together as mankind in the next short few years.

great change is upon us. and the fact that this man I name and whom when I contemplated every eventuality and feeling in my heart come to accept as the embodiment of Christ. the fact that this man is here. if one doesn't even look next nor near. prophecies.. conspiracy's etc etc must account for something of great magnitude about to occur. mankind doe's not provide its own destruction without its own salvation. please read on Amy for I will name this man down below!


and so.. a good man you will know

“From their fruits
Ye shall know them.”
Jesus
Matthew 7,16


“To accept as knowledge,
what one knows,
to accept as ignorance,
what one does not know,
this is knowledge.”
Konfucius LY 2, 17



“For enlightenment nothing else is needed than freedom,
namely the most harmless amongst all
what may be called freedom,
namely this one:
to make public use of one’s reason
in all aspects.”
Kant


why?. because I Am that I am and as I am.. I love life!

“Who does not dare
to go beyond reality,
will never conquer truth.”
Schiller


“Whom the Gods love,
him they lead to the place
where he is needed.”
Goethe


I am a messenger with a message for all true follower's of heart

“Experience remains the master of life.”
Goethe


what I have come to experience in life. the journey I have taken in order to share with the world the divine plan/mesg I have received at one point rocked me to the very core of my existence. but in order to find some of the answers we seek I had to take that journey within myself. and no amount of black and white knowledge ascertained and utilized by bishop pat for the master of Gnosticism course it did not help. a very thorough course but when my very being of consciousness came to ascend to a level of consciousness where I now know the second coming of Christ is upon us. it was my heart that decided this not scripted materials or gadgets of a website or an attunement etc it was my consciousness together with a heart-felt feeling..

“On the path to discovery, the intellect has little to do.
There is a leap in consciousness,
call it intuition or whatever you like,
and the solution comes to you,
and you do not know how and why.”
Albert Einstein

“The really important things
are learned in a different way
than through words.”

“Who wants to partake of
the revelation of universality,
should grasp nothing through understanding,
but should experience inside
and come into a specific psychological state -
provided he is capable of it.”
Aristotle

so now you see how I know in my heart and the message I bring to the world that the embodiment of the Christ consciousness is walking talking and successfully walking his path of a Christ since 1991. his name is Vissarion translated means bringer of new life just like Jeshua translated meant salvation and he is re writing the history books for the next 2000 years. with 10 new gospels already completed called the last testament.

He claims to be here to unite all religions and seems to be successfully doing so and he even oversees get this. The promised land.

a man is here again for us. and claims he's Christ. he believes this and where that course of belief has lead him.. well is outstanding for any man to attempt

I have shared the teachings of the ancient Essenes with you Amy and now the heralded by as many as 50,000 followers across the globe already.. and to them. Vissarion is the embodiment of Christ.

My closing thoughts and a gift to you:
Gnosticism of the light and to the light 1 shall return.

To all who have ears let them hear; there is light within a man of light and he lights up the whole world for if he does not shine then he is in darkness. (Gospel of Thomas)

my greatest discovery in my life is that we live in a loving universe. (Albert Einstein).

my greatest gift of discovery in my life Amy that 1 can share with all is that I to have come to know we live in a loving universe. (Rev Dr Gregory Alexander D.D)  

Rev Dr Gregory Knapper Alexander D.D 



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