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The Gospel of St. Thomas is perhaps among the most beautiful and powerful of the Gnostic Scriptures that appear in the Nag Hammadi library. Its great power lies in the fact that it is not encumbered by the literary device of a story-line, but is simply composed of sayings, many of which are left in a quite raw and primitive form, as though simply recording what was said in the power of the moment. Thus, the verses of the Gospel of St. Thomas are left open to a wide range of interpretation, and in doing this the author invites us to entertain an internal dialogue with the Spirit to gain our own insight and understanding of the Gospel. This quality, in and of itself, makes this Gospel ...
In this exercise to awaken the healing power within you, meditate on your body as a source of tremendous energy, seeing it as a great shining star giving light and life to all that surrounds it. The key is to utilize whatever imagery helps you realize your body as an abode of immeasurable energy and resilience, a palace of lights. It is especially powerful to perform this practice out in nature. Sit and abide in primordial meditation and follow your breath, then gently shift your focus to contemplate your body with holy awe and wonder. Consider how amazing is the body: the skin and bones, muscles and nerves, and all of the various organs; the billions of cells composing the body; the ...
In Dan Brown’s best-selling novel, The Da Vinci Code, he theorized that there were small secret societies that maintained teachings and practices of a very different form of Christianity, one that was deeply spiritual and mystical, and that honored the Sacred Feminine. Although in some forms of Christianity, to an extent, the Virgin Mary personifies the Sacred Feminine, he proposed that in this more esoteric form of Christianity, St. Mary Magdalene was the central figure representing the Sacred Feminine in the Gospel. Though writing a fictional work, perhaps based more in suspicions and intuitions than fact in his portrayal of teachings, rites and rituals, nevertheless Mr. Brown is ...
When we look into the stories told about the life and teachings of Yeshua (Aramaic-Hebrew for "Jesus") we find a very luminous Jewish teacher and mystic, an amazing prophet and wonderworker, and most important of all a holy man who embodies the fullness of the presence and power of God, the Divine—hence, the Messiah, the anointed of God. In him we see the union of a human being and God—the embodiment of the knowledge of God or enlightenment. When we look into the many wonders or miracles he performs, more than anything else what we find is the removal of displaced energies, the mending of souls from "spiritual possession," and the healing of illness and disease, the ...
