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Tuesday, April 26, 2022

A Vegetarian Jesus and Apostles at the Beginning of Christianity - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

 


A Vegetarian Jesus and Apostles at the Beginning of Christianity - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast





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This is Intended to Be the Most Comprehensive Collection Ever of Vegetarian References Providing Evidence For the Vegetarianism of Yeshua (Jesus), the Apostles, the Jesus Movement (Hebrew Christians, Ebionites,) and Other Expressions of Early Christianity. The Major Segments Covered Include the Following:


Evidence That Jesus and The Original Aramaic Christians Were Vegetarians:


Dueling Gospel Traditions — Pro-Meat and Pro-Veg;


What About Those Pesky ‘Fishes and Loaves’?


Textual Variations in Greek Manuscripts;


Was John the Baptist Really A Bug-Eater?


Christianity Before Paul (The Original Hebrew Christians or Ebionites) and the Essene Connection -- The Essene Branch of Judaism Not Just Kosher But Vegetarian;


Thou Shalt Not Kill: The Biblical Basis For Vegetarianism: A Vegetarian Ideal Described In Genesis and Isaiah;


Signing Up Paul to the Vegetarian Cause After All;


Uncovering a Vegetarian Jesus (Yeshua) at the Beginning of Christianity: Vegetarian Sayings of Jesus;


Jesus Stopping Animal Sacrifice in the Temple;


The Vegetarian Apostles (Leadership of the Original Jesus Movement) -- Vegetarian Quotes About the Apostles;


Church Fathers And Other Later Voices Affirming the Existence of the Earlier Veg Tradition;


Inter-Faith Love! An Ebionite Christian author had very nice things to say about those in India who worship One God, follow peaceful customs and laws, and are vegetarian or vegan.


The Gnostics Were Vegetarians;


The Vegetarian Prayer of Thanksgiving in the Nag Hammadi Library (Gnostic Gospels) and Corpus Hermeticum;


An Academic Scholarly Approach: Credible Ancient Texts Only Please; Texts I DO NOT CITE: What About Those Modern-Day Essene Gospels of Peace? What About Those Groups That Call Themselves Essenes:  "Neo-Essene" VS. the More Accurate Term: "Ebionite";


Did Jesus Travel to India? Gospel of Isa, another text I AVOID.


Real Wisdom from the East: The Spiritual and Ethical Reasons Why Saints Advocate Following a Non-violent Vegetarian or Vegan Diet;


Peace Be to You,

James

Spiritual Awakening Radio

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Monday, April 25, 2022

Light and Sound on the Path (Sant Mat, Radhasoami): Satlok Sachkhand is Our True Home, and, Go Within Or Go Without

 


Light and Sound on the Path (Sant Mat, Radhasoami): Satlok Sachkhand is Our True Home, and, Go Within Or Go Without: "Within This Body" -- Mystic-Poem of Sant Tulsi Sahib of Hathras






Satlok Sachkhand is Our True Home, Baba Ram Singh 


Swamiji Maharaj tries to awaken souls like us who have lost and forgotten the devotion of God Almighty. Swamiji Maharaj in the first line of his bani tries to explain be very very cautious and thoughtful as this world is a LIE, unreal and illusion. But ordinary people and people like us think that we can see the whole world with our eyes. We see that all people are going to work, doing their jobs, business, etc... and many other things. But Master says it’s totally unreal, rather it's a complete LIE. To see reality/truth you must obey the command of your master and do your Simran and Bhajan for 2.5 to 3 hours daily. Leave all nine senses below and contemplate at the 10th Door. See with your knowledge, i.e. Wisdom Eye, so you can see the real truth. From these eyes we see an unreal world. The world which we are watching through these eyes is destructive and will get destroyed today or tomorrow, because this world is materialistic. Understand this very seriously, things which get destroyed are a LIE.


So what’s real? Soul is real, Master is real, God Almighty is real, Simran is real. Only these four things are real. Even in the community where we live it is not real. It is given to us only for four days to get our karma. So Saints say what are those four days? Childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age.


With childhood and adolescence are growth, nourishment and studies. With adulthood, marriage, children, and business, etc. Old age is very miserable because in this age the efficiency of the body is almost zero. We cannot perform any work properly as all senses become so weak and poor. Also, at home nobody gives respect. That’s why the 4th stage of life is utterly painful and miserable.


You see the human life cycle of four days, which we assume is real. In the end time nothing goes with us, neither our family, money, health, possessions, not even our body. This is only meant for reaping our karma's as we have to take from someone and we have to give it to somebody. Once our account of karma is finished each and everybody starts leaving us. That’s why Saints have termed this world as birth and death, happiness and sorrow, as it belongs to Kaal and Maya. This world is not meant for you. Neither do you belong to this world. Your true world is Satlok Sachkhand. God Almighty's home is your true home. You are an integral part of God Almighty, and till the time our soul reaches the true home, we won't have any happiness or satisfaction in any of these worldly objects.


This world is not real. We have taken birth and death a million times. We don't even know where our last life was from, where we have come from, and which place we will be born again.


That’s why Saints and Mahatmas spread awareness of Naam and remind us all to be very thoughtful and cautious in a way that doesn't assume it for real why? Because this world belongs to Kaal and Maya.


You belong to that ecstatic world where there is no question of life and death, happiness and sorrow, thirst and hunger; it's only about peace and joy.


That’s why Saints and Mahatmas take a human life form to get us all back to Satlok Sachkhand where we have come from. They don’t come here to entangle us with this world nor worldly relations.


So Swamiji Maharaj explains to us what the reason is that makes our soul come back again to this world is our ego. 'Me', 'myself', these two have entangled us brutally. This egoism has taken all of us to all 8.4 million life forms and cycles of birth and death. That's why Swamiji Maharaj says sacrificing this ego has no side-effects. Rather, it has significant advantages, which will liberate your soul. You see Emperor Sikander wanted to conquer the whole world and wanted to steal all wealth and possessions from each kingdom but had died very young due to his ego and greed. At last, his repentance couldn't let him see his mother when he was about to die.


So Saints and Mahatmas don't belong to this world. When we have taken birth, we come empty handed, when we leave, we will go empty handed.


You are not body nor mind, you are an integral part of God Almighty. But living for so many ages we have mistakenly understood this world as our true home. (Satsang Discourse of Baba Ram Singh)



Go Within Or Go Without: "Within This Body" -- Mystic-Poem of Sant Tulsi Sahib of Hathras






Within this body breathes the secret essence. Within this body beats the heart of the Vedas. 


Within this body shines the entire Universe, so the saints reveal. 


Hermits, ascetics, celibates all are lost, seeking Him in endless guises. 


Seers and sages perfectly parrot the scriptures and holy books, blinded by knowledge. 


Their pilgrimage, and fasting, and striving but delude 


Despite their perfect practice, they discover no destination. 


Only the Saints who know the body's heart have attained the Ultimate, O Tulsi. 


Realize this, and you've found your freedom (while teachers trapped in tradition know only the mirage in the mirror).




 

Thursday, April 21, 2022

Rescued By The Light: The Gnostic Soul's Journey Back to God -- Mandaean -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast


Rescued By The Light: The Gnostic Soul's Journey Back to God In The Eighth Heaven -- Mandaean Scriptures -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast 






Rescued By The Light: The Gnostic Soul's Journey Back to God In The Eighth Heaven -- Mandaean Scriptures -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast 


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Today our exploration of the Mandaean Gnostic Scriptures consists of three readings from the Great Treasure, also known as the Ginza Rabba, the primary holy book of Eastern Gnosticism. We begin with the story of a soul that finds itself dwelling in a rather anxiety-inducing dark realm and seeks to be liberated from this place before it gets absorbed into that darkness and the soul loses it's Luminescence or Radiance like the other souls that reside here. Then a Light appears in the darkness and communicates a peaceful Divine Message from Above to the soul about it's life-to-come in the world and it's eventual ascension back to it's True Home, the Place of the Light and Life. Our soul is instructed to: "Endure in the world and dwell therein until We are longing for you. When We are longing for you We will reach out and come here to you. We will reach out and come here to you, and We will bring you out and raise you to your Treasure-House (Heavenly Realm)." 


In the next reading, "The Soul Within Me Yearns For Hayyi (Great Life, Great Spirit, Supreme Being)", we marvel at an all-too-familiar Gnostic cosmology of Heavenly Regions. There is the Earth-realm or material plane followed by Seven Inner Levels or Heavens, and the Plane of Truth that is beyond. The true yearning soul must not be fooled into assuming any of those illusory middle regions to be the Highest of Heavens and True Destination, and thus deceived, detained and prevented from ascending all the way up to The Eighth, the Goal, Ultimate Reality, the Real Home of The Great Life, Hayyi Rabbi, a Mandaic Aramaic sacred name for the True God. The Path of the Masters (Living Gnosis Now, Sant Mat) also has a cosmology of eight Inner Regions with The Eighth, Anami Radhasoami ("Ra-dha-swam-i"), representing the Ultimate Reality where the Beloved Lord of Love resides. 


This Gnostic Satsang or spiritual gathering online (Spiritual Awakening Radio podcast) concludes with some thoughts about "Sant Mat and Cousin Schools of Mysticism of the Ages": Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, Jewish Mysticism or Kabbalah, Hermetic Philosophy, Christian Mysticism, Gnosticism, Sufism, and how Sufism, perhaps with some influence of Manichaeanism, likely served as the major West-East conduit for this otherworldly approach to spirituality to reach India.


"From the day when I came to love the Life [God], from the day when my heart came to love the Truth, I no longer have trust in anything in the world… After my soul alone I go searching about, which to me is worth generations and worlds. I went and found my soul  --  What are to me all the worlds? I went and found Truth, as she stands at the outer rim of the worlds." (Ginza Rabba, Mandaean Gnostic Scriptures)


All for the Love of Wisdom and Radio, In Divine Love, Light and Sound, Peace Be To You,

James Bean

Spiritual Awakening Radio

https://www.SpiritualAwakeningRadio.com/sant-mat


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Mandaeism, Mandaean, Ginza Rba, Ginza Rabba, Great Treasure, Book of Adam, Codex Nasaraeus, Eastern Gnostic Scriptures, great book of the Mandaeans, Gnostics, Gnosticism, Mysticism, Mystics, God, Life, Great Life, Great Spirit, Supreme Being, True God, Hayyi, Hayyi Rabbi, Manda d'Hayye, Manda ḏ-Hiia, Gnosis of the Life, mana, soul, spirit, being, spiritual being, heaven, the heavens, Ultimate Reality, ascension, ascension of the soul, Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, Jewish Mysticism, Kabbalah, Hermetic Philosophy, Christian Mysticism, Gnosticism, Sufism, Christianity, Nasoraeans, John the Baptist, Manichaeanism, India, SantMat, Sant Mat, Sant Mat Radhasoami, Radhasoami, Radhaswami, Anami, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts, Spiritual Awakening Radio, Satsangs, Spirituality, Meditation, Religion, Podcasts;



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Tuesday, April 19, 2022

The Spirituality and Wisdom of the Lost Books of the Bible (Gnostic Gospels) -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

 


The Spirituality and Wisdom of the Lost Books of the Bible (Gnostic Gospels) -- Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast






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Background on the Origins and Discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library and Other Gnostic Gospels of Egypt; Wisdom from Wisdom Gospels; also, the Seven Ingredients of a Living Spiritual Path

 

The History of the Destruction of Wisdom 

 

Muhammad ‘Ali al-Samman’s mother would often grab a few pages of Coptic texts to use them for kindling in the morning to light the family woodstove and make tea, perhaps do some cooking also. No doubt it was very nice tea, brewed thanks to the sacrifice of a few pages of unknown and lost Nag Hammadi pages, perhaps from the Gospel of Mary or lost book of Third Allogenes! The misplacing, forgetting, and random destruction of wisdom is all very much part of the story of Gnosticism on planet earth. But perhaps we can remain hopeful like the author of the Gospel of Thomas: "Know what is before your face, and what is hidden from you will be revealed to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not be revealed, nor anything buried which will not be raised." (Saying Five of Greek Thomas)

 

Meditation

 

Would you look at that! This passage from the Acts of Peter provides a great description of meditation practice: "Give ear; withdraw your souls from all that appears but is not truly real; close these eyes if yours, close your ears, withdraw from actions that are outwardly seen; and you shall know the reality of Christ and the whole secret of your salvation."

 

"Look at God within yourself, how 'God is Light.' For his Nature is a glorious, many-splendored Light. He manifests the Light of his Nature to those who love Him in all the worlds…" (John of Dalyatha, Syriac Mystic)

 

God is the Ocean of Love.

 

In Divine Light and Sound, Peace Be to You,

James Bean

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Wednesday, April 13, 2022

God is the Creator of the Spiritual Path, and is the Source of the Light and Sound -- Spiritual Awakening Radio, Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts

 


Podcast: God is the Creator of the Spiritual Path, and is the Source of the Inner Love, Light, and Sound





What is the source of the spiritual path? God is the creator of the spiritual path. God is the source of the inner Light and Sound as well. The meditation practices of inner Light, inner seeing, as well as inner hearing, the inner Sound meditation, are not the property of any particular sect or religion. Baba Devi Sahab:


"Unlike other worship methods popular in religions and sects with different names, these two methods are not man-made. God himself is the founder and operator of these methods. Since the beginning God has kept these two methods inside human beings."



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Today on this Sant Mat Satsang Podcast, a production of Spiritual Awakening Radio, readings from: newly translated mystic poems of Kabir, Eugnostos the Blessed from the Nag Hammadi Library on the prevailing philosophies of the world and a higher message from beyond, Soamiji Maharaj, Sar Bachan Radhasoami Prose, Huzur Maharaj Rai Saligram, Swami Vyasanand's The Inward Journey of the Soul (Chala Hansa Nij Desh! "O Soul-swan! return to your home!"), Param Sant Baba Devi Sahib, Hazur Baba Sawan Singh on Nullifying Karma and Negative Influences Through the Positive Power of the Sound Current, Baba Somanath, The Padavali of Maharshi Mehi Paramhans, Yoga of Inner Light and Sound by Swami Achyutanand Baba, Mind is a Thief in the Form of a Friend by Sant Kirpal Singh on the Soundless/Nameless/Wordless State that is the Ultimate Reality at the highest level of Sach Khand (the Timeless Spiritual Realm), Sant Paltu Sahib, and Satsang Discourses on Simran and Meditation Practice by Baba Ram Singh Ji.


"Since this Quintessential Vibration or Sound springs forth directly from God, it is imbued with the qualities of God and it bestows its own qualities upon its perceiver also, and has a natural propensity to attract its perceiver (soul) to its Source, thereby effecting the complete merger of the soul into the Supreme Soul that is God. That is why meditation on the inner Sound has been reckoned by sages and scriptures to be the loftiest of all forms of meditation." (Swami Achyutanand, Yoga of Inner Light and Sound)



Says Kabir,

"From one Supreme Soul

Countless others,

All of them merge back

Into the One they came from.

What's so strange

About this?

That no-one gets it!"



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Thursday, April 07, 2022

The Ascension of the Soul in Mandaean Mysticism - Also Scroll Down For: Some Thoughts About Sant Mat and Cousin Schools of Mysticism

 


Article: The Soul Within Me Yearns For Hayyi (The Great Life, Supreme Being) -- The Ascension of the Soul in Mandaean Mysticism -- Also Scroll Down For: Some Thoughts About Sant Mat and Cousin Schools of Mysticism






The Soul Within Me Yearns For Hayyi (The Great Life, Supreme Being)


"From the day when I came to love the Life [God], from the day when my heart came to love the Truth, I no longer have trust in anything in the world… After my soul alone I go searching about, which to me is worth generations and worlds. I went and found my soul - What are to me all the worlds? I went and found Truth, as she stands at the outer rim of the worlds." (Ginza Rabba, Mandaean Gnostic Scriptures)



The Soul Within Me Yearns For Hayyi (The Great Life, Supreme Being)


The Earth-realm and Then Comes the Seven Inner Realms or Heavens, and Yet None Represent the True Highest Heaven so the Soul Continues the Journey of Ascension Until It Reaches The Eighth, the Goal, the Ultimate Reality, the Real Home of The Great Life, Hayyi Rabbi.


’Bshumayhon 'd Hayyi rabbi

In the name of the Great Hayyi


The soul within me yearns for Hayyi.

The soul within me demands Hayyi.

My goal is to reach the Place of Life.

I am flying, advancing until I reach the first guardian.

The servants of the first guardian came to meet me.

They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive.

He might serve as a companion to us.”


They asked me, “Hail, companion;

Where did you come from? Where do you go?”


I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi,

and my path is to the Place of Life.


They said, “This is the Place of Life;

here it is, so where are you going now?”


I said to myself, “I am not one of them.

If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment.

This is not what my soul desires and wants.

The soul within me yearns for Hayyi.

The soul within me demands Hayyi.

My goal is to reach the Place of Life.”


I am flying, advancing until I reach the second guardian.

The servants of the second guardian came to meet me.

They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive.

He might serve as a companion to us.”

They asked him, “Hail, companion;

Where did you come from? Where do you go?”


I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi,

and my path is to the Place of Life.


They said, “This is the Place of Life;

here it is, so where are you going now?”


I said to myself, “I am not one of them.

If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment.

This is not what my soul desires and wants.

The soul within me yearns for Hayyi.

The soul within me demands Hayyi.

My goal is to reach the Place of Life.”


I am flying, advancing until I reach the third guardian.

The servants of the third guardian came to meet me.

They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive.

He might serve as a companion to us.”

They asked him, “Hail, companion;

Where did you come from? Where do you go?”


I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi,

and my path is to the Place of Life.


They said, “This is the Place of Life;

here it is, so where are you going now?”


I said to myself, “I am not one of them.

If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment.

This is not what my soul desires and wants.

The soul within me yearns for Hayyi.

The soul within me demands Hayyi.

My goal is to reach the Place of Life.”


I am flying, advancing until I reach the fourth guardian.

The servants of the fourth guardian came to meet me.

They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive.

He might serve as a companion to us.”

They asked him, “Hail, companion;

Where did you come from? Where do you go?”


I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi,

and my path is to the Place of Life.


They said, “This is the Place of Life;

here it is, so where are you going now?”


I said to myself, “I am not one of them.

If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment.

This is not what my soul desires and wants.

The soul within me yearns for Hayyi.

The soul within me demands Hayyi.

My goal is to reach the Place of Life.”


I am flying, advancing until I reach the fifth guardian.

The servants of the fifth guardian came to meet me.

They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive.

He might serve as a companion to us.”

They asked him, “Hail, companion;

Where did you come from? Where do you go?”


I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi,

and my path is to the Place of Life.


They said, “This is the Place of Life;

here it is, so where are you going now?”


I said to myself, “I am not one of them.

If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment.

This is not what my soul desires and wants.

The soul within me yearns for Hayyi.

The soul within me demands Hayyi.

My goal is to reach the Place of Life.”


I am flying, advancing until I reach the sixth guardian.

The servants of the sixth guardian came to meet me.

They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive.

He might serve as a companion to us.”

They asked him, “Hail, companion;

Where did you come from? Where do you go?”


I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi,

and my path is to the Place of Life.


They said, “This is the Place of Life;

here it is, so where are you going now?”


I said to myself, “I am not one of them.

If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment.

This is not what my soul desires and wants.

The soul within me yearns for Hayyi.

The soul within me demands Hayyi.

My goal is to reach the Place of Life.”


I am flying, advancing until I reach the seventh guardian.

The servants of the seventh guardian came to meet me.

They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive.

He might serve as a companion to us.”

They asked him, “Hail, companion;

Where did you come from? Where do you go?”


I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi,

and my path is to the Place of Life.


They said, “This is the Place of Life;

here it is, so where are you going now?”


I said to myself, “I am not one of them.

If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment.

This is not what my soul desires and wants.

The soul within me yearns for Hayyi.

The soul within me demands Hayyi.

My goal is to reach the Place of Life.”


I am flying, advancing until I reach the House of Life.

The righteous came forward to meet me.

In thanks, I bow down and praise Hayyi.

They clothed me in radiance, covered me with light,

and numbered me among the righteous.


Soul, you must raise your lamps

to shine among the lamps of light.

The word of truth has come to you.

It came to the faithful and the righteous.


’u Hayyi zaken


-- from the Left Volume of the Ginza Rabba (Mandaean Gnostic Scriptures, Codex Nasaraeus)



The Earth-realm and Then Comes the Seven Inner Realms or Heavens, and Yet None Represent the True Highest Heaven so the Soul Continues the Journey of Ascension Until It Reaches The Eighth, the Goal, the Ultimate Reality, the Real Home of The Great Life, Hayyi Rabbi.



"In the Name of the Great Life 

Sublime Light be Praised"



Some Thoughts About Sant Mat and Cousin Schools of Mysticism, by James Bean


Sant Mat indeed has much in common with certain strands of Sufism, Kabbalah, Mandaeans and other expressions of Gnosticism, Platonism, even certain Christian mystics like Joseph Hazzaya, also the Hermetic philosophy of Egypt.


Andrea Diem Lane's book, The Gnostic Mystery, remains one of the best examinations of Gnosticism and Sant Mat.


It would be wonderful if there were scholarly projects that expand this to investigating the commonalities between all these cousin schools of mystics.


Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism and Jewish mysticism seem to be the early sources of this, the noetic heavens or higher planes, secret sacred names, initiations into the mysteries, visions, and ascension. Then eventually Syriac Christian mystics and Gnostic sects get established in Mesopotamia. Not long after, Sufism emerges in that same region. Manichaeans, Nestorians and others travel the Silk Road eastwards. Islam and Sufism become a major presence in India. While some of these meditation techniques and perceptions about the world of within might keep getting reinvented in various cultures over time -- the human condition and "atman project" -- I really do see actual contact, direct influence taking place between West and East. I suspect Sufism really has served as the major conduit for this interface.


The Dharam Das material like the Anurag Sagar is especially "Manichaean" or Gnostic in nature. While Kabir knew of Sufis, other Sants, and Naths, it's AS IF Dharam Das had an additional more Manichaean influence in his life, but if a biography of Dharam Das even exists to consult with, it remains an obscure untranslated inaccessible Hindi book. 


According to one Mandaean glossary I have, "Ptahil" is their word for the Demiurge (KAL), an imperfect architect of the imperfect  or flawed material realm, earth-realm:


"Ptahil. One of the Uthras*; as the executor of the cosmogonic designs of a group of Uthras*, most directly connected with the fashioning of this world: he is thus the Mandaean Demiurge. The name Ptah-il is that of the Egyptian artisan-god Ptah with the Semitic -il ("god") suffixed to it. That the name for the Demiurge was taken from the Egyptian pantheon is doubtless connected with the symbolic role of Egypt as the representative of the material world."


* "Uthra. Name for divine beings beneath the Great Mana and the First Life, comparable to the angels..."







Wednesday, April 06, 2022

The Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl, A Mystical Poem About You  -- Podcast 

 


The Gnostic Hymn of the Pearl, A Mystical Poem About You  -- All Souls  -- Remember Who You Are?  The Hymn of the Soul -- Podcast 





The Hymn of the Pearl is one of the greatest Gnostic scriptures ever composed, one of several hymns or mystic poems embedded in the Syriac Acts of Saint Thomas in India. 


This hymn is commonly interpreted as a Gnostic understanding of the human condition, that we are spirits lost in a world of matter, and forgetful of our true origin. Our spiritual breakthrough arrives in the form of a revelatory message delivered by a Divine Messenger. The letter takes on a symbolic representation of Gnosis (spiritual, mystical, inner knowledge or knowing). Divine Grace busts into worlds of time and space to free souls from their captivity. The Great Life, the Supreme Being, calls out to souls, summoning them to awakening, guiding them back to their true home or point of origin.


The Song of the Pearl is a narrative poem about a prince's quest for the Divine Pearl. Presented in the Acts of Thomas as a hymn sung by the apostle Thomas, The Song of the Pearl is a moving Gnostic tale of salvation, of liberation, of sleeping in error but awakening to Light, a quest for gaining possession of the Pearl of the self or soul and a return to the Light.



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"When the Pearl is cast down into the mud,

it becomes greatly despised,

nor if it is anointed with oil

will it become more precious.

But it always has value

in the eyes of its owner.

Compare the children of God:

wherever they may be,

they still have value

in the eyes of their Father."


-- Gospel of Philip (Nag Hammadi Library of Egypt)


"Love is like a deep sea. Only that lover of God who will dive into it fearlessly shall be able to get the Pearl of ultimate happiness in it. And one who will not be able to muster up enough courage to dive into it, shall remain sitting at the beach. He will remain without love in this world. How will he get the Pearls of ultimate happiness then?" (Kabir 1008 Vani)


"We are the Pearls of the shoreless ocean,

Sometimes the waves and sometimes the sea,

We came into the world for this purpose --

That we might reveal God to His creatures."


-- Kamal, son of Kabir


"In the Name of the Great Life (Hayyi Rabbi), may the exalted Light be honored. The Pearl came, which gave Light to dark hearts. Radiance sought to be. Light awoke and became." (Ginza Rabba, The Great Treasure -- Mandaean Gnostic Scriptures)



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Spiritual Awakening Radio (and Sant Mat Satsang Podcasts) with James Bean, heard on various community, public radio stations and the web, explores the world of spirituality, comparative religion, world scriptures and other books, East and West, God, meditation, out of body or near death experiences (inner space), the vegan diet and other ahimsa ethics -- education for a more peaceful planet.