Gratitude For Divine Grace, also, A Collection of Syriac and Gospel of Thomas Podcasts

 

Gratitude For Divine Grace, also, A Collection of Syriac and Gospel of Thomas Podcasts

“When evening comes, collect your thoughts and ponder over the entire course of the day: observe God’s provincial care for you, consider the grace which he has wrought in you throughout the whole span of the day; consider the rising of the moon, the joy of daylight, all the hours and moments, the divisions of time, the sight of different colors, the beautiful adornment of creation, the course of the sun, the growth of your own stature, how your own person has been protected; consider the blowing of the winds, the ripe and varied fruits, how the elements minister to your comfort, how you have been preserved from accidents, and all of the other activities of grace. When you have pondered on all this, wonder at God’s love towards you will spring up within you, and gratitude for his acts of grace will bubble up inside you.” (John the Solitary, Moran Etho: Spirituality in the Syriac Tradition, by Sebastian P. Brock)

Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcasts @ Youtube on the Syriac Mystics, Gospel of Thomas, Odes of Solomon and Acts of Thomas, Favorites of the Syriac East

The Syriac Mystics of Eastern Christianity:

https://youtu.be/GWoU7ftBADk

Receiving Inner Guidance in the Silence of Meditation:

https://youtu.be/dN61IeUQHpc

Lost Psalms of The New Testament Discovered: The Odes of Solomon:

https://youtu.be/peHg5tBVWyg

The Spiritual Message of the Gospel of Thomas and the Syriac Mystics:

https://youtu.be/Pixrz4pYAzY

The Gospel of Thomas as a Kind of ‘Second Coming’ of Christ, “Thomsonian” Sayings of Jesus Quoted in Other Ancient Texts: 

https://youtu.be/1Xl3xp6Ywe8

#Syriac #GospelOfThomas #Mystics #Gnosticism #Yeshua #AncientTexts #Podcasts #SpiritualAwakeningRadio #DivineGrace

Salvation-By-Calendar, Apocalypses, Second Comings, and Yugas

Salvation-By-Calendar, Apocalypses, Second Comings, and Yugas 

Pink Floyd - "Time" (2011 Remastered): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwYX52BP2Sk 

I have this old book published back in the 1920's and it gave me a eureka moment about this topic of prophecy, the never-ending fixation about the end of days. It shows a sketch of the Great 19th-Century Meteor Shower and in the caption is a verse of scripture about "stars falling from the heavens". It also has an old black n white photo of a steam engine train and in the caption underneath a passage from the Book of Daniel:  "But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.”  

"Same as it ever was." (Talking Heads lyrics from "Once in a Lifetime") 

Look busy, [Treta Yuga, Aquarius, Jesus, earth changes... fill-in-the-blank] is coming: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0869/1920/products/10054_Mug.jpg?v=1539973718 

"His disciples said to him: 'When will the resurrection of the dead take place, and when will the new world come?' He said to them: 'That resurrection which you are awaiting has already come, but you do not recognize it.'” 

That's saying 51 of Gospel of Thomas, a somewhat Buddhist-like or mystical version of a gospel that places emphasis on the now, the present moment. Copies of it have been found at Oxyrinchus, Egypt and near Nag Hammadi, also in Egypt. http://gnosis.org/naghamm/gosthom.html   

There is no salvation-by-calendar presented in the Gospel of Thomas.

While Mayan calendar mathematicians, polyester clad prophets, black rock city shamans, vague Nostradumbass quatrains, and the National Enquirer predictions for 2019 (2018, 2017, 2016, etc....) are never impressive, there are some very real apocalyptic concerns, and those are the ones we already know about and have been living with for awhile now.

The Anthropocene Age, the epoch we find ourselves living in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene   

Climate Change: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence 

Climate Change, it's always ahead of schedule and worse than the earlier predictions: https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/new-research-is-out-on-thawing-permafrost-and-its-worse-than-climate-scientists-thought/70008749 

Two Minutes to Midnight: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time 

An Atomic Tidal Wave at the End of the World: https://www.businessinsider.nl/russia-drops-first-video-of-putins-poseidon-doomsday-nuclear-torpedo-2019-2/?international=true&r=US 

Vasili Arkhipov, the hero of the Cuban Missile Crisis who deserves much greater recognition: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/27/vasili-arkhipov-soviet-submarine-captain-who-averted-nuclear-war-awarded-future-of-life-prize

Mossy Ledge: "Departure": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyidDlPVwjQ&ab_channel=MossyLedge

My Top Ten List of Essene, Christian/Ebionite/Gnostic, and Mandaean Scriptures, First Century Through the Eighth Century AD

My Top Ten List of Essene, Christian/Ebionite/Gnostic, and Mandaean Scriptures, First Century Through the Eighth Century AD:

1) The Gospel of Thomas (and related collections of the sayings of Jesus like “Q” and the Gospel of the Hebrews),

2) The Gospel of Mary Magdalene,

3) Odes of Solomon (not really by Solomon but a collection of early Christian psalms from the late 1st Century AD),

4) the Psalms by the Teacher of Righteousness in the Dead Sea Scrolls,

5) Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice (related to the Dead Sea Scrolls),

6) Trimorphic Protennoia (from the Nag Hammadi Library),

7) The Canonical Prayerbook of the Mandaeans (from the John the Baptist group),

8)  The Clementine Homilies (a kind of Ebionite book of acts),

9) The Prayer of Thanksgiving (from the Nag Hammadi Library), and…

10) The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life (a collection of writings from the Thomas Christians/Church of the East).

See: Sayings of Jesus (Yeshua), Ebionite (Nasoraean, Jewish or Hebrew Christian) Scriptures and Vegetarian Gospels -- Sant Mat Radhasoami Books, The E Library: Ebionite/Hebrew Christianity Section: https://SantMatRadhasoami.Blogspot.com/2019/01/ebionite-nasoraean-jewish-or-hebrew.html

See: Gnostic Gospels, Contemplative or Mystical Christianity, Syriac Mystics, Mandaean, Manichaean, Apocrypha, Nag Hammadi Library, Pistis Sophia, Jesus Sutras, Lost Books of the Bible and Spirituality of the West -- Sant Mat Radhasoami Books, The E Library: Gnostic or Western Mysticism Section: https://SantMatRadhasoami.Blogspot.com/2019/01/gnostic-gospels-contemplative-or.html

#syriac #mandaean #gnostic #christian #gospelofthomas #odesofsolomon 

#naghammadilibrary #jesus #ebionite #essene #yeshua #vegetarian 

#prayerofthanksgiving #clementinehomilies #trimorphicprotennoia 

#deadseascrolls #songsofthesabbathsacrifice #gospelofthehebrews

#SaintIsaacofNineveh #saintisaacthesyrian #bookofsteps 

#syriacfathersonprayerandthespirituallife #mystics #canonicalprayerbookofthemandaeans #mandaean