Christ explains that human redemption occurs by the mediation of Divine Feminine
Karma, reincarnation, self-realization and the Divine Feminine as
Holy Ghost—God The Mother. Christ's teachings are more Eastern
than the Churches would have us believe or would like to admit.
The two centuries after Christ saw the Christian Gnostic teachings
of spiritual awareness disseminated alongside the blind faith
doctrines of Paul's formulation. In the third Century, the Roman
Church's council of Nicaea acted to stamp out the Gnostics and their
anti-dogmatic approach to spirituality.
The Gnostic's were declared heretical, their texts destroyed and the
Gnostics themselves persecuted into extinction. However, a small
amount of Gnostic teachings survived, hidden in caves or in watered-
down form in other"heretical"texts (broadly labeled as
"Apocrypha").
The Christian Gnostics practiced a spirituality more similar to
Eastern traditions than to the Western Christianity we know
today.”Gnostic"Is Greek for"knower"And it is"Gnosis"
or"Knowledge"that they were seeking. Unlike the blind faith
demanded by today's Churches, 'Gnosis' meant direct, mystical
experience of the divine, which was to be found by individual
spiritual evolution to Self-Realization, and not within the confines
of intellectual dogma. The experience of Gnosis was trans-rational
and non-intellectual.
From the Nag Hammadi Library, the Book of Thomas, Christ tells
us"For whoever does not know self, does not know anything, but
whoever knows self, already has acquired knowledge about the depth
of the universe.” Compare this with a tract from the Upanishads, the
Indian metaphysical treatise on Self Realization: "It is not by
argument that the self is known... Distinguish the self from the
body and mind. The self, the atman, the highest refuge of all,
pervades the Universe and dwells in the hearts of all. Those who are
instructed in the self and who practice constant meditation attain
that changeless and self effulgent atman ( spirit/ self). Do Thou
Likewise, for bliss eternal lies before you...”
In another Gnostic text, the Secret Gospel of Thomas, Christ
promises us spiritual fulfillment"I shall give you what no eye has
seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched and what has
never arisen in the human mind.”This description is not unlike the
Upanishadic experience"The Self is devoid of birth and death, it
neither grows old nor decays and the accidents of life do not affect
it. The Self transcends space and time; what is great is not too
great for it to comprehend and what is small is not too small to
escape its attention. It is the Self of All.”
Just as Christ warned us against sin and encourages moral perfection
in the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment, so too do the Eastern
texts"No intellectual acumen can help one realize it, it can be
realized only by those who surrender to it and who make themselves
worthy by grace, by desisting from all that is sinful, who engage in
the practice of perfection by constant meditation" ( Upanishads).
The most ancient Eastern spiritual texts, the Vedas, of India, tell
us that the process of spiritual awakening by which one attains
truth -awareness is called 'Self-Realization'. The Self Realized
person lives in direct experience of reality—this is
called"Jnana" ( a traditional sanskrit word meaning 'knowledge'
or 'Gnosis'). Such a person is called a"Jnani" ('knower '
or 'gnostic' ) or"dwijaha" ('twice born'; first from a human mother
to the earthly plane then secondly as a child of the Goddess, or
Divine Mother, who gives the seeker their second, spiritual birth,
Self- Realisation, into the plane of mystic awareness- gnosis! ).
The traditional Indian texts extol the 'Divine Mother' as the Cosmic
Matriarch, bestower of the highest treasure of Self-Realization upon
Her deserving children. Many Indian mystic traditions say this same
goddess is represented within the human being as the divine feminine
power called Kundalini.
What of Western tradition? In the Secret Book of John Christ
explains that human redemption before the Heavenly Father occurs by
the mediation of a Divine Feminine principle, which he calls the
Earthly Mother. It is the Earthly Mother who removes the sins of the
children that they can become worthy of their divine heritage;"When
all sins and all uncleanesses are gone from your body, your blood
shall become as pure as our Earthly Mother's blood and as pure as
the river's foam sporting in the sunlight. And your breath shall
become as pure as the breath of odorous flowers; your flesh as pure
as the flesh of fresh fruits reddening upon the leaves of trees; the
light of your eye as clear and bright as the brightness of the sun
shining upon the blue sky. And now shall all the angels of the
Earthly Mother serve you and your breath, your blood, your flesh
shall be one with the breath, the blood and the flesh of the Earthly
Mother, that your spirit also become one with the Spirit of your
Heavenly Father. For truly no-one can reach the Heavenly Father
unless through the Heavenly Mother. Even as the newborn babe cannot
understand the teaching of his father until his mother has suckled
him, bathed him, nursed him, put him to sleep and nurtured him.” The
Earthly Mother is a divine mediator through which the seekers, the
Sons of Man, are raised to the Heavenly Father. Another part of the
same text says"Honor your Earthly Mother and keep her laws that
your days may be long on this earth and honor your Heavenly Father,
that eternal life may be yours in the Heavens. For the Heavenly
Father is a hundred times greater than all the fathers by seed and
by blood, and greater is the Earthly Mother than all mothers by the
body.” The Holy Trinity, then is God the Father, God the Son (ie.
Christ) and, it seems, God The Mother. The Divine Mother
particularly is the means and power of spiritual evolution.
The Secret Book of John relates Christ's description of the Divine
Feminine as the power of God Almighty.”She is the first power. She
preceded everything, and came forth from the Father's mind as
forethought of all. Her light resembles the Father's light; as the
perfect power She is the image of the perfect and invisible Virgin
Spirit. She is the first power, the glory, Barbello, the perfect
glory among the worlds, the emerging glory, She glorified and
praised the Virgin Spirit for she had come forth through the Spirit.
She is the first thought, image of the Spirit. he became the
universal womb, for She precedes everything, the common parent, the
first humanity, the Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit is here described
as the Divine Power of God Himself. This power is maternal in its
character (universal womb, She, the common parent) and all powerful
as the 'first emanation of God'. More so, She is pure (Virgin) and
She glorifies purity. So ancient Christian tradition seems to tell
us that the holy spirit is actually the Divine Mother!
One cannot overlook the Eastern parallels. God Almighty in Indian
mythology is represented as Sada-Shiva. His state is eternal
perfection (Sat Chit Ananda). His power is the Adi Shakti
(primordial power) who is His feminine counterpart or spouse. It is
She who does all things. She created the universe and the gods who
attend over it (for example, the triune Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu). The
Adi Shakti is The Mother of all things. She gave birth to the
universe and is the feminine power of every deity and celestial
being (usually represented as their spouse). The Secret Book of John
parallels this"She became the universal womb, for She precedes
everything, the common parent, the first humanity, the Holy Spirit,
the triple male (Shiva, Brahma, Vishnu?) the triple power (Parvati,
Saraswati, Lakshmi, who are spouses of the triple males-or the
triple Goddess of Western mythological tradition?).” Thus the
Christian mystics understood that the Holy Spirit is the Divine
Feminine, the Goddess, the Universal Mother herself. The Syriac
Christians worshiped the Holy Ghost as the Great Mother. Phillip
suggests that Mary Herself is the Holy Spirit (for who else but God
The Mother can give birth to God the Son?). Other Apocryphal
Scriptures describe Mary as the focus of Temple activities. Her
early life was punctuated by auspicious portents all implying her
own Divinity.
Just as Mary and the Holy Ghost appear to parallel aspects of the
Divine Mother described in the East, so too does Christ, the son of
God reflect the Eastern principle of the Divine Child. The Divine
Child in the Eastern mythological tradition is commonly worshiped as
the dual child-gods Ganesha and Kartikeya. Ganesha represents the
fabric of the cosmos, the primordial Aum or Logos from which the
creation was constructed. Christ affirmed the same primordial nature
of himself when he said"I am the first"And"I am the alpha.”
Ganesha is the primordial child who is the embodiment of purity and
innocence. Similarly Christ venerated children and the innocence
that they manifested. He even urged the apostles (and us) to
cultivate our own childlike innocence"let the children come to me
for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these"And"Assuredly
whoever does not receive the kingdom of god as a little child will
by no means enter it" (Mark 10). Kartikeya is the same principle of
innocence in dynamic action- the slayer of evil; as Christ did when
he ejected the money lenders from the temple.
So, Christ seems to be telling us that the kingdom of Heaven, which
is a state of God-like perfection and child-like innocence is
attained by some inner phenomenon. In the Gnostic Scriptures Christ
spoke directly of this as an inner transformation, self realisation.
He also told us that the Holy Ghost or Divine Mother is the power by
which this is accomplished, but by what mechanism?
Let's take lateral look at the Indian tradition of Kundalini of
which many local saints have spoken. Shankaracharya (700AD) and
Gyaneshwara (1200AD) are two well known mystic exponents of
Kundalini. They both describe the actualization of self-realization
in their classic poetry, such as the Saundarya-Lahari, Sivananda-
Lahari and the Gyaneshwari (itself a commentary on the Kundalini
Yoga described by Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita ). They describe a
force of pure (virgin) spirituality, which lies dormant within the
human being.
By constant purification and self perfection the seven vital energy
centres (chakras) which govern all aspects of mind, body and soul,
are prepared for the awakening of Kundalini. Once awakened by divine
grace, the Kundalini passes through these centres, not unlike a
string through beads, enlightening each as it passes through.
Arriving at the seventh centre (Sahasrara) the seeker's awareness is
united with the eternal-self-within. The experience is
transrational, non causal, a tangible and real bliss of truth-
awareness. Indian mystics called the Sahasrara"Paradise"," Heaven"
or, as Christ has called it"The Kingdom of God within.” As the
Kundalini passes through each of the vital centres, they are
stimulated to produce a pure, nourishing energy. The Vedas (Ancient
Scriptures of India) describe this energy as a sacred river emitted
by each of the seven chakras. Shankaracharya called this
energy"spun.” He too described its nature as being like divine
water showering down upon him as he meditated in the ecstacy of
devotion. Other Indian scriptures call this energy"Paramchaitanya"
(energy of supreme consciousness). The miracle of Whitsunday wherein
the Apostles became empowered with their spirituality sounds similar
to the experience of these chakras manifesting this same divine
energy.
Shankaracharya said"All Glory unto the current of Divine Bliss
which, brimming from the river of Thy Holy stories, flows into the
lake of my mind, through the canals of intellect, subduing the dust
of sin and cooling the heat of memory.” Much of the gnostic texts
repeat this ancient Eastern understanding.
Consider this tract from the Book of Hymns of the Dead Sea
Scrolls: "I have reached the inner vision and through Thy Spirit in
me I have heard Thy wondrous secret, through Thy mystic insight Thou
hast caused a spring of knowledge to well up within me, a fountain
of power, pouring forth living waters, a flood of love and of all
embracing wisdom, like the splendor of eternal light.” The"fountain
of power"," spring of knowledge"," Living water"," flood of
love"," eternal light"All directly describe the experience of
Kundalini awakening! Consider this from the Nag Hammadi Library, the
Apocryphal Gospel of Phillip"The Tree of Life is in the centre of
Paradise, as is the oil tree from which the anointment Chrisma
comes. The Chrism is the source of resurrection.” Krishna, the
divine being, c4000BC, also described the Kundalini as an inverted
Tree of spirituality, whose roots lay in the brain. The atree of
Life' is a well recognized symbolic parallel of the Kundalini. So
too is the Holy Grail, the cup from which Christ drank at the last
supper its symbolic significance being that Christ's sustenance
arose from a cup, that is, an object whose receptive qualities
reflect the nature of the divine feminine—yet another parallel of
the Kundalini.
It is likely that St Phillip's 'Chrisma' is the same 'spun'
described by Shankaracharya, the 'Paramchaitanya' or in Christian
terminology 'God's grace'. In the Gospel of Peace, Christ explains
that the experience of spirituality is foremost. He says the
Scriptures are merely conveying an intellectual knowledge, but we
are to have the 'living knowledge', that is the experience of our
own spirituality. He says"Seek not the law in your Scriptures for
the law is life, whereas the Scripture is dead. I tell you truly
Moses received not his laws from God as writing but through the
living word. The law is living word for living God to living
prophets for living men. In everything that is life to the law is
the law written, for I tell you truly all living things are nearer
to God than the Scripture which is without life. I tell you truly
that the Scripture is the work of man, but life and all its hosts
are the work of our God. Wherefore do you not listen to the words of
God which are written in his works? And wherefore do you study the
dead Scriptures which are from the hands of men?.” That is, seek the
divine experience which is beyond definition, do not settle for
mundane human interpretations of the mystic's suprahuman experience.
Thus Christ's law is a living, cosmic and experiential one, and is
actuated by the awakening of the spiritual experience within the
seeker, not by intellectual study or by following those who
themselves have not truly had the experience. This directly
parallels the eastern teachings; that self-realization, the pure
spiritual awakening, is attained by the righteous and itself gives
greater righteousness. More so, self realisation is a process of
genuine, inner spiritual transformation which must be experienced to
be understood, since it lies beyond the domain of scriptural
description or theological definition.
Since it is gained by the grace of the Divine Mother( Holy Spirit)
alone, it is most certainly not possible to organize or
institutionalize this experience in human terms.
This contrasts with the way in which the Churches have pigeonholed
and categorized Christianity in terms of 'blind faith', 'obedience
to the church' and empty ritual. In the Gnostic Scriptures,
untouched by the organized churches, Christ urges us to perceive and
experience the cosmic order for ourselves and not to rely on so-
called scriptural authorities—such as the churches—to
prescribe it to us.
C.G. Jung recognized the link between the Divine Feminine and the
Eastern principle of Kundalini. He understood that the Kundalini was
the representation of the Goddess within each of us. Is the Holy
Ghost the Kundalini? Was the Kundalini a central principle in early
mystic Christianity? Such an assumption would help us reinterpret
many parts of the mainstream bible, for example; In the Gospel of
John, Christ explains to the Pharisee Nicodemus," Verily I say unto
thee, except a man be born of water and the spirit; he cannot enter
the kingdom of God", this second birth far from being a license for
so many born again Christian fundamentalists is something much more
mystical and subtle in nature. To be"born of the water and the
spirit"describes the awakening of Kundalini. She is often described
as a divine mother whose ascent within the spine of the seeker gives
them rebirth into mystic/gnostic awareness, the 'divine water' is
its nourishing energy. The Kundalini enters the Sahasrara and there
unites the seeker's awareness with the self or spirit. This is
described as a blissful, infinite experience of the kingdom of God
within. Thus, Christ's 'born again' Christianity might actually
refer to those Christians who have entered the realm of direct
experience of divinity, in the state of self realisation.
Other Canon (mainstream) Scriptures can be more deeply understood in
this light. In the Gospel of Matthew, Christ says"Be Ye Perfect,
even as Your Father which is in Heaven is perfect.” (Ch.5, v. 48).
This is a clear exhortation by Christ to strive and achieve
spiritual perfection, just as the Buddha and other Eastern sages
taught their disciples. Christ tells us about our innately divine
nature"Ye are Gods" (Psalm 82, v.6; John 10, v.34).
Furthermore"Behold the Kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17,
v.21), that is the experience of Heaven is an internal phenomenon.
This implies that the inner state of the seeker is the source of
their spiritual fulfillment. We could well say that Christ's idea of
Heavenly Salvation was an internal state of Godlike perfection.
When the seeker's awareness is completely united with the Eternal
Spirit/Self/Atman the true self (not ego, mind, intellect,
personality, body or memory) is experienced or realized. Since the
spirit is no less than a reflection of God itself then in the state
of complete Self-Realization the seeker experiences perfection"As
our Father in Heaven is perfect.” The Eastern term for this state of
Self-Realization is God-Realization and it represents the final
stage of our spiritual evolution.
There are deeper references to the chakras and kundalini in the
Scriptures. For example, Revelations may also symbolically describe
the chakras in St. John's spiritual vision;"I saw seven standing
lamps of gold" (the chakras emitting the divine light?), John sees
Christ as one of the seven lamps (you will see the significance of
this later), Christ is holding the"seven stars" (demonstrating his
command of the chakra system?) and speaks of the"seven churches"
(the divine institution within each chakra?). In Genesis Jacob
envisions a divine ladder directly connecting his earthly being with
God in Heaven- this precisely describes the experience and purpose
of the kundalini!
Consider this idea: The term 'Jesus of Nazareth', does not (say
German theologians) relate to Christ's times in Nazareth. Proper
understanding of the original language shows that such a term is not
linguistically possible (despite the fact that Paul uses it). The
original term is more likely,
"Jesus the Nazareen.”Nazareen is an Aramaic word meaning"one who
has bound himself to the service of God"or"one who is anointed.”
Compare this to the meaning of Yoga," Union with God"And 'Yogi' —
one who has union with god or to descriptions of the awakening of
the Kundalini," the mystical anointment.” The Nazaria were a group
of Gnostics contemporary to Christ. They taught a mystic
spirituality similar to the Eastern ideas already described. It has
been suggested by some authorities that this Gnostic word is
ultimately derived from the Hindustani 'Nazar.' This is a yogic term
for the point between the eyebrows and above the nose (the athird
eye') where sages of old performed meditation. 'Nazaren' means to
envision or behold. Then a more accurate meaning of"Jesus the
Nazareen"Would be"Jesus who has Yoga or Self Realisation"
or"Jesus who meditates.” Considering Christ's status as the"Son of
God"perhaps a more appropriate meaning would be"Jesus who is the
object of meditation.” Was Christ himself the object of meditation
as are many deities in Eastern cultures? Christ himself might well
be the Nazaren.
The Nazar physically corresponds to the location of the Agnya
chakra, the sixth vital chakra through which the Kundalini must pass
before She enters the Sahasrara. The Agnya manifests physically as
the 'optic chiasm' whose shape itself is cruciform! Is the cosmic
Christ represented within each of us in the Nazar, Agnya chakra,
just as the cosmic Mother or Holy Ghost is represented within us as
the Kundalini?
The position of the Agnya chakra is such that it is the final centre
to be crossed before the Kundalini finishes its journey to the
Sahasrara ( the 'Kingdom of God within'). Entry of the Kundalini
into the Sahasrara gives the blissful experience of divine
awareness. This literally explains Christ's words," None can enter
Heaven except through me.”
Ponder also on Christ's instruction ato be as little children'
or"look at the birds of the air for they neither sow nor reap nor
gather into barns; yet your heavenly father feeds them....which of
you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature?” (Matthew 6). The
innocence of mind which he describes is that same Zen awareness
obtained in the state of meditation, when the Agnya chakra is
pierced by the Kundalini giving rise to a heightened awareness of
the present moment, all thoughts of past and future neutralized.
Consider also that Christ himself told us," When your two eyes
become one, your body will be filled with light.”This implies that
when we go beyond the physical sight ( the two eyes) to the subtle
experience or perception which occurs by opening of the third eye
and thus entry of the awareness into the Sahasrara our body is
filled with light, purity, grace etc.
There is further symbolism eg. the twelve apostles represent six
pairs which are symbolic of the lower six chakras from Mooladhara to
Agnya. These six chakras are limited to dual awareness, ie. past and
present, cause and effect. However, the final chakra, Sahasrara,
represented here by Christ, who was the leader of the twelve
apostles is non-dual, being derived from an awareness higher than
the causal plane.
Here are some possible conclusions which are equally reasonable,
though entirely contrary to modern dogma about Christ and
Christianity. Christ's spirituality differed radically from our
modern understanding. His teaching was dynamic and zen-like focusing
on the experience of inner purification and transformation, the
elevation of the seeker's awareness into the state (not concept or
dogma) of self-realization. He sought to overthrow the immoral
culture of the Romans and to deliver to the dogmatic, letter-bound
Jews the mystic fulfillment promised to them in the Mosaic covenant.
Central to his teaching was the understanding that the feminine
aspect of God, God The Mother, was the means by which self-
realization and spiritual evolution to god-awareness occurred.
Christ venerated the Divine Mother as the Holy Spirit. It is this
power, described in the East as residing in the human being as the
Kundalini, that is the last vestige of the Goddess-tradition in the
Christian West.
Mary was in her own right a divine being. She was venerated as such
by Christ and some of the suppressed scriptures describe her as the
Holy Spirit incarnate.
Why did the Churches suppress these true christian traditions?
Partly because they are patriarchal institutions based on the
questionable dogma of Paul who perceived women (and therefore the
feminine principle) as inferior entities. Partly also because
spirituality which focused on the Divine Feminine would also focus
on the redemptive power of God The Mother and on Her role as the
grantor and matriarch of mystical experience. This kind of
understanding, like all mystics and mysticism, defies organization,
dogmatic hierarchies and institutions preferring the role of
individual experience, revelation and progressive growth toward
divine awareness.
The Holy Ghost, then, threatened to neutralize the fear-oriented
dogma which the Churches have used, in the name of Christ and
Spiritual Truth, to maintain their secular power and wealth.
Christ's promise of a comforter, the"second coming", implies
another divine incarnation to bring about the redemption of
humanity. As we have seen it is the Divine Mother who has the power
to redeem her children, the Sons of Man (as the gnostics put it), in
the eyes of God the Father. Who better to comfort the children who
suffer, as does the West and much of the world from a culture whose
ethic of materialism and immediate gratification is characterized by
terms such as"The lost generation"," eco-disaster"," terrorism",
"future shock"And"psycho-social alienation", than the Divine
Mother?
C.G. Jung, in his critique of the Western psyche keynoted the
absence of the Feminine Principle as a major cause of much of the
West's psycho-cultural imbalance. The return of the Divine Feminine
would indeed facilitate the spiritual redemption of Western Culture.
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