The Sophia of Christ ~ Gnosticism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ม.ค. 2025
- A reading of selected excerpts/verses from the gnostic text, The Sophia of Christ.
The Sophia The Christ, also known as the Wisdom of Jesus Christ, is a Gnostic text that was first discovered in the Berlin Codex (a Codex purchased in Cairo in 1896 and given to the Berlin Museum which also contains the Gospel of Mary, the Apocryphon of John, and a summary of the Act of Peter). More famously, the Sophia of Jesus Christ is also among the many Gnostic tractates in the Nag Hammadi codices, discovered in Egypt in 1945. The Berlin-Codex manuscript (as opposed to its contents) probably dates to c. AD 400, and the Nag-Hammadi manuscript has been dated to the 300s. However, these are complemented by a few fragments in Greek dating from the 200s, indicating an earlier date for the contents.
Sophia should be understood in its ordinary meaning as "wisdom", analogous to the titles Wisdom of Solomon and Wisdom of Sirach.
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I soooo love that you’re doing the apocrypha/gnostic texts! Been studying these lately, and you’re my favorite reader so it’s absolutely wonderful! Thank you for what you do❤
Your voice and your reading, even if I don't understand all, feel like a mother surronding me. Thank you so much❤
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I’m hearing it bit by bit…. The essence.
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My word this was a beautiful soundscape reading. Sincere gratitude for such a lovely gift
Thank you, so tender this revelation. Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
Beyond thrilled to see you post this reading. In many ways, it feels aligned with the path I'm on lately.
I recently picked up a copy of "Sacred Mirrors - the Visionary Art of Alex Grey" within the last couple of weeks. There's a lot I could say on that book. I became particularly enamored with his rendering of Sophia that's included in there. It's the first time I've encountered Sophia and this aspect of Gnosticism.
After intentionally sitting with that image a few times since discovering it, I saw your posting of this video. A surge of gratitude and amazement flowed through me. How it is when things line up like this.
I listened just now and I love it. My mind didn't try to figure it out too much, which I appreciate. It all lands well in my heart. And something even deeper resonates as I listen to the words shared in this teaching.
Lovely reading. Lovely artwork by Dan. Lovely teaching. Lovely experience. Thank you very much, Jayasara.
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Dan Hillier….. a gifted man, I was lucky enough to be pointed to this TH-cam channel by him many moons ago, and was even luckier to be able to thank him in person for that about 3 years ago…
Beautiful image, beautiful words, perfectly read, and very gratefully received by these little ears of mine.
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So lovely to know of your connection to Dan
There's no thing to fight about when you understand it's the thing you can't see but can feel supporting everything. Preserve the charge
I highly recommend reading " The Thunder Perfect Mind " The Voice of the Divine Feminine. Blew my mind-
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So complex, profound, beautiful!!! Sincerely appreciated!!! A true discovery. Blessings, peace and wellbeing. 🙏☮️🕊💟
Thank you for recording and uploading these
I must recommend Simone Weil's meditations on gnostic texts as well.
No greater key than what is given @17:49 through 18:20
I have been kinda struggling lately with things that come up in this video. Despite many direct experiences I call mystic for want of a better word, where all is naturally held in perfection, you could say all movement is saturated with stillness, I can't seem to get past this little core of mistrust, or tension, because it also seems completely obvious that the Absolute, fundamental, is, must be, inherently flawed. The two words that come to mind most often are flawed and mad, not as in a crazy mind, or crazy will, but just as in.. inherently flawed, to naturally hold any experience of suffering at all.
I also see perfectly clearly (or so it feels) that suffering and pleasure are concepts and experiences that must coexist so to speak, kinda create each other and define each other, and that as experience moves along this spectrum, the naming of the experience as painful or pleasurable would shift. Like my I ching expresses it, one more balmy sunny day in long drought would not be experienced as balmy.
So I can see the kinda conceptual, pov nature of what is experienced as 'obviously just this..' painful or what have you.
But completely regardless of this, the absolute 'contains' or 'allows' it all in perfect 'balance'. Suffering, rejection, fear. Misidentification. Illusion. Delusion. Arise WITH pleasure, trust, acceptance, love. Despite all experiences where there is nothing to push against the nature of or content of, any experience, or even to move into the experience of labelling, it seems obvious that to contain even the potential for illusion is flawed. And it is even more flawed that it couldn't be any other way. Inherent, perfectly as it is, beyond evaluation. Flawed perfection. It is very uncomfortable, having these 'two', 'opposite' concepts seem so impossibly inherent and obvious. Perfectly flawed. Unavoidably so. It just seems astonishingly, wildly, gob smackingly mad.
It would appear to me that calling the world ‘flawed’ because it allows illusion or suffering is something humans do. Is it any different than ‘I don’t like this ‘ ? If I don’t like it, it is flawed. Is the suffering caused by the concept of a flaw ? The thought ’ The universe is flawed’ would cause suffering. The thought ‘Suffering shouldn’t exist ‘ could cause suffering.
@markkeogh2190 @markkeogh2190 What you point out here also seems really clear, that's the conceptual aspect I was referring to. Oddly, it's not so much the world in looking at here though, rather the (apparent) insanity that the potential for the experience of painful concepts is even possible. That which 'allows' or 'contains' the human experience, for the perception of flaw.
This core Truth is totally aligned with the content of A COURSE IN MIRACLES, so read it together, it compliments in synergy example “rest in the source “ read lesson 41 of the workbook of ACIM - “ I Rest in God”! Lesson 41
Until I REALIZE that my outer experience is a projection, the external experiences will be dominated by polarity : pleasure and pain, fear and contentment. With this realization the door ( it’s name is SURRENDER) to the BEYOND world opens : the non- dual world of no opposites : where WISDOM of Christ, LOVE, TRUTH only exists : from this perspective everything is different
@@hannahlily11Does the thought ‘The insanity that the potential …’ cause suffering ?
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An insane world it may be. But who says it ought not be ?
Anandamayi ma said ‘the world is a mad house. Find out what you are or repeat your favourite deity’s name ‘. What we are is neither insane nor prone to coming and going. Try not to conceptualise and if that’s not possible know that the conceptualist isn’t you. Or ask for help from your deity saying ‘this is beyond me ‘. And you may also step away from all this and watch a tv show ( I am not being flippant ). Lots of love
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But there were only 11 apostles when he rose from the dead? As Judas Iscariot took his own life
Matthias was chosen by casting lots. ( like rolling dice ) Barnabas lost.
Beautifull and deeply calming. Thank you. 🎶🙏🏻💖
thank you for compiling this - very valuable
Thank you Samaneri Jayasara🙏. God bless you🌠. L. G. Andrea F.💓
Why were they astonished and all Afraid
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“PERFECT UNDERSTANDING” how is this arrived at? Is there one formula for all or is it an individual understanding?
So much gratitude and love to you
Perfect understanding is arrived at through one's individual understanding. The encouragement is to dwell with "trust" at the intersection between the unseen and that which is seen, clinging to neither. In simple terms, remain in your Beingness - that ineffable and unfathomable Reality that you can know (or 'see') for yourself intuitively, not with the physical eyes. Remain resting in that non-conceptual spaciousness with all conditioned appearances, neither rejecting or reifying them. A Christlike Heart - a heart open and full of love, patience, and surrender. That will take you to the Unborn, Unseen, Uncreated, Source of All.
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He became the Christ,he was reborn in Christ,he didn't physically die he rose from the dead .I.e this world 🌍🙏
i may be an unseen one, waiting to be seen. All things, till then , are made only to help me find the way back to this Perfection.
The Son made this possible.
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Sophia, Phistisophia, Philosophia, Philosophy, Theosophy, Anthroposophy
Spirit and matter are ONE
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The foggy light of Anu is the bicycle of Adam(radiation)? What is perceived as life is hydrogen atoms decaying light. Out of the darkness came the light. All light. We are perfect celestial bodies. There's literally no thing to fight for or lose your brilliance over. Death is life everlasting 💞 ⚡🕉️ movement-rythm and sound is All that is matter. The light is an illusion of light dark pattern, merely a flicker in the scheme of eternity 😇🤗🚫⌛👍🎁
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