Beyond the Rabbit Hole

  One of the first text titles mentioned in the early days of newspaper reporting on the Nag Hammadi Library was mention of The Book of the Great Invisible Spirit .  I wonder what that book might be about...so let's see what AI has to say about it, shall we? A Book With Three Themes to Digest For me, anyway!  My new friend in the Google Bard summarized the book as such.  The three main sections include: A Gnostic Cosmology : the universe was/is created by a series of emanations from the ultimate, unknowable God, or the Great Spirit.  The material world was/is created by lower divine beings and is seen as a place of ignorance and suffering A Gnostic Mythology : the text relates the story of the divine being Seth, and "his" three descents into the material world.  The first one occurred at the time of the Flood, the second at the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the third in the form of Jesus Christ. A Gnostic Set of Rituals :  The tex...

  This new year, I picked up a used copy of a book that is supposed to help "one better understand the Qabalah."  The book was written by author Will Parfitt; the title is The New Living Qabalah: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Tree of Life.   All that said, this past week, I started the book and managed to get through two exercises to get the journey rolling.  The first exercise recommended by the author was to think of an image that represents what the understanding the Qabalah means to me, and then to draw it out.  So I did.      The image that popped into my head?  A fruiting dandelion...so I drew that out.   The next step was to think of a place that brought me happiness...any place in the world.  To be honest, to me, that place is to be on the shores of Lake Superior.  So I imagined myself there...concentrated on the experiences there, and then brought myself back to my bedroom and stated "I am here."...

  Following the signs of the Universe, yet again, I was listening to a DOENUT podcast recently that was mentioning things like John Lennon's’ death, the movie Videodrome , and alchemy.  No big deal, right?  Common scuttlebutt in talks like this…except that I am reading S ecret Societies and Psychological Warfare by Michael A. Hoffman II, right now, and the topics of John Lennon’s death, the movie Videodrome , and alchemy were mentioned in the pages I just read.  Ok, I’ll bite Universe, I’ll bite… Trinity Sight As author Hoffman states in his book, the Gnostics (Gnostics as in Gnostic-Rosicrucian-Masonic-Hermetic types) have used three goals of alchemy to bring about the total breakdown of matter.  What might these be?   They are (order is important): The Creation and Destruction of Primordial Matter The Killing of the Divine King  The Bringing of Prima Material to Prima Terra Easy enough, I guess?  For this blogger’s simple piece, I want to ...

    Ok, time for a change of pace for the Aberrant Gnostic. This one is going back into dreamland… and what a dream possibly means in terms of my subconscious processing various bits of information and attempting to create some type of dream-like symbol that is ultimately some type of output connected to whatever… the abyss, the source, the godhead, the zero, the collective unconsciousness, whatever… With that said, what does the potential occult origin of the Starbucks logo have to do with Cher lights.   And what is a Cher light anyway?   And how is a Cher Light potentially related to Gnosticism?   Let’s start at the beginning. This all manifested on 11-27-2023.   Things of interest, celestially.    The Moon was full last night.   Last night’s full Moon is known as the Beaver Moon or Frost Moon and shines near the stars of Aries and Taurus.   OK, that is something worth tracking moving forward. The basis of yesterday began with ...

 In a republished The American Weekly article in the The San Francisco Examiner , published on April 07, 1957,  we get the first quotes of early translations from the lost "Fifth Gospel."  As the article states, the Apostle Thomas recorded these sayings while with Jesus and when Jesus spoke at Capernaum, on the Mount, by the shores of Galilee, in Bethany, and on the road to Jerusalem.  Quotes reference included:  Jesus said: He that is near Me is near the fire. He that is far from Me is far from the fire.  Jesus said: He that searcheth findeth.  He that findeth will be astonished. He that is astonished will be in admiration.  And he that knoweth admiration will reign over the world. And Jesus said: Man is like unto a clever fisherman who casts his net into the sea draws it up full of little fishes.  And among the little fishes he finds one good big fish.  And the wise fisherman takes the on big fish and throws back into the sea all the l...

    With things getting exciting in 1957 regarding the potential discovery of A long lost "Fifth Gospel," a Catholic Biblical researcher tells the public to slow down and "pump the breaks." By slow down, I mean discount the NHL discovery and the alleged Gospel of Thomas . Famed Dead Sea Scroll researcher, Msgr. Patrick W. Skehan felt it prudent to tell the public that to "label this work the Lost Fifth Gospel is to falsify its place in history."  How so? For starters, Skehan mentions that the preliminary work and reporting of Professor Henri C. Puech regarding the NHL has nothing to do with St. Thomas.  Instead, the 43 sayings are "old chestnuts," and were sayings quoted by third century writers Origen and Clement of Alexandria.  Old chestnut, for those curious, is defined by the Google machine as a "subject, idea, or joke that been discussed or repeated so often that it is not funny any more." Ouch. Skeban also discounts the NHL as be...

  Nothing can grab a newspaper reader's attention more so than mentioning the United States dollar.  In an article titled "Egyptian Scholars in Studies of Ancient Religious Scrolls," per the The Marion Star newspaper, dated December 26, 1956, the USD is mentioned straight away.  As are all the articles from this time period in respect to this news item regarding the NHL.  What's the number, you might ask?  I'll let the Associated Press speak to it... Eleven years ago an Egyptian peasant sold for nine dollars to the son of a Coptic priest a collection of musty, unimportant-looking documents discovered in an old earthenware jar while digging for fertilizer. They may be worth a fortune. Curious that the number 911 is tucked in here, and I'm sure I could go on and on about that possible red herring, but I'm going to skip it and call it coincidence.  I do find it fascinating that the unimportant looking documents containing the The Gospel According to Thomas ...