Let us begin by taking a novel direction. Man is a duality. That is, there is what we can see and think about, and there is a larger portion of ourselves that we cannot see nor think about using our brains and physical senses. This second part is/are the "Esoteric" Man. And in the West, we are truly ignorant regarding the Esoteric dimensions of Man. The Esoteric dimensions of oneself comprise ones MIND and Spiritual dimensions, and neither of these can be perceived by ones brain or physical senses.
In other words.... it is not possible to discover these Esoteric dimensions of oneself by use of ones brain or its thinking. And this last sentence needs to be read several times... because our inability to grasp what this means.... is substantial, and actively blocking ones comprehension of this basic fact of Life is ones own MIND.
I am introducing the reader to a bit of Reality here that is not well known. Not known by most people outside of those who have studied "mysticism" extensively. And not known to those who are "confined to their brains" as their principle means of studying Life. Not known, in other words, to intellectuals or scholars.... even in fields where such understanding would be expected.
The fact is.... the term Gnosticism is an "abstract term". That is, it is a term that was created to "point to" the existence of an "Esoteric" phenomenon that cannot actually be seen nor experienced by use of ones brain, or ones physical senses. And this "situation" presents something of a dilemma to Man that is not generally taken into account.
As human beings, we have a penchant for labeling something we cannot see, nor made known by physical means, by giving that "something" a label, and then listing the "symptoms" that which we associate with what we believe may be "caused" by what we have labeled.... and in this process we subtly forget that what we have labeled is NOT the physical phenomena we can see and list as what we believe is associated with what we do not "know".
Do you follow me in what I have just said? Because what I have attempted to say is speaking to an extremely delicate point that cannot be experienced by ones brain.... except as an abstract concept. I am saying that we miss entirely the unyielding fact that what we "think" we know, because we can hold the label of something in our brains, is not in fact "KNOWN" to us. Known in the sense of having actually experienced what our abstract label "points to".
In other words, our MINDs cause us to embrace a delusional idea [wherein we hold the belief that we "know" something we have labeled [but have not actually experienced] because we "know" [have used our physical senses to observe] physical phenomena that we believe might be associated with that something, or might be "caused" by that something.
This associative belief that what we "think" might be caused by that which we have not experienced [but have labeled] is a trick of our MINDs. The MIND has the capacity of feeding what I refer to as "Delusional Thinking" to the Left-Hemisphere of the brain, and the brain, unable to differentiate this D-Think from its own thinking, believes this D-Think is true. In this way we are subtly caused to assume that we know what we have labeled because we can experience what we "think" is being caused by what we have labeled.
This entire process is labeled "speculation" by intellectuals, thus clearly indicating that they realize what they are doing is assuming something as a possibility.... But what is lost is the fact that none of the speculation has anything to do with what the label "stands for". A person is caused to subtly substitute the fact that one has not actually experienced what the label "stands for"... to a belief that one now "knows" what the label "means" because one can observe something one assumes is "caused" by what one has labeled.
We are easily caused by our MINDs to "forget" that the label of a thing is not what that label "stands for". And this subtle substitution is a bit of subtle duplicitous "insanity" that takes place at levels within our MINDs as part of its role to insure that we remain unaware of it, and what it holds hidden within itself. And all of this takes place within the Esoteric portion of oneself that ones brain cannot perceive. None of this operation is intellectual. And none of it can be discovered by intellectual means. The ONLY way to discover this is by use of ones Intuition operating within the Esoteric dimensions within oneself.
People trained in modern mental health use the terms "brain" and "mind" interchangeably. Do they not realize that the brain is physical, and the MIND is not only not physical, it does not exist within the physical universe? The answer is no, they do not realize this because they have been trained by people who fail to recognize [or have forgotten] the fact that the "abstract term" MIND is not the label "m i n d". The label is not what it "stands for".
By careless and "natural" Delusional Thinking encouraged by the MIND of Man, individuals in modern mental health speak of the "mind" continually, and not one one in a thousand of them has any idea what the MIND is? And yet, they write books in which they talk "about" the "mind" and what it does. What are they writing about? What could they possibly imagine they know?
The MIND of Man is Esoteric. It is composed of the energies of the Astral region of Creation and the Causal region of Creation. The Astral energy representing the lower MIND, and the Causal energy representing the higher MIND. And neither energy is capable of being perceived by the brain of Man. Except as "emotional" energy, which is rarely considered to be part of the MIND.
My point? My point is simply this: Any person capable of writing can "think" he knows whatever his MIND causes him to think he "knows". The tragic Truth is, the fact a person writes something does not make what is written True. And with so few people in possession of the Truth regarding the MIND, who points to what people write to indicate that it is untruthful, misleading, and false?
Without a serious restructuring of who should be instructing Mankind, we are likely to remain a nation of people being lead by those who can convey Delusional Thinking in the most interesting way?
How many of those writing "about" Gnosticism "Know" what the abstract term Gnosticism actually "stands for"? And if they do not Know the Esoteric Reality that the term Gnosticism "stands for", what then are they doing other than demonstrating their egos. Who are they trying to convince of what? The fact is.... Gnosticism is another word for Spirituality, and Spirituality cannot be conveyed on this physical plane by physical means.
Peace
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In our next blog, or part 2, we will go into more detail regarding the operation of Intuition, and the Esoteric operations of the Whole Human Being, or WHB as part of Gnosticism.
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