I was searching the internet this morning and I came across an account of the "duality of Gnosticism". And it occurred to me that I should comment on what this notion implies, and where a person must come from to hold such a notion.
The process of Spiritual Evolution is a gradual, slow process, and it involves a great many steps. In fact, let us consider the image of a huge ladder. Let's call this ladder the Ladder of Life, or LOL.
Every Soul that has committed to Life.... and not all Souls have done so... has committed to a cycle of birth and death. And this cycle is known in the East, much more than in the West. In the West, since so many people are taught that they only have one life to live... most people ignore the concept of Reincarnation. Or the fact that every Soul that has committed to Life is part of a cycle of birth and death that is part of the Purpose of Life.
Each time ones Soul is born into a new physical body, one receives a new brain, a new personality and a new psychology based on the Fate Karma one designed for ones present life. And usually... ones MIND insures that one has no memory of ones past life. Therefore, for those born in the West, there is a tendency to "think" that one has not lived previously.... and with the mistaken influence of the Christian notion that one only has one life to live... many people are deluded regarding the Reality of Life. A secret known only to mystics [or those who study mysticism], is that within the Astral and Causal regions of Creation, there are numberless Souls that are perfectly content to enjoy existing within those regions. These Souls have no interest in "committing to Life" [or the cycle of birth and death] that we Souls on this physical plane have committed to. Souls that commit to Life must do so on their own. So, if you are reading this, you have chosen to commit to Life.
And every Soul that has committed to Life [the cycle of birth and death] resides on some rung of the Ladder of Life [an analogy to help explain the maturation of the Soul]. And what allows a Soul to ascend the Ladder of Life, or LOL, is "CDKA&EU" [Conscience, Discretion, Knowledge, Acceptance and Empathetic Understanding], or the Virtues of Life that we Souls are slowly acquiring by "completing Karma" over many, many lifetimes. And this entire process is virtually unknown in the West, and this means in America.
The bottom rungs of the LOL are very wide to accommodate the many Souls on the lower rungs of the LOL. As the rungs ascend, they get narrower because they have fewer Souls to accommodate. And since it is Spiritual Evolution [or the completion of Karma over many, many lifetimes] that is required to ascend the LOL, those Souls on the lower rungs have less CDKA&EU. But even a small amount of CDKA&EU causes the MIND of a Soul to imagine it is much more advanced than it is. This is called Spiritual Ego. Ego is in direct proportion to how much or how little MIND is involved with the decision making of a Soul. The more CDKA&EU a Soul acquires, the more self-regulating the Soul becomes, and the less control by the MIND is required. And the higher the rung of the LOL ones Soul is perched upon, the higher relative truths one awakens to. Enlightenment of the Soul is tied to how much CDKA&EU ones Soul has acquired, which in turn determines which rung of the LOL ones Soul is perched upon. And this process takes many, many lifetimes.
So, the notion that one has "one life to live" is grossly mistaken.
The natural consequence of a Soul ascending the LOL is a diminishing of Ego, pride, and the mistaken notion that one is more Enlightened than one is. So, out of hand, we might suggest to ourselves that those who toot their horns the loudest are the least Enlightened. Humility is the natural consequence of numerous experiences of humiliation. And this is all Grace [which means Life attending to its job], which is not easily won... since it comes as a consequence of a Soul doing the work necessary to acquire CDKA&EU, or "C,etc" for short. My point is simply this: Gnosticism is just like Spirituality. In fact Gnosticism is another word for Spirituality. We might say that the term Gnosticism is the subtle "evidence" that a Soul has acquired C,etc to such an extent that the person [within whose Soul this acquisition has taken place] is now experiencing the impact of the rising Spirituality within him/herself. and as one ascends the LOL, one automatically acquires higher and higher relative truths. These in turn automatically erase ones earlier beliefs causing one to behave with more "insight", humility [the effects of C,etc].
It is important to realize that Gnosticism is not a religion. To suggest that Gnosticism is a religion is imprecise, and thus, wrong . Gnosticism is the experience of the impact of Spirituality within oneself, as manifested in ones possession of higher beliefs regarding the Reality of Life, and a belief in God; The Structure of Life; The Law of Karma; And finally, the absolute need to find a Perfect Living Master so as to obtain "initiation" from that Master. Only after such initiation should one engage in serious meditation. Prior to such initiation, the MIND can easily lead one astray.
To seek to share ones experience of Spirituality with others in a collective way is a natural desire, but when one tries to do this, one misses a subtle and crucial point. The Energy of Spirituality does not exist on this physical plane. It does not even exist within the physical universe. Spirituality is the Energy of the Soul, of God, and of the Spiritual dimension. To touch ones own Spirituality, one can only use ones Soul, or its Operational Energy, which I identify as the Apapsyche.
The MIND will never experience the Energy of Spirituality..... because the vibrational nature of the MIND is different than that of Spirituality. The Energy of Spirituality is too subtle for the MIND to experience. And since the MIND itself is too subtle for the brain to perceive, this means that the Energy of Spirituality is far too subtle for the brain to experience. This point of permanent differentiation between the brain, the MIND, and ones Soul is an Absolute, but because it is the nature of the MIND to "cause" the brain to "think" it does "know" what "abstract terms" stand for, or point to... the brain automatically "thinks" that it does "know" what abstract terms stand for.
In other words, most psychologists today "think" they know what the MIND is, but if pressed on this mistaken notion, these psychologists would have to admit that they do not actually Know what the MIND is? And thus, they also fail to comprehend what it does or how it operates? B.F. Skinner, the well-known "psychologist" who came up with the delusional notion called "behaviorism", is quoted in a book written by Richard Evans, B.F. Skinner: The Man and His Ideas, as saying "...there is nothing within a person that can explain that person's present behavior..." .
Skinner was a typical Intelack individual, and a perfect example of the "Malady of Intellectualism", or M-I. That is, someone relatively new to the form of human being and someone limited to use of his brain and thinking.... which means limited to exploration of the physical dimension ONLY. His lack of understanding of Psychology was consistent with intellectualism. Or people confined to the brain and thinking as the primary means of understanding the world.
The fact is, ones Soul has never actually been separate from God, and the goal of the Soul is to re-unite with God, and to do that which fulfills that goal. It is understandable that in the early stages of becoming Enlightened [and this might take several lifetimes], one will seek to share [and thus validate] ones own experience. But as ones experience of ones own Spirituality increases, it is expected one would discover that Spiritual Energy, like that of Truth, cannot be conveyed on this physical plane. So acquisition of Spirituality is strictly a personal affair. One can share in terms of this physical plane.... words, terms and concepts that "point to" what one has experienced of ones own Spirituality, but ones actual experience is strictly ones own! The "experience" of Spirituality "within" oneself can only be experienced by ones Apapsyche ... and nothing of this can be conveyed on this physical plane. It can be "shared" by "Intuition", but Intuition takes place on the Spiritual dimension. We often think that our Intuition is part of our thinking, but Intuition is a part of ones Spiritual dimension. Intuition has nothing to do with ones brain or its thinking.
The whole point of all this, I suppose, is to stress the fact that ones time spent in personal search for personal Enlightenment is an exercise that takes place entirely "within" oneself. This search can be referred to as Gnosticism, but let us not confuse this purely "internal" activity with the "external" activity known as "religion".
Peace
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