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The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom: Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy: Books**********
"Those who are most asleep think they are most awake, being under the power of vivid and fixed visions, so that who are most ignorant think they know most." --Excerpts of Theodotus 35. See Foerster, W., Gnosis: A Selection of Gnostic Texts(Clarendon Press 1972), 222-233.
"We are the heirs and propagators of Paganism. Who else have civilized the world and built cities if not the nobles and kings of Paganism? Who else have set in order the harbors and the rivers? And who else have taught the hidden wisdom? To whom else has the Deity revealed itself, given oracles, and told about the future, if not the famous men amongst the Pagans? The Pagans have made known all of this. They have discovered the art of healing the body, they have also made known the art of healing the soul; they have filled the earth with settled forms of government and with wisdom which is the highest good. Without Paganism the world would be empty and miserable." --Pagels, E., Adam, Eve, and the serpent (Ramdom House 1988), 124
"All people, according to their stage of development, possess the gnosis in a way special to themselves." --Theodotus, Excerpta ex Theodoto, 57. See Foerster, W., Gnosis, ibid, 222-233.
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In reading more of this book, I have learned more about my own spiritual life. true wisdom comes from what we believe and how we believe in it. Our faith is everything.
When we are given the freedom to believe differently then another, we can use that gnosis to better ourselves for ourselves. To change the world is not getting others to do the same thing you are doing, but better oneself in ways never thought of before. Faith is a personal adventure. We may have friends and other companions, but it is up to us to live our own life.
Religious dogma is the exact 180 degrees opposite of freedom of faith. If one is forced to believe or do something in order to grow spiritually, then no one can achieve gnostic understanding. We must have the freedom to make mistakes, get messy, and learn if we are to go forward in the journey that is there for us to follow. The only rules and authorities in our spiritual lives, and we need them, should come from ourselves, and not from others. We have to govern our own spiritual lives. No one has the right to do that for us.
As stated in the second quote, history has proven that prosperity blossoms we freedom and the authority of government reigns together in harmony with each other. It is the gnostic concepts Pagans have done throughout history that allowed knowledge to reign supreme. When religious dogma controls, all wisdom goes down the toilet. The purpose of government is to protect that gnostic wisdom.
As in the United States of America today, we have so much religious dogma going in all directions. Due to our Constitution, we still have the freedom to think openly as we should. The sad part of it all, most citizens of this great country has forgotten the power of the indestructible document. Actually we have two important documents: The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution of the United States of America.
When we as a whole start to realize the power of these two documents, we can start to push out all the religious dogmas that is slowly and methodically destroying not only our freedoms, but all our achievements that all of us have worked hard for. Once we start using the power of these two very powerful and indestructible documents, we can regain our rights as citizens of the United States of America.
If these two documents were not as powerful as I am stating, then we would have been already consumed by religion a lot time ago, and back in the Dark Ages as was with the Roman Catholic Church many years ago. Gnostic wisdom is power. That is what the two most important documents on the USA was built on. That is what is keeping this great country from falling as so many nations in history's past. The problems we face in the United States of America is not that these two documents are dead, but we forgot how to use them and the mean of they they both stand for.
This quote is the preamble of The Constitution of the United States of America: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." If every citizen will live and breathe this ideology, then we can overcome all religious dogmas that challenges us all. The gnostic power is yours!
Blessed Be,
Brandon Frater Phoenix
Real Name: Brandon Bowers
