human
Without King recalls the Naasene Document and its
gpt
One is the Race without a King which is born Above.
human
She (Barbêlô) is the First Thought, his Image, she becometh the First Man; that is the Virginal Spirit, she of the triple Manhood, the triple-powered one, the triple-named, triple-born, the æon which ages not, the Man-woman.
gpt
Son Prôtogennêtôr is most significant. He that bore it must be the Son of the Sacred House, the
human
Son of the Doctrine, and the First Parent, or Father in God, of those to come after. He invites comparison not only with the Saviour of the Gospels, but also with figures that appear in the myths of the mystery cults: with Horos, the son of Isis, with Hermes the Thrice-Great, with the
gpt
Eagle or
human
Father whose title represented the highest grade of the Mithriaca. I suggest that he may represent the ideal candidate in the mystery of initiation--that is to say, he who, by entering into himself, has attained to the
gpt
has raised up the
human
Man within himself, has been
gpt
as a god in Divine consciousness, and so is qualified to hand on the vital processes of the Gnôsis to others, becoming thereby their spiritual parent. So he is called Son Prôtogennêtôr. He is Christ in the sense that Galahad of the
human
Quest, and Parsifal of Wagner's great drama are Christ. The theory of initiation as conceived in the early mystical communities seems, in part at any rate, to rest upon the proposition that he who has himself attained to Union with God is able to
gpt
to
human
in suitable persons, and under certain conditions, those processes which, under Providence, result in a like consummation. Thus we appear to have a claim in the MS. to a transmitted
gpt
Mastership in the ranks of the order going back to Jesus Himself:
human
For whose sake resurrection is given to the body. He is the Father of all Light-Sparks, The Propatôr and Autopatôr would seem to represent different aspects of this claim.
gpt
Gnôsis was not the possession of a body of secret Doctrine in the sense of having a number of formal propositions containing occult information, but a vital knowledge of the processes of
human
Regeneration or
gpt
Apotheosis.
human
Divine Mind or
gpt
Logos manifesting Himself through a Body of Universal Consciousness, represented sacramentally (that is to say effectually) in the
human
by the bodies of a body of believers. The rites of this body symbolised, again
gpt
the modes and activities of the Body of Universal Consciousness of which it was the outward sign, just as its doctrines reflected on the plane of mentation and discourse the workings of the Divine Mind, which are above mentation and discourse, though not contrary to it. The acceptance of these ideas seems to have constituted
human
Pistis --
gpt
--a mode of the Divine Energy which resulted in good works.
human
Gnôsis was the knowledge of the processes by which these ideas passed from the life of formal belief and intellectual assent into the life of realised consciousness. The
gpt
Hylics, men in Hyle or
human
Matter, were
gpt
so absorbed in the life of the senses five that they lived like
human
[Hyle as a technical term was not always understood too literally by the Gnôstics and Platonists (see various passages in Codex Bruce), but derived its importance as the symbol of a certain state of consciousness.]
gpt
Psychics were those whose consciousness was sufficiently aroused to accept a formal belief in viewless Divine Energies and to order their social conduct on the basis of that belief. The
human
Spiritual, the
gpt
Perfect, those perfected in Gnôsis, that is, were those that were actually conscious of participating in a Mind in common and in a Body of transcendental energy in common. This Mind (Logos), Light-Spark, and Body (Monad) constituted a sole Being, Man, or the Son of Man, neither male nor female, and yet both, who enveloped all things, even those of Hyle (_v._ the Naasene Document) in His Infinite Perfections, who manifested all things, who was concealed in all things and who was above all things. An ideal Church or Community of
human
Spiritual men, conscious of the whole Man in each of its members, could focus within itself, without any robbery, all the energies of the Universe, and by concentrating and applying them in a certain manner could give birth to the whole order within the consciousness of the called and chosen candidate, who thus became a
gpt
Self-Knowing,
human
Self-Fathered,
gpt
Fore-Fathered god, a
human
Race without a King in the name God. His substance was
gpt
by the Sacraments of the Manifested Order (Phaneia), and the substance thus
human
was finally
gpt
human
gpt
what you will, in a mode utterly beyond all symbol and image by the
human
of the Divine
gpt
Grace,
human
First Concept,
gpt
Ennead and Monad Without Seal-Mark,
human
Barbêlô (again what you will), and given final
gpt
Re-birth in the Light of the Mind. To form an Ideal community of this kind, a community of gods in God, by a series of grades or steps, places of
human
Repentance or
gpt
slowly taken, was, I believe, the purpose of those responsible for the original of the present MS.
human
They began from the base upwards that the building might unite them to their companions --souls that in æonian bliss beheld the Face of God unveiled. Into this building plan the Neophyte was initiated to give thereto his soul and body as a willing oblation and sacrifice. It seems a reasonable suggestion to offer that this document consists of a series of meditations and spiritual exercises given to the candidate before one of the inner
gpt
or sacramental