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I am Alpha and Omega ... the First and the Last, and the Living One; and I was dead, and, behold, I am alive unto the æon of æons.
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I do not suppose that you know not that the living Church is the body of Christ; for the scripture saith, 'God made Man, male and female; the male is Christ, the female the Church; and the books and the Apostles belong not to the Church that now is, but to the Church which is from above. For it is spiritual, as is our Jesus, but is manifested in these last days to save us. But the Church, being spiritual, is manifested in the flesh of Christ.... Great is the Life and Immortality which this flesh can partake of--that is, of the Holy Spirit which is joined to it--nor can any declare or utter what the Lord has prepared for His chosen.'
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Body of Light is the Astroeidês in which the
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Adept can cross the
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Fate-Sphere, the
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Midst, the regions of consciousness where mechanical cause and effect prevail and contact the Plêrôma, or Universe of Divine Freedom and Fullness.
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Charis or
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Grace is the name of the Bride or Body of the Logos, and the use of it here symbolises a
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or
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Body still more exalted than the Astroeidês. It is the Body beyond the Stars, the Monadic Robe or
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Robe of Glory, into which the
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Star-like Body was transformed at the Horos, Limit or Boundary of the Worlds of Difference and of Sameness. What kind of Peace was that in which the Alone-begotten dwelt in the Monad? A Peace most truly given to those within and those without, for in it all things were created. To realise what is meant we must remember that
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Charis and
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Resurrection were names of
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Staurus, the Pillar that made with Horos the Great Cross referred to more than once.
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Peace, then, was the state of the Logos in Mystic crucifixion, the Peace of God which established, reconciled, justified all things. Hence it can be inferred what transformation the Star Body had to undergo to become the Robe of Glory. The Cross and the Master were one. The Cross of Calvary was to the Gnôstic Teacher the outer and efficacious sign of this Mystery or Sacrament. So also the Pentecostal outpouring recorded in Acts was the outward sign, or sacramental token, of the assumption by the Master of the Robe of Glory, the vesture of the Monad or Transcendental and Universal Church, which could not be assumed here. From thenceforth the band of disciples became a Church, the Mystic Body of Christ, the outward sign of concealed mysteries; and it will be seen in what manner Jesus was the Father of all Light-Sparks and gave resurrection to the body. Such was the teaching of the Gnôsis. To make the matter clear to readers interested in mysticism, but unfamiliar with Hellenistic technical terms, it may be said that the
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Bodies so often referred to may be taken as standing for what may be called the Life side of various stages of mystical consciousness, as
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Light
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The Gate of God. _Cp._ the Naasene Document in Hippolytus:
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This Mystery is the Gate of Heaven, and this is the House of God, where the Good God dwells alone; into which no impure man shall come, no psychic, nor fleshly man, ... but it is kept under watch for the Spiritual alone--where, when they come, they must cast away their garments, and all become bridegrooms, obtaining their true manhood through the Virginal Spirit. For this is the Virgin big with child, conceiving and bearing a Son--not psychic, not fleshly, but a blessed Æon of Æons.
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Gnôsis, then, was the Mystery of Regeneration or Rebirth from above. It will be observed that the text shows no hostility to
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Faith. This is an indication of early date.
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Mystery is often, though not always, the equivalent to
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Sacrament.
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Universal Mother, Phanerios or Phaneia (
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Wisdom without the Plêrôma