Living wisdom that resides within oneself. The fire or light of what the Sufi call the beloved. A communication that is poured into the heart. A heart that has been through the process of alchemy. A process that requires burning away the illusion of ego entrapment, purification of the essence or spirit within, releasing all falsity embodying truth, a truth beyond the form or body. Some equate the soul with the body and others the soul with the feminine aspects of matter. Clarity, can be reached as Rumi said ” Be like melting ice wash yourself of yourself”. This is a inward journey, a transformation, a moments of self disclosure. As one seeks for the divine or even unaware of one’s restlessness this is unconscious seeking for what is called the divine; some call it god or source depends on perspective, cultured or not. “You were seeking and the seeker became the sought. The divine was looking through you” You are the divine. It is much like a mirror reflecting it’s source, a paradox. The gnostics return from the darkness where in is the experience or journey. Living with divine vision, intuitive intellect in the world but not of it. “Love is the sea where the intellect drowns Rumi”
Gnostic is a word for wisdom through personal experience and knowing. A thing that can not be taught but is revealed is this Ma’rifah; revealed knowledge, if one tries to grasp it, procure it this is not Ma’rifah. It is the solve et coagula of alchemy, seeker and sought are one. In the fire of dissolution one knows, sees and becomes lit by the flame of Ma’rifah. It is not a deity, entity but a presence of self that sustains one after the process. It is an ongoing process not a once done, cure all and no further effort required. ( See 8 and 9 Buqua / Bucka)
Dhu al-Nun al-Misri a sage of Egypt died 859 laid the foundation of Sufism. especially Love called Mahabbah. Contemporaries where Neoplatonist, Hermetics. He renounced the world around him as is necessary at some point for all. The wisdom of three forms of Ma’rifah came to him from the dualistic Sufi Ma’rifah and Rational Ma’rifah. These took three forms. Ma’rifah of Tawid for the common people’s understanding. Ma’rifah of reason and the Ma’rifah of oneness of god and lovers of god. There has always been a witnessing of the heart from primal times and realms of consciousness within all humans. A holy longing of sorts, to feel, be united stems from the ancient paeleocontact. That is another thing indeed to contemplate. This is similar to the Three forms of the pleroma of Gnostic literature. That emerge from the Barbelo, darkness within the darkness.
The luminous light. Different Gnostic sects described the same thing in different terminology peculiar to their sect. It is a global theme that is expressed in many ways. The Gnostics like many mystic, seekers, everyone is on some kind of journey even if they are aware of it or not or in denial of some aspect of their life circumstances. It is the words societies use their vibration that rubs many against their grain. They become blind to their own spiritual and physical poverty and seek the loosh gold. It is pyrite not gold itself even though it displays a similar lustre and sheen. A human being knows when it is spinning, weaving the gold of sovereign self. No external loosh fired person can tell you when that is, they will try but that is why one’s vitality of presence is paramount to develop and know for ones’ self.
When one realizes the illusion is exactly as it is, the veil of ignorance is lifted, the paradox seen for what it is. The subject and object of one’s search or questing dissolve. Separation was just an illusion as one dissolves into the divine. Divine disclosure in one’s innermost sanctuary SIRR where one can behold one’s own light, energy, essence and clear consciousness communication. Sirr is a way of being, a meditation or song of the soul. The secret whispers within you when the heart is ready, pre prepared by the path where one feels this mystical union, bliss, bountifulness, beauty within oneself. Divine soul revealing knowledge without learning, a reality that is lived, experienced. A direct recognition beyond symbols, direct contact with the divine essence, the spark within, mutual recognition unveiled and ceaseless moments of divine encounters. It’s speech is silence and silence is it’s speech.
The fire of this divine intimacy, presence is the ananda, the bliss beyond ego, in Hindu traditions. Beyond the heart or luminous mirror beyond breath or spirit. The secret innermost chamber of the soul is a way to describe this place of unification the conjunction of alchemy. The hermetics and sages of ancient to us days passed on these sacred teachings often coded in symbols and poetic language as secrets. The flame passed to others from one generation to next as divine transmissions regardless of gender. Gender was part of the control mechanism of those who held tightly, grasping to this knowledge and their interpretation of how it should be conveyed and to whom. These warped lines of transmission is due to this constrained manipulation of divine essence. In the KYBALION it states “There have always been a few initiates in each generation, in various lands of the earth
who kept alive the sacred flame of Hermetic teachings, and such have always been willing to use their lamps to re light the lesser lamps of the outside world, when the light of truth grew dim, and clouded by reason of neglect, and when the wicks became clogged with foreign matter. There were always a few to tend the altar of truth, upon which was kept alight the Perpetual Lamp of Wisdom.” Hermes Trismegistus the scribe of the gods who dwelt in old Egypt when the present race of men was in its infancy. Guardians of the flame often a community of souls, the Essenes were one of those communities and the hermetic Ik Wah al -Sufi of the middle ages era.
Gnostics like the Essenes, Hermetics , the Cathars / Bon hommes were not all flowing robes and acquiescent to power overlords. They were powerful ones. (Paul Anthony Wallis works on Eden series books, Paleo contact at 5th Kind.TV) They were all technologically advanced, that technology is codified and meshed in alternative, metaphysical, ascension, alchemy techniques. Techniques that are just the tip of a massive mountain, much more lies beneath and within guarded knowledge. Guarded by different Groups, Cabal, religion, paths. One does not need to recourse to their narratives of initiation or become steeped in their loosh prose. Once aware of how energy operates, it’s source, distinguish between, real, false, contrived, illusion and one’s vitality as many paradigms can literary and energetically deplete that creative potential that resides within fed by the cosmos itself.
The Path to bliss is quite similar despite culture and religious perspectives of any era. The signs of a gnostic in regard to Ma’rifah does not extinguish the light of their ascetism. Esoteric knowledge contradicting the outward laws is not a belief. Pleasures bestowed by “god” are not used to violate what is prohibited. Maintain a noble character (al-Haqq) wherever you live in every moment. Cutting ties with those that prevent one being that noble, sovereign, divine self.
The four stages on the Sufi path; Shariah the law, the body. Tatakka the path. Hakika the truth beyond form, soul in the body. Ma’rifah direct recognition of god. Some academics say Sufism evolved from Kabbalah. Other academics say the Quran is not pure transmission as attested to by those who are zealous in advocating Muhammad. Muhamad spelt without vowels in Islamic Arabic means Messiah, is a title. This is well known by any scholar or any informed Imam, who has contemplated the message. The messiah is Christ it meant light, that flame that is being illuminated here. Jesus is oft used in combination with it. A way to balance this digression ; the Bible is created by many authors so is the Quran and those who do not grasp and destroy anything they do not understand, like darkness itself, the devil, fear itself. Those who do not literally react or relay on here say concerning any transmission have the internal wisdom of Ma’rifah.
The title Messiah is the very word Muhammad, excluding the vowels. All contributors of the Quran are of that title from the middle, far eastern perspective. A perspective that is passionate in their expression of life energy. Their perspective is from a more unified rather than separatist one. To delineate their language as in the European tongue looses the essence of the message symbolized in words. The western brain mind has everything boxed, ordered in a very different way of thinking and doing ie; processing information. Therefore regardless of one’s perception of“god” and the name of “Allah” be it from far, middle east, western view point. In context it is the same message conveyed and like any message outside of ones perspective it is not always accepted or understood due to that basic construct of self limited understanding and fear of going beyond the norm in any culture that is in power. Christianity has the same issues and it’s Bible was constructed by many. The light of illumination that inspired the contributors is the same under a different name according to culture. Any power regardless where it hails from in the hands of those inclined to do so, will corrupt and manipulate according to their own innate nature and agenda.
Islam has many meanings including peace, love and the reverence is towards the moon, feminine aspects of creation. It stems from the Sumarian documentation of the moon god “aluha” (I may have spelt this incorrectly) who was ex pulsed from the heavens in the Lucifer Rebellion, many wars in the heavens (The Urantia book) and prior to the Terra forming of the planet we now know as earth. ( That is another intense reading from the Sumerian earth chronicles). All cultures, religions have an exoteric path for the common man. An esoteric for those more inclined for deeper aspects of being in the world. Within that i shall call the holy of holies from Christianity, or the inner circle of the sage, guru master, mistress for those able to apply master deeper aspects of the luminous light. Similar to the word Ma’rifah a knowledge, understanding that can’t be taught but is a personal to some degree an experience of one’s conception of the divine within. Akin to what “Jesus” taught “his”most intimate disciples, the inner circle.
Nine stages to truth, unveiling sirr.
1.Muha saba is realizing, judgment of the ego. 2.Tawba is sincerity, honesty, transparency. 3.Taqua is firm devotion, piety, respect, submission. 4.Raja’al-roujou is hope of return due to loss of earthly worries, fears and concerns to find tranquility. Serenity and heavenly peace. 5.Tawakkul unlimited trust in “god” to act on ones behalf, trusting the unveiling process not a egotistical uninformed priests. Dodgy gurus. This requires trust in self one’s gut and what one his feeling, develop awareness. 6.Rida’ contentment, satisfaction, agreement, consent as inner knowingness.7.Mahaba unconditional love, attachment, devotion. From1 to 7 this is Dhikir or remembrance of the divine qualities necessary to continue and maintain, sustain the whole process.8. Is silence, nothing more, nothing more to fear, simply oneness. Remembrance of “god” essence, through ones self.
8.Fana’ abandonment of ego, attachments to ego even people, materialism in excess. Neutralization, nothingness, Evanescence. Develop common sensitivity to self, awareness and use that. Don’t be a martyr to a lost cause or any ones ego, empath be aware of narcissistic design, scapegoat, shaming, brow beating, jealousy and manipulative gas lighting. Develop ones aura and energetic shield. 9. Baqa is permanence of presence, infinity, eternity, cosmic connection with sovereign, blissful, divine, higher self. The conjunction of the alchemist. The all seeing, knowing eye itself. Bountiful, Blissful, Beautiful, Excellence, Fearless.
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