How the Universe looks from here for Sunday, July 9, 2006

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Sunday, July 9, 2006

Canapes for a philosophic appetite

"When Diogenes the Cynic philosopher saw a country boy scooping up water in his hand in order to driink, he threw away the cup he was carrying in his bag and said, 'Now I can be this much lighter,' " ( quoted by Marvin Meyer in THE GNOSTIC BIBLE) Sign in to see full entry.

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"Know what is in front of your face

and what is hidden from you will be disclosed. Gospel of Thomas I just got my hands on a copy of The Gnostic Bible, a collection of sacred and philosophical texts from a great variety of cultural sources, including Pagan, Zoroastrian, Jewish, Christian and Islamic, and some from specific belief systems labeled heresies by the Christianity we recognize today as traditional, who gained the right to pass judgement by virtue of having won the war between the multitude of early Christian sects. (It... Sign in to see full entry.

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Dichotomies and Balance

It's all in where the observer stands, and the filters through which the observer perceives. Balance and lack of balance are perceptions in a Universe where balance is established whether we perceive it or not; things seeming to be out of balance is a matter of looking too narrowly at a situation. What's the meaning of Good and Evil in a world without humanity? T Rex and supernovas are neither good nor evil, but we, believing, make it so. A friend of mine had a vision once, of walking in a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Gnostics and Wisdom

Sophia-- a pretty name... the name given in Gnostics writings to the personification of the female principle of divine Wisdom: the Wisdom of Insight, according to the Secret Book of John, one of the Gnostic texts. Sophia messed up. She drew on aspects of her own being--Invisible Spirit and Foreknowledge--to create offspring of herself, without approval of the One, or recourse to her partner. This expression of Sophia’s own will and creativity was a misshapen and deficient entity called The... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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