An Aberrant Gnostic

  One of the first text titles mentioned in the early days of newspaper reporting on the Nag Hammadi Library was mention of The Book of the Great Invisible Spirit .  I wonder what that book might be about...so let's see what AI has to say about it, shall we? A Book With Three Themes to Digest For me, anyway!  My new friend in the Google Bard summarized the book as such.  The three main sections include: A Gnostic Cosmology : the universe was/is created by a series of emanations from the ultimate, unknowable God, or the Great Spirit.  The material world was/is created by lower divine beings and is seen as a place of ignorance and suffering A Gnostic Mythology : the text relates the story of the divine being Seth, and "his" three descents into the material world.  The first one occurred at the time of the Flood, the second at the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the third in the form of Jesus Christ. A Gnostic Set of Rituals :  The tex...

  This new year, I picked up a used copy of a book that is supposed to help "one better understand the Qabalah."  The book was written by author Will Parfitt; the title is The New Living Qabalah: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Tree of Life.   All that said, this past week, I started the book and managed to get through two exercises to get the journey rolling.  The first exercise recommended by the author was to think of an image that represents what the understanding the Qabalah means to me, and then to draw it out.  So I did.      The image that popped into my head?  A fruiting dandelion...so I drew that out.   The next step was to think of a place that brought me happiness...any place in the world.  To be honest, to me, that place is to be on the shores of Lake Superior.  So I imagined myself there...concentrated on the experiences there, and then brought myself back to my bedroom and stated "I am here."...