Gospel of Thomas - Saying 11

 

 

(11) Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. 

In the days when you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive. When you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"

Oh, my! How to unpack all the spiritual information contained within these few words? At first glance it appears to be words structured in to sentences, but with no real discernable meaning. Which is the hallmark of compassion, preserving, as it does, the free will of people to experience this existence in ignorance of the nature of their reality. 

So by reading this you are obviously seeking higher truths, but if not, just disregard this post as the wayward thoughts of a random person on the internet, and of no consequence. Indeed, you do not need to read any further, I only offer this explanation by way of my very poor interpretation of things and so completely able by you to be cast aside. 

To carry on, however, I wanted to pick up from the characteristics of the different frequencies of the Creator light (call it Prana or Chi energy if you like), that I touched on in the previous post for Saying 23 of the Gospel of Thomas.  

In that post, I outlined the correspondences between the Chakra energy centres and the various aspects of our lived experience. I made the point the as we refine and balance these energy centres, they more concisely refract the respective qualities of the Creator Light and shine that through our being (our energetic bodies), manifesting the qualities of that light around us. It is as if we are a torch shining multiple colours of light and the creation reflects the qualities of that light back to us, where we are able to then observe that through the quality of our lived experience. 

But it is structured, and as I noted, this description of the Creator Light can be observed as defining a progressive model for individual self-realisation through which we must develop and refine the clarity by which the Creator Light shines through us. This progress is in a similar, but more complete, way to the well known description of Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs. 

I have outlined these Properties of Light on this blog 10 years ago, identifying how they reflect the notes of a musical octave and together comprise an octave of light, as also identified by Isaac Newton. Given the experiential correspondences with the Creator Light described and our progression toward self-realistion, it is relatively straightforward to conceive of these Properties of Light collectively as a single Octave of Experience.  Just as musical Octaves are arranged on a keyboard in ascending and adjacent order, one can imaging these Octaves of Experience also arranged in ascending and adjacent order.

Imagine if you can, these 7 octaves on the keyboard representing a collection of 7 different octaves of experience, with the notes representing the Properties of Light in that particular octave. Indeed, imagine in octave #3 for instance, the 7 keys are coloured Red through to Violet reflecting the "colour" spectrum of the Chakras.  

As you can see, we are starting to run into difficulties of language to convey meaning. For while we can quite succinctly describe the Properties of Light in our experiential octave, we have nothing to describe the other octaves, and even the terminology of "octave" and "light" and "colour" is confusing as they already have meanings tied to the respective sense organs of our material bodies. This is where you may have heard some sources talk of Frequencies, Vibrations and Densities in an effort to wrap these meta-physical concepts within the physical constraints of verbal language.  But let us do away with all of these oft used and confused terms and apply another word that is associated with higher states of being. Lets call each of these experiential octaves "Heavens".

And just like that, with a keyboard and a system of experiential correspondences with the Chakra energy systems, we have derived the metaphysical construct that defines the developmental pathway for our soul's experience through eternity. 

That is, we exist in one of those Heavenly octaves on the keyboard of eternity, trying to bring ourselves into attunement with the pitch of each of the experiential frequencies of that octave, to resonate as a perfect expression of the Creator's Light in that octave.  In effect, becoming one with the Creator and graduating to the next Heavenly octave. 

And so we pass from one "Heaven" to the next, gradually attuning ourselves with the notes/colours of that octave to become one  with the Creator, then moving on to the next to start the process again. Learning and attuning ourselves to become expressions of the Creator in the next.

However, with move between each Heaven the nature of the creation is necessarily different, and existing in a different octave of experience will not only have differences in the expressions of the Creator, but in the expressions of one's bodily manifestations, sources of sustenance, means of locomotion, communication and socialisation. 

So we are on a never ending cycle of progress from one existence to another, through a karmic cycle of reincarnation, perfecting the expression of ourselves to become one with the Creator. Moving from one Heavenly octave to the next, adopting new bodily forms, ways of existing and ways of experiencing the Creation. 

Now, I challenge you NOT to understand these words coming as directly as is possible from the historical Jesus, across the span of 2000 years...

(11) Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die.

In the days when you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive. When you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one you became two. But when you become two, what will you do?"

May we each have the persistence and determination to discover our truth and perfect our unique expressions of the Creator.