[4] Yaldabaoth is somewhat close to child of chaos in Aramaic, but thats still a stretch,[5] as is the intuitively plausible suggestion that it could be a condensed form of Yahweh, Lord of Sabbaths.[6]. Why does the book of Revelation call the seven chakras of the medulla, the seven churches of Assiah? Others false Angels. When Saklas completes the time span that's been determined for him, their first star will appear with the generations, and they'll finish what's been said. The ING (son) of Bel, the son of the Sun, or Bar-on, the son of the Earth. (This sinister fable occurs in only one of the four authorized Gospels, but it was enoughand Mel Gibson recently coined himself 40 million pieces of silver by attempting to revive it. We are the Microcosmos. 77 f.), but is apparently an anticipatory reference to their alleged descendants the "Gnostici" (77 A; Philast.). The History, Mythology, and Worldview of Gnostic Christianity. We forward in this generation, Triumphantly. Of course, Ileen, Ilin, the word Leen with the Yod in front, means, "your Yod above and below." Barbelo is the perfect aeon. Barbelo, Pronnoia, Protennoia (also known as Incorruptibility, and the 'Mother-Father'). I can also speak Spanish, but, in English you understand this very well. If that initiate of the Solar Absolute, if that Barbelo you could also call it Barbelo, individually speaking but Barbelo is something expanded, it is beyond the infinite. A Separate God: The Origins and Teachings of Gnosticism. Behold how the intelligence of the Absolute Abstract Space becomes the center of an infinite. Sakla, Fool, Creator of Humans, The Fool of God, God's Eater, Samael, Evil Michael, Right Hand of Yaldabaoth, "Anti-Michael", False Michael, Herald of Yaldabaoth, Vajuma The Secret Book of John. In The Nag Hammadi Scriptures. Osiris-Isis-Horus is the Trinity, but, there is another Trinity there are many Trinities that are into Theosophy, or in Kabbalah, that we have to understand: Osiris-Isis-Horus is the Trinity of Briah, the world of Creation. That is why the scientists think that the galaxies are expanding outwardly into space; it's true. In order to understand this, let us give the example of the womb. When you fornicate, you destroy your common sense: intuition is related with the pineal gland. 31; a nearly identical list is given in On the Origin of the World): Yaldabaoth, called also Saklas who emerged later, Archon of fornication and Samael. Habel is the Sun, in us. The Spiritual Sun is not the physical Sun that shines upon us. With this, you understand why the Master Samael taught to us about this conjuration; Belilin. Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew. There is where we find the region of Barbelo, in us. [11], Where the Idea of the Gnostic Demiurge Came From. 'emptiness, darkness'. 'Sabaoth, armies'. HarperOne. "Saklas" comes from the Aramaic word for "fool," and "Samael" is Aramaic for "Blind God" or "God of the Blind." [3] The meaning of "Yaldabaoth" is uncertain. He started just as any of us. 2010. [12], In Judaism, it was an established tradition to split off particular faculties of God from God himself and credit those lesser divine beings, such as Wisdom, with having assisted God in the creation of the world, as in the eighth chapter of Proverbs and the twenty-fourth chapter of Sirach. So, you understand what salvation is: it is the union of two forces Mother and Father and that goes into Tiphereth, the Son, Bel-Ing. "Now the archon ["ruler"] who is weak has three names. That common sense, in animals, is called instinct. But if Jesus had been acting consistently and seeking a trusted companion who could facilitate his necessary martyrdom, then all the mental and moral garbage about the Jewish frame-up of the Redeemer goes straight over the side. Only Judas has guessed the master arightand has discerned that he comes from the heavenly realm of the godBarbelo. In the realm of Barbelo, it seems, earthly pains are unknown and the fortunate inhabitants are free from the attentions of the God of the Old Testament. All of those Suns, in themselves, form that Protocosmos, which is the third aspect of that Abstract Absolute Space, which in Greek we call the Cosmic Christ. That is beautiful word, Teuhtlampa. The Sethian Poets, in their Odes, sang such a persecution. In Egyptian mythology Seth has two meanings; positive and negative, it depends on the angle from which you study these things. In both places Epiphanius represents the doctrine as giving rise to sexual libertinism. Ra is the solar light. So prominent was her place amongst some Gnostics that some schools were designated as Barbeliotae, Barbl worshippers or Barbl gnostics. Why? But, though we call it a black hole, in truth it is not really black. Through the base of the amphorah meaning, through sexual alchemy Bar (or Ing), the child of Bel, collects the solar light, the strength of Yesod, the sexual energy, the strength of Malkuth (the Earth). Lewis always had a copy of this esoteric text in one of his wardrobes? The Protocosmos is formed by millions of Suns. And, for that, we have to quote the Master Yeshua (Jesus) who, in the Pistis Sophia, stated: And Jesus, that is Aberamentho, said unto his disciples, Amen, I say unto you: I have brought nothing into the world when I came, save this fire, this water, this wine and this blood. Understand that the center of this infinite is what the Master Samael calls, the Central Sun or Intergalactic Center of this infinite. Reassembling fragments of theGospel of Judas, Confronting Satan in a Dark Spanish Castle. When the Sarcophagus of () Seth was found, the Catholic Church hid the Book of the Dead in the Vatican, losing with it a multitude of teachings of inestimable value. [h] Thus he rendered Yald' Abaoth as 'begetter of Sabaoth'. It would dispel the centuries of anti-Semitic paranoia that were among the chief accompaniments of the Easter celebration until approximately 30 years after 1945, when the Vatican finally acquitted the Jews of the charge of Christ-killing. The first name is Yaltabaoth, the second is Saklas ["fool"], and the third is Samael. Several plausible etymologies of the name (, , , ) have been proposed. Here, we are addressing this in an objective cosmic way: When you divide the word Berashith , extracting from it the Bar , then we see that it is addressing that particular, individual son ( Bar) within us. If that heavenly family sounds a lot like the Trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, thats probably no coincidence. Imagine the level of inter-penetration that the Master Jesus has it is huge. 1990. With that fornication, they develop the intellectual animal mind that is what Kain represents. [7] Meyer, Marvin. The fact is that the first aspect of the Absolute is called Ain, which means "nothing." The ten Sephiroth can be reduced into three tables: "1. Can you tell me, since you know yourself, how many atoms are there in just one hair of your mustache?" So, now you understand that when the Bible addresses Seth, it says, "And Adam has a son, and his name was Seth." God doesnt create Barbelo per se; instead, she comes from him by some indirect means. The first name is Yaldabaoth, the second is Saklas, and the third is Samael. A Master? What we call Elija (), the most supreme divinity, is the space it is not even a physical or spiritual Sun; it is beyond. They said that mankind should only fear what Darkness represents, which is hell (none developed seed-germs), since Light is imprisoned by Darkness itself and tries to free itself from it. [23] From this arose a popular response to the Jewish accusation that Egyptians were merely worshipping beasts, namely that, in truth, the Jews themselves worshipped a beast, a donkey or a donkey-headed man, ie Seth. Was it true, I had asked him, that in the Coptic Christian tradition Judas was considered to be a saint? We are penetrating into what we call Christ; the cosmic consciousness. If we wonder, what is Belilin? In this lecture, we are going to penetrate into the mysteries of what we call the Spiritual Sun. 'strife' published in a 1859 Bible. All of the darkness would run. In these Mysteries, Light was represented by an Elder and Darkness by a young and beautiful woman. Barbelo is the name given to the first entity to arise from God in the literature of the classic Gnostics. And we found my brother Michael's faulty copy. It is the Barbelo. Now, from the Omeyocan, from that Absolute Abstract Space, emerges any infinite. [38][39] They were regarded as heretics by the proto-orthodox Early Church Fathers. That Alcyone is Barbelo. So the Gnostics attribution of the act of creation to someone other than the ultimate God was hardly radical by the standards of the Christianity and Judaism of their time indeed, it was downright conventional. This particular Sun, the Sun of our solar system, which is called Ors, is one of those particles of Barbelo. `I am (Aleph) the first, and I am (Tav) the last, Which, as the Master Samael explains, is the Greek Alpha and Omega, but from the Hebrew language it is translated as, "I am the first and the last. We should therefore be careful about categorically claiming that this was a view held by all or even most Gnostics. [37][34] In the Archontic, Sethian, and Ophite systems, Yaldabaoth (Yahweh) is regarded as the malevolent Demiurge and false god of the Old Testament who generated the material universe and keeps the souls trapped in physical bodies, imprisoned in the world full of pain and suffering that he created. Barbelo in Gnosticism is the first emanation of God, often described as a mother-father figure. Edited by Marvin Meyer. That means that particular individuality is in everybody. You see, we call it ultra-violet violet is always dark, but it shines. [7], The same view is attested in Gnostic literature, too. Habel is related with our consciousness. We belong to the constellation of the Pleiades, of which our Sun is the 7th. For Plato and other pagan Greek and Roman philosophers who followed him, the material world was the creation of a divine craftsman who made the world the best reflection of the perfect spiritual world of the Forms that was possible given the constraints of matter. We explained that the letter Aleph is equal to 26 and that 26, kabbalistically, is 8, which is the number that is synthesized in Christ. Ant. Master Samael says the infinite is symbolized with the 8. [9] That certainly fits the demiurges personality as described in their texts.). Group, a Graham Holdings Company. To be a Christian is not merely to say, "I am a Christian because I was born into Christianity." False Heaven, Yaldabaoth, Archons We state, as the Master Samael stated; when we self-realize ourselves as Christs, when Jesus Christ, as an archetype, develops completely in us, then we enter into the Army of the Voice, the Army of the Logos, the Word. Oxford University Press. Easy to understand, right? Or perhaps it fell into the hands of the Heavens Gate sect-maniacs, as they castratedly awaited the satellite that lurked behind the comet?). Barbelo, also known as Barbl, is the Aeon of impenetrability, stasis and ineffability and refers to the first emanation of Asherah in several forms of Gnostic cosmogony. Not only our infinite; many infinites. [3], In the Secret Book of John and other classic Gnostic texts, Barbelo is portrayed as the mother of Christ[4] (who, in much early Christian literature including Gnostic literature, is thought of as a divine being who existed long before he was ever incarnated in human flesh through Mary[5]). The union of many Barbelos is the Barbelo, the Solar Absolute wanted to enter into the womb of the unmanifested Mother, they can do that after penetrating into Aur, the Aurus, Horus. That is why we have to understand that when we are chanting this mantra, we have to be very concentrated in our three-brains. Here we have another quotation from Psalm 16: 2: Bel means the solar light. Master Samael Aun Weor, when talking about the universe, said: "The Sephiroth are atomic. Intuition is that common sense, about which many people talk. 2008. After all, the Gospel of Luke (4:6) and the Gospel of Matthew (4:8) assume that Satan is the ruler of the world when Satan offers Jesus the world in exchange for his worship. Audience: Talking about the central Suns of the galaxies, it is also said that we observe black holes, do they have any relation with this? The eclecticism of Justin would account for his deposition of Barbl from the first to the second place, where she is still above Hachamoth. Nothing more profane could be imagined than this perversion of the Easter story. Strange as it may at first seem, this, too, was probably a good-faith interpretation of Christian scriptures that were already widespread, popular, and authoritative in the Gnostics time. The first Belilin that we sing, brings the forces from above. There is no light there. You came from the immortal Aeon of Barbelo, the one who sent you is he whose name I am not worthy to speak" (GJ 35:15-20; translations of GJ are taken from . But, we have to understand a great deal of Kabbalah in order to understand what he is addressing. But, from the lower angle of Ingwaz, we receive the solar energy from Yesod. After matter, Yaldabaoth produced the serpent spirit (Ophiomorphos), which is the origin of all evil. The Child, also called Autogenes (the pre-existing Christ), meaning "self-generated," is produced from Barbelo either spontaneously or from a spark of the Father's light. Aliases Bel-I-Lin. We are capable of achieving that too. [6] Brakke, David. I don't understand." That Sun that rotates around Alcyone is also Barbelo; any Sun is Barbelo, "the son of the Sun.". Give me, physically, an example of that which you call intuition, the faculty of inter-penetration. The rune Ar relates to Bar, Baron, the son. Then they'll sleep around in my name, murder their children, 55 and [they'll ] evil and [] the realms, bringing the generations and presenting them to Saklas. The Barbeloites were a baptizing group that in the mid-2nd century fused with Christian baptizing groups. 2008. Several texts mention Saklas and Satan (the enemy) as . But, you have a Solar Absolute above, as well, that sends the energy through Kether, which is the superior Bel. Babel is formed with two words: Ba , which means gate, and Bel , which means Sun. The first is Ain, which means nothing, zero. We have to control Kain, which is the nest of solar energy that we have in the Muladhara chakra, in order to develop it. Yet () Seth was the God-Wisdom. One of the persons of the audience said, "I know myself!" Harvard University Press. Bar Aelohim means the son of Aeholim. [12], In his proposed 1967 etymology Adam[de], already diverted from the then majority view and translated Aramaic: , romanized: yald similarly to Scholem, as German: Erzeugung, lit. Yesod and Malkuth, together, are one feminine sephirah; they are called the physical body and the vital body they are one body. Quanta and matter. Where in us can we extract the light? In the book of Isaiah, chapter 44: 6 it is written: Tzabaoth in Hebrew means hosts, army. However, according to the Gnostics, this god was not responsible for creation, but rather the physical world was made by the hands of a foolish god (they called it/him a demiurge or the appellation saklas (Gr. It is only black to our sight, because with our physical sight we only perceive a narrow band of light. In his next article, on the "Gnostici", or Borborites (83 C D), the idea of the recovery of the scattered powers of Barbl recurs as set forth in an apocryphal Book of Noria, Noah's legendary wife. And, Master Jesus of Nazareth (Master Aberamentho) said that he came from that region. In order to comprehend this conjuration, we need to understand that our physicalities are crystallizations of the solar energy that came from space. That is Elija. We are in that space too. The emanation of Barbl may be said to function as an intermediary generative aspect of the Divine, or as an abstraction of the generative aspect of the Divine through its Fullness. Yaldabaoth, otherwise known as Jaldabaoth or Ialdabaoth (/ j l d b e /; Coptic: , Latin: Ialdabaoth), is a malevolent God and creator of the material world in various Gnostic sects and movements, sometimes represented as a theriomorphic, lion-headed serpent. The Omeyocan is also call Yoalli-Ehecatl, because of the wind and the darkness. This he interpreted however to describe more broadly 'the power of generation'; thus suggesting the name to mean 'the bringing fourth of the power of generation'. It comes to my mind, one of the lectures of the Master Samael Aun Weor, who said; we have to know ourselves, and, if we know ourselves, we will know the Gods and the universe this is the Greek axiom: Homo Nosce Te Ipsum. On this weekend of official piety, let us all therefore give thanks for our deliverance from religion, and raise high the wafer that summons us to the wonders and bliss of the faraway realm ofBarbelo and brings us the joyous and long-awaited news that Judas saves.*. The New Testament tells us firmly that Jesus went to Jerusalem at Passover to die and to fulfill certain ancient prophecies by doing so. Obviously, if we disintegrate the ego without developing intuition inside, we will have the common sense in relation with our instinct. For he said, 'I am God and there is no other God beside me,' for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come. Of course, we are talking about the Ing-land, England, of ancient times. So, we have Kether-Chokmah-Binah. Haer. I am Christian." This is how God talks to us, as an animal; through the instinct. Until 1974, etymologies deriving from the unattested Aramaic: , romanized: bhth, supposedly meaning "chaos", represented the majority view. What is a vitamin? Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. [37][34] Gnostic Christians considered the Hebrew God of the Old Testament as the evil, false god and creator of the material universe, and the Unknown God of the Gospel, the father of Jesus Christ and creator of the spiritual world, as the true, good God. That is why the Son is called the Word, which is found in the upper part of the Ingwaz. Sakla, Fool, Creator of Humans, The Fool of God, God's Eater, Samael, Evil Michael, Right Hand of. Thus, by means of the Prana of Akash, the sexual waters, is how our Ruach Elohim, the Spirit of El-Ha-Yam (the Sea-God, Binah) makes light in the darkness. So, the Logos ( Aleph Tav) is the radiant energy that comes from the Sun; it is in your Heaven, your own Spirit, your own soul, and also in your physicality but as yet undeveloped, which is why the next verse says: "And (Vav the womb of) the earth (your physicality) was formless and void, And darkness (the abstract light of the Ain Soph) was upon (Yesod, sex) the face of the deep.". But, of course, when we are addressing Bel, we are addressing the light. So, the nest of the Yod, in us, as a serpent, is the sexual organs. It is, in other words, a constellation. That sexual development occurs in the woman too. They fornicate; they waste Kain. For he said, 'I am God and there is no other God beside me,' for he is ignorant of his strength, the place from which he had come." Apocryphon of John, ca. [25][i] After the emergence of Christianity the same charge was also repeated against its followers. [3] Because of their lack of worship, he caused the Flood upon the human race, from which a feminine power such as Sophia or Pronoia[42] (Providence) rescued Noah. Yesh will give me a great reward for taking you to him. So, Aelohim means "no Elohim;" together with Bar Jesus Christ, the archetype is an emanation of Aelohim, and Bar is the Logos ( Att) in the Hei of Heaven: Atta HaSchamayim means "Your Heaven" and Ve-Atta Haretz , "And the Logos (Att ) in the Hei of your physicality (Earth)." The Egyptians call the Solar Absolute, together with the Trinity, Osiris-Ra. 2023 There is a big difference between the archetype that we have, and what Master Aberamentho has: meaning, our own particular Jesus Christ is not developed it is like a cosmic germ (waiting to be germinated) within us while in the Master Jesus (Aberamentho), it is completely developed. 4, 3), as a form of Barbl, which may have the same meaning. When you add together the letters of the name of God, you find that the Holy Tetragrammaton, the power of that Tetragrammaton is hidden in the letter Hei of His own name. So, in other words, the energy that we collect by chanting Belilin is in accordance with our level of consciousness. . Without the solar light there can be no life on this planet. But the extant Gnostic texts certainly seem to assume such a view in their mentions of Barbelo, such that we can indeed tentatively ascribe that view to most if not all of the Gnostics. If the world had been created by a lesser being rather than the ultimate God, and if the world was currently ruled by a demonic being, and if Christ had come to correct the flaws of Judaism, why not posit that the Jewish creator god was the demonic being who ruled the world that Christ came as an emissary from the ultimate God to save humankind from the creator? The Ophites accepted the . Here, the world of Assiah, is the world of matter and action. [2] Brakke, David. When you sing this internally, you are bringing the solar light from above, from the environment that surrounds you, from the Earth, and from yourself. And, you know that we also have the solar energy that we collect from the Mother, below, which is the Belit-ili the wife of Bel. [2][3] In the Apocryphon of John, "Yaldabaoth" is the first of three names of the domineering archon, along with Saklas and Samael. Sexless Marcion.hated heretic or influential maverick?Twitter: @andrewmarkhenryFacebook: www.religionforbreakfast.com/facebookBlog: www.religionforbreakfast.comAni. Barbl is often depicted as a supreme female principle, the single passive antecedent of creation in its manifoldness. p. 59. (also Saklas (Aramaic "fool") or Samael (Hebrew "blind god" and a devilish . Jerome several times includes Barbl in lists of portentous names current in Spanish heresy, that is, among Priscillianists; Balsamus and Leusibora being three times associated with it (Ep. This significance is reflected both in her apparent androgyny (reinforced by several of her given epithets), and in the name Barbl itself. Glorian averages 100 donors a month. Now, let us dive further down through the cosmos, into our planet Earth. But, a Paramarthasatya, like Master Jesus, penetrates into that light. For example, he lied when he claimed to be the only god and that Adam and Eve would die if they ate the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; he insulted his mother and father by refusing to acknowledge their existence; he made a graven image of the divine when he modeled the material world on his corrupt and ignorant misunderstanding of Heaven; and he committed adultery by attempting to rape Eve. But since Jesus destroyed his kingdom instead of promoting it, Yaldabaoth had him crucified. For example, the Jewish Christian Gospel of the Hebrews has Jesus refer to the Holy Spirit as his mother. Barbelo, the solar light permeates the space; Bel is everywhere, just as Prana is everywhere, as quanta is everywhere, in the form of energy. So, that is the expansion that we need. Moses represents that archetype called the Causal body. How could the Gnostics have possibly come up with the idea that such a being created the earth? Yaldabaoth is the son of Sophia, the personification of wisdom in Gnosticism, with whom he contends. So Nebro created six angelsas well as Saklasto be assistants, and these produced twelve angels in the heavens, with each one receiving a portion in the heavens. Barbelo is the name given to the first entity to arise from God in the literature of the classic Gnostics. Christians inherited and extended this tradition, such as when the first chapter of the Gospel of John identifies Christ with Gods Word/Logos and gives him an indispensable role in creation.[13]. Right before Passover, as the disciples are praying, Jesus sneers at their innocence. We gather that energy inwardly, and we project it outwardly; that outward projection is called our AU-RA, the aura. * (Is it possible that C.S. [16][12], At least from 200 BCE onwards a tradition developed in the Graeco-Egyptian Ptolemaic Kingdom which identified Yahweh, the god of the Jews, with the Egyptian god Seth. Now, let us penetrate, from the galaxy, into our solar system. [32] In the formation of Christianity, various sectarian groups, labeled "gnostics" by their opponents, emphasised spiritual knowledge (gnosis) of the divine spark within, over faith (pistis) in the teachings and traditions of the various communities of Christians. So, since we are part of the universe, it is obvious that we are part of that light. Physical Sex Now, what is an infinite? It seems quite incongruous with Christianity as we understand it today. I want this time to enter into the Ain, but that depends upon the will of my God. But, if talk about this from the Egyptian perspective, it has another meaning. However "bar," in Aramaic, means son, and in particular, "son of" the word that follows. Out of her the Holy Spirit appeared (who the Gnostics regarded as female), the mother of the living. That is why we have to respect this type of being. [4] Turner, John D., and Marvin Meyer. Vall. Yaldabaoth continuously attempted to deprive human beings of the gift of the spark of light which he had unwittingly lost to them, or to keep them in bondage. There is not only one. The number 26, kabbalistically, adds to the number 8. 2010. Master Samael Aun Weor called the abode of the Solar Absolute, in his book Hell, the Devil and Karma, the Protocosmos (the first cosmos.) I am not unique (in possessing that archetype); each one of you is unique in the sense that you have that particular element, archetype within yourselves.