GNOSIS
, AGAPE-LOVE AND PSYCHIATRY……………110
JESUS
WAS NOT COMMON "HEADSHRINKER". New scientific self- knowledge
of
"defence mechanism" etc. is valuable. But Jesus looked for the
solutions of problems through deeper SELF-KNOWLEDGE (Gospel of Thomas 3.9)
" being aware that we are children of the living Father(-Mother), He knew
the " DIVINE GNOSIS", "secrets of the Kingdom of Heaven"
(Matt 13.11) He expressed knowledge about our past sins and authority to heal
by forgiving sins (Matt 9) and through "VICARIOUS suffering" (Isaiah
53) founded on divine AGAPE - LOVE
MODERNS
SHRINKS speak with scientific words about the value of human psychic
self-knowledge and they order medicines which give temporary relaxation when
e.g. "tobacco-devils" grow in us. Humorists say that more people die
by the medicines of doctors than by sicknesses and that patients will be
healthier if all the medicines are thrown in the oceans and poison-kill fishes
) Tobacco-"devils" kill billions of people but scientists give pills
and psychoactive pain-relieving drugs before our death. Even
"shrinks" may themselves be slaves of many stimulants as tobacco,
alcohol, narcotic. Psychiatric doctors as FREUD and JUNG did smoke themselves
into premature death while giving psychiatric knowledge.
JUNG
did in his book "Seven sermons to the dead" even appreciate a GNOSTIC
teaching that we are innermost an absolute being, " PLEROMA, who emanates
itself
as a
temporary duality, " God and Satan" These two temporary
manifestations of our
innermost
nature are opposites in order to help our human Psyche to know the" fruits
of good and evil " and reach a perfect nature and " be as Gods".
In our temporary
battle
between these two manifestations is inevitable suffering but the end is
manifested
perfection
and the two are finally reabsorbed in our absolute uncreated nature.
GOD
and SATAN are then as to hands of our inner angle-nature. The one gives to you
a beautiful lily. The other one has a sword as the angel who hindered Baalam
(Number
22 23) . It looks devilish. An Arabic story mentions "devils" who
give a small suffering to hinder us to meet a bigger suffering. The sword which
hinders Baalam does save him. Satan looks bad but helps as a surgeon with a
scalpel
JESUS
WAS TEMPTED by "the devil" (a parable for the Satan-side of our inner
nature. The literal meaning of "Satan" is (the necessary) opponent,
resister).
The
temptation was in the desert (often a parable for the common human mind?)
JESUS
DID FAST there "40 days and nights". (Matt 4.2) He and John the
Baptist may have been in contact with the Essene-sect which was ascetic,
vegetarians, not killing. John did eat wild honey and fruits from the
locust's-tree. The Apostles meeting was against some meat and blood. Jesus gave
food to "5000 … ", bread and "opsom" (often translated
fish. Fruit is more often the meaning.) Was it physical food? "Fish"
is symbolic word for spiritual helpers. Jesus and his followers are
"fishes")
JESUS
IS EXORCIST, according to the Bible, "with power and authority to drive
out
"
demons" and to cure diseases" (Luke 9,1) Religions try
to liberate us from inner problems for which common parables are "devils"
and demons. Luther was one of many who have suffered in a psychotic way by
states of anxiety. Night after night he called for his confessor. In Wartburg
he did try to throw an ink-pot on " a devil", but in vain. In all
times have religious people believed that sicknesses and problems can come
through invisible spirits. Mental diseases and temptations and catastrophes are
analysed as often coming from " devils". Some believe that e.g.
kleptomania and homosexuality are from devils Some do add philosophical
explanation as that causes for suffering may be in past sins, even past
incarnations. Was then John the Baptist killed because he had killed in a
former incarnation when he was the prophet Elijah (Matt 11 14) A following
explanation is then that we get health and freedom from suffering by righteous
living: Contemplate:
ISAIAH
58 6;"to loose the bounds of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke,
to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke, to share your bread with
the hungry and bring the homeless poor into your house, where you see the
naked, to cover him. Then shall your right break forth like the dawn and your
healing shall spring up speedily; your righteousness shall go before you. The
glory of the Lord shall be our rear guard. Then you shall call, and the Lord
will answer: you shall cry, and he will say "Here I am. This idea that we
are sick and suffering or healthy and free from problems because of a divine
justice is found in all religions. "Karma" is an oriental name for
it. The exorcist tries to free us from suffering by asking us to live according
to the laws of God and open our souls and receive more of the endless grace
from our divine nature. A fundamental problem is that we do not understand
enough of the divine nature. Jesus and all prophets say: " Know
yourself" When there is no prophetic gnosis and vision people go astray.
CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES do keep exorcising, invoking a healing aspect of our inner nature, the
Archangel Raphael, at sacramental services and pray. The prayers are often
beautiful but childish petitions that the perfect God shall change
THE
FUTURE will be more of THE ETERNAL JESUS-GNOSIS and the
sacramental
AGAPE- LOVE enlightening new stages of scientific psychiatry .
110,
“THE KEY TO GNOSIS have you
taken away. Woe to you !”
said Jesus
according to Luke 11 52. An artist has
made a symbolic picture of consequenses
of that loss;
that the “ship” of religion has a crew which
is seen spiritually sleeping as dead
why the ship in the
storm
does strand and sink on the
sandbank of dogmas. Sand is a symbol
for illusive non-gnostic
mind. The artist
has a second picture for
the state when the ship of
religion, sleeping without the
key to
Gnosis, sinks down to the bottom of the
sea and becomes what Debussy named “La
cathédrale
engloutie”,
“The sank cathedral”. Cathedral, ecclesia cathedrális, means a bishop’s chair or church,
not just
a material place but more the
bishop himself as
a father of “Ecclesia”
the congregation,
those
“elected” to be servants of Christ
and entrusted with the
secret things of
God (1 Cor 4.1).
But
they can not serve well when
spiritually sleeping as dead. A
bishop may have sleeping
helpers
on the ship
or be one of “Episcopi Vagante”,
bishops walking alone or “in Partibus Infidelium”, in
places of
other religions where there is no visible cathedral . To get outer success bishops may depend
on those
who sleep dreaming of
infantile dogmas and not
gnosis. That is
a beginning of sinking
quality. Bibles
tell us that
apostles were given the secret
gnosis of
heaven (Mark 4 11). “To
those on
the outside everything is said in parables”.
The Pistis Sophia-gospel and the
apostle Thomas
intimate that
some got a very
qualified gnosis. The
first generations of
initiated souls died
and
majorities of
growing congregations and
councils did get
a sinking quality.
The principle was to
welcome
all seekers, the wise and
the stupid. But
soon did the
ruling majority forbid and
persecute “esoteric
gnosis”. Pioneers were
silenced, died in
jails or flied to East. Poets
could say
that the
ship of religion in such storms became
a fleeting coffin, a sank cathedral, a whitewashed tomb
(Matt 23
27) GNOSTIC WRITINGS which were
not burned are in our time retrieved.
And we have
now freedom
to try to come back to parts of that
secret gnosis which
Jesus and apostles did intimate.
There are bishops and pioneers who
try to give more freedom to
study the gnosis of prophets in all
religions. Jesus
said (Matt 5 17) “Do
not think that
I have come to abolish the Prophets”.
Those
words are
by some interpreted in the sense that Christ does not abolish the Prophets of any Religion,
(though
followers misunderstand) But such freedom is counteracted by wealthy majorities. Scientists
may have
agape-love for supporting
freedom of gnosis
though it is
expensive and dangerous.
Jesus has
the Gnosis to rebuke the wind and waves
and save the ship (Mark 4 39)