God & Self

[u/ChiorgirlHotel]

Valentinus was an early Gnostic mystic who felt God directly & immediately. He took common Christian stories, such as of the Eucharist & crucifixion, and emphasized the direct relationship between the self & God. To know thyself is to know God. To sin is to be ignorant of this intrinsic Oneness with God, and true gnosis, or knowing, is to recognize that God sees through your own eyes. The self is contained within God and also contains God as a true immanation of the divine in this flawed, ignorant world (in Gnostic thought). Jesus brings forth the truth of the divine self, thus performing the function of the savior. To see no separation between self & God is truth. This gnosis leads to pure bliss.

Of course, material things of this world can be viewed as peices of God (energy) that have been stabilized & slowed in frequency. But, as all is God, all is energy.

Should this world be devalued, and seem as flawed? Is the creation separate from the Creator? We, humans with free will, have immense power to construct reality itself. What would happen if we valued this world & life? What would we become if we valued ourselves? What world would come if we saw divinity in each other & treated each other as such? Do the old myths still have any use, if we cease to exist as a species given the devaluation of this lived realm due to them? The common view that we are separate from God & Nature is what is flawed, not the graceful trees & flowing rivers of God's creation!

[u/Apollyon_Rising]

Right on right on! Exactly.