The Ox herder consists of a series of pictures painted by the Japanese Zen monk Tensho Shûbun. In this book Rune Ødegaard, a seasoned Christian Gnostic teacher and Zennist, shares his insights on the spiritual and psychological process displayed in these five-hundred-year-old images. Delving deeply into the spirit of Zen, they may be regarded as a journey from seeking Zen to simply being Zen. This journey is a lifelong transforming story, yet at the same time, nothing special. It is a journey to Nowhere.
The restoration of the Gnostic tradition may be dated to a specific dark autumn evening in the year 1890 in the residence of the theosophist Lady Caithness, the duchess of Medina Pomar. This night the French Freemason Jules Doinel received a revelation dictating him to revive the Gnostic church and become its modern representative. Following this event, the Eglise Gnostique was established, manifesting a Gnosticism based on Cathar structures and largely on the teachings of Valentinus and Simon Magus. Doinel's Gnostic church attracted authoritative people from the esoteric elite of France, such as GErard Encausse, Paul SEdir, Lucien Chamuel, LEonce-EugEne Joseph Fabre des Essarts og Jean-Baptiste Bricaud. In this book, Rune Odegaard has collected and translated material from Doinel's tradition, and gives the reader a glance at the concepts meeting people seeking admission into this church in the late 19th century. He also presents the main characters in the founding process and the milieu that gave rise to the restoration. This is the first time the tradition of the Eglise Gnostique is presented in a somewhat consistent and thorough fashion to an English-speaking audience.
It is not the time of the creation in itself that disturbs us, nor is it the so-called fall or the time when mankind wandered the world between light and darkness. What disturbs us is what we suspect transpired in the time before time." Magister Amarantus Sodalitas Sanctum Seth Classical Gnosticism points to a path, which is not a path, but rather a path between the paths. It is a story told at the strike of the thirteenth hour on the mystical dial of the wise; from a mental position between truth and falsehood, reality and dream, in a spiritual place that unites all things in a point without a centre. The tradition, to which this book refers is based on Biblical stories of creation, the nature of God, how man came to live on earth, and how we may recapture what humanity lost. This tradition has a systematic enquiring approach to redemption. It thus relies on our own understanding and our own experiences to grasp it. This is the path called Gnosticism; Sethian Gnosticism.
Come to us you who thirst for the nature of reality. Come you who yearn for yourself. Come brothers of the breach and broken sisters. Come you who cannot find rest, and who can have no peace." -The Book of Specularis. This is the second book in a trilogy on the Sethian Gnostic tradition of today, and it contains a selection of texts from the Charaxio, the holy book of the organization Sodalitas Sanctum Seth. This collection of modern Sethian writings intends to give new perspectives to those who have stumbled upon an encounter with Metanoia, Our Lady of Unexpected Insight and Perplexity, and thus perceived the shape of the Mystery. Consider this entire book as a projective test. As in the field of psychology, such a test has no meaning in itself: It is you; with your background, opinions, cultural frame of mind and self-understanding that determine what you see, or are shown. As in the previous volume, The Key, it is important to remember that as you read this book, the book is also reading you.
And Moricario said: "Let this work be performed as in a dream." It is said that the eon Moricario was united with a book through music and the sound of a clock. And as the clock gave its final sound, the work was fulfilled. An eternity was comprised between the pages of a tome. This book was then given to a Sethian monk living as a councilor in the House of Abel, and he was the first to read this book to his children and instructing them in its customs and curiosities. This third book is called The Cabinet: Sethian Gnosticism in the post modern world, even though the material presented in this volume is taken from The Moricario.
Denne boken peker leseren mot en vei, som ikke er en vei, men heller en vei mellom veiene. Det er en fortelling som er blitt fortalt ved klokkens trettende time, fra en mental posisjon mellom sannhet og logn, virkelighet og drom, i et sjelelig sted som forener alle ting i et punkt uten sentrum eller utstrekning. Tradisjonen som denne boken henviser til, har en systematisk forskende tilnaerming til religionens mal, det vil si forlosning eller frelse. Denne tradisjonen tar utgangspunkt i Bibelens fortellinger om opphavstiden, om Guds natur, om hvordan vi havnet her, og hvordan man igjen skal kunne gjenerobre det tapte ved a stole pa egne krefter, beholde var uavhengighet og tro pa det vi erkjenner. Dette er veien som av mange er blitt kalt gnostisisme
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