An open mind can be drafty. :-)
On Jun 19, 9:24 am, puppy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Clarification and Being
> Orlando Lujan Martinez,
> IWA
>
> Jean-Yves Leloup, mystic, theologian and scholar, book The
> Gospels of Mary Magdalene is a thought provoking. It is a book with
> wisdom for believers, skeptics, agnostics and atheists. Jean-Yves
> Leloup has written a stunning commentary on the ancient Gnostic text.
> One of the proverbs from the Gospel of Mary Magdalene.: The
> teacher(God) answered: "All that is born, all that is created, all
> the elements of nature are inter-woven and united with each other.
> All that is composed will decompose; everything returns to the roots;
> matter returns to the order of matter: "
> These words, written 2,000 years ago, are not religious dogma,
> linguistic meanderings or rhetoric, but ancient knowledge which
> coincides with what science knows to be true today. Here science and
> spiritually meet and separate at the same time: because science does
> not yet fully agree, with the spiritual dimension of the proverbs.
> The Gospels of Mary Magdalene say: 'That the teachers (God)
> words are the beginning of the return to being fully human and
> discovering the real world and the wisdom of God which are also the
> words of ancient wisdom."
>
> Leloup writes: “Everything returns to its roots; matter returns to
> the original matter. All evolution involves a return. To return is
> not to go back--rather to go forward..... It is a return to the place
> that is our origin and our destiny....We return to the Source and the
> beginning."
>
> The Gospels of Mary Magdalene are about a Kingdom we can know as
> living beings in this world. The knowledge is meant to re-interrogate
> humans with theirselves so they can become fully human and above the
> illusions, attachments and the suffering brought to life through the
> seven deadly sins of: pride, lust, envy anger, covetousness,
> gluttony, and sloth. Which are present, and the motives, in the
> greater sins of genocide, wars, murder, fraud, violence, pedophilia,
> rape and the sins of skepticism. pessimism and cynicism which are the
> final disillusionment. For God says: There are no sins. It is man
> that makes sin exist.
>
> Leloup writes: “Through the poor use of our senses,
> intelligence, and emotions, these faculties have become disoriented-
> they have lost there orient, that is to say, their attunment with the
> Being that is at the heart of all impermanence, transitory phenomena
> of the world. It is only this disorientation that enables us to
> pervert ourselves, society, and the universal order itself.” As we
> have noticed in the turmoil of our senses and in the world. Leloup writes:
> “Furthermore the Kingdom that is spoken of in The
>
> Gospels of Mary Magdalene must not be confused with the return to
> some sort of lost paradise or a state of consciousness. Rather it is
> the awakening to this very dimension of Being that is the source of
> our existence now, and of the mystery of there being something instead
> of nothing."
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