WHAT IS SPIRIT AND RATIONAL THINKING?

Knowing that your life and survival are important: Rational thinking.

Believing that your imagination and mythology are rational and factual: Delusional thinking.

Believing that others should believe in your delusions: Crazy thinking.

Believing that harm should befall others because they do not believe your delusions: Insane thinking.

Believing that you are justified by your delusion to harm others: Criminal.

Believing that you had the right to kill others: Criminally insane.

This from the Vulgate translation in Knox (I think Vulgate Knox written in 405 the best translation):

Genesis 6:3But God said, This “spirit” of mine shall not endure in man forever…

We see “God” speaking of the Spirit as an entity or power. They are separate and not one in the same. They are as one as we are as one with Spirit. But you can live and deny your Spirit as we see further on:

From The Nag Hammadi: First lines first Book of the Egyptians:

1.      “The holy book of the Egyptians about the great invisible Spirit, the Father whose name cannot be uttered, he who came forth from the heights of the perfection, the light of the light of the aeons of light, the light of the silence of the providence the Father of the silence, the light of the word and the truth, the light of the incorruptions, the infinite light, the radiance from the aeons of light of the unrevealable, unmarked, ageless, unproclaimable Father, the aeon of the aeons, Autogenes, self-begotten, self-producing, alien, the really true aeon”.

[In the first lines, there is no mention of God or anything other than “the great invisible Spirit”. The Spirit being called Father. Spirit power self-producing (Autogenes) its Spirit self. It also infers to other Gods then called Aeons.]

2.      Three powers came forth from him; they are the Father, the Mother, (and) the Son, from the living silence, what came forth from the incorruptible Father. These came forth from the silence of the unknown Father.

[Is it possible that the one true Aeon or God was created by Spirit the Father of all things? The next line proclaims a linage from Spirit of three “POWERS” (not people). Thou they are talking of the living silence (Spirit power) they use the masculine inflection of Father and him and also infer gender to the other powers or Gods.]

Nag Hammadi:

“Jesus said, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

How can anyone not find this discovery exciting? What could it be that Jesus calls “is within you”? I truly believe it is Spirit he is talking about in this parable. I’m working to bring forth what is in me…my Spirit. I have felt the pain of being destroyed without it; it’s like being the angry walking dead. But who am I to translate to fit my meaning? I have always felt that my learning is just for me and no one else? This is just what I get out of this parable to share. It rings as if, what is in you will destroy you but who can say what the original words meant before the translation. To me, I realize it is “not bring forth” that will destroy you. Destroy and kill are not synonymous in this parable I don’t believe because Jesus was speaking of Spirit not of life. It is my Spirit living…not my earthly life, that will be destroyed. But this is just what I think and feel. Everything is an individual’s interpretation or acceptance of someone else’s. I think it best to rely on your own.

Spirit IS. And that is all there is. Man took Spirit and created gods and then gods in his image. Then wrote books of religion to enslave with fear and dogma, the people. Religion has blocked man from his Spirit claiming a god is in control of it…or that god is actually Spirit. This is a horrible misconception but I think it is just an outlandish lie. Spirit is in us and is the creator of everything. The molecular Universe is an image of Spirit. Eternal life is that we are all of the same dust that the Universe is made of and will return to be born again over and over. In that there is no death only eternal life. Spirit is one and is all. It is inside each of us the same. Realization and acceptance is all that is needed for Spirit to assist you in your living. Life is assured but your living is not. Living is being at one with Spirit otherwise you are just a life form as are all life forms. Joy, peace, harmony, love, intuitive thinking, inspirational enlightenment…these things and more come from joining with the Universal Intelligence that is Spirit. There are hints of this in the bible and Jesus spoke of it. The “Father” was not a god but Spirit. I will leave examples but there are many more.

The story of Nag Hammadi and more translations are found at this wonderful web page.

http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/goseqypt.html