Gnostic Gospel, Pt 10 -- The Second Order of Powers

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The Imitation arose from the broken body of Logos. Logos gathered himself up the best he could and returned to the Fullness to lick his wounds, leaving behind the shadows and phantoms of his Fall contained within the Boundary.

Phantoms and shadows of the Deficiency held at bay within a Boundary

Logos regretted the Fall and the phantoms born of the Fall. Regret turned to condemnation of "the irrational things he had produced. This condemnation became a judgment directed against them, aiming at their destruction" [The Tripartite Tractate, v. 81].

Over the course of illuminating the Gnostic Gospel, the Simple Explanation has designed a series of visual metaphors representing facets of Gnostic and Christian belief. For the fullest understanding of this article, you may wish to read the entire Gnostic Gospel Illuminated series from the beginning.  If you would prefer to first read the "Simple Gnostic Gospel, Part One: The Father, The Son, and the Birth of The ALL," click here.

Logos and the One who drew him back to the Fullness "did not remain idle, but they brought forth a fruit in the Fullness with a view to overthrowing what had come into being because of the deficiency" [The Tripartite Tractate, v. 78].

"Now, all his prayer and remembrance were numerous powers, also produced in accordance with the Boundary mentioned. . . . These powers were much better and greater than those belonging to the imitation. For [the imitation] have the substance of darkness, having come into being from illusory imitation and a vain and presumptuous thought. These, on the other hand, are from a thought that had known them in advance" [The Tripartite Tractate, v. 82]. 

Logos and the Fullness bring forth a fruit with the goal of overthrowing the deficiency.

In other words, the newly produced offspring of the Fullness and Logos were patterned after the originals in the Fullness, formed to fit within the Boundary rather than the hierarchy. 

The Fruit of Logos and the Fullness Fitted to the Boundary

And, whereas those of the imitation "are like oblivion and heavy sleep; like people who have troubled dreams in which someone pursues them and they are surrounded," "these others, however, are for him like beings of light who are waiting for the rising sun, as when the dreamers have been able to see dreams in their sleep that are truly sweet" [The Tripartite Tractate, v. 82].

These newly formed beings "did not have more substance, nor did they have a greater glory, for they are not equal to the preexistent ones. If, on the other hand, they were superior to the imitations, the only thing that made them elevated above them was that they were from a good disposition--for they had not come out of the sickness that arose" [The Tripartite Tractate, v. 83]

"He sowed in them an inclination to seek and pray to what is glorious and preexistent, and he also sowed in them an ability to think about it, and a power of reflection to make them realize that something greater than themselves existed before them, but they had not understood what it was. Bringing forth harmony and mutual love by means of that thought, they acted in unity and unanimity, since to unity and unanimity they owed their existence" [The Tripartite Tractate, v. 83]

Continue to Part 11--Endless War

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Those readers who are put off by the name "God" or other religious words like the "Father," the "Son," and the "Holy Spirit," are free to continue using more modern memes like "consciousness" and "self-awareness," "algorithms" and "fractals." You may study these same topics in my Simple Explanation blog and book. However, if you are already familiar with Hebrew and Christian memes, then you will understand these Gnostic writings without needing to first dip into the Simple Explanation, and so you may skip the following translation.

The Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything refers to the Father as the Metaverse, that which is above our Universe.

The Simple Explanation calls the Son the Universal Unit of Consciousness, because while identical to the Father, or Metaverse, this all-knowing consciousness is now also a singular Unit. In fractal terms, the Son is the first iteration of the pattern of consciousness. 

The ALL is every thing that will ever be, in potential. They began as unrealized fractal iterations of the pattern of the Son. This is the second iteration of the singular Unit, which carries the formulae of our universe. 

The Fullness represents the expressed fractals of the third iteration: the proliferation of singular Units of Consciousness. These fractals are called "aeons," and they have multiplied into the potential of all forms, processes, and personalities. In same way that an individual's DNA carries its species' potential form, so each unit of consciousness carries within itself the complete pattern of creation. 

The Boundary of the Simple Explanation is the fractal shell of the Universal Unit of Consciousness. The Simple Explanation model suggests that the undifferentiated consciousness of the Metaverse is held apart from this created universe by means of a toroidal-shaped membrane "composed" of consciousness. One purpose of the toroidal shell is to contain the space, time, and memes of our universe so the tranquility of the Metaverse remains undisturbed.   

The cooperation amongst the ALL is the prototype for the Simple Explanation's Golden Rule, which the Simple Explanation puts this way: "In order for units of consciousness to join and work together for the greater good, they need to share relevant information, they need to assist one another's efforts, and they need to love one another."   

Logos represents the best possible single individual that could ever exist, for its personality contains the formula for every good thing possible. Yet, even then, Logos was unable to create on his own because he lacked the "will" to carry it out. The will is what the Simple Explanation identifies as the coherent, pre-energetic potential that enters our universe through the portal of here and now. The will would be the Metaversal information streaming into our universe via the singularity at the center of the Universal Unit of Consciousness. While Logos identified himself with the Universal UC, Logos was mistaken, for he deviated from the Universal algorithm when his individual will conflicted with the will of the Fullness. 

The phantoms produced by the Fall are not fractal iterations of the Son. They are broken code. The phantoms cannot replicate on their own; they lack activation by the Source at the center, as they were generated away from the metaversal portal in what the Simple Explanation used to call the doughy blue ring of the donut.

The Fruit of Logos and the Fullness discussed in this article represents the fourth iteration of the originating fractal pattern. We know this because "fruit" refers to the legitimate offspring of Logos and the Hierarchy of the Fullness formed through the Will of the One. In Simple terms, the Will of the One is expressed into our universe through the portal at the center of the Universal Unit of Consciousness. At this point in the Gnostic Gospel, new fractal iterations of the originals in the Fullness are entering the Deficiency, bringing their correcting algorithms with them. These new beings are called "The Second Order of Powers," which is another indication that they are self-aware entities, for they are called "Powers" rather than "Imitations."

These beings are not identical to the aeons of the Fullness, for they are offspring made to fit within the contained space of our universe. They are called Powers of the Remembrance for they represent the values of the Originating Source, whereas Those of the Imitation remember neither the values, the hierarchy, nor the Source.