Gnostic Gospel, Pt 14 -- The Final Restoration

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The Christ came into the world to redeem all of creation through his body and his blood. Salvation comes not only to those of us on Earth, but also to the Fullness above and to Logos in particular, the aeon whose Fall brought creation into existence. 

The Gnostic Gospel represents the Christ as this orb of light and power, the Fruit of the Fullness, embodying the light of the Father and the attributes of the ALL.

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The aeon, Logos, who had Fallen, created, and then abandoned the Deficiency, "decided to pray that the fixed economy might attain all those who had gone forth from him," including those still clinging to the Deficiency. 

The Simple Gnostic Gospel has identified the method by which Remembrance entered the Earth--through the genes of double-helix DNA, encased in "chariots" of cells. The domain of Eukaryotes is the fruit of Logos and the Fullness, praying together to correct the Deficiency of the Imitation. 

The Second Order of Powers resembled their parents in the Fullness, "each one of them being a small impress of one of the figures" [Tripartite Tractate, v. 94]. These were no larger than those of the Imitation, but they came into the world with a better disposition, reflecting the qualities and powers of the Fullnesses. 

The Second Order of Powers are also known as "psychical ones," referring to their souls, or psyches. Those of the Imitation, on the other hand, are called "material ones," because they do not embody souls, "being nobody's children." Material ones primarily reveal their soulless status by their lack of a nucleus and their inability to live cooperatively. Although they possess DNA, it is in florets of circles rather than the entwined double-helix of eukarya. When prokaryotes replicate, it is through a process called "rolling circle replication." No DNA is created; it is duplicated through precise replication, as demonstrated below. 

Because the psychical ones were created through the prayers of many acting as One, eukarya are able to work cooperatively with the proteins, enzymes, and whatnot to sustain a complex economy within their own bodies, plus outside of their bodies with each other at the societal level. Because their parents live in a cooperative hierarchy, eukarya are innately communal. 

These six chronoflagellate eukaryotes have formed themselves into a flower-shaped colony. Chronoflagellates are the closest living relatives of animals.

Eukarya did not evolve from the archaea and bacteria of the Imitation, but were a new fruit designed to bring needed corrections to the Deficiency. Corrections like nuclei and cell walls, and essential cellular components like mitochondria.

"As a result, those whom he brought forth in accordance with this intention occupy chariots, so that they may traverse all regions of activities lying below, and each one may obtain his fixed place in accordance with what he is" [Tripartite Tractate, v.91].

The single-celled eukarya of 2nd Order of Powers, riding their chariots of fully formed cells, found themselves trapped in an endless war with those of the Imitation. Although they had a "small remembrance" of their Father and the Fullness, they lost themselves in battle, due to the Law of Mutual Combat.

Here, a demon of the Imitation attacks a 2nd Order Power by drilling a hole through its cell wall. Viruses are able to invade and kill living cells, despite the fact that they themselves are "dead." 

"Nevertheless, it was a good thing for the economy that was to be, because it had been decided concerning them that they should pass through the lower stations, and the stations would not be able to accept them coming quickly through them unless they came one by one. And their coming was necessary because everything was to be fulfilled through them" [Tripartite Tractate, v. 95].

The Fruit of Logos and the Fullness: a nucleus preloaded with double-helix DNA, carrying the genetic instructions for the domain of eukarya.

The ecology of the Economy takes time to unfold, as every corner of creation must have the opportunity to receive redemption through Christ. Eukarya DNA, conserved and precisely replicated for several billion years, suddenly turned itself on about 800 million years ago. At the appointed time, life on Earth quickly evolved by unlocking the expression of genes allowing the development of multi-cellular organisms, eventually leading to every plant, animal, and fungus on the planet. This rapid proliferation of species fulfilled manifestation of a blueprint that was already contained in eukarya DNA.

The more complex a eukaryote is, the more of its DNA remains a mystery. For example, only 25% of the genome carried by C. elegans nematodes actively contributes to building the organism. The other 75% is deemed "junk" by scientists who cannot comprehend its purpose. In humans, approximately 95% of our genome is so-called "junk DNA," with no apparent role or function. Furthermore, these same "junk" genes are "highly conserved," meaning they are identical to the DNA of single-celled eukarya that have lived on Earth for hundreds of millions of years. 

Autotrophs are able to eat food obtained at the molecular level. Heterotrophs are required to eat other life forms for food. This is part of the necessary "Economy" required by our Earthly bodies.

And so it came to pass that "every grace, and food" that had been contemplated through prayer and the ALL came into existence. 

"In short, then, at once the Word received all things, pre-existent, present, and future, having been entrusted with the economy of all that exists. Some were already realities, since their coming into being had been useful; seeds that would come into being in the future, however, he kept within himself--seeds deriving from the promise, by which he had conceived, because it was a promise consisting of seeds of the future. And he gave birth to his offspring, which was the manifestation of that which he conceived. The seeds of the promise, however, were withheld for some time from coming into being, because they were such as had been appointed to be sent out at the advent of the Savior and his companions" [Tripartite Tractate, v. 95].

At this point in history, about two million years ago, the Fruit of  the Father and the ALL, that is the Christ, intervened in evolutionary history by enabling humans to emerge from the rest of the eukarya pack as a spiritual being modeled after himself, endowed with unique capabilities. 

"The first human, then, is a mixed molding and a mixed creation, and a depository of those on the left and those on the right, as well as of a spiritual Word, and his sentiments are divided between each of the two substances to which he owes his existence" [Tripartite Tractate, v. 106].

Side and top views of DNA. Here we can see those on the left entwined with those on the right. We can also see the pattern of the ALL.

Less than 5% of human DNA goes toward construction of our bodies. What is the purpose of the other 95%? If it carries the historical record of all eukaryotes, i.e., their highly conserved DNA, is this not proof of a pre-existent intelligent design culminating with us?

The face of the revealed Christ, "possessed the word of the Son, together with his essence, his power, and his form. He was the one he desired and delighted in, he was the one who had been prayed for in love. This aeon was light and a desire to be set aright, an openness for instruction and an eye designed for vision--qualities that it had from those above. Moreover, it was wisdom for his thought against the ones who were placed lower in the economy, a word for speech, and other perfect things of this kind" [Tripartite Tractate, v. 93, 94].

Those who are Redeemed by the Christ are unshackled from the chains that  bind the material and psychical orders to this world. So much so, in fact, that they form a new, "Third Order of Powers"--the spiritual ones.  The Redeemed are also known as the "Assembly of Salvation," "The Bride," "The Church," and "The Elect" [Tripartite Tractate, v. 92]. 

The Tripartite Tractate mentions the name of Jesus only a couple of times, and the Savior and the Christ many more times than that. And of course the entire book begins with long discourses concerning the nature of the Father and The Son. Here is what it says about Jesus at this point in the story:

"Because the seed of the promise about Jesus Christ had been deposited, whose revelation and unification we have ministered to, this promise now enabled instruction and a return to that which they had been from the beginning--that of which they possessed a drop inciting them to return to it--which is what is called redemption. And that means to be released from captivity and to obtain freedom. The captivity is of those who were slaves of ignorance, which reigned in its own territories" [Tripartite Tractate, v. 117].

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Continue on to the final article in the Simple Gnostic Cosmology: Judgment Day and the Coming Paradise.