Gnostic interpretations of familiar Bible verses Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. I’m so glad to have you here with me. I thought this week we’d go ahead and do some more of those Gnostic interpretations of Christian memes so that you can see the differences and similarities between our Gnostic message and the traditional Christian way of interpreting these same Bible verses. I simply went out on the internet and looked for popular Bible verses, and these were the first ones that came up on this particular search. So here we go. From 1 Corinthians 3:16. “Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?” Even conventional Christians realize that we are God’s temple, but they generally think of the temple that we are as somewhat separate from God Himself and God’s actual temple. However, when we Gnostic Christians speak of inhabiting God’s temple, we take it in a much more literal sense—that when we invite the Third Order of Powers to come in and take over our souls, we’re moving our own Second Order Powers off the throne of our souls and inviting the Christ to occupy the throne of our souls. This brings God into our temple. It makes our body a literal temple of God, a temple of the Christ, because there is Christ dwelling within our midst, God dwelling within the temple. You see, our body is as much a temple to the Third Order of Powers as the temple in Jerusalem was to Jehovah. Now that’s another discussion—the relationship between the Hebrew God Jehovah and the God Above All Gods. But what we’re talking about here is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in the temple of our bodies. Our body is a replication of the Fullness of God, and we are Second Order representations of that Fullness of God whereas the Third Order of Powers are the actual living images of the Fullness of God, and there’s a Third Order Power for every one of our Second Order Powers inside of our body, inside of this meat mountain that we live in. So, of course, God’s Spirit dwells in our midst once we invite God’s Spirit to do so. God’s Spirit cannot dwell in the midst of our temple until we invite it in, until we get off the throne and invite it to take its place. The next meme is from 1 John 4:8, and it says, “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” We talk a lot about love and the importance of love, and I think a lot of people come to Gnostic Insights here because I’m talking about love. God is love. That is the most basic definition of God. Yes, in our modern parlance, we like to say that God is consciousness, and indeed God is consciousness. However, God is perceived by us as love, as the quality of love. Love is not an imaginary thing. Love isn’t something people make up or when you feel attracted to another person that you love them. That isn’t what love is. Love is an actual standalone quality that is one of the virtues of God. It’s the primary virtue of the God Above All Gods. And by the way, speaking of the difference between the God Above All Gods and the Hebrew God Jehovah, that Old Testament God did not demonstrate love. That Old Testament God, whom we Gnostics call the Demiurge, yes, he was the creator of this physical material cosmos that we live in, but the God Above All Gods is the creator of heaven and all consciousness and all emanations of consciousness. All spirits and powers above come from the God Above All Gods through the Son and then on through the Fullness of the Son, which is called the Fullness of God. We come from the Fullness of God. We are emanations. We are children of the Fullness of God, fruited down here into the material cosmos with all of the qualities of the Fullness of God. The Fullness of God is the First Order of Powers. We are the Second Order of Powers representing the Fullness of God here on Earth, including the character of love. But we tend to forget all of that once we get down here and become embroiled in this material existence, fighting a losing battle with death and destruction here. Sin comes from down here. Sadness, death, corruption, delusion, all of those negative characteristics, all of the things that are not love, arise from the Demiurge. They don’t come from heaven. They don’t come from the God Above All Gods. So when we say that God is love, we’re talking about the God Above All Gods as represented by the Christ here on Earth, as represented by our first human emissary that embodied the Third Order of Powers, and that was Jesus. Moving on to the next meme. This one is from 2 Chronicles 16:7. “But as for you, be strong and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded.” This meme brings up the subject of works. Chronicles is an Old Testament book. So when it speaks of God, it’s speaking of Jehovah, which we are believing is the Demiurge, or the ego of the fallen Aeon, named
