Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. I thought it would be fun this week to look at some Christian memes that are posted on the internet, little posters with inspirational sayings. I asked for Bible quotes inspirational from Jesus , and what I’m going to do is read you the quote, and I’ll post the meme itself on the transcript of this episode. And I would like to explain to you the Gnostic meaning of each of these memes. So let’s see how this goes. The first one I run across here is from Philippians 4:13, and it says, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Now Christians generally think of Christ as an exterior force, that Christ is basically the Holy Spirit of the crucified and resurrected Jesus Christ. And so they picture Jesus being outside them, but very near, someone that you can call to you and pray to, and he knows you, and he will take care of your prayers. Gnostic Christians, on the other hand, have an understanding, a gnosis, that Christ is within us when we accept Christ, when we invite Christ in, because as the Christians always say, Jesus is a gentleman, and he won’t just come plowing into your soul unless you invite him in. So Christians understand that you are asking Christ in, but they don’t understand that he completely takes up residence inside of you. We know that we humans are made up of a spiritual Self, that one Self that is the reflection of the Fullness of God. We all share that in common. It is identical to all of us. Then we share a psychical level, our emotional level, generally what we would call our ego, and that’s our Second Order nature that comes into us and melds to the third part of us, which is our physical body. And our physical body is built from the molecules on up. The physical body is of a demiurgic origin. This is why it has always so many cravings that go against our better judgment, let’s say. We eat too much, we take drugs we shouldn’t, we drink too much, we have sex with strangers or sex outside of marriage. These are physical urges that arise from the demiurgic level because they are embodying and carrying forward the commands of the Demiurge. And that’s the way the Demiurge likes to do things—keep us under control, keep us alienated from our higher Self. So when we invite Christ in—let’s say you’re at a revival or you listen to an old Billy Graham sermon on the radio or you’re reading the book of John in the Bible and you have the urge to invite Christ to take over your life, and that is what it means to invite Christ into your soul—Christ is a different order of powers than we are. We are what’s called Second Order of Powers. The First Order of Powers were the Aeons; we’re the Second Order of Powers. The Third Order of Powers is the Christ. And there is a Third Order Power for every Second Order Power. That’s how it is that Jesus or Christ comes with your face and knows everything about you because Christ is an image of the perfection that you can be. Jesus was the first human that fully embodied the Third Order of Powers. And now it’s your turn… When we invite Christ in, we invite the Christ to take residence in our souls and in our bodies. We invite the Christ’s Third Order Powers to replace our own Second Order Powers because we’re leveling up. We’re leveling up to a more powerful and loving Godly existence when we invite Christ in. You can’t put down various mistakes and cravings and sins in your life just out of striving within your own little Second Order ego because it’s the one that got you in trouble in the first place. You need the higher power of the Third Order to embody you. That is the real meaning of Philippians 4.13. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me because I’m no longer just me and my Second Order body. I have the Third Order within me that has more power than the Second Order and demiurgic body that we are given. The next meme I run across is from 2 Corinthians 12:9 and it says, “Every weakness you have is an opportunity for God to show his strength in your life. My grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weakness.” The conventional Christian church and especially the hellfire and damnation churches talk about your weakness as depravity and as inherent sinfulness and shame on you. Shame. “Have guilt. Turn to God for that’s your only salvation.” Well yeah that’s kind of correct except for the hell and damnation part and it’s got the whole wrong emotional spin on it. When the egg of my mother was fertilized by the sperm of my father, my earthly parents, I was a pure Second Order Power coming in with all sorts of hope and knowledge—gnosis. It’s inherent in us because we are the children of the Aeons. We are the incarnation here on earth in the material realm of that First Order of Powers, the Aeons, who live in the pure bliss of the ethe
