JESSENIC VIEW ON GNOSIS (THIRTEEN POINTS OF ...

Jessenic View on Gnosis
Lately, we have been defining better the concept of Rational-Moral, or Dukkha, so that
our pupils and also the researches of our Gnostic current are able to be finely informed on our
doctrine: rational-moral is a PAIR OF ENDOWMENTS (PAR-DON) appearing in my old
and psychic mental faculty of rational memory which sets it no longer occupied with choosing
what is or what is not pleasant to my ego, and what is right or wrong to fairly preserving my
selfness nature, BUT RATHER NOW IS ENGAGED IN KNOWING WHAT IS GOOD OR
BAD FOR MY SOUL.
By the means of that new endowment, our mental faculty of rational memory is able
to decide and even respond on issues concerning what is good or bad for the blossoming of
our perfect life of soul.
Perhaps in future, we will be accepting to establish a set of ‘SIGNS’ which points,
with an aiding hand outstretched towards the heart that truly wants to discover the simplicity
and the par-endowment, and what to be a Gnostic and what to be a Jessene means, or what to
be a true Christian, a true ekklesiastic human, is.
We will be doing so with the purpose of orienting the first and most obscure days of
our neophyte coming from many Orders and Communities where the care with guidelines is
not exactly aimed to protect each Anthropos’ pneumaticity.
It is our opinion that, victimized by such unknowingness, our neophytes take too long
to set their wisdom serving the true freedom of the soul.
However, such ‘SIGNS’ will not be expressed as rules to standardize the behavior or
the conduct nature of our pupils.
If comparing our Ekklesia to a bed of roses which wants to change itself to a garden,
first we shall let the birds from the sky (the Angels and the Fraternity) carry on theirs wings
the seeds and drop them into the plowed and watered soil, and then, as skilled agriculturist,
we shall deal with the magnificent diversity of plants and flowers along with the roses,
notwithstanding our days of calmness with the bed of roses are replaced by those of intense
remodeling of the stone contours, or with an excessive and exhaustive removal and new
preparation of the soil, repotting of new sprouts to niches better for the root or containing a
more proper soil for the search of all the materials for your special sap.
In this sense, during Bema Festival, we have asked our activities assistant companions
from our Jessenian doctrine contact rooms to get patiently and bravely prepared for
continuous changes, for the garden we are forming is of a magnificent and complex diversity,
therefore not allowing us to create any kind of standardization of organizational methods or
procedures to welcome and shelter the new neophytes.
7 – THE JESSENIAN GNOSTIC CONCEPT ON FATE OR HEIMARMENÉ.
They have told Jesus in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas, saying 52: ‘His disciples said
to him, “Twenty-four prophets spoke in Israel, and all of them spoke in you.” He said to them,
“You have omitted the one living in your presence and have spoken (only) of the dead.”’
(source: The Nag Hammadi Library, http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html)
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