Sacred Christian Texts
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
Aeon: Greek “emanation, divine power, cosmic time cycle.“ “Reefs of Aeonic dreaming.” (Gaia Mythos)
An
Aeon is a god understood in terms of the physics of consciousness. They
are processes, great living currents, both self-aware and in possession
of sense abilities. The Goddess Sophia, who becomes embodied as Gaia,
is an Aeon, hence the Aeon Sophia. Aeons are gendered. In some Gnostic
scenarios the male counterpart to the female Aeon Sophia is the Aeon
Christos.
Gnostic’s, in first century
Christianity, were a prominent segment of the new Christian community.
They were the early followers of Christ, and held strongly to the
beliefs of Christ and his message, and experienced a “special witness”
or the revelatory experience of the divine as experienced in the Ein
Solf of the ancient Kabbalistic mystery traditon. This spiritual
experience is called “gnosis” by the Gnostics,which is believed by them
to be the true way of Christ. Stephan Hoeller explains that these
Gnostic Christians held a “conviction that direct, personal and
absolute knowledge of the authentic truths of existence is accessible
to human beings, and, moreover, that the attainment of such knowledge
must always constitute the supreme achievement of human life.”
In
December 1945, near the town of Nag Hammadi in Upper Egypt, Gnostic
studies were reborn. A collection of ancient texts were discovered
hidden away since the year 390 A.D., by monks of St. Pachomius, to
escape destruction by order of the growing Christian Church that was at
that time violently eradicating heresy. These thirteen papyrus codices
containing fifty-two sacred texts are now called the “Gnostic Gospels.”
We learn from reading Mary Magdalene: Beyond The Myth (1993), by Susan Haskins,
that there was a concerted effort on the part of churchmen of the early
church to destroy the knowledge of any female contributions. Mary
Magdalene’s may well have been victim to this legacy of deceit and
repression. This book renders the theory that the Fourth Gospel,
believed to be authored by John of Zebedee is really written by Mary
Magdalene. Is the Beloved Disciple of the Fourth Gospel and founder and
leader of what has come to be known as the Johannine Community really
Mary Magdalene? According to Haskins there is more evidence pointing to
Mary’s writing the Fourth Gospel than John writing it.