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I agree that the overall evolutionary direction is toward the positive and away from the negative for return to occur toward ever higher dimensions of awareness and experience.

Miracles are the subtle wisps and whispers … precious gifts and treasured moments … from God/Goddess/All That Is:

The Divine at work and at play in your reality. Transcendent miracles are glimmers and shimmers … lifting you to remember a bit more of the god-being you have always been and opening you to reunite with the god-being you are becoming and will be once again.

With miracles comes elegance, as we cultivate greater success with more happiness and joy, greater love with more intimacy and caring, and greater living with more richness and sparkle. With miracles comes beauty, as we catapult ourselves forward upon our spiritual path … upon our journey:

Coming Home.     

The Vibrancy and the Splendor of Greater Understanding lie within the recesses of A Grander Love with its voices of Empathy and Compassion. It is found within the lost folds of Grander Healing with its whispers of Surrender and Truth. The Luster of Greater Understanding lies within the Perception, Perseverance, and Wisdom of its Power and Beauty.

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Speaking Of Cancellation:

http://forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic. … 25&p=2   #19

. . . A statement along with the breaking of any and all vows that all such contracts and agreements are declared null and void nunc pro tunc, which in Latin, the foundational language of law on this planet, means "as if it never was," and ab initio, which means "to the beginning,"  both of which are recognized legal phrases, goes deep into the subconscious and cellular memory to release those things that bind us, and will return us to the state of original innocence and freedom that we seek.

If that is your desire, and you are willing to deal with what comes forth as it disengages and manifests into the hologram of your personal reality construct in order to be understood and released, then this is the true path to freedom and the liberation of your emerald life frequency with which you were originally endowed as you first came forth into this realm.

In the vast inventory of classical lore on the Goddess, one example stands out vividly, both for its unique plot and its narrative scope. The Gnostic story of the fallen divinity Sophia presents an authentic feminist redemption myth. It places Sophia, whose name in Greek means “wisdom”, centrally in a cosmological drama in which the fallen divinity is the main agent of world redemption.

The full passage is a mere nine verses, but it discloses a key element of the Pagan Sophia myth: “or ever the earth was.” This phrase shows that the Wisdom goddess pre-existed the earth, even as she comes to be identified with it through the aretology that declares her terrestrial attributes. Proverbs 8 intimates that Wisdom is a pre-existent divinity that becomes embodied in the earth—an assertion to be fully developed in the Gnostic scenario of the fallen goddess.

Wisdom, the fashioner of all things, taught me,
For there is in Her a power that is intelligent and sacred,
Unique, manifold, sublime,
Mobile, clear, undefined,
Distinct, beyond harm, loving the good, keen,
Unhindered, beneficent, generous,
Firm, sure, free from care,
Affecting all and observing all,
And interpenetrating all beings
That are intelligent, pure, and as subtle as She.
For Wisdom is more mobile than any motion,
And She permeates and penetrates everything,
For She is the embodied breath of divine power.

The history of Biblical writing before the Common Era, and the subsequent war on Gnostic heresy waged by the Church Fathers, show the immense effort it took to deny the sacred origin of the earth recounted in the myth of the fallen goddess, Sophia. The fact of the sacredness of the earth depends on the faculty to engage it, the cognitive capacity to know Gaia with insight and empathy. The myth itself asserts that Sophia gave humanity the gift of imagination, “the luminous epinoia,” so that humans could participate in Her Story via creative or imaginal thinking: “The luminous epinoia was endowed in humanity, for this is the one power that was to awaken its thinking”.

The sacred myth of Sophia is interactive and transhistorical. The heresy condemned by the Church Fathers is not, and never was, a mere matter of academic argument. It is a flashpoint for imaginative engagement. The repression of the Divine Feminine is a fact of history, and it is also part of Sophia's mythic biography. The powers ranged against human imagination are clearly described in the myth. According to the Gnostics, Sophia's redemption depends on humanity's empathy with Her story, the unique myth that describes the goddess who existed “or ever the earth was.” In the Mysteries, Sophia was the name for what we today call Gaia, but before Gaia became the sensuous, inhabitable earth.

Gnostics taught that Aeons do not usually cross the cosmic boundary, called the hymen, through which they emanate the raw potential of material worlds. They remain centered in the Pleroma, the cosmic matrix of infinite potential. But Sophia was an exception. The myth emphasizes Her desire to engage in a world-in-the-making—but not just any world. Curiously, the world that Sophia anticipates will only come into being through Her own metamorphosis. Such is the odd fate of the fallen goddess.

The Aeons work through ennoia, internationality. They project the seed-form of a sentient world from the cosmic matrix, and then allow it to unfold by itself, to be self-generating. The word autogenes in the NHC is close to the current notion of autopoesis, widely discussed in the context of the Gaia hypothesis proposed by James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis. The Sophia myth resonates with Gaia theory, but situates the autogenetic principle in a preterrestrial event. Before the earth existed, Sophia and another Aeon, Christos, joined in a cosmic act of propagation, a sacred mating dance in the heart of heaven, the Pleroma. The two Aeons received from the supreme Aeon, the Originator, a formless potentiality to configure into an discrete evolutionary impulse. The Originator (Propater) is the hidden source of all novelty (monogenes, “singularity”) in the cosmos, but the Aeons, or Totalities of generative gods, give shape and intention to such novelties. Christos and Sophia do so by imbuing their divine intent into the prototype of an emergent species, the Anthropos. In a sense, they are the divine parents of humanity, but they do not procreate the nascent species, they merely emanate it, working “in an imaginary way”.

Once the nascent species has been configured, the entire company of Aeons project it from the Pleroma, the realm of infinite potential, into the Kenoma, the realm of deficiency or finite potential. There it will unfold by its own laws, seeding itself in worlds-in-the-making. Gnostic myth thus asserts the theory of panspermia, the seeding of planetary life from extra-planetary sources, initially proposed by Svante Arrhenius around 1910 and now widely accepted by astronomers and biologists. If Gaia is a panspermic laboratory, as Lynn Margulis and others have suggested, then the extra-terrestrial origin of the human species has been explained in the Mystery narrative.

Divine Desire

Sophia´s special involvement with humanity (the Anthropos) begins long before the earth exists. Looking out from the Pleroma, the goddess feels attracted by what this singular species might achieve, once it has a world to inhabit. In a manner similar to the Dreamtime ancestors of Australia, She dreams the formative outlines of such a world. She might be compared to a pregnant mother who lavishly imagines a life for her unborn child—but the biological analogy is misleading, for reasons already noted. Sophia did not conceive humanity with Christos by material, procreative union, but in an ecstatic, imaginative act. Then the Aeon was compelled to wonder how this particular species will actualize its endowment of nous, divine intelligence. Her wondering about human potential aroused enthymesis, “burning passion, impetuosity,” in an extreme and unusual manner for an Aeon.

Compelled by burning desire, the goddess plunges from the cosmic center into the Kenoma, the chaos of material worlds. Her impact in the outer regions is sudden and immense, producing a shock wave that generates a bizarre species, the Archons. The Hypostasis of the Archons calls this violent eruption of alien life-forms an “abortion,” meaning a spontaneous miscarriage of divine power. This premature event presents a hugely problematic situation for Sophia, a situation in which humanity is deeply implicated even before it emerges from its larval state of pure, unexpressed potential.

The Archons fabricate a virtual world or stereoma, modeled on the cosmic patterns in the Pleroma, but they do so mindlessly, drawing creative power from the goddess without knowing its source. In the sacred narrative of the Mysteries, our planetary system arises before the earth due to the premature action of an alien species. The chief of the Archons is Yaldaboath, the Demiurge, a demented pseudo-deity who takes himself for the supreme creator. “Because of the glory of the power he possessed from his Mother's light, he called himself God” . Gnostics daringly identified the Demiurge with Jehovah and condemned the Biblical deity as a monstrous tyrant who works against humanity. This was, and still is, the central message of Gnostic heresy.

The fallen goddess now finds herself in double trouble. Faced with the artificial world system of the Archons, Sophia is slowly metamorphosing from her Pleromic form into a dense material body. “The intensity of her divine light diminished”, but a celestial light comes to her aid. Nag Hammadi cosmologies describe a complex set of events in which the Aeon Sophia aligns her power with a newborn star that has emerged in the Kenoma, the chaos outside the galactic core where the Archons swarm. Unlike the Anthropos, the Archons have not been emanated from the Pleromic core. They are an extra-Pleromic aberration, the side-effect of Sophia´s fall. To help her manage these bizarre conditions, the goddess finds an ally in Sabaoth, the newborn sun, who is also a chaotic, extra-Pleromic entity like the Archons.

The “repentance of Sabaoth” is a vivid cinematographic episode in the sacred narrative. On the Origin of the World recounts how Sophia, having strengthened herself by this alliance, confers unique power on the newborn sun: “Sophia poured upon Sabaoth a burst from her Divine Light for recognition of the condemnation of the Archon. When Sabaoth received this light, she also received great authority over the powers of Chaos“. Henceforth, Sophia will be bonded to the sun through her “flame-born daughter,” Zoe, deathless vitality. The “structural coupling” of sun and earth is an established concept in Gaia theory.

The Luminous Child

The Mystery narrative is participatory, describing how humanity plays into the story of Sophia´s bizarre metamorphosis. After the conversion of the sun, Sophia condemns the Demiurge and predicts the triumph of humanity over the falsifying influence of the Archons:

You are mistaken, blind one. There is an immortal Child of Light        who came into this realm before    you and who will appear among your duplicate forms, in your simulated world. . . . Humanity exists, and the offspring of the human strain exists. . . . And in the consummation of all your works, its entire deficiency of truth will be revealed and dissolved by this luminous Child.

Sophia declares that humanity will overcome the spell of the Archons, entities who can deviate human evolution in odd, undetectable ways. But humanity, the Pleromic emanation of novelty, needs a world to inhabit before it can evolve and assume its responsibilities in the cosmos. Normally, such a world would arise automatically by the laws of the Kenoma, the outer chaos. But Sophia´s fall is a rare exception in cosmic order: She Herself will morph into the life-supporting planet that humanity will inhabit. The myth implies that the earth formed from the divine force of the fallen goddess does not belong to the planetary system, but is merely captured in it.

Such is first half of the sacred biography of the Wisdom goddess. It explains how She who existed before the earth ever was, became the earth. The second part of Sophia´s biography concerns her correction, diorthosis, the process by which She becomes reintegrated with the Pleroma, the cosmic core of our galaxy. Although surviving Gnostic writings are not explicit on how correction works, they leave no doubt that humanity is deeply involved in this process: “And the luminous epinoia was hidden in Adam, in order that the Archons might not reach that power, but that the epinoia might be a correction to the deficiency of Sophia”.

The Gnostic myth of the sacred earth is open-ended. Its conclusion has not been predetermined by the will of a higher being, but it can be affected by human willingness to embrace Sophia’s plight, and complete her cosmic adventure with Her. The story of Sophia becoming Gaia is a redemption myth with a feminist spin, and much more. It is an ecofeminist myth of regeneration, and perhaps the ultimate survival myth for the human species.

But their technology is different. It really did operate like the magical piece of paper sitting on a table, in a manner of speaking. They had something akin to a language, that could quite literally execute itself, at least in the presence of a very specific type of field. The language, a term I am still using very loosely, is a system of symbols (which does admittedly very much resemble a written language) along with geometric forms and patterns that fit together to form diagrams that are themselves functional.

The language is actually a "functional blueprint". The forms of the shapes, symbols and arrangements thereof is itself functional. What makes it all especially difficult to grasp is that every element of each "diagram" is dependant on and related to every other element, which means no single detail can be created, removed or modified independently. Humans like written language because each element of the language can be understood on its own, and from this, complex expressions can be built. However, their "language" is entirely context-sensitive, which means that a given symbol could mean as little as a 1-bit flag in one context, or, quite literally, contain the entire human genome or a galaxy star map in another. The ability for a single, small symbol to contain, not just represent, tremendous amounts of data is another counter-intuitive aspect of this concept.

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