Thunder, Perfect Mind Excerpt

[Guest guest]

Namaste all,

 

This is not necessarily a Hindu piece, but I thought it was significant to the

group because it was a beautiful piece that I think reflects the limitlessness

of Devi and I think everyone deserved to see it. I know that it moved me when

I read it.

 

This is an excerpt from the Nag Hammadi, which was translated and used for the

book closing in the book Living Goddess, by Linda Johnsen. Either way, I

thought it was a beautiful piece.

 

Another translation (which seems slightly different) can be found here. This

one is much more elaborated: http://www.webcom.com/gnosis/naghamm/thunder.html

 

Below is the excerpt from Thunder, Perfect Mind.

 

 

Jai Ma!

 

Sincerely,

Christina

 

 

 

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Thunder. Perfect Mind

 

I come from infinite power,

to those who meditate on me,

I am found by those who seek sincerely.

Gaze on me in your meditationl

still your thoughts, and listen to me.

Those of you who wait for me,

stop waiting! Receive me now!

Don't ever turn away from me.

Don't forget me in any moment, in any place.

Stay alert! Remember me always!

 

I am the first and the last,

the one who is honored and the one who is spit upon,

the priestess and the whore.

I am the wife and the virgin,

the barren woman with numberless sons.

I am the bride and also the groom,

the mother of my father,

my husband;s sister - and his daughter.

I am the incomprehensible silence.

The sound of my silence has produced the universe.

I am the sound of my name.

 

Don't laugh at me when I am thrown out,

don't mock my fall.

Don't forsake me, though I am weak,

and do not fear all my encompassing power.

I am the one who exists in your fear,

the strength in your quaking limbs.

 

Why do you hate me, children?

Because I am from a foreign culture?

I am the wisdom of the Egyptians,

and your wisdom too.

My image is worshiped in Egypt

though I exist beyond all images.

Throughout the world, people hate me,

and everywhere my blessings are gracefully accepted.

 

I am the force the Egyptians call Life,

but whom you call Death.

I am the one the Egyptians call Law

but whom you have rejected as a criminal.

I am the one before whom you were once ashamed to stand,

and now you treat me contemptuously.

I am the one you call ignorance,

though I taught you everything.

You have turned away from me

but wherever you go, I stand before you.

 

I am the one who seeks

and I am the knowledge I seek.

I am the inner strength of the angels and gods,

and of the men and women who dwell in me.

I am perfect peace

but war erupts because of me.

I am the shape of all things

though I have no shape.

Those who reject me, dwell in ignorance.

Those who have made themselves one with my essence,

know me entirely.

Yet those who are closest to me don't know me at all,

and those who are furthest from me live in me always.

 

Come to me like little children.

 

I control the universe

but I am uncontrollable.

I am the changeless, yet I am always changing.

I am the one beneath you

but you must ascend to me.

I am absolute purity

yet evil arises out of me.

My outer expression is raging lust,

my inner expression is perfect self control.

I am the sound everyone hears

but no one understands what I say.

 

The reality inside you is the reality with which you

surround yourself,

and what you see around yourself

is what you created within you.

You plot against me,

yet I alone exist

and there is no one to judge me,

How delightful sin is, the lies, the passion, the intensity of pleasure.

But when yo utire yourself, come sit quietly,

for I am there inside you.

And when you find me you will live,

 

....and never die again.

[Guest guest]

Namaste:

Thank you for sharing that. It is a shame that so many Gnostic

beliefs were lost to the world thanks to the Roman Church. The

concept of Sophia, as the feminine incarnation of divine wisdom, is

quite similar to Hindu concepts on Vidya and Vac.

 

Jai Maa.

 

-S.Santo Sengupta

" Aum shanti shanti shantih. "

[Guest guest]

it is still alive and well in Europe

 

 

Santo Sengupta <s.santo.sengupta wrote:

Namaste:

Thank you for sharing that. It is a shame that so many Gnostic

beliefs were lost to the world thanks to the Roman Church. The

concept of Sophia, as the feminine incarnation of divine wisdom, is

quite similar to Hindu concepts on Vidya and Vac.

 

Jai Maa.

 

-S.Santo Sengupta

" Aum shanti shanti shantih. "

 

 

 

 

 

 

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