But there is an awesome, fundamental difference between the present experience of Pentocost

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> i am silenced by the sheer sacredness and depth of delivery of this

> article that evidences the fulfillment of the promise made by Lord

> Jesus 2000 years ago:

>

> " Pentecost is a very important feast day in our Gnostic liturgical

> calendar. It commemorates the promised coming of the Holy Spirit to

> the Disciples, which was predicted by Jesus prior to his mystical

> death and resurrection. "

>

> But of utmost importance is the thorough comprehension and doubtless

> faith of this quote, one that WCASY and most their subtle system SYs

> regard as a possession or work of evil spirits:

>

> " We, as Gnostics, seek not a political and worldly kingdom on earth

> but a spiritual kingdom of an interior and transcendent reality that

> is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit within us. May the Voice of

> the Holy Spirit guide us on our quest to the Light of the Divine

> Soul within, comfort us in our travails in the world and restore

> within us the Kingdom of this Holy Earth within which we " live and

> move and have our being. "

>

 

Dear devotees of the Holy Spirit,

 

Namaskaar - i bow to the Comforter who resides in you!

 

i would like to clarify the above please, specifically Pentecost.

 

Pentecost is celebrated by Christians yearly i.e., " Pentecost is a

very important feast day in our Gnostic liturgical calendar. " It is

based on events that transpired in the past just after the

resurrection of Lord Jesus i.e., about 2,000 years ago:

 

" The Descent of the Holy Spirit

 

The events took place on the day of the Pentecost, in Jerusalem, at

09:00 ( " the third hour of the day " , according to Jewish timekeeping).

The community of Christ's disciples, approximately 120 people, was

gathered " into an upper room " in a building that Tradition locates on

Mount Zion. The Tradition also says that it was the same room where

Jesus ate His Last Supper. The tremendous phenomenon is very well

described in Acts 2:1-4:

 

And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one

accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as

of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were

sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire,

and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy

Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them

utterance.

 

The phrase " a rushing mighty wind " is almost a literal translation of

the Hebrew word ruah, meaning in Hebrew texts the Spirit of God. The

experience is a powerful mystic one, hence the sensation of sacred

possession " www.wikipedia.org

 

What i am trying to convey is that a similar phenomena is now

occurring on a mass, global scale i.e., the present. Hundreds of

thousands have since the 1970s experienced, and continue to experience

the same - " a rushing mighty wind " that " is almost a literal

translation of the Hebrew word ruah, meaning in Hebrew texts the

Spirit of God. The experience is a powerful mystic one " . They all

feel the cool breeze of the Holy Spirit/Mother Kundalini issuing

forth from their hands, head and other parts of the body, a powerful

mystical experience similar to that of Jesus' disciples centuries ago.

 

But there is an awesome, fundamental difference between the present

experience of Pentecost on a mass global scale, and that that only

involved about 120 disciples of Christ 2,000 years ago in the past -

the present experience of the Holy Spirit was promised by Lord Jesus

Christ!:

 

" On the night of His betrayal, Jesus had many things to say to His

disciples (see John 13-17). Among them was His repeated promise that

He would send the Holy Spirit. In addition to His description of the

Holy Spirit as the " Spirit of truth " (John 14:17; 15:26; 16:13),

Jesus also spoke of the Spirit as the " Counselor " (John 14:16, 26;

15:26; 16:7). In some translations, this word is translated

" Comforter " or " Helper " .

 

The word " comforter " is translated from the word " Paraclete " ( " Ho

Parakletos " in Greek). Parakletos in Greek is interpreted as " an

advocate " , one who pleads the cause of another, one who councils or

advises another from deep concern for the other's welfare (Beacon

Bible commentary volume VII, p.168). In these verses we are told that

after Jesus departs, a Paraclete will one day come, will glorify

Jesus, and will guide mankind into all truth. The main signs and

characteristics of the Comforter are as follows:

 

i) The Comforter will abide with the believers forever (John 14:16).

This is only possible if the Comforter remains within each and every

human for the rest of the natural lives and beyond i.e., for all

eternity;

 

ii) The Comforter must testify on the behalf of Jesus (John 15:26).

This is only possible if the Comforter is human too i.e., meeting,

speaking, explaining in detail, as well as answering questions, in

languages humans can understand;

 

iii) The Comforter must bring all aspects of Jesus teachings to

remembrance (John 14:26). Obviously they must concern unlocking the

deep secrets of Jesus' parables, of which the Kingdom of God within

tops the list;

 

iv) The Comforter must reprove the world of sin, and of

righteousness, and of judgment i.e., issue warnings of impending

judgment to a world full of sin and ungodliness (John 16:8);

 

v) The Comforter must at all times guide and speak the truth of

events that are coming (John 16:13). Obviously the truth, directed

exclusively to a world of sin and ungodliness, has to be absolutely

unprecedented, radical and explosive;

 

vi) The Comforter must glorify Jesus and show/declare all that the

later wants delivered to humanity (John 16:14);

 

vii) The Comforter -whom the Father will send in Jesus' name, and

teach all things and remind humanity of everything Jesus has said- is

and will be the Holy Spirit (John 14:26).

 

Shri Mataji is the Comforter, the Helper or Paraclete who has for

more than three decades glorified Christ and-through Her Divine

Message of the Last Judgment and Resurrection-guided mankind into all

truth. All who receive their second birth by the Spirit (Self-

realization) experience today what Jesus' disciples experienced

two millennia ago on the day of Pentecost. The awesome, fundamental

difference between both phenomena is that the present experience of

the Holy Spirit manifesting within humans was promised by Lord

Jesus ..... and is taking place all over Earth. This truth is

irrefutable as hundreds of thousands have felt it. The tens of

thousands who continue to meditate on the Holy Spirit within feel it

on a daily basis. Some even experience the Ruach on a 24/7 basis!

 

In the Gospel of St. John, Jesus tells the disciples of the Holy

Spirit that will come in his name and shall bring all things to their

remembrance. That verily has been accomplished by the Holy Spirit

over the last three decades! But a massive, satanic negativity has

overcome the Sahaja Yoga organization, one that has silenced and

deluded the rank and file from bringing the rest of humanity to the

same remembrance. This too is being overcome and destroyed.

 

regards to all,

 

 

jagbir

 

 

 

, " jagbir singh "

<adishakti_org wrote:

>

> Dear Violet and All,

>

> i am silenced by the sheer sacredness and depth of delivery of this

> article that evidences the fulfillment of the promise made by Lord

> Jesus 2000 years ago:

>

> " Pentecost is a very important feast day in our Gnostic liturgical

> calendar. It commemorates the promised coming of the Holy Spirit to

> the Disciples, which was predicted by Jesus prior to his mystical

> death and resurrection. "

>

> But of utmost importance is the thorough comprehension and doubtless

> faith of this quote, one that WCASY and most their subtle system SYs

> regard as a possession or work of evil spirits:

>

> " We, as Gnostics, seek not a political and worldly kingdom on earth

> but a spiritual kingdom of an interior and transcendent reality that

> is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit within us. May the Voice of

> the Holy Spirit guide us on our quest to the Light of the Divine

Soul within, comfort us in our travails in the world and restore

within us the Kingdom of this Holy Earth within which we " live and

move and have our being. "

>

> All the years/decades of external emphasis-rituals, images, altars-

> and resulting mindset of SYs all but assures that the deep Gnostic

> teachings of Shri Mataji will never be attained. With WCASY/SYs

> having such negativity and fear that meeting/meditating on the Holy

> Spirit in the Sahasrara is the work of evil, one wonders what is the

> nature of the negativity within the organization that breeds such

> aversion. What has caused this mental illness to manifest and spread

> throughout all collectives? Why is there no cure, despite the 1001

> subtle system 'cures' of the Sahaja Yoga Subtle System Religion, to

> rid this colossal collective catch?

>

> Honestly, there is no hope at present of ridding this huge

collective catch from within the Sahaja Yoga collectives. The only

way is to read the articles at websites/forum to better understand,

firmly establish and continuously nourish the faith that subtly and

slowly sprouts from the Gnostic teachings of Shri Mataji, holy

scriptures and their messengers. This spiritual growth within is a

gentle, slow and steady process. Daily meditation and

introspection is absolutely necessary ............ for the rest of

your life. Without question this means meditating and introspecting

on the Holy Spirit in the Kingdom of God within:

>

> " We, as Gnostics, seek not a political and worldly kingdom on earth

> but a spiritual kingdom of an interior and transcendent reality that

> is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit within us. May the Voice of

> the Holy Spirit guide us on our quest to the Light of the Divine

Soul within, comfort us in our travails in the world and restore

within us the Kingdom of this Holy Earth within which we " live and

move and have our being. "

>

> That is why the opening lines of http://www.adishakti.org/ reads:

>

> " Since November 1993 the spiritual experiences of children

witnessing the mystical Kingdom of God thousands of times over the

years have been recorded. All have independently corroborated and

irrefutably identified Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi as the incarnation of

the Divine Feminine sent to deliver God Almighty's Divine Message to

humanity. "

>

> Shri Mataji is the incarnation of the Holy Spirit who resides in the

> Kingdom of God (Sahasrara) within. That spiritual kingdom is of an

> interior and transcendent reality that is the manifestation of the

> Holy Spirit within us. That is the only way to rid the Sahaja Yoga

> organization of their colossal collective catch, one that will take

a long time to get rid of.

>

> Regards to all,

>

> jagbir

>

>

>

> , " Violet "

> <violet.tubb@> wrote:

> >

> > Dear Jagbir (and All),

> >

> > Could you please add this article to " EDITOR'S CHOICE " at HSS

(Holy Spirit/Shekinah? i believe it is an excellent article, that will

> deepen the information about the Holy Spirit. This article has many

> excellent quotes, which will therefore be able to be accessed from

> the HSS site. Thanks.

> >

> > violet

> >

> >

> > MEDITATIONS

> > A Homily for Pentecost

> > by Rev. Steven Marshall

> > Coming of the Holy Spirit

> >

> > Pentecost is a very important feast day in our Gnostic liturgical

> calendar. It commemorates the promised coming of the Holy Spirit to

> the Disciples, which was predicted by Jesus prior to his mystical

> death and resurrection. The mythic cycle of the liturgical year

seems to come to an end at Pentecost, yet, for the Gnostic, it is the

> beginning of the true spiritual mission of the Christos. The Pistis

> Sophia describes twelve years of activity by the Logos among the

> disciples after the Ascension. It also describes the Apostleship of

> Mary Magdalen and the mythic cycle of the feminine power represented

> in the descent, suffering and assumption of Sophia.

> >

> > Pentecost with the insertion of the Trinity season begins an

entire half of the year, representing the mythic cycle of the feminine

> aspect of God, the season of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost, like

Advent, is a beginning, the beginning of a new level of spiritual

activity in our archetypal life. The Holy Spirit, like a great wind,

blows into our spiritual life with something new, unexpected, and,

even if somewhat unsettling, yet as a consoler and comforter that is

not of this world.

> >

> > The Gospel of St. Matthew states quite accurately " The Spirit

> bloweth where it listeth. " We cannot constrain the Holy Spirit into

> artificially created, ego-designed vessels. It does not matter how

> politically correct or psychologically comfortable they may be; it

> just doesn't work. The wisdom of the Spirit suggests an entirely

> different value system than that of the material and ordinary world.

> The 8th Ode of Solomon gives a speech from the Holy Spirit to

> humanity. " Your flesh may not understand that which I am about to

say to you; nor your garment that which I am about to show you. " The

Holy Spirit requires a vessel for its manifestation, but it is not a

> worldly vessel or garment; it is a vessel of consciousness. The

> Gospel of St. John calls Her " the Spirit of Truth whom the world

> cannot receive, because it seeth Her not, neither knoweth Her; but

ye know Her, for she dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. " The

world cannot receive Her because it cannot see Her, because it is not

> conscious of Her. In order to know Her indwelling we must

acknowledge Her, become conscious of Her, feel Her presence, see Her,

and finally hear Her. The Holy Prophet Mani was such a vessel; even

his name means " vessel. " Mani received the visit of his Light Twin

whom he recognized as the Paraclete, the promised Comforter, three

times during his earthly life. In this instance, the coming of the

Holy Spirit is a direct mystical experience of a transcendent reality.

>

The inscrutability and timelessness of the Holy is expressed by the

holy prophet Mani by comparing the timelessness of the Spirit as even

> beyond the task of counting all the grains of the dust of the

> earth: " Know that the grains of the dust of the earth can be

> measured, one can count the grains of the dust of the earth year

> after year; but the length of time the Holy Spirit passed with the

> Father, that one cannot count. " (Kephalaia of the Paraclete)

> >

> > The coming of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles was not something

> that came and went in History; it is a present and timeless,

> spiritual reality. Jesus knew of his impending death and told his

> disciples of the Comforter, who would come after him. He told them

to expect the coming of the Holy Spirit which would abide with us

> forever, who " ...shall teach you all things, and bring all things to

> your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you. " Our Teacher of

> Gnosis is still here. Her voice remains to teach, to guide, to care

> for us, and to comfort us.

> >

> > The Kephalaia of the Paraclete by the holy prophet Mani describes

> how the Holy Spirit not only looks after the sparks of light on

> earth, but all of the aeons of the light: " He first formed her in

his inner chambers in quiet and in silence; but when she was needed,

than was she called and came forth from the father of greatness; she

> looked after all the aeons of the light. "

> >

> > In the Gospel of St. John, Jesus reiterates to the disciples the

> timeless and unworldly nature of the Holy Spirit: " Jesus said unto

> his disciples: I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another

> Comforter, the she may abide with you forever... Peace I leave with

> you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto

> you. "

> >

> > To know the event of Pentecost as an immanent and interior reality

> is the goal towards which the Gnostic's striving is always directed.

> If we are to know this other Comforter, we must somehow come to the

> place in spirit where we can reach out and touch this timelessness

> and transcendence; we must pass over to a non-ordinary state of

> consciousness and perception.

> >

> > Pentecost comes from an Israelite harvest festival called

> the " feast of weeks, " which occurred 50 days (seven weeks) following

> the Passover. It was a feast prepared from the first fruits of the

> grain in the form of leavened bread. The leavened as opposed to

> unleavened bread is symbolic of the power of the Holy Spirit, for

the leavening that fills the dough with air and makes it rise has been

> long regarded as a symbol of the Holy Spirit. The Gospel of Thomas

> makes such a comparison between leavening and the Holy

Spirit. " Jesus said: The Kingdom of the Father is like a woman, who

has taken a little leaven and has hidden it in dough and has made

large loaves of it. " Here the Holy Spirit is associated with the

Kingdom and the feminine task of making bread.

> >

> > The Coming of the Holy Spirit signifies a recognition, a knowing

of the feminine aspect of God. The Holy Prophet Mani also describes

the Holy Spirit as a feminine image:

> >

> > " The fount of every blessing and all the invocations is the mother

> of life, the first Holy Spirit, the first mother who has come forth

> from the Father and first appeared, the glorious one who is the

> beginning of all emanations that have come to this world. "

(Kephalaia of the Paraclete)

> >

> > Jewish Christians known as the Ebionites called the Holy

> Spirit " The Lady, " and described her as the real Mother of Jesus.

> They prayed to her as God, but called her an Angel because they

> experienced her personality so strongly and so personally. The Holy

> Spirit, as the Mother of Jesus occurs in many places in Gnostic

> literature. " Even so did my Mother, the Holy Spirit, take me by one

> of my hairs and carry me away to Mt. tabor. " (Gospel of the Hebrews)

> In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus says, " My mother gave me a body, but

> my true Mother (the Holy Spirit) gave me life. " As we begin to

> contact transcendent reality, the feminine image of Deity is almost

> always the first to be experienced, often as an interior vision and

> voice.

> >

> > In the Christian mythos the festival of Pentecost commemorates the

> descent of the fire of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles. Two

> principle symbols appear here. The first is the tongue of flame.

> Shin, the name of the Hebrew letter corresponding to Fire and

Spirit, means tooth and also tongue of flame. The addition of the

letter Shin (the Holy Spirit) to the name Jehovah (YHVH) reveals the

mystery of the Spirit in the qabbalistic name of Jesus, YHShVH. In

this fashion, the name of Jesus represents the healing of the

deficient and unregenerate Demiurge Jehovah (YHVH) by the addition of

the missing feminine aspect of deity, the Holy Spirit. The

second image in this description of Pentecost is the speaking " in

tongues. " This is not described as the babbling of jibberish, but as

recognizable languages, symbolizing a speech that was miraculously

understandable to everyone regardless of their language:

symbolically, a healing of the division symbolized by the

division of languages in the story of the Tower of Babel.

This " speaking in tongues " suggests a phenomenon of communication

associated with experiences of an otherworldly and transcendent

reality, yet on a mass scale.

> >

> > This phenomenon comes about also through the coming together of

the feminine and masculine potencies of the Trinity. While the Logos

is the Word, the Holy Spirit is the breath that gives it its utterance

> that gives it a voice. Whereas the Logos (the Word) is symbolic of

> the masculine polarity, the voice of the Holy Spirit is feminine. In

> Qabbalah, this voice, like the Holy Spirit, is represented by a

dove, and is called Bath Qol, ìthe Daughter of the Voice. In the Song

of Solomon she is the voice of the dove... heard again in our land.

In the Jewish Targum she is called the " Voice of the Holy Spirit of

Salvation. "

> >

> > The recognition of the Holy Spirit is an essential step to the

> restoration of the Kingdom of Heaven, the descent of the New

> Jerusalem, the Kingdom which is spread out upon the earth but cannot

> be seen by the eyes of the world. As stated in the Gospel of

> Thomas, " Jesus said: It (the Kingdom) will not come by expectation;

> they will not say: 'See here', or: 'See there'. But the Kingdom of

> the Father is spread upon the earth and men do not see it. " In late

> versions of the Gospel of Luke, the portion of the Lord's Prayer,

> which reads " thy Kingdom come, " is translated as " Thy Holy Spirit

> come and cleanse us. " The Kingdom of Heaven is the manifestation in

a greater consciousness of the Holy Spirit on earth.

> >

> > In Qabbalah, the Kingdom is referred to the sphere of Malkuth,

> which is also titled Shekinah, Matrona and Bride, the Kingdom

adorned as a Bride as written in the Revelation of St. John the

Divine. In Qabbalistic teachings, the Shekinah is a feminine symbol

of the immanent presence of God on earth. Followers of Valentinus

called the Holy Spirit, " this Holy Earth, " " Mother, " and " Jerusalem. "

In the Gospel of St. John, Jesus tells the disciples of the Holy

Spirit that will come in his name and shall bring all things to their

> remembrance. Remembering the teaching of the Word and the role of

the Holy Spirit in giving it a voice, gives the Holy Spirit with Her

> title of " Jerusalem " remarkable meaning. It refers Jerusalem to that

> spiritual Kingdom of Light, which has been called the New Jerusalem,

> and which the Gnostics consider their true origin and home. The

verse of the 137th Psalm, which is included in our Gnostic Ordination

to Cleric reads, " If I forget Thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand

> wither. Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I remember

> not Jerusalem above my highest Joy. "

> >

> > Jerusalem is not for us an earthly city but the celestial City,

the Kingdom of Light, our true home among the Aeons of the Light. The

> Holy City is the manifestation of the Holy Spirit, the coming of the

> Heavenly City to dwell in our hearts in greater consciousness.

> Quispel translates Jerusalem as the " Kingdom of Peace. " Such

> a " Kingdom of Peace " is the Rest, the Repose that the Gnostics used

> as a metaphor for the Fullness of the Pleroma where all of the

> warring dualities and opposites are transcended and resolved into

> a " single one. " Dr Carl Jung, in his treatise on the Trinity, makes

a

> case for the recognition of the feminine aspect of God as the

> completion and final individuation of the Trinity of God. Therefore,

> the coming of the Holy Spirit, as an immanent reality in the Gnostic

> soul, represents not just a beginning but the culmination of Gnosis,

> both the beginning and the end.

> >

> > The recognition of the feminine aspect of the Godhead is not a

> political fancy but a spiritual necessity; our own wholeness as

> spiritual beings, even the wholeness of God, depends on it. And so

we remember this day in honor of the Holy Female Power in every place,

> who is the Mother of Christ in every heart, and the " wholeness upon

> which the universe is erected and destroyed. " We, as Gnostics, seek

> not a political and worldly kingdom on earth but a spiritual kingdom

> of an interior and transcendent reality that is the manifestation of

> the Holy Spirit within us. May the Voice of the Holy Spirit guide us

> on our quest to the Light of the Divine Soul within, comfort us in

> our travails in the world and restore within us the Kingdom of this

> Holy Earth within which we " live and move and have our being. " Amen.

> >

> > Rev. Steven Marshall

> >

> > http://www.gnosis.org/ecclesia/homily_Pentecost.htm

> >

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