They do not worship the true God ... who is all-knowing, all-powerful, entirely spirit

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The View of God in the Gospel

At the outset of the gospel it is clear that the God of Jesus is not

the creator god of the Jews. In one of the opening scenes, Jesus

finds the disciples gathered together " in pious observance. "

Literally, the Coptic says that the disciples were " engaged in

practices with respect to God. " They were sharing an eucharistic

meal, in which they were thanking God for their food. One would

expect Jesus to respect this religious act. But instead he begins to

laugh. The disciples don't see what is funny: " Why are you laughing

at our prayer of thanksgiving? We have done what is right. " Jesus

replies that they don't know what they are really doing: By giving

thanks for their food, they are praising their god—that is, not the

God of Jesus. Now the disciples are befuddled: " Master, you are … the

son of our god. " No, it turns out, he is not. Jesus responds that no

one of their " generation " will know who he really is.

 

The disciples do not take kindly to this rebuke and " start getting

angry and raging and blaspheming against him in their hearts. " Jesus

proceeds to upbraid them and speaks again about " your god who is

within you. " At play here are several key themes, which repeat

throughout the narrative: The disciples of Jesus do not know who he

really is; they worship a God who is not Jesus' father; they don't

understand the truth about God. Judas, the only one who truly

understands, declares that Jesus has come from " the immortal realm of

Barbelo, " that is, from the realm of the true immortal divine beings,

not from the lower realm of the creator god of the Jews.

 

This understanding of the creator god as an inferior deity is most

clearly stated in the myth that Jesus expounds privately to Judas

later in the text. According to proto-orthodox writers such as

Irenaeus (I call him " proto-orthodox " because he embraced views that

at a later date would come to be called orthodox), there is only one

God and he is the one who made all that exists, in heaven and earth.

Not for this text, though. The complexities of the myth that Jesus

reveals to Judas may seem befuddling, but its gist is clear. Even

before the creator god came into being, there were enormous numbers

of other divine beings: seventy-two aeons, each with a " luminary " and

each with five firmaments of the heavens (for a total of 360

firmaments), along with countless angels worshipping each one.

Moreover, this world belongs to the realm of " perdition " or, as the

word could also be translated, " corruption. " It is not the good

creation of the one true God. Only after all the other divine

entities come into existence does the God of the Old testament—named

El—come into being, followed by his helpers, the blood-stained rebel

Yaldabaoth and the fool Saklas. These latter two created the world,

and then humans.

 

When the disciples worship " their God, " it is the rebel and fool they

worship, the makers of this bloody, senseless material existence.

They do not worship the true God, the one who is above all else, who

is all-knowing, all-powerful, entirely spirit, and completely removed

from this transient world of pain and suffering created by a rebel

and a fool. It is no wonder that Iranaeus found this text so

offensive. It claimed to represent the views of Jesus, yet its views

are a complete mockery of Iraneaus's most cherished beliefs.

 

The View of Christ

Throughout his text, Jesus speaks of the twelve disciples and " their

God. " It is clear that Jesus does not belong to the god of this world—

one of his goals, in fact, is to reveal the inferiority and moral

turpitude of this god, before returning to the divine realm, the

perfect world of the Spirit, after leaving his mortal body.

 

For this text, then, Jesus is not a normal human being. The first

indication of this is that he " appeared " on earth. This already

suggests that he came from another realm. And since he spends much of

the gospel revealing the " secret mysteries " about the immortal world

of true divinity, the natural assumption is that this other realm is

where he originated.

 

His unique character is hinted at in the next comment about

him: " Often he did not appear to his disciples as himself, but he

was found among them as a child. " Scholars who are familiar with a

range of early Christian literature will have no trouble

understanding this allusion. A number of Christian writings outside

the New Testament portray Jesus as a " docetic " being—that is, as one

who looked human only because it was an appearance (docetic comes

from the Greek word dokeo, which means to " seem " or to " appear " ). As

a divine being, Jesus could take on whatever shape he wanted. In some

early Christian writings, Jesus could appear as an old man or a child—

simultaneously, to different people! (This can be found, for example,

in a noncanonical book called the Acts of John.) So too here: Jesus

did not have a real fleshy body, but could assume appearances at

will. "

 

The Gospel of Judas, pages 104-7

National Geographic, April 6, 2006

ISBN-10: 1426200420

ISBN-13: 978-1426200427

 

 

" Kash agreed to pass these suggestions to the Great Divine Mother. He

meditated and the energy of the Holy Spirit of God, residing at the

roots of the Tree of Life within him traveled all the way up and

blossomed into the Thousand Petalled Lotus. He emerged through the

clouds and slowly floated into his ethereal body that was meditating

beside the Great Primordial Mother. He stood up and, after exchanging

greetings with the Supreme Mater Sanctissima, told Her that he wanted

to see Shri Jesus. She agreed and both traveled through the universe

to His place.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi slowed down as they approached His abode. A

short distance away Kash could see that Shri Jesus was in deep

meditation, His massive spiritual body poised magnificently on the

soft cloud cover. It was a sight to behold, a Divine Being powerful

beyond all human imagination, sitting in utter peace and egoless

humility. The entire atmosphere was charged with spiritual Energy,

Silence and Bliss.

 

When they came near Shri Jesus came out of meditation and got up to

receive them. He was dressed in a one-piece light gray dress that

extended to His ankles, like a robe. There was another piece of

cloth, also light gray, that was draped across His right shoulder

down to the left waist.

 

After exchanging greetings all of them sat down. Kash then asked the

Spirit of the Living God again if he could ask Shri Jesus some

questions. The Great Holy Spirit smiled and told him to go ahead.

Kash first posed this question to Shri Christ, " Lord Jesus, who is

your Father? " Shri Jesus immediately replied, " The Spirit is My

Father. " "

 

Shri Adi Shakti: The Kingdom Of God, 1999, page 1566

 

Note: Shri Jesus clearly admitted that His Father is the Spirit. So

He is definitely the Son of His Father, the Spirit.

 

But why do all the immortal divine beings--Shri Ganesha, Jesus,

Hanuman, Sita, Rama, Buddha, Radha, Krishna, Shiva, Prophet Muhammad,

Guru Nanak and others--meditate only on the Holy Spirit/Shakti/Ruh?

The answer is the Spirit/God Almighty/Brahman and His Holy Spirit/

Spirit/Shakti are one and the same.

 

The Spirit/God Almighty/Brahman exists within us as The Light which

is always above His Holy Spirit/Spirit/Shakti. At all times Shri

Ganesha, Jesus, Hanuman, Sita, Rama, Buddha, Radha, Krishna, Shiva,

Prophet Muhammad, Guru Nanak and others meditate on the Spirit/God

Almighty/Brahman (Father) and His Holy Spirit/Spirit/Shakti (Mother).

 

This Truth has been witnessed hundreds of times over the years. It is

part and parcel of the Divine Message to humanity. Thus this quote

makes sense:

 

" The disciples of Jesus do not know who he really is; they worship a

God who is not Jesus' father; they don't understand the truth about

God. Judas, the only one who truly understands, declares that Jesus

has come from " the immortal realm of Barbelo, " that is, from the

realm of the true immortal divine beings, not from the lower realm of

the creator god of the Jews...

 

It is clear that Jesus does not belong to the god of this world—

one of his goals, in fact, is to reveal the inferiority and moral

turpitude of this god, before returning to the divine realm, the

perfect world of the Spirit, after leaving his mortal body. "

 

 

" That you have to be born again, that you have to be baptized, that

you have to become a Pir, that you have to become a Brahmin—all these

descriptions have come to us from all the great scriptures. It is

very easy to say that we don’t believe in God, we don’t believe in

any Incarnation, we don’t believe in Jesus, we don’t believe in any

religion, we don’t believe into anything; is very easy to say. Even

it is easy to say that we believe in them, we believe in God, we

believe in Christ, we believe in Krishna, Rama, all that. Both things

are equally the same.

 

When you believe in God you believe in the darkness and ignorance,

and when you do not believe in Him also you are in ignorance. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi, Being Born Again

May 12, 1980 - Caxton Hall, London, U.K.