If you cannot love, you cannot be united

Mary said, "If you cannot love, you cannot be united.  One who is divided is destined for destruction.  Therefore, the Savior taught us to love so that we might have life." 

The human condition apart from understanding or gnosis is adversarial, and today's society is adversarial as a matter of course.  We seem to thrive on division and conflict as evidenced by our media outlets, and even here on the Internet where people  launch the most scurrilous and vicious -- and sometimes, frankly, nonsensical -- tirades against people or issues about which they may know something or, it seems in many cases, very little.  Division, or yin and yang, is the same principle of evolution through which creation came into being. This is the way the Dark Mother brings us and creation into Being, and I don’t wish for an earth without it.

As long as there are people who live apart from their true nature there will be division, disharmony, and discord.  But this post isn’t about that.  It’s about living in union with our True Nature. Christian Gnostics know that everyone and everything contains a spark of the Divine I Am.  There is nothing separate or apart from God or Ain Sof, the Light of the Infinite.  What does separate Gnostics who “gnow” from others is the ability to go within and live from this Presence of Awareness.  We do this because we know that all else or anything else is futile.  There is no peace to be found in living in conflict -- and external conflicts with others and one’s surroundings always hints at conflict within.  So, when we find ourselves at war with others or even ourselves, we hearken to Our Mother’s voice telling and teaching us that there is something we need to work on. Her voice may be a gentle whisper or a sharper, more ear-bending shriek, but she wants our attention.  Once we’re on a true path of enlightenment she’ll throw situations and circumstances our way that will really test our mettle.  Resistance only prolongs the lesson, the pain, the struggle... but it’s always worth it. Never give up -- and praise her for giving you these opportunities to grow and “gnow.”

As a Follower of the Way, I know that achieving a place of peace is not something I do on my own.  The Christ Presence and Light Power that live within each one of us enables me to achieve gnosis -- and to respond with love and kindness even when all conditions would seem to run contrary to this ability.  When I respond -- and there are occasionally times that I still do -- in ways that run contrary to my True Nature, I not only injure my own peace but have also sown sparks of discord that may resonate for weeks or months or years to come.  These sparks hurt others while doing nothing for me but to elevate my ego or sense of personal justice.  I have accomplished nothing for the Kingdom of God when I behave this way.

Now, of course, like Yeshua’s reaction to the moneychangers in the temple, there are times when a show of anger is actually from our Divine Mother herself.  He was not acting in the temple from a place of personal ego.  Even when he cursed a fig tree for not bearing fruit, an act some regard as frivolous or self-serving, he spoke from a deeper place of knowing in order to teach a lesson.  But Yeshua’s primary lesson was about love, the eleventh and most important Commandment. This is what the above quote, from “The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene,” also references, but more importantly, this quote refers to love from a deeper place... one where we abide in the Presence of Awareness.  It is the Mother who loves through me, working with my own light power to understand and reach out to others. If we attain this center of bliss and return to it from time to time -- and feel its essence through every fiber of our being most of the time -- then we will not know death because no one can abide in this place of love and know death or destruction.  This is a love that passes all understanding... and a ground from which one does not judge and does not hate... where we are at peace in our Divine Mother while being born as self-realized Children of the Light.

When we are in union with our center or place of awareness we act and behave out of love.  Let us pray each day for a measure of Our Mother’s love and compassion, wisdom and understanding. May we live our lives truly as her children, always seeking with the knowledge that we are never apart from her and never distant from whom we most truly are in the Divine I Am.