The Human One

This weekend seems like an excellent one for discussing the Human One. Sophian Christians, or Followers of the Way, traditionally celebrate the Risen Christ on the Spring Equinox, but Easter Sunday seems like an excellent time to contemplate the deeper meaning of the Human One or the Human One of Light.

Ain, which means “no-thingness,” is a reference to the unknowable aspect of that which we also sometimes call God, better known in the Sophian tradition as Ain Sof. The Christian Kabbalah holds creation was born from Ain Sof’s own desire to reveal itself. What does it mean to be created in the image of God? This is a reference to our spiritual being which, when realized, makes us fully Human. Until we are realized we exist as Divine Potential, which is, in itself, an incredibly awesome, mind-blowing revelation. God is constantly revealing itself through creation and us… and through this revealing we have the ability to return more and more to an awareness of who we most truly are -- as we exist in Ain Sof. 

The Hebrew letters for Yahweh or YHWH, a name for God in the supernal realm, form a human being when laid out vertically, thus the Tetragrammaton. This is a deep and beautiful mystery. Within this is the truth of our innermost nature as individuals and as part of the Body of the Christos, the Human One of Light.

Yeshua Messiah was the first one in this human life wave to fully embody something of the Human One of Light. In Hayyah Yeshua divine potential is actualized. He was also the Opener of the Door for his disciples who saw through his resurrection that death is not real. He showed them – and those ready to hear and understand since that time – that the Way back home, back to our true nature, is as near as our own breath, our own being. He was born human but became fully Human, just like we have the ability to become.

There is much more to this mystery, but I thought this was a good place to start.

Feast of the Risen Savior

“And I held this one thing fast in my mind, that the Lord had performed everything as a symbol and a dispensation for the conversion and salvation of man.”  (The Acts of John)


As signs of Spring begin to perk up everywhere we are reminded of just how close it is to the vernal equinox or, as we celebrate it the Sophian tradition, the Feast of the Risen Savior. Just as Spring marks that time of year when plant life rises once again from the earth, we are reminded again that death is not real and that the journey which began in full at the Jordan River didn’t end at the cross. In fact, this was the earthly equivalent of the Big Bang.

Through his resurrection, Yeshua Messiah showed those who could really see that death is not real. The disciples who could not receive in full what the master wanted to impart through light transmission were able to better understand through his resurrection that our Soul of Light carries on. And how it carries on – whether into another incarnation or into realized being – has to do with our individual abilities to receive and impart.


“The Savior” is the one who could show us the Way, the one who opened the door for us to receive the full power of the Supernal abode. The cross became the vehicle for this understanding. The following words from The Acts of John say it best::“This cross of light is sometimes called logos by me for your sakes, sometimes mind, sometimes Jesus, sometimes Christ, sometimes a door, sometimes a way, sometimes bread, sometimes seed, sometimes resurrection, sometimes Son, sometimes Father, sometimes Spirit, sometimes life, sometimes truth, sometimes faith, sometimes grace; and so it is called for men's sake.”


When I read this I’m hearing “mercy.” Great is God’s faithfulness and mercy.


Spring is a beautiful wakeup call that occurs every year, and it’s a reminder of the Soul of Light that lives within us awaiting renewal. The death brought by winter is a temporary experience of dissolution and purification so that something new can be born. My prayer is that each one of us touched by this remembrance in Spring will be willing to ask Our Mother what it is she wants to teach us this year… and where is it she wants us to go with this knowledge.

No Spiritual "Other"

I grew up in a traditional Baptist family that gave me much love as well as a solid introduction to God for which I am so thankful.  From a very early age I felt a deep and abiding connection to Christ even as my understanding of exactly who he was and what he represented was still forming.  Of course, time and experience eventually brought me to the Sophian path, or The Way.

My dad’s faith and devotion to God was strong.  In the second half of his life he became an ordained Baptist minister and fulfilled his lifelong dream of bringing the Word from the pulpit.  My mom’s own faithfulness was great and she received visions from God.  While I think my dad would have had some difficulty with understanding why or how I ended up on this path, I also know that he would be open to discuss it with me and to at least consider it with an open mind and heart.  My mom has already opened herself up to it and, although she can’t agree with all of it, she knows that it’s a true path of the heart.  That, in fact, is the reason she’s told me that she’s so open to discussing it with my husband and myself.

All of this brings me to our current world and something I haven’t discussed on this blog before.

We live in a world made smaller by the information superhighway that, really, just began streaming into our lives 15 short years ago through a technology that’s proliferated like the wildest forest fire.  We live in a global community that has gotten even smaller as a result.  About 15 years before that, the dissension which some have referred to as America’s "cultural wars” began as politics and religion became the calling card for many Protestant churches.  From election to election, from hot button issue to hot button issue, a culture based in fear of “the other” became increasingly apparent from both sides of the aisle. As a result, at some point we forgot to remember that the so-called “other” is also our brother and our sister.

We've forgotten that no matter how much we may disagree with one another, we are united in our humanity as One.       

Many have either forgotten how or simply refuse to imagine themselves walking in the shoes of their brothers and sisters.  Those whose spiritual journeys have taken them away from the traditional church are seen as threatening to a way of life that feels as comfortable as a warm country breakfast on a cold Southern morning.   This is a culture less familiar with the cultural influences wrought by the age of globalization and diversity.   On the other hand, those who either grew up or become acquainted with a more global or eclectic worldview, don’t understand those who seem unwilling to listen to them or understand what they have to say. 

But maybe the key is for each one of us to begin listening to our brothers and sisters in the traditional church. That doesn’t mean we deny what we believe.  It means we listen to them as individuals, respecting them and where their roots reach deep into the earth because that’s where their existence and perception of reality is formed.   Very often their sense of integrity and family are held as central to their survival along with a faith in God that is as beautiful as it is real.   Let’s come to know them as individuals first and share our own stories when they are ready to hear and ask questions.

From this space – and I realize this is a very generic, brief overview of how we talk and relate to our traditional brethren – the idea of “the other” can disappear as well it should because “the other” is born out of a belief in separation that is mere illusion.   In Spirit we are already united as One and there is no such thing as our spiritual “other.”  Let’s appreciate that we’re all on different places in our journeys and celebrate this as a part of the ever-becoming. 

In short, let's not reduce our brothers and sisters to some fundamentalist label... because they're much more than that, and this holds true even when we don't always feel it.

One of the most spiritual people I have ever known is a beautifully-spirited Baptist woman whose face glows with inner knowing and peace. Most of her beliefs are traditional but she walks with God in these Appalachian hills as surely as she lives and breathes.   

The Revealer

“The figure said to me, ‘John, John, why are you doubting? Why are you afraid? Are you not familiar with this figure? Then do not be fainthearted. I am with you always. I am the father, I am the mother, I am the child. I am the incorruptible and the undefiled one. Now I have come to teach you what is, what was, and what is to come, that you may understand what is invisible and what is visible, and to teach you about the unshakable race of perfect humankind.’ “

Here, in The Secret Book of John, one of Yeshua’s disciples is asked to confront – and not run from – the same doubt and fear that overwhelmed many of the Master's closest followers after the pain and confusion of the crucifixion. Yeshua Messiah tells us in several different sacred texts that “I am with you always.” Right here, in this text, he tells us that he lives within us as father, mother and the child. He reveals to us what is already deeply known within our hearts as truth and light and life. To “reveal” here means to uncover or show the hidden potential of who we most truly are.

Hayyah Yeshua revealed that the Christ Light lives strongly within each one of us as unfulfilled potential awaiting eternal life freed from the endless cycle of birth and rebirth. They had seen the miracles he had performed as an enlightened master but they still did know him as the Great Revealer until after the crucifixion and resurrection. Of course the many revelations – given by the Revealer after the resurrection – became the catalyst or energy that fueled the Gnostic gospels and Gnosticism itself. 

This passage from The Secret Book of John reminds us not to doubt ourselves. It seems so simple on the surface, but how soon do we forget who we are in the Christos and begin to doubt? Do we know the resurrected Christ as the Revealer of what is and always has been? Do we know the resurrected Christ as the doorway to greater gnosis? I guess I might as well ask, "Do we know ourselves?"