Chapter 39
It came to pass then, when Jesus had heard Martha speak these words, that he said unto her: "Well said, Martha, and finely."
And Jesus continued again in the discourse and said unto his disciples: "Pistis Sophia again continued in the fourth repentance, reciting it before she was oppressed a second time, in order that the lion-faced power and all the material emanations with it, which Self-willed had sent into the chaos, might not take away her total light in her. She uttered then this repentance as follows:
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The lion-faced or bestial-faced power and its emanations make Pistis Sophia suffer.
Self-willed, the ego, steals the light from Pistis Sophia.
As long as the multiple undesirable elements that personify our psychological defects exist within us, it is clear that there will be pain.
In each one of us, it is not possible for there to be happiness as long as the elements of unhappiness exist in our interior.
The Essence, bottled up in all of the subjective elements of misfortune, is processed by virtue of its own embottlement.
The subjective elements of our perceptions are precisely that whole variety of inhuman psychic elements that we carry inside of us.
The integral, unitotal, full, enlightened perception of what is Real comes about marvelously when the subjective elements of our perceptions, the living personification of our errors, are destroyed.
Material emanations of the lion-faced or beast-faced power and of the ego are, precisely, not just the variety of undesirable psychic elements, but are also the personality as well.
Obviously, the personality must also be reduced to cosmic dust; annihilated.
The personality is never homogeneous.
The personality has many heterogeneous, subjective undercurrents.
The personality is multiple.
Our Karma is deposited in our personality.
The personality is dry Mercury and arsenicated or poisonous sulfur. This is known by the workers of the Great Work.
The personality interferes between the body and the Being.
The personality serves as an obstacle to illumination.
When the personality and the ego are destroyed, all subjective interference will end and the Being will resurrect within us in order to express in all its fullness.
The resurrected Being expresses itself with Wisdom, Love and Power.
Lion-faced and its emanations, Self-willed and its perversity, torture Pistis Sophia.
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The fourth repentance of Sophia.
"'1. O Light, in whom I have trusted, give ear to my repentance, and let my voice reach unto thy dwelling-place.
"'2. Turn not away thy light-image from me, but have heed unto me, if they oppress me; and save me quickly at the time when I shall cry unto thee.
"'3. For my time is vanished like a breath and I am become matter.
"'4. They have taken my light from me, and my power is dried up. I have forgotten my mystery which heretofore I was wont to accomplish.
"'5. Because of the voice of the fear and the power of Self-willed my power is vanished.
"'6. I am become as a demon apart, who dwelleth in matter and light is not in him, and I am become as a counterfeiting spirit, which is in a material body and light-power is not in it.
"'7. And I am become as a decan who is alone in the air.
"'8. The emanations of Self-willed have sore oppressed me, and my pair hath said unto himself:
"'9. Instead of with light which was in her, they have filled her with chaos. I have devoured the sweat of my own matter and the anguish of the tears from the matter of my eyes, so that they who oppress me may not take the rest.
"'10. All this hath befallen me, O Light, by thy commandment and thy command, and it is thy commandment that I am here.
"'11. Thy commandment hath brought me down, and I am descended as a power of the chaos, and my power is numbed in me.
"'12. But thou, O Lord, art Light eternal, and dost visit them who are for ever oppressed.
"'13. Now, therefore, O Light, arise and seek my power and the soul in me. Thy commandment is accomplished, which thou didst decree for me in my afflictions. My time is come, that thou shouldst seek my power and my soul, and this is the time which thou didst decree to seek me.
"'14. For thy saviours have sought the power which is in my soul, because the number is completed, and in order that also its matter may be saved.
"'15. And then at that time shall all the rulers of the material æons be in fear of thy light, and all the emanations of the thirteenth material æon shall be in fear of the mystery of thy light, so that the others may put on the purification of their light.
"'16. For the Lord will seek the power of your soul. He hath revealed his mystery,
"'17. So that he may regard the repentance of them who are in the regions below; and he hath not disregarded their repentance.
"'18. This is then that mystery which is become the type in respect of the race which shall be born; and the race which shall be born will sing praises to the height.
"'19. For the Light hath looked down from the height of its light. It will look down on the total matter,
"'20. To hear the sighing of those in chains, to loose the power of the souls whose power is bound,--
"'21. So that it may lay its name in the soul and its mystery in the power.'"
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Pistis Sophia cries out in the Initiate. She asks the aid of the Father of all Lights.
The red demons of Seth oppress Pistis Sophia. The Light of Pistis Sophia, identified with the inhuman elements of matter, suffers exceedingly.
The tenebrous have taken away the Light and the Power from Pistis Sophia.
The red demons of Seth inside of us make Pistis Sophia bitter.
That is how Sophia forgets the mystery that she must accomplish, the great mystery of the Inner Self-Realization.
Fear is Pistis Sophia’s worst enemy.
Because of fear, human beings kill themselves.
Because of fear, nations arm themselves and go to war.
Because of fear, people mistrust each other.
Because of fear there is espionage and perversity.
Thieves and prostitutes exist because of fear of life.
Because of fear, aspirants flee, they leave the real path.
Borders, papers and restrictions of all kinds that interrupt people’s movements are due to fear.
Fear is the cause of untold numbers of personal and collective conflicts.
The fallen Initiate, with Pistis Sophia in his interior, the Light not being him, seems like a demon.
The fallen aspirant, although he has a physical body, lacks Light and Power.
A decan alone in the air is the initiate fallen in the mud.
The ego, the Self-willed, and in general every one of its undesirable psychic elements within which the Consciousness is bottled, oppress Pistis Sophia in the Initiate.
The Soul, Wisdom, Pistis Sophia, suffers exceedingly.
Sophia within oneself, hides the sweat of its own Essence and the anguish in its eyes, so that the tenebrous ones cannot take away the little bit of Light that is left to her.
How bitter is the fortune of Sophia, the Soul, the Being, after the fall.
The Father of all lights knows what we have suffered, and by His command, in accordance with the Law, we are here.
We have broken the Law and we must suffer the consequences.
Human beings, involuting in the Chaos, suffer the unspeakable.
However, the Christ, the Ancient of Days, can save us.
The Christ, incarnated in the Venustic Initiation inside the Initiate, works terrifically from within in order to liberate the fallen Soul, Pistis Sophia.
The Intimate Christ, the Son of the Father of all lights, must seek out Pistis Sophia in order to save her.
The Adepts of the Great Light also seek Pistis Sophia, hidden within the Initiate, in order to help her.
By helping, the Redeemers help themselves.
Give and you shall receive, and the more you give the more you will receive. But to those who give nothing, even that which they have shall be taken away.
The rulers of the aeons fear the mysteries of the Light. How difficult it is to ascend to the thirteenth Aeon.
The fear of the rulers before the thirteenth Aeon is clear.
Very rare is the Initiate who achieves reaching Aeon thirteen.
The Intimate Christ will seek out the power of your soul. He will reveal to you the great mysteries so that you can reach Aeon thirteen.
It is not possible to arrive at Aeon thirteen without have previously gone through the Buddhist annihilation.
Whoever wants to reach Aeon Thirteen must disintegrate beforehand that whole variety of undesirable psychic elements that we carry inside of us.
Pistis Sophia, bottled up in the psychic aggregates, is processed by virtue of her own embottlement.
Those who want to reach Aeon thirteen must disintegrate within themselves not only the psychic aggregates of Evil, but also those of Good.
We need to go beyond Good and Evil.
Unquestionably, the Soul, from Aeon thirteen, can observe the repentance of the lower parts of itself.
The lower parts of our own Being, located in lower levels, also have the right to repentance.
This is Gnosis, the Christic Mystery, the fundamental doctrine that will shine gloriously in the future sixth Great Race, after the great catastrophe that now draws near.
The Light will shine over the future Race in the Golden Age.
Gnosis will illuminate the Consciousness and liberate the oppressed.
The Intimate Christ will lay its name in the Soul and its sacred mystery in the real Power.
Then the Solar Dynasties will govern the nations and the whole Earth will be a paradise.
The future Race will live on nine continents, because the present ones, after having been burned with consuming fire, will be left in the depths of the oceans.
The giant planet called Hercolubus is now on its way. It is a world thousands of times bigger than the Earth.
Obviously, when Hercolubus comes too close to the Earth it will attract the liquid fire from the interior of our world towards the surface, and then all that has life will be burned.
When Hercolubus is as near as it will get, it will produce a total revolution of the Earth’s axes.
Then the poles will become the equator and the equator will become the poles.
The seas will change their beds and the present-day continents will be left at the bottoms of the oceans.
A small group will be saved in order to serve as a seedbed for the future sixth Race.
That group, in turn, will be mixed with peoples of other worlds for its total regeneration.
The new Race of Pistis Sophia could only come from a strong and regenerated group.
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