Gnostic meaning of Passover from Old Testament

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Sun, 03/09/2008 - 03:21
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Hi everyone,

One morning this week after pondering the the process of awareness an understanding was given to me in the teaching of Passover. Now I can clearly see that this is Gnostic teaching after all. If you bare with me I explain:

Some of this symbolical key words do come from the movie "Moses" as it highlights the point strongly in the sequence when death is among the Egyptians and Joshua opens the door to the house where Moses is staying inviting everyone to witness the death - then Moses tells him to close the door and let the death pass.

If we look at the symbols in this teaching they go as this:

Death = distractions from the spiritual path (desires of all kinds).
First born = incarnated inner being - Christ
Lamb's blood = awareness in now and here - the guard at the door

When we are in awareness we see thoughts arising that seek to take over our awareness and stray us away from it, in preoccupation of thoughts on the idea that can lead to enjoyment, profit, fame, etc .. . This leads to death and abyss as SAW keeps reminding us. It keeps us away from our spiritual growth.

The process of awareness is the watch and recognize, understand, and disintegrate the roots of Egos (the cause of spiritual death) that are attempting to infiltrate through the unguarded door. Awareness is the guard at the door - as beautifully illustrated as the lamb's blood.

Then the first step of spiritual growth is awareness. When temptation enters us we allow it to pass = understanding (we do not participate - just observe). This process diminishes the desires foot hold on our being until desire reaches manageable size and then with the help of our divine mother it can be disintegrated.

Great wisdom from "Old Testament" by the great Gnostic teacher the Moses. As Jesus of Nazareth always said "Those who have eyes - see. Those who have ears - hear."

Wishing you all a great spiritual morning.