Mystics
There are more real magicians around than many people realise. Knowing which way to jump as part of a living universe that is in the process of constructing itself, and accessing the fourth state of consciousness to take a peek at the master plan, are natural abilities of the human animal. Magical awareness takes a healthy mind, free of boredom addiction and inside out thinking, and it takes work to develop it. Even then, some people are more talented than others. It's like swimming, which requires healthy lungs and practice, everyone can get to be good at it, but only a few have the talent to make their country's Olympic team. Among the ancient First Age cultures, all the people are free of boredom addiction and appreciate what the shamen do, but only a few choose to learn to be shamen.
Within boredom addicted Second Age cultures, people who break free or enjoy natural immunity and work to develop the same set of skills are sometimes called mystics. The mystical traditions are all equivalent - there is really only one body of mystical knowledge. They change over time, because the cultural contexts in which they work change, so the same ideas have to be presented in different ways. Despite frequent claims within the various religions that their founders appeared fully formed out of nowhere, the magicians who designed religions received their educations within the mystical traditions, and the possibility sometimes exists for people raised within religions to progress to mystical development. On the other hand, mystical development is also directly available to people who would have nothing to do with religions because they aren't caught up in the problems of boredom addiction and inside out thinking that religions are designed to appeal to. For people in present day Second Age technological cultures, just reading this book provides a good basis for understanding mystical thought!
This chapter demonstrates that the mystical origins of Christianity - and all other religions - really do contain the same ideas that are found in the previous chapters of this book. This is interesting because the universe described in this book allows future structures to self seed through exchanges of information and energy with the past. So finding this picture waiting to be understood in an ancient document provides experimental evidence of the correctness of the picture. This does not provide scientific endorsement of religions (it's worrying how many people take the demonstration in an inside out way, which completely misses the point). This book argues that all religions have now done their jobs, and must be replaced by a more mature Third Age understanding of the universe. The reasons for examining the origins of Christianity in particular are that it's the dominant religion in the developed world and as luck would have it (in this universe where nothing happens by chance), it's particularly easy to do the demonstration for Christianity. Religion designing mystics really did know things that other people didn't at the time they were alive, but what they knew is now part of our secular, scientific understanding. We've completed the time loop, so now we've got to be significant enough in our own activities to create it. As a species, we now have to be the fully responsible thing that reconstructs on the backwards arrow to seed its own development.
Sometimes, religions find it difficult to coexist with the mystical tradition that they grew out of, because the religion is going through a particularly bad phase of unthinking compliance policing, and the mystics keep asking awkward questions. At these times, the association between the religion and the mystical tradition can be broken. For example, in Iran in the 1980s Sufis were ordered to be shot on sight by the fundamentalists, despite the Hadith (a recorded statement made by the Prophet) that says, "Whoever hears the voice of the Sufi people and does not say 'Amen' shall be counted amongst the heedless."
The link between Christianity and its mystical origins (mystical Christians were called Gnostics) was broken in this way at the Council of Nicea in the year 325, when all Gnostic teachings and documents were suppressed. At that time a collection of Gnostic documents were hidden in a cave, where they remained until they were discovered by chance in 1945, and called the Dead Sea Scrolls. They include the Gospel of Thomas, which is the earliest known record of what Jesus actually said, before he got "corrected". The statements are written on several pieces of parchment, and were numbered for convenience by the translators. The numbers and order don't form part of the original document. In this interpretation, the statements have been reorganised according to their topics, but the usual numbers have been retained for cross referencing. The division into topics is a little artificial, because the document mainly discusses the importance of gathering information and integrating it to obtain understanding in a fractally ordered universe which is in the process of reconstructing itself. It's useful because it makes the interpretation easier to follow. The translation used here was made by Thomas Lambdin, and is visible on the Internet at: http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html
Finding one statement that can be interpreted in this way wouldn't be hard. Finding five or six might be seeing castles in the clouds - although some of them are very striking. When we reach 50 eyebrows should start to raise. With unambiguous interpretations of 104 out of 114, many of which seem to be absolutely meaningless gobbledegook unless we have the picture described in this book available, the evidence of a time loop becomes very strong.
To provide an example of the equivalence of all mystical traditions, this chapter ends with a short glossary which will enable the interested reader to identify the same picture in the (mainly Sufi informed) work of George Gurdjieff.
17. Jesus said, "I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has
heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human
mind."
This stuff does not come from any forwards arrow process. It comes from the
future.
77. Jesus said, "It is I who am the light which is above them all. It is I
who am the All. From Me did the All come forth, and unto Me did the All extend.
Split a piece of wood, and I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find Me
there."
Everything comes from the end state on the backwards arrow, and reconstructs
the end state on the forwards arrow. The information contents of the end state
are fractally distributed through all of space-time. In this interpretation,
the "I" character is speaking from the point of view of the universe. This is
the point of view of a person in the fourth state of consciousness, which is
called "turiya" in India, or the "una mystica" in the Roman Catholic religious
tradition. Being able to walk around and talk while maintaining the fourth
state would be difficult, but not impossible.
83. Jesus said, "The images are manifest to man, but the light in them
remains concealed in the image of the light of the Father. He will become
manifest, but his image will remain concealed by his light."
Physical objects are visible because of the light reflected off them, but the
light (or mass energy) that they are composed of is not visible since it is
bound, and does not escape. No-one is supposed to have known that
E = mc2 before Einstein discovered this! The light is bound
by pure physics rather than by mirrors, in the same way that light is bound by
pure physics in the closed space-time of the universe. The final black hole at
the end of time will form, but it will not be possible to see it directly,
since it will be surrounded by an ergosphere of highly energetic in-falling
matter. Does this statement say that light is bound into mass in exactly
the same way that the space-time of the universe is closed?
20. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what the Kingdom of Heaven is
like." He said to them, "It is like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds.
But when it falls on tilled soil, it produces a great plant and becomes a
shelter for birds of the sky."
The universe starts as a very small object, in the Big Bang. When the light
waves within it interact (waves look like tilled soil) they generate rich
complexity like the fern in Chapter 1, and things can live in it.
23. Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one out of a thousand, and two out of
ten thousand, and they shall stand as a single one."
Fractal data compression. The more data you've got, the higher the compression
ratio you can achieve. Any other interpretation - literally - doesn't add up.
At the end of time we finish up with a single object which contains no
redundancy.
96. Jesus [said], "The Kingdom of the Father is like a certain woman. She
took a little leaven, [concealed] it in some dough, and made it into large
loaves. Let him who has ears hear."
Fractal patterns running in the generating direction, to produce large amounts
of superficial detail out of a small amount of seed data.
32. Jesus said, "A city being built on a high mountain and fortified cannot
fall, nor can it be hidden."
The self organising tendency of the universe on the forwards arrow is visible
and unstoppable.
97. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of the [Father] is like a certain woman who was
carrying a jar full of meal. While she was walking [on] a road, still some
distance from home, the handle of the jar broke and the meal emptied out behind
her on the road. She did not realize it; she had noticed no accident. When she
reached her house, she set the jar down and found it empty."
The universe loses structure on the backwards arrow.
50. Jesus said, "If they say to you, 'Where did you come from?', say to
them, 'We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its
own accord and established itself and became manifest through their image.' If
they say to you, 'Is it you?', say, 'We are its children, we are the elect
of the Living Father.' If they ask you, 'What is the sign of your father
in you?', say to them, 'It is movement and repose.'"
Everything is a reconstruction of parts of the Sun Absolute at the end of
time. The Sun Absolute creates itself through the two arrows trick, and on the
forwards arrow it is constructed by the parts of itself that it produces on the
backwards arrow. We are not the Sun Absolute, but we are parts of it that it
has produced, and we have an important job, constructing it. We resemble it
because we run around collecting data like the universe projects itself through
space-time, and we then contemplate the data we have collected to integrate it
like the universe has an integrated end state.
98. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of the Father is like a certain man who wanted
to kill a powerful man. In his own house he drew his sword and stuck it into
the wall in order to find out whether his hand could carry through. Then he
slew the powerful man."
The universe exists in a private thought space-time, and is engaged in
contemplating something found in its external context. See the diagram of the
person having an insight while walking a dog in Chapter 4.
7. Jesus said, "Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man;
and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and the lion becomes man."
When simple structures degrade and more complex structures form out of their
bits, things are going in the right direction. When complex structures degrade
and more simple structures form out of their bits, things are going in the
wrong direction.
18. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us how our end will be." Jesus said,
"Have you discovered, then, the beginning, that you look for the end? For where
the beginning is, there will the end be. Blessed is he who will take his place
in the beginning; he will know the end and will not experience death."
Because there are two arrows of time, the beginning of the universe and the end
of the universe are the same thing. When we gather and integrate information
about the universe to obtain deep understanding we perform fractal data
compression. By doing this our state of mind can become a part of the end
state of the universe, so it will serially reconstruct within the universe and
be involved in breaking out of the closed space-time of the universe when it
closes down.
19. Jesus said, "Blessed is he who came into being before he came into
being. If you become My disciples and listen to My words, these stones will
minister to you. For there are five trees for you in Paradise which remain
undisturbed summer and winter and whose leaves do not fall. Whoever becomes
acquainted with them will not experience death."
Coming into being before we come into being refers to the two arrows of time.
In the block universe way of thinking about the whole of space-time it means
that we "already" exist in a more compressed state in the future. The trees
have no interpretation in this picture, but it might be a reference to fractal
structure, like the fern in Chapter 1. Why there are five of them also has no
interpretation, but it might have something to do with "quasi-symmetry". At
Jesus' time, the two mystical schools near his location were a group
associated with Judaism called the Essenes, and a group who specialised in
mathematics called the Pythagoreans then located in Egypt. The Pythagoreans
discovered the class of numbers that modern mathematicians call "irrational",
so they knew their stuff. According to Idries Shah the five pointed star found
in European magic is a reference - without understanding - to the Pythagoreans'
interest in things laid out in five fold patterns. Skip to the 20th Century,
when the mathematician Roger Penrose discovered that it is possible to "tile
the plane" with multi-coloured patterns that are similar, but never actually
repeat. Penrose tilings are generated using simple rules, they can carry on
forever and always produce new patterns. They never contain cyclic repititions
of the same pattern over and over again within themselves. Penrose tilings are
not symmetrical because they don't repeat, but they always feature patterns of
five groups of coloured pieces. This is why they are called
"quasi-symmetrical". This variation on the original Penrose tiling was
generated by the xscreensaver program:
29. Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a
wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a wonder of
wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its home in
this poverty."
Two arrows of time mean two sequences of cause and effect. We can either see
self organisation (spirit) constructing living things (backwards arrow seen in
reverse), or we can see living things constructing more complex living things
(forwards arrow).
87. Jesus said, "Wretched is the body that is dependant upon a body, and
wretched is the soul that is dependent on these two."
Two sequences of cause and effect again, producing forwards arrow bodies and
backwards arrow seen in reverse "astral" bodies as described in Chapter 4.
People who are not involved in the self organisation of the universe have a
very weak astral body - there is no need to describe any part of their
activities as "pulled from above" rather than "pushed from below". To put it
another way, they are not "inspired". Beyond this, people who have not gathered
and integrated plenty of understanding have not constructed a state of mind
that will survive distribution and reconstruction.
112. Jesus said, "Woe to the flesh that depends on the soul; woe to the soul
that depends on the flesh."
Similar to 87, above. The slight difference is the point that we should be
healthy on both arrows of time. There are people with well developed intuitive
awareness who keep going by being "pulled from above" when they are physically
unwell, but it's much better to be healthy.
11. Jesus said, "This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass
away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when
you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive. When you come to dwell
in the light, what will you do? On the day when you were one you became two.
But when you become two, what will you do?"
There's a lot in this one! All moments in the universe contain the same stuff
and the same information - it's only the degree of mixing that changes. So
every moment is equivalent to the end state. They are all "heavens". People who
behave robotically are not inspired by the chain of cause and effect that
stretches to the end state, while people who behave non-robotically will have
their deep, intuitive mind state conserved. When we gather matter and energy
into ourselves we increase its involvement in the self organising tendency of
the universe. In the same way, to be involved in the end state we have to be
collected into it, and that means becoming something that it will be able to
include in its own fractally compressed version of the universe. People caught
in the trap of the deductive mind acting alone erect an artificial barrier
between themselves and the rest of the universe, making two things where there
ought to be one and preventing growth and integration. This causes them a
problem when their mind state and superficial physical state separate because
their mind state is not going to be reconstructed. This business of becoming
two things where we should only be one thing by erecting an artificial system
boundary is also the origin of the term "once born". People who are "once born"
are distinct from their physical mothers but are aware that they are part of
the universe, while people who are "twice born" make themselves distinct from
the universe as well as their physical mothers. The term "once born" does
not mean "having only one physical parent".
60. <They saw> a Samaritan carrying a lamb on his way to Judea. He
said to his disciples, "(Why does) that man (carry) the lamb around?" They said
to him, "So that he may kill it and eat it." He said to them, "While it is
alive, he will not eat it, but only when he has killed it and it has become a
corpse." They said to him, "He cannot do so otherwise." He said to them, "You
too, look for a place for yourself within the Repose, lest you become a corpse
and be eaten."
The eating theme is the same as in 11, above.
111. Jesus said, "The heavens and the earth will be rolled up in your
presence. And one who lives from the Living One will not see death." Does not
Jesus say, "Whoever finds himself is superior to the world?"
The same idea as 11, above. There's a reference to the warping of space-time
as the final black hole forms in the bit about "rolling up".
51. His disciples said to Him, "When will the repose of the dead come about,
and when will the new world come?" He said to them, "What you look forward
to has already come, but you do not recognise it."
The idea that all moments are equivalent as in 11, above.
49. Jesus said, "Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you will find the
Kingdom. For you are from it, and to it you will return."
Here "solitary" is equivalent to "once born", and in boredom addicted society
this also implies standing apart from the herd. (Rudolph Steiner insists that
translations describing John the Baptist as "crying in the wilderness" should
really say "standing in solitude". In this picture, that's an important
difference.) Then once again, the two arrows of time. People who collect
enough deep structure are reconstructed as part of the end state, and on the
backwards arrow they come from the end state in a coherent way.
75. Jesus said, "Many are standing at the door, but it is the solitary who
will enter the bridal chamber."
As 49, above.
61. Jesus said, "Two will rest on a bed: the one will die, and other will
live." Salome said to him, "Who are You, man, that You, as though from the One,
have come up on my couch and eaten from my table?" Jesus said to her, "I am He
who exists from the Undivided. I was given some of the things of my Father."
<Salome said,> "I am Your disciple." <Jesus said to her,>
"Therefore I say, if he is <undivided>, he will be filled with light, but
if he is divided, he will be filled with darkness."
Again, the idea that humans are constructed of two parts, one of which is
persistent while the other is not. In this picture the two parts are deep
structural understanding and physical superficialities. The Undivided is the
fully integrated Sun Absolute. Jesus states that there are limitations on how
much of the picture he's got, which is compatible with the description of the
fourth state of consciousness in Chapter 4. Building on this theme, when a
person chops the world into nouned categories they lose the ability to form
impressions of deep structure that they don't yet know about. If they don't
chop the world up, an impression of the deep structure can form and they can
understand something of the structure of the universe. In the Chinese
terminology, they "have the Tao".
24. His disciples said to Him, "Show us the place where You are, since it is
necessary for us to seek it." He said to them, "Whoever has ears, let him hear.
There is light within a man of light, and he (or "it") lights up the whole
world. If he (or "it") does not shine, he (or "it") is darkness."
As 61, above.
70. Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth
will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not
bring forth will destroy you."
The first sentence repeats the benefits of allowing the fractal structure of
the universe to self detect within ourselves through contemplation. The other
side of this is that when we don't allow self detection, the unintegrated data
will be pulled apart to be reconstructed in more integrated forms in the future.
48. Jesus said, "If two make peace with each other in this one house, they
will say to the mountain, 'Move Away,' and it will move away."
Miracles, as described in Chapter 4. It isn't a simple cause and effect
relationship that can be proceduralised. Instead it's about integrating
deductive (forwards arrow) and intuitive (backwards arrow) awareness. Then as
we work on things worth doing, we see other parts of the wider pattern that we
are a part of falling into place.
106. Jesus said, "When you make the two one, you will become the sons of
man, and when you say, 'Mountain, move away,' it will move away."
Similar to 48, above. This version includes the suggestion that a new stage of
human development is involved.
108. Jesus said, "He who will drink from my mouth will become like Me. I
myself shall become he, and the things that are hidden will become revealed to
him."
We now complete the time loop and become the creature that reconstructed at a
smaller physical scale on the backwards arrow, as described in Chapter 5.
40. Jesus said, "A grapevine has been planted outside of the Father, but
being unsound, it will be pulled up by its roots and destroyed."
At the moment there are lots of copies of low complexity, unintegrated
structures around. Although these are highly valued in boredom addicted
society, they aren't of any long term use and will have to be pulled apart so
that their bits can be included in more integrated structures.
57. Jesus said, "The Kingdom of the Father is like a man who had [good]
seed. His enemy came by night and sowed weeds among the good seed. The man did
not allow them to pull up the weeds; he said to them, 'I am afraid that you
will go intending to pull up the weeds and pull up the wheat along with them.'
For on the day of the harvest the weeds will be plainly visible, and they will
be pulled up and burned."
Similar to 40, above. This one emphasises that during the reintegration of the
universe, low complexity and poorly integrated structures are around at the
same time as higher complexity and well integrated structures. The
reintegration isn't done until it's done!
1. And he said, "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will
not taste death."
Obtain a deep, intuitive understanding of the universe as a self-organising
thing with two arrows of time, and your shape of mind will become something
that is a part of something more complex that is disintegrating on the
backwards arrow and so reintegrating on the forwards arrow. Therefore it will
serially reconstruct on the forwards arrow, all the way to the end of time.
2. Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he
finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be
astonished, and he will rule over the All."
Keep looking and you'll start to understand the hidden patterns. As you do so
you'll become very worried about the incorrect priorities of boredom addicted
society. Keep looking and you'll see the whole picture which is an even bigger
surprise. At that point you'll be a useful collection for integrating into the
end state. Everything integrated into the end state becomes the end state.
66. Jesus said, "Show me the stone which the builders have rejected. That
one is the cornerstone."
Fractal compression again. A person who is the same as many others just gets
bundled up with them as the universe reintegrates itself. A person who has
collected different information makes a bigger contribution to the more
compressed states in the future. This is the exact opposite of the perception
of value in boredom addicted society.
27. <Jesus said,> "If you do not fast as regards the world, you will
not find the Kingdom. If you do not observe the Sabbath as a Sabbath, you will
not see the Father."
It's essential to make quality time for contemplation if we are going to
integrate our understanding of what we have seen. Religionists like to turn
this idea inside out, and police a day of mandatory, total boredom.
8. And He said, "The Kingdom is like a wise fisherman who cast his net into
the sea and drew it up from the sea full of small fish. Among them the wise
fisherman found a fine large fish. He threw all the small fish back into the
sea and chose the large fish without difficulty. Whoever has ears to hear, let
him hear."
During fractal compression on the forwards arrow, one large integrated
understanding can be worth many smaller ones.
107. Jesus said, "The Kingdom is like a shepherd who had a hundred sheep.
One of them, the largest, went astray. He left the ninety-nine sheep and looked
for that one until he found it. When he had gone to such trouble, he said to
the sheep, 'I care for you more than the ninety-nine.'"
As 8, above.
5. Jesus said, "Recognise what is in your sight, and that which is hidden
from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not
become manifest."
The full richness of the universe is available to be appreciated if we look
carefully enough. The second sentence is interesting. On the one hand we have
this document as a remarkable example of the power of the fourth state of
consciousness. It suggests that we have the opportunity to know anything
because eventually it will become obvious. In current mathematical
understanding, there are things which we can find by running computers for a
long time but which we know of no other way to find. There is no known "short
cut". The kind of encryption used to protect Internet transactions is an
example. The second sentence seems to imply that the fourth state can always
provide a "short cut".
94. Jesus [said], "He who seeks will find, and [he who knocks] will be let
in."
Whatever your situation, you'll always be able to find and understand the
hidden patterns.
69. Jesus said, "Blessed are they who have been persecuted within
themselves. It is they who have truly come to know the Father. Blessed are the
hungry, for the belly of him who desires will be filled."
Similar to 94, above. Persecution within one's self means the ability that
people free of boredom addiction have to notice when they haven't yet resolved
a question, and the need to find the right answer that drives them on.
58. Jesus said, "Blessed is the man who has suffered and found life."
As 69, above.
3. Jesus said, "If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,'
then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the
sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and
it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become
known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living
Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you
who are that poverty."
The good stuff isn't somewhere else. It's mixed up all around us, and it's also
inside us because it enters as sensory data. When we learn to understand it, we
become something that is contained within the end state, and we understand what
we are, as collections of integrated hidden data. If we don't perform the study
then our existence is very weak.
76. Jesus said, "The kingdom of the Father is like a merchant who had a
consignment of merchandise and who discovered a pearl. That merchant was
shrewd. He sold the merchandise and bought the pearl alone for himself.
You too, seek his unfailing and enduring treasure where no moth comes near
to devour and no worm destroys."
The good stuff is currently hidden. It isn't yet visible in a physically
obvious way.
109. Jesus said, "The Kingdom is like a man who had a [hidden] treasure in
his field without knowing it. And [after] he died, he left it to his son. The
son did not know (about the treasure). He inherited the field and sold [it].
And the one who bought it went ploughing and found the treasure. He began to
lend money at interest to whomever he wished."
As 76, above.
56. Jesus said, "Whoever has come to understand the world has found (only) a
corpse, and whoever has found a corpse is superior to the world."
As 76, above.
80. Jesus said, "He who has recognised the world has found the body, but he
who has found the body is superior to the world."
As 76, above.
41. Jesus said, "Whoever has something in his hand will receive more, and
whoever has nothing will be deprived of even the little he has."
Bring some deep structure with you to the end state and your bit will be
plugged into everything else. Bring nothing connected and you disintegrate.
88. Jesus said, "The angels and the prophets will come to you and give you
those things you (already) have. And you too, give them those things which you
have, and say to yourselves, 'When will they come and take what is theirs?'"
As 41, above.
59. Jesus said, "Take heed of the Living One while you are alive, lest you
die and seek to see Him and be unable to do so."
The job of conscious minds is to collect deep structure to be integrated into
the end state. This work has to be done now, during the universe's
reconstruction, and not at the end state.
4. Jesus said, "The man old in days will not hesitate to ask a small child
seven days old about the place of life, and he will live. For many who are
first will become last, and they will become one and the same."
Small children naturally gather and integrate a lot of data. They've got the
right idea, and everyone should behave like small children throughout life.
Often it's the elderly who break free of boredom addiction and enter the
"second childhood" state. More about the end being the beginning because of the
two arrows of time.
73. Jesus said, "The harvest is great but the labourers are few. Beseech the
Lord, therefore, to send out labourers to the harvest."
At the moment the available deep structure is not all being collected because
there aren't enough people working on it.
28. Jesus said, "I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared
to them in the flesh. I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them
thirsty. And My soul became afflicted for the sons of men, because they are
blind in their hearts and do not have sight; for empty they came into the
world, and empty too they seek to leave the world. But for the moment they are
intoxicated. When they shake off their wine, then they will repent."
A higher order being sings the blues. Everyone is drunk on their own boredom
chemistry, so no-one is interested in the wonderful things around them. They
don't have insights so they die as ignorant as they were born. When they break
out of boredom addiction they will improve.
89. Jesus said, "Why do you wash the outside of the cup? Do you not realize
that he who made he inside is the same one who made the outside?"
The boundaries that the deductive mind acting alone draws between the bits of
the universe are not real.
53. His disciples said to Him, "Is circumcision beneficial or not?" He said
to them, "If it were beneficial, their father would beget them already
circumcised from their mother. Rather, the true circumcision in spirit has
become completely profitable."
Humans are physically natural and healthy, and do not need modifying. The
system boundary they draw between themselves and the rest of the universe is
what needs cutting off.
22. Jesus saw infants being suckled. He said to His disciples, "These
infants being suckled are like those who enter the Kingdom." They said to Him,
"Shall we then, as children, enter the Kingdom?" Jesus said to them, "When you
make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside
like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and
the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female
female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place
of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a
likeness; then will you enter [the Kingdom]."
This one starts by repeating the idea in 4, above, that we should feed on the
richness around us like small children. The disciples continue their confused
belief that the kingdom is somewhere else, and ask if they will be beamed up in
small bodies. Jesus responds that the kingdom is here, but they have to learn
to see it. This means removing the preconceived noun categories that they use
to break up the world. The most important of these is the boundary between
the self and the rest of the universe produced by the deductive mind acting
alone. This makes people confuse real things with the images of real things
that they place in the internal thinking space of the deductive mind.
84. Jesus said, "When you see your likeness, you rejoice. But when you see
your images which came into being before you, and which neither die nor become
manifest, how much you will have to bear!"
People trapped in boredom addiction and the trap of the deductive mind acting
alone like to see repetitions of their existing preconceptions. Unfortunately
what really matters is the hidden deep structure that they have noticed. These
patterns came into being before them because they already exist in the future,
they persist, and they don't manifest because they are hidden. If people
haven't collected any of these patterns, there's nothing to them that will
reconstruct.
52. His disciples said to Him, "Twenty-four prophets spoke in Israel, and
all of them spoke in You." He said to them, "You have omitted the one living
in your presence and have spoken (only) of the dead."
Repetition of preconceptions verses new data again.
31. Jesus said, "No prophet is accepted in his own village; no physician
heals those who know him."
Preconceptions again.
39. Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scribes have taken the keys of
Knowledge and hidden them. They themselves have not entered, nor have they
allowed to enter those who wish to. You, however, be as wise as serpents and as
innocent as doves."
Preconceptions again. The reduction of understanding to unconsidered,
unexperienced, "professionally" guarded dogma.
102. Jesus said, "Woe to the Pharisees, for they are like a dog sleeping in
the manger of oxen, for neither does he eat nor does he let the oxen eat."
As 39, above.
43. His disciples said to him, "Who are You, that You should say these
things to us?" <Jesus said to them,> "You do not realize who I am from
what I say to you, but you have become like the Jews, for they (either) love
the tree and hate its fruit or love the fruit and hate the tree."
The inside out mind converts mutually inclusive situations into mutually
exclusive situations and vice versa. People think they can choose half of a
situation. That they can "have their cake and eat it".
101. <Jesus said,> "Whoever does not hate his father and his mother as
I do cannot become a disciple to Me. And whoever does [not] love his father and
his mother as I do cannot become a disciple to Me. For My mother [gave me
falsehood], but [My] true [Mother] gave me life."
People born into boredom addicted societies are quickly plunged into a mess of
inconsistent excuses, evasions and totalitarian demands that new people engage
in co-fixing boring behaviours. It's growing so bad at the moment that it's
causing epidemic levels of autistic withdrawal. The rest of the universe
always remains completely self-consistent and honest, so learn from the
universe rather than other people.
55. Jesus said, "Whoever does not hate his father and his mother cannot
become a disciple to Me. And whoever does not hate his brothers and sisters and
take up his cross in My way will not be worthy of Me."
As 101, above.
99. The disciples said to Him, "Your brothers and Your mother are standing
outside." He said to them, "Those here who do the will of My Father are My
brothers and My mother. It is they who will enter the Kingdom of My Father."
Similar to 55, above. Accidental relationships aren't very important. Direction
of growth matters more.
34. Jesus said, "If a blind man leads a blind man, they will both fall into
a pit."
The introspective trap of social reality in boredom addicted societies. (This
magician would seem to have a sense of humour, which is more than can be said
of a lot of religionists!)
74. He said, "O Lord, there are many around the drinking trough, but there
is nothing in the cistern."
People persistently look in the wrong places. They are always looking for a
mindless, robotical procedure that will solve all their problems.
113. His disciples said to Him, "When will the Kingdom come?" <Jesus
said,> "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter of
saying 'Here it is' or 'There it is.' Rather, the Kingdom of the Father
is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
The kingdom isn't somewhere else, but without the ability to use inductive
thinking, people can't see the richer structure.
105. Jesus said, "He who knows the father and the mother will be called the
son of a harlot."
In boredom addicted society, people with the ability to develop awareness of
the structure of the universe and the end state become liable to attack. At
present, this often takes the form of ADHD diagnosis.
65. He said, "There was a good man who owned a vineyard. He leased it to
tenant farmers so that they might work it and he might collect the produce from
them. He sent his servant so that the tenants might give him the produce of the
vineyard. They seized his servant and beat him, all but killing him. The
servant went back and told his master. The master said, 'Perhaps <they>
did not recognise <him>.' He sent another servant. The tenants beat this
one as well. Then the owner sent his son and said, 'Perhaps they will show
respect to my son.' Because the tenants knew that it was he who was the heir to
the vineyard, they seized him and killed him. Let him who has ears hear."
Conscious minds should be involved in the process of fractally compressing the
universe - they exist for a purpose like organisms with ecosystems. People in
boredom addicted societies are pathologically afraid of this purpose and place
themselves in a state of antagonism with the universe.
21. Mary said to Jesus, "Whom are Your disciples like?" He said, "They are
like children who have settled in a field which is not theirs. When the owners
of the field come, they will say, 'Let us have back our field.' They (will)
undress in their presence in order to let them have back their field and give
it back to them. Therefore I say to you, if the owner of a house knows that the
thief is coming, he will begin his vigil before he comes and will not let him
into his house of his domain to carry away his goods. You, then, be on your
guard against the world. Arm yourselves with great strength lest the robbers
find a way to come to you, for the difficulty which you expect will (surely)
materialise. Let there be among you a man of understanding. When the grain
ripened, he came quickly with his sickle in his hand and reaped it. Whoever has
ears to hear, let him hear."
As 65, above.
103. Jesus said, "Fortunate is the man who knows where the brigands will
enter, so that he may get up, muster his domain, and arm himself before they
invade."
As 65, above.
35. Jesus said, "It is not possible for anyone to enter the house of a
strong man and take it by force unless he binds his hands; then he will (be
able to) ransack his house."
As 65, above.
68. Jesus said, "Blessed are you when you are hated and persecuted. Wherever
you have been persecuted they will find no Place."
As 65, above.
36. Jesus said, "Do not be concerned from morning until evening and from
evening until morning about what you will wear."
The social frond waving of chronic boredom addicts does not contribute to the
gathering of deep structure.
78. Jesus said, "Why have you come out into the desert? To see a reed shaken
by the wind? And to see a man clothed in fine garments like your kings and your
great men? Upon them are the fine [garments], and they are unable to discern
the truth."
As 36, above.
42. Jesus said, "Become passers-by."
As 36, above.
81. Jesus said, "Let him who has grown rich be king, and let him who
possesses power renounce it."
Growing rich means understanding what the universe is about and gathering
riches of deep structure. These essences will be the true rulers as time
unfolds. The possession of political power is not much use in comparison, and
obtaining it involves engaging in very boring and formulaic behaviour which
turns the mind off.
110. Jesus said, "Whoever finds the world and becomes rich, let him renounce
the world."
As 81, above.
64. Jesus said, "A man had received visitors. And when he had prepared the
dinner, he sent his servant to invite guests. He went to the first one and said
to him, "My master invites you.' He said, 'I have claims against some
merchants. They are coming to me this evening. I must go and give them my
orders. I ask to be excused from the dinner.' He went to another and said, 'My
master has invited you.' He said to him, 'I have just bought a house and am
required for the day. I shall not have any spare time.' He went to another
and said to him, 'My master invites you.' He said to him, 'My friend is going
to get married, and I am to prepare the banquet. I shall not be able to come. I
ask to be excused from the dinner.' He went to another and said to him, 'My
master invites you.' He said to him, 'I have just bought a farm, and I am on my
way to collect the rent. I shall not be able to come. I ask to be excused.' The
servant returned and said to his master, 'Those whom you invited to the dinner
have asked to be excused.' The master said to his servant, 'Go outside to the
streets and bring back those whom you happen to meet, so that they may dine.'
Businessmen and merchants will not enter the Places of My Father."
As 81, above.
63. Jesus said, "There was a rich man who had much money. He said, 'I shall
put my money to use so that I may sow, reap, plant, and fill my storehouse with
produce, with the result that I shall lack nothing. Such were his intentions,
but that same night he died. Let him who has ears hear."
As 81, above.
54. Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor, for yours is the Kingdom of
Heaven."
As 81, above. It's not that material poverty is inherently desirable, but that
engaging in incessant pointless rituals and running around in circles is an
utter waste of time.
6. His disciples questioned Him and said to Him, "Do you want us to fast?
How shall we pray? Shall we give alms? What diet shall we observe?" Jesus said,
"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate, for all things are plain in the
sight of Heaven. For nothing hidden will not become manifest, and nothing
covered will remain without being uncovered."
Robotic rule systems for life are the wrong question. Telling lies is the best
way to poison our own data collection and prevent it integrating into
understanding. Doing things that feel intuitively wrong does not help the
universe reach a more complex state.
47. Jesus said, "It is impossible for a man to mount two horses or to
stretch two bows. And it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters;
otherwise he will honour the one and treat the other contemptuously. No man
drinks old wine and immediately desires to drink new wine. And new wine is not
put into old wineskins, lest they burst; nor is old wine put into a new
wineskin, lest it spoil it. An old patch is not sewn onto a new garment,
because a tear would result."
Similar to the point about lies in 6, above. The universe is rational and self
consistent. Do not accept stories that are not self consistent.
104. They said [to Jesus], "Come, let us pray today and let us fast." Jesus
said, "What is the sin that I have committed, or wherein have I been defeated?
But when the bridegroom leaves the bridal chamber, then let them fast and
pray."
As 6, above. It's not doing what we are naturally able to do that's the
mistake.
71. Jesus said, "I shall destroy this house, and no one will be able to
rebuild it."
It will take a while, and other workers will have to overlay their own
components, but it will happen eventually.
10. Jesus said, "I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it
until it blazes."
Religions spread by design.
67. Jesus said, "Whoever believes that the All itself is deficient is
(himself) completely deficient."
The end state is completely integrated and self consistent.
37. His disciples said, "When will You become revealed to us and shall we
see You?" Jesus said, "When you disrobe without being ashamed and take up your
garments and place them under your feet like little children and tread on them,
then [will you see] the Son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid."
The way many people react when they stumble onto a nudist beach indicates just
how nuts people in boredom addicted societies really are. When this no longer
happens, they will be sane. Also, the way to see the real higher order being
(instead of merely its self seeding reconstruction on the backwards arrow) is
to look at a group of sane humans.
86. Jesus said, "[The foxes have their holes] and the birds have [their]
nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head and rest."
Like the ones about material poverty, this one made it into the religious
version but has been utterly misunderstood throughout the ages. The point about
material poverty is not that it is inherently useful, but that constantly
engaging in boring "work" rituals is very damaging. At the present time
machines do the productive work, so humans spend more of their time than ever
before engaging in "administration" which was never needed in previous eras.
This statement is not about being at the homeless level of poverty. It says
that the higher order being is a distributed system made of vast numbers of
humans. Building a house for it to go in would be as silly as building a box to
put the Internet in. Notice that the term "Son of Man" is used in this
statement, and the alternative "Son of the Living One" is used in 37, above.
The two terms mean the same thing. On the forwards arrow he's the Son of Man
and on the backwards arrow he's the Son of the Living One.
30. Jesus said, "Where there are three gods, they are gods. Where there are
two or one, I am with him."
There are two upline structures that are of interest to humans. These are the
human aggregate and the end state. Belief systems featuring more than two
significant structures are made up stories.
44. Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and
whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes
against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven either on earth or in heaven."
The end state and the human aggregate are already in place on the forwards
arrow. Humans in the present era can't change that. What they can do is either
work with the self organising tendency of the universe or against it. Those who
work against it have not obtained understanding of the situation, and so they
don't get "lucky" help and they don't have a deep structure collection that
will be reconstructed in the end state. Ideas of Great Sky Supervisors,
compliance, punishment, currying favour with sycophancy and so on aren't
appropriate. They're distortions produced by the agenda of boredom addicted
societies.
72. [A man said] to Him, "Tell my brothers to divide my father's possessions
with me." He said to him, "O man, who has made Me a divider?" He turned to His
disciples and said to them, "I am not a divider, am I?"
His main theme is integration, not disintegration.
9. Jesus said, "Now the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and
scattered them. Some fell on the road; the birds came and gathered them up.
Others fell on the rock, did not take root in the soil, and did not produce
ears. And others fell on thorns; they choked the seed(s) and worms ate them.
And others fell on the good soil and produced good fruit: it bore sixty per
measure and a hundred and twenty per measure."
It's the people who do gather and integrate deep structure who matter, not the
ones who don't. 60 was a round number in the ancient world, like we use 100
(we still use 60 minutes). The two measures are similar to the "one in a
thousand and two in ten thousand" in 23, above.
62. Jesus said, "It is to those [who are worthy of My] mysteries that I tell
My mysteries. Do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing."
As described in Chapter 5, religion designers don't include the full story of
the religion's purpose or what is going on in the universe within the religions.
13. Jesus said to His disciples, "Compare me to someone and tell Me whom I
am like." Simon Peter said to Him, "You are like a righteous angel." Matthew
said to Him, "You are like a wise philosopher." Thomas said to Him, "Master, my
mouth is wholly incapable of saying whom You are like." Jesus said, "I am not
your master. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated by the
bubbling spring which I have measured out." And He took him and withdrew and
told him three things. When Thomas returned to his companions, they asked him,
"What did Jesus say to you?" Thomas said to them, "If I tell you one of the
things which he told me, you will pick up stones and throw them at me; a fire
will come out of the stones and burn you up."
The "righteous angel" response is sycophancy, because Simon Peter had never
seen a righteous angel and had no basis for knowing if Jesus was like one or
not. The "wise philosopher" response is incorrect, because (for example)
Aristotle was a wise philosopher and provided explanations for things that
don't even happen. The third response begins with an error which Jesus
corrects. Humans are responsible for themselves. Recognising ignorance is the
starting point for learning though, so Thomas gets some extra data. What are
the three things? Since Thomas didn't record them we can only guess. Let's
assume they are related, like plaiting three strings or three interwoven
Russian wedding rings. The other disciples will react as violent and reality
denying members of a boredom addicted society if they know them, and will be
prevented from doing harm by the self organising tendency of the universe.
Thomas is the author of the document, and it's all about self seeding time
loops. So:
1) The human aggregate reconstructs on the backwards arrow as Jesus.
14. Jesus said to them, "If you fast, you will give rise to sin for
yourselves; and if you pray, you will be condemned; and if you give alms, you
will do harm to your spirits. When you go into any land and walk about in the
districts, if they receive you, eat what they will set before you, and heal the
sick among them. For what goes into your mouth will not defile you, but that
which issues from your mouth - it is that which will defile you."
Don't get entangled in the nonsense of boredom addicted societies. Fasting
isn't useful and tends to diminish self respect when people sneak bits of food.
Trying to fit in with boredom addicts trapped in win/lose thinking just
provides an avenue of attack. Impoverishing yourself just makes you depressed.
Instead accept what is offered and make yourself useful. (There's a suggestion
that the disciples have been taught how to use backwards arrow "alternative"
medicine). Eating food isn't harmful but attempting to fit in with local
nonsense is harmful.
33. Jesus said, "Preach from your housetops that which you will hear in your
ear {(and) in the other ear}. For no one lights a lamp and puts it under a
bushel, nor does he put it in a hidden place, but rather he sets it on a
lampstand so that everyone who enters and leaves will see its light."
Assist the process by which future structures seed themselves by
reconstructing in people's intuitive consciousness on the backwards arrow.
93. <Jesus said,> "Do not give what is holy to dogs, lest they throw
them on the dung-heap. Do not throw the pearls to swine, lest they grind it [to
bits]."
Despite 33 above, don't provide cheap entertainment for people trapped in
boredom addiction and inside out thinking. It's very depressing. The way the
second half of both sentences seem to have been crossed over may be a reference
to inside out thinking.
25. Jesus said, "Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil
of your eye."
This is a reasonable attitude for a creature composed of vast numbers of
co-operating human beings.
26. Jesus said, "You see the mote in your brothers eye, but you do not see
the beam in your own eye. When you cast the beam out of your own eye, then you
will see clearly to cast the mote from your brother's eye."
People caught in the introspective trap of boredom addiction and inside out
thinking are always more concerned with other people's errors than their own,
and this prevents them making progress.
79. A woman from the crowd said to Him, "Blessed are the womb which bore You
and the breasts which nourished You." He said to her, "Blessed are those who
have heard the word of the Father and have truly kept it. For there will be
days when you will say, 'Blessed are the womb which has not conceived and the
breasts which have not given milk.'"
With the discovery of this ancient document, we learn that Jesus explicitly
approved of human population control. Whether or not we should always have
practiced population control is not the question. From the time this ancient
document was discovered he's got enough body cells and doesn't want to get fat.
85. Jesus said, "Adam came into being from a great power and a great wealth,
but he did not become worthy of you. For had he been worthy, [he would] not
[have experienced] death."
Early humans appeared as part of the universe in the process of self
organisation. They weren't sufficiently developed though, because they weren't
yet ready to collect and integrate deep structure, so no part of them can be
reconstructed as part of the end state.
90. Jesus said, "Come unto me, for My yoke is easy and My lordship is mild,
and you will find repose for yourselves."
Humans will be better off as part of a jelled team, and will be more able to
collect and integrate deep structure.
95. [Jesus said,] "If you have money, do not lend it at interest, but give
[it] to one from whom you will not get it back."
Lending at interest saps authentic growth to support growth of paper money.
People often forget that for most of its existence religious Christianity
forbade lending at interest, with the inside out result that people with money
just hoarded it instead - which is even worse!
90. They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to Him, "Caesar's men demand
taxes from us." He said to them, "Give Caesar what belongs to Caesar, give God
what belongs to God, and give Me what is Mine."
Local material pragmatics are one thing, what is necessary to create the
aggregate is another, and collecting deep structure to take it to the end state
is yet another. These objectives must be fulfilled inclusively, not exclusively
as people trapped in inside out thinking see it.
Physics, Fractals and Two Arrows of Time
Deep Structure Collection
Boredom Addiction and Inside Out Thinking
Other Sayings
2) Jesus educates Thomas.
3) Thomas helps construct the human aggregate on the forwards arrow.