To The Coming Winds
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God. The Word was with God in the beginning. All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created. In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind. And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.
John 1:1-5 NET Bible
Many think of the “Word” of John, “Logos” in Greek, as the written word of the Bible. This is not the case. Logos refers to speech, especially teaching and discourse. The Greek word is also the root of the English, “logic”. Since the moment that the Logos of Jesus Christ was heard by human ears - let them hear - it’s lived on in the voices of those who would follow the current to its end, the coming of The Kingdom of Heaven.
The Word of God, as experienced in the flow of time, is continuously transforming and evolving, because it is a continuously unfolding revelation. Its’ eternal spiritual nature cannot be seen, except in its completion.
In the introduction to The Great Divorce C.S. Lewis said, “In that sense it will be true for those who have completed then journey (and for no others) to say that good is everything and Heaven everywhere. But we, at this end of the road, must not try to anticipate this retrospective vision. If we do, we are likely to embrace the false and disastrous converse that everything is good and everywhere is heaven.”
The assumptions and priorities of modern Christianity aren’t that old. In fact, the doctrines of today’s churches are contemporaneous with modernist philosophies like Marxism, and neopagan religions like Wicca. We’re so removed from the context of that point in history, that we don’t even realize where it came from. Our current theologies, in 20th century postmodern form, grafted nationalism, marketing, and PR onto those assumptions, turning Christianity into a weapon and a commodity.
All of the deep mystical longing for God, the grief over our alienation, and the lively activity of the Logos of Jesus Christ, the discourse which emerges from his life, ministry, death, and ressurection, have been smoothed down into an uncomplicated faith which is easy to swallow. Hard questions are verboten, and so the movement of the Logos is restricted.
However, as The Gospel of John says, the light shines on in darkness, and the darkness has not mastered it. The influence of the Holy Spirit lives on in the speculations and discussion that hubristic institutions of faithlessness, which are only nominally Christian, cannot supress.
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Scripture
When talking about the Nag Hammadi Library, Dr. Justin Sledge (host of the excellent Esoterica channel on YouTube) talks about how, when discussing scripture, that we refer to many different works, by many different authors, with many different perspectives, spanning centuries upon centuries. He says that, instead of thinking of “The Bible” as a singular work, we should think of it as a Jewish library and a Christian library.
When I talk about scripture, I do not only consider the closed canon of historical christian institutions. I think that authentic scripture can appear at any point in history, and that a closed canon only serves the interests of authoritarian institutions.
Therefore, I will not only be writing about the books contained in the Old and New Testaments, but also other works that I consider important in understanding real spiritual truth.
Also, in contrast to the Antichrist Nationalists, I do not consider scripture, a thing created by humans in order to communicate their relationship to God, to be infallible. Therefore, I will be reading scripture critically, from the perspective of the pursuit of Truth. Since Hebrews 12:27 tells us that all which can be shaken, will be shaken, until the unshakeable remains, we should not be afraid to shake scripture, in order to find the unshakeable.
Syllabus
Here, I will list some works which I consider to have the weight of scripture. I do not consider this list exhaustive or authoritative. It is merely sufficient for the purposes of this work.
The Bible (The Tanakh and The New Testament)
This one is more or less obvious. I will be making my way through both of these libraries, treating each one as separate.
The Apocrypha, and the Books of Enoch
Here, I will be interpreting the works categorized as deuterocanonical, as well as the influential works of Jewish Apocalypticism known as the Books of Enoch, which heavily influenced early Christianity.
The Nag Hammadi Library
Found in 1940, and since translated, the Nag Hammadi Library is best known for containing the Gnostic scriptures. However, this collection of works contains material from many early forms of Christianity, and each codex might represent alternate “New Testaments”. They are proof of the diversity which existed within early Christianity, and are a powerful refutation to the doctrinal claims of the Antichrist Nationalists.
The Corpus Hermeticum, The Latin Aesclipius, and The Chaldean Oracles
In the Pentecost of Acts, the Apostles speak the gospel in languages and words that the people of all world could understand them. The Nationalist antigospel tells us that all other religions worship demons, Deuteronomy 32:8-9 contradicts this:
When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided up humankind,
he set the boundaries of the peoples,
according to the number of the heavenly assembly.
For the Lord’s allotment is his people,
Jacob is his special possession.
The Law as prescribed in Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy are specific to the Jewish people, and are meant to mark them as God’s allotment of the human race. That means the religions, traditions, and beliefs of other people are reflective of an authority which God gives them, and is rightfully theirs. The Salvation which comes in the wings of the Logos of Jesus Christ belongs to all traditions, and it is (at the very least) unwise to blaspheme those traditions in His Name.
Around 300AD as Christian Orthodoxy was taking shape, the Logos of Jesus Christ expressed itself in many ways, and I believe that the works of this era illustrate this point well.
The Rosicrucian Manifestos and The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz
These explicitly Christian works are deeply prophetic, and offer insight to the world in which we live today.
The Exegesis of Phillip K. Dick
This contemporary work seems out of place, at first glance. However, it’s incredibly valuable as a detailed phenomenological account of Christian salvific grace. In addition, PKD asks the kinds of questions that spark an interest in Christ where the Antichrist Nationalists snuff that interest.
Edit: 12/30/2023
The Gathas of Zarathustra
The Gathas are the oldest strata of the Zoroastrian religion, the words of the prophet Zarathustra. It shares many priorities of Christianity, and even prophesied the spread of Christ’s Gospel.
The Ugaritic Texts
These works predate the Tanakh, and reveal the roles of Yahweh, Ba’al, and El in the context of Caananite mythology, and reveals the polytheistic roots of early Jewish practice.
