THE GNOSTIC WAY

BelzeBob wrote:

BelievHUman wrote:Eckankar got it right, they say the name of god is 'HU'.

If you say the word 'HU' strung out similar to 'Aum' it has a resonance of its own.
I have found it VERY useful in calming my mind & body.

Also note 'HUman' as in Human Being, translated to GODmen.
I think it is appropriate, hence my forum name.

It's an interesting theory. The sufis also shout "Hu!" as they begin to dance.

Here is an interesting article on the names of God ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_god ).

There seems to be so much choice, but in reality there is only one true and universal Name ~ but that name is ineffable! All written names are merely what one might term 'pronouns'.

PLU

Hi everyone,

I want to add for the sake of expressing my own experience:
It is important for one to realize that there is no one "name," per say - it is our being, existing now.

"I will be whatever I will be."

If one can hear one's being, you can hear the name. This requires an internal awareness, not an external intellectualism that is so easily confused.

At a certain wonderful point it is taught that we recieve our divine name, a combination of what we are, our cause, our purpose, our mission, what we will be, the master of the bohdissatva.

Theory is useless to me, what matters is internal progress made from revolutionary, hard and sincere work. With the fundamental gnostic keys we can open the door and grow closer to the divine.

Does anyone else's experience parallel this too?

Your thoughts...

As sentinets we strive for something beyond the normal ken. Yet we are constrained by language, no matter how sophisticated, it still is language.
In that perspective, we are forced to iterate something...be it a sound, a word, or just a thought brought to tangibility...so we proclaim it as a name.

I love the sense of "ineffible". It moves the seeker beyond the constraints of language. yet even in this brief discourse, I struggle to bring forth the thoughts I follow because I chain them irrevocably to the screen by using words.

To grasp the All, we would become the All.

I sometimes see myself, in a place of utter formlessness, yet I can be without, looking in, so I have in a sense created parameters from which to extrapolate, but always I work within the confines of those parameters.
It is difficult to manuever outside some plane of reference. I remember when I died, how I was seeing with my mind. There was only a sense of where I was, not a feeling in the way I feel the room about me now. The recollection I hold now, dims with each passing day and that is truly regrettable, yet I do have that overall remembranceof peace. Voices fade into an oblivion of nothing, and I truly feel sadness over having lost that place, but I do distinctly remember not making a decision to return, I just woke up!

Recognition of what we choose to call God, is something far beyond any word we can possibly utter or for that matter, even think. Yet there is no reason not to have a name. From quark to universe and everything in-between, God is everywhere. Thus we deal not only with wondering and seeking that, but it adds a new dimension...if we can grasp the "everything"...then in what place does it exist?
I have found the Nag Hammadi Library to be a substantial wealth of knowledge, a directional beacon, so to speak. I am quite pleased with the things I have read here. So many wonderful pathways open.
Just the thoughts of someone on who is seeking.
Tim

BelzeBob wrote:
It's an interesting theory. The sufis also shout "Hu!" as they begin to dance.

To add to this. Hu was also the Druidic name of the subordinate deity, Ceridwen for the female. Comparable to Osiris and Isis. You also have Hu (with the pronunciation: reverse v over the u) being the personal pronouns for "he" in Christian Aramtic, Jewish Aramaic, and Hebrew.