Whoever knows our great Power

Whoever knows our great Power will become invisible. Fire will be unable to consume such a person, but it will purify. And it will destroy all that you possess.

For all those in whom my form appears, from seven days old to one hundred twenty years old, will be saved. Upon them are placed these obligations, to gather together all that is lost and the letters of our great Power, that the great Power may write your name in our bright light and bring the thoughts and deeds of others to an end. Then these may be purified, scattered, destroyed, and brought together in the place no one can see.

You will see me and prepare-your dwelling places in our great Power.

Come to know how what has gone has come to be, that you may know how what is alive will come to be. And know how to recognize this, and what that aeon looks like, what its nature is, and how it came into being.

Why don^‘t you ask what your nature will be, or how you have come into being?

–The Concept of our Great Power

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“If spiritual awareness is being, then what do you do once you have reached such holiness? If living in this world is doing, then how shall you be while you are doing? You must sanctify the deed with the spirit and embody the spirit with the deed.”

- Lawrence Kushner (Honey from the Rock)

Invisible?

BB

BelzeBob wrote:Invisible?

BB

The quote comes from a book (The Concept of our Great Power) contained in the Nag Hammadi collection. Unfortunately these books are generally rather poor translations into Coptic from their original language (probably Greek). We know this because some fragments of some of these texts have been discovered in Greek, and the wording shows various differences. Therefore, perhaps, the original might not have actually said "invisible" ~ it might have said something like "unseen", with respect to outwardly 'unobserved', or 'unnoticed', etc.?

PLU

I don't know about this.

But I remember my teacher could be so still/quiet that he could sit in a room while you were working and you wouldn't notice him for the longest time. He had just been sitting and observing.

BB

BelzeBob wrote:I don't know about this.

But I remember my teacher could be so still/quiet that he could sit in a room while you were working and you wouldn't notice him for the longest time. He had just been sitting and observing.

BB

Aloha BB

I do that too. I can be in a group of people and not be seen, I like that,you get to see a lot more that way.