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The Church of Gnostic Luminism will
teach that certain universal truths become clear to anyone who seriously and open-mindedly
examines reality by the light of the awakened intuitive faculty.
When universal truths become known to
the individual in this way, it is called revelation; truths are
“revealed” to the consciousness of the individual.
Just as the same general landscape
will be experienced by any tourist who travels to a particular locale on Earth, so the
same essential “landscape” of ultimate reality will be experienced by anyone who
activates her/his ability to become intuitively aware of it.
Revelation occurs as a function of the
holographic quality of cosmic intelligence, or the process by which macrocosmic
(universal) mind manifests a perfect replica of itself in each of its microscopic
(individual) component parts (as the Sun is reflected in the planes of a prism or in the
plethora of morning dew-drops).
Revelation is enabled in the
individual to the extent that obscuring false beliefs and false identifications are
transcended.
“Ego” identification
with finite/temporal phenomena is like an accretion of opaque matter on a lens that
prevents the transmission of light.
Rebecka C. Berg expresses it this way in her discussion of “salvation” in Life
Eternal And Its Work:
It is false belief that the human personality
needs to be saved from.
The same realization is expressed in
the language of the Vedas: belief in the reality of the ego and the spatiotemporal
dimensions (maya) leads to entrapment, limitation, and enslavement, binding the
soul (atman) to the wheel of lives and deaths (samsara); activation of the
awakened intuition can open one to the Light of Revelation (samadhi), providing the
soul with access to the visionary realization of its ultimate identity with the One Self
of All Life (brahman) and liberation (moksha) from this bondage to the
illusion (maya).
The Church of Gnostic Luminism will
assert that universal truth is fragmentarily reflected throughout the religions,
philosophies, sciences, mythologies and folk traditions of the world.
Despite an admixture of confusion,
delusion, and error in each of these categories, there is a “golden thread” of
truth that can be detected in them all.
An essential harmony of agreement will
be found among the multitude of traditions on those elements in each which are in fact
true.
Screening out the false and retaining
the true is the goal of syncretic-eclectic analysis.
The Church of Gnostic Luminism will
teach that there is no need for an intermediary between the individual and the luminous
source of revelation (i.e. between “man” and “God”).
We will not presume to act as an
authoritative priesthood with a monopoly on access to the Light; rather, we hope to
establish our Church as a resource of aid, encouragement, and support that individuals can
make use of in their own unique adventures into the realms of Gnostic Illumination.
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