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Dismissing Da Vinci 29 29 Dismissing Da Vinci Dismissing Da Vinci Dismissing Da Vinci Peter said to Mary, “Sister, we know that the Thoughts on the End Thoughts on the End Savior loved you more than the rest of women. imes Tell us the words of the Savior which you T Times Continued fromPage 28 Continued fromPage 28 remember – which you know (but) we do not, nor have we heard them.” Mary answered and said, “What is hidden from you I will proclaim Two weeks later, I find myself still referring back to that email. I visited the website to you.” After delivering the teachings that were of the author, Mary Sparrowdancer given to her in a vision, she was rebuked by (http://www.sparrowdancer.com), then called some of the disciples, whereupon Mary wept her to learn more. She’s as real as you get: and said to Peter, “My brother Peter, what do knowledgeable, impassioned, intelligent, and you think? Do you think that I thought this up articulate. I’ll pass on a few of her insights that myself in my heart, or that I am lying about the bear directly on the growing debate between Savior?” Dan Brown and the Catholic Church: Levi answered and said to Peter, “Peter, you have always been hot-tempered. Now I see you contending against the woman like the In the “forbidden” Gnostic gospels that have begun to emerge from antiquity, we find adversaries. But if the Savior made her worthy, By Shelley Kaehr, Ph.D. we have actually been divinely invited to seek who are you indeed to reject her? Surely the the truth and ask questions, because the truth is Savior knows her very well. That is why He never marred or harmed by questions. Asking loved her more than us. Rather let us be Because of all the tensions in the Middle questions only serves to make the truth shine ashamed and put on the perfect man and acquire East these days, I have been increasingly brighter. One might wonder into which him for ourselves as He commanded us, and bombarded by folks talking to me about the end preach the gospel, not laying down any other direction we should begin a search for the truth times, the book of Revelation and the total at this hour when the truth about anything is rule or other law beyond what the Savior said” . destruction of the world as we know it. very hard to come by. According to the Gnostic . . and they began to go forth [to] proclaim and I am a believer that we are creating gospels, the answer from above seems to have to preach. reality with our thoughts and I think that when been, “go within,” because there is something people watch the news and begin crediting within that awaits discovery. The Secret Book of John offers current events as evidence that the Book of In the Gnostic scriptures, we learn that additional insight into Jesus’s view of the divine Revelation is playing out right before our eyes, blind faith has never been demanded of us. feminine. In it John recalls seeing a brilliant we are creating exactly what we don't want! Instead, the one we now refer to as “Jesus” (the flash of light following the crucifixion from Prophecy is meant as a warning - a J is relatively new – it is Iesous in transliterated which he heard the voice of his Master: “John, signpost to help us along the way to take the Greek) urged people to go within and seek the John, why do you weep? Don’t you recognize higher ground and do the right thing. We have truth and not stop seeking until they found the who I am? I am the Father; I am the Mother; and the free will to change anything if we so choose truth. Only a portion of this appears in the New I am the Son.” The meaning, to John, was so what can we do today to change the world for Testament, but a more complete version can be crystal clear: the Holy Trinity includes the Holy the better? Spirit/Divine Mother as the feminine read in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas. It Each of us needs to hold our higher includes a curious caveat of wisdom after the manifestation of God. vision for the world in our hearts and minds. invitation to come seek and find all that awaits All of these words, apparently, were Imagine peace within yourself and you will us. The caveat warns that when we discover the ones the male-dominated clergy did not want begin to emanate it to the world around you. truth, we will at first be disturbed as well as their faithful to hear. For the past two thousand What I am talking about here is simple astonished. In the end, however, it is the truth years, the clergy has had its way. Now, in large to do, and yet it is not easy. It is far easier to get that will set us free. measure because of a book and a movie, there is caught up in all the 'excitement' of the world on room for expanded debate. Dismissing The Da the brink of extinction and when we get Vinci Code as meaningless pulp fiction may be Indeed, I followed Mary’s lead and took ourselves all worked up over this stuff, it feeds a look at some of the writings in The Gospel of like trying to brush off a tsunami with a on itself. Thomas. It says: “If you bring forth what is flyswatter. Throughout recorded history, everyone within you, what you bring forth will save you.” from the ancient Romans to Europeans The bishops like Athanasius (and Irenaeus About The Author: consumed by the Black Plague has feared the before him) who advocated the destruction of end of the world, and so far, it hasn't happened. offensive writings apparently preferred that the Don't get me wrong - I see the turmoil in faithful believe the Church was the only route, the world and I find it both disturbing and “outside of which there is no salvation.” The disheartening. Regardless of how devastating Gospel of Thomas also quotes Jesus as saying, recent circumstances seem, I do believe we “I am the light that is before all things; I am all have the power to turn this boat around. things; all things come forth from me; all things Scientists now purport theories on many return to me. Split a piece of wood, and I am worlds and parallel universes. In the world I there; lift up a rock, and you will find me there.” live in, we all hold peace as a mental construct This mystical statement may have been regardless of current external forces, and within considered dangerously close to a pantheistic no time at all, things turn around beautifully and view suggesting that people are encouraged to we learn to live in peace. discover their own divinity. Come, won't you, and join me in my Along similar lines, The Gospel of world! Philip quotes Jesus: “Do not seek to become a Jean-Claude Gerard Koven is a writer and Christian, but a Christ.” The text has been speaker based in Rancho Mirage, CA. He is a deemed “an abyss of madness, and blasphemy featured weekly columnist for the UPI (United For Information On against Christ” because of this. But perhaps the Press International) Religion and Spirituality Dr Shelley Kaehr, Ph.D. most remarkable revelation in the Nag Forum and the author of Going Deeper: How to (469)556-HEAL(4325) Hammadi scrolls is the manner in which Christ Make Sense of Your Life When Your Life www.galactichealing.org viewed women. The following has been Makes No Sense, selected by both Allbooks Shop for gems, books & more online at: translated from The Gospel of Mary Reviews and USABookNews.com as the best www.shop.galactichealing.org (Magdalene): metaphysical book of the year. For more to send an e-mailto Dr. Kaehr information, please visit: www.goingdeeper.org. drshelley@galactichealing.org