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Jan 27 (edited) • Presence & Awareness
REMEMBERING THE SOURCE #I.
Introduction
Dear Brothers and Sisters, those of you who are in the other group with me may have already come across this series. However, you have an advantage, and I invite you to take a deeper dive into the text once again.
I will post the next part of the series approximately every second day, allowing enough time for reflection. I write not for entertainment, but to invite readers to actively participate and to open their consciousness so the words can truly sink in.
What is new is that at the end of each article I add a few words from the Self in relation to the text as an Echo.
You are encouraged to leave a short comment if you feel inspired to do so.
This will be a short series in eight parts, a Gnostic exploration of what precedes creation, belief, and identity.
Thank you for your time, and I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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Part One
THE SILENCE BEFORE CREATION
The Monad and the God Before God
In the beginning, there was no world. There was no light. There was no darkness. There was not even the concept of nothingness. Before the first thought rippled across the infinite expanse, before any god opened celestial eyes to gaze upon creation, there existed only the Self, Brahman or the Monad. The One. The Absolute. The source that precedes all naming, all knowing, and all being.
This is not the God of temples and prayers. This is not the deity of commandments carved in stone. This is the unfathomable mystery that ancient Gnostic masters whispered about in hidden chambers. This is the secret so profound that organized religion spent centuries trying to erase every trace of its existence from human consciousness.
In this series you will encounter what the architects of orthodoxy feared most. The truth is that before any divine personality emerged to shape worlds and judge souls, there was only the perfect, undifferentiated unity of the Monad. And the most dangerous truth of all is this. Within that unity, you already existed.
The Apocryphon of John, a text discovered among the Nag Hammadi Library in 1945, opens with words that shatter every comfortable assumption about divinity. The text does not begin with creation. It begins with incomprehensibility itself. The Monad is described as invisible, immeasurable, eternal, and uncontainable. A reality so complete that it needs nothing. It knows nothing outside itself, because there is nothing outside itself. It contains all potentiality.
This is the story of the God before God. And it is the story of who you really are.
Echo
Nothing here was meant to persuade you. Only to remind you.
The Self or the Monad was never elsewhere. The God before God was never separate. It is the quiet presence reading these words, the stillness between thoughts, the familiarity you couldn’t quite name.
If something resonated, an echo recognized its source. If nothing did, that too is enough.
Close the page or linger a moment longer. Either way, what you were looking for never moved.
To be continued...
Helmut
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