by Ticker 24 Replies latest watchtower bible
Evil is evil.
Bad is still bad.
Betrayal is still betrayal.
No matter what spin the Cainites wanted to put on evil, doesn't change what is was.
I have been betrayed by a friend. I have betrayed a friend. It is when we start to call bad things good that society begins its decline. The individual loses their focus on the capabilities of greatness in the human heart.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves,
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!
Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.
Some love too little, some too long,
Some sell, and others buy;
Some do the deed with many tears,
And some without a sigh:
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.
Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol
For each man kills the thing he loves,
Yet each man does not die.
Each man does die. The depth of compassion, goodness, is destroyed by evil. When the heart dies, the man dies.
Matthew 5:20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
He wasn't talking about being more righteous on the outside like the WTBTS tried to tell us, but more righteous on the inside. Calling evil; evil, betrayal; betrayal, repenting when it resides in our spirits, was the message.
To claim that betrayal was good, is against everything Jesus was about.
The lowest level of Barbelo's Aeon is Autogenes, the third member of the traditional Sethian Father-Mother-Son triad used to designate the high deity, his First Thought Barbelo who as the "merciful mother" directs the entire history of salvation, and the savior Autogenes who is identified variously as Adamas, Seth or Christ. In Allogenes, Autogenes is said to contain the "perfect individuals" as his members.
This is what is found in the Gospel of Judas....which describes Autogenes as an angel emanated from the luminous cloud to be the attendant of the "great invisible Spirit" in producing the "myriads of angels without number" (47-48), tho Adamas is not explicitly identified with Allogenes (48-49).
That`s just to many Gods for anyone to handle.... Pretty complicated, all of this.
I think only specialists really fully understand the elaborate Sethian or Valentinian systems; they certainly blow my mind....Bear in mind that these aeons are emanations of God brought into being to serve him and tho they are divine (just as every person has a piece of Deity in him or her), they are not worthy of worship, especially the archons that the Creator has made the rulers of the world....remember, Jesus laughs at his disciples for their misdirected worship...
