C2.10: The Demiurge — Allegory? Myth? What Is Reality
The Demiurge – Allegory? Myth? What is Reality? What this means is that the authors of the scriptures did not randomly decide to compose their scriptures in allegorical forms — i.e., they did not get together and randomly create symbols in order to conceal their spiritual wisdom from the masses. But rather, they employed a parallel allegorical format in the creation of their scriptures, that is also employed in the forms in the outer world of matter. Which means that as the disciple begins to make progress — and begins to perceive and comprehend the inner meaning of the scriptures by looking beyond the allegorical cloak of the written text — he is then able to utilize this same knowledge to crack the allegorical code of the forms in the outer world of illusion — or more accurately, the world of allusion within which mankind dwells in this, the Far Country.
Again, in understanding what is portrayed in the alchemical picture at the right which is The Escape: If the objective is to escape what Jesus portrayed as the “outer darkness” of mind and being (see Outer Darkness), then why would the biblical authors portray what is perceived in the illusion of this world as being real? Either from an historical or literal perspective? When it is recognized that what we perceive is thought-symbols impressed into the the forms of Nature as presented by the modern physicist in the above subheading The Allusion Of The Forms Of Matter — and that our brain and physical mind which perceives a holographic universe by constructing these symbols universally, out of frequencies of thought — then we must begin to perceive both the scriptures, and the outer world, from an entirely different perspective. When it is recognized that the objects we observe in the outer world with our physical senses, are in fact aspects of mind impressed into the forms and symbols of nature — and we are dealing entirely with aspects of mind — why would we even imagine that modern man who has based his assumptions and predisposed thinking of counterfeit doctrines of religious beliefs and fraudulent scientific theories, would be more inclined to perceive truth, than the wise men of the past who were enlightened as to the esoteric nature of man, mind and the universe in which we presently dwell? While we imagine ourselves as more advanced and enlightened than the mystic visionaries and wise men in the past — we do this to our own folly. Do we need modern technology to explore aspects of Mind? And especially our own that we see reflected back to us from the outer world? When this fact is recognized, one would have to conclude that our modern culture which is built upon erroneous assumptions, is actually a great hindrance to finding the higher truths of man’s reality.
While the modern biblical and religious critic can point out the countless flaws in the literal text of the scriptures and the mainstream of religious doctrine — they are generally incapable of comprehending the well documented assertion that what they proclaim to be flaws in the literal text, were purposely inserted in the scriptures in order to inhibit a person of greater intellect from reading them literally/historically. To ignore the warning of the Church Father Origen when he portrayed those who were so gullible to believe the literal text of the scriptures as “idiots” (see The Mystery Of The Gospels) — or that of the Church Historian Eusebius when he stated that those who read the Gospels literally, and failed to seek out the language of the soul were men of “…of very small intelligence”. And to critique the scriptures without first understanding why the visionaries of the past composed their sacred writings in this manner (see An Inconvenient Truth) — gives new meaning to the term intellectual bankruptcy. Which means that the modern critics who put themselves forth as intellectually superior, are pseudo-authorities who are little more than intellectual idiots!
In the February 1979 Psychology Today interview with brain scientist Karl Pribram, the world which he attempted to describe confirmed the vision witnessed by the Hebrew mystics and prophets who authored the scriptures — and when properly understood, confirmed the reality of the Bible that neither true believer nor staunch critic is even prepared to acknowledge and understand — i.e., Pribram wrote: “It isn’t that the world of appearances is wrong; it isn’t that there aren’t objects out there, at one level of reality. It’s that if you penetrate through and look at the universe with a holographic system, you arrive at a different reality, one that can explain things that have hitherto remained scientifically inexplicable: paranormal phenomena… synchronicities, the apparently meaningful coincidence of events” (see Illusion ). And thus, it is this world of illusion that is created by the limitations of each person’s own mind that is portrayed by the Gnostics as the Demiurge of a counterfeit creator. This world of illusions is in fact what Jesus portrayed as the “outer darkness” of mind and being. And it is this same world of illusion that man must escape in the analogy of Plato’s Cave . The Demiurge, therefore, is the illusions of each person’s own mind and thinking that has created the world in which they presently live.
Man’s Ultimate Reality that most are incapable of coming to terms with, is the higher factual reality that there is nothing but Mind — and this and all other dimensions of Reality is a Great Thought that man is experientially evolving within. And what this confirms is the fact that the objects in the outer world that we observe with our physical senses, are in reality allegorical symbols of mind impressed into the forms of matter by the forces in the underlying Etheric Field — and the forms that we observe, represents a psychic/mental impression of the thought form of mind that it denotes to our own, and the Universal Consciousness. And once this higher reality is properly understood, is the very reason why it would appear to the unenlightened mind of the Atheist and critic, that one religion borrows the mythological symbolism from another — when in fact, nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, this is why, while Eastern mysticism portrays the forms of concrete matter that we observe in the outer world as an illusion, Western Gnosticism understands that the illusion is more factually, an allusion — an allusion because each and every aspect of what we observe, possess a meaning that is being pictorially and allegorically presented to our mind. Thus, in the Gospel of Thomas Jesus declares: Jesus said, “Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you”. While all things are plain to the few who possess the eyes to see, those who continue to dwell under the limitations and illusions of their beliefs, are those who dwell under the power of what the Spiritual (Gnostic) Christians portrayed as a Demiurge of their own making. Because the carnal Jews had thrown away what Jesus called the Key of Knowledge — and they saw only the literal text of the scriptures which Paul portrayed as the “letter that killeth” which were little more than “Jewish fables” (see The Books With The Power to Deceive) — it was said that they dwelt under the power of a Demiurge — one of their own making that totally controlled their vision of the world.
What is the difference between an illusion and an allusion? When properly understood, they are in fact worlds apart. While an illusion could be virtually anything — i.e., like a hallucination that a dying man sees in the form of a mirage in the middle of the desert — an allusion is a symbolic representation of a reality that we may or may not recognize what is being portrayed. That the organic mind of man only sees the outward form that has been imbedded in nature as a symbol of what that form indicates, is the illusions of what Jesus portrayed as the “outer darkness”, and what Plato portrayed as the Cave of illusions. Only as your higher aspects of mind develop, do you begin to see the meaning of the allegorical symbols of this world — i.e., “Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you”.
If all that we see in the outer world is the result of the forces exerted in the underlying Field — i.e., the words of Einstein that “We may therefore regard matter as being constituted by the regions of space in which the field is extremely intense… There is no place in this new kind of physics both for the field and matter, for the field is the only reality” — the form that is impressed into the shape that we see, is an allegorical representation of the aspect of mind that the symbol expresses. In the same way that a phallic symbol which was used by the ancients expresses the male generative power, the penis itself expresses an aspect of mind that is universal. And this is true not only of all the parts of the body, but also everything that exists in the outer world — which is merely a larger scale and pattern of mind expressed and impressed into matter — i.e., mental-imagery. Which means that a dog, appears to us in that physical form that we see and interact with as a K9, because of the underlying aspect of mind and consciousness that is represented in the physical form of a dog. A dog, therefore, is an aspect of mind impressed into the form of nature which we observe. When Jesus warned not to give what is holy to dogs, what he was presenting was the reality that a dog represents a condition of mind projected into the forms of matter that we see — and people who are ruled over by this condition of mind, are incapable of comprehending what is holy. And from an enlightened perspective, a swine, is a swine, because of the underlying aspect of mind and consciousness that is represented in the form of the swine.
Thought Animated Symbols: The Egyptians expressed themselves in hieroglyphs — and much of the Chinese languages represent thoughts impressed into symbols — and when properly understood, everything that we see and interact with in the outer world is merely the thoughts of the Great Mind expressed in the allegorical forms of matter — i.e., mental-imagery. If you could take the vast realities of our own mind and express each aspect of mind in the form of a symbol that would animate the thought that each represents, then you would begin to grasp the reality of man as dwelling within an illusion that is an allusion — i.e., a Matrix of mind expressed into symbols which animate each thought that is the building blocks of consciousness. And thus, we can begin to grasp the higher reality expressed by G.R.S. Mead, a foremost authority on the Gnostics, in his book entitled Fragments of a Faith Forgotten, where this explanation of the true nature of the scriptures is put forth: “…what the Gnostics projected onto the screen… [in the form of a ] picture of the universe was in reality a picture of their own minds. Its mythology is a symbolic portrayal, almost a deliberate one, of the forces which operate in the structuring and evolution of the human personality”. And upon encountering these same patterns of thought in the dreams and thinking of his patients, was the reason that Carl Jung called the Gnostic Christians the worlds first and foremost psychologists who understood the very fabric of human consciousness. Why did he come to recognize what the Gnostics were presenting? He found that many of his patients who knew absolutely nothing about either the Gnostics or scriptures, were in fact dreaming in these same symbolic symbols — and thus, he began to recognize that the authors of the scriptures wrote in what is called the language of the soul.
What this means is that all the many critics of what is presented in Gnostic scriptures, are merely expressing their own ignorance of both the essence and spiritual objectives of Gnosticism, as well as the relationship of the cosmology of self, and that of the outer world. A most profoundly enlightened statement with respect to the relationship of what Jesus portrayed as the Key of Knowledge and the true meaning of the scriptures is made by the Church Father Origen in his famed writing De Principiis where he states: “But all the narrative portion, relating either to the marriages, or to the begetting of the children, or to battles of different kinds, or to any other histories whatever, what else can they be supposed to be, save the forms and figures of hidden and sacred things? As men, however, make little effort to exercise their intellect, or imagine that they possess knowledge before they really learn”, they remain lost and incapable of escaping the Demiurge that controls their thinking. What is being conveyed is that (from a scriptural perspective) all the interrelationships between men and women, the marriages, and the begetting of children, as well as the battles and wars, kings and all other aspects of the scriptures that on the surface of the text appear to be historical — are not at all historical — but rather, the allegorical portrayal of body, mind/soul and spirit of the disciples own mind and being. And this is why the Apostle Paul states that the biblical account of Abraham is an allegory (Gal 4:24) — and has no historical relevance, significance or accuracy. And while both the carnal Jews and the carnal Muslims look to Abraham as their common forefather, they do this because of their ignorance of the symbols of their own scriptures.
In much the same way, the seemingly astrological myths of the Greek poets and other such writings, are once again a portrayal of mind. And this reality is demonstrated in the words of the Apostle Peter: “The wisest of the ancients, men who had by hard labor learned all truth, kept the path of knowledge hid from those who were unworthy and had no taste for lessons in divine things. For it is not really true that from Ouranos and his mother Ge were born twelve children, as the myth counts them: six sons, Okeanos, Koios, Krios, Hyperion, Japetos, Kronos; and six daughters, Thea, Themis, Mnemosyne, Demeter, Tethys, and Rhea. Nor that Kronos, with the knife of adamant, mutilated his father Ouranos, as you say, and threw the part into the sea; nor that Aphrodite sprang from the drops of blood which flowed from it; nor that Kronos associated with Rhea, and devoured his first-begotten son Pluto, because a certain saying of Prometheus led him to fear that a child born from him would wax stronger than himself, and spoil him of his kingdom… But, my son, as I said, such stories have a peculiar and philosophical meaning, which can be allegorically set forth in such a way that you yourself would listen with wonder” (Peter quoted in the Clementine Homilies). Why would the esoteric truths concealed in the writings of the Greek poets amaze the hearer? Because what is being revealed is the very foundational fabric of mind and being that modern man remains totally ignorant of today.
Higher Truth Lies Beyond The Allegorical Forms Of The World: That there is an Inner Source of Knowledge that is beyond even the most enlightened wisdom of this world, is in fact the very reason why the Apostle Paul wrote: “For the truth about God is known to them instinctively; God has put this knowledge in their hearts” (Rom 1:19 TLB). Which are in fact parallel statements presented in the above — i.e., that of astronomer James Jeans who stated that: “Today there is a wide measure of agreement… that the stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine”; and the statement by astronomer Arthur Eddington: “The stuff of the universe is mind-stuff”. More recently, cyberneticist David Foster described “an intelligent universe” whose apparent concreteness is generated by cosmic data from an unknowable, organized source. The reality of the holographic theory says that: “…our brains mathematically construct hard reality by interpreting frequencies from a dimension transcending time and space. The brain is a hologram, interpreting a holographic universe.”
Once the reality that this world is an illusion — and that the illusion is in fact an allusion — and this reality is understood as one looks out at the forms and mental-imagery of this world — what this means is that from a biblical perspective, the swine is an unclean animal, because of the thought-pattern and consciousness that is represented in the (allegorical) form of the swine as presented to our organic senses. The swine which is condemned as an unclean animal in the Bible, is also rejected in the Qur’an — and while the unenlightened Atheist may point to this commonality between the scriptures and conclude that Mohammed borrowed from Moses, nothing could be further from the truth. The swine is unclean, because of the thoughts that are embodied when projected into the allegorical form of nature that created its image and actions. The commonality is founded upon the fact that both the authors of the Torah, as well as the Qur’an, were aware of what these thoughts projected into the (allegorical) forms of mind represented in the symbols of consciousness impressed into the symbol that is presented to the mind of man as he observes the allusion of the outer world. And because we are observing and interacting with Universal Consciousness, this esoteric reality of mind is true of all the forms that we observe in the outer world — and especially the human body, which is an allegorical blueprint of our own mind, impressed into the forms that make up the body-vessel in which we dwell. And the fact that these universal (allegorical) symbols of mind which are impressed into the forms of nature, is the basis of why it appears that religions borrow beliefs from other religions (see The God Who Wasn’t There ), represents the folly of the Atheists and critics who condemn what they lack the depth of mind to even begin to understand. And in the same way that the unenlightened religious believers who, because of spiritual immaturity, clings to doctrines of manmade belief regarding the interpretation of these symbols of projected mental-imagery, the pseudo-intellectuals and Atheists invent half-baked theories such as Evolution, to explain away what they fail to understand with respect to the forms observed in the outer world. Thus, the pseudo-intellectuals and Atheists who fail to understand what they see when they look out at the outer world, merely dwell under the power of a different variety of Demiurge than the immature religious people they condemn.
The True Measure Of Intellect: Why do I portray them as pseudo-intellectuals? An ultra-important definition of intellect is presented on the Nazirene web site which reads: “The true measure of intellect is seen in the ability of a person to re-evaluate what they believe to be true when additional and clarifying knowledge is received, and then apply this knowledge in their life so as to intimately embrace the higher truth that has been revealed in the endeavor to receive still Higher Truth.” To ignore the explanation of why the author’s of the scriptures were literally forced to compose their writings in the allegorical language of the soul — and to ignore the universal message of the mystic who has warned mankind that the objects that they see in this world is projected mental-imagery — and that this enlightened vision of this world has been confirmed by modern physicists who portray this world as a Great Thought, the Source of which can only be understood from the perspective of the “Field” which is not seen by man’s physical senses — gives a totally new dimensional meaning to the folly of man’s absolute insanity to ignore. And to ignore the very words of the Apostle Paul in relation to the above — i.e., “While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (2 Cor 4:18 KJV) — represents a demonstration of modern man’s intellectual incompetency that is simply beyond the pale of the history of man’s superstition and ignorant past. And the fact that our modern pseudo-intellectual educators are clueless as to the universal meaning of the mental-imagery that is projected into the forms and symbols of the scriptures — i.e., composed in the universal language of the soul — is proof of their intellectual bankruptcy.
What is being stated by both the physicist and the Gnostic author of the scriptures? I have demonstrated above at a number of points where the biblical authors warn that higher reality is inconceivable to the mind of organic man. Why? For no other reason than the fact that man’s organic natural physical consciousness is infantile and undeveloped. So the problem then becomes how an enlightened visionary who has escaped the illusions of this world — i.e., an enlightened visionary who finds himself condemned and rejected by the men of organic carnal consciousness — finds it near impossible to convey to others who lack the ability to understand in their present organic condition, what they need to embrace in order to expand their level of mind beyond organic human consciousness. In the account of Plato’s Cave, those who succeed in escaping the illusions of the Cave, are condemned and rejected as “madmen” when they return and attempt to convey to others the true reality of what carnal organic man sees in this world of mental-imagery. Thus, because it has been impossible throughout man’s history to convey the truth of this world literally, these visionaries who had themselves escaped the illusion that is an allusion, portrayed the symbols of mental-imagery in such a way, that the symbols themselves would act as a catalyst that reflects man’s inner reality where the meaning of the symbols is known and understood for what they truly reveal to the mind of the enlightened seeker. And this is why in the above quotation of the Church Father Origen he states that “…As men, however, make little effort to exercise their intellect, or imagine that they possess knowledge before they really learn”, he is indicating that an inner part of us already knows and understands the meaning of the symbolism of the projected mental-imagery, and when the Key of Knowledge is properly applied, man begins to possess the power and ability to escape the illusions of Plato’s Cave that Jesus portrayed as the “outer darkness” of mind and being. And the fact that our modern systems of education is not only totally ignorant of the true meaning of the scriptures — or why the mystic visionaries who authored the worlds’ scriptures composed them in this allegorical manner — is indicative of the fact that our modern educators are themselves under the power of a different variety of Demiurge — and they exist as virtual slaves who are shackled to the illusions of Plato’s Cave and the “outer darkness” of mind and being.
Thus, in the same way that man dwells within a living world of allegorical symbols that when understood, had the inherent power to enlighten — the authors of the scriptures utilize these very same symbols in such a way, that they act as catalysts that connect the seeker with their own inner higher reality that they are for the most part ignorant of. Why? Because it is the proper usage of these catalysts which facilitates the necessary expansion of mind beyond organic limitations. And while the spiritually immature religious person may embrace these biblical symbols under the cloud of blind faith — the very fact that they systematically embrace them, enables the symbols to begin to act as forces that enlighten, when used in the proper environment — i.e., the environment which Jesus portrayed as the “good ground” in the parable of the Sower and the Seed. And apart from this environment which Jesus warned is necessary to escape the “outer darkness” of mind and being, Jesus warned: “Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?” — which indicates the absolute necessity of brining about the environment of the “good ground” within one’s self, in order to escape the organic limitations of the physical consciousness of the body-vessel. And proof of what Jesus stated is demonstrated in the fact that not only is the immature believer incapable of understanding the true meaning of the scriptures, but this blindness is also true with respect to the pseudo-intellectual and Atheist critics who reject the biblical symbols as superstition and useless myth — remaining intellectually flat-lined and bankrupt — unable to move beyond their present mindset, because the Demiurge-filter that controls their thinking, will not permit the necessary expansion of mind beyond its present carnal and organic limitations. Yet these pseudo-intellectuals, like the Pharisees before them, not only put themselves forth as teachers — but they use their position of authority to force others to subscribe to their folly and ignorance.
In reality there is nothing that is concealed from mankind — and the problem is the inability of the physical to perceive what lies beyond the vibration of the spectrum of earth-frequencies. Thus, the Gospel proclaims: “And the disciples came and said to Him, Why do You speak to them in parables? He answered and said to them, Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says: ‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand, and seeing you will see and not perceive; For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and their eyes they have closed, lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, so that I should heal them.’ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it” (Matt 13:10-17 NKJ).
The disciples were those who had detached themselves from the thinking, mindset and lifestyle of this world — and were seeking the Kingdom. Thus, they began to develop the necessary expansion of mind and the senses, that permitted them to see and perceive beyond the spectrum of earth-frequencies. The multitudes, on the other hand, remained blind to anything outside of the frequencies of the earth — and were thus portrayed as blind, deaf and unable to perceive and understand man’s higher soul and spiritual reality. That limiting force of consciousness that left them earth-bound in their thinking and virtually blind to man’s higher reality, was portrayed as a Demiurge that was the source of the delusions they dwelled under. The Demiurge is very much the filter of their beliefs, mindset and lifestyle, that limits the vision and understanding of the world in which they live. Therefore, once this reality is understood, then it can be said that each group — nay, even each individual — dwells in a world created by their own Demiurge which they worship in ignorance. In the parable of the Sower and the Seed, the Demiurge is portrayed allegorically as Satan who alienates the person from “…the word that was sown in their hearts”(Mark 4:15 KJV).