Xolton's Gnostic Thread
Merging scientific, mystical, and religious truth.
First Creation
First Creation, by Phillip Falcone (2010). As I began to meditate, I saw a woman crawl out of the waters. A voice began to tell me a lesson. The female represents, or is the embodiment of creation. Sophia, or Wisdom is the reflection of the absolute. She is the first. Water is symbolic of the Absolute because it reflects back upon the one who gazes upon it. Water is conscious and emotion, as well as creation. The land is male. From Sophia and the Absolute came the Thriced Blessed One, also called Christ. From this one, matter came into being. The land is solid and must be shaped. The water flows and is shaped and reconciled. When the two become one, they are called the All. Do not be foolish and separate yourselves from one another. The selfishness of ‘I’ cannot compare to the unity of ‘We.” Though you deem us to be one, we are one and many. We are the All.
In this issue:
Art – the First Written Language
The War within Us
The Nature of Reality
Trauma as Trigger
Salvation and Vicarious Atonement
Square Foot Gardening
Spirituality may be a Mental Illness
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Xolton II
Birth of the Phoenix by Phillip Falcone.
Welcome to Xolton’s Gnostic Thread. Xolton is the name of a dragon I painted some years ago. The painting was a purple dragon circling a warrior. In some cultures, the dragon represents wisdom. In others, the dragon represents the fall from Eden. In the Gnostic writing, The Hypostasis of the Archons the snake, Gadrel, was the female spiritual principle that led Eve to eat of the tree of Knowledge. In 2Nephi 2:23-25, in the Book of Mormon, Adam fell that men might be. That men might be is a bit archaic, this should read that human kind might be. For in the perfect state of Adam and Eve in the beginning did not truly know God, nor themselves. Xolton represents wisdom, and the Gnostic Thread represents a way to that wisdom.
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Did You Know?
In 1999, one in four children in Westernized cultures had a form of an allergic disorder. at that time the rate of increased confirmed diagnoses was considered an epidemic. Today, allergies and asthma are so common place that the mentality is I can control it a pill or an inhaler. A study in the 1990s of the Robert Steiner schools near Stockholm, Sweden revealed that a majority of the students did not display any sensitivity to allergens. The belief was the difference in lifestyles was the key. The parents of those children enrolled in the Steiner schools were not as obsessed with cleanliness as their peers were. Today, we are so obsessed with being clean that we insist on using antibacterial products which kill not only the bad bacteria, but the good bacteria as well.
Source: Jeremy Laurance’s ‘Holistic’ children can fight allergies, in The Independent (1999; April 30).
