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Gnostic Musings #9: The Divine Mind (Part 1)

Gnostic Musings #9: The Divine Mind (Part 1)

by Ariel Glad and Wes Penre, October 10, 2020

What is the Physical Universe?

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his universe consists of matter. This is a material universe, and when
it was created, it was the only one of its kind, and it’s made of energy.
Spirit, on the other hand, is not something that could be compared to
energy because energy only exists where there is matter, and vice versa.
Spirit comes from that “space” which pre-existed before the creation of the
Material Universe (or the Demiurge), so Spirit must be non-physical.
Most of us are dividing this universe, the Kenoma, into what is physical and
what is not physical. However, everything within this universe is physical—
even the astral dimensions. They are just on a different wavelength than
the reality we experience while we are in our physical bodies. Energy exists
within the astral, so therefore, it’s part of the physical universe.

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The Basic Mind Split

In the simplest terms that we can think of, this universe is representative
of our Mind, and our Mind has been fragmented into at least two facets of
creation – one of awareness and one of ignorance. We perceive ourselves as
having a conscious mind – AWARENESS – and a subconscious mind –
IGNORANCE. We are also told that we have an unconscious mind, but that
is something to discuss another time.
The mind, however, works on an awareness scale from significantly
expanded awareness to complete ignorance, although it’s up for debate
whether there are any absolutes in either direction.
We could also say that Christ is the conscious mind, and the Demiurge is
the subconscious mind or the VOID/Darkness. And all of it, from the deepest
Ignorance to the highest Awareness is the Divine Mind.
This might be more easily demonstrated in the following diagram:

We can move up and down on this awareness scale from oblivion (to the
right) to more and more awareness (to the left). A human can be anywhere
on this scale as he or she increase or decrease in awareness, depending on
their choices (see example below).

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Both Awareness and Ignorance are spaces for creation, and all things can
be categorized and put in either column—Love (awareness/consciousness)
and Fear (ignorance/subconscious). The creation of us and the mind that
was given to us, which exists within the Divine Mind of the Aeon Sophia (or
Spirit) was for the learning purpose of being able to move things out of the
subconscious column and into the conscious column. This is how the
Demiurge is “unmade” and how Yaldabaoth is “redeemed”. We do it, and we
do it within ourselves because both aspects of the Aeon Sophia are within
us, and we are within Her Mind, i.e. Her “space” or area of creation.

What is Spirit and What is Mind?

As we have been going through and really pondering on the meaning of the
Gnostic texts, and Sophia in particular, we have questioned, “What is Spirit,
really?” What is it about us that, according to the Gnostic texts, has the
ability to be “perfected?” One conclusion is that the Spirit which passes
down to us from our Divine Mother is Her Mind.
If perfection is that within us that can be transformed and achieved (which
it can), then this would certainly be the Mind.
Is it possible that we are creations in the Mind of Sophia? If we are still
thinking of Sophia as anything less than a Source of Creation and an Aeon,
we are really not understanding the breadth and the scope of Her, as we
understand it. She is Wisdom and She is Creation. She is this Universal
Mind that we are created within. We exist within Her as creations from Her
Mind, just like both we and Sophia exist within the Mind of the Monad, aka
All That Is.
Can Sophia stand before us in physical form? Absolutely. Can we imagine
ourselves in our own minds? Yes. Can we create scenarios that we imagine
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we are experiencing in our own minds as either daydreams or nightmares,

depending on which aspect of our mind is creating the play? Do you exist in
your own mind? Yes.
What if this creation, which is existing in ignorance, is literally the
manifestation of Sophia’s subconscious mind, and on a smaller scale, that
which is hidden in our own human minds, i.e. the human subconscious
mind, is at the same time Sophia’s subconscious mind? As above, so below…

Why Shadow Work?

What do we do when we practice “shadow work?” We are confronted with
all those negative and low vibrational aspects that we hide away in our
subconscious mind, and therefore we become ignorant of them. We, as
creations within Sophia’s own subconscious mind, were created to exist
within her shadow side so that we can do Her “shadow work.” Possible? The
Kenoma is Sophia’s “shadow;” the part of Herself She didn’t want to
acknowledge, and which therefore became hidden.
The return home is merely a passage of what was once ignorant from one
side to the other; just like what happens to us when we work to resolve our
own shadows. Once we become aware of them (“shedding LIGHT” on them),
they are no longer hidden, and more of ourselves becomes known to us.
However, for this to work, the human soul group needed to descend all the
way down to the deepest layers of Sophia’s subconsciousness to spread
Knowledge into this depth of the hidden darkness. We do that by exploring
and healing our own subconscious mind, i.e. we transform our own
Ignorance into Knowledge, which is where Gnosis comes into the picture.
Nowadays, it is a pretty common thought that we live in a simulation of
some type, like a computer game. Well, what is the model for a computer?
A mind. This Sims game that so many people compare this reality to, I think
would, in comparison, be more accurately described as Sophia’s
imagination.
We know that our reality and all realities within this universe are thought-
responsive. Where do thoughts come from? The Mind. We are using Sophia’s
Mind to create within Her Mind and in every aspect imaginable; every single
thing that exists in this “space” is inside of Sophia.

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It differs from person to person when it comes to level of awareness. Does

this mean that only some people have a Divine Mind? No, the Mind is the
same mind in all Spirited humans, and we all have the capacity to open
ourselves up to higher echelons of the Divine Mind. But it happens on a
gradient scale, and it happens as we heal inside and exchange Ignorance for
Knowledge/Gnosis. We are using our Divine Mind whether we are extremely
ignorant or relatively aware—it’s the same Divine Mind, working on
different frequency levels or in different densities, as it were. Not until the
Kenoma is dissolved or integrated and we return to the Pleroma can our
Mind be completely Perfected the way it was to begin with. However, even
this is a paradox because the most ignorant of us is no less Perfect than if
we would operate within the Pleroma—it’s the same Mind coming to use to
accomplish different tasks, and depending on what task the mind is
currently performing, it will determine the stage of awareness.

Yaldabaoth versus Sophia

Yaldabaoth is Sophia, but Sophia in shadow or Ignorance. We could also say
that we humans are Yaldabaoth because he is an archetype and
manifestation of Ignorance. When we descended to the Kenoma, we became
part of Yaldabaoth’s Mind, i.e. his Ignorance.
It is only the mind that has the capability to gain wisdom. This universe is
thought-responsive and the aspect of us that is producing thoughts is the
Mind. If the Mind is Spirit, then we have the Mind of Source.
For those of you who are feeling resistance or anger at the thought that your
perceived “enemy” (Yaldabaoth) is actually Sophia, and if you feel that SHE
is responsible for your suffering, please allow us to help you see this from
another perspective. Sophia, the Aeon, isn’t responsible for our suffering;
the subconscious mind is responsible for our suffering.
Please go back and review the articles and videos that we have published
on narcissism, the inner critic, the inner child, and how emotional abuse
creates fragmentation of the mind. This is the reason why we suffer, and
when we heal our mind, we perfect our mind, and since our mind is the
Mind/Spirit of Sophia, we resolve and correct the ignorance of this schism.
The Archons disappear, the Darkness is now in the Light, and we (as
creations in Sophia’s Mind and the stepped down one – Yaldabaoth’s mind)

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perfect this creation – and it all happens within our own minds because this
is the Source within us. This is ultimately the Pleroma, God, Source, all of
it inside of us.
We have seen interpretations that Sophia’s Creation was a “mistake”
because She didn’t create together with Her consort, entering into Her own
Creation, which had never happened before, but if we really read the
Gnostic texts, it is not true that it was a mistake. The Aeon we call Sophia,
which basically just means Wisdom, was emanated by the Monad in
Perfection. Thus, Her creation in Her attempt to “know God” was
predictable and somewhat predestined by the Monad—She acted in
accordance to Her attributes and characteristics. We need to remember that
the Monad emanated the Aeons to experience Itself through perceived
separation, and for that to work, there must be some parts of the Monad
that is Unknown, or nothing could ever be created. Sophia, in her yearning
for Divine Wisdom, fulfilled a big part of the Monad’s Plan. She created an
entire universe based on Ignorance.

Are You Part of the Problem or the Solution?

As we have been reading about the emanation of the Aeons, we have
mistakenly visualized these aspects of God as projections outward, but they
are more appropriately related to reflections and extensions inward.
We have both conscious and subconscious mind within us. We are unique!
If we want to know more about ourselves, we don’t look outside ourselves,
we look within ourselves. As above so below, and as without so within; this
is what Source did.
This is a slight change from our earlier conclusions of projections and
emanations, but not entirely, because both exist. It depends on which
perspective we are viewing all of this from, and we couldn’t have gotten to
this point without the first part.
In all of our intentions, beliefs, wishing, raging, and blame, have we ever
considered that by doing this, we are holding space open within this
subconscious Divine Creation and preventing Sophia from healing Her
subconscious of which we are part? Think about what it takes to heal our
shadows. What we do for ourselves, we also do for HER and this is what

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“unmakes” this fracture of the Divine Mind. It also works in reverse; what
we do towards ourselves and others that decreases our awareness, we are
also doing to Sophia. If we REALLY want to make all this suffering go away,
once and for all, then we need to heal our own minds because our mind is
HER mind is the Monad’s Mind. How well does that sit with personal
responsibility…?

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