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“When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father.” - gnostic Gospel of ThomasVery interesting quote... It says when "you know yourselves"... To me this implies more than one "you" by different names and different lives and experience(just my read on that statement).... If so, then once aware of those lives and the lessons they impart, "you" would become a being a "you" (by a different name not yet foretold) that will be known as "children of the living Father".
"The key to Gurdjieff’s teaching is “self-remembering”, or “presence in the moment”, or the “power of Now”, or the “divine presence” of the Sufis. We have all had these moments, but have not recognized their value. In those moments, you are connected, and they are etched in your memory."So then I am thinking those "moments" would then be the ones of "yourselves" that when put together results in "you know yourselves".
At about 40 minutes in I wonder per the speaker: What is a watered down Buddhist?OK, I did a search on it and this is what was the first article and it seems valid, so take it or leave it....
However, it’s time to grow up. It requires that we shed our illusions—in short, become properly disillusioned—because there is no other way to avoid the extremes of credulity and resentment. We have created a “Buddhist” samsara for ourselves, perhaps with the help of people whom we should have looked at a little more carefully. After all, as Patrul Rinpoche says, to follow a fake master ends up with us jumping off the cliff with the one in whom we have placed our trust, hand in hand, to mutual destruction.BK
Boehme is the eponymous namesake of the infamous Bohemian Gove’s - Bohemian Club’s cryptic origin.
Böhme treatises were mostly Gnostic and kabbalistic in nature. His concepts often reflected Eastern spiritual concepts that were not widely known in Germany at the time. Böhme began with a radical rethink of the traditional Judeo-Christian God. He threw out the traditional picture of a guy with a beard and long robes in favor of an abstract, formless deity. Böhme’s cosmology, the wrathful element of God is the Father, the beneficient element is Jesus Christ, the Son. The syzygy of the conflict between the opposite poles created a process of change — the Holy Spirit, as the continual interaction of the Father and Son through time.
On the more disreputable end of the spectrum, Böhme was probably the single largest influence on the founders of modern occultism, including Aleister Crowley, Madame Blavatsky, and Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati, who got a lot of mileage out of Böhme’s trademark imagery, including the famed “Illuminati eye” and the Ouroboros. Small groups of adherents began to spring up. These early groups formed first among the Rosicrucians (a secret society active during Böhme’s lifetime that was a precursor to modern Freemasonry) and a few small groups which, inspired by Böhme’s tale of illumination in a ray of sunlight, began to refer to themselves as the Illuminati. Later, Weishaupt’s Bavarian Illuminati would adopt some of Böhme’s principles in their quest to rule the world — a purpose Böhme himself would have found laughable.