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ST. JUDAS ISCARIOT PART II

Journal Entry: Sun May 19, 2013, 11:12 PM
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"Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. The star that leads the way is your star."  (The Gospel Of Judas). 

In the canonical gospels, Jesus is the literal son of God, who was born to redeem human kind from sin.  The price that must be paid is that Jesus must be crucified and killed on the cross.  Gnostics would point out that the Old Testament God abhorred human sacrifice, and forbade any of his people from doing it.  Here is an example from the book of Deuteronomy. 

"You shall not worship the Lord your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the Lord hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods."

As I mentioned last week, Gnostics believe that the Old Testament God and the New Testament God are not the same.  Why would God abhor and forbid child sacrifice in the Old Testament, and then be willing to offer up his own son to be brutally beaten and then crucified on a cross in the New Testament? Gnostics believe that the body is just a shell, or a vessel, and that the soul (the Gnostics call Pneuma) lives on no matter what happens to the body.  It is our Pneuma that will be reborn in a new body should the path of Gnosis not be found, or it will be joined in the heavenly realms should the path be found.  There is no way for a living person to enter the heavenly realm, but is possible for them to see it and know how to get there.  The body has to die and the Pneuma freed for it to be able to travel to the heavenly plains of existence. 
Jesus knew this to be true, and knew that to return to the heavenly realm, his human body had to die.  Jesus believed that 11 of his disciples were beguiled by the Demiurge and that only 1 knew the truth and was strong enough to carry out and set in motion the events that would free Jesus from his mortal coil and allow him to rejoin the heavenly realm.  This one Apostle was none other than Judas Iscariot.

" But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me. Already your horn has been raised, your wrath has been kindled, your star has shone brightly, and your heart has [been hardened..."] The Gospel Of Judas

Indeed, Judas's heart was hardened, and he does everything the canonical gospels claim he did.  The major difference in the Gospel of Judas, however, is that he does it with the full blessings of Jesus.  This has to happen! None of the others would have understood or acted to free Jesus of the bonds of humanity.  Judas understands that the others are going to hate him for it, and Jesus warns Judas that he will be hated and despised for generations to come.  Agonizing over his misfortune, Judas is called to join Jesus (in private).

"Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom,"  The Gospel Of Judas

Judas is shown the path to Gnosis and assured his place in the heavenly realm.  Jesus wanted to let Judas know that his place was prepared in a place far higher and above that of the other 11 Apostles. 
In the end, we know what happens to Jesus Christ.  He does end up being crucified and dies.  Christians believe that he arose on the third day and was resurrected.  Gnostics believe that he remained dead, and that his Pneuma returned to the heavenly plain where it belonged.  The Gospel of Judas does not end with Judas hanging himself, or with his bowels bursting out of his body.  In an odd twist, Judas foresees his death as being stoned to death by the 11 Apostles that would come to revile and hate him.  His Pneuma joining that of Jesus. 

For more about The Gospel Of Judas follow this link [link]

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:icongudrun355: In bitter nightIn bitter night
on the trail
as tangled
as a human heart
and ugly-
a painting once
hung against
a blue black sky,
crookedly
compelling...
The smell
of thawing Moos
encouraged
by spring spirits -
wait! an animal
passed here -
not a man
for years
through the
gentle wind
and the
stinging tears...
A hero lies
buried
in that sinking
stinking swamp
of a century -
maybe more
has passed
at last...
Forgotten
man and
familes
who never
walk and
talk of
barricades
and battle
next to
dead men's hearts
rest here...

The bleary stars
twinkle
on and off
in rhythm
to my footfall -
look up, look down...
this is a town
of the dead
yet
spirits
hang
fast to
dre
There will always be riversThere will always
be rivers
on this earth
in considering
the snow
when it dies -
crystal,
then fluidity
then mist
on the waters,
rising and falling
from the clouds -
to morph and sink
into the earth
for the earth
can not hold back
those tears
for long
from the river...
flowing, flowing
to the ocean
in salty agony...

For all must change
around you -
your family
will grow old -
your friends
will travel
and be lost
to you -
there will be
weddings and holidays,
memories so
sweet
that they hurt -
and bright, light
Christmas trees -
green lives,
sacrificed
for one day
in a warm house
with laughter...
All will be vorbei...
snow and fog
and cloud
The Long Swim...A lonesome dream
has come to me -
cold silver moon
like lover's eyes
and winter's beach
with glistening sand,
reflecting icy Paradise...
 (making plans...)

My footfall held
up by the sand -
I've tossed away
my wedding band...
 (long ago...)
And it is no
surprise to me -
No scent of brine
upon the sea.
Oh, let me try
as humans may
to sense the
feeling of decay...
 (I am leaving this world...)

I choose the sand
for marraige bed.
The blue-green waters
reach the shore.
I close my eyes
and wait for spring
and lay there
till I am no more...
 (dying)

No feeling left
in human limbs-
I float in tangled
green weed
The Last DinosaurWas just a painting -
splashes of color
put to a wide
empty canvas -
not particularly
special
but what do I know?
with my tired eyes
and yet...
The dinosaur
was a child,
wobbling on
a mountaintop -

short legs
not meant
to climb
and yet...
attainment!
Looking out
over a valley
where a gloomy
ice age had begun
to creep, to devour...
All alone,
one of a kind,
crying out...
tears of a kind
in my mind
fell from
that cliff...
Give the reptile
a human voice
and there
you have Man.

We cry out
for many things-
for hope,
for home,
for life
and for love
to whom
or what
for whatever
our tired eyes
may covet.
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