I
suggest the Roman Church dismisses apocrypha because no one within its ranks
can understand them. Officially, according to Wikipedia, “Apocrypha are
statements or claims that are of dubious authenticity”. The word comes from
Latin, meaning “secret or non-canonical”. In Greek the word comes from verb “to
hide away”. The Greek meaning is not only the most original but also sounds to
me by far the most true. Namely, it means “secret knowledge”, not open to the
“masses” and kept only for the “few”.
In Gnostic Scriptures the mystery of reality is explained in Acts of
John in a single sentence:
“A lamp am I to him that searches for me, a mirror to him that finds
me”.
Many mystics had hinted at this sentiment before the
scribes put their quill to Gnostic Scriptures. Statements such as “The
perceiver and the perceived are one”. Or “I and my father are one,” speak for
themselves.
We search for our true identity.
The problem with religions
is that, by externalizing divinity, they separate us from true reality. We’ve
been told that truth will set us free. The realization of unity with
indomitable inseparability from the Whole is so overwhelming that most people
cannot contain it within their consciousness.
And yet…
And yet this is the only
truth that will set us free. Now, that the Age of Aquarius is upon us, that we
are well into the throngs of the Pluto Effect that will destroy all old
concepts, misdirection, twists, convolutions, lies, that our predecessors have
introduced into a road that is, and always was, straight and narrow, are about
to collapse. In this new Age, every man, every woman, will have to learn to
rely on their own cognizance.
We shall have no one to
blame but ourselves.
No more will TV preachers bamboozle us with childish
interpretations of various scriptures.
All the accumulated
knowledge of mankind was always intended to help us to serve as channels for
the Single Consciousness that wants to enrich its own domain. The domain of
heaven. The eternal state of being that we and we alone can create. “Whatsoever a man sows, that
shall he also reap” is a simple statement of fact, which reiterates the Law of
the Universe.
IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RELIGION. ANY RELIGION.
These are universal laws, identical in Russia, China, USA,
or the darkest Africa. They are identical everywhere. Action equals an equal
and opposite reaction. “Whatsoever we do to another, that also shall be done to
us.” No matter how rich, powerful or exceptional we think we are.
When we shall learn this simple truth we shall overcome
death itself. We shall no longer identify with our biological construct,
magnificent though it is, but with the essence of life itself.
Good luck.
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Growing up Catholic, I read far more of the Apocrypha than any of my friends who grew up Protestant, but we stuck to the unauthenticated definition--never any suggestion it was meant to be secret.
ReplyDeleteApocrypha are statements or claims that are of dubious authenticity. The word's origin is the medieval Latin adjective apocryphus, "secret, or non-canonical", from the Greek adjective ἀπόκρυφος (apocryphos), "obscure", from verb ἀποκρύπτειν (apocryptein), "to hide away".[1]
DeleteThe above is from Wikipedia. Sounds pretty secret to me. Also you were lucky. I have been brought up by Jesuits, who vigorously discouraged anything outside canonical sources.
Ah, but mine were English Jesuits :)
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