Jesus wasn’t a Christian, but he was a Gnostic. And all of his teachings came straight from his Secret Knowledge in the here, now of his time and place.
Gnosis , Psyche, Tao, Intuition–the terms all mean the same thing: Secret Knowing. Everyone who knows, who has ever known, knows the same things. Jesus spoke to the people as one who knows and told them what they had never heard, but what they all had always known without having the words to say it out loud. He said it for them, to them. And they said, “Who is this who teaches with such authority and tells us what we have always thought is so?”
What we all have always thought is so has been with us always as Gnosis , Psyche, Tao, Intuition. We have always been Gnostics like Jesus and did not realize it until here, now. And now we know we cannot deny it, and that it will be true forever. No? (141 of “200 More Zen Thoughts from Jim Dollar #1 on my WordPress Blog)
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