FORTNIGHT OVERVIEW
The Ego, Ptolemy Egypt, Theraputai, Sethite Gnostics
Summer - Fortnight 7 (Wind+Zephyr)
Jung's Shadow
Feast/Jun
24: Various Gnostic enclaves of first
and second century Egypt. Repentance's of Pistis Sophia after chasing
false light. False light equating with false goodness and virtue signaling.The
need to be liked, to fit in, to conform. Attraction to acceptance, praise,
social advancement. False gods. Sethite Gnostics of the first few centuries
AD.
First 5 Day Ko Day 1-5 of 7th Fortnight
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| Practice | Alchemical Distillation Ritual
Historical Practice: Alchemists distilled plant essences, like rosewater, meditating on soul purification, per Liber de Arte Distillandi. Self-Practice: Pour rosewater into a bowl, meditating on its purity for 10 minutes. Visualize it refining your soul, then reflect on clarity gained. |
Thomas Merton’s Lectio Divina (Medieval Lens)
Historical Practice: A medieval mystic in Merton’s style practiced Lectio Divina, reading scripture slowly for clarity, inspired by Merton’s writings. Self-Practice: Read a scripture passage slowly, meditating on each word for 15 minutes. Write a reflection to refine your spiritual insight. |
Sethite Gnostic Scriptural Exegesis
Historical Practice: Sethite Gnostics studied texts like Zostrianos with precision, meditating on divine truths in hidden gatherings. Self-Practice: Study a spiritual text, analyzing its meaning for 15 minutes. Write a precise reflection, focusing on divine clarity, and journal insights. |
Teresa’s Spiritual Writing
Historical Practice: Teresa wrote treatises like The Way of Perfection with disciplined precision, refining complex ideas in her cell. Self-Practice: Write a short reflection on a spiritual topic with precision. Spend 20 minutes refining your ideas, journaling clarified insights. |
Isis Cult’s Star Meditation (Syncretic Echo)
Historical Practice: Medieval mystics, influenced by Isis’ celestial aspects, meditated on stars for clarity, blending pagan and Christian symbolism. Self-Practice: Gaze at a star or its image, meditating for 10 minutes on celestial clarity. Pray for divine truth, noting any refined insights. |
| History | Pistis Sophia | Pistis Sophia | Pistis Sophia | Pistis Sophia | Pistis Sophia |
| Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal | Sophia makes abortion, veils it off from view | Sophia makes abortion, veils it off from view | Sophia makes abortion, veils it off from view | Sophia makes abortion, veils it off from view | Sophia makes abortion, veils it off from view |
Second 5 Day Ko Day 6-10 of 7th Fortnight
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| Practice | Sethite Gnostic Divine Mind Meditation
Historical Practice: Sethite Gnostics meditated on the divine mind, seeking clarity, as in The Secret Book of John (Nag Hammadi), visualizing pure light. Self-Practice: Visualize pure light in your mind, meditating for 15 minutes on divine clarity. Journal how it refines your spiritual understanding. |
Teresa of Ávila’s Mental Prayer
Historical Practice: Teresa practiced mental prayer, focusing on divine truths with precision, as in Interior Castle, refining her spiritual insight. Self-Practice: Sit quietly, focusing on a divine truth (e.g., love). Meditate for 15 minutes with disciplined precision, journaling any clarified insights. |
Hildegard’s Linguistic Invention
Historical Practice: Hildegard created Lingua Ignota, a mystical language, as a meditative exercise, refining her spiritual expression, described in her works. Self-Practice: Create a few new words inspired by spiritual ideas. Meditate on their meanings for 10 minutes, journaling how they clarify your thoughts. |
Florentine Mystic’s Astrological Study
Historical Practice: Mystics studied star charts, seeking divine clarity through celestial patterns, inspired by Ficino. Self-Practice: Study a star chart or draw constellations. Meditate for 15 minutes on their patterns, seeking divine clarity, and note your thoughts. |
Pagan-Christian Rune Carving
Historical Practice: Syncretic groups carved runes on wood, meditating on their meanings for clarity, blending Norse and Christian symbolism. Self-Practice: Carve or draw a simple rune (e.g., a cross) on wood. Meditate on its meaning for 10 minutes, focusing on precision, and journal insights. |
| History | Sethite Gnostics | Sethite Gnostics | Sethite Gnostics | Sethite Gnostics | Sethite Gnostics |
| MytMythos of Yeshe Tzogyalhos | Sophia chases reflected light into Chaos, is entrapped | Sophia chases reflected light into Chaos, is entrapped | Sophia chases reflected light into Chaos, is entrapped | Sophia chases reflected light into Chaos, is entrapped | Sophia chases reflected light into Chaos, is entrapped |
Third 4/5 Day KoDay 11-15 of 7th Fortnight
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| Practice | Pagan-Christian Icon Veneration
Historical Practice: Syncretic devotees meditated before plant-based pigment icons, seeking divine clarity, blending pagan and Christian symbolism. Self-Practice: Gaze at a spiritual image (e.g., a painted icon), praying for clarity. Meditate for 10 minutes, refining your focus, and note your thoughts. |
Alchemical Mercury Meditation
Historical Practice: Alchemists like John Dee contemplated mercury, symbolizing spiritual clarity. Visualizing its sheen, they purified their minds, per Turba Philosophorum. Self-Practice: Visualize liquid mercury’s sheen, symbolizing clarity. Meditate for 15 minutes in a quiet space, focusing on mental purification, and journal insights. |
John Dee’s Mathematical Contemplation
Historical Practice: Dee meditated on mathematical patterns, seeking divine clarity, drawing geometric figures in his study, blending alchemy and mysticism. Self-Practice: Draw a geometric shape (e.g., a square). Meditate on its patterns for 10 minutes, seeking divine clarity, and note your reflections. |
Jung’s Alchemical Symbol Analysis (Medieval Lens)
Historical Practice: A medieval mystic, following Jung, analyzed alchemical symbols like the ouroboros for spiritual clarity, per Alchemical Studies. Self-Practice: Draw an alchemical symbol (e.g., ouroboros). Meditate on its meaning for 15 minutes, refining your insight, and note your reflections. |
Florentine Mystic’s Dream Journaling
Historical Practice: Mystics recorded dreams, seen as flowing wisdom from God, in journals, exploring the subconscious by candlelight. Self-Practice: Record a dream in a journal, meditating on its wisdom for 15 minutes. Visualize it as flowing insight, reflecting on your subconscious. |
| History | Desert Fathers | Desert Fathers | Desert Fathers | Desert Fathers | Desert Fathers |
| Mythos of Yeshe Tzogyal | Sophia repents, Savior lifts her out of Chaos | Sophia repents, Savior lifts her out of Chaos | Sophia repents, Savior lifts her out of Chaos | Sophia repents, Savior lifts her out of Chaos | Sophia repents, Savior lifts her out of Chaos |
Group 2: Void/Metal – Shadow (Confronting
the Hidden Self)
Elemental Focus: Void/Metal represents clarity,
purity, and inner truth, aligned with the Shadow, the repressed self.
Thematic Tone: These exercises confront the soul’s
descent into darkness, inspired by Sophia’s fall (Pistis Sophia) and alchemical
Nigredo.
Phase 1: Hylic (Body and World – Practical Rules and Physical Actions)
Basis: Apocryphon of John sees the material world
as a trap, requiring physical discipline.
1. Exercise: Polishing the Soul’s Mirror
Basis: Gospel of Philip.
Polish a metal object, saying, “The
soul is a mirror of the divine, reflecting the light of truth when cleansed
of darkness, revealing my Shadow to the light.” Visualize your Shadow becoming
clear, and feast on rice and beans.
Source: Gospel of Philip.
2. Exercise: Striking the Chains
Basis: Alchemical texts liken metalwork
to soul refinement.
Tap a metal surface five times,
saying, “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will
save you; I strike the chains of my Shadow to free my soul.” Visualize
the sound shattering ignorance, and feast on root vegetables.
Source: Gospel of Thomas.
3. Exercise: Cleansing with Cold Water
Basis: Pistis Sophia.
Splash cold water on your face,
saying, “Truth is a bath that purifies, it washes the soul from the stains
of the world, clearing the Shadow within me.” Feel the clarity of metal
within as your Shadow dissolves, and feast on apples.
Source: Gospel of Philip.
4. Exercise: Standing as Metal
Basis: Gospel of Truth.
Stand firmly, imagining yourself
as a metal pillar, saying, “The truth is a pillar that cannot fall, it
holds my soul against the void of illusion, strengthening me against the
Shadow.” Visualize your Shadow fading, and feast on lentils.
Source: Gospel of Truth.
5. Exercise: Tracing the Void’s Circle
Basis: Seven Sermons to the Dead.
Trace a circle in the air, saying,
“I am the silence, I am the void, I am the unseen source of all that is,
forging my soul in the clarity of truth.” Visualize the void as a metal
forge for your soul, and feast on mushrooms.
Source: Thunder, Perfect Mind.
Phase 2: Psychic (Praise of Aeons and Divine Beings)
Basis: Pistis Sophia praises the divine masculine
and feminine (Depth and Silence).
6. Exercise: Hymn to Depth’s Void
Basis: Depth in Apocryphon of John.
Chant, “From Depth flows the river
of gnosis, the void that births the light of my soul, illuminating the
Shadow within.” Visualize a dark expanse giving birth to stars, and feast
on dark berries.
Source: Apocryphon of John.
7. Exercise: Invocation of Silence’s Purity
Basis: Silence in Codex Brucianus.
Sit in silence, whispering, “In
Silence, the soul hears the eternal, the voice of the divine mother who
calms the Shadow, guiding me to light.” Visualize her as a radiant void,
offering a cup of milk to the earth, and feast on grapes.
Source: Codex Brucianus.
8. Exercise: Praise of Christos’ Light
Basis: Christos in Pistis Sophia.
Face west, saying, “Christos is
the hand that lifts the fallen, his light burns away the Shadow within
me, leading my soul to salvation.” Visualize him lifting your soul from
darkness, and feast on bread and oil.
Source: Pistis Sophia.
9. Exercise: Chanting the Divine Union
Basis: Gospel of Philip.
Chant, “The bridal chamber is the
union of light, where masculine and feminine make the soul whole, purifying
my Shadow in their embrace.” Visualize Depth and Silence in a metal forge,
and feast on walnuts.
Source: Gospel of Philip.
10. Exercise: Prayer to Pleroma’s Clarity
Basis: The Pleroma in Gospel
of Truth.
Kneel, saying, “The Pleroma
is the mirror of eternity, reflecting the light that clears my Shadow,
revealing my soul’s truth.” Visualize the divine realms as a polished metal
sphere, and feast on plums.
Source: Gospel of Truth.
Phase 3: Pneumatic (Sublime Matters – Altar Work and Mental Focus)
Basis: Nag Hammadi texts use visualization to transcend the Shadow.
12. Exercise: Vision of Silence’s Radiance
Basis: Silence in Codex Brucianus.
Place a white feather on an
altar, gazing at it, and say, “I am the silence and the sound, the radiant
void that holds the eternal, cleansing my soul of darkness.” Visualize
Silence as a luminous emptiness, and feast on blueberries.
Source: Thunder, Perfect Mind.
13. Exercise: Emblem of the Forged Soul
Basis: Alchemical texts.
Place a piece of iron on an
altar, saying, “Truth is a fire that forges the soul, making it pure and
whole in the light of gnosis, transforming my Shadow into light.” Visualize
your Shadow refined, and feast on pomegranates.
Source: Gospel of Philip.
14. Exercise: Contemplation of Sophia’s Descent
(Day 14 – Fast Begins)
Basis: Sophia’s fall in Pistis
Sophia.
Place a dark stone on an altar,
meditating while saying, “In darkness, Sophia seeks the light, as my soul
seeks gnosis amidst the Shadow, yearning for the homeland.” Visualize her
struggle, fasting to reflect on her 13 Repentances.
Source: Pistis Sophia.
15. Exercise: Sophia’s Redemption (Day 15 – Fast
Continues)
Basis: Sophia’s rescue in
Pistis Sophia.
Place a white flower on an
altar, saying, “Through redemption, the soul returns home, as Sophia rises
with Christos to the land of light, guiding my soul to eternity.” Visualize
her ascent, fasting to seek the eternal homeland.
Source: Pistis Sophia.
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