As Above, so Below

I have a desire to express several things today. I'm going to start with a quote from the Gospel Of Thomas, for those familiar, it's a book found in the Nag Hammadi Library that was a Gospel that may have been contemporary with Mark.

" Jesus said, "Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you.

For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. [And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.]"

His disciples asked him and said to him, "Do you want us to fast? How should we pray? Should we give to charity? What diet should we observe?"

Jesus said, "Don't lie, and don't do what you hate, because all things are disclosed before heaven. After all, there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed, and there is nothing covered up that will remain undisclosed.""

I have often lamented the fact that I am not "psychic". Until I realize something, which can essentially be described by this verse. Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden will be disclosed to you. I know that everyone has purposes in life. People have certain conflicts within their psyche. They project these conflicts unto the outside world. A person who becomes aware of their own life will realize them. Questions, why do I always get obstacles when looking for a job, why does a certain type of situation keep appearing before me again and again?
Those who do not understand the spiritual nature of life have more difficulty coming to grips with them. When you realize that conflicts are subjective projections of your psyche into the outside world, and that metaphysical, meaningful patterns are everywhere, that the universe is alive, and if you understand the following quotations from the gospel of Thomas.

"Jesus said to them, "When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower, and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, when you make eyes in place of an eye, a hand in place of a hand, a foot in place of a foot, an image in place of an image, then you will enter [the kingdom].""

"Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.

When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."

The kingdom of god is within you and without you. As Above, So below. Brahman is Atman.

You need to make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner. Make below like above and above like below.

Brahman is Atman. Make no distinction between the world outside of you and the world inside of you. Existentialism, the philosophy of modern desperation over their belief in a meaningless, chaotic, dead universe, pits you as alone in the universe and yourself meaningless. The opposite is true. The world is absolutely teeming with meaning, meaning goes deeper than things themselves. Your subjective experience of the world is a mirror of what is inside of you; yet the world itself is not simply of you. If is rather, the collective subjective conciousness of all mankind, for all mankind is god, co-creators, yet any one is indeed the whole, for god is indivisible just like each soul is indivisible.

The loving of the world, the loving of yourself, the respect for the beauty even of pain, and faith, not because simple disbelief in a book will damn you to hell, but because god is loving and all-pervading, and he can provide the eternal spring of love and spirit to his subjects. The most important commandment is to love your neighbors like yourself, for, as a Veda points out, truly, your neighbor IS yourself. Love is exponential in awakening others, each action as well is indivisible for it's effect on the world,

For indeed, all is one.