A Distinct Difference
There is a difference between to have an experience about
and to 'be experiencing'.
People have many experiences about things, for example let's
say the spiritual soul, but that certainly does not mean that that person is
experiencing the spiritual soul.
That person may be single and therefore has certainly not
incarnated the spiritual soul, and so he or she can not be experiencing the spiritual
soul here and now.
It is much better ‘to be experiencing’ than to have
experiences about.
Explains the Crazy Experiences
Having an experience about something should never be
confused with experiencing. So many people confuse these two things. And so we
get the weekly occurrence of people just starting Gnosis or having only been
studying Gnosis for a few years saying I had an experience with the human soul
and the fire and the Intimate Christ, maybe I am in the initiations.
Which is not so for goodness sake. Usually missionaries and instructors
can only limit themselves to remaining silent or saying maybe it was from past
lives. Or either making the mistake of making the exceptions that do exist to
become the norm, which is incorrect because the exceptions are the exceptions.
What I mean with the above is that there are exception that
a single person can awaken the fire but that is such a remote exception.
However after hearing a student recount heir experiences the missionary or
instructor says: “perhaps you are there then” and then they say the same thing
to the next naive student, they are then they are making the remote exception a
norm, which is incorrect.
The ‘to have' can not be the base of the ‘to be’ in these
terms of experiences and experiencing. But the ‘to be’ is the base of the ‘to
have’. So there one has to use some logical discernment to see if it is
possible within the parameters of the Gnostic doctrine for the ‘to be’ to be
reasonable.
End (2236).
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