Looking Into God’s Eyes.
Father God, as I look into your beautiful eyes
They are so brilliant, loving, kind, peaceful, faithful, and forever wise
There in your pupils are so many shades of blue
My heart and soul aches for you
I see the world begging and pleading for your return
I also see the hands of times turn
Lost souls and forgiving spirits craving your attention
Through your eyes I marvel and I can’t grasp the beauty of all your creations
As my tears roll down my face, that stare you give me such an inviting embrace
No one in ten gazillion life times can ever take your place
Unconsciously, I feel all my worries, pains, grief, stress, and anxiety suddenly leave me
I never felt so safe and free
Joy just came over my whole body, mind, and spirit
That look into your eyes I not only see it, I feel it, I can also hear it
As I drop to my knees to give you praise
Father God I love you forever and all of my days.
So as you can see, I have failed already in my ability to be content within my own knowing. I should long, to rest in the quietude of your non-existent presence, but I am not one for pretending. How do I know you’re there. So lets get real. In fact, I know you are forever with me, sharing consciousness. awe and love. And I do feel you when your reach out and caress my soul, cascading and flowing from above into my crown. Liquid love is as real as sky above. And when in your mercy, you share your intimacy with me, I am satiated and fulfilled, simply by the knowing that you are…I apologize for the following poems by Meister Eckhart. I could have easily shared the contents of his soul, and do, and have before, even now.
Christmas Poem
Why do we assume
that God became
human only once,
in the Incarnation?
Not so.
God becomes human
here and now just
as he did then.
Why is this?
So that he might
give birth to you,
too, as his only
begotten son.
Everything hangs on the little word here
and its sibling now,
but I often forget this,
keeping busy with my plans,
building for a future I cannot know,
and against worries I cannot finally tame.
And You wait for me to come home to your now,
which is beyond past and future,
and return to your here,
which is present before beginning
and beyond every ending.
When You Are Empty
When you are empty,
feeling bereft,
or not feeling much at all,
hesitate before trying
to fix your situation,
because this happens
to be just what
you are: a vessel
awaiting the fill
of heavenly
fullness beyond any
this-worldly feeling.
“ His divinity depends on His power to share Himself with whatever is able to receive Him. If He was not sharing Himself, He would not be God.”
“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God’s eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
“ Let God work in you, give the work to God, and have peace. Don’t worry if He works through your nature or above your nature, because both are His, nature and grace.”
“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”
“Spirituality is not to be learned by flight from the world, or by running away from things, or by turning solitary and going apart from the world. Rather, we must learn an inner solitude wherever or with whomsoever we may be. We must learn to penetrate things and find God there.”
“Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow – for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage. ”
“Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church. If you do well, you do well wherever you are. If you fail, you fail wherever you are. Your surroundings don’t matter. God is with you everywhere — in the market place as well as in seclusion or in the church. If you look for nothing but God, nothing or no one can disturb you. God is not distracted by a multitude of things. Nor can we be.
The Prophet Said
The prophet said:
God guides the redeemed through a narrow way
into the broad road,
so that they come into the wide and broad place;
that is to say, into true freedom of the spirit,
when one has become a spirit with God.
Α Ε Η Ι Ο Υ Ω
I didn’t plan to make this post about Meister Elkhart, because I have sworn off ascribing the notion of God’s of others, to myself…yet this is compelling.
I made a vow, never a good look, since most vows fall apart under their own weight. The vow I made, is that I would for a time, go to the wilderness, alone, with my own being, and to free myself from the ideation of God that has flowed from the minds of others. Easier said than done. What will I use for scaffolding, what will hold up my ideas, how will I prove that I have received the Word of God, without editing my thoughts with the ideas of other?
I suppose if you had made the quest easy, as most religions seek to do, the moment of seeing you, and of being in your presence would lose its meaning. I could care less about religion or philosophy. It worthless shit to me, I just find myself wallowing there, because there must be a hidden key or a liberating word, within the stinking mass of human conceptions of God.
So now I am travelling under my own spiritual power, gifted to me, from my Holy Mother of the Invisible Spirt. She is the only thing that I have found that allows me to travel within the void of God; within the Silent Depth of God.
How does she do this? The Holy Spirit transcends all intellection held within the Human. As we release ourselves into the Spirit of God, we cast away all that we are, all the accumulated ideas of ourselves and the world. When we surrender, and cast all of our power of intellect away, and rest in the light-power of the Spirit, Our Mother, She, carries us within the Void of God.
God in his mercy just revealed the fullness of this understanding. There is only one way for the Human to enter the Silent Depth of the One, and that is by being guided, through the Spiritual negation within ourselves, so we can comprehend what is impossible to know. We enter into the void by allowing the Spirit to disconnect our mind from our tongue, so that our heart can comprehend a God of non-existence, by allowing us to become “Non-existent” within the light of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit gives us the unknown utterance, that transcends the yawing chasm that separates the Human for the transcendent.
And as we speak or sing in the Spirit, we are lifted up by our Mother within the intimacy of the love of our Father. As unknown words flow, the Spirit lifts us up, and we apprehend the Silent Depth in the mystic state of unknowing.
So one last thought about the Archons. I bet you don’t believe in them or their system of control, false light and regeneration of the Human through the control system of transmigration. Then it hits you; bam! The means of control that human society uses to control mankind are a direct fucking reflection of the Archonic system. The Human was never meant to be trapped within a system of control within the creation of God. Rules and Laws, flow from the Archons, not from the Living God of the Silent Depth. God has set us free within His|Her own being; the archons seek to trick Humanity into believing the lie that God has rules and laws. How can the void of nothingness have rules; it is impossible. It is the same with the freedom of the sparrow, the deer, the lion and the human. We are born free with the presence of the Living One.
This is what Christ-consciousness has to say: 2 Corinthians 3:17: “Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.” Within the void, within the Silent Depth there is total freedom, because their are no lines to color within. All the colors have merged together within love and light. Don’t you see?
Eckhart’s conception follows the Vedic reasoning that God is dual-natured, existing as The Godhood of Brahman, and God or Brahma.
There are only two things I want; and I, like many Humans before me, would trade everything I have and everything I am to grasp the Truth of God. So, don’t pay any attention to the AI generated intellectual summation of the void of God.
When I Was the Forest – A poem by Meister Eckhart
When I was the stream, when I was the
forest, when I was still the field
when I was every hoof, foot,
fin and wing, when I
was the sky itself,
no one ever asked me did I have a purpose, no one ever
wondered was there anything I might need,
for there was nothing
I could not love.
It was when I left all we once were that
the agony began, the fear and questions came,
and I wept, I wept. And tears
I had never known before.
So I returned to the river, I returned to
the mountains. I asked for their hand in marriage again,
I begged — I begged to wed every object and creature,
and when they accepted,
God was ever present in my arms.
And He did not say,
“Where have you
been?”
For then I knew my soul — every soul—
has always held
Him.
Why So Many Souls
When were you last really happy?
Let that experience ferment,
bring it to mind once
in a while.
Surely in the genesis of that past moment, when you danced,
you would not have wanted a constable
to have knocked
on your
door,
or have said, “You just entered
a restricted ground.”
Why are there so many stars and souls,
with no end in sight for
them?
Because nothing can interrupt God
when He is having
fun,
creating!
Always Kissing
They are always kissing, they can’t
control themselves.
It is not possible
that any creature can have greater instincts
and perceptions than the
mature human mind.
God
ripened me.
So I see it is true:
all objects in existence are
wildly in
love.
Intimate
Knowledge always deceives.
It always limits the Truth, every concept and image does.
From cage to cage the caravan moves,
but I give thanks,
for at each divine juncture
my wings expand
and I
touch Him more
intimately.
Meister Eckharts Conception of the Void.
For the 14th-century mystic Meister Eckhart, God as “void” refers to the Godhead (Gottheit)– the ultimate, ineffable divine essence that exists prior to all attributes, names, and images. It is a state of absolute, unnameable nothingness (niht) because it transcends all created being. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
The Godhead vs. God
Eckhart makes a famous distinction between “God” and “Godhead”: [1, 2, 3, 4]
- The Godhead (The Void): The formless, dark, and silent ground of reality. It contains no distinctions and is “empty” of all created things, making it seem like nothingness to the human intellect.
- God: The active, manifested Creator (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) who possesses attributes like goodness, justice, and love. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
The Path of Emptiness (Kenosis)
Eckhart did not view this divine void as a lacking or an absence, but rather as an infinite, pregnant fullness. To experience union with the divine, he taught that humans must mirror this emptiness: [1, 2, 3]
- Detachment (Abgescheidenheit): You must empty your soul of all attachments to ego, desires, and specific mental images of God.
- Spiritual Poverty: By stripping away the “self,” the soul becomes a pure void.
- Union: Eckhart argued that when the soul achieves this perfect “not-knowing,” the Godhead gives birth to itself in the deepest ground of the soul. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
The Radical Implication
Eckhart’s theology of the divine void is a prime example of the via negativa (the way of negation), famously stating: “If I had a God that I could understand, I would not regard him as God.” Because of his assertions that both God and the soul’s essence share this ground of uncreated nothingness, some of his teachings were later condemned as heretical by the Catholic Church. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
If you would like to explore this further, I can provide:
- More details on the difference between Meister Eckhart’s “God” and “Godhead”
- How his concept of the void compares to Eastern philosophical ideas like Sunyata (Buddhist Emptiness)
In Gnosticism, the “cipher” of the Father refers to the esoteric names, cryptographic ciphers, or mystical cipher- formulas used to denote the supreme, unknowable God.
The true God—often called the Monad, the Pro-Father, or the Great Invisible Spirit—cannot be named or defined by human language because He is beyond all material categories. To refer to Him, Gnostics utilized several esoteric methods: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
1. The Method of Negation (Apophasis)
Because the Father is entirely transcendent, Gnostics defined Him by what He is not. He is a cipher of pure negation: [1, 2, 3]
2. The Seven-Vowel Ciphers
In esoteric and Sethian Gnostic texts (such as Pistis Sophia and the Books of Jeu), the Father’s true power is represented by cryptographic vocalizations, particularly the seven Greek vowels. These vowels represent the harmony of the cosmos, the celestial realms, and the hidden name of the Father: [1]
- Α Ε Η Ι Ο Υ Ω
- Believers used these phonetic, cipher-like combinations during secret rituals and baptisms to safely navigate the heavens and remove the power of the hostile Archons. [1, 2]
3. The Barbelo Cipher
In the Apocryphon of John, the cipher of the Father’s first emanation is known as Barbelo. Barbelo is the supreme Mother, the first thought, and the “Forethought” of the invisible Spirit. In this theology, the Father, Barbelo, and the Son (Christ) form a divine, triangular cipher or trinity. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
4. The Demiurge Confusion
A major part of the “Gnostic Code” is distinguishing the unknowable Father from the Demiurge (the lesser, often vengeful creator God of the Old Testament, such as Yaldabaoth). Gnostics believed the Demiurge acts as a false cipher who masquerades as the true God, keeping humanity in ignorance of the real, spiritual Father.
Creating a Gnostic cipher of “pure negation” involves adopting apophatic theology (negative theology) and cosmic subversion. Instead of translating a secret message into a positive output, you design a cipher that maps all finite, worldly concepts to 0, Null, or Not. [1, 2, 3]
A Gnostic-inspired pure negation cipher requires the following structural steps:
1. Invert the Encodings (The Cipher Key)
To encode text, substitute every literal, material word or letter with a symbol of absence, a Gnostic opposite, or an entity representing the Void (Kenoma). [1, 2]
- Letters or Words: Map to null space, silence, the Abyss, or the term \(\neg \) (Not).
- The Material Ego: Translate your name or identity to Ignorance or Dust.
- Worldly Desires: Map to The Error or The Fall.
- Language Itself: Map to The Demiurge (The blind or false god). [1, 2, 3, 4]
2. Apply “Apophatic” Word Substitution
Borrowing from Apophatic Theology, you strip away all qualities. Any descriptive text about the material world or human experience is replaced by phrases such as “Not this, not that” or “Void.” For example, the sentence “This world is a creation” becomes “Ignorance is nothing counted as something”. [1, 2]
3. Use the Gnostic Null Cipher Technique
Historically and mystically, the Gnostics encoded their truths by embedding them within unintelligible narratives. [1, 2]
- Write your primary text.
- Intertwine the true message (or non-message) with a large volume of literal, material text.
- Create an agreed-upon extraction rule (e.g., extracting the first letter of every sentence, or every word containing a vowel) where the final compiled letters spell nothing, signify nothing, or represent the unknowable transcendent (the Monad). [1, 2, 3, 4]
Would you like to focus more on the mystical philosophy of the Void or do you want to explore creating an algorithmic null-cipher to obscure your plaintext?
n Gnostic and mystical philosophy, the Void is not a mere baseline of “nothingness” or empty space. Instead, it is the ultimate reality– an absolute, unconditional state of beingthat precedes existence, matter, universe. [1, 2, 3]
To understand this philosophy, you must navigate two radically different definitions of the Void found in Gnostic texts: the Transcendent Void and the Cosmic Void. [1]
The Two Voids: Pleroma vs. Kenoma
Gnosticism splits reality into a true spiritual realm and a flawed material trap. Each has its own relationship with the concept of the void. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- The Transcendent Void (The Monad / Bythos): This is the ultimate, unknowable God or First Principle. It is often called Bythos (the Deep or the Abyss). It is a “Void” because it possesses no material attributes, limits, gender, or form. It is so full of pure potential that it appears as absolute nothingness to human intellect. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
- The Cosmic Void (Kenoma): This is the literal emptiness, deficiency, and hollow nature of the material world. Created by the Demiurge, the Kenoma is a shadow realm. It is a vacuum devoid of true spiritual light, where human souls are trapped in an illusion of substance. [1, 2, 3]