ABiYA Gnostica Society

08/13/2025

Gnosis Collage

08/13/2025

What is Gnosis?
I don’t know.

I’ve read the books.
Argued the theories.
Nothing stuck.

Meditation calms the heart,
steadies the breath,
opens the eyes—
but leaves the gates of heaven shut.

Truth, said Krishnamurti,
is a pathless land.

Gurus rise and fall.
Saints stumble.
Even the awakened are human.

I’ve chased light in temples,
in whispers,
in the gaze of a teacher.
It comes when it will.
It may not come at all.

Gnosis?
Maybe a wind that passes through you.
Maybe nothing at all.

08/13/2025

I asked the sage, “What is Gnosis?”

She looked at me for a long time.
The wind shifted.
Somewhere, a bell rang.

When I turned back,
she was gone.

08/13/2025

I asked the sage, “What is Gnosis?”

She smiled.
“Madness to the world.
A thorn to the skeptic.
Fear to the devout.
Love to the mystic.
Awareness to the soul.”

Then she was gone.

06/19/2025

The Nil Point is the act of creation, the moment the self is annihilated and is then reborn free from all delusion. The Nil Point is no dark, empty void; it is filled with the wild luminosity of life.

06/19/2025

Another version of the "Nil Point" poem

06/19/2025

"And just when the darkness
became too much to bear
and the struggle too hard,
the light broke through
and the caterpillar emerged
a butterfly
delicate but unbroken,
wild and gentle,
finally free to spread its lovely wings
and fly away on the wind.”
L.R. Knost

Artist: Attribution Unknown

Pairing by Whispers from the Heart

06/18/2025

Diagnosis first, then Gnosis.

06/12/2025

The writer of the Secret Book of John refers to the flood as a flood of darkness.

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05/28/2025

Denied formal education and facing a future of domestic toil after surviving typhus, Caroline Herschel turned her gaze to the stars in 1786, a path that led her to discover a comet and become the first woman recognized with a salary for scientific work.

Caroline Lucretia Herschel was born in Hanover, Germany, in 1750. In her era, opportunities for women, especially in scholarly fields, were severely limited.

A bout of typhus in her childhood stunted her growth. Her own mother reportedly believed Caroline's prospects were confined to household duties, not intellectual pursuits.

Her life took a different direction when she moved to England in 1772 to join her brother, William Herschel. Initially, she was to assist with his household and support his musical career, but she soon became deeply involved in his astronomical work.

Working diligently, often under challenging conditions, Caroline began to make her own significant observations. On August 1, 1786, she independently discovered her first comet. This was the first of eight comets she would identify between 1786 and 1797. 🔭

In recognition of her contributions, King George III granted Caroline an annual salary of £50 in 1787. This made her the first woman to receive official payment for scientific services, affording her a degree of financial independence virtually unheard of for women of her station at the time.

Caroline's work extended far beyond comet hunting. She meticulously catalogued hundreds of stars and nebulae, and made important corrections and additions to John Flamsteed’s *British Catalogue*. She is credited with the discovery of 14 new nebulae, including NGC 205, a companion galaxy to Andromeda. ✨

Her profound impact on astronomy did not go unrecognized by the scientific community. In 1828, she was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, and in 1846, at the age of 96, she received the Gold Medal for Science from the King of Prussia.

Caroline Herschel passed away in 1848, but her legacy as a pioneering astronomer and a woman who broke barriers in science endures. Her meticulous observations and discoveries significantly advanced the understanding of the cosmos. 💫

05/27/2025

Yet I wonder:
You fashioned us in Your image,
and if this is Your image,
then how can we wonder at the evil in the world?
Surely, the riddle of suffering is answered.

https://vagueoccupant.substack.com/p/jehovah-war-god-of-the-judeo-christians

05/16/2025

Jesus crucified on the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil