As our realization of Gnosis deepens we ‘no longer abstain from evil because of fear of punishment or do good from hope of promised reward’, but naturally express the Good, living spontaneously ‘out of love’, for someone aware of the Oneness cannot help but express unqualified love for all beings. Paul writes, ‘Love is the pleroma of the law,’ meaning love is the perfect archetype of which moral codes are inadequate images. He explains that when we have ‘identified with Christ’ – the universal Consciousness which is our essence – we are ‘discharged from the law, to serve God in a new way, the way of spirit, in contrast to the old way, that was of the written code’. The purpose of the psychic initiation is to help us transcend ethical ideas about how to be good and discover the essential loving goodness which we are, so that we can live spontaneously from the heart. Clement boldly proclaims: ‘All the actions of those possessed of Gnosis are right actions, and the actions of those not possessed of Gnosis are wrong actions, even though they conform with a code.’ Whilst we still identify with the ego, all our actions are ultimately selfish, whatever the outward appearance of righteousness. When we stop identifying with the ego, our actions are God’s actions, undistorted by the illusion of separateness. We find ourselves unerringly expressing the ‘will of God’, which, as Basilides teaches, is simply ‘to desire nothing, to hate nothing and to love all’. Iraneaus is outraged that Christian Gnostics proclaim that the realization of Gnosis sets them free to act spontaneously, regardless of moral conventions. H He writes indignantly: ‘They maintain that they have attained to such heights that they are, therefore, free in every respect to act as they please, and have no fear of doing anything.’22 But the spiritually awake are impervious to the condemnation of religious moralists such as Iraneaus. As Paul explains, because they are ‘no longer under the control of their lower nature, but directed by consciousness’,23 they ‘can judge the worth of everything, but can’t be judged by others’.24 They are indeed, as Iraneaus says, free and without fear. Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians
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