The Universal Gnostic Church: Gnostic Lesson 4

Here's the fourth Gnostic Lesson, which covers the third of the Universal Gnostic Church's minor orders, the Order of Reader. This should take you another month of work. Yes, the painting's another of Jung's; oddly, he could paint almost anything well except human beings. (That seems to have been a cultural thing in the German-speaking world in his time; Adolf Hitler, who was otherwise quite a gifted watercolorist, couldn't paint a realistic human figure.)

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Gnostic Lesson Four

The Order of Reader

The training of the Reader is dedicated to the analysis of your mental life, and to the sense of sight.  As we become more mentally aware of who we really are, we gain insight into what makes us tick, what drives us to do what we do. This insight leads us to search deeper within ourselves. There we discover peace, love and light—the peace which passeth understanding, the love of the Divine and all that is, and the light, which is the Light of the World and the light which is us.

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