“The high spiritual powers [Archons] wanted to deceive humanity, because they saw that humanity had a kinship with the Divine. [So] they took the name of those that are good and gave it to those that are not good, making words deceptive and joining them to what is without being and without goodness. They alienate with simulations and appearances, making a free person into a slave. These harmful powers [Archons] do not want human beings to see the Truth, [so] they instill in them a taste for blood sacrifices which people offer to them [not God]; what was alive becomes dead and their offering becomes murder. But the Child of Humanity [Anthropos] who offers himself to God can be killed [because] he is alive.” [The Gospel of Philip vs. 13-14]
Several ancient theologians, including the Apostle Paul, refer to angelic powers or spiritual authorities in the heavenly places as a way of communicating the reality of spiritual darkness and deception. These Archons are personified as beings who manipulate humanity for good or evil, but most often are portrayed as agents of darkness who work against the flourishing of Truth among the Nations. Here, the author of the Gospel of Philip describes them as “high spiritual powers” who specifically “wanted to deceive humanity” out of a sense of jealousy for our “kinship with the Divine.” What they want to do is to confuse those who are made in the image of God and to deceive them by twisting what is good and applying it to what is not. The end result is a form of spiritual slavery where darkness covers the eyes of humanity and our intrinsic love for God is distorted into the butchering of animals and a cult of blood sacrifice that even many of the Old Testament prophets declared wasn’t something that God never commanded [Jeremiah 7:21-23; Isaiah 1:11-31; Hosea 6:6; Psalm 40:6-8; 51:16, and that New Testament prophets like Jesus outright declared that God did not desire [Hebrews 10:5-10].
Exposing the Darkness
Here, then, is a condemnation of the entire sacrificial system. The need for a Priesthood, or a Temple, or an animal sacrifice was a distortion of the Truth and a twisted, bloody distortion of our desire to know God into something dark and deceptive.
The end of this murderous flow of innocent blood as an acceptable worship of God is, at last, exposed and dismissed for what it is: an abomination to the God of love and light.
The Truth is now revealed: We have always “had a kinship with the Divine” and there is no need for anyone to die – not animal or man – in order to experienced this connection with God. Those who have been enslaved to death and blood can now be set free from this darkness and step into the light of God’s eternal presence and love.
The Child of Humanity
The system that turned living things into dead things has been upended and exposed so that the God of Life can reign eternally over all creation; turning darkness into light and the dead into the living.
The Child of Humanity [or the “Son of Man”] which is alive within every single one of us is what makes us both human and divine. We are the realization of the Christ in the flesh. We are the incarnation of Christ in human form. Our purpose is not to suffer and die, but to thrive and shine as the light of the world, reflecting the love of God and the life of God wherever we go.
Or, as the Gospel of John puts it:
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it… He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to be called Children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.” [John 1:5;10-13, emphasis mine]
To be clear, everyone is a Child of God, but until we awaken to this reality—or better yet, realize that the illusion of separation is exactly that—an illusion that the powers of darkness have used to deceive us about who we are and what is true—we cannot see who we are and who our Father is.
Now that the Light has come, the darkness has gone, and all that remains is the Truth of our Oneness with God and with one another.
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