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Paul writes: ‘As a Christian, I am absolutely convinced that nothing is impure in itself.’[14] This challenges us not to blindly go along with how everyone else thinks we should live, but to find the Good within and decide for ourselves what is right and what is wrong. We must ‘test everything and retain the good’, as Paul says.[15]

In the primal Deep-Silence the One appears to itself as Nothing. We experience this on the human level in the state we call ‘deep sleep’ in which pure subjectivity is ‘experienced’ as absence of experience. 2. The arising of the syzygy Consciousness—Truth from the Deep—Silence happens archetypally ‘in the beginning’. It manifests on the human level in each of us every morning when we ‘wake up’ as the syzygy Consciousness-psyche. In the ‘depths’ of our being something mysteriously stirs to break the ‘silence’ of the unitive state of ‘deep sleep’ and we inexplicably find ourselves no longer unconscious but a witness of experience. 3. We experience Truth dividing into the syzygy Logos—Life as the two fundamental qualities of our experience: abstract imagination and concrete sensation, our private inner world and our shared external world. 4. Logos orders Life by dividing it into the syzygy Human-Community. We experience this as the division of the physical world into our personal body and everything else — ‘me’ and ‘others’.

I am a hidden treasure; I wanted to be known. I created the cosmos so that I might be known.[38] The Qur’an teaches that God created humanity as an image of himself, so that he could contemplate himself as in a mirror. We are God in search of himself. ‘He who knows himself knows God’ was a common Sufi saying.[

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Jesus and the Lost Goddess by Tm Freke, Tim Freke, Peter Gandy presents key insights from the Sufism tradition. The 3 passages above capture the essential teachings.

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