'A New Science of Heaven'
by Robert Temple
Chapter 6: When Heaven Was Young
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“The Gnostics believed that an elect group of people of spiritual inclinations who pursued sacred knowledge would constitute the section of the human population, who would survive the vicissitudes of the corrupt world of physical matter, and after their physical deaths would enter a Kingdom of Light, in which resided a variety of plasmic deities culminating in ‘the Father’.
This was a name they used for the highest god of all. Jesus used this very term himself and instead of speaking of the Kingdom of Light, he spoke of the Kingdom of the Father. The light emitted by ‘the Father’ is described in Gnostic texts as being stronger than 10,000 times 10,000 suns. ‘The Father’ had no physical body, but was essentially what might perhaps be called a light-ball, or plasma-ball. Those who were ‘saved’ would themselves put on “‘vestures of light’ and become mini plasma-balls and would live forever in a heavenly plasma world.”
“The Platonic philosopher Damascius (458–550 AD) believed that the human spirit was ‘a radiant body filled with heavenly radiance, a glory that streams through its depths, and lends it a divine strength; but in lower states, losing its radiance, it is dirtied, as it were, and becomes darker and darker and more material.’6
The philosopher Philoponus of Alexandria (490–570 AD) believed that this spirit was a higher soul attached to the basic soul. In other words, he believed, as did the ancient Egyptians, in more than one level of soul for each person. He wrote: ‘There is, moreover, beyond the soul another kind of body, that is forever attached to the soul, which they call radiant or starlike … (and) it forever keeps its radiant body, which is of an everlasting nature.’7”
“Are plasma entities to be regarded as helpful or harmful to us? The traditions are explicit that they can be both. But the helpful ones are radiant with light, whereas the harmful ones are dark and perverse, as their light has been contaminated and made obscure with the dirt of corruption. It is time that humans were given a proper briefing on this ‘material world of the spirit’.
This is a short survey of some of the myriad descriptions of light phenomena in ancient religions...."
“Aristotle went much further than only proposing that there was a higher form of matter. He actually proposed that each living physical body had a corresponding aetheric body, or what is now called by some modern scientists a ‘bioplasma body’. (We will hear much more about bioplasma bodies later on.)”
“This new element is according to Aristotle a soma [physicality] and can therefore be counted among the ‘natural somata’ [plural of soma]. But it does not share the hylē [substance] of the four earthly corpora [elements]. For this reason it is described as ahylon [possessing no hylē, or physical body], as a kind of ‘immaterial matter’ … While maintaining his belief in the divinity of the celestials [divine beings] and their eternal existence, Aristotle bases this stance on his own new theory of the fifth element … the celestial spheres [consist] of the divine fifth element."
“Sacred speech is essentially something that emerges from something else, just as our breath is emitted from us into the air around us. It seems that the ancient peoples when referring to the creative speech of the primal god were trying to convey the concept of expelled, structured breath entering into a surrounding medium but retaining its own form, and thus constituting matter.”
“Since we now know that the Universe is a seething ocean of plasma, and as it has now been proven that plasma makes dust, and that dust is matter, it is legitimate to consider that the ‘material Universe’ has been extruded from and created by the universal plasma. In other words, the 1 per cent is the creation of the 99 per cent. And looked at from that perspective, the traditional religious views of the creation of matter are justified. For the spontaneously formed dust and the baryons are the building blocks of the familiar world around us.”
by Robert Temple
Chapter 6: When Heaven Was Young
Excerpts have not been perfectly edited, and the greater context will be found by reading the book 📖.
“The Gnostics believed that an elect group of people of spiritual inclinations who pursued sacred knowledge would constitute the section of the human population, who would survive the vicissitudes of the corrupt world of physical matter, and after their physical deaths would enter a Kingdom of Light, in which resided a variety of plasmic deities culminating in ‘the Father’.
This was a name they used for the highest god of all. Jesus used this very term himself and instead of speaking of the Kingdom of Light, he spoke of the Kingdom of the Father. The light emitted by ‘the Father’ is described in Gnostic texts as being stronger than 10,000 times 10,000 suns. ‘The Father’ had no physical body, but was essentially what might perhaps be called a light-ball, or plasma-ball. Those who were ‘saved’ would themselves put on “‘vestures of light’ and become mini plasma-balls and would live forever in a heavenly plasma world.”
“The Platonic philosopher Damascius (458–550 AD) believed that the human spirit was ‘a radiant body filled with heavenly radiance, a glory that streams through its depths, and lends it a divine strength; but in lower states, losing its radiance, it is dirtied, as it were, and becomes darker and darker and more material.’6
The philosopher Philoponus of Alexandria (490–570 AD) believed that this spirit was a higher soul attached to the basic soul. In other words, he believed, as did the ancient Egyptians, in more than one level of soul for each person. He wrote: ‘There is, moreover, beyond the soul another kind of body, that is forever attached to the soul, which they call radiant or starlike … (and) it forever keeps its radiant body, which is of an everlasting nature.’7”
“Are plasma entities to be regarded as helpful or harmful to us? The traditions are explicit that they can be both. But the helpful ones are radiant with light, whereas the harmful ones are dark and perverse, as their light has been contaminated and made obscure with the dirt of corruption. It is time that humans were given a proper briefing on this ‘material world of the spirit’.
This is a short survey of some of the myriad descriptions of light phenomena in ancient religions...."
“Aristotle went much further than only proposing that there was a higher form of matter. He actually proposed that each living physical body had a corresponding aetheric body, or what is now called by some modern scientists a ‘bioplasma body’. (We will hear much more about bioplasma bodies later on.)”
“This new element is according to Aristotle a soma [physicality] and can therefore be counted among the ‘natural somata’ [plural of soma]. But it does not share the hylē [substance] of the four earthly corpora [elements]. For this reason it is described as ahylon [possessing no hylē, or physical body], as a kind of ‘immaterial matter’ … While maintaining his belief in the divinity of the celestials [divine beings] and their eternal existence, Aristotle bases this stance on his own new theory of the fifth element … the celestial spheres [consist] of the divine fifth element."
“Sacred speech is essentially something that emerges from something else, just as our breath is emitted from us into the air around us. It seems that the ancient peoples when referring to the creative speech of the primal god were trying to convey the concept of expelled, structured breath entering into a surrounding medium but retaining its own form, and thus constituting matter.”
“Since we now know that the Universe is a seething ocean of plasma, and as it has now been proven that plasma makes dust, and that dust is matter, it is legitimate to consider that the ‘material Universe’ has been extruded from and created by the universal plasma. In other words, the 1 per cent is the creation of the 99 per cent. And looked at from that perspective, the traditional religious views of the creation of matter are justified. For the spontaneously formed dust and the baryons are the building blocks of the familiar world around us.”