Constantly we hear about how hard our lives have become, how much we need of a change that can bring us to a life of joy, harmony, peace and love. But, where can we find how to produce such a change? It all starts with 'wisdom', a wisdom that lies within us; we just have to awaken it!
Join us on Living Life with Wisdom, a series of open lectures at the Albany Gnosis Center starting Tuesday, December 4th, 2012, at 7:00 pm.
Feel free to bring a few friends along...
In peace!
Rene and Laura Barge
Albany Gnosis Center
I will give thanks unto thee, O Light
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Sophia, the Holy Wisdom, Russian Icon 1812
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"'1. I will give thanks unto thee, O Light,
for thou art a saviour;
thou art a deliverer for all time.
"'2. I will utter this song to the Light,
for it hath saved me and
saved me out of the hand of the rulers, my foes.
"'3. And thou hast preserved me in all the regions,
thou hast saved me
out of the height and the depth of the chaos
and out of the æons of the rulers
of the sphere.
"'4. And when I was come out of the Height,
I wandered round in regions
in which is no light,
and I could not return to the thirteenth æon, my
dwelling-place.
"'5. For there was no light in me nor power.
My power was utterly
weakened (?).
"'6. And the Light saved me in all my afflictions.
I sang praises unto
the Light,
and it hearkened unto me, when I was constrained.
"'7. It guided me in the creation of the æons
to lead me up into the
thirteenth æon, my dwelling-place.
"'8. I will give thanks unto thee,
O Light, that thou hast saved me,
and for thy wondrous works unto the race of men.
"'9. When I failed of my power, thou hast given me power;
and when I
failed of my light, thou didst fill me with purified light.
"'10. I was in the darkness and in the shadow of the chaos,
bound with
the mighty fetters of the chaos, and no light was in me.
"'11. For I have provoked the commandment of the Light
and have
transgressed,
and I have made wroth the commandment of the Light,
because I had
gone out of my region.
"'12. And when I had gone down,
I failed of my light and became without
light,
and no one had helped me.
"'13. And in my affliction I sang praises unto the Light,
and it saved
me out of my afflictions.
"'14. And it hath also broken asunder all my bonds
and led me up out of
the darkness and the affliction of the chaos.
"'15. I will give thanks unto thee, O Light,
that thou hast saved me
and
that thy wondrous works have been wrought in the race of men.
"'16. And thou hast shattered the upper gates of the darkness
and the
mighty bolts of the chaos.
"'17. And thou didst let me depart out of the region in which I had
transgressed,
and my light was taken, because I have transgressed.
"'18. And I ceased from my mysteries
and went down to the gates of the
chaos.
"'19. And when I was constrained, I sang praises to the Light.
It saved
me out of all my afflictions.
"'20. Thou sentest thy stream;
it gave me power and saved me out of all
my afflictions.
"'21. I will give thanks unto thee, O Light,
that thou hast saved me,
and for thy wondrous works in the race of men.'
"This then is
the song which Pistis Sophia hath uttered in the midst of the four-and-twenty
invisible,…
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