When you use your gnostic powers you may rise above.
Riffing on Eternity #14
A way to know the gods is by seeing them in the radiant reflections in your being.
If your goal might be to know the gods, then the gnostic powers must be found, identified, learned and expanded. These powers are actually senses articulated in an amplified directed intuition and can be awakened, nurtured and developed.
Practices do this, as well as devotional activities to turn the soul inward. Shining light within opens the pathways upward, to find the “radiant reflections”. For the gods are in fact all within us, and can be seen in their radiant reflections there, as in a great hall or temple within ourselves.
The shining inner pathways lead to this great hall or temple of all gods, where their reflections in glittering mirrors line the entire space, revealing their features, their areas of command, their beneficial outpourings in each sphere of being.
Those gods within have the power to manifest outside of us once they are seen and recognized by us. When we enter this hall they come to us easily, each stand in their reflective mirror frame. The first gods seen gnostically this way are primary to the soul. Behind these are all the others related in their series, and ranked behind them are more, each related to each in their resonance and harmonies, each created and each a creator, all entrained with their leader, the first who is gnostically seen in the reflection in the mirror of the great hall.
They open their eyes to see us. They reach out to us, all blessing with their beneficial hands.
In this circular temple, with mosaic floor glittering in jewels and gold, the soul may stand in the centre, and begin turning in two directions simultaneously, generating light and energy.
Rays resplendent emanate powerfully to illuminate the god’s reflections. They animate the static images of the gods, who warm to the soul. Their eyes send out all the messages of all time, and then reaching first with hands to touch and hold the soul steady in their keeping beams, they step out of their frame threshold into the temple, onto the floor of the great hall. They, too, begin to turn in both directions, sending their energies upwards and downwards, inwards and outwards in all directions as spheres. As stars.
The hall cannot contain such powerful radiant magnitude, and it disappears, having only been a temporary construct, a metaphorical holding place. The static turning dance is now glittering in vast dark space, within and of the stars. There is no holding. It is an offering to the ineffable.
More of my notes on Plato study here, at Riffing on Eternity.