This past week Pope Francis had warned the Italian Church, and Roman Curia about “two temptations.” Then looking up from his script, he drew much laughter when he said, “I say two, not fifteen as I told the (Roman) Curia!”
These two temptations were not in relation to resisting sin, or the devil, but he instead focused upon the teachings of Pelagianism and Gnosticism.
Pelagianism was founded upon the teachings of the Scottish/Irish monk Pelagius (354–420 or 440). Pelagius taught that moral perfection and salvation was attainable in this life without the assistance of divine grace through human free will. In simple terms, we humans are good or bad based on our own free will based actions.
Gnosticism in its purest form is the intuitive spiritual knowledge that comes with knowing thyself and thyspirit. The word Gnosis is a Greek word for knowledge which usually refers to any type of direct communion with the divine.
Pope Francis said this about Pelagianism, “leads us even to assuming a style of control, of hardness” stressing that “Christian doctrine is not a closed system.” He explained: “Before the problems of the Church it is not useful to search for solutions in conservatism or fundamentalism, in the restoration of obsolete conduct and forms that no longer have the capacity of being significant culturally.”
The Pope then identified the second temptation was “Gnosticism.”
Francis said this leads to “trusting in clear, logical reasoning” which “loses the tenderness of the flesh of the brother.” The fascination of Gnosticism—he said—is that of “ a purely subjective faith whose only interest is a certain experience or a set of ideas and bits of information which are meant to console and enlighten, but which ultimately keep one imprisoned in his or her own thoughts and feelings” (“The Joy of the Gospel,” No. 94).
Pope Francis said that the difference between every form of Gnosticism and Christianity is to be found in the mystery of the incarnation (of God who became man). “Not to put the Word (of God) into practice, not to bring it to reality, means to build on sand, to remain in pure ideas and to degenerate into intimacies that bear no fruit because they make its dynamism,” he said.
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Pope Francis said that the difference between every form of Gnosticism and Christianity is to be found in the mystery of the incarnation (of God who became man).
In my humblest opinion – I would say Jesus, the man, became a God through Godly Gnosis which is what I believe to be true Godly Mysticism. Psalm 82:6 We are ALL Gods in the making! He, Jesus, learned to completely love and trust only His Holy Self, which was The Holy Spirit.
Pope Francis may have his words mixed up and his shepherds crook going in the wrong direction, or else he may be purposefully deceiving us keeping back the true knowledge, that is for everyone to decide on their own. I do like Pope Francis, so I will assume for myself, that he just doesn’t know what Jesus fully taught, and what every single person has the right to know.
For me, I have been to the depths of abusive hell, so I sought the light at a young age, and my light was mixed with darkness as I got older. Darkness that only I could see, because it was the darkness that I bestowed unto others in a secretive way, that only I would have known about, some call it karma. So now, I walk through life with a healthy fear of My Creators, My Mother and My Father in Heaven. The church and countries have their own karma as well, not only individual humans.
The Vatican has kept everyone from the truth for way too long, I will assume that they keep their own priests from it as well.
Jesus was The Pattern and The Way for all of us to follow, so why did the church hide His patterns and His ways? Why did the church not tell us what to do? Why did the church take all of his important works and burn them or hide them? Power, money, sex… They know that in order to fully inherit the Kingdom, the person has to renounce it all, so it makes me wonder even more what really is at the heart of their secrecy… It can’t be as easy as Love, can it?
So glad that we all have a type of “insurance” with Holy Gnosis, it insures that we can, and or will, all reach it. If we can learn to trust our own Guiding Light and Inner Intuition, then we will finally be free and learn what The Master was trying to teach every single human being on this planet.
Thank you Moe for this wonderful site.
from his script, he drew much laughter when he said, “I say two, not fifteen as I told the (Roman) Curia!”
Pope Francis said that the difference between every form of Gnosticism and Christianity is to be found in the mystery of the incarnation (of God who became man).
In my humblest opinion – I would say Jesus, the man, became a God through Godly Gnosis which is what I believe to be true Godly Mysticism. Psalm 82:6 We are ALL Gods in the making! He, Jesus, learned to completely love and trust only His Holy Self, which was The Holy Spirit.
Pope Francis may have his words mixed up and his shepherds crook going in the wrong direction, or else he may be purposefully deceiving us keeping back the true knowledge, that is for everyone to decide on their own. I do like Pope Francis, so I will assume for myself, that he just doesn’t know what Jesus fully taught, and what every single person has the right to know.
For me, I have been to the depths of abusive hell, so I sought the light at a young age, and my light was mixed with darkness as I got older. Darkness that only I could see, because it was the darkness that I bestowed unto others in a secretive way, that only I would have known about, some call it karma. So now, I walk through life with a healthy fear of My Creators, My Mother and My Father in Heaven. The church and countries have their own karma as well, not only individual humans.
The Vatican has kept everyone from the truth for way too long, I will assume that they keep their own priests from it as well.
Jesus was The Pattern and The Way for all of us to follow, so why did the church hide His patterns and His ways? Why did the church not tell us what to do? Why did the church take all of his important works and burn them or hide them? Power, money, sex… They know that in order to fully inherit the Kingdom, the person has to renounce it all, so it makes me wonder even more what really is at the heart of their secrecy… It can’t be as easy as Love, can it?
So glad that we all have a type of “insurance” with Holy Gnosis, it insures that we can, and or will, all reach it. If we can learn to trust our own Guiding Light and Inner Intuition, then we will finally be free and learn what The Master was trying to teach every single human being on this planet.
Thank you Moe for this wonderful site.
Well said and you are welcome Brooke. Thank you for the kind comment!
They’re scared. How adorable…..and utterly pathetic.