Dear instructors,
Thank you for your continual service to the members of this community and students across the globe. I was hoping you could shed some insight into a question that I have spent a lot of time trying to meditate on without limited success...
In Gnosis we learn about bodhisattvas, the great Initiates who sacrifice everything in order to pay all of their karma and incarnate the Christ to help our suffering humanity. We also learn that these great Initiates, upon reaching the heights of wisdom, often make the grave mistake of falling so that they may some day acquire an even higher degree of wisdom after much suffering, pain, and hard work. We also learn that the great longing of so many Initiates is to become Paramarthasatyas, or inhabitants of the Ain, where they are free from the danger of falling. We learn that Jesus, or Master Aberamentho, was a Paramarthasatya who acquired the right to and entered the Ain, and left and fell only to rise again (please correct me if I'm wrong here) and become the incomprehensible Initiate who leads the Gnostic Church in our universe.
My question is: is one ever truly free from the danger of falling forever? It is discouraging to me that even an Initiate that entered the Ain still wound up falling. It is troubling to me that even if, by the Grace of God, we as mere aspirants some day complete the Great Work, we will forever be subject to rising and falling? Is there ever a limit one reaches where one never falls again, even if they remain in the universe? Can one ever become a permanent inhabitant of the Ain and never leave? or does entering the Ain work similar to Nirvana, where there are periods where one remains there and periods where one must inhabit the universe and be in danger of falling?
I apologize for the complexity of these questions and realize that explaining these things and obtaining clear answers is not something we can hope to achieve via an online forum, but only through meditation. However these things weigh heavily on my mind and heart and I was hoping for some clarification or further food for meditation!
Thank you!
Thank you for your continual service to the members of this community and students across the globe. I was hoping you could shed some insight into a question that I have spent a lot of time trying to meditate on without limited success...
In Gnosis we learn about bodhisattvas, the great Initiates who sacrifice everything in order to pay all of their karma and incarnate the Christ to help our suffering humanity. We also learn that these great Initiates, upon reaching the heights of wisdom, often make the grave mistake of falling so that they may some day acquire an even higher degree of wisdom after much suffering, pain, and hard work. We also learn that the great longing of so many Initiates is to become Paramarthasatyas, or inhabitants of the Ain, where they are free from the danger of falling. We learn that Jesus, or Master Aberamentho, was a Paramarthasatya who acquired the right to and entered the Ain, and left and fell only to rise again (please correct me if I'm wrong here) and become the incomprehensible Initiate who leads the Gnostic Church in our universe.
My question is: is one ever truly free from the danger of falling forever? It is discouraging to me that even an Initiate that entered the Ain still wound up falling. It is troubling to me that even if, by the Grace of God, we as mere aspirants some day complete the Great Work, we will forever be subject to rising and falling? Is there ever a limit one reaches where one never falls again, even if they remain in the universe? Can one ever become a permanent inhabitant of the Ain and never leave? or does entering the Ain work similar to Nirvana, where there are periods where one remains there and periods where one must inhabit the universe and be in danger of falling?
I apologize for the complexity of these questions and realize that explaining these things and obtaining clear answers is not something we can hope to achieve via an online forum, but only through meditation. However these things weigh heavily on my mind and heart and I was hoping for some clarification or further food for meditation!
Thank you!