THE GOSPEL OF PHILIP, PART 4
EDITED WITH COMMENTARIES BY SWAMI TANTRASANGHA

CH. 23
"The Father" and "the Son" are single names; "the Holy Spirit" is a
double name (male and female). For they (the Joined Couple) are
everywhere: they are above, they are below; they are in the
concealed, they are in the revealed. The Holy Spirit is in the
revealed: it is below. It is in the concealed: it is above.

CH. 24
The saints are served by evil powers, for they are blinded by the
Holy Spirit into thinking that they are serving an (ordinary) man
whenever they do so for the saints. Because of this, a disciple asked
the Lord one day for something of this world. He said to him, "Ask
your mother, and she will give you of the things which are
another's."

CH. 25
The apostles said to the disciples, "May our entire offering obtain
salt." They called Sophia (Wisdom) "salt". Without it, no offering is
acceptable. But Sophia is barren, without child (wise but no
Rebirth). For this reason, she is called "a trace of salt". (Jesus
said: "If there is no salt within a man, wherein will he be
salted?" "Salt" is a symbol for Genetic Efflux.) Wherever they will
[...] in their own way, the Holy Spirit [...], and her children are
many.

CH. 26
What the father possesses belongs to the son, and the son himself, so
long as he is small, is not entrusted with what is his. But when he
becomes a man, his father gives him all that he possesses. (The child
is raised to a young man, when he will become of age for Rasa Tantra
or the Marriage Supper, thereby inheriting the "Kingdom of his Father
in Heaven Within You".)

CH. 27
Those who have gone astray, whom the spirit begets, usually go astray
also because of the Spirit. Thus, by one and the same breath, the
fire blazes and is put out.

CH. 28
Echamoth is one thing and Echmoth, another. Echamoth is Wisdom
simply, but Echmoth is the Wisdom of death, which is the one who
knows death, which is called "the little Wisdom".

CH. 29
There are domestic animals, like the bull and the ass and others of
this kind. Others are wild and live apart in the deserts. Man ploughs
the field by means of the domestic animals, and from this he is
nourished, he and the animals, whether tame or wild. Compare the
perfect man. It is through powers which are submissive that he
ploughs, preparing for everything to come into being. For it is
because of this that the whole place stands, whether the good or the
evil, the right and the left. The Holy Spirit shepherds everyone and
rules all the powers, the "tame" ones and the "wild" ones, as well as
those which are unique. For indeed he [...] shuts them in, in order
that [...] wish, they will not be able to escape.

CH. 30
He who has been created is beautiful, but you would <not> find his
sons noble creations. If he were not created, but begotten, you would
find that his seed was noble. But now he was created (and) he begot.
What nobility is this? First, adultery came into being, afterward
murder. And he was begotten in adultery (copulation?), for he was the
child of the Serpent. (The Egyptian word for serpent in Nak. Nak
symbolizes Ankh, On, meaning water or Om, written in Sanskrit as
conjoined phallus and vagina - symbol of the sacred Hindu Siva
Lingum, upon which ritual water is poured. The Hebrews used the
serpent in a negative context, because of the temptation to copulate.
The Egyptians and Hindus used the serpent term in a positive sense,
although it was associated with ugliness, fear, danger and evil. In
ancient Egypt, hieroglyphics were written only in consonants, in
order to throw off the uninitiated, since they wouldn't know where to
insert which vowels. So, what they wrote, had different
interpretations, according to one's Gnosis. The serpent, Nak, written
as nk, is practically the same as Ankh or nkh, which is like the
Biblical On or N., meaning water and what to do with it. Yogi Bhajan
once told me that Om used to be pronounced "Ong". There is your
Biblical On, and your Egyptian N.) So he became a murderer, just like
his father, and he killed his brother. Indeed, every act of sexual
intercourse which has occurred between those unlike one another is
adultery. (Jesus taught that there are two kinds of marriages: 1.
Copulation and Apana or outflow of Bindu or seed, which was
a "marriage in the night", for it did not raise the Chi to the brain;
and 2. "Marriages in the Light", in which they fasted and exchanged
Genetic Efflux, as in the Biblical Marriage Supper or Wedding Feast,
in which there was no Apana or outflow. This practice opens the
Consciousness to the Vision of Inner Lights and the Inner Orchestra
of the Anahat Nad.)

CH. 31
God is a dyer. As the good dyes, which are called "true", dissolve
with the things dyed in them, so it is with those whom God has dyed.
Since his dyes are immortal, they become immortal by means of his
colors. Now God dips what he dips in water. (Again and again, is
repeated this theme of Physical Immortality - the most exciting and
rare of all the Siddhis! By the Baptism, symbolized as "entering
Noah's Ark two by two", we become Immortal and in a state of Higher
Consciousness, in Perceptual Communion with Almighty Allah, or
whatever Name you choose to call God.)

CH. 32
It is not possible for anyone to see anything of the things that
actually exist unless he becomes like them. This is not the way with
man in the world: he sees the sun without being a sun; and he sees
the heaven and the earth and all other things, but he is not these
things. This is quite in keeping with the truth. But you saw
something of that place, and you became those things. You saw the
Spirit, you became spirit. You saw Christ, you became Christ. You saw
the Father, you shall become Father. So in this place you see
everything and do not see yourself, but in that place you do see
yourself - and what you see you shall become. (TAT VAM ASI or That
Art Thou, as we Hindus say. This is the essence of AdvaitaCitta - the
Consciousness of Non-Separation, in which subject and object, or
perceiver and perceived, are joined by the Tantra or Weaving of
Father Sun and Sister Moon into a single Advaitamrita, thereby
stimulating the Tantra or Expansion of Consciousness via Astral
Projection or Soul Travel. The only danger of this Telepathic State,
is the possible hypnosis, caused by the invasion of the erroneous
thoughts of others or the failure to discriminate between one's own
thoughts and those of others. Interestingly, "Tantra" means both "a
weaving together" and "expansion". Tantra was the perfect term to
express the practice and the result of the practice of the Sanatana
Sat Dharma of Tantra Vidya or Gnosis, Tantra Sadhana or Communion of
Saints and Tantra Moksha or Salvation - my interpretation of the
Primary Teaching of the "Three Gems" of the Beloved Siddhartha Gotama
the Buddha. Remember the three basic requisites for Salvation from
Suffering: 1. Tantra Dharma, 2. Tantra Sangha or the Tantric Monastic
Commune, and 3. Tantra Moksha or Salvation from the Eight-fold
Suffering of: 1. Hunger and Thirst 2. Disease 3. Senescence or Decay
4. Death 5. Low Mental Intelligence 6. Emotional Depression 7.
Entrapment of Consciousness in the physical dimension, and 8. The
Impermanence of an endless cycle or Samsara of unpleasant appearances
in various bodies and dimensions. We want to fix your Krishna Car, as
it were. Need a good mechanic? Getting ready for Christmas?)