THE GOSPEL OF PHILIP, PART 8
EDITED WITH COMMENTARIES BY SWAMI TANTRASANGHA

CH. 55
Those who say, "There is a heavenly man and there is one above him"
are wrong. For it is the first of these two heavenly men, the one who
is revealed, that they call "the one who is below"; and he to whom
the hidden belongs is that one who is above him. For it would be
better for them to say, "The inner and outer, and what is outside the
outer". Because of this, the Lord called destruction the "the outer
darkness": there is not another outside of it. He said, "My Father
who is in secret". He said, "Go into your chamber and shut the door
behind you, and pray to your Father who is in secret" (Mt 6:6), the
one who is within them all. (The Holy Spirit, the Father, Christ, the
Kingdom of Heaven, the Longer and Happier Life, and Salvation from
Suffering, are all the same phenomenon Within You!) But that which is
within them all is the fullness. Beyond it, there is nothing else
within it. This is that of which they say, "That which is above them".

CH. 56
Before Christ, some came from a place they were no longer able to
enter, and they went where they were no longer able to come out. Then
Christ came. Those who went in, he brought out, and those who went
out, he brought in.

CH. 57
When Eve was still with Adam, death did not exist. When she was
separated from him, death came into being. If he enters again and
attains his former self, death will be no more. (If there was a movie
about Adam and Eve, you could just run it backwards to find the Way
back to the "Garden of Eden", in which wishes were miraculously
granted! Adam and Eve were Immortal Beings, living in Paradise. Their
Immortality was due to the fact that they were "AS ONE FLESH" and
they ate only from the Tree of Life. When they ate forbidden food,
they also abandoned the practice of Rasa Tantra, in favor of
copulation. This resulted in their Genetic Separation, whereby
Intrinsic Mutagenesis began. The Bible states that there thus
came "AN ENMITY BETWEEN THEIR SEEDS", whereby they were
mutually "bruised". It was at this time that they were cast out of
their Paradisical State, and the Eight-Fold Suffering began. The
Lord's warning came true: "Eat of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil, and you will die!" Inflow of "forbidden food" and Apana or
outflow of Bindu or Seed, are the two reasons whereby, like Adam and
Eve, WE ALL fall from the Glories of the Divine Resurrected Immortal
Body, with the Siddhis or "Gifts of the Holy Spirit", listed by St.
Paul in I Cor. 12, in the Holy Bible.)

CH. 58
"My God, my God, why, O Lord, have you forsaken me?" (Mk 15:34). It
was on the cross that he said these words, for he had departed from
that place. (We must accept that the Divinity can be more impersonal
in nature than we would like to admit. This explains, for example,
how six billion "Chosen People" can go up in smoke, without any help
from the Lord. Again and again, we see how our fate is tied more to
Natural Physical Law, and our applications of it, than the waving of
some distant genie's magic wand. We are ultimately responsible for
our fate and the fate of others. Jesus said: "Ye speak of dead men
and deny the Living One standing before you". You appeal to unknown
spirits for Salvation, but deny the Salvation Science, which is right
here in front of your face! You expect others to "save" you from what
you haven't yet thought about, and you refuse to really SAVE
YOURSELVES. "The Lord helps those who help themselves.")

CH. 59
[...] who has been begotten through him who [...] from God.
The [...] from the dead. [...] to be, but now [...] perfect. [...]
flesh, but this [...] is true flesh. [...] is not true, but [...]
only possess an image of the true.

CH. 60
A bridal chamber is not for the animals, nor is it for the slaves,
nor for defiled women; but it is for free men and virgins.
(The "Bridal Chamber" is another name for the "Marriage Supper of the
Lamb of God". Since it eschews the outward flow of Bindu, copulation
is not usually practiced, unless one can retrieve the seed, by
obvious methods: Since Rasa Tantra Sadhana abjures the outflow, as in
copulation, it is for women who have never copulated nor given birth
to children, both of which are definitions of the word, "Virgin".
The "Son of a Virgin", if meant symbolically, would mean the "Inner
Child" of the Resurrection of the Flesh, a "Child" not Conceived by
copulation, and never delivered from the womb.)

CH. 61
Through the Holy Spirit we are indeed begotten again, but we are
begotten through Christ in the two. (We are Re-Begotten Within Us.
This activates the Holy Spirit and Its Siddhis. This Inner Re-
Conception is from Rasa Tantra Sadhana - the "Wedding Feast"
or "Marriage Supper". Thus, "we are Begotten through Christ in the
two" - man and woman!) We are anointed through the Spirit. (We
are "Born Again of water and Spirit". When we were (Re)begotten
(within ourselves), we (man and woman) were (genetically) united ("As
One Flesh"). None can see himself either in water or in a mirror
without (Inner) Light. Nor again can you see in Light without mirror
or water. (Man and woman are joined in the water of the "Mirrored
Bridal Chamber". Two "mirrors" reflect each others' Genetic Efflux.)
For this reason, it is fitting to baptize in the two, in the light
and the water. Now the light is the chrism. (St. John the Baptist
said: "I Baptize you with water, but one comes after me, who will
Baptize you with fire." As we have seen, even long before the Bible,
the "Fire" or Agni, represents the Inner heat, Light and Life of the
Holy Spirit: The same "fire", whereby it was proven that Elijah's was
the correct sacrifice. The only "sacrifice" he put on his "altar" was
water. His success angered Queen Jezebel "the whore or puta", thus
endangering Elijah's life. "Baptize in the two", calls to mind that
St. Peter said that "Noah's Ark was a similitude for Baptism",
whereby "they entered two by two and set out upon the water".)

CH. 62
There were three buildings specifically for sacrifice in Jerusalem.
The one facing the west was called "The Holy". Another, facing south,
was called "The Holy of the Holy". The third, facing east, was
called "The Holy of the Holies", the place where only the high priest
enters. Baptism is "the Holy" building. Redemption is the "Holy of
the Holy". "The Holy of the Holies" is the Bridal Chamber. Baptism
includes the Resurrection and the Redemption; the Redemption (takes
place) in the Bridal Chamber. But the Bridal Chamber is in that which
is superior to [...] you will not find [...] are those who pray [...]
Jerusalem who [...] Jerusalem, [...] those called the "Holy of the
Holies" [...] the veil was rent, [...] Bridal Chamber except the
image [...] above. Because of this, its veil was rent from top to
bottom. For it was fitting for some from below to go upward.
(The "Bridal Chamber" is Rasa Tantra. By practicing it, one attains
the Resurrection of the Body from the "grave" of sensescence and
death. This is also the "Forgiveness of Sins". The Holy Bible
states: "The wages of sin is death". When you are no longer dying,
you are no longer paying the dues, and when you no longer must pay
for bad karma, the "debt" has been removed. Look for Salvation where
it really is, or you will never find it!)

CH. 63
The powers do not see those who are clothed in the perfect light, and
consequently are not able to detain them. One will clothe himself in
this light sacramentally in the union. (By the Genetic Sacraments of
the Holy Eucharist, the Genetic Rebirth and the activated Inner Light
are attained. The key word is "UNION": the Union of two bioplasmas,
JOINWD AS ONE! This SEXUAL UNION is at the core of all Hermetic
religions and philosophies.)