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INNER CIRCLE: When Hope Reaches Us

INNER CIRCLE: When Hope Reaches Us

Last updated on: September 27, 2024 at 11:12 pm by Keith Giles

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INNER CIRCLE: When Hope Reaches Us 2024-09-27T23:12:46+00:00 Keith Giles

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Chapter 20: The Hope That Stretches Out To Us

“This is the word of the good news of the discovery of fullness [Pleroma] for those who await the salvation coming from above. Their hope, toward which they stretch, is stretching toward them – they whose image is light with no shadow in it.” [20:1-2]

The hope we are reaching for is reaching out to us – the people who are made of light without shadow – as the fullness we seek is already on its way to find us and fill us with his fullness.

In the spiritual poetry of the Gospel of Truth, we find the inexpressible beauty of the dance between the Beloved and the God of Love expressed in delicate phrases dripping with awe and wonder.

Finding What Seeks Us

“The fullness of the fullness [Pleroma] we seek is about to come. The deficiency [emptiness] of matter [created things] does not come through the limitless infinity of the Father who came to give in our time of need. Of course, no one is able to say that the imperishable One will come in this way.” [20:3-5]

The fullness of being filled is what we yearn for. Our hunger to be filled with God – the One who fills everything in every way – will soon be filled with the Father’s infinite fullness. A universe of Divine presence that transcends our ability to comprehend quenches our thirst like an endless ocean poured into us and through us. Even so, our inability to express the mind of the boundless one is as deep as our need of him.

Deep Calls To Deep

“The depth of the Father is multiplied, and the thought of error is not within him. It is both the falling down and the standing upright at the revealing of the one who has already come to the place he wants to return to. For this is repentance.” [20:6-8]

As deep calls out to deep within us, the illusion of separation evaporates. We rise as we fall and fall as we rise in the Father’s presence. This is our undoing. This is the catalyst for the resurrection of life within us.

Breathing In What Breathes Us Out

“For this reason, the imperishable has exhaled [breathed out]. It followed him who has sinned in order that he may find rest. For forgiveness is that which remains for the light in the depth of our need, the word of the Pleroma [fullness].” [20:9-11]

When the fullness comes and breathes on us, it brings us peace and whispers softly an invitation to lay our souls down to rest at his feet. There, in the depths of our emptiness, his light illuminates our Oneness with his fullness and we are made complete at last.

The Infinite Dance of Love

“For the physician hurries to the place in which there is sickness, because that is the desire of the physician. The one in need, then, does not hide it – for one has what the other needs. So, fullness – which has no need but fills need – gives from itself to fill every person’s need so that she might receive grace. When one was in need, she had no grace. When that which was contracted [in need and empty] received, it was revealed that the one in need was fullness. He revealed himself as fullness [a Pleroma]; the revelation of the light of truth which has shined towards him, because he is unchangeable.” [20:12-18]

The Divine Fullness [Pleroma] is the fullness which fills all emptiness and the light that extinguishes darkness.

The Healer heals us.

The Seeker finds.

The Infinite is everywhere we are.

God’s fullness has no emptiness.

It fills the emptiness and we are not empty.

We are filled.

When we receive the hope that was reaching out for us, we are transformed from darkness into light where no shadows remain.

Why?

Because our fullness is in the Infinite One who does not change.

The newest book from Keith Giles, “The Quantum Sayings of Jesus: Decoding the Lost Gospel of Thomas” is available now on Amazon. Order HERE>

Keith Giles is the best-selling author of the Jesus Un series. He has appeared on CNN, USA Today, BuzzFeed, and John Fugelsang’s “Tell Me Everything.”

He co-hosts The God Squad podcast, and the Heretic Happy Hour Podcast.

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