The Gnostics' Great Secret, Finally Revealed - William Donahue — Transcript

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1. 0:00The Gnostic were knowers of a tremendous
2. 0:02secret, and I'm going to tell you that
3. 0:03secret
4. 0:04in a minute.
5. 0:06And what is the secret? They knew a
6. 0:08secret.
7. 0:09And the secret was a terrible secret
8. 0:12because it was deadly to the rulers of
9. 0:14the world's religions and the world's
10. 0:15governments, and they would kill for
11. 0:17this secret. And I'm going to tell the
12. 0:18secret to you, and I'm going to reveal
13. 0:20the secret to you from the Gnostics.
14. 0:22Because the ones who profit from the
15. 0:24established traditions of society could
16. 0:26not allow people to hear this secret.
17. 0:29It was too dangerous to them.
18. 0:32So, they oppressed and they killed them.
19. 0:35I'm going to read you the secret of the
20. 0:36Gnostics right now.
21. 0:39>> [clears throat]
22. 0:39>> Quote,
23. 0:40"Human life does not fulfill its promise
24. 0:44within the structures and establishments
25. 0:47of society.
26. 0:49No one comes to true selfhood by being
27. 0:52what society wants you to be, nor by
28. 0:55doing what society wants you to do."
29. 1:00"No one comes to true selfhood by being
30. 1:04what society wants you to be, nor by
31. 1:07doing what society wants you to do."
32. 1:12"Family, society, church, business
33. 1:15trades, as well as moral and ethical
34. 1:17rules are not the least conducive to
35. 1:19spiritual welfare. Have nothing to do
36. 1:21with it.
37. 1:23THERE IS ONLY ONE THING,
38. 1:25and that is your knowledge of the
39. 1:27cosmos, your knowledge of cosmology,
40. 1:29your knowledge of nature, and your
41. 1:31willingness to subject yourself to flow
42. 1:34in that beautiful,
43. 1:36beautiful place of the higher realms of
44. 1:38consciousness where nature flows to
45. 1:41carry you up into the arms of that which
46. 1:43is nirvana, and she will embrace you,
47. 1:46and then you become one in
48. 1:47consciousness, and then you become one
49. 1:49in spirit. But, you'll never, ever make
50. 1:52it. And all of our time is spent, no
51. 1:55matter how hard we try to understand
52. 1:57this, all of our time is spent trying to
53. 1:59be what they want us to be.
54. 2:02To do what they want us to do.