Analysis Of Philip's Sacred Divine Encounter

It looks as if this spiritual relationship intends to be more complete and sacred; aspiring to an awakening, and cooperation of one’s heavenly, higher self. One’s union with the Divine comes forth as an earthly reality; illuminating a freedom, and calmness within one’s spirit.

(Within ancient manuscripts, the writing may be broken due to its fragileness; historians have to piece together some of the texts, because of missing words; therefore, translators place brackets […] in the areas, to indicate this lack.) Unfortunately, the text is broken badly, but it still gives us its sexual intent about sexual intercourse in marriage and its image. Philip gives the impression in his writings that one’s earthly marriage is deficient and clearly

Noticeably, Philip maintains again that our Divine partnership is above and beyond our earthly- fleshly one; imposing that our spiritual, sexual essences with the Divine is our true prize in life and afterwards into eternity as in Rev 21:1-3. Philip also talks about ‘unseen evil forces,’ he states,

This verse is saying that unseen evil forces cannot bother believers after they have shielded themselves with the knowledge of divine love and light. The covering of God’s light protects His people with Divine purity of love.

The group known as the Valentinian Gnosticism feels that the experience of the bridal chamber refers to the sanctified union with God; in addition to a sacred sexual union with humans. Some present day Christian groups are quick to use this as a means to condemn early gnostics as rebellious heretical movement of sexually polluted pagan Christians, (referencing perversions within some text contained in the gnostic writings. ) However, there is a problem with this reasoning, due to fact that most gnostic groups believed a sexual connotation was corrupted by material flesh, some believing that ‘all’ sexual contact was impure; such as in Thomas the Contender, “Woe to you who love intimacy with womankind and polluted intercourse with them!”144. Distinctly, writings vary and this debate about what the truth meaning of the total sum of the gnostic texts is

Philip allegedly indicates that “redemption is the Holy of Holies” in the temple and that it takes place in the bridal chamber. In addition, the “bridal chamber mirrors” implies a reproduction of the “heavenly bridal chamber,” just as the ancient’s believed the early “Temple” was meant to be a copy of “God’s Heavenly Temple.” Jesus said, “Like on earth as it is in heaven;” (Matt 6:10), the mentioning of this duality is found also in (Matt 18:18 and Luke 11:2). It’s conceivable one’s existing world now, is merely a copy of one’s true existence waiting in another dimension from where believers are now, lovingly waiting for us to come home, as discussed in chapter