"Names" in the Gospel of Philip

The Gospel of Philip states

"The names of earthly things are illusory.

We stray from the real to the unreal.

If you hear the word "god" you miss the real

and hear the unreal.

Father, son, holy spirit, life, light, resurrection, church.

These words are not real. They are unreal

but refer to the real, and are heard in the world.

They fool us. If those names were in the eternal realm,

they would never be heard on earth.

They were not assigned to us here.

Their end dwells in the eternal realm."

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This is the reason why gnostics end up sounding like raving lunatics the majority of the time when confronting literalists. We can only use human approximate words which already exists to explain what we see and feel. Meanwhile, literalists have these terms which have been used for centuries upon centuries and have so much baggage attached to them all we can see is the baggage and not the root of the word itself as it was intended. 

Science-fiction author Orson Scott Card appeals to me for this vary reason. The term 'philotic web' works very well to describe what the interconnected auias of the bodhisattva look like covering the earth while communicating and meditating on the state of affairs in the world. How could a science fiction author(Mormon at that!) come up with this idea of philotes and their interconnectedness? In the dreamscape which we all share, ideas are exchanged. Words and terms are bandied about and ahah! A descriptive is decided upon to be the be one to be used at the moment. And so every day we get closer and closer to knowing ourselves and one another. As we learn and get closer to the All we evolve and our understanding helps us to mature.

Let us enjoy this dreamscape for what it is-- it's dialogue with one another while we learn what it is we are striving for.