The parable of, "The Bacteria"
A man named Dennis got a bad bacterial infection and was laid up for weeks in the hospital. It was a nasty bacteria that was resistant to most anti-biotics so the doctors had to give him equally nasty and powerful anti-biotics that caused many side effects: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, irritable bowels, hair falling out, very itchy skin, insomnia. The anti-biotic required careful daily monitoring, as it could potentially destroy his kidneys if the dose was not monitored carefully daily and adjusted based on kidney function tests.
He could barely walk, slept a lot, but was able to shuffle about the hospital floor, watching TV, talking with other patients, and eating in the dining room at the prescribed times. After about a month, he was finally cured, bacteria totally eradicated and went home and lived happily ever after.
Author's parable explanation(s)The man represents all humans born, the hospital is this life on earth, and the resistant bad bacterial infection represents the persistent mistakes/selfishness that cause us problems and incapacitates us much of the time.
The nasty anti-biotics are the cure God gives us during our time on earth, and the hospital staff are God's angels all around us, some invisible and some in human form you don't often realize.
While in the hospital (ie on earth), we experience pain and suffering not only from the bacteria (our own mistakes/selfishness & others' mistakes/selfishness against us, and real but invisible demons/archons also attacking, etc...) but also from the cure!
God's anti-biotic cure (ie truth) is almost as nasty as the bacteria! We usually still function on the basics, as in eat, sleep, shuffle about work, socialize a bit in the hospital with family & friends, watch TV, (entertain ourselves as a distraction), but our lives here on earth are controlled and difficult, compared to what we have to look forward to after leaving the hospital (ie after death).
Life then will be more free and exciting, after we pass through the veil of death, represented when the man is cured (ie '“raised from the dead”, as in cured of all negative) and leaves the hospital (not confined to earth anymore)!
Then he is free of sickness, and pain, and suffering, and enjoys life more with family and enjoys work challenges with a different mindset, as there are NO incapacitating burdens. There will be positive emotions and positive struggles only then, even though we become like the hospital staff and work with others still trapped in earth-reality, aka the “lake of fire” (ie symbolic of fiery trials).
There is no risk we former humans will become infected with the bacteria again, even though we will treat the people in the lake of fire manifestation of the hospital. We will not even feel negative emotions or thoughts about those we serve, only positive emotions and positive thoughts, but we will be able to put on a supernatural act to display such negative traits to help them at times. "With the pure thou wilt shew thyself pure; and with the froward thou wilt shew thyself froward." (Psalm 18:26)
The definition of froward is “difficult to deal with”; contrary. God is not froward, but He says here that He sometimes puts on a supernatural act and can appear that way to us, as it is necessary for us to understand how we project our froward nature onto God and think God does this as well.
When God reflects froward back to us like a mirror, it helps us to see God more clearly and overcome many key things. We former humans will work with God during the millennium and lake of fire ages, and will be able to appear froward as well to true humans still trapped in the simulation. But really, inside we will be full of joy, passion, and enthusiasm. "Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:2)
For we former humans, now turned hospital workers, will be like Christ, where there is only joy after physical death. So, we endure our crosses in this human life now, despising the shame, negative emotions/thoughts, suffering, etc… knowing we will sit down at the right hand of the throne of God too, as one of Christ's polygamous wives, His Queen/Queens, as the Sophia mythos hints about.
"Because the carnal mind is enmity (hate) against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be." (Romans 8:7) Our carnal minds are full of hate towards God, and other associated negative emotions like fear, anger, negative meditations, worries, anxieties, etc...
The body represents the mind, as we commonly say things like, "God speaks to me in my heart." We understand this statement is referring to the mind, as the physical heart is center of the body (mind) and pumps blood (life is in the blood) to nourish the cells of the body, meaning our "heart" is our core consciousness, where truth resides, and from the heart truth is pumped to the rest of our body (mind) and nourishes our soul & Spirit.
All of the cells of the physical body are analogous to all of the trillions of your brain cells, and as the bacteria infects every cell, so selfishness/errors and negativity infects all of our consciousness and we cannot imagine being totally free of all negative emotions and negative thoughts in this life. It will never happen completely while human, but is something to look forward to in the next life. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!" (Romans 7:24)
Paul wanted to be delivered from his flesh body of death, and thanks God here that he will die physically one day. Paul also said to die is gain (Philippians 1:21) and if we only have hope for fun and a great physical life on earth, we are miserable creatures (1 Corinthians 15:19), who do not understand yet or appreciate the sovereign God, who allows (causes?) us pain and suffering for our ultimate universal salvation good.
We will be fully cured one day, in the next life, represented by the man who left the hospital fully cured, all bacteria (ie all negative emotions/thoughts/pain/suffering) gone! We have our hospital stay to endure here. "But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." (Matthew 24:13)
Christ would not say that if He did not know life is difficult and our negativity cure here is something to endure. It is best to complete this salvation process while flesh and blood, and understand from experience these things I teach about the theology of suffering and the good God brings from it ... understanding becomes easier in time.
Those destined for another round in the “lake of fire” (ie reincarnation), are like those who must physically die in the hospital from the bacteria and/or anti-biotic treatment.
In other words, these ones must physically die before understanding from experience that the things I write are true. Eventually, whatever it takes, truth begins to make sense and people are able to generate truth, not only from the Bible, but people can create parables of truth/understanding, like Christ did. This is why I write the way I do.
All mature SophiaChristoses can do the parable thing AND/OR pull it out of others’ writings, like John Lamb Lash does below from ancient Gnostic texts.
However, John Lamb Lash has blinders, because of his hatred of all things patriarchy, so John cannot see that the sacred masculine must be combined with the sacred feminine, in balance, as Mark Passio understands this dynamic.
Many people have many parts of the love/truth/freedom puzzle pieces. The difficult part is putting it all together in a way that makes sense, and living it in this evil world.