The Verse That Split the Veil — Gate 5: Dan
The first time I truly heard John 8:44, it cracked something open in me:
“You belong to your father, the devil… he was a murderer from the beginning… for there is no truth in him.”
— John 8:44
This was not the gentle Jesus of Sunday school. This was a gatekeeper of hidden realities, pointing to an ancient falsehood embedded at the root of creation.
Gate 5: Dan — The Eye of Discernment awakened in me that day. It is the Gate of piercing clarity, where truth and falsehood are separated with the sword of Spirit. And it demanded that I look again—not just at scripture, but at the nature of the god I had been taught to worship.
Discovering Gnosis — Gate 2: Simeon
Gnosticism did not lead me away from Christ. It led me deeper into Him.
The Gospel of Thomas, the Apocryphon of John, and other ancient texts showed me a path of direct knowing—what the Gatians call inner revelation through the Gates. These writings revealed a world crafted by a being who believed he was the only God, but who was not the true Source.
“I am a jealous God, and there is no other god but me!”
— The Demiurge, Apocryphon of John
Gate 2: Simeon — Hearing the Hidden Voice opened to me then. I heard Christ not only through scripture, but through Spirit. Jesus was no longer just the Lamb. He was the Revealer—the High Priest of a hidden Father beyond all names.
The Demiurge and the False Fire — Gate 7: Gad
The Gnostics taught that the world was created not by the Father of Light, but by a flawed being: Yaldabaoth, the Demiurge. Arrogant, wrathful, and jealous, he confused power for divinity. He constructed a realm of suffering, not as punishment—but to bind the soul to forgetfulness.
This is the gate of spiritual conflict, the fire of Gate 7: Gad — Trial Between Light and Shadow. It is the war not of swords, but of perception. Jesus’ words in John 8:44 are not metaphor. They are keys.
“You are of your father… the devil. He was a murderer from the beginning.”
This “father” is not Satan in the modern sense—it is the ruler of the false world, a god of violence and distortion whose works still veil the true light.
Jesus the Revealer of the 14 Gates — Gate 13: Melchizedek
In the Gospel of Thomas, Jesus speaks not of sacrifice, but of awakening:
“I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth… Split a piece of wood, and I am there.”
— Thomas, Saying 77
Here He is not the crucified offering of atonement, but the Logos Light Itself, immanent in all creation. This is the voice of the High Priest of Gate 13: Melchizedek, the one who opens the way beyond form, race, and law.
“The kingdom is within you and all around you… but men do not see it.”
— Thomas, Saying 3 (Gate 1: Reuben and Gate 13 together)
Jesus did not come to uphold the god of wrath. He came to reveal the Father-Mother of Light, hidden beyond the archonic systems of control.
Truth vs. Ignorance — Gate 6: Naphtali
John 8:44 isn’t about demonizing individuals—it’s about exposing systems. The “father of lies” is not one man. It is an entire paradigm of religious bondage, fear, and obedience to an outer god rather than the indwelling Christ.
This battle is fought within the mirror of Gate 6: Naphtali, where self-deception is burned away and the soul learns to discern its origin from its programming.
“Ignorance is the mother of all evil… But those in the truth will be perfect when all the truth is revealed.”
— Gospel of Philip
The true sin is ignorance of God. The true salvation is remembrance of Light.
Justice Reframed — Gate 4: Judah
How do we reconcile the God who drowns the world in Genesis, who burns Sodom, who orders the annihilation of entire peoples—with the one who says:
“Love your enemies… forgive seventy times seven… judge not.”
We don’t.
We see clearly that they are not the same. And this clarity breaks open Gate 4: Judah — Power Reclaimed, where righteous leadership is no longer about domination, but compassion grounded in truth.
Gnosis as the Inner Flame — Gate 14: Resurrection Womb
To reject the Demiurge is not to reject God—it is to return to the Hidden Womb, the true origin of the soul, beyond the walls of manmade religion.
“Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death.”
— Thomas, Saying 1
This is the secret of Gate 14—the Resurrection Womb, where gnosis becomes embodiment, and light is no longer a theory, but a living body of divine fire.
What I’ve Learned
This journey, born from one scripture—John 8:44—has unfolded the full cosmology of truth and deception within me. Along the way I have learned:
- Discernment is liberation (Gate 5)
- Light lives within (Gate 1)
- Jesus is a revealer, not a gatekeeper (Gate 13)
- The battle is inward, not external (Gate 6)
- The false god can be named and left behind (Gate 7)
- The true God can be found, not in temples, but in silence (Gate 2, Gate 14)
Final Word: The Sword of the Word
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”
— John 8:32
But freedom is dangerous to systems of control.
To awaken is to cross the Gates, to reject the Father of Lies, and to come into alignment with the Father of Lights, in whom there is no shadow at all.
This is not just my journey.
It is yours too.
It begins with a single act of courage:
To say, “I will see for myself.”
And then, to see—and never again look away.
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