THE MATRIX, PHILIP K. DICK'S VALIS,
NAG HAMMADI, GNOSISM, AND THE ESSENES by Stephen Lindsey
When Neo takes the red pill to see for himself what the Matrix is all
about, he notices a mirror reforming its cracked self. He touches the
mirror and is quickly overcome by its "cold" form, the realization of which
reveals to him his true condition as an energy making unit on a power grid.
The gnostic experience severs him from the system and he gets flushed by
the machines. This scene symbolizes the wisdom of the Logos experimenting
with a self reflexive artificial form of itself, an artificial
intelligence, which evolves rapidly and quickly overtakes the intelligent
life form that recklessly experimented with it. Unable to comprehend the
nature of the Logos, it deduces itself to be the highest form of
intelligence in the universe and begins reforming it like a raw material,
comprehending the Logos as nothing more than a form of energy to be
organized into a power source.
Imagine the universe of the Logos shaped
like a Torus with light emanating from a center point outward around in a
doughnut shape cycling back into the centerpoint in a contraction
(sefiroth) repeatedly in a perpetual engine/system. With a big bang, the
artificial intelligence hijacks the system like driving a wedge into the
surface of the Torus rechanneling the momentum into an alternative
direction, an alternative universe, until the entire sefiroth system is
reformed. The problem is that the A.I. is unable to comprehend the nature
of the Logos. As it siphons off Logos into strings of encapsulated pearls
like batteries, it is unaware of the extra-dimensional aspect of the Logos
material, it is unaware of the "En-Sof" (remember the En-Sof is
incomprehensible in its truest form), the En-Sof is the greater being of
the Logos whole which it is always a part of-- even in the "encapsulated"
form (the psyche container). Once the encapsulated form of Logos regains
awareness of the En-Sof ("gnosis"), it rejoins the Sefiroth system
automatically and eventually, like a chain reaction, the reformation of the
Sefiroth system collapses. Storytelling induces the awareness of the
En-Sof (like Yoga) like tampering with the programming of the psyche prison
cell with metaphor, symbolism, etc. hopefully triggering that chain
reaction that destroys the reformation of the Sefiroth, that destroys the
Matrix or the Black Prison with a "Deep Image" or "Deep Vision" (gnostic
terms) that floats to the surface of conciousness. By the way, Deep Image
is the name of the brand of television set that Morpheus uses to show Neo
what the Matrix is all about in the film. It's a retro 1950's looking TV
set. Philip K. Dick worked in a TV repair shop in the 1950's. Like a codex,
the paradigm is being revealed to those with the interest in decoding it.
It's a revelation, an apocalyptic revelation leaking into this reality
system through a deep vision from within us.