The Psychic Realm
A Study of The Psychical Realm
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A Study of The Psychical Realm
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What is psychic?
When we say psychic it is important to you know we are not talking about Sylvia Browne or the psychic hotline or any of that kind of foolishness. No, we are talking about psychic in this sense refers to psyche, which is the mind, as we normally understand it the intellect. so somebody who is cantered in the psychic realm is driven by intellect and by the other faculties of mind emotion intellect and then pneumatic comes from the word pneuma which means breath of spirit and this is someone who identifies with or is cantered in the spiritual realm.
In the study of things pertaining to religion we should keep in mind the three activities of consciousness: spiritual, psychical, and physical. The spiritual is the realm of absolute principles; the psychical is the realm of thought images; the physical is the realm of manifestation. The well-balanced, thoroughly developed man, of which Jesus is the type, comprehends and consciously adjusts his spirit, soul, and body as a whole, and thereby fulfills the law of his being. Those who are on the way to this attainment have various experiences, which are symbolically set forth in the Scriptures.
The word "psychic" is derived from the Greek word psychikos ("of the mind" or "mental"), and refers in part to the human mind or psyche. The Greek word also means "soul".
The word soul Greek psuché is a Noun the word psuchikos is an Adjective it could be translated soulful, soulical, ensouled, soul-endowed.
The word soul Greek psuché is a Noun the word psuchikos is an Adjective it could be translated soulful, soulical, ensouled, soul-endowed.
The word Psychic or Psychical is used only a few times in the New Testament
psuchikos: natural, of the soul or mind
Original Word: ψυχικός, ή, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: psuchikos
Phonetic Spelling: (psoo-khee-kos')
Definition: natural, of the soul or mind
Usage: animal, natural, sensuous.
5591 psyxikós (an adjective, derived from 5590 /psyxḗ, "soul, natural identity") – properly, soulish, i.e. what is natural, as it relates to physical (tangible) life alone (i.e. apart from God's inworking of faith).
5591 /psyxikós ("natural") typically describes the natural ("lower") aspect of humanity, i.e. behavior that is "more of earth (carnality) than heaven." 5591(psyxikós) then sometimes stands in contrast to 4152 /pneumatikós("spiritual") – the higher, spiritual aspect of humanity that develops through faith (4102 /pístis).
The Psychic Aeon
According to the Concept of Our Great Power, from the Nag Hammadi Library, the Psychic Realm is identical with the existing world that we live in:
Next the psychic aeon. It is a small one, which is mixed with bodies, by begetting in the souls (and) defiling (them). For the first defilement of the creation found strength. And it begot every work: many works of wrath, anger, envy, malice, hatred, slander, contempt and war, lying and evil counsels, sorrows and pleasures, basenesses and defilements, falsehoods and diseases, evil judgments that they decree according to their desires. (The Concept of Our Great Power, The Nag Hammadi Library)
is not to be understood literally as natural human offsprings rather it is sin conceiving remember the questions from the letter of James and Philo of Alexandria above
Jas 3:15 This wisdom is not one, from above, coming down, but is earthly, born of the soul, demoniacal! (Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible)
Philo of Alexandria: Now the female offspring of the soul are wickedness and passion, by which we are made effeminate in every one of our pursuits; but a healthy state of the passions and virtue is male, by which we are excited and invigorated.
Psalm 7:14, ESV: Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
The word soul is sometimes used collectively for a group of people in some parts of the Bible Genesis 14:21 Genesis 23:8 Jeremiah 48:6
21 After that the king of Sod´om said to A´bram: “Give me the souls, but take the goods for yourself.”
The souls,” M(Heb., han·ne´phesh, sing. but used collectively)
(Genesis 23:7-9) . . .Thereupon Abraham got up and bowed down to the natives, to the sons of Heth, 8 and spoke with them, saying: "If YOUR souls agree to bury my dead out of my sight, listen to me and urge E´phron the son of Zo´har for me, 9 that he may give me the cave of Mach·pe´lah, . .
Lit., "with your soul," used collectively. Heb., 'eth-naph·shekhem´;
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So the noun soul can be used collectively for a group of people this agrees with the understand the psychic aeon in the The Concept of Our Great Power
The psychic aeon is a collective noun
The aeon is the totality of the persons who live during the time
see Mental Perception for an understanding of the psychic aeon. It is a small one
The psychic aeon is a collective noun
The aeon is the totality of the persons who live during the time
see Mental Perception for an understanding of the psychic aeon. It is a small one
The Psychic Place a Mental Realm
The soul as the mind, as the seat of the senses, affections, and various emotions. The soul is used occasionally for mental acts and the intellect
Psalm 139:14 Proverbs 19:2 that the soul be without knowledge is not good (but RVm desire without knowledge,
Proverbs 24:14 know wisdom for thy soul (or according to thy desire, think not in thy soul (or in thyself,
Jas 3:15 This wisdom is not one, from above, coming down, but is earthly, born of the soul, demoniacal! (Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible)
Jude 1:19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
You have become psychic, since you have received the substance of the formed. If you cast out the smallest part of this, so that you do not acquire again a human part - but you have accepted for yourself the animal thought and likeness - you have become fleshly, since you have taken on animal nature. For (if) it is difficult to find a psychical man, how much more so to find the Lord? (The Teachings of Silvanus)
Heracleon: Fragments from his Commentary on the Gospel of John
The ascent to Jerusalem signifies the ascent of the Lord from material realm things to the animate (psychic) place (or realm), which is an image of Jerusalem.
the lower material (hylic) level of existence is symbolized by Capharnaum the psychic level of existence is symbolized Jerusalem
Heracleon compares the holy of holies the part of the temple accessible only to the high pries to the eternal realm of the pleroma which the spirituals are permitted to enter
Here Heracleon links the psychic realm with the image of Jerusalem
image refers to a pattern. type, plan, or form
image--"A mental representation of anything not actually present to the senses" (Webster).
Here the Psychic aeon is a world of forms it is a mental realm
psychic--Pertaining to mental powers not common to ordinary man; mental powers outreaching the scope of the physical man, but not yet quickened to the standard of Spirit.
When the psychic dominates in an individual it separates him from, or hinders him from coming into, consciousness of the true peace, unity, and joy that are results of the spiritual life. The psychic, apart from true spiritual understanding and dominion, leads to piercing, cutting, inharmonious experiences.
The realm of the soul is not the realm of God that is the higher realm of the consciousness built in accordance with the Christ mind. The realm of Spirit is wherever God is working to express Himself. When man as principle becomes the perfect image and likeness of God, no other realm will appear to have being.
The Soul is man's consciousness--that which he has realized or developed by the Spirit or intellectual reasoning; and also the impressions that he has received from the world around him ie social and environmental influences thus man's consciousness- is made up of intellectual reasoning, social and environmental factors (See The Psychic Aeon below)
The soul is both the conscious mind and the memory of a person. It is in this realm of the soul that ideas first take form.
The psychical realm is a mental feeling plane and must have its base of activity, therefore the body is this base of activity
the same word occurs in 1Cor 2:14:
1Co 2:14 But the natural <5591> man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:14 But, a man of the soul, doth not welcome the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, and he cannot get to know them, because, spiritually, are they examined; (Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible)
"natural," that is, living on the level of instincts, not on a spiritual level
The word natural in 1Co 2:14 stands opposed evidently to spiritual. It denotes those who are governed and influenced by the natural instincts; the animal passions and desires, in opposition to those who are influenced by the Spirit of God.
Natural.--That is, literally, that part of our nature which we call "mind," and hence signifies that man in whom pure intellectual reason and the merely natural affections predominate.
Jas 3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual <5591>, devilish.
Jas 3:15 This wisdom is not one, from above, coming down, but is earthly, born of the soul, demoniacal! (Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible)
Here in James 3:15 we get a glimpse into the Psychical Realm it is not of God or in heaven but is of the natural or the outward senses. It is from beneath (cp. 1 Cor. 15:43), and not of God (see James 1:17). The emanation of the flesh, governed by its emotions (Rom.7:5), and not properly disciplined by the divine wisdom.
It is a wisdom from beneath, It is dusty, pyschical, and demoniacal. It is dusty, or of the earth, because it is the vain speculation of the groundling; it is psychical, because it has no higher origin than the thinking of the soul flesh, or body of this death; and it is demoniacal, because it is that thinking of the flesh which begets many works of wrath, anger, envy, malice, hatred, slander, contempt and war, lying and evil counsels, sorrows and pleasures, basenesses and defilements, falsehoods and diseases
Philo of Alexandria: Now the female offspring of the soul are wickedness and passion, by which we are made effeminate in every one of our pursuits; but a healthy state of the passions and virtue is male, by which we are excited and invigorated.
Jude 1:19 These be they who separate themselves, sensual <5591>, having not the Spirit.
Jude 1:19 These, are they who make complete separation, mere men of soul, Spirit, not possessing. (Rotherham’s Emphasized Bible)
Jude 1:19 These are the ones who cause divisions, worldly-minded, devoid of the Spirit.
They were moved by the motions of sin found in the flesh; so the flesh governed their thinking and actions (Rom. 7:5; 8:5-6)
the word psuchikos is used in the apocrypha LXX 2 Maccabees 4:37; 2 Maccabees 14:24. heartily, from the heart, in the 4th book of Maccabees the word psuchikos is translated mental when referring to desires, desires that springs from the mental and emotional impulses
4 Maccabees 1:32
Some desires are mental, others are physical, and reason obviously rules over both. (New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
and of desires some relate to the soul and others to the body reason obviously holds sway (4 Maccabees, H. Anderson, OTP)
32 Some desires come from the inner person, and others come from the body. Clear thinking obviously has control over both. (4 Maccabees 1 Common English Bible CEB)
God has a Soul the psychic substance
The first clue is to be found in Leviticus:
11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. (Leviticus 26)
4 God’s own spirit made me, And the Almighty’s own breath proceeded to bring me to life. (Job 33)
From Job we learn that God’s spirit made Job but that it took God’s breath to bring him to (a physical or animate) life, i.e. to create Job as a complete living soul, a breather.
God as Having Soul. God speaks of “my soul” (Le 26:11, 30; Ps 24:4; Isa 42:1)
it would appear that God is telling us that we are in his image in more than spirit but also in soul and therefore body.
The [Invisible] Spirit [is] a psychic (animate) and intellectual power, a knower and a foreknower. (Zostrianos, The Nag Hammadi Library)
Grant what no angel eye has seen and no archon ear (has) heard, and what has not entered into the human heart which came to be angelic and (modelled) after the image of the psychic (animate) God when it was formed in the beginning, since I have faith and hope. (Prayer of the Apostle Paul, The Nag Hammadi Library)
59 First, then, he put on a seed from the Mother, not being separated but containing it by power, and it is given form little by little through knowledge. And when he came into Space Jesus found Christ, whom it was foretold that he would put on, whom the Prophets and the Law announced as an image of the Saviour. But even this psychic Christ whom he put on, was invisible, and it was necessary for him when he came into the world to be seen here, to be held, to be a citizen, and to hold on to a sensible body. A body, therefore, was spun for him out of invisible psychic substance, and arrived in the world of sense with power from a divine preparation. (Extracts from the Works of Theodotus)
60 Therefore, “Holy Spirit shall come upon thee” refers to the formation of the Lord's body, “and a Power of the Most High shall overshadow thee” indicates the formation of God with which he imprinted the body in the Virgin. (Extracts from the Works of Theodotus)
Theodotus understood the incarnation to be a kind of ensoulment of God’s mind in matter, when the Logos descended into the flesh at Jesus’ birth and became Jesus’ psyche or soul. So Theodotus understood that Jesus came into being not through the water baptism only, but through the blood of birth too (1 John 5:6;)
60 Therefore, “Holy Spirit shall come upon thee” refers to the formation of the Lord's body, “and a Power of the Most High shall overshadow thee” indicates the formation of God with which he imprinted the body in the Virgin. (Extracts from the Works of Theodotus)
Theodotus understood the incarnation to be a kind of ensoulment of God’s mind in matter, when the Logos descended into the flesh at Jesus’ birth and became Jesus’ psyche or soul. So Theodotus understood that Jesus came into being not through the water baptism only, but through the blood of birth too (1 John 5:6;)
The Psychic Heaven
The psychic heaven, i.e. the realm of the heavenly bodies, or the hebdomad the beings of the psychic realm, which rule the seven heavens, are reflections of their archetypes in the PleromaThe spiritual substance is a single thing and a single representation, and its weakness is the determination in many forms. As for the substance of the psychics, its determination is double, since it has the knowledge and the confession of the exalted one, and it is not inclined to evil, because of the inclination of the thought. As for the material substance, its way is different and in many forms, and it was a weakness which existed in many types of inclination. (The Tripartite Tractate)
the images of the Pleroma which have been emitted in fact constitute this sphere. in which the aeon-logos resides and from which he creates and supervises the visible world
the images of the Pleroma which have been emitted in fact constitute this sphere. in which the aeon-logos resides and from which he creates and supervises the visible world
In Philo’s writings, the Logos is not only the pattern according to which the world was created (ἀρχέτυπος, παράδειγμα) or place (τόπος) for the Ideas, but also an instrument (ὄργανον) through which (δι’ οὗ) God created the world. The Logos also functioned as a cutter (τομεύς) that divided matter and shaped the cosmic elements (earth, water, air and water) out of it. (Opif. 25; Her. 140. See Runia, Philo of Alexandria, 446-451)
Hebdomad this is the domain of angelic manifestations and therefore the realm of archetypes, thrones and powers
Moreover, he says, the psychic substance is of a fiery nature, and they call it [Middle] Space and Hebdomad and Ancient of Days. And whatever other statements of this kind they make concerning this [space], they [in reality] refer to the [cosmic] psychic substance, which they declare to be the fabricative power of the [physical] world. And it is of a fiery nature. Moses also, says the writer, declares, 'The Lord, thy God, is fire burning and consuming,' for thus he would have it written." (Frangements of a Faith Forgotten)
the Psychic Realm is the Intermediate place called the Middle or the firmament, the hebdomad
47 Now the Saviour became the first universal creator. “But Wisdom,” the second, “built a house for herself and hewed out seven pillars” and first of all she put forth a god, the image of the Father, and through him she made heaven and earth, that is “heavenly things, and the earthly” – the things on the right hand and on the left. This, as an image of the Father, then became a father and put forth first the psychic Christ, an image of the Son, then the archangels as images of the Aeons, then the angels of the archangels from the psychic and luminous substance to which the prophetic word refers, “And the Spirit of God was superimposed upon the waters,” declaring that in the combination of the two substances, made for him, the simple was superimposed but the heavy and material substance is borne under, the thick and coarse. But it is even suggested that this was incorporeal in the beginning when it is called “invisible.” Yet it was never invisible to any man that ever lived nor to God, for he made it. But he has somehow declared its absence of form, shape and design. (Extracts from the Works of Theodotus)
However, the psychic essence is not associated with Sophia’s will to turn back but it is simply presupposed as a luminous essence out of which the essences of the angels and the heavenly lights were made.
according to which the Savior is the “first creator” who delegated the final task of creation to Sophia and the Demiurge, who finally shaped the psychic heaven and material earth out of pre-cosmic matter (Gen. 1:1). It is notable that Heracleon also interpreted “all things” in John 1:3 to be a reference to “the cosmos and its contents” (Orig. Comm. Joh. 2.14).
the psychic heaven, i.e. the realm of the heavenly bodies, was ruled by the psychic “intellects,” who had their archetypes in the Pleroma
The Savior bestowed upon matter the capability of forming into two essences (hylic and psychic essences) and the elements of the world (earth, water, air and fire). The Savior left matter in a confused stage to be separated by the Demiurge into structures and bodies.
Moreover, he says, the psychic substance is of a fiery nature, and they call it [Middle] Space and Hebdomad and Ancient of Days. And whatever other statements of this kind they make concerning this [space], they [in reality] refer to the [cosmic] psychic substance, which they declare to be the fabricative power of the [physical] world. And it is of a fiery nature. Moses also, says the writer, declares, 'The Lord, thy God, is fire burning and consuming,' for thus he would have it written." (Frangements of a Faith Forgotten)
the Psychic Realm is the Intermediate place called the Middle or the firmament, the hebdomad
"According to this, then, the soul [that is, the psychic substance] is partly mortal [and partly immortal], being as it were a kind of mean. (It is [both] the Hebdomad [the sublunary space] and [also] the means of bringing the Hebdomad to an end.) For it is below the Ogdoad [the mind or spirit-substance]--where is Wisdom, the day of perfect forms [that is, the sun-space], and the Common Fruit of the Pleroma--but above the hylic matter [the earth-space], of which it is the fashioner [or demiurgic power]. If then the soul is made like unto the things above, it becomes immortal, and entereth into the Ogdoad; which is, he says, the Jerusalem above the heavens; whereas if it be made like to matter, that is to say the material passions, then it is destructible and perishes." (Frangements of a Faith Forgotten)
there are many realms or worlds astronomical and physical worlds, worlds of thought, spiritual worlds and so on in every one of them the Father is all in all.
the material world knowable by the senses, the invisible world of angels and the divine world of Reality
there are many realms or worlds astronomical and physical worlds, worlds of thought, spiritual worlds and so on in every one of them the Father is all in all.
the material world knowable by the senses, the invisible world of angels and the divine world of Reality
The soul touches both the higher realm of the pleroma, from which it receives direct inspiration, and the external world, from which it receives impressions. But as man brings into expression the original image and likeness of the divine mind his soul is purified and established in its primitive innocence.
Psychic thoughts that connect the individual soul with the soul of the earth and the heavenly bodies. They are not spiritual, but shine by borrowed light.
the psychical realm of consciousness in man is the power of confusion
the psychical realm is deceptive for it is governed by the outward senses
the psychical realm lacks true spiritual discernment
the psychical realm is the domain of thought images
the psychical realm of consciousness in man is the power of confusion
the psychical realm is deceptive for it is governed by the outward senses
the psychical realm lacks true spiritual discernment
the psychical realm is the domain of thought images
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