Kirlian Imagery

"Images are visible to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light." ~ The Gospel of Thomas Chapter 83


"When you see your likeness, you are happy. But when you see your images that came into being before you and that neither die nor become visible, how much you will have to bear!" ~The Gospel of Thomas Chapter 84

[Source: The Complete Gospels, Edited by Robert J. Miller]


In the third installment of the Matrix trilogy Matrix Revolutions Agent Smith enters the body of a Zion operative named Bane through a hardline, moving from the Matrix into the "real world". Later in the film, Neo looks past the flesh to reveal the true culprit behind Bane's sudden dementia--Agent Smith, Neo's nemesis! I was especially fond of this scene due to my profound interest in the electromagnetic properties of the human body. I could not resist making a correlation between this particular scene and various images i had observed obtained through what is called Kirlian photography. Kirlian what? No, not one of the three stooges, but Kirlian photography. According to one source:

"Kirlian pictures can show animal or plant tissues or even inanimate objects. The objects being photographed may be placed between two electrodes to which a high-frequency alternating voltage is applied; or it may be earthed and serve as one of the electrodes. The film is laid on a layer of insulating material covering the non-earthed electrode. The film is not exposed to light, nor is a lens used. Electrical discharges around the object directly cause patterns that are seen in the developed film."

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Now let us reflect on the passage from Chapter 83 of the gospel of Thomas once again.

"Images are visible to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light."

This passage contains a piece of very profound knowledge about the nature of light and the limited ability of the human eye to perceive reality. Interestingly, according to Semyon Kirlian [a late 1930s Russian prof.], after a Kirlian photograph of a freshly cut leaf had been taken, a small part of the leaf was cut away, a second kirlian picture would show an image--a 'phantom' of the missing area! Some people believe that this 'phantom' image is evidence of an etheric body, a spiritual or psychic counterpart to the material body [See blog on The Egyptian Afterlife]

To be continued....