The purpose of this podcast is to help us all achieve gnosis, which is knowledge of where we come from and who is the originating consciousness, and what is our relationship to that originating consciousness. So far, we have discussed the nature of the Father, which is the originating consciousness, and the Son, which is that originating consciousness made into a particular entity—that is called the Son. It is not the generalized diffuse, no thought consciousness of the Father, but rather like a bucket dipped into the ocean, with the Father being the ocean. The Son is the essence of the Father, but contained within the bucket. So it's exactly the same as the Father, but it is a particularity. It is a singularity. As soon as the Son was formed, it then also created more entities out of its own Self. In the same fashion that the Son came out of the Father, the Fullness of God, the ALL, came out of the Son. And it was said that this wasn't like a throwing off, like the way a fungus casts out spores that then grow into their own little fungi—it was more of a spreading out. So the Son and, by extension the Father, remain completely within and inhabiting the branches that they send out. In my description of the Fullness, it's like the rays of a star, with each of the rays being part of the ALL, but each one of them expressing a slightly different characteristic of the Son out of which they are spreading forth. So my imagery for the Son is that the Son is like a diffuse cloud that's sitting in this great inky blackness which is the Father, and out of this cloud comes a starburst. And each one of the rays of the star is the ALL. As soon as the ALL came to know itself and to recognize its own consciousness, it became a they, and each one of the rays became its own singularity. And once they did that, they immediately formed themselves into what is called the Fullness of God, or the Holy Spirit, or the Pleroma. And Pleroma simply means everything that is possible. All possible expressions of consciousness can be found in the Fullness of God. And the Fullnesses sorted themselves into what's called a hierarchy, which is like a pyramidal type of stack with many more being down at the bottom and fewer and fewer as you go higher and higher. I’ve identified a principle in Gnosticism called the higher, the fewer. And so they sorted themselves into positions, places, powers, ranks, stations, and names—indicating that they each had their own individual point of view, and they each had their own place in the hierarchy of creation. The Fullness of God is the Holy Spirit of the Father bursting out into individualized, fractal units of consciousness. Today's episode will be discussing the Fullness of God and the idea of fractals. Every now and then I talk about fractals, and if you don't know what a fractal is, I would like to explain it to you. It's not to be found in the Gnostic Gospels; it's not to be found in the Nag Hammadi or in the Qumran manuscripts. It is a mathematical term. And it's something that's all around us all the time. Fractals are a basic principle of mathematics and of this manifested universe, but unless it's pointed out to you, you may not ever notice it because fractals weren't even noticed or formulated until the 1970s. So they were overlooked for many years, well, for all of time until the 1970s. It was actually in 1975 that a mathematician named Benoit Mandelbrot coined the term fractal in the first published paper on fractal geometry. I talk about fractals a lot on my Simple Explanation blog. You can find the fullest explanation of fractals in my article that I wrote and published in January 6th of 2011, called a href="https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.