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The plasmate is one of the strongest links between ancient Gnosticism and the modern Phildickian variety. Phil believed that in December of 1945 something of world shaking occurred. It was in this year that a shepard, Mohammed Ali Samman, set out into the mountains near his village in search of fertilizer. Instead, he found a large red jar within one of the caves. He was scared, fearing it might contain a demonic spirit. Phil might not be so quick to say those fears were unjustified. In any case, the lid was lifted and a golden mist rose from it. The most logical explanation for this, of course, is that fine particles of the contents were simply wafted upwards by the air currents. Phil might say this was simply an outward sign of a more subtle and mysterious event which occurred as Mohammed Ali Samman lifted several somewhat decayed, and obviously ancient, books from their resting place. Though a long series of adventures some of these texts would first make their way to the world, passing through such notable hands as the psychologist Carl Jung. Phil believed something else escaped from the pot at the same time.

To understand exactly what this "something" is, we need to look back at some of Phil's other beliefs. He saw the world as an irrational creation, a product of a deranged mind. However, a force of sanity and of goodness exists outside of it. This force can send part of itself outward into our universe, like an amoeba extending a pseudo pod. Much like the amoeba, it can also consume what it touches. Phil postulated that one such protrusion was extended into the world as Jesus. Christ was able to spread this healing as information, but not information in a normal sense. Dick says that it was "living information" that was sent out from Jesus. He called this living information the plasmate, and says this is the true meaning of the proverb of the mustard seed. Where the plasmate fell on good soil, a fertile mind suited to it, this living information was able to take root. In this state it would begin to bind itself into the human host, creating something anew that was a hybrid of the two forces. The plasmate could create a human possessing the Gnosis. A human whose nature was not that of its irrational creator, but of a higher nature. The human might still be clothed in corruption, but his essence would be converted, or partially so at any rate, to that of a higher realm.

Phil believed that these were the ancient Gnostic Christians. The proto-orthodox church and the roman empire arose as antibodies of the irrational system, excising and destroying anyone who had crossbonded with the plasmate, and any remaining source of the plasmate. It managed to secrete itself away, as the authentic teachings of Jesus, in the caves near Nag Hammadi. It was released, it was angered, and it set out to reestablish itself within the world and continue the healing process.

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Relevent quotes from Philip K. Dick's exegesis:

22. I term the Immortal one a plasmate, because it is a form of energy; it is living information. It replicates itself - not through information or in information - but as information.

23. The plasmate can crossbond with a human, creating what I call a homoplasmate. This annexes the mortal human permanently to the plasmate. We know this as the "birth from above" or "birth from the Spirit." It was initiated by Christ, but the Empire destroyed all the homoplasmates before they could replicate.

24. In dormant seed form, the plasmate slumbered in the buried library of codices at Chenoboskion(ed. a small town near Nag Hammadi) until 1945 C.E. This is what Jesus meant when he spoke ellipically of the "mustard seed" which, he said, "would grow into a tree large enough for the birds to roost in." He foresaw not only his own death but that of all homoplasmates. He foresaw the codices unearthed, read, and the plasmate seeking out new human hosts to crossbond with; but he foresaw the absence of the plasmate for almost two thousand years.

25. As living information, the plasmate travels up to the optic nerve of a human to the pineal body. It uses the human brain as a female host in which to replicate itself into its active form. This is an interspecies symbiosis. The Hermatic alchemists knew of it in theory from ancient texts, but could not duplicate it, since they could not locate the dormant, buried plasmate. Bruno suspected that the plasmate had been destoryed by the Empire; for hinting at this he was burned. "The Empire never ended."

49. Two realms there are, upper and lower. The upper, derived from hyperverse I or Yang, Form I of Parmenides, is sentient and volitional. The lower real, or Yin, Form II of Parmenides, is mechanical, driven by blind, efficient cause, deterministic and without intelligence, since it emantes from a dead source. In ancient times it was termed "astral determinism." We are trapped, by and large, in the lower realm, but are through the sacraments, by means of the plasmate, extricated. Until astral determinism is broken, we are not even aware of it, so occluded are we. "The Empire never ended."

Relevent quotes from the Gospel of Thomas:

20. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what Heaven's kingdom is like." He said to them, "It's like a mustard seed, the smallest of all seeds, but when it falls on prepared soil, it produces a large plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky."

108. Jesus said, "Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him."

13:5 Jesus said, "I am not your teacher. Because you have drunk, you have become intoxicated from the bubbling spring that I have tended."