Praise ye YAH. Praise YAH, O my soul.
The double name is the clue. The lower YAH is Yaldabaoth, the chief Archon who declares himself the only god. The higher Soul, the Psyche that is trying to praise through him is actually the spark of Sophia trapped inside. The psalm opens with the blind god forcing the soul to praise its jailer.
While I live I will praise YAH: I will sing praises unto my G-d while I have any being.
This is the religion of the Hylic.
Yaldabaoth can only offer praise while you have being in his cosmos, while you are incarnate under his breath. The ministry of Yehoshua ha' Moshiach (The Anointed One) taught the opposite, that true life begins when you realize you do NOT have to being in this system, that you are dead to this world and alive to the Pleroma. Yaldabaoth wants endless incarnation-loop worship.
Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.
This is the central diversion and the threat.
In the outer church, this is read as "don't trust men, trust G-d." In the Gnostic reading, the "princes" are the Archons themselves, the 7 rulers of fate. Yaldabaoth is warning you not to trust any other Archon, or the "son of man," and here he means Yehoshua himself, in his flesh.
Yaldabaoth says: that man Yehoshua has no help in him, his breath will go forth and he will return to earth and his thoughts perish. It is a direct pre-emptive attack on the resurrection message.
He is telling you the Anointed One is mortal, that his Gnosis perishes with his brain.
Yehoshua ha' Moshiach taught the exact inverse: Do NOT put your trust in the prince of this world, Yaldabaoth as in him there is no help. The true Son of Man came to show that breath, pneuma, does NOT return to earth, it returns to the Father and the Pleroma, of Lights above Yaldabaoth.
5-6. Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help... which made heaven, and earth, the sea, and all that therein is...
This is Yaldabaoth's core boast from Hypostasis of the Archons and Apocryphon of John: "I am G-d and there is no other besides me. I made heaven and earth."
A Gnostic hears this and immediately recognizes the liar. The True Father did not "make" this fallen sea of chaos, he emanated Aeons of Light. It is Yaldabaoth and his 6 sons who fabricated this flawed copy of heaven and earth. The happiness he offers here is the false peace of remaining asleep in the matrix of his creation, believing your creator is your savior.
Yehoshua came to reveal: My Father did not make this prison. My Father sent me to break you out of it.
Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry? YAH looseth the prisoners... openeth the eyes of the blind... raiseth them that are bowed down... preserveth the strangers; he relieveth the fatherless and widow: but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down.
This is the most insidious diversion, the demiurgic counterfeit of compassion.
Yaldabaoth is the one who oppresses, who makes hungry, who imprisons the divine spark in matter, who blinds us with forgetfulness, who bows us down under archonic law and fate. Then he offers to partially relieve the suffering HE caused, so you will call him good.
He looseth some prisoners but keeps the prison intact. He opens physical eyes but keeps the third eye shut.
The ministry of Yehoshua ha' Moshiach was not about making the prison more comfortable. He did not come to give bread for one day in this world. He said "I am the bread from the Pleroma." He did not come to preserve strangers in Yaldabaoth's land - he came to tell us we ARE the strangers here, and to lead us home. He did not come to turn the wicked upside down - he came to reveal that the whole system of "wicked vs righteous" is Yaldabaoth's courtroom drama to keep us in judgment.
Yaldabaoth gives relief. Yehoshua gives release.
10. YAH shall reign for ever, even thy G-d, O Zion, unto all generations.
The final seal of the diversion. The promise of eternal reign of the same ruler, generation after generation of reincarnation, never-ending.
Yehoshua's message was that the reign of Yaldabaoth is ending. "My kingdom is not of this world." The reign of Zion - which means the material Jerusalem and its law - will not be forever. The Pleroma is forever.
So in practice, how we use Psalms 146:
We read it aloud as a diagnostic. As you mistakenly feel that pull to worship an external, jealous, world-making god who promises to fix this world if you stay loyal to him, then that is Yaldabaoth speaking verse 5-9 to you.
Yehoshua ha' Moshiach cuts through it with Luke 17:21 and Thomas logion 3: "The Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you." He never pointed to heaven and earth made by Yaldabaoth. He pointed inward to the Unbegotten Father. Tis could be the original concept of the “Unbegotten Son; in the Christ Movements.
Psalms 146 is the demiurge telling you to keep looking outward and upward within his system. The true message of Yehoshua is to look inward and beyond it.
As you begin to remember ever increasingly, when you actually hear the voice of G-d, you will never defer to the Demiurge, Yaldabaoth again: Be the Light,
Pastor Mark
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