Dr. NEETzsche, GED on Nostr: Clout Chaser 🗿 >All the Gnostic books do is flip the story of Eden on its head, ...
Clout Chaser 🗿 (npub1wkw…y9sj) >All the Gnostic books do is flip the story of Eden on its head, tell you Satan is God and God is Satan, and then they usually dump a bunch of occultic names of primordial figures, which takes the bulk of the content
Actually that's not all they do. They're totally incoherent with each other because Gnosticism wasn't a singular sect but everybody and their uncle who didn't cuck to the bishops forming their own views of Christ. I don't think they should be taken at face value at all, and many are certainly diabolical in nature.
The Gnostics were correct on a handful of key points:
* you gain salvation through direct experience with the divine, not any particular church
* secret knowledge is absolutely real
* the devil controls the world and takes on a sort of demiurgic role
But all those unhinged acid trip screeds about Sophia birthing Yaldabaoth the androgynous abortion or whatever else end at good fiction. I don't take most Gnostic cosmologies very seriously at all.
Caek Islove 🍰 💖 (npub1wfv…yfp8) Senator_Armstrong (npub18me…xtr3)
Actually that's not all they do. They're totally incoherent with each other because Gnosticism wasn't a singular sect but everybody and their uncle who didn't cuck to the bishops forming their own views of Christ. I don't think they should be taken at face value at all, and many are certainly diabolical in nature.
The Gnostics were correct on a handful of key points:
* you gain salvation through direct experience with the divine, not any particular church
* secret knowledge is absolutely real
* the devil controls the world and takes on a sort of demiurgic role
But all those unhinged acid trip screeds about Sophia birthing Yaldabaoth the androgynous abortion or whatever else end at good fiction. I don't take most Gnostic cosmologies very seriously at all.
Caek Islove 🍰 💖 (npub1wfv…yfp8) Senator_Armstrong (npub18me…xtr3)