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Level before the film begins. subtle than any beast of the
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field which the Lord God had made.
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And he said unto the woman, Yeah, he had.
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God said Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
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In that passage of Scripture we find the very beginning of sin
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and human depravity as we know it today because the Bible
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teaches us that God placed man and woman in the garden and in
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the garden they lived in a perpetual paradise.
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Everything was perfect. They didn't have any problems,
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they didn't even have to work for a living in those days.
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Everything was perfect, the economic conditions, there was
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perfect tranquility and peace in that garden.
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God didn't make man just a little button that he could push
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and a little piece of machinery that would obey him.
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God made man a free moral agent, the ability to choose between
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right and wrong. God said you can enjoy all the
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fruits of the garden except one tree, and if you eat of that
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particular tree, you'll die. One day the devil came along in
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the form of a serpent and said to Adam and Eve, why you're not
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going to die. Why, if you eat of that fruit,
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you're going to become as other gods, and you're going to have
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happiness and joy such as you've never known, and you'll become
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the richest people in all the universe if you'll eat of that
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tree. They believe the devil's lie
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rather than God's truth. And so they ate the fruit.
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And what happened? Instead of becoming as other
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gods, instead of having their eyes open and becoming wealthy
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and even wiser, the Scripture says that they became naked in
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their own sights. And they realized that they
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disobeyed God and sinned against Almighty God.
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And the Bible teaches that they went out and sowed fig leaves on
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themselves to hide themselves from their own nakedness and to
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hide themselves from God. But God came along in the cool
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of the day, and God saw through the fig leaves, and God saw
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their sin and the nakedness of their soul.
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And God went out into the fields and slew the beast of the field
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and took these skins and wrapped them in these skins to hide
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their nakedness, one from the other and from God.
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And that was the first time that blood was shed in order to save
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man and was a type of the death of Jesus Christ that was to come
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4000 years later. We've been told for centuries
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that the Garden of Eden was a paradise, that the Creator was a
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benevolent father, and that the serpent was the architect of our
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ruin. We were told that our thirst for
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knowledge was our original sin. But what if the God walking
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through that garden wasn't the Supreme Being, but a jealous
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jailer? What if he forbade the Tree of
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Knowledge not to protect us, but to keep us in the dark, to
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ensure his creations never realized they were actually
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superior to him? We are taught from birth that
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the world is a gift, that the sunrise, the mountains, and the
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breath in our lungs are proofs of a benevolent design.
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But for a group of thinkers in the ancient world, there was a
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different, darker intuition. They looked at the suffering,
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the decay, and the inherent cruelty of nature and reached a
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radical conclusion. This world is not a gift, it is
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a cage. They believed that the creator
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of our physical reality was not the ultimate God, but a blind
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lesser entity, an architect who built a beautiful prison to keep
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our souls from remembering where we truly came from.
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To them, we are sparks of light trapped in a basement of matter.
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This is the core of the Gnostic vision.
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It isn't a religion of belief or faith in the traditional sense.
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It is a path of awakening. It starts with a single
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dangerous realization. Something is wrong with the
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world and the only way out is to remember the truth they tried to
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make us forget. This divine suspicion is the
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heartbeat of Gnosticism. These Gnostics believed we are
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cosmic orphans. They believed our reality is a
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beautiful, terrifying mask and that the power ruling it is a
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blind pretender. Salvation, therefore, comes
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through awakening. It comes through remembering a
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home we've never seen but have always felt.
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To the architects of what would later become the mainstream
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church, these ideas were absolutely horrific.
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This was the ultimate theological high treason.
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It turned the good news of the Gospels into a cosmic Horror
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Story. It suggested that the bishops
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and the priests were inadvertently worshipping a
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jailer. The battle for the soul of the
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West became a war over the nature of reality itself.
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One side wanted to build a Kingdom on earth, the other
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wanted to escape the earth entirely.
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This was a conflict that could only end one way, with one side
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being declared truth and the other being scrubbed from the
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face of the earth as the ultimate heresy.
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Before there was a devil, there was the Red Land, the deshrit to
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the ancient Egyptians. The world was split in two, the
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fertile black soil of the Nile and the scorching, chaotic red
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sands of the desert. The master of that chaos was
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Set. In the pantheon of ancient
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Egyptian gods, Set was the God of storms, Chaos, and the Red
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Desert. He was the foreigner, the
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necessary force of disruption. But as the Egyptian New Kingdom
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collided with the Levant, something strange happened in
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the minds of the ancients. They began to see a pattern.
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He wasn't originally evil in our modern sense.
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He was necessary. He was the storm that broke the
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drought, the God of foreigners, and the protector of the sun God
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RA on his nightly journey through the underworld.
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But Set was also the God of disruption, the brother who
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murdered Osiris, the one who could not be contained by the
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Mahat, the cosmic balance. The most unsettling thing about
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Set is his face. While other gods had the heads
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of recognizable animals, Falcons, jackals, ibises, Set's
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head is a Cryptid known as the Shah, or the Set animal.
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It features a curved downward snout, square topped upright
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ears, and a stiff forked tail. Egyptologists have debated for a
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century what this creature is a saluki?
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A giraffe? An okapi.
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The truth is likely more deliberate.
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Set is the God of the Other. His head is an impossible beast,
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representing a power that does not fit into the natural order.
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He is the glitch in the biological world.
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As Egypt expanded its empire into the Levant, modern day
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Syria, Lebanon and Israel, their priests encountered the gods of
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the Canaanites and Hittites. They didn't see new gods, they
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saw masks. The Canaanites worshipped by Al
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Haddad, the Thunder God who lived on a mountain and rode the
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clouds. He was violent, virile and prone
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to fits of rage. To the Egyptians, this was
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clearly set. During the Ramos side period,
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the two were effectively fused. Setball became the God of the
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mighty arm, the one who rules through raw, terrifying power
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and atmospheric violence. This is where the Gnostic heresy
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begins to take its shape. As the cult of Yahweh emerged in
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the same region, observers in the Hellenistic world and later
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the Gnostics began to notice uncomfortable parallels.
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They saw a God who dwelt in the desert, spoke through storms,
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Thunder and fire, the jealous, volatile ruler of the red land
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of matter. God said, Adam and Eve, you've
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sinned against me, you've disobeyed me, all right.
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You have to take the consequences.
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I told you that in the day you eat, you're going to die.
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My word is truth. And here's what happened as a
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result of man's disobedience and man's sin.
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First of all, God cursed the serpent.
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That's the reason the serpent, who was the most beautiful of
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all the beasts of the field, now crawls on its belly.
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It's the enemy of mankind because of the Garden of Eden.
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God cursed the servant. Then the second thing that
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happened, women have sorrow and suffering in childbirth.
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All the suffering that all the women have endured in childbirth
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down through the ages, or result of woman's sin in the Garden of
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Eden and the curse and judgment of God because of that sin.
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And then the Bible says that the earth was cursed, all the thorns
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and thistles. And because man has to work and
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labor by the sweat of his brow, for his living and for all that
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he has, comes as a direct result of sin.
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Before there was an orthodoxy, there was an explosion of ideas.
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In the first two centuries after Jesus, there was no New
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Testament, no Central Vatican, and no single way to be a
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Christian. Instead, there were hundreds of
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small private circles. Some saw Jesus as a Jewish
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Messiah. Others saw him as a cosmic
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phantom who never actually touched the ground.
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In the great Library of Alexandria, Egyptian mysticism,
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Greek philosophy and Jewish scripture were being thrown into
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a spiritual centrifuge. It's important to understand no
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one in the ancient world called themselves a Gnostic.
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That is a modern label we've pinned on them.
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At the time. They were simply followers of
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the secret way. They called themselves the Seed
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of Seth, or the Elect. They didn't think they were
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starting a new religion. They thought they were the only
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ones who truly understood the deep meaning of the old ones.
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The first man to truly tear the mask off the storm God was
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Marcion of Sinope. Around 140 AD, Marcion arrived
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in Rome with a radical proposition.
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The God of the Old Testament and the Father of Jesus were two
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different beings. He argued that Yahweh was a God
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of law, justice and wrath, the God of the Jews, while the true
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God was a God of love and mercy. Marcion was the first to create
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a Canon, a list of accepted books, and in doing so, he
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forced the rest of the world to decide what they believed.
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He was the spark that started the fire.
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While Marcion was practical, others were deeply mystical.
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The Valentinians, led by Valentinus, the most brilliant
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philosopher of the era. They believed the world was a
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mistake born from the grief of a divine being named Sophia.
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They operated inside the early churches, whispering secrets to
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those they felt were spiritual enough to hear them.
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The Sethians trace their lineage back to Seth, the third son of
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Adam. They were the ones who wrote the
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most complex cosmologies, detailing the Archons, the
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Celestial Jailers, and the Aeons, the realms of light.
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This was a golden age of Apocrypha, the hidden books.
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In dimly lit rooms across Egypt and Syria, scribes were penning
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the Gospel of Thomas, the secret Book of John, and the Gospel of
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Truth. They were written in Coptic and
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Greek, shared in secret, and treated as more sacred than the
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public Gospels. But as the Proto Orthodox Church
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began to gain political power, these books became a liability.
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To own one was to be a traitor to the one true faith.
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As the fires of censorship began to rise, those who love these
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texts faced a choice. Destroy the knowledge or hide it
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where the children of the storm God would never find.
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It are you ignorant or asclepios?
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That Egypt is the image of heaven, our land.
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Is the temple of the world, but a time will come.
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When Egyptians will seem to have served the divinity in vain.
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The country that was more pious. Than all countries will become
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impious. No longer will it be full of
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temples, but it will be full of tombs.
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Neither will it be full of gods, but it will be full of corpses.
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All river you will flow with blood more than water.
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And he who is dead will not be mourned as much as he who is
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alive. Oh, Egypt.
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Almost there, mother. Look what we found in the sand.
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Look at this one. These books are useless.
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Since you cannot read them. I wish you had brought.
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Back something more. Useful, but these will do.
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For kindling. In 1945, near the Egyptian town
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of Nag Hamadi, 2 young boys uncovered A sealed jar near the
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cliffs of Jabal al Tarif while digging for sabak, A fertilizer
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rich soil. They broke open the jar because
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they thought it might contain something valuable.
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Inside was a collection of ancient papyrus books bound in
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leather, hidden away for centuries.
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They took manuscripts back to the family home, where some of
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them were burned in the household oven before anyone
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understood their value. Some pages were already damaged
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by age, fragmentation and handling.
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Other pieces had to be reconstructed later by scholars
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working with incomplete leaves and broken sections.
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Even the texts we do possess often come to us through copies
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of copies translated from Greek into Coptic and preserved in 4th
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century codices that point back to much older traditions.
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The discovery is now known as the Nag Hamadi Library, 13
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codices containing more than 50 texts written in Coptic, many of
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them translated from earlier Greek originals.
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Among them were works that would become central to modern
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discussions of Gnosticism, including the Gospel of Thomas,
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the Gospel of Truth, the Apocryphon of John, and other
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revelatory, mystical and cosmological writings.
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Before the discovery at Nag Hamadi, most of what the world
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knew about Gnosticism came from its enemies.
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For centuries, Gnostic ideas were known through denunciations
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written by church fathers and harisiologists.
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These writers described Gnostics as dangerous, deviant, and
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wrong. The Nag Hamadi Library changed
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all of that. It gave scholars direct access
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to texts associated with Gnostic and related traditions, allowing
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those voices to finally be heard in their own language, with
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their own myths, symbols, and theological systems intact.
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After the discovery, the codices moved through a messy period
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involving private hands, antiquities channels, delayed
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access and uneven scholarly circulation.
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One codex became associated with the Jung Institute in Zurich and
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later became known as the Jung Codex.
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Others were gathered into the Coptic Museum in Cairo.
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For years, access to the texts remained partial and slow, which
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meant the ideas inside them spread gradually rather than all
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at once. How would these new sayings of
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Jesus, not included in the Bible, affect the faithful?
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These texts weren't in the canonical gospels.
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So what was their status? Did this.
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Even mean that the gospels. Themselves didn't transmit.
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The whole of Jesus teaching. So once again, this was risky
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territory for Bible believing Christians.
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The Nag Hamadi discoveries have revolutionized our understanding
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of early Christianity. A fascinating collection of
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texts, most of which have never been known before.
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They were written in Coptic, which is Egyptian.
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Written in Greek letters. They are translations of the
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original Greek and so we can go back and get a great deal out of
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them. Right.
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But they're telling the same story.
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And what the story is, is that we are an intention, we're the
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product of an intentional act, and we were imbued with a force
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that was greater even than those who created us, and that there
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has been an effort from that time to deny us that force.
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Well, how do you? Know that our force is.
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Greater than those that created. Us I don't know this where.
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Where are you getting that? From that is from.
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If you're familiar with the Gnostic texts, there were 13
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bound books representing over 50 texts.
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They were the oldest records of the New Testament, and they were
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the records that were excluded by the the Catholic Church.
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So among these were things like the Gospel of Thomas, which is
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considered the second most heretical book.
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In the Nag Hamadi Library, there's the Gospel of John, also
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called the Secret Book of John, also called the Apocryphon of
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John, which is considered the first most heretical book.
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There are books from Gnostic women.
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Thunder Perfect Mind is a book by a Gnostic woman that's in
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there. The Gospel of James is and
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there's but the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Thomas is
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one of the probably the most controversial.
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It's 114 sayings that were recorded by by Thomas and the
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book says Didymus Thomas. It was was the name and it's
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almost like it. It's different from all the
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other books in that it is each saying is is a teaching unto
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itself. What he was teaching was so
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profound for his time. There were outer teachings and
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inner teachings. The outer teachings were for the
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masses and it's primarily what you see in the Gospels.
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The inner teachings were for those initiates that could
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really understand what it was he was saying.
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And that's what the Gospel of Thomas appears to be.
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I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard,
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what no hand has touched, and what has never occurred to the
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human mind. If those who lead you say to you
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see the Kingdom is in the sky, then the birds of the sky will
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precede you. If they say to you it is in the
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sea, then the fish will precede you.
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Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.
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When you come to know yourselves, then you will become
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known, and you will realize that it is you are the sons of the
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living Father. When these words attributed to
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Jesus were first recorded in Greek and Coptic texts, the word
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for knowledge was gnosis. Those who had knowledge were
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Gnostics. For some Christians, then,
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salvation would come through knowledge of a special kind, a
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knowledge superior to faith. To achieve gnosis was to know
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one's soul, to know God, and to know the living Jesus.
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There were people in antiquity who called themselves Gnostics.
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They said that they were the children of the knowledge of the
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heart. And that is what gnosis really
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is about. It is an intuitive knowledge,
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imaginative thinking, not analytical thinking, but really
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knowledge of the heart. Gnosis is of the same root as
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the English word knowledge to know, but it is not an
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intellectual knowledge. It is more sort of intuitive
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thinking, imaginative thinking. They themselves call it the
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knowledge of the heart. With the publication of the
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mystical Gnostic scriptures from Nag Hamadi, scholars and
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historians can now consider the role of Gnosticism within the
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established Christian tradition. The spiritual impulse of nurses
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is a constant quest for self knowledge and knowledge of God.
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Today, the knowledge of the heart is shared by millions.
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And then the Bible teaches physical death comes as a result
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of sin. All the graveyards, all the
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hearses, all the ambulances, all of that is a result of the sin
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of man in the Garden of Eden. At that precise moment, the
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moment that man sinned and disobeyed God, in that precise
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moment he was separated from God and Jesus called it hell.
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Whoever finds the interpretation of these sayings will not
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experience death. Most of us grow up with a
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specific shape to the story of our origins.
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A perfect garden, a benevolent father, a tragic mistake.
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We are taught that our suffering is our own fault, the result of
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a prehistoric act of disobedience, an act of sin that
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was then passed down genetically to every single human born
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thereafter at infinitum. But the Gnostics looked at that
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same story and saw something else entirely.
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They saw a crime scene. To them, the version of the
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story we have today, the one in the canonical Bible, is more
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like a piece of state propaganda, written by the
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victors, edited by the very authorities who wanted humanity
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to remain submissive, fearful and blind.
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Why was their version so radically different?
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Because they believe that if you want to keep a prisoner in a
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cell, the most effective way to do it is to make them love the
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jailer. They believe the creator of the
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garden was a pretender, a false God, and that he had inverted
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the truth to hide his own tracks.
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In their view, the commandments were the security protocols, and
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the fall of man was a jailbreak. To understand this, you have to
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be willing to look at the Genesis narrative through a very
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dark, inverted mirror. You must accept the possibility
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that the villain was the hero and the God of the Garden was a
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monster. This wasn't just to be
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contrarian. They believed they had found the
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uncensored original script, the one that explains why, despite
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our divine creation, we find ourselves living in a world
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defined by pain, suffering, decay and death.
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Before the universe, before the stars, and before the gods,
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there was the Monad. The Gnostics didn't call this
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God in the way we do. They called it the Proarch, the
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first beginning, or the bythose the profound depth.
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It is a silent, unthinkably vast ocean of pure consciousness.
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It is the source from which all light flows.
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From this source, a series of divine emanations began to flow
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outward, like ripples in a pond. These pairs of male and female
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energies are called the Aeons. Together they form the Pluroma,
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the Fullness, the original perfect realm of light.
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The glitch in the system came from the youngest Aeon, Sophia
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Wisdom. In her desire to understand the
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depth of the Monad, Sophia acted alone, without her male
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counterpart in the divine realm. This was an impossibility, a
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violation of the cosmic symmetry.
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Her thought took on a life of its own, but because it was born
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of a singular imbalance desire, it was deformed.
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Horrified by what she had produced, a lion headed serpent
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with eyes of fire, Sophia cast it out of the Pluroma, hiding it
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within a thick cloud of shadow. This abortion of the divine
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realm was Yeldebauth, the Demiurge.
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Born in the darkness and unaware of the light of the Pluroma
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above him, Yeldebauth believed he was the only thing in
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existence. He looked at the shadows and the
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void and began to organize them. He was a blind God.
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He wasn't necessarily evil, but he was ignorant and arrogant.
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He mimicked the patterns of the Pluroma he couldn't see,
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creating a physical world of matter, decay, and death.
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He then created 7 assistants, the Archons, the planetary
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jailers who rule over the spheres of our world.
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As this Demiurge breathed life into the first human, a strange
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thing happened. Sophia, seeking to recover the
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light she had lost, tricked the Demiurge.
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As he breathed spirit into man, he unknowingly exhaled the
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divine spark he had inherited from his mother.
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The lower God had built the cage, but the higher God's light
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was now trapped inside the prisoners.
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This is the Gnostic tragedy. We are divine royalty living in
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a slum, suffering from a cosmic amnesia.
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If you went looking for the Gnostics in the 2nd century,
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rather than a single church, you would find a chaotic ecosystem
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of underground cells, secret study circles, and radical
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philosophers. And because gnosis was an
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experience rather than a set of rules, the story of the cosmic
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error changed depending on who you asked.
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Different maps of the same prison.
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The most elaborate version came from a group calling themselves
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the Seed of Seth. Their mythos was a sprawling
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cosmic epic. To them, the tragedy was a
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literal war of intelligence. In their texts, the fall of
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Sophia was a cascade. They described a universe
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guarded by the Archons. 7 Planetary wardens who patrol the
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borders of our reality to ensure no soul ever escapes.
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The Sethians saw themselves as divine sleeper agents.
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They believed the true God had sent a third son, the biblical
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Seth, to move through history in various disguises, whispering
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the codes of the jailbreak to those who were ready to wake up.
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Then there was Valentinus, arguably the most brilliant mind
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of the ancient world. He took the horror of the
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Gnostic myth and turned it into a psychological drama.
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To the Valentinians, the Demiurge wasn't a monster.
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He was a tragic figure of ignorance.
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He was like a child playing with blocks, unaware that the wood he
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was using was actually the solidified grief and fear of his
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mother, Sophia. In this version, our physical
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world is literally made of divine tears.
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The mountains are her frozen sorrow, The oceans are her
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weeping. For a Valentinian, the path to
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Gnosis was about healing the divine rift through love.
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They believed that even the Demiurge, the blind Creator
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himself, could eventually be educated and brought back into
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the light. In the more obscure circles,
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like those who followed a teacher named Justin, the story
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took a barbarian turn. They believed there were 3
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original powers, a good God, a flawed father named Elohim, and
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a half woman, half snake mother named Eden.
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In this bizarre triangle, Elohim and Eden fell in love and
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created humanity as a celebration of their union.
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But when Elohim finally saw the true light above him, he
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abandoned the earth to return to the heavens.
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Eden, heartbroken and enraged at being left behind, turned her
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sorrow into the evils of the world.
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We are the children of a broken home, caught between a father
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who left us and a mother who is holding us hostage in her grief.
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One of the most radical edges of the movement were the canines.
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They believed that the God of the Bible was so fundamentally
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evil that the only way to be holy was to do the exact
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opposite of his laws. They venerated the villains of
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history as freedom fighters. They saw Cain as the first man
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to resist the tyrant, and they saw the people of Sodom as
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heroes who were destroyed because they wouldn't bow to the
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jailer. Most shockingly, they believed
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Judas Iscariot was the only apostle who truly understood
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Jesus. In their view, Jesus asked Judas
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to betray him so that his soul could finally be released from
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the prison of his physical body. To a canine, the betrayal was
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actually the ultimate act of friendship.
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These diverse myths were all just different ways of
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describing the same haunting intuition.
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You are an exile in your own skin and now is the time to find
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your way home. I can explain Gnosticism if you
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want. Why don't you give us a a
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thumbnail sketch of what it means to to have a Gnostic?
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Yeah, Christian theology. What is that?
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So Gnosticism, the term comes from the Greek word for
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knowledge. The Greek word for knowledge is
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gnosis, spelled with AG. GNOSIS means knowledge in Greek.
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There were a number of Christian groups in the second and third
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centuries, especially starting out probably somewhat after the
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New Testament period, who maintained that Jesus brought
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salvation not by dying on the cross and being raised again,
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but by delivering the secret knowledge that was necessary for
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people to learn so that they could escape the material
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trappings of their body to go to a spiritual heavenly realm.
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The idea, the basic idea behind this is a kind of a dualism
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where there's a spiritual realm that is good and positive and
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there's a material realm that is really quite awful.
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And so our suffering comes because we're material beings.
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And so our bodies can get injured, we can starve.
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We, we die, we, you know, bad things and we get diseases, bad
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things happen to us because of our bodies.
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And so the material world itself is a problem.
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And so in these Gnostic religions, the material world
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did not come into existence by the creation of a good God.
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The material world came into existence because of a cosmic
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disaster. And before the cosmic disaster,
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there was only a spiritual realm with divine beings.
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But because of things that happened in this this realm,
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eventually there was a disaster that happened that led to the
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creation of the material world. And it LED some elements of the
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spiritual world to be trapped here in human bodies.
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So some people have a divine spark within them, a part of the
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divine within them. And the goal of the Gnostic
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religion is to allow them to escape their material trappings,
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to return to their spiritual home.
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And that can only happen if they receive correct knowledge,
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gnosis. And so these Gnostic texts are
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largely about the revelations of the secret knowledge that can
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bring salvation. To the Orthodox, Jesus was the
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son of the Creator, sent to mend the relationship between the
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Potter and his clay. But to a Gnostic, that version
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of Jesus was a decoy. In the secret traditions, Jesus
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was something far more radical, an alien.
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He did not come from the God of this world, nor was he sent to
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uphold its laws. He was a foreigner from the
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Pluroma, the realm of pure light that exists outside the black
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box of our universe, and he was on a cosmic rescue mission.
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He came not to pay a debt to a jealous God or to die for sins.
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He came to infiltrate the prison, bypass the Archonic
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security, and whisper the source code of our true identity into
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the ears of the captives. He was the ghost in the machine,
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a being of such high frequency that the physical world couldn't
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even truly hold him. The most jarring difference in
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the Gnostic mythos is the nature of Jesus's body.
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Most Gnostic sects were dos Attic from the Greek Dokin
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meaning to seem. They believe that because the
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material world was an evil construct of the Demiurge, a
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pure divine being from the Pluroma could never truly
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inhabit flesh. He wore a man like a disguise.
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He was a holographic projection. In the Acts of John, it's
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claimed that when Jesus walked, he left no footprints.
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When his disciples tried to touch him, their hands passed
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through him as if he were made of light.
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The most controversial of the Gnostic inversions was the
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crucifixion. In the second treatise of the
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Great Seth, Jesus himself narrates the execution.
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He describes standing on a nearby hill laughing while the
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Romans and the Pharisees crucify a substitute.
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They thought they were killing the Son of God, but they were
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actually nailing a shadow or a man of flesh named Simon of
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Cyrene to a piece of wood. I was laughing at their
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ignorance, for I was not ashamed as they were.
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To the Gnostic, the idea that God could be killed by a Roman
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spear was an absurdity. The Jesus that died was merely
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the shell that the Demiurge's Law could reach.
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The true Christ remained untouched, mocking the Archons
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for thinking they had won. In the Saithian tradition, the
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role of Jesus is explicitly linked back to the Garden.
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Some texts even suggest that Jesus himself was the serpent in
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the Garden of Eden. He came to finish what the
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serpent started. If the serpent gave the first
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software update, the realization that we are naked ignorant, He
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came to deliver the full version.
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He is the Logos, the word of the True Father, sent to remind the
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divine spark that it doesn't belong to the King of this
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world. While the New Testament ends
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with the resurrection and a quick departure, Gnostic texts
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like the Pistus Sophia claim that Jesus stayed on Earth for
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11 or 12 years after his death. During this time, he sat with
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Mary Magdalene, John, and Thomas, giving them the real
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lessons. He taught them the passwords,
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the Apatas, the names of the Archons, and the exact
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invocations needed to slip past the planetary tollbooths and
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return to the Pluroma in the Gospel of Mary.
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In the Gospel of Philip, Mary Magdalene is not a penitent
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prostitute, She is the apostle to the apostles.
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The text suggests a consort relationship, a syzygy divine
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pair. Jesus loved her more than all
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the other disciples because she was the only one whose gnosis
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was complete. This represented the restoration
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of the male and female balance, the Pluroma that had been broken
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when Sophia fell. In her, Jesus found the earthly
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reflection of the Divine Feminine.
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We have uncovered the library, identified the jailer, and met
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the cosmic infiltrator. But to understand the true scale
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of the Gnostic vision, we have to look closer at the bars of
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the cage itself. We have to look at the mechanics
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of the Matrix and how the ancients believed we could
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finally break the cycle of the Return.
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In the Gnostic universe, the Earth is not at the center of a
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vast open heaven. It is at the bottom of a nested
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sphere of prisons. Between our world and the true
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light of the Pluroma stand the seven planetary spheres, each
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ruled by an Archon, A ruler or governor.
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These are the seven sons of the Demiurge.
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They were born of his ignorance, and they share his jealousy.
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To a Gnostic, the planets weren't just lights in the sky,
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they were checkpoints. Each Archon acts as a cosmic
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customs officer. When a soul dies and attempts to
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ascend back to the source, it must pass through each gate.
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If the soul doesn't have the correct pass codes, the secret
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names and signs, the Archons will block its path, judge it
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based on its sins against the Demiurge's Law, and cast it back
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down into a new body to begin the cycle again.
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To pass through the void, the toll must be paid.
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In the Secret Book of John, the Archons are described as mixing
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a drink of forgetfulness derived from the shadows of the world.
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They force the soul to drink this before it is reincarnated,
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ensuring that when we wake up in a new body, we have no memory of
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our divine origin. We forget we are royalty.
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We forget the Pluroma. We start to believe that this
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world and the Archons who rule it are all there is.
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This is the cycle of the return. The Archons don't want to
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destroy you, they want to harvest you.
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They feed on the emotional energy, the fears and the
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worship of the sparks they keep trapped in the basement.
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In the Books of Zhu, one of the most technical Gnostic texts,
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Jesus provides the literal invocations and sigils needed to
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bypass each Archon. He tells his disciples, when you
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come to the third gate, the Archon will ask you who are you
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And you shall answer. I am a son of the father of the
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pre existent one. I am a spark of the light.
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For nearly 2000 years, the Gnostic vision was buried,
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burned and forgotten. But in the 20th century, the
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secret seed began to grow again. It started with the legendary
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psychologist Carl Jung. When he read the Nag Hamadi
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texts, he saw a map of the human psyche.
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Jung realized that the Demiurge, the arrogant, blind creator, is
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the ego, the part of us that builds walls, creates rules, and
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fears anything it cannot control.
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Sophia is our intuition, our fallen wisdom trapped in the
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basement of our subconscious. The jailbreak the Gnostics
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talked about is what Jung called individuation, the process of
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waking up to who you truly are. But the most startling resonance
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is in our technology. Today, leading physicists openly
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discuss the simulation hypothesis, the idea that our
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reality is an artificial construct, a base layer of code
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generated by a higher intelligence.
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Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know.
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Something what you know? You can't explain.
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But you feel it. You felt it your entire life.
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That there's something wrong with the world.
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You don't know what it. Is, but it's there, like a
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splinter in your mind, driving you mad.
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It is this feeling that has brought you to me.
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Do you know what I'm talking about?
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The Matrix. Do you want to know what it is?
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In modern films like The Matrix, a man realizes his world is a
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digital cage, a prison built by an architect.
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This is the ancient Gnostic myth played out in real time.
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We are still obsessed with the idea that there is a real world
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behind the flickering screen of our senses.
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The Gnostic vision ends with a withdrawal.
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Eventually every spark of light will be recovered.
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Every prisoner will find the exit, and when the last spark
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leaves this world, the material universe, the Demiurge's great
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mistake, will simply cease to exist.
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Without the light to sustain it, the shadow will evaporate.
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What is Gnosticism? It is the oldest rebellion in
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history. It is the refusal to accept that
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suffering is divine or that our limitations are natural.
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It is a legacy of thinkers, artists, and rebels who believed
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that the true God doesn't demand worship, it demands awakening.
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The world is a gift only if you are free to leave it.
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And the key to the gate isn't found in a temple or a book.
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It's found in the realization that we were never prisoners to
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begin with. We were royalty who forgot we
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were wearing a crown.