Explain Gnosticism.
Any worthwhile books on this?
Gnosticism
Jonathan Allen
Jaxon Scott
Gnostics still exist. They're called Protestants.
Connor Ortiz
>Mormons
Fixed that for you
John Ramirez
Sola fide is the diametric opposite of gnosis.
Connor Cooper
Read the Nag hammadi library
Jason Sanders
This plus a healthy dose of the based Elaine Pagels.
Noah Young
Its Christianty uncucked, the way it was meant to be before the catholics sold out to rome and destroyed everything unique about their religion.
Aaron Clark
It's Christianity cucked in the way the One True Church tried to stop from happening for millennia.
Gabriel Scott
Could you please elaborate? What did they try to stop from happening?
Thomas Bell
Adrian Hall
The demiurge made me an incel. Fuck the Demiurge.
Samuel Anderson
Gnosticism preexist Christianity, and It's theology makes everything that makes Christianity different from other religions moot. Since st Augustine keeping them out has been a priority.
Chase Thompson
Ryder Evans
A group of several religious movements in the first few centuries AD. Common beliefs include:
–The material world is flawed
–It was created by the demiurge, an ignorant being that believes it's God
–Humans spirits are trapped in the world by the demiurge
–The demiurge was inadvertantly created by Sophia, an emmanation of God
–Achieving gnosis (spiritual knowledge) liberates one from the physical and re-unites one with God
–Jesus was sent by God to teach gnosis to humanity
Brayden Powell
Gnosticism is just woke christianity. Too bad catholicism would prefer to close its doors to wokeness like they close their eyes to pedophilia within their ranks.
Lucas Ross
An excuse to be a degenerate while putting the blame on God.
Juan Gonzalez
A goddess shidded out a lion....
And then...it all went to pot my friend....
Matthew Hall
hmmmmm
my own personal feeling is that the perceived split between spirit and material has fucked the word extremely hard and it has yet to recover
Jordan Sanders
it's a cuck philosophy about hating life and living miserably, banking on that you will "eventually" reach the "ideal" world
Andrew Martinez
This
Mason Thomas
>on God.
The Creator is precisely not God.
Colton Hughes
retard/degenerate
Camden Edwards
>I wanna kill god because muh freedom
Cringe and hellpilled
Noah Watson
>gnostics blame god
>gnostics do not blame god
>reeeeEEEEE
Jayden White
The essence of it doesn't change.
Ayden Jones
>demiurge is god
Christians...
Juan Morgan
Sounds like Scientology.
Charles Butler
No one in this thread understands Gnosticism.
It’s a weird suggestion, but if you want to understand Gnosticism (understand it more, at least), try to understand or study
>Neoplatonism
>Sufism
>Buddhism
>”Fourth Way” literature (Gurdjieff and Ouspensky), itself heavily influenced by Gurdjieff’s learning from Naqshbandi Sufis
This isn’t to say all these traditions are equivalent to or the same as Gnosticism.
Jacob Wright
You can throw in Jung, too, as well as a study/overview of Western esotericism, such as Freemasonry, Kabbalah, Rosicrucianism, alchemy, etc. Manly P. Hall gives a great overview.