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Archons, Meet the Archons

Archons, Meet the Archons
July 26, 2010 by JVP
(To the tune of "Meet the Flintstones") Archons, meet the Archons, They're a pathway to insanity. From the Outer Darkness, But they're still a lot like you and me. Let's ride underneath the mercy seat. In the Demiurge's bucket seat. When you're with the Archons you'll have a roller coaster ride time. A deep inside time. You'...
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A Garland for a Sailor

July 20, 2010 by Luc Valentine
from The Manichean Prayerbook, "Psalm X" Christ, my bridegroom, has taken me to his bridechamber, I have rested with him in the land of the immortal. My brethren, I have received my garland. My land I have beheld, my Fathers I have found, the godly have rejoiced over me, my Aeons have welcomed me. My brethren, I have received my garland....
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PKD’s ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ Coming Soon

PKD’s ‘The Adjustment Bureau’ Coming Soon
July 17, 2010 by Luc Valentine
While Philip K. Dick fans await Radio Free Albemuth (and await and await), his loyal and doting followers, among whom I must surely rank, can look forward to The Adjustment Bureau, a movie based on a Dick short story titled "The Adjustment Team". Originally set for a September 17 release date, the studio has pushed back the premiere for early i...
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Whatever Happened to Critical Thinking?

Whatever Happened to Critical Thinking?
July 6, 2010 by JVP
Really, gnosis shouldn't eliminate your ability to think critically. Instead, the search for gnosis is intrinsically a search based upon experiential knowledge and critical investigation of everything with which one is presented. Over and over again, the Aeons declare the importance and primacy of thought: First Thought In Three Forms (Trimorphic...
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Perpetuation of a Hoax

Perpetuation of a Hoax
June 25, 2010 by JVP
Personally, I find it very difficult to accept recovered "ancient" documents "discovered" by individuals or organizations who are unable to produce the original documents in order to back up their claim. Some say that the fact that a text "may be" (is) a forgery shouldn't matter, as "myth is more important than history." I disagree, and think i...
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Where is He?

June 21, 2010 by ScottF
We seemed at first to move in tandem and opposition, counterweights on pulleys. Or He was a lucky charm lost and sometimes found in the mess of my room. Faith, goodness, desire, and force of will were equally ineffectual lures to Him. I imagined the spirit within my small frame sometimes though He actually engulfed the whole of the firmament. ...
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My Buzz Wore Off

June 9, 2010 by ScottF
I came down from the mountain and as the air pressure increased my buzz wore off. Everyone at base camp chattered and spread fig jam on flatbreads as I shook the daze away. The sherpas chuckled at the onset of my dementia and played loaded dice with tourists while the morning heated up. I walked into a convenience store that went o...
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Nothing to Say

Nothing to Say
June 7, 2010 by JVP
Lots of sites will continue to post stuff even when they don't have anything to say, which is why there are so many sites out there full of contentless polemics and empty rhetoric. There's this whole inherent popularity thing on the internet, especially with "blogs," where getting a huge number of visits and comments means your site is awesome. ...
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Thank you, archons.

June 4, 2010 by ScottF
You found me faithless and strange, so you let me know where I stood. You tightened my manacles and named me Allogenes. Had my bonds and name fit comfortably, would I not have worn them proudly as adornments? Had I been fed a steady diet of manna, would I have learned the lie of the Western Lands? You thought this flesh sunk me to the bot...
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Paper from Temple U: Catholicism as OrthoPRAXY, Sethianism as OrthoDOXY in Gospel of Judas

May 30, 2010 by Brother Spark
This is a paper from the 2008-2009 undergraduate research contest held yearly at Temple. The author discusses the points of Eucharistic criticism in the Gospel of Judas. An excellent read from a promising young scholar. ...
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