Gnostica

One of the biggest problems with much of modern Gnosticism, in my humble opinion, is the crazy notion that somehow being a Gnostic means you get to make stuff up. Or, in other words, for some reason the idea has been propogated in certain Gnostic circles that if you claim you’re a Gnostic, you [...]

See Part One: The Kenomic Worldview and Part Two: The Pleromic Worldview
As above, so below. The redemption of the imperfect World of Forms takes place on two levels, Macro- and Microcosmic. The processes mirror one another; what is happening to the Kosmos at large is also happening to each and every individual. If [...]

I’m still seeing “dogma” consistently used as a bad word. As in, people believe that “dogmas” are bad simply because they’re dogmas. I feel like I need to say something about it, because it seems to me that holding an opinion or adopting a teaching that holding opinions and adopting teachings is bad is a [...]

The idea that people who are not Gnostic are “worshipping the demiurge” is a huge misinterpretation of what is a very nuanced position. The ancient Gnostics were not completely in agreement about the nature of the Demiurge. Some sects undoubtedly considered the Demiurge a literal “Tyrant in the Skies,” whereas some considered it a simple [...]