Consciousness and Time: Our Cherry-Jello Universe and Free Will

This Cherry-Jello Universe hypothesis resolves the philosophical conundrum of how an all-knowing God can exist alongside subjects with free will.

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The following episodes form Cyd's most recent book. Here you will discover a fresh, living Gnostic Gospel for today's world. This is Christian gnosis made as clear and simple as possible for your edification and enlightenment.

These episodes were recorded between July and November of 2022. The primary material is Dr. Ropp's interpretations and explanations of the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures. You may purchase a copy of the book here.

ii Introduction to A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel

posted to gnostic insights on July 23, 2022; all rights reserved

1 The God Above All Gods

posted to gnostic insights on July 3, 2022; all rights reserved

2 The Emanation of the Son and the ALL

posted to gnostic insights on July 9, 2022; all rights reserved

3 The Son, Part 2: The Generation of the Aeons

posted to gnostic insights on July 16, 2022; all rights reserved

4 The Generation of the Aeons and Logos

posted to gnostic insights on July 31, 2022; all rights reserved

5 Logos—His Birth, Inheritance, and Fall

posted to gnostic insights on August 6, 2022; all rights reserved

6 The Fall and the Deficiency

posted to gnostic insights on August 13, 2022; all rights reserved

7 The Demiurge and the Boundary

posted to gnostic insights on August 20, 2022; all rights reserved

8 Second Order Powers–The New Pleroma of Logos

posted to gnostic insights on August 27, 2022; all rights reserved

9 Never-Ending War

posted to gnostic insights on September 3, 2022; all rights reserved

10 Christ and the Third Order Powers

posted to gnostic insights on September 10, 2022; all rights reserved

11 Army of the Christ

posted to gnostic insights on September 17, 2022; all rights reserved

12 Embrace Virtue

posted to gnostic insights on September 24, 2022; all rights reserved

13 Human Nature–Gnostic Psychology part 1

posted to gnostic insights on October 1, 2022; all rights reserved

14 Human Nature–Gnostic Psychology part 2

posted to gnostic insights on October 8, 2022; all rights reserved

15 Human Nature–Gnostic Psychology part 3 Ideologies and Worldviews

posted to gnostic insights on October 15, 2022; all rights reserved

16 Gnostic Psychology part 4 Meme dropping

posted to gnostic insights on October 22, 2022; all rights reserved

17 The Tripartite Nature of Humanity

posted to gnostic insights on October 30, 2022; all rights reserved

18 Our Hylic Third

posted to gnostic insights on November 5, 2022; all rights reserved

19 Overcoming Death

posted to gnostic insights on November 12, 2022; all rights reserved

20 Free Will, Redemption, and the Economies

posted to gnostic insights on November 20, 2022; all rights reserved

21 Heavenly Pleromas

posted to gnostic insights on November 27, 2022; all rights reserved

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    Units of Consciousness, Free Will, and the Cosmic Simulation

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    Dreams–Parables of the Night 2/26/25

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    Tongues of Fire–the Coming of the Holy Spirit

    Jesus was the first of the human Second Order Powers who to be anointed by the Holy Spirit. Of course, Jesus is more than a Second Order Power. He’s always been the manifestation of a Second Order Power plus the Third Order of Powers. And we call that the Christ. We say Jesus Christ, but he’s actually called Jesus the Anointed, and the anointing was the Holy Spirit. To be anointed signifies a special set-apart status for fulfilling a particular purpose or calling. And the calling of Jesus was to round us all up and bring us home.

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    When Logos fell out of the eternal space, it broke apart. You could say that the overreach of ambition caused a loss of integrity. The result was an unruly mess of disembodied attributes that the governing Self of Logos could not put back together. Those who had come into being not knowing themselves both did not know the Pleromas from which they came forth and did not know the one who was the cause of their existence. (Attridge and Mueller, verse 80)

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    The one whom he himself brought forth as a unitary Aeon rushed up to that which is his and this kin of his in the Pleroma abandoned him who came to be in the defect along with those who had come forth from him in an imaginary way, since they are not his. (Attridge and Mueller, verses 77-78)

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