Gnostic Insights – Gnostic Wisdom Shared and Simply Explained

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

1 The God Above All Gods

2 The Emanation of the Son and the ALL

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

4 The Generation of the Aeons and Logos

5 Logos—His Birth, Inheritance, and Fall

6 The Fall and the Deficiency

7 The Demiurge and the Boundary

8 Second Order Powers–The New Pleroma of Logos

9 Never-Ending War

10 Christ and the Third Order Powers

11 Army of the Christ

12 Embrace Virtue

13 Human Nature–Gnostic Psychology part 1

14 Human Nature–Gnostic Psychology part 2

15 Human Nature–Gnostic Psychology part 3 Ideologies and Worldviews

16 Gnostic Psychology part 4 Meme dropping

17 The Tripartite Nature of Humanity

18 Our Hylic Third

19 Overcoming Death

20 Free Will, Redemption, and the Economies

21 Heavenly Pleromas

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May 31, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, Podcasts

Tessa Lena’s Letter to Fellow Dissidents

It’s not great to feel different from other people like this, and you honestly just want to fit in with your friends and not stick out like a sore thumb all the time. And you try to blend in. Oh, you try.

You work hard to be normal. You try telling yourself that you are probably crazy. You deny the evidence of your lying eyes.

It turns out that a life of compliance is not enough for you, though. Other people seem to be getting away with living shallow in a man-made matrix world, but not you. Your denial of the evidence of your lying eyes doesn’t go over well for you.
May 24, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Gnostic Memes of Jesus, pt. 2

We are to have peace no matter the circumstances in which we find ourselves. The Demiurge is always trying to rile us up. The job of the archons is to bedevil us and to make us feel horrible, to knock us off our game, to take the love and light out of our lives. The Demiurge wants to bring us down to its level, down to the level of the archons, which is ego, negative emotions, vice, addictions, anger, hatred. That’s all demonic. That’s all demiurgic. Christ said, I want you to have peace in this world, so be encouraged. I have brought you the peace.
May 17, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

First Emanations of Consciousness

When their generations had been established, the one who is in control wished to lay hold of and to bring forth that which was not yet manifest, and he brought forth those within him.
For that reason the Father had also thought in advance that they should exist not only for himself, but should exist for themselves as well, that they should remain in thought as mental substance, but also exist for themselves.
May 10, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Gnostic Memes of Jesus

When we invite Christ in—let’s say you’re at a revival or you listen to an old Billy Graham sermon on the radio or you’re reading the book of John in the Bible and you have the urge to invite Christ to take over your life, that is what it means to invite Christ into your soul—and Christ is a different order of powers than we are. We are what’s called Second Order of Powers. The First Order of Powers were the Aeons; we’re the Second Order of Powers. The Third Order of Powers is the Christ. And there is a Third Order Power for every Second Order Power. That’s how it is that Jesus or Christ comes with your face and knows everything about you because Christ is an image of the perfection that you can be. Jesus was the first human that fully embodied the Third Order of Powers. Now it’s your turn…

When we invite Christ in, we invite the Christ to take residence in our souls and in our bodies. We invite the Christ’s Third Order Powers to replace our own Second Order Powers because we’re leveling up. We’re leveling up to a more powerful and loving Godly existence when we invite Christ in.
May 2, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

The Father of All Consciousness

I like to begin with the cosmos as it unfolded and rolled out. The word for that sort of study is cosmogony, which is defined as the study of the origins of the universe. This makes the most sense to me, to start at the very beginning and then to go through the entire process of how everything came to be and who the principal players are, and then, after that is established, to see how that applies to our lives.

Then we can ask, why are we here? Is there a purpose to our lives? How should we live? And after that, we can finally consider the final roll-up of the universe and what happens after we “die.” All of these questions are answered very precisely in the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi. This sort of knowledge is known as gnosis.

Today we begin at the very beginning, and that has to do with what is called the Father. This story begins before the beginning of time, because there was no time before our material cosmos existed.
April 26, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Ego, Self, Body–Who Are You?

We are not just one big clump of consciousness but are made up of different sub-selves. In other words, who are you? When you say “I” what is that I? Who is that me? What is the difference between your ego and your Self or what people call your soul and spirit? Who runs the show? What’s the difference between being selfish and selfless? How is ego related to selfishness? And finally, is having a strong ego a bad thing?
April 18, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Gnostic Easter Message 2025

Salvation is meant to bring you back into alignment with the glory of God. Jesus is our exemplar of a blameless life. Jesus is the first of the Second Order Powers that came fully loaded with the Third Order of Powers. That’s why he’s called Jesus the Anointed. He walked with the truth and spirit and love of the Father at all times, and through the power of the Christ we are to emulate Jesus. The presence of Jesus is not simply a fairy tale as so many people claim, plugging Jesus into history in the creation of a false religion. It’s really not even possible in my mind because there’s too much truth and beauty in the New Testament to be a fable constructed by a pack of religious liars.
April 12, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Earnest Lies of History

What Christianity has become by virtue of the histories written by it is another tale of those in power—those in power wielding Christianity this way or that, whereas the way Christianity started was a different story that needs to be retold in every age, because it’s about nameless people and disenfranchised people whose world has been invaded by Christ. We don’t hear from those disenfranchised people in history. We only hear about the big people. We only hear from the famous historians, the famous theologians, this king or that king, or Emperor Constantine taking Gnosticism out of the Gospel for the sake of power.
April 5, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

We Are the Children of the Most High God

Here is an odd thing about Christians and the New Testament. There are many things that managed to slip by the Nicene Council when they were purging the gnosis from scripture. There’s plenty of gnosis still in the New Testament, but Christians kind of skip over that part. The Bible says we are the “sons of Elohim,” usually translated as “children of God.” In the modern vernacular I use in A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, we are the fractals of the Spirit of God. We are the fruit of the elohim above, who are themselves the divisions of the Adonai Elohim (Lord of the Fullness and Son of the Father God Above All Gods). So when Jesus said we are elohim, sons of God, he was saying we, too, are the fractal elohim of God. Jesus was not the only son of God. We are all the sons of God, or the children of the Adonai Elohim.
March 29, 2025New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Mapping the Gnostic Gospel 2015-2025

In 2015 I first mapped the Gnostic Cosmogeny. I’m going to go through it with you today to see how this gnosis has held up over the past 10 years.
The obvious improvement is the quality of my illustrations. I thought it would be a treat for you to see how they have evolved. This was the original mapping of the new Gnostic Gospel. These concepts have been more colorfully illustrated, although the original mapping still holds up. You may find all of this in its most simple form in my book, The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated. For a more detailed explanation, pick up a copy of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel at amazon.
March 22, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

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.
March 15, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

The Gnosis of Virtue

We humans are fractal iterations of the Aeons of the Fullness. We are their fruit. We have dim memories of a perfect Paradise, as dreamt by the Fullness. We have a built-in longing for Fullness. We barely remember the Son and the Father, other than an expectation of feeling loved or that we should be loved, and we are locked into an endless war with the dark side of our natures and with other people who stand in our way.
March 8, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Units of Consciousness, Free Will, and the Cosmic Simulation

Most units of consciousness perform their work as expected. They do their part. They work according to plan, and that’s a really good thing because that’s what holds everything together. The material controlled by the consciousness of the Demiurge is foundational. If the Demiurge did not control the material, the material universe would not hold together and it would completely and very rapidly fall apart. On the other hand, Second Order Powers, who are fractals of the Aeons above, have complete free will to either fulfill or contradict their responsibilities. Most units of consciousness do their job according to the job they were given to do and, overall, things work according to plan. There is enough redundancy in the system so that when the odd unit of consciousness decides to go rogue, things still hold together.
March 1, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts

Dreams–Parables of the Night 2/26/25

While we are sleeping, we are open to the leading of the Father and the Fullness of God, because our egos are asleep, and so we can align with our true Self and with the Father more easily. Our ego in sleep relinquishes the control it exerts over our waking lives, and when our hearts are quieted in the hush of sleep, our governing unit of consciousness, our Self, is better able to commune with the Father and the Pleroma.
February 22, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Is Any Sin Unforgiveable? Blaspheming the Holy Spirit

The Third Order Powers of the Christ are the most powerful force in our cosmos, far more powerful than we are and infinitely more powerful than the Pleroma of the Demiurge. This is how it is that once we accept the Christ and invite our personal Third Order Powers to enter into our soul we immediately feel the love of the Father and are no longer powerless to resist the wily temptations of the archons of the Demiurge. The Third Order Powers see through the lies and phantoms of the imitation. They cannot be deluded by the deficiency. They are not affected by the never-ending war. And we share that enlightenment to the extent that we accept the indwelling of the Third Order Powers.