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

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.
February 6, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Eternal Life, Guardian Angels, and Spirit Melding to Mud

Last week’s episode was a link to an interview I had just given on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. That interview on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio was called “Gnostic Psychology and Preparing for Death,” and that was posted on January 29, 2025.
As we so often do, my brother and I chatted after the interview was posted and after he had had a chance to watch it, and we discussed some of the finer points of the Gnosis shared there in that episode. I gave Bill an important piece of Gnosis during that conversation, and he gave me an important piece of Gnosis during that conversation, and I thought I would share those with you today. This is part of our ongoing process of mining our Gnosis.
January 31, 2025Podcasts

Aeon Byte Interview

I was a guest this week on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, hosted by Miguel Conner. Miguel also narrated the audio book of A Simple Explanation…
January 25, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Gnosis, Gurus, and Meditation

and a conversation with Bill Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. The first half of this episode is about choosing the higher road to find your…
January 17, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Beatitudes of Jesus, Book of Mark

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. You know, this podcast is an odd space where it’s both Gnostic and Christian, because what I’m teaching is what…
January 15, 2025Podcasts

Reminder for Saturday’s Zoom Meeting

Hope to see you there! Cyd Ropp is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Gnostic Insights Zoom MeetingTime: Jan 18, 2025 08:00 AM…
January 11, 2025Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Will AI Wake Up

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)

The Tripartite Tractate says that Logos fled back to its kin in the Fullness, abandoning the unruly mess down below.

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)
January 9, 2025New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Join Us for a Zoom Chat

SATURDAY, JANUARY 18th at 10 am Central 11 am Eastern 8 am Pacific I’ll be answering any and all questions for you and you can share…
January 4, 2025Podcasts

Virgin Birth–The Infancy Gospel of James

The date of this recording was Christmas Eve, 12-24-2021. I’m repeating this episode now because although not particularly “gnostic,” it does shed light on the…
December 28, 2024Gnostic Insights Podcasts

Treasures of Heaven

Matthew 6:19 Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Lately, people have been asking me to translate Bible verses—to give my Gnostic Gospel version of familiar Bible…
December 18, 2024Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Gnostic Christmas–Alleluia!

The Christ came to Earth in the form of a Son of Man to bring the Third Order of Powers to Earth as the solution to overcoming the phantoms of the Imitation that have mired the Second Order Powers in error and ignorance. Those who have eyes to see the Christ are able to remember their Father in Heaven. Those who remember their Father in Heaven and repent from the Imitation are redeemed. In the Gnostic Gospel, redemption comes to all of creation through the incarnation of the Son of God into the body of the Son of Man. The manner of the Savior’s birth, death, and resurrection will come to every soul as they realize their Father is in Heaven and to Heaven they will return. For, as it says, “every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord” (Philippians 2:10). It just takes time. We aren’t there yet because of the common delusion of presumptuous thought, which causes people to behave selfishly.
December 13, 2024Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Correspondence with an Educated Atheist pt.2

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Last week, we had part one of Correspondence with an Educated Atheist, and after posting that, I received an email…
December 7, 2024Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

My Correspondence with an Educated Atheist

The Gnostic gospel asserts that all creatures come into this world fully loaded with gnosis, the knowledge of and relationship with the Source. That is precisely the source of your spiritual intuition. We forget it because of the never-ending war with the material cosmos and other forces at play. This gospel points the way to remembrance, and that’s all we need to know. We only need to remember that our origin is from the ethereal plane and we will return to the ethereal plane, not to be snuffed out into nothingness or to be swallowed up inside pre-existing consciousness with no self-identity, but to exist within the ethereal plane again, freed of material obfuscation and confusion. And I say that you’re fortunate to have discovered this path of the Gnostic gospel in the way that I teach it, because out there on the internet it’s 99% misguided theology that either accidentally or on purpose leads people astray. Most of the people who are seeking the Gnostic truth are being led down paths of confusion instead.
November 30, 2024Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

Free Will Is Essential 2024

Free will is the core of our being. It was the free will of Logos that caused him to leave the Fullness in the Fall. It was the free will of the restored Logos and the Totalities that created us Second-Order Powers. And it is the free will of the Powers, by way of our aeonic inheritance, that directs our lives here below. It is our own free will that causes us to forget about the Father and the Fullness of God from which we come. It is our own free will that allows us to bow to the rule of the Demiurge and dig our own graves. Because of the nature of free will, we turn to an outside source to assist us in our remembrance and salvation. This Aeon is known as the Christ.
November 23, 2024Gnostic Insights Podcasts, New Gnostic Gospel Simply Explained & Illustrated

We are all in ALL

I’m wrapping up this review of David Bentley Hart’s book, That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. And I hope you understand, particularly those of you who are Christians that are listening to this, that I do all of this in the name of the Father. It’s not to tear down Christianity. It’s to uphold the mission of the Messiah, which has been lost over the past several hundred years of Christianity.