Tag: pleroma
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A Simple Model of the Gnostic Universe
The lifeless material of our universe is organized and controlled by the Demiurge. The living parts are the 2nd Order of Powers sent from the Pleroma to bring the consciousness of the Holy Spirit into creation. Mud up=Demiurgic control; Spirit down=Golden Rule of Cooperation.
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Cyd and Friend Talk Gnostic Gospel, Pt.1
Cyd sits down with a new friend who has just read The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated for the first time. She is obviously far along in her gnostic journey and her questions and observations are right on point. We sat at the kitchen table and shared gnosis for a couple of hours. Here is the first half hour of our conversation.
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Mud Up, Spirit Down
This episode shares a couple of basic concepts from Cyd’s theory of everything called “A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything.” The idea that kicked it all off was a phrase that came to me: “Mud Up, Spirit Down.” What does that have to do with toruses? Or fruit salads? How on earth does any of this tie in to Gnostic studies and the Nag Hammadi? And why should we care?
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The Fall: Who, what, where, how, and why
According to Gnostic cosmology, the Fall was not instigated by humans. It was most definitely not when Eve handed Adam an apple from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The Fall occurred way before that. Way before humans. Way before the creation of heaven and earth. In fact, according to Gnostic cosmology, the Fall is what kicked off our material instantiation and set the stage for this universe to come into being. Here’s what happened.
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Gnosis and the Tao, Verses 1 and 31
Abstract thought on the part of the Pleroma defined creation prior to the Big Bang. In our universe, we are only able to recognize objects and concepts we have named.
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Ego’s Shroud
The Ego protects us from the world. The Ego collects our experiences and memes and holds them on its surface. From the outside, it looks to our neighbors as though we are only our Ego because the Ego is opaque, and it hides our internal, eternal spirit.
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As Below, So Above: Inferring the Transcendent
If we start with the premise of a singular consciousness that pre-exists everything that came after it, then we can follow the genesis of our universe from that consciousness step-by-step. In today’s episode, we are going to map aspects of our human personalities onto the Gnostic Gospel to see what we can infer about ourselves down here below and about the forms of consciousness above.
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One Gnostic God; Many Inhabited Worlds
If 5.3 trillion planets are thought to support life, how many of them would recognize the Gnostic Gospel? This episode offers a form of logical proof that the universe must be teeming with Second Order Powers sent by the Pleroma–enough to counter the Demiurge.
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Whence Arises Consciousness? Part 1: Consider Viruses and Organoids
Much to its chagrin, the demiurge cannot create life or imbue consciousness into dead matter. This episode examines viruses and organoids to uncover the fine…
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Slime Mold Pleroma
One cool thing about slime molds is that they are individual, single-celled organisms, yet when conditions call for it, they come together and form one fully coordinated body. Once in that aggregated body, the mold acts according to the Simple Golden Rule, with one mind, one will, and one goal, just like the Pleroma.
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Monads, Panpsychism, and the Fullness of God
Our universe is comprised of fractal units of consciousness of the Fullness of God, each with their own point-of-view. These monads come into our universe with all of the original consciousness of the Father and the Son, however the knowledge contained is on a need-to-know basis.
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Aeons, Not Ages
In this ground-breaking episode, we take a close look at David Bentley Hart’s recent translation of the New Testament, and how his more accurate rendering of the original Greek brings the New Testament fully in line with the concepts of Gnosticism.
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Yearning for the Pleroma
This episode challenges the notion that there’s something wrong and “unChristian” about the Gnostic’s Pleroma of God.
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Episode 3 Aeons and the Pleroma
This episode is all about how the Fullness became a huge number of Self-Aware Aeons that sorted themselves into the hierarchy of the Pleroma. If…