on gnosticism

[benpadiah]

the Apocryphon of John


Hypostasis of the Archons


Basilides letter to the Egyptians


from the book of James


John according to Ptolemy


Valentinus, James, and St. Ireneaus


Ptolemy


Ptolemy according to Ireneaus


from Zostrianos, the "gnostic Zoroaster"

happy holidays!

-ben
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[benpadiah]

The class of messengers has been lost to time. Hermes, the Voodoun Orisha Eleggua, and His priests were one and the same. There was no question if a priest of the messenger god was or wasn't themselves a messenger of God. If you bore a message, and this message could have had no other source than God, then to the ancient mind you were automatically a priest. You, yourself, were the Hermes, the Ho-Tekton, the messenger of God. Of course, that all ended when the Roman Catholic religion imposed the interpretation of Satan as Lucifer, the messenger of morning, the planet Venus, whose pre-dawn rising was associated by the Hellenistic Romans with Prometheus, thief of fire from the Gods and giver of it to man. Now, even the torch-bearing statue of Liberty is associated (wrongly) with invita Minerval priestess Semiramis.

Now, priests are obvious pedofiles posing as conservatives or else maniacal fanatics, quaking with their own hot air. It is a terrifying world under Yahweh. But what did you expect? You have chosen to venerate Yahweh by His "Son," Jesus, and thereby have come to venerate, instead, the Sun itself, at the center of only our most local area of "outer" space. To you, the past 2000 years seems like a long time. This is dangerously retrograde to forward thinking. You must realise that, while according to terrestrial human culture, 2000 years may seem like a long time, according to the whole of recorded history, 2000 years is only 1/3rd the time elapsed since the "invention" of the alphabet and writing.

Now, it is everyone else moreso than the priests of God who belong to a class of gnostic messengers, and now it is everyone other than the priests who rightly comprise the class of priestly messengers of God. This is because now everyone knows the truth that the priests of today exist to deny: Jesus was not Catholic, a Roman Christian. Jesus was not Hebrew, although he was born a Palestinian Jew. His real "religion" was Gnosticism. That's right. He was the same religion as you and I. He had doubts as to whether or not "God" even existed. He was agnostic.

Like Jesus, I too am a gnostic. I, too, am a messenger scribe. I too believe that religion, that was, at the time of Jesus, a function of both Church and State, that has become, now, an invisible empire of prevalent beliefs, a blindfold of lies, is the very same Demiurge described in the Apocalypse of Revelation. I know that, with my heart, I can feel weight drawing inward toward the center of my soul, beneath my left breast, when I think of the horror that is our modern system of beliefs. The very "reality" defies my gorge. It is too absurd to believe: we are trapped here, in time, in the present, on this planet, in our native culture, bound even to sitting, standing or lying down so attached are we to this world. It is a burden on my being.

There is very little we can do to free our souls from the oppression heaped upon them by the invisible empire of beliefs over the past 6000 years, let alone to free our minds from the Roman Catholic Hell on Earth of the past 2000. They have come to weigh so heavily upon the hearts of those of us who would, were they so unhampered, rightly have led the way in our own evolutionary leaps that instead we are shunned and shamed as mutants. Do you think that fame, the distraction of wasting your own legacy, is not a shame? Even if given the spotlight of celebrity, we are forced to sacrifice all that made us feel so special as to desire it. Is the Grail made of Gold? Hath it not borne the Blood of the Saviour? Is not Time itself the Blood of God?

So, why does 2000 years seem like a long time? It is because it has been that long since our priests betrayed us to the devil: they traded our liberty for their rulership. Now, the priests exist only to convince us there is in any way any difference between our doubting their God and our believing in our own. If you are agnostic, then you are a gnostic. You have your own vision, your own belief in God. But you refuse to accept the definition imposed upon your own by any other. Our ancestors, rather than being allowed to evolve, have been burdened to the yoke of serving Jesus, or serving God, by obeying the guidances of His priests.

Hath the Pope no auhority? Not by Right, no moreso than I, no. Hath either of us the right to rule? Never. But it is by the encouragement by the clergy of the false belief that the One Must Rule the Many that a pontiff has been set upon the seat called "infallibility." I will not invoke divine right, but I will reject anyone else's.

Our class, the class of Gnostics, Seers, has become the True Class of Hermes. We are all the pupils of the Righteous Teacher, besides the ones that wish to become that Wicked Priest. We learn of the True Nature of God, and behold the divine beyond any empirical doubt. We share this all with one another, and it is only the followers of the Priestcraft now who would turn away.

Once we were few, now we are many. Once we were few, and before that we were only One. Pythagoras, priest of Thoth, was Hermes. He was the first Hermetic Seer, the first Gnostic. His was the secret identity of Socrates, teacher of Plato, teacher of Aristotle, teacher of Alexander, the first Emperor of the world. Pythagoras it was who introduced Solon to the mysteries of Egypt. These were the priests of Thoth, that is, of the Egyptian Hermes, messenger of God, rightly a scribe associated with Time. Pythagoras himself was raised among them. Long before Pope Gregory, the Hermeticists had lived monastically. Their small communities centred around wells in the Middle East, such as the Essene community on the coast of the (now) Dead Sea called Qumran. In Europe the Druids dowsed for underground river intersections as well, building sacred shrines that would eventually come to be replaced by monastaries.

What was held as secret and sacred in the time of the Egyptian Hermeticists, the so-attired Great White Brotherhood, was becoming common knowledge during the time of the Essene Gnostics. But it was then the Righteous Teacher and the Sons of the Light were betrayed by the Wicked Priest of the Sons of Darkness. Since that time, 2000 years ago, our minds have been bound within and confined by the belief that we must keep our knowledge a secret. However, just as during the time of Jesus, such knowledge as He preached was becoming increasingly well known and accepted, that is, the knowledge of Gnosticism, the religion of being agnostic, so, by now, 2000 years later, the majority of us have come to accept what they were only just then coming to know 2000 years before us now. The sciences we have developed, and the Democratic ideals of government (separation of Church and State), these are the heritage of the Hermeticists, the Gnostics, the visionary seers of 2000 years ago. Thus, now it is the few, the priests, who do not accept what the majority of us know: that is, the physical Nature of God.

We know the physical nature of God with our senses, but 2000 years ago they knew of the physical nature of God only through prophecy. They were separated from the source of their beliefs by as long a duration in time-space as modern Christians are from the life of the actual Christ. Only they were all looking forward. So, too, are we modern Gnostics looking forward, staring into the sun of the future, looking for answers. Only now we are the majority. Only the priestcraft would turn us all away. And they do try. They may be the minority, but so they teach minority rule. They may have fewer members, but their members are louder vocalists of their agenda than the masses of we skeptical gnostics.

2000 years ago, Christ foresaw our present world peace. For this is the sacred "secret" of the Gnostics: we are at peace while the Priests would tell us we are surrounded by war. We do not believe them. We understand all is surrounded by layers and levels at peace or at war with one another. The priests can kill our bodies, but they cannot do the one thing they promise. They cannot save our souls. They seek to enslave us by saying they can save us. But it is they alone who threaten us. And we are now more than they. We Save Our Own Souls. We Free Our Own Minds.

I have become the Christ of my own universe. Just as Jesus Before Me.

So, we see, Time Is Folded. Every 2000 years earth has lagged behind 1/12th in her entire orbit around our Sol, her sun. Just as there was once a person named Jesus, so too now is there my person, named Jon. I can look back at his times and His life, and see Him through the eyes of His contemporaries, and see his contemporaries through my own eyes. In every way that I can thus "remember" what it must have been like to be Him, looking backwards, when I do this, He Himself is reflected in me now, and so all that which was around Him in his time, is also around me within mine. He and I look also upon the times before Him, in our mutual past, with the same eyes. Through His point of view I can see the world (His past) as He saw it, and at the same time, I still see the world (Our past) as I see it. I see the overlapping of two worlds, His present, and Our past.

This is only one, small, form of Gnostic vision. This is the geometry of knowing Jesus. However, now, his followers are fools. Consider celebrities. So philanthropic. The masses consider them geniuses! They believe that those who are the subjects of news reports have in some sense mastered the game of money and public attention. And so, the masses entrust unto their celebrity class the honor of believing them their own, modern, strange, form of priest-craft. The priest-craft of culture. They are venerated by the masses as the direct representatives of their Gods, the archetypes, known to Gnostics as the Archons.

But consider this, are the celebrities the servants of the people? Do they portray those traits, truly archetypal, within us most worthy of cherishing, most perfect, most ideal and desireable, most sincere, most unique, most Holy? Do they uplift us, as a worthy priest-class would, and should? Are they not the fallen angels? When they should be the Knights protecting Democracy, they have become the royal jesters, performing on a psychic stage, divided by an abyss of time between viewing and original performance, spitting at the Praetorian aristocracy and instead hitting the Plebian groundlings. This is supposed to be the Dionysian world of Hermes, the theatre in which the Greeks, our twins in Democracy, venerated the Pantheon of all their Ideals. Instead now, played out on the cosmic stage, we have the sickest, the lowest, the basest, the most repugnant, the most undesirable, the most disheartening and foreboding of all portrayals of Human Nature.

Much less so are we encouraged to even invetigate any knowledge whatsoever of the divine. Instead, for us, it's nine-to-five every work-a-day in our so-called lives. We are given as the image of the divine, instead, the image of the bee hive. The pope is crowned with one, for example. This tradition dates back to ancient Egypt, when, for fashion, women wore scented wax head-dresses that then melted down over them in the heat. The symbol of the bee was chosen as the symbol of Napolean Bonapart's French empire, and it was made to resemble the so-called Fleur-de-lis of the deposed French aristocracy descended from Dagobert II.

The bee hive is believed, by speculative Free Masons, to be a symbol of the Demiurge. The Masons refer to the demiurge as "the drone in the hive of nature, a useless member of society, and unworthy of our protection as Masons." The bee in the bee hive is not an individual, has no thoughts and thus no mind of its own, and does not therefore exist as an individual entity, but only as a member of the collective consciousness of the hive, essentially an extension of the queen's consciousness from her egg-chambre, protected by drones, at the centre. The drones, or "useless members" are androgynous offsrping bred to serve only the queen. These drones are "useless" whenever separated from the queen, and therefore do not go outside of the hive. They, therefore, never exist as separate entities from the hive consciousness. They are organs of the hive itself. They have no right to exist except to serve the queen of their native hive. These "drones" of the "demiurge" are admitted to exist even by the most devout evangelical Catholic. They are called "demons." The Moslems call them "djinn" and the bedouin Arabs called them "genies." Some Gnostics wish to free the minds of the Priests, the "drones." However no true Gnostic doesn't want to see the need for a Priestcraft, separating God and man as it does, at last come to an end.

The story of Jesus Christ's betrayal by Judas is now commonly understood to be an allegory, invented by Roman Christians, for the betrayal of Julius Caesar by Brutus. The twelve apostles represent the twelve senators who betrayed and murdered Julius Caesar. The Roman Christian Empire is the empire of these twelve. The Empire of the so-called Apostles, the true betrayers of Jesus. It was not the Jews under the inept King Herod who were responsible for his betrayal. It was not the Romans under the indifferent Pontius Pilate. It was the apostles, his own friends, who gave him over and left him to his own fate. This is another minor Gnostic "mystery," now revealed and commonly accepted. However, if anyone ever attempts to focus on these myths, why they are believed by us all, why we all acknowledge and orient our opinions toward them, why even though they are fictions they are taught to us while young, and why we will probably teach our children the same things we learned without ever questioning along the way for more, and why if one ever stops to think and wonder why all these things, then they cannnot find any explanation! We are told lie upon lie, and the more of them the more we believe in the power of lying in general, until the biggest lie to come down the pike, then, we throw in with, and ride its coat-tails to "star"-dom.

This is believed to be "the way of things": to lie. The priests tell us the lies we tell our children. They tell us of jolly old "St. Nicholas," and of the "Easter bunny." The more we go along with these fairytales the more we are socially rewarded. But this happens without question. If we question, the more we question, and the more we find out the true answers for ourselves, the more we are punished. This is why most of life's more philosophical answers are "occluded," or rather, only hinted at in modern school books, while never being discussed openly and honestly in church. It is believed that, were it not for "secret societies," religion would have destroyed all fact from the surface of earth by now. This abomination of desolation they preach to us by the name "utopia" and "the Garden of Eden." Then, as we are about to correct them with our own gnostic insights on the matter, they contradict us by reprimanding us for desiring their version of Eden, which we never did. They, in this way, go about ignoring factual reality. It truly does wear out the spirit to have the soul sucked out and fed upon by the lies of the modern priestcraft.
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[benpadiah]

Would a priest jump off a cliff if you commanded them to? They are not your humble servants, in the good company of the One True Lord. They are like the "insane" who deny all social customs and defy all social norms. Their every gesture fills us with awe, with wonder at: how can something so utterly evil and abominable to all that is good about existence not only even exist, but can also preach? It should be funny. If you seek to expose the secrets held by the priestcraft, to reveal them by gnosis, knowledge, and its application, magick, your fate will be death or worse: being put to the Question.

If you are willing to deny your beliefs and be "zapped" they promise you fame, immortality in the public consciousness, to be preserved as a historical artefact by replication via the media. They shine their spotlight in your eye, and, in reality, your brain is being buried alive. This is the real secret of the Holy Grail: if you show what you discover to the wrong authorities, they will send you to one of two living Hells. They put you to the Question: renounce reality and live as a celebrity for a lifetime, or retain your "belief" but remain dirt-poor for generation upon generation. If you refuse, they make a meal out of your mind anyway. If you accept, they might even reneg on their end. Their only law is Irony; it is all that pleases them.

I refuse them as friends and I refute their "divinely" natural right to any authority. They claim their churches embody the sacred geometry. Then why do they not teach us this? Why recite the mass in latin, when you do not offer to teach children this language from birth? Why do you maintain the myth of the miracles as beyond approach by any attempts to seek scientific evidence? Why do they shame us for desiring to make ourselves more perfect an image in the eye of Our Creator? Why to this day do they refute even evolution? Is it beyond their theosophy to accept our origins as a species are not due to "divine" intervention?

This is, of course, all now considered blasphemy. If I were to walk into a Catholic Church, the House of Our God, the Saviour and the Redeemer from All Sin, and utter the words, "Jesus was Gnostic," I would be politely asked to excuse myself from the premises and rapidly, by invitation or not, escorted out. This is the strength of prejudice: that it not only makes it impossible to talk about a thing, but it makes it impossible not to think about that thing. I, as a messenger, describe only what I see. I write it down, and you read it, and you see the same things the same ways or not. That's how it works. But it does not mean that I myself always agree with what I see. What I write about often scares me quite alot. For example, I have no real opinion about the Will or God, or the Morals and Dogma of Religion. However, under the invisible, psychic empire of the Christian church, I am forced to have an opinion one way or the other. When I say I am undecided, that I am agnostic, they automatically assume the more doubt I have, the more bound for Hell, and that, to Save me from Hell, they have to convince me to accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour. If I refuse, they consider me an enemy of their beliefs. Rather than being left alone and allowed to form my own opinion on the True Nature of God, I, as all of us here in western civilisation for the past 2000 years, have been dictated to from the beginning to accept the dominant paradigm of the nature of God, and that, to reject this paradigm is tantamount to rejection of the True Nature of God.

My people, the ones who know who they are as they read these words, and I, who writes them, know that these words are worthless. They are a pile of so much rubbish, the masturbation of the mind. There is no point talking about God, because God is ineffable. What can be said at all if, by our flawed nature, we can say nothing about the divine for certain? Better to "sing a song in silence," than to chant a hymn aloud. Likewise, no good comes from getting angry about religion. It is simply one of those things my mother reminds me "you can't change." So why am I bothering to write and rant about religion now? Simple. I am not here. I have "stepped aside," so to speak, and am allowing a "higher" idealogy to speak through me. This is, in cause, all religion really is; or at least, all it takes to be a wicked priest: suspend your disbelief. Let the "Higher Power" move through you in complete submission to it, with unquestioning, blind obedience to remaining as distended to its penetration to your core as possible. Now you know the nature of the Wicked Priest. Once you have gotten your disbelief out of the way, then you are ready to throw yourself into mad or life-long devotion to believing in something you probably know more than most for a fact is fiction. And then, for you, fact is fiction.

The Truth is, I should not need to care about whether or not "God" exists. I should, if I choose to, be allowed to form my own opinions about this, or to choose to remain undecided, or even to want to continue having no opinion on it at all. There is no "right" answer for everyone. Everyone is different, like snowflakes, and yet we all bleed the same, like snowdrifts. I do not see why some things are even an issue. Not only are they so self-evident and obviously factually, naturally, real, that to deny them would be fatal to ones' sense of self-preservation and thus retrograde to individual survival, yet still those who deny factual, natural reality draw to death off each of us our essence for the preservation of the "greater good" of the group; that is, they exchange our souls for their alms, renting them back to us "until we meet again." This is the heresy. This is the blasphemy. Beside the slave-raping of our young minds by the institutions of religion, the petty frauds we endure under our politics and the lies of economists pale by comparison.

Religion is the she-beast of its own Apocalypse. The so-called "Whore of Babylon" is the New Rome, built to become a "New Atlantis," a "New Jerusalem." On seven hills she sits, and the angels bear a message, hidden beneath a secret sigil, for each. Levithan, the New Atlantis, rising from the water, and Leviathon, the pheonix from the grave of Gehenom, the New Jerusalem, are the church and state that both bow down before the same Master: the religion of Rome, Catholic Christianity. Regardless of whether you believe in the True Nature of God as ineffable or as physical, whether you accept the myth of the miracles or accept the moral parables as historical fiction, these are irrelevant before the undeniable fact: Religion is Evil. It is Faith that is Anti-Christ. It is belief itself that is Blind. The Madonna of all Lies.

Without Original Sin, there would be no doubt in the mind of man if God exists, and thus no need for religion to guide us back to reunion. However, if you renounce Original Sin then you doubt its veracity until you cannot find a relation to it besides absolution. If you forgive yourself of Original Sin, the Church loses its right to you. You were not the one responsible for the rebellion of the angels in Heaven. You were not the one who caused the rebel angels to fall. You were not the one yourself who was tempted by the serpent in the Garden to feed the forbidden fruit to your husband, nor are you the husband, deceived, who received it with trust and was betrayed. You never swallowed the poison of reality, the bitter taste of compromise lingering like a lump in your throat. You are forgiven of all that. This is not something the Church has the "divine" (or any other) right to sanction or suspend. This is a direct relationship between yourself and the divine behind all splendours, this is between you and God alone. If you believe you are forgiven, then God will make your wish true for you. But if you believe it is the Church that is the basis for your faith, that without the communion of its fellowship, and without the "salvation" by Jesus Christ, then you have ceased to exist on a one to one level relationship with God. You have chosen to hide your face from Him, and thus to admit to guilt for eating the apple and thus learning the difference between "Good" ignorance and "Bad" knowledge. If you blame Gnostics for the crucifixion of your Christ, then you will drink the blood of your saviour from the skull of your enemies.

If you yourself choose not to be forgiven for Original Sin, this is the only thing that makes you guilty of it. And the majority of everyone around you, we all disagree with your guiltiness and shame. Your reflection makes us look bad. We are the True Dionysians, who were never separated from our true love, the Apollonian. But when you cast your face aside, and when you sink down, and when, to be humble, you humiliate yourself like a bitch in heat, then we shall all conspire your death behind you. As you turn your face to each of us, the rest behind you who you do not see will be plotting how best to murder you. Like the sun turns its face with the zodiac, so, too, the apostles of Christ and the senators of Caesar. We are the moon blood you deny so that you can deprive us of our rightful place beneath the sun.
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[benpadiah]

Only you can allow yourself to accept being forgiven for a Sin you yourself did not even commit. If you believe otherwise, you will be doomed to a Hell on Earth the likes of which no mortal eye has ever beheld. This Hell is simply being stuck in the here and now, being unable to be lifted up by your own Gnostic vision, and instead being left with a hole in your soul where your heart should be, a rift, an abyss, created by the elevation of your sense of self along with the suspension of your disbelief. You will be trapped in this crypt as the dirt of unwanted experiences will be lumped over you until you cannot even recognise yourself and then you will eat beliefs you disagree with. Your life will become an upside down moral hypocrisy out of your control, and your actions will place you out in public, commiting lecherous debaucheries you would like to not even commit in the privacy of fantasy. This is fame. Popularity. Evil. Death. It comes with the territory of rejecting the "dominant paradigm" but then finally "caving in." If you "play your cards right," remain confident and detached, watching disconnectedly as your body and soul are put to the shameful work of the drone of society, the yoked herd animal, food of the "Gods," then you will be allowed to appear to benefit in this false system of backwards lies. You will grow wealthier and wealthier. You will blow up out of control. But it will be far too late by then to be able to forgive yourself ever again. It will be too late for you to save your own soul. And when that Wicked Priest comes to you at your death bed to perform extreme unction, to offer one last benediction, one last groping chance at salvation, to save your soul before it might otherwise forever be cast into the flames among forgotten unrepentant sinners, the irony of the whole situation will collapse in on you like an implosion inside your eyes, and you will have the Gnostic Second Sight: you will be reborn into the Neter Realm, the Netherworld of the afterlife, the dream-state between heart and brain death, the momentary eternity of the freedom of our soul, at least, its return to a form of pure electromagnetic energy, before it reincarnates again. And when that Wicked Priest comes, that Messenger bringing the Law of Irony, and you tell him, "I am a Gnostic Seer," then he will send you to damnation, claiming you are the opposite of what you are; claiming to be Gnostic means to be guilty of having commited Original Sin.

If you find yourself innocent, according to the backwards logic of Catholicism, you must be found guilty by others. This is inverted thinking, indicative within the Christian faith relative to its sister faith, Gnosticism. Within Christianity, for example, exists a strong tendency toward belief in Satanism, or rather, a dichotmoy religion to the religion of Christiantiy. In reality, all the immorality Christians attribute to the religion of Satanism, the Christians themselves practise. They then blame Satanism, and tie their own sins to it as their scape-goat, professing themselves absolved of all guilt through redemption by Christ. Of course, the biblical Jesus would take one look at this moral hypocrisy and puke. Yet this is at the core essence of the Christian religion His miracles and crucifixion spawned.

Now, obviously belief in miracles is not natural. No one who, presently, embraces the natural sciences will admit to there being, within their field of domain, anything that defies rational explanation by science. In brief, there is, among consensus reality, no such thing as a miracle. There are, obviously, certain seeming exceptions to this rule, according to the different leaps made in technological or scientific progress, as well as certain naturally occuring, though unpredictable, coincidences. Therefore, we can say, from our gut reaction and confirmable by our rational sense, that the story of Christ's "miracles" is a fairytale. It is make-believe. So, why is it dogma? Why do any of us believe in it? Because we have been told this lie for 2000 years. It has been bored into our brains beside belief in "God," and the "Satanic" threat of Gnosticism.

Here is a "Satanic" belief, falsely attributed to Gnosticism: "The God of Judeao-Christianity is the Demiurge." This would seem to make sense from a Gnostic point of view, but only someone assuming that point of view who did not consider themselves a gnostic would come to this conclusion. Remember: belief in God, let alone in the "God" of Christianity being the Anti-Christ of its own religion, is exactly what a gnostic lacks. Agnostic means skeptical of the existence of any "God," not only that of Judeao-Christianity. To a true Gnostic it is just as suspicious how some Buddhists venerate Siddhartha as it is suspect how some Christians venerate Jesus. This is why Gnostics are considered "Satanists" by many Christians (particularly Catholics): we are falsely accused of blind faith in our religion's demiurge. To be a Gnostic means to doubt the validity of any form of "God" including the image of the demiurge. In other words, to be agnostic is to remain skeptical of the existence of "God," and to be suspicious of any who believe they can rightly define it.

Again, the Catholic Christians will tell you that Gnosticism is the "religion" of "Satanism." To be a gnostic is to lack belief at all. This absence of any form of certainty about the character of God is exactly the opposite of the anthropomorphic extrapolation of Christianity, however rather than allow Gnostics to remain naturally atheistic, Catholic Christianity posits as its own opposite not an absence altogether of characteristic deity, but the anthropomorphication of the very opposite, the inversion, of "good," which is, itself, only a single attribute of the ineffable personality of our divine creator, and then accuses Gnosticism of worshipping this.

Of course, this does not make the converse true: that, because Catholic Christianity misrepresents Gnosticism as "Satanism" does not mean that Gnosticism potrays Catholicism as "Satanism" either. Hence, it is not a Gnostic belief that "the Catholic Church is its own anti-Christ" because a Gnostic has no "beliefs."

This is why there is another popular misconception about Gnostics, that we "believe" in "knowledge." This is due to the false attribution to our True Tree of Life of an eleventh "non" emanation called "Daath" (meaning knowledge) and representing an abyss. This is due entirely to Aristotelian thinking being applied, by Christian Cabalists, to the Hebrew tradition of QBLH. According to Aristotle's interpretation of his master Plato's record of, in turn, his own master, Socrates' saying, "wisdom is knowing you know nothing," wisdom (one of the ten emanations) becomes associated with the trade craftsmen as "applied" knowledge. From thence, we have the standard confusion of God's "Wisdom" with Gnostic Revelation arising from the misconception that, in craft, wisdom follows from knowledge. Therefore, it is wrongly said the relationship between a Gnostic and knowledge (of facts) is the same as that between a Christian and faith (in Christ). Of course, we can see now how this is specious reasoning.

Now, of course, being able to see through the specious reasoning of this anti-Gnostic argument does not make us blindly believe in the universal applicability of logic, anymore, indeed, than it makes us "gnostic." As a gnostic, one does not blow all logic out of porportion in the same manner that a Catholic does their Christianity. For a gnostic, reasoning, rationale, etc. are a means to an end, but no more. The end goal is Truth, but we understand that Truth is greater than the sum of all facts. We venerate neither Reason nor Revelation alone, but maintain the golden ratio between them.

Another myth the Catholics started about Gnosticism was to associate it with Revelation. This myth began when the Book of the Apocalypse of Saint John of Patmos was cannonised by the Council of Nicea for inclusion in the latin vulgate of the bible. This work, the only one of its kind included, was considered borderline heretical from the beginning. Revelations, for the most part, were consigned by the early Catholic church fathers to the fires of the library at Alexandria along with the rest of the Apocarypha and Gnostic "pseudepigrapha." However that of John of Patmos was included. It is obvious by now the Catholics are capable of hersy against their own dogma, and commit regular errors of logic in the form of blatant moral hypocrisies. However, it is the case much more often than not that they do this to gain a tactical advantage at one point that will then benefit them later.

The tactical gain for them, in this case, was that, by considering the book of the Apocalypse, a conservative revelation, outright Gnostic, later they would be able to wrongly associate Gnostics with being false-prophets, or being decieved by their own feverish visions, etc. in effect, accusing all Gnostics of worshipping "hallucination" in the same sense a Catholic worships Christ. This is, of course, also not the case, however it has become a very prominent misconception about Gnosticism. By associating Gnosticism with the Revelation of St. John, Catholicism has relegated Gnosticism to the status of Bacchanalian covens performing a black sabbath of delusion of their senses. All Gnostics are accused, again, of being the exact opposite of what they are, in this case, they are called: failed seers.

Gnostics do not fail to see the hypocrisy of the Catholic Christian Church, and yet we neither condone nor condemn it either. A Catholic will even agree aloud that Jesus is Gnostic while reserving judgment in their heart. In this way they believe they themselves to be Gnostic. In this way they ask, "what would Jesus do," as if it were applicable to the lives of the western business world's yuppie bourgiousie. They firmly believe that at the heart of Gnosticism is the desire to debunk, to deflower the naive. So, they fancy themselves as Gnostic as they believe was Jesus when they say, in their hearts, they will "reserve judgment" on whether of not Jesus was Gnostic. By "reserving" their judgment, it frees up their tongue to speak any manner of discourse on the subject, to test for different people's reactions to different assumed "beliefs." This is the premise of the "Fishers of Men" myth.

So, in their heart, they may maintain "I am skeptical" but then, with their tongue, speak as one who is convinced of a "belief." This is what is different between being Catholic Christian and a Gnostic: for a Gnostic to be skeptical is not enough. We must speak the truth about our doubts. For a Christian, they may be an atheist, even a "Satanist," in their hearts, while accepting the transubstantiated Holy Communion wafer with their lying tongue.

It has long been a tactic of Catholic Christians to "draw out" the opinions of their opponents by seeming to retreat away from their interlocutor on an issue, especially if it will make their interlocutor seem unduly concerned with the issue by making themselves appear haughty to its irrelevance. This is the consummation of the "Fishers of Men" myth. In Scripture, Christ is said to have taught James and John to become "Fishers of Men." This is generally accepted to mean that Jesus was, even in his early ministry, preparing the apostles for a time when they would be without him. He was preparing them to evangelise for him, as would Peter, the "rock" on whom the Catholic Church is (alledgedly) founded, and Paul, whose doctrine overshadows the morals of Jesus in Catholic interpretation. This is, of course, all traceable to the initial idea that Gnostics are to debunking Catholicsm what Catholics are to Christianity, or rather, that Gnostics are as evangelical as Christians.

Of course, all of this was contrived by the agenda of the authors of the "pseudepigraphal" gospels that became authoritatively canonised into the latin Vulgate bible by the council of Nicea. The goal was to depict Jesus not according to the beliefs of the Gnostics, but in accordance with the Pauline doctrines of the early Catholic faction within the Christian Church. This retroactive selective editing was made decidedly easier when the gospels to be canonised were predominantly those provided by the early Catholics, the followers of the Pauline doctrines of evangelism to the goyim. The Catholics simply forced their Pauline agenda through the Council of Nicea by providing only their own versions of scripture, describing Christ as evangelical.

Now, when I say the canonised gospels were "pseudepigraphal" this means their authorship is "falsely attributed." For example, according to anti-Catholic historian Abelard Reuchlin, in "The True Authorship of the New Testament," Lucius Calpernius Piso wrote The Gospel of Mark (60-65AD). Arius Calpernius Piso wrote The Gosepl of Mathew (70-75AD), updated Mark (75-80AD), and collaborated with Pliny the Younger to write The Gospel of Luke (85-90AD). Justus Piso wrote The Gospel of John (105AD).

This group of people were the first Catholics. The information they were basing their characterisations of Christ upon had been derived from Paul of Tsarsis, whom had been sent by the Herodian Sanhedrin to the Essene Levite Cohenim community of Qumran as a spy and whom had returned a convert. Paul wrote feverishly on the importance of the early church, only to have it all subverted when the Catholics among the Council of Nicea used his scriptures to back their agenda of ascendency to power following the death of Emperor Constantine. They quickly dominated the doctrinal debates between the early church fathers, and rapidly rose to ascension as the predominant branch of the Christian Church, which is why Catholicism remains centred in Rome as opposed to Jerusalem.

The Christians had essentially abandoned the Holy Lands after the defeat of the last of the Roman legions by the mongol barbarians of Ghengis Khan. The Roman Empire would be split into the Orthodox Greek and Russian Cristian Church in the east and the Catholic Holy Roman Empire in the west. At this point there were no plans for what would come to be the raging blood baths of the Crusades. Following the handing over by the Hebrew patriarchs to the politically Moslem urbanising bedouin tribes of Jerusalem in 638 under the Pact of Umar, it would be another 663 years before the first Crusade to "liberate" the "Holy Land," in 1099.

So, what was the Catholic Church doing all that while, if its priorities were, at any point, at all concerned with the welfare of maintaining a Hebrew nation of Israel? The Catholic Church is the world empire. It has dominated the "known world" for as long as it has existed. At the top sits the pope, the beneficient dictator of Christendom (the de facto, and presumed a priori, kingdom of Christianity), elected by a committee of cardinals, and so on down to the Arch-diases, the bishops and the priests. It is a "bottom-up" form of Democracy, but with a single figure at its head. If the Catholic Church permitted a nation of Israel, it would have to sacrifice some of its own governing authority over such a region. In so doing it would have only two options (other than transfer of the Christian papacy): democracy among the citizens, or admission of the Kingly bloodline descended from the true person of Jesus, upon whom the Pisos had unwisely based their zodiacal passion play.

This, it should be obvious, would never be permitted to happen under the Catholic psyhic empire. It would unseat the myth of Christ by which the Catholics to this day maintain the seat of highest authority in the land (equivalent to the once Egyptian pharoahs) overseeing a vast network of confessed and blessed sinners. If it were admitted that Jesus was a man, and not "the son of man," then the premise for the Christian religion would be toppled and the Catholics would have no grounds for their authority. Therefore, it is, to this day, vehemently despised by Catholicism to admit that there was even a delegation of French desposyni to request attendance at the Council of Nicea. For the descendants of the Hebrew royal bloodline (descended from King David, from Jacob-Israel, and thence from Abraham) to have even existed at all after the supposed cruifixion of Christ denies that with Him died out the one and only blood-line descent from the original priest-kings of ancient Sumeria. Following this event, according to goyim evangelic Pauline Christianity, as cowered behind by the Piso Roman Catholics, the position of King of the Jews became the post known now as pope, or Head of the Roman Christian Church.

From what I have said, you might expect most Gnostics to be very anti-Catholic. The truth is that, nowadays, a gnostic simply has zero efficacy in any form of organised (institional) religion. The apocryphal gospel of Thomas has been quoted recently in the movie Stigmata, where it was used to question the authority of Catholic dogma, "split a piece of wood and you shall find me, break a stone and I will be there." The modern interpretation of this phrase, attributed by the reliable source, Thomas, the Apostle of Christ, to have been spoken by Jesus Himself, is that Jesus, like any modern agnostic, questioned the need for Churches, and thus for the sanctity of organised religion itself. This is quite opposed to Catholic doctrine which depicts the Church as the "rock" upon which all faith is built.

Right now, the largest percentage of the world's population, as regards religion, is agnostic, or undecided about the relationship between themselves as individuals and the nature of the ineffable Will of the Godhead. In other words, those who question the will of the divine currently comprise the majority class, formerly held by the Messenger class of Gnostic seers. As I have said, the Messenger class of Hermes, the priest-kings of Ahura-Mazda (Divine Wisdom), the Sons of Light, were opposed to the Sons of Darkness, followers of Asura/(fallen)Deva-Ahriman (Bright Darkness), chief among the Persian demonlogy. However now, the philosophies behind religion have been so totally shrouded to the mind of modern mankind that rather than the eternal struggle between the clear and the clouded, the whole idea has fallen under the shadow of doubt.

Now, the modern agnostics are as likely to be led to chaos by Ahriman as to follow the righteous path of Pythagoras, in pursuit of the "Golden Mean." This is how they accomplished the fall of the Messenger Class, finally squelched following the burning of the Alexandrian library and the transportation of its contents to, eventually, the Vatican Archives: They blurred the Golden Mean between Righteous Freedom and Wrongful Imprisonment of the mind with circular dialectics; they told us Zurvan-Akarana (infinite time) killed Zoroaster, the Prophet of Ahurah-Mazda. He was sacrificed as an incarnate manifestation of deity by crucifixion much as was said, much later, of Jesus according to the Pliny's and the Pesos of Rome. By killing off the prophet of the Goodness of God, it was believed one could test that deity's immortality; by killing the messenger, it was seen, by the ancient mind, to test the validity of the message.

Of course, with the death of Thoth, the combination of the Apollonian Horus with the Dionysian Amun-Osiris, the Church has finally accomplished the overthrow of the class of warrior mystics, of true prophets and of visionary seers. Now, those Gnostics who once brought the Message of the Divine to the notice of the unelightened have all been exiled to the realms just beyond the fringes of the popular psyche, which is confounded by the enforced necessity to perpetuate untrue myths based on a morally bankrupt philosophy. Now, in the fringes of consciousness, all modern agnostics know there is something wrong with our interpretation of reality, but they have been too conditioned to peasant mentality for the past 2000 years to believe themselves capable of understanding the true nature of God on their own.

Thoth, Hermes, the God of Time, that is, the Messenger of the Truth, had to be associated, by doctrine (since to accomplish such by popular belief would be impossible), with the equivalent of the Gnostic conception of the Demiurge, Samael the Blind, or the God of occlusion and darkness, Ahriman. Therefore, to suppress the true nature of God that can be achieved by the right study and proper learning of the cycles of time, the early church fathers introduced the Roman conception of Ialdabaoth as "Lucifer," the "Light-bringer," whom they boldly confused with Prometheus by mis-attribution to Christ in the desert of Galilee of the ancient Chaldean scripture quoted by Isaiah in the Torah. By putting into the mouth of the divine incarnate the words, "how art thou fallen oh Lucifer," rather than "split a piece of wood..." etc. the early church fathers began their 2000 year Crusade against the "heresy" of Gnosticism.

The confusion of Lucifer (the morning star, Venus, known as Shalem), with Satan (the evening star, or Venus set, known as Shaher), that is the NT passage, "how thou art fallen oh Lucifer" and the OT passage, "how art thou fallen oh Satan," is the entire root of the confusion between Prometheus, theif of fire from the Gods, and the demiurge, Ialdabaoth, creator of our presently confused and deluded sense of reality. Prometheus, the torch-bearer of knowledge, was slandered as Lucifer, a hitherto non-existent deity brought into popular usage by the Roman Pesos, and Ialdabaoth, the Gnostic conception of the religious God that demands worship and consent, was slandered as Satan, the secret judge, the tempter and deceiver, ever testing and hostile to all.

Thus the Ialdabaoth of the Gnostics, rather than unmasking the True Face of Time from behind the facelessness of Allah/YHV, the religious creator deity de jour, was used against those very gnostics themselves, until the Light of Truth has been all but extinguished from inside the minds of mortal mankind. Now, we know the Church is its own conception of the Anti-Christ, yet still we kneal before its altars. Instead of questioning the duality of Good and Evil to arrive at Right Knowledge of the True Nature of the single Godhead, we have rent them hopelessly asunder, placing in the name of one the other over all.

Instead, Thoth has been "cast down" to "cling to the sides of the pit" of Hell, the punishment of the Good brother of the Devilish demiurge, the religious conception of YHVH the father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the triune Holy Spirit, for threatening to dethrone the true Satan, whom you would call God, by revealing the Truth of the Greater Light to the masses. Now, there is no more difference in conception in the modern mind between Lucifer and Satan than there was to the ancients between Venus, the morning star, and Prometheus, theif of fire. They have simply become the modern conceptions of the same ancient symbolic observations, however now, associated exclusively with evil, and therefore their right understanding veiled.

Let me say again, may it be said ten thousand times until it need be said no more, "Free Yourself From Mental Slavery. Free Yourself From Religious Guilt For Original Sin."

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Satanic Thelema

An interesting thing happens when you give the law of "do what thou wilt" to Satan.

He obeys you.

You see, he cannot not do what he wants. He has been commanded by God to be the devil, and, just as it is good to do the will of God, so it is evil to do what the devil wants. Because Satan is synonimous with evil, therefore he cannot not but do what he wants.

However, this is a trick!

Because, in obeying you once, Satan has gauranteed he will obey you forever. You see, Satan has renounced God. He renounced God because God told Satan to worship man, and, tempting man to eat the apple, Satan made a case that man was unworthy. Satan refused to do the bidding of man before the bidding of God, and therefore God, to punish Satan for disobeying His commandment, made Satan to only do the bidding of man.

And so, to command Satan, all you must do is do so. However, most do not know this, and even more would not accept it as true. But look at Jesus: did He not cast out the demons of various illnesses and ailments, even death itself? He called this "casting out demons," but the same might be demonstrated by explaining to people their ailments didn't need to be ailing them anymore by saying. Saying "demon leave thee" and healing gratis is quite the opposite of saying "Satan, I command thee" in the moodern mind, yet in the name of God, and by the example of Christ, both are very, very real.

Why is there evil in the world? It can be blamed on Satan, afterall. Those who command Satan weild untold powers over this reality. But those who command him poorly, who pleasure only their lesser will, thinking only of their own lifetime and pleasuring their mortal flesh, will be betrayed by the devil when they die. Hath not the Master said "as I am forgotten by those whom I shall forget"? So, too, he who has no time for the affairs of the soul, shall not prosper themselves when they become one. Perhaps in limbo shall they a while stay, as ghosts in stasis between this world and theirs, by right but not by fortune, that of the pure in spirit.

And such, himself, is Satan. A soul without body, and without spirit. However his fate is, beside anyone else's destiny, permanently eternal. In this state he exists, embodying the temptation to take command of him and to do so poorly, to wrought sin and displeasure upon this world now, and to reap the same rewards later. Such is the burden of the man who makes himself a slave of Satan, that Satan, so made a slave, has made the man's mind up to be such. Like a drought of power, the man beguiled by the devil that, given an inch, takes a mile, will become intoxicated by it, and the world will spin around them.

Of course, those of us who know better can do nothing sensibly to stop the poor fool that, blinded by the light of their first revelation, is stepping dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. If we run at them, shouting, they might step the wrong way, and then they will be lost to us forever. But if we come up behind them, it might surpirse them, and they might fall. So, what can we do, those of us that are guides to these Satanic fools, those of us that see the whole picture?

We must, of course, put our faith in a power from above. We must say, for the purpose of the example, they will tread the right way, by God. We must call to them with love, and not panic. We must draw them casually back from the brink of the abyss. We must call their name as if from afar, that they should be drawn to try to find the source of our voice through their blindness. In this way, they can be "recalled from death."

So, what can we do but to put our faith in God, and to say, should God choose to let that fool die, I must make my peace with it, for the sake of God. We must therefore, let go of our desire to keep the person, and so let go our fear of loosing them. When we have vanquished fear, then we will have understanding, and when we have that, then we will command Satan aright. For what is Satan? An unwanted reality.

When we put our faith in God, we give up our desire for this reality. When we put our faith in God, we see the whole picture and we accept it for what it is. It offers love on the one hand, and then threatens to take it away on the other. Have you heard me talk of the Gnostic demiurge? Well that is what this reality is. The Krishna Hindi call this "manvantara," the dream in the mind of the sleeping Mara, who, awakenned, is any and every Boddhisatva.

Now, think about it: if we tell the devil, honestly, that he may do whatever he wants, will he not then work his evil mischief on this earth through us? Why would he? Has he not been commanded by God to serve man? And if we tell him to do his will, is this not only reminding him of the role he has no choice but to play? Is his will not to do the bidding of man?

You see, Satan is a jealous, vengeful, wrathful form of demi-deity. He does not wish to serve man, he wishes to do him in. If Satan could fast-forward his plans by simply pressing a button, the fall of man would have occured during the life of Adam. And yet, here we are, not yet damned, yet redeemed. Consider all the sin on earth, how paltry it all is beside the glory that is merely the beginning of wisdom.

But Satan is incapable of breaking his word. He has vowed eternal loyalty to God, to put God first above all man. And in so doing, he betrayed his God, his Master. He has since been punished by being deprived of doing anything other than the will of men. Therefore, all the sins there are in this world, yes they are the fault of Satan, but he is only the weapon. It is men who are using this weapon, but they are only like children pulling the trigger of a gun thinking it is a pez dispenser.

Satan is nothing more than a dangerous tool. But he is a tool nonetheless. The knowledge of wisdom is the differentiation of it from knowledge of Satan, as we know the difference between what inspires us and what distracts us from inspiration. Thus, to have Right Knowledge of the full vastness of Understanding beyond and behind the mere distractions of Satan's short-term temptations, we remember to have faith in God means to let go of our fear of loss, and let go of our desire to keep. Putting faith in God means letting God command Satan.

That is the nature of the Higher Will. To let God command Satan through you, rather than to think of it as letting Satan command the world through you. For the world is the dream of the demiurge, and God the consciousness containing both states of waking and sleeping, both day and night within our world.

How do we let God command Satan though us? We let go of fear, and we let go of desire. This means to gird ourselves against sin is the same thing to place our fates nakedly into the hands of God. We choose to let that which is beyond our selves, and beyond our control, choose for us whether Satan will do as we bid him, or whether he will do as he wills.

And in this case, we have loaded the dice in our favour. This is the meaning of the saying that "God does not play dice." It means that He simply has others do it for him, on His behalf, and, when He wants one of them to win, he provides them with a way for them to be able to do so.

We say to Satan: "Do What You Wilt." We give him free reign. Now, let him naught but obey that. Let him refuse us, and refuse to do what he wants, when what he wants to do is refuse is. It is an impossible loop. Such is the commandment of God.

Love Your Enemy? Well who is our adversary? The source of our temptations into misuse of our time here, the distractions leading down the road to abuses of our mortal flesh, is Satan. In his name are all sins committed, and by his deeds at our hands are they accomplished. To give in to the temptation of Satan, to become obsessed by the flesh, and to compulsively pursue rewards for it, is not to Love the adversary, but to resent him. Not to struggle with him, as an equal creation of God, but to struggle against him as a force greater than you, separating you from God. One means giving into, the other means giving up to. One is like communication between equals, the other is complete surrender.

If you surrender yourself to doing the will of Satan, you will forget all about your duty to do the will of God. On the other hand, if you love Satan, with all of your heart, then you will desire only for Satan what is best for him: to free his will power and to make choices that are beneficial to himself, and eventually beneficial to others as well. This is no different from raising somone into Masonry, or raising a baby into a young adult. Therefore, to bid someone "Do What Thou Wilt" means you wish them the best. It encourages them to seek to know their own will, and then to sacrifice it for the will of others.

We call the willingness to make sacrifice of the will of one's self for the good of others the True Will or the Higher Will. We say that, to do the will of others is good, and to do good is to serve God. We say that, to do the will of others is Love, because Love is the ultimate good we can achieve. But this is not accurate to what we know to be true of Love. Love is communication between equals, it is not only one dominating while the other submits. This is the struggle for dominance that exists only in the absence of an absolute authority, that is, while turned away from the Higher Will, focusing only on pursuit of immortality, then obviously there is no Higher Power, and atheism will prevail. However, when one accepts a third party, that essentially equivalent to the ineffable infinitude of all that exists in reality, as being superior in stature to either or both of you, then you will see that we are all equally aware of our infinite potential.

So, to love your neighbor, let alone your enemy, is to allow them their liberty, and not to enchain them or bondage them for only your own wants. You must say, of the Greater Good, let it be done for all, but let it be done by me. Even if there were only one person alone on earth, they could do this Greater Good: love your enemy as you love yourself.

How do you love yourself? How do you love God? You must do the same to yourself, but to a lesser degree. Always remain humble before God. So, consider this: you should love your wife as much as you love God. Now does this mean that your wife is God, or that God is your wife? No. This means that you love them both equally. Now, as you would do anything for your wife, so too must you be willing to do anything for God. For you should love God like you love your wife, even as you love your enemy as you love yourself.

By doing this, you will let forth heaven on earth. This may only occur in a limited effect, only surrounding your person, or rather, only for that which is then under your sphere of influence. But nonetheless, the effect is there, it is a palpable reality.

But beware the temptation to force this effect to happen, it must be allowed to happen, if one wishes it to happen at all, naturally. So let go; you will know it when it comes.

Your love for your enemy is equal to your love for yourself. Why is this? Because your love for your wife is equal to your love for God. You want to love your wife, but you resent having to love yourself. Therefore, love your enemy as you love yourself. Give your enemy freedom, to save the mind, the life, and the soul of the adversary, to raise Satan, to Love God.

To love God you must give up on controling Satan. You must ultimately leave the will of the devil up to God. But you must also commend yourself to being the messenger that delivers the commandments of God above to the devil below. You must set the Devil Free, and thereby you will be Saved by God.

You will enter a new divergent dimension of reality, and your fate will follow down a different pathway toward the one true destiny of us all.

This is what it means to us to say: "Metaphysician, Hele Thyself": it means to cast the devil out of the self, to rid the self of the shadows of childhood. The doubts and the fears, the desires and the necessity of need itself. You must let the devil inspire you. You must fall in love with yourself to the same depths to which you love Satan as an equal, as a brother. You must love Satan as a brother, and not more than this. You must love Satan as you love yourself, but you must never love Satan as, or instead of, yourself.

Now, why do I say any of this? It should be obvious by now and this should all be common knowledge. I say this because it is not now either obvious nor common knowledge. Why is this the case? Because you have been lied to about the true nature of God and your affinity to Him. You have been told half truths, and misled, you have been openly lied to, and it has been done so in the guise of mythology.

In reality, there is no such thing as Satan, the adversary, the archetypal embodiment of evil, arch-villain over all, and nemesis of God, and of God's living emanation, Christ. All of this is nonsensical hogwash, and before 2000 years ago none of this was considered even relevant. The prior cults of Krishna in India and of Zoroaster in Persia both operated upon the premise that the Light and Dark aspects were equal, and both combined was inferior to God. So, according to a Hare Krishna's or Zoroastrianism's opinion on Christianity, Jesus and Lucifer would have been "brothers," in a sense, for Christ and Anti-Christ were opposite roles one another. Perhaps by heralding the fall of Lucifer, the dawn star, Jesus foresaw the Golden Dawn of His reign.

However this is not the way that Catholic Christianity, and therefore not the way that the rest of lesser christendom, views the relationship between Christ and Lucifer. Lucifer is fallen when Christ is arisen. This is their strictest of dogmas. It is tantamount in importance to the keeping of tokens, which itself is tantamount to the worshipping of idols. Not that anything is per se wrong with any of that.

According to the Christian cycle, there are four Grand Aeons, which correspond to the four terrestrial seasons, and refer to very long duration seasons causing climate change on earth. One is Jesus, who is the spring, followed by Christ, the summer, followed by Lucifer, who is the autumn, and finally the Anti-Christ, who is winter. Now, according to Crowley's "twist" on the zodiac, winter and summer could switch places, but even this failed to correct the catholic heresy against later Zoroastrian Hellenic Hebrew Gnosticism. The catholics have long represented Lucifer as proclaiming the false dawn, the anti-Christ, and Jesus as proclaiming the kingdom of heaven on earth and the coming of God the father. Gnosticism reveals the reality behind this mythology, that from a perspective above the wheel turns around one way, while from a perspective below the wheel turns the other. It's the same wheel, the same turning. Only your own point of view, your own perspective on the same situation has changed.

So, according to Gnosticism, we must remember that half the world is in one season while the other is in the opposite season. While one season is ending in the north, another is beginning in the south. So, we say, for short-hand, that day and night exchange places once at the beginning of every new season, and that these are like the Equinox and the Solctise festivals celebrating the changing out of Gods. This is merely a colloquial way of saying that for those whom the cycle spins sunwise we can say one Grand Aeon rises while another sets, and that for those whom the cycle spins widdershins we can say the opposite Grand Aeons rise and set.

What does it mean spiritually, this difference between "night" and "day," or between "dawn" and "dusk"? According to the Gnostic Essenes, the Levite Zadokite Cohenim, the exiled true sanhedrin at the time of Jesus, the demiurge was the "fallen" one (Belial), equivalent to Samael the "blind," known also as Ialdabaoth, the desire to destroy yourself, or "demi-urge."

When we close our corporeal eyes, that is when we open our discorporeal ajna, and behold the true kingdom: the neter-world, the Duat, the underworld. Here there are both people who are alive and there are amongst them the ghosts of the dead, and the ghosts of the dead move through them as the living move about. And this is only the first veil of guaze being unwound from before the eyes of the mummifed spirit. It has, after all, only descended here in the same manner and fashion as we lower a corpse into a grave. In this way our material world is only the lowest stable vibrational level on which sentient entities can corporeally manifest.

This is the kingdom of heaven on earth: it is all lit by a fine white gauzey haze and the dead have all returned, however only the righteous among them are there. We enter this valley of the halo of death as innocent as a virgin child. It is here we are transformed, and given ourselves over to take on other forms, and to travel with only the thought of doing so, and to form objects out of the white guazy light with only our concentration upon doing so. Therefore smile and be contented knowing that this sort of world awaits in the afterlife even the lowest of the low, the goyim and the chattle bred from the first fall of man, and all are ruled by the decadent and indifferent libertine Satan himself. For this is paradise, the Garden of Eden, wherein is given to us the right fruit of our eternal existence, and is taken from us the bitter fruit of the knowledge of imperfection. Our heritage, our birth-right, Eternal Life, is guaranteed us in the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, but the way is guarded by an angel with a flaming sword. This angel is only the reaper, Death. But after the mortal death, we survive for timeless aeons in various other, more aethyreal forms. And even Hell is only Paradise on earth.

Now you will say, "how humble we have been, to wait for him to tell us, finally, how to command Satan, and how to bring about the Paradise on Earth now." Have you remembered that it is the will of God, and not my will, that bestows upon you this blessing? Now ask yourself if it is the Will of God that I should tell you or not, and then ask yourself what way would you know, and how best could you go about encouraging this favour?

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[benpadiah]

from the Sophia of Jesus Christ, also known as Eu-gnosis the blessed.


from the Secret Book of John


from the Secret Book of John

All of these purport to be teachings directly from the lips of Jesus Christ.

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There are three sources for this information. For the attributes labeled Yetzirah and those above Atzilut, the source is the Secret Book or Apocryphon of John, recording the exact teachings about Gnosticism given to John by Jesus Christ Himself, after he had ascended. The description of the Garden of Eden comes to us from the Bereshit B cosmology of the Zohar. The seven layered sphere beneath the rest, labeled Assiyah, describes the seven days of creation in the book of Genesis.



Before creation there was only the father, who is also called the ineffable Holy One, of whom it is said, Blessed Be He. After this follows Hermes, the androgyne archetypal Man. From the perception of the Autogenes' opposite, Wisdom is born, called Pistis, the first sefirot emanation. In Wisdom arose from self-desire Fore-thought, separate from Godhead. Just as Wisdom and Hermes beget the crown of Christ, so did fore-thought, unknown to God, beget Samael, that is, Satan. In the image of Hermes, Christ entered into Eden as Pigera (king) Adamas. Simultaneously, Satan declared himself equal to God, and greater than man. God declared, "you err, Samael" which means "blind-one," and created the 10 emanations greater than Satan. Just as King Adam embodied the crown, so too these emanations came, one by one, to descend into the lower realms of the creation. As this was happening, God gave Eve to Adam, and filled Eve with Wisdom. Adam and Eve knew no timelessness without error, and existed across the whole span of forever. In this state, Adam and Eve conceived Cain, the rightful King, heir to Adam. During the pregnancy, Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the knowledge of sin, that is, they understood fore-thought, which had created Satan. They then conceived Abel. God banished them from Eden, lest they should never again eat from the tree of immortal existence. Then Cain was born, causing Eve to say, "I have gotten a man from the Lord," (Gen4:1) for Adam, before the fall, was indeed "like unto God." But the truth was soon revealed, for Cain killed Abel for his mildness being more acceptable to fate than Cain's arrogance. Cain, thenceforth was proven not the Son of Adam, but indeed the Son of Satan. For this reason, Cain joined Samael as one of the twelve Archons, the rulers over the fallen stations of the ten emanations. So, there are ten qliphoth (shells), one for each emanation (sefirot), plus Satan, plus Cain, and so there are twelve archons. Now, with Abel, the son of King Adam and Immortal Eve dead at the hands of the son of Satan, there was no true heir for Adam and Eve. So, the two of them came together to bear forth Seth, who some have called the First Messiah, for through him would be born the first of all mortal humanity. At the same time as this conception, Satan conceived with Eve, now mortal, two immortal spirits. One of them was Good, and one of them was Evil. YHVH and Elohim are the two names used for God throughout the Old Testament. The lower earth is where Adam, Eve and Seth dwelt after the fall. It was here where Adam prayed to be given the Book of Raziel, which records everything known to Adam from before the Fall. By the generation of Enoch, the good (spiritually) dwelt in the Upper Worlds, but the fallen (physically) dwelt in the sixth day of creation. When the Holy were given the Holy of Holies, they brought alignment between the world of Eden and creation. This represents the Sabbath. The pronoia (Christ) draws us up from the realm of creation, and the epinoia (Shekina) draws us up through the realms of Eden. In Zohar these are called the Aba and Ima (father and mother).

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