The basic Gnostic myth has many variations, but all of these refer to Aeons, intermediate deific beings who exist between the ultimate, True God and ourselves.
They, together with the True God, comprise the realm of Fullness (Pleroma) wherein the potency of divinity operates fully.
The Fullness stands in contrast to our existential state, which in comparison may be called emptiness.
One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view.
In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw.
This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God.
Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker”.
There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”.
The Human Being's:
Human nature mirrors the duality found in the world: in part it was made by the false creator God and in part it consists of the light of the True God.
[Again a DUALITY]
Humankind contains a perishable physical and psychic component, as well as a spiritual component which is a fragment of the divine essence.
[Another DUALITY]
This latter part is often symbolically referred to as the “divine spark”, which also resides in our DNA.
The recognition of this dual nature of the world and of the human being has earned the Gnostic tradition the epithet of “dualist”.
Humans are generally ignorant of the divine spark resident within them.
This ignorance is fostered in human nature by the influence of the false creator and his Archons, who together are intent upon keeping men and women ignorant of their true nature and destiny.
Anything that causes us to remain attached to earthly things serves to keep us in enslavement to these lower cosmic rulers.
Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, but if there has not been a substantial work of Gnosis undertaken by the soul prior to death, it becomes likely that the divine spark will be hurled back into, and then re-embodied within, the pangs and slavery of the physical world.
Not all humans are spiritual (pneumatics) and thus ready for Gnosis and liberation.
Some are earthbound and materialistic beings (hyletics), who recognize only the physical reality.
Others live largely in their psyche (psychics).
Such people usually mistake the Demiurge for the True God and have little or no awareness of the spiritual world beyond matter and mind.
JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT 🤔
They, together with the True God, comprise the realm of Fullness (Pleroma) wherein the potency of divinity operates fully.
The Fullness stands in contrast to our existential state, which in comparison may be called emptiness.
One of the aeonial beings who bears the name Sophia (“Wisdom”) is of great importance to the Gnostic world view.
In the course of her journeyings, Sophia came to emanate from her own being a flawed consciousness, a being who became the creator of the material and psychic cosmos, all of which he created in the image of his own flaw.
This being, unaware of his origins, imagined himself to be the ultimate and absolute God.
Since he took the already existing divine essence and fashioned it into various forms, he is also called the Demiurgos or “half-maker”.
There is an authentic half, a true deific component within creation, but it is not recognized by the half-maker and by his cosmic minions, the Archons or “rulers”.
The Human Being's:
Human nature mirrors the duality found in the world: in part it was made by the false creator God and in part it consists of the light of the True God.
[Again a DUALITY]
Humankind contains a perishable physical and psychic component, as well as a spiritual component which is a fragment of the divine essence.
[Another DUALITY]
This latter part is often symbolically referred to as the “divine spark”, which also resides in our DNA.
The recognition of this dual nature of the world and of the human being has earned the Gnostic tradition the epithet of “dualist”.
Humans are generally ignorant of the divine spark resident within them.
This ignorance is fostered in human nature by the influence of the false creator and his Archons, who together are intent upon keeping men and women ignorant of their true nature and destiny.
Anything that causes us to remain attached to earthly things serves to keep us in enslavement to these lower cosmic rulers.
Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, but if there has not been a substantial work of Gnosis undertaken by the soul prior to death, it becomes likely that the divine spark will be hurled back into, and then re-embodied within, the pangs and slavery of the physical world.
Not all humans are spiritual (pneumatics) and thus ready for Gnosis and liberation.
Some are earthbound and materialistic beings (hyletics), who recognize only the physical reality.
Others live largely in their psyche (psychics).
Such people usually mistake the Demiurge for the True God and have little or no awareness of the spiritual world beyond matter and mind.
JUST SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT 🤔
