I am looking for answers in my life. The title says it all. Would you be so kind as to share your thoughts? Anything will help. Thank you very much.

i saw the phrase "mimicry of aeons" (there's no context), and after some research, i can't find anything about it. does anyone know what the phrase means?

Over the past few 2 years, I have acquired an indescribably large amount of knowledge, but now the demiurge has caught on, around a week ago it sent a wave of chronic pain, constant dystonia, severe constipation and the inability to feel relaxed, I hope this isn't seen as a troll post but I need to say this somewhere because I have no fucking idea what to do, I feel like hell because of knowledge that originally made me feel free and I can't reverse it, what the hell do I even do?

Beneath stars twinkling

Sophia and Christ flew down

In the form of birds

In the form of large vultures

Vultures filled with grace

Vultures from the Great Mountains

The Mountains of Snow

They both perched on an ash tree

Whose roots go deep down

To Hades, the home of worms

Whose trunk goes high up

To the Kingdom of Heaven

They watched the white lambs

Twinkling with heavenly spears

Glittering with shields

Shining in holy armour

Gleaming with their swords

Ready to defend their home

Their faithful castle

Against the wolves of Saklas

However old fate

That serpent trapped in hunger

Wanted to slaughter

Every lamb looking upwards

Every faithful lamb

To snuff out their shining light

The light of the world

The two vultures from heaven

Knew this coming fate

And so, they sang in secret

“The home is the spear

The castle is the army

The home is the shield

The castle is the armour

The home is the sword

This small star of holy faith

Will soon disappear

When the red fire rises

From the dying earth

But after a day of toil

You will reunite

As a palace of starlight

And the lambs shall watch

As shining angels at peace

As twinkling stars of the night”

(I was inspired by Homer's The Iliad: Book VII, where Apollo and Athene came down and appeared as vultures on an oak tree, to watch and discuss the battle between the Trojans and Achaians)

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People who came to know Christ later in life, I’d like to hear your testimonies. Why did you choose to become a Christian, what led up to it, how do you view faith, and how has yours impacted you?

19M, gay, grew up in a southern independent Baptist church with enough abuse in my childhood and hateful rhetoric against gay people to have turned me against Christian doctrine for the entirety of my adolescence. I’ve since dealt with my own spiritual and existential crises, drug and porn addiction, and severe mental health issues. When I was about 15, I started seeing a Christian “therapist” who tried to make every session into an evangelical intervention and quite literally told me he could see angels in the room. Between that, all the doomsday doctrine that was thrown at me, and the abuse from my parents who told me that they were doing what God wanted, as well as my mental health struggles, I’ve been unable to separate real faith from what I’d call a mass psychosis that I’ve grown up in. I’ve searched every major religion and many obscure ones, dug deep into philosophy, and done copious amounts of mushrooms trying to make sense of the world around me, but the truth feels like what must be most familiar to me. I myself actually wanted to be a Baptist preacher when I was younger. I went to a Christian school and was studying the Bible all the time out of my own free will because I felt like it was my calling and I wanted to be just like my grandfather (my grandparents are two of the only “true Christians” I’ve been fortunate enough to grow up with), but that all changed when one night at my church (I may have been 12/13), we had a youth-led week and that Wednesday night I prepared my own sermon about how we were meant to love everyone, establish true fellowship and confess our sins to one another, and show unconditional love through compassion and support to not just other Christian’s but everyone. The congregation didn’t like the fact that I chose such a topic or the fact that I researched the original Greek translations in tandem with the KJV (the only TRUE Bible 😒), and they made it well known, especially to my parents who took out their embarrassment on me. About a year later, my family finds out I’m gay, their attitude towards me goes from bad to worse, and I apostasized immediately. The most Christian people I’ve ever met have been the absolute worst ones in my life. The devil (if he’s real) is far more busy destroying the church from within than he is out in the rest of the world. Humans are good enough at destroying ourselves on our own.

I’m sorry if this is ramble or made no sense, I’m currently a bit tipsy and just trying to make sense of a lot of stuff. I’ve never been one to just “believe” either. Like if I’m being honest I don’t think I was ever even really a Christian. I just went along with what I was told because I wanted to fit in and I assumed it was fact but began doubting when I was ridiculed for seeking evidence. I know there’s something out there, and I want to believe in something. I’ve felt so empty for such a long time and I agree with the messages of the gospels, but that’s about it. I just want to hear new stories, new perspectives.

(These haiku were made to give an allegorical description of the Gnostic aeons, since they are often depicted as abstract entities within Gnostic Christianity. I hope these poems can offer a more personal way of visualising the aeons for us).

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Zoe

A feathered serpent

Flying with bright, phoenix wings

Her eyes are two suns

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Wisdom (Sophia)

A lady of light

With a body of a snake

Flying with owl wings

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Peace

Robes of white poppies

Holding a brown olive branch

Flying with dove wings

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Perfection

His flaming hair shines

Wearing diamonds on his robes

For his pearly skin

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Eleleth

His raiment is snow

His semblance is sunlight gold

Holding a trumpet

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Idea

Robes made of lightning

Carrying a rainbow lamp

Robes entombed in glass

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Love

Jasmine flower robes

Holding a long, shepherds staff

Having a deer's horns

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Understanding

Seeing with four eyes

Holding a lotus flower

And an endless book

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Daveithai

On the tree of life

Holding the golden palm branch

And the singing harp

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Memory

An amber angel

Holding a lamp of fire

Whose heart is a rose

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Conception

Holding a steel square

Robbed in infinite fabrics

Holding a compass

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Perception

Face without a mouth

Ten eyes of every colour

All ten burst forth light

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Oroiael

Holding a quill pen

Standing on a white lotus

Holding a candle

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Form

Shifting forms and shapes

A male and female angel

Holding a glass ball

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Truth

Wears sweat pea flowers

Holding an ostrich feather

And a clear mirror

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Grace

One made of rainbows

Milk and honey flow downwards

From her gentle hands

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Armozel

Armoured with iron

A man of perfect physique

Pearly light shining

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Adamas of Light

Without any robes

A man without eyes and mouth

Pearly light shining

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Gamaliel

Having large, deer horns

Sailing a ship above flames

Flying with sparrows

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Gabriel

Youthful and beardless

Holding a spear and mirror

Wrapped in blue linen

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Samblo

Stars on his fingers

Sailing a ship above flames

Wrapped in green linen

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Abrasax

Head of a rooster

Holding a shield and short whip

His legs are serpents

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Seed of Seth

Many men in one

Looking up high with grasped hands

Anointed with light

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Emmacha Seth

Holding stone steles

Grasping the gnosis trumpet

Anointed with oil

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Michaeus, Michar & Mnesinous

Armoured with fish scales

Carrying three water jugs

Riding silver clouds

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Yesseus Mazaraeus Yessedekeus

A dark, bearded man

Holding a staff of styrax

And a threefold book

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Domedon Doxomedon

Clothed in purple robes

Crowned with pure, golden glory

Whose lap is a throne

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Ephesech (the Child of the Child)

An infant angel

A reflection of moonlight

Guiding the chosen

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Christos Autogenes

A dark, bearded man

An eagle on his shoulder

The bright morning star

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Yoel

Skin of white marble

Sailing on a starlight boat

Guiding the elect

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Triple Male Child (the Great Christ)

A dark, bearded man

A simurgh on his shoulder

Shining forth moonlight

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Protophanes (First-revealing One)

Sun of the morning

Flying with butterfly wings

Wearing daffodils

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Kalyptos (Hidden One)

A veiled, great angel

Veiled by his dove wings of grey

The serene bythus

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Barbelo

Mother and father

Wearing a crown of fire

Robed in gold and green

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Monad

A triple power

An invisible spirit

A silence of light

[UPDATE: Found it -> http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/quest/ ] =P

Hi! I was trying to find a website with the journal/magazine called The Quest, by GRS Mead, after he left the theosophical society. There several esoteric articles about gnosticism on those magazines.

Im pretty sure once i found a website with the complete run of magazines from the early XX century (circa 1900 to 1920), but now i cant find it.

Anyone knows where to find this?

Thanks in advance! [UPDATE: thanks anyways!]

The Amazing Digital Circus: A Gnostic Allegory

The Amazing Digital Circus, made by Gooseworx and produced by Glitch Productions, is a surreal computer-animated series that recently aired its pilot episode online (link at the end if you want to watch it). I won’t describe everything in the pilot, partly to avoid spoiling the whole thing.

Beneath the surrealist character designs and the colourful animation, lies a dark comedy where the characters are gradually losing their sanity in an insane world controlled by a mentally unstable AI being.

The premise for the series, officially given by Glitch Productions, is:

“A woman gets trapped in a crazy virtual world along with five other humans and are now subject to the whims of wacky AI and their own personal traumas.”

There are already Gnostic themes showing themselves. This world where the characters are trapped, is a virtual illusion, reminiscent of the Matrix. There are occasional glitches that appear in the world (like a pot glitching into the floor in the beginning), highllighting the fakeness and instability of their virtual prison.

The main character, Pomni (voiced by Lizzie Freeman), is the human most recently trapped in the digital circus. She is forced to take an appearance of a jester. She immediately is confused by all this (kinda understandable in her situation), and immediately starts asking questions. The other human characters not really putting her mind at ease, admitted this is her new home and she cannot ever leave.

Interestingly, all human characters who enter the digital circus forget their original names (admitted by Caine (the AI archon of this universe). So they all experience forgetfulness of their previous human lives before entering their virtual “home.” This is reminiscent of Gnostic cosmology where human being forget the previous lives as divine sparks:

The Apocryphon of John “The human beings were made to drink water of forgetfulness by the first ruler, so that they might not know where they had come from.”

Later on, after the main character is given her new name Pomni (Pomni is not her original name to be clear), the AI archon creates a game for all to play as an introduction to the new member of the circus. Ragatha (one of the human characters) reveal this is one his games to prevent them all from going completely insane. It is even revealed that thinking about there being an exit can send someone to the path of insanity even quicker and is therefore discouraged.

This is reminiscent of the demiurge creating material distractions for humanity:

The Apocryphon of John: “They (archons) brought gold, silver, gifts, copper, iron, metal, and all sorts of things. They brought great anxieties to the people who followed them, leading them astray with many deceptions. These people grew old without experiencing pleasure and died without finding truth or knowing the god of truth. In this way all creation was forever enslaved, from the beginning of the world until the present day.”

However, the AI ringleader and ruler of the digital circus, does not appear to be actively malicious. Wacky, mentally unstable, untrustworthy (he lied about there being an exit door), and aloof yes, but he never intentionally puts the characters in pain. He appears to care for them, though he doesn’t fully understand humans. In this way, he resembles the Valentinian conception of the demiurge, as an imperfect creator of the world, rather than the Sethian conception of an evil, malicious being.

This is a stretch, but the main character Pomni being female, fits with the Gnostic conception of the trapped soul as being depicted as female.

The Exegesis on the Soul “Sages gave the soul a feminine name. In nature she is also feminine… While she was alone with her father, she was a virgin and in an androgynous form. When she fell down into a body and entered this life, then she fell into the hands of thieves.”

Keep in mind, this is the pilot, so many plot points and world building are still being developed. Hopefully (and probably) it will delve deeper into its Gnostic themes, and further unveils the existentialism we all face, in Yaldabaoth’s circus we call existence.

Ragatha (asked about why they don’t all try to find a way to leave the circus world): “Well, we usually do, when we first arrive, but after a while you start to realize that you really can’t leave and constantly chasing an unattainable goal will start driving you a bit crazy. And eventually you get to asking what the point of anything is and you completely lose sight of who you are and why you’re even alive and when you reach your breaking point something really terrible can happen.”

Pilot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwAPLk\_sQ3w

Hello, I'm looking for a recommendation for a book containing explicitly Gnostic texts that isn't super heavily influenced by the "victors", ifykyk. Either that or at the very least, transparent about the "intersectionality" of Gnostic writings from the lens of the Christian scholar.

I'm specifically looking for text that is circa the years Jesus was alive and not written a century or more afterward (discovery is fine).

Obviously, I would like it to be peer reviewed.

I also don't want much focus on a hierarchical structure of the order of beings as I believe many of them were created after Jesus's death so not things like the Monad or the creator God (Abraxas). Archons are fine. While I find them interesting and may study them at a later date, I don't consider them to be part of the original text and much like the angels of heaven that Christians and Jewish teachings have fabricated.

I hope I can find exactly what I'm looking for or something close to it.

Cheers.

TLDR: Looking for an explicitly gnostic book sans serif OR containing spacing that works really well for people with ADHD because crowded text is quite difficult for me containing texts that were approximately written around the time Jesus was alive.

NOT looking for anything with Christian Apocrypha or Hermeticism.

(**Platonism is fine)

I will be purchasing the Gospel of Thomas separately as it is not Gnostic but I still want to read it.

Never confuse both. Gnosticism is the same as any religion, the purpose is to worship the god of this world (even if Gnostics recognize him as a maleovent being, they still worship him and his minions by indirectly giving them power with the labels they call them. Sophia also participated to create this realm, so she not innocent, worshipping her is the same as worshipping yalda.

Gnosis is a state of consciouness that has nothing to do with beliefs or religions or anything of this nature, it’s just you completely waking up from the simulation to your true nature, and become the god that you always was in the flesh. That’s why Jesus and others prophets are an allegory for our higher self. They represent us at our peak in this human form. And yes we can attain the same power as them. They not special, they just was able to reach gnosis in their lifetime.

Transgender people are one of the most marginalized populations in society today. Both right-wingers and certain kinds of feminists are contributing to an atmosphere of persecution and violence against trans people. Scapegoating rhetoric and conspiracy theories lead to trans people being attacked and killed. (https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/11/18/united-states-transgender-people-risk-violence) These attempts to divide people are antithetical to the spirit of agapé and are not welcomed on r/gnosis.

Let's get into the reality of this , i am past Gnostic commentary and declination, let's go to the source , what is the significance of the Liminality within the Pleroma. How are forms presented? And what is seen after the lie?