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CLASSIC: What is Gnosticism?

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Invisible Spirit and the Barbalo

So the barbalo, which is a thought from the the noigible, indivisuble spirit. It thinks a thought, it creates a mere image type thing of itself. Then when the invisible spirit looks at the mere image of itself again, it sort of has sex with it. So it's something kind of like sexual procreation between the abstract and visible spirit and the barbelo that produces the christ. And you can see how fundamentally offensive this would be to the proto orthodoxy the time. We're atempting to shine light upon this y vast cover up theory.

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