Laurence Caruana on Gnostic Cosmology & The Fall of Sophia
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Gnosticism and the After Life
In gnosticism, your departed soul is trying to pass through the seven layers of the cosmos. These are moon, mercury, venus, sun, mars, jupiter and saturn. And you pass through each of those gateways, which have their arcontic names in the gnostic tradition. So now we've taken that egyptian model, going horizontally through the gates and turning it vertically, and there you are. Then you move into the realm of the fixed stars. You come across so many different references from plato, from again, theurgy and mblicus,. That we ourselves are sparks of light, and that the stars are our like we have our
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