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The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay

Sovereign Nations

CHAPTER

The Hermetic Religion

In the Hermetic religion, which we haven't talked about a ton yet, the goal is actually to obliterate your sense of individuality and selfhood. In order to understand what Hegel calls philosophy, you have to destroy yourself completely. Marx describes this a little bit differently. He goes full blast materialist. Everybody knows that. That's how it's evaded being classified as a religion all this time. It's not always a bad word. But it's very frequently a bad word," he says.

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