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The Gnostic Parasite | James Lindsay

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The Gnostic Creation Story

Gnosis, by comparison to reason and faith, is revealed truth. In Hegel's words, it is the circle that runs back into itself presupposing the beginning it reaches in its end. That's circular reasoning which is not reasoning but can look like reasoning if you talk in a circle well enough. If you run the argument in a circle you can trick people into thinking you made an argument when you got to the place you actually started. What is gnosis? We read it yesterday already again from the translators forward to my copy of Corpus Hermeticum. The heart of the Hermetic teaching contained in this book is the realization that the individual is fundamentally no different than the supreme.

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