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The Gnostic Parasite | Dr. James Lindsay

Sovereign Nations

CHAPTER

What Is Gnosis?

Gnosis by comparison to reason and faith is revealed truth. It's absolute knowledge, it's secret or hidden or initiate knowledge. The heart of the Hermetic teaching contained in this book is the realization that the individual is fundamentally no different than the Supreme. This realization is gnosis, a single immediate event characterized as a second birth. That's circular reasoning which is not reasoning. But it 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.

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