Theology for Atheists, Art, & the Gnosis of Contradiction w/Helen Rollins
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Gnosticism - The One Cannot Be Kept
The ancient Gnostics were very psychological and I think they are coming to some of the same insights. What's really sort of pulled me in this direction was was rereading a Gnostic text which had been lost until 1945 called secret book of John. At the beginning of secret John is is the one all creation starts when the one looks into the water that's surrounded at the call like a luminous waters on a literal water and it sees its reflection. It can't know this whole missing completion because there's only contradiction Helen talking about only contradiction perhaps you've already sort of discusses but if you can kind of pull it out and make it more obvious.
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