Gnostic Insights

Last week’s episode, The Key to Gnostic Cosmology, was well-timed to greet the slew of new subscribers who joined The Gnostic Reformation as a result of the wonderful review by The New Unhinged that appeared on Mariah’s  Substack website on November 28, 2025. It’s titled: Roast for Relief #17: The Gnostic Who Broke My Brain in the Best Way  If you haven’t seen the piece yet, please hightail it over there and take a look. It’s funny and reverentially irreverent at the same time. I feel honored by Mariah’s appreciation and the hours she spent on the review. Today, I’m going to run through the Gnostic Cosmology again, this time pairing the explanations with illustrations from my kid’s book, Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Myth. My brother Bill thinks the kid’s book will be the version that survives into the far future as a new Gnostic Gospel in some distant version of the Nag Hammadi codices. Personally, I’m not so sure there will be a far future here on this material plane, but we’ll see…  In any event, I’m doing my best to get the hard cover edition into libraries and bookstores in the here and now.  Meanwhile, we need more reader reviews to help the book rise up in amazon. So, please, buy the paperback or download the kindle version for free or almost free and then leave your review. You will be supporting gnosis and love. ALL of the following illustrations are from Children of the Fullness. For the purposes of this episode, I have removed the text from the pages and am only presenting the images as I narrate a grown-up version of the pictured events.  Believe me, the kiddie book is written as a young child’s bedtime story. And because of that, the Gnostic characters are personified into recognizable forms. The Father looks like a father. The Son looks like a son. The Aeons are personified as Angels, although in truth, not all Aeons are angels. But kids can relate to angels, so I gave the Aeons wings and halos. I’m putting the illustrations into the transcript so that if you are listening to this as an audio podcast, you can go to GnosticInsights.com or to my Substack location, the Gnostic Reformation, under the name of Cyd Ropp, so that you can see the illustrations. The gnosis is simple. It has to be, because all living creatures know and embody it. So, if my dog can’t understand the gnosis, it ain’t gnosis, it’s just knowledge or good or bad information.  And if you can grasp today’s illustrated gnosis, then you will have enough to go onward and upward. Sure, more explanations are nice, but they are not essential. All we really need to know is that we come from Above, and we will return to Above. That’s it in a nutshell. The rest is a lifetime of practicing love and embodying virtue. So let’s get started. The Father’s mind is the initial, illimitable consciousness. Consciousness is the ground state that predates everything. Consciousness is part of the existence of God, and it is the very first thing before anything that follows. There is no gender associated with this Father. Obviously the Father is not a man with a beard and long robes, rather “he possesses this constitution without having a face or form, things which are understood through perception.” The Tripartite Tractate describes the Father this way: Whence also comes the title, the incomprehensible. If he is incomprehensible, then it follows that he is unknowable, that he is the one who is inconceivable by any thought, invisible by anything, ineffable by any word, untouchable by any hand. He alone is the one who knows himself as he is, along with his form and his greatness and his magnitude. Step number two is the emergence of the Son. It is the emergence of consciousness from the illimitable, infinite consciousness of the Father into a singularity—into a monad, as it’s called. It’s like the bucket dipped into the sea. It contains all of the characteristics and quality of the Father, but it’s contained as an individual. The Son doesn’t separate from the Father. It stays plugged into the Father. This first illustration shows the Father holding his baby Son and showing Him the contents of His imagination. The facing page shows the mature Son releasing Aeons into the vision.  The Tripartite Tractate says that as soon as the Son was formed, what are called the Totalities of the ALL were formed. The Totalities of the ALL are all of the variabilities that make up the Son, all broken out and enumerated. The Totalities of the ALL do not recognize themselves as individuals. It is only through their giving of glory to the Father and Son that each of the Totalities comes to self-awareness. In the children’s book, we skip the step where the Son divides itself into all of its discreet variables and jump right to the self-aware Aeons populating the hierarchy of the Fullness of God. Now, back to the children’s book. The next page shows the Aeons giving glory to the Father and Son by singing their songs of praise. The facing page shows the Aeons reproducing and making new Aeons through their combined singing. Each of the Aeons of the hierarchy of the Fullness has a position, a place, a duty, and a name—in the Gnostic Gospel as I describe it, I say that this is the emergence of ego, for every Aeon is a self-identified individual. And basically what they do is sing songs of glory upstream to the Father and the Son, just like the Totalities did. And all together, they dream of Paradise. We turn the page of the children’s book to see a young Aeon building a model of Paradise as the other Aeons look on with admiration. This final Aeon was produced through a combination of all of the Aeons of the Fullness of God giving glory to the Father and the Son at the same time. “This aeon was last to have <been> brought forth by mutual assistance, and he was small in magnitude,” referring, I think, to the fractal nature of his pleroma. This youngest Aeon carried within itself all of the traits of every other Aeon, perfect and complete. This was a very talented Aeon resembling the Son of God Himself, who also carried all of the traits of the Aeons within its singular Self. This final Aeon was named Logos, because he was also endowed with the ability to reason thoughtfully and to figure things out in a step-by-step manner. The word Logos in Greek means reason and logic. The Tripartite Tractate puts it this way: “This aeon was among those to whom was given wisdom, so that he could become pre-existent in each one’s thought. By that which he wills, will they be produced. Therefore, he received a wise nature in order to examine the hidden basis, since he is a wise fruit…” This is a curious statement, because it seems to indicate that Logos was equipped to bring others into existence without the cooperation of his fellow Aeons. If the Father had not wanted an individual Aeon to be able to procreate without the agreement of the Fullness, why would the Father have equipped Logos to do so? All of the Aeons have free will, because the Father has free will and everything that emanates from the Father carries the attributes of the Father. The Tripartite Tractate says, “for, the free will which was begotten with the Totalities was a cause for this one such as to make him do what he desired, with no one to restrain him.” Logos was loaded with free will, as are all of the Aeons. The Father foresees our behavior before we do, which seems to contradict the idea of free will. We can resolve this classic theological conundrum by realizing that the Father anticipates every possible outcome of our free will. At the universal level, the infinity of the Fullness of God is represented by the potentiality of all possible choices a person could make as their life passes from one decision to the next. The fullness of all possible futures are within our reach as we pass through this universe; our own free will is driving our consciousness through those possibilities. The Father anticipates all possibilities in his infinite wisdom, and all possible courses of action are anticipated. This choice that Logos made was anticipated though not predetermined. We turn the page in the children’s book to see Logos happily carrying his model of Paradise upward to the Father’s mountain top. The Father is not there to receive the gift. The middle panel shows Logos falling down from the heights. The panel on the far right shows Logos crashed down into a dark space with his broken model of Paradise scattered about him. He wears an expression of pain and clutches his head. An eerie, shadowy copy of Logos emerges from him. Logos didn’t have the power or greatness of the original Son, but he had the blueprint—he had the model. He thought he was complete and could build a perfect Paradise on his own because he contained the Fullness of God in a smaller fractal iteration. He left his position and place in the hierarchy of the Fullness and headed upward to “the realm of perfect glory.” But he was mistaken and he crashed out of the ethereal plane, broke apart, and his pleroma lost its hierarchical arrangement. It became random and chaotic. Logos tried his best to bring it all back in order, tried to put his pleroma back together into a proper hierarchy, but it would not cooperate. Quote: “The Logos himself caused it to happen, being complete and unitary, for the glory of the Father, whom he desired, and (he did so) being content with it, but those whom he wished to take hold of firmly he begot in shadows and copies and likenesses. For, he was not able to bear the sight of the light, but he looked into the depth and he doubted. Out of this there was a division – he became deeply troubled – and a turning away because of his self-doubt and division, forgetfulness and ignorance of himself and <of that> which is.” “He became increasingly desperate. He was dumbfounded. Instead of perfection he saw deficiency; instead of unity he saw division; instead of stability he saw disturbance; instead of rest, upheaval. He was unable to bring their love of disturbance to an end, nor could he destroy it; he had become utterly powerless when his wholeness and his perfection had abandoned him.” Turning to the next page we see sad Logos flying back up to the Fullness, looking over his shoulder at the mess below and his shadow rising from the gloom. And on the facing page we see the shadow of Logos, whom we call the Demiurge in Gnosticism, dark, no halo, a mean look on his face, staring at the pieces of the broken model of Paradise scattered about. When Logos falls and abandons his ego down below, his ego is separated from the direct flow of consciousness, life, and love of the Father, Son, and Fullness. So this is the beginning of ego running amok. Ego found itself in this weird, dark, chaotic space, and thought it was all that existed because it didn’t remember what came before. It had all of the blueprints for Paradise because they were in the mind of Logos when he fell. It also had the ambitious overreaching that Logos was engaged in when he fell. The next two pages show the Demiurge building our material creation, with Logos looking down from above. The Demiurge builds rocks and mud, but he can’t make his muddy models come to life because he doesn’t contain the consciousness and life of the Fullness and the Father. On the next double-page spread we see the Angels sending living creatures down from the Fullness to the Earth. The Tripartite Tractate says that the Earth was populated by the fruit of the Aeons, “from the smallest to the largest.” In Gnosticism the fruit of the Aeons are known as the Second Order of Powers, and they/we contain all of the attributes of the Fullness—the life, consciousness, free will, and love of the Father flowing down from the Fullness of God. Everything that’s alive, from the bacteria and the cells and the organs that make up our bodies and all of the critters and birds and fish, all of the insects and mammals, all living creatures, the grasses and the trees, the moss and the slime molds—everything that’s alive is a fruit of the Fullness of God, pre-designed in the Fullness. And we come down with a mission. We Second Order  Powers were supposed to come down here to remind the Demiurge of the Father above; to remind the Demiurge of Logos, his better half; to remind the Demiurge of love and consciousness and that he is not God and he needs to return home. We are supposed to be calling to the Demiurge to return home to the Fullness of God. So the next page of the children’s book shows a loving Earth. Hearts and flowers; everybody happy and loving. We Second Order Powers operate according to the same Aeonic principle I call the Simple Golden Rule of reaching out to others with love to help build things that we can’t do on our own. We make families and work together. We make villages and work together. We make small communities and build things that we can all enjoy together. Sadly, this state didn’t last long, because the Second Order of Powers became caught up in a “never-ending war” with the material world. Gnostics speak of a division between the material world and our eternal spirits. Gnostics say that our eternal spirits are “trapped” in the material. We forgot about bringing love and remembrance to the Demiurge because of the never-ending war of spirit against material, the never-ending war of right and left, the never-ending war between us and the archons. It’s a constant battle here between life and death, with the Aeons promoting life and love and the archons promoting death and division. I portray this division on the next two pages as the once-happy people and animals fight tooth and claw against one another. Because of their isolation and strife, the Second Order Powers lost their purpose and joy. The people let their egos take control. Because the ego of Logos had been reaching for the heights, the egos of the Second Order Powers also reached for power and control, each thinking they were more worthy than the next. They forgot about the Simple Golden Rule and couldn’t work together in cooperation without favoring themselves. Narcissism ruled. The next two pages of the children’s book shows people filling their spiritual poverty with lots of materials riches and tasty treats as the Aeons watch and pray from Above. We Gnostics would say that you can’t patch over a spiritual void with material prosperity, no matter how much stuff you accumulate. And so the Fullnesses realized that that plan wasn’t working. The Aeons prayed to the Father, the Son, and the Totalities for true salvation to come and rescue the Second Order Powers, just like we were supposed to rescue the Demiurge. Now it takes a superpower, the most super Power, to come into our cosmos, rescue all of the Second Order Powers by reminding us of God’s love and what our true mission is of sharing love. Christ has the most power of any entity ever, more than enough power to bring remembrance, love, salvation, peace, comfort, joy to all of us down here who have forgotten. That’s the job of the Christ. On the next page, we see the Savior standing with his hands on the shoulders of a pretty girl. The facing page shows many of the kids we saw in the previous unhappy page now feeling love and salvation as the Savior radiates love to them all. Once the Christ succeeds in bringing remembrance to everyone, then the Demiurge will remember Logos above. Logos and his ego reunited. All is joy. All is gnosis. The material cosmos dissolves like snow and all souls are released to return to their home in the Fullness. This ushers in the age known as the Third Economy. Paradise at last. To quote from my book, The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated, Redemption means returning to the Father’s abode—that Paradise dreamed by the Fullness, where there is no death, no disease, no disappointment, and no deficiency. That Paradise where Christ is King and peace reigns supreme, and there is only cooperation, fellowship, and true love. In Paradise there is naught but life; so all the grass is green, and flowers blossom endlessly, and every soul that has ever lived, lives happily with their friends and families. That’s the end of this Gnostic Cosmology, as illustrated in my kid’s book, “Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Myth.” It’s not all that complicated, is it? Last week I said we’d get into the applications of gnosis, and I released an extra episode this week for that purpose. It’s called “Remembering the Mission,” and it’s an update of an earlier episode from 2021 called “Why Not Be Sinful?”. Meanwhile, if you have any questions or comments, please don’t be shy. Make some comments. I look forward to reading them. God bless us all and onward and upward. The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated presents gnosis as simply as possible for your enlightenment.

In 2019 I posted an article to my new Gnostic Gospel blog called, If All Are Redeemed, Why Not Be Sinful? And I’d like to share that with you today. One of the big heresies of Gnosticism is that all Second Order Powers are redeemed by Christ and all will someday return to the Paradise of the Fullness. Yay! Everyone’s going to Heaven! No one is going to hell, not even the Fallen angels. What joy! This seems to fly in the face of Christian orthodoxy that promotes the idea that only those humans who confess a belief in Jesus as the Christ will make it into Heaven, and those who don’t believe in Jesus will go to an eternal damnation of suffering in hell. Conventional Christianity states that Jesus came to save humanity, but only those who acknowledge Jesus as the only Son of God and invite Him into their hearts will be saved. This is the basis for all evangelism and all churches that follow the Nicene Creed, which is to say, all Christian churches, whether Catholic or Protestant. This is why Christians are so keen on saving souls. They don’t want you to suffer for eternity in hell. The Gnostic Church begs to differ with that common interpretation of Christ’s mission. According to the books of the Nag Hammadi library, all of creation will be redeemed and returned to the Fullness and the Father’s home in Heaven. All of creation, everyone and everything, will be made clean and pure and holy by the end. As they say, it’ll all be good in the end, and if it’s not good yet, then it’s not yet the end. Gnosis refers to the ability to use reason and logic to arrive at spiritual truth. So, let’s think together about this idea of Christ and redemption and who does or does not go to Heaven. First, if Christ’s redemption were a matter of your belief, then Christ’s mission of salvation would be limited to what you believe. In other words, you would be the one holding the power of salvation, not Christ. Does that make any sense to you? Are you the one who redeems or is Christ? Can you see how making your belief central to redemption actually limits the power of Christ? Can you see how that makes sinful humans more powerful than the mission of Christ’s redemption? Limiting Christ to your belief, it seems to me, is the greater heresy than simply trusting Christ to accomplish the mission. It is Christ’s job to redeem humanity, not yours. Second, according to Gnostic texts, all creatures great and small will be redeemed. This means that all creatures are going to Heaven. My dog has never professed a belief in Jesus as the Christ, yet my dog is going to Heaven. The fishes in the water, the birds in the air, the insects, the forest animals, all Second Order Powers are redeemed by Christ. It is the job of the Christ to redeem creation, irrespective of creation’s ability to confess that fact. Do you think that only good dogs go to Heaven? Or nice fishes? Maybe only herbivores? Perhaps only parrots who can say, Jesus saves! Once we concede that it is only the Christ that can redeem, then what is the point of leading a virtuous life? Why not sin up until the end, have all kinds of fun, and then waltz into Heaven without repentance? Repentance, by the way, means to feel sorrow and regret. Are we allowed to sin willy-nilly with no negative consequences? An even more profound question is, why were we created in the first place? According to the Tripartite Tractate, the Second Order Powers were created in order to rescue the Fallen Aeon known as Logos. The most perfect and complete of the individual Aeons, Logos crowned the top of the aeonic hierarchy. This single Aeon consisted of all the attributes of the good and perfect Fullness rolled up into one individual. And as you know by now from listening to the first eight episodes of Gnostic Insights, Logos had fallen from the Fullness and smashed to smithereens in a lower dimension. The broken bits of Logos scattered into space, forming our material universe along with a host of powers and personalities, including demons, evil djinn, and archons. Logos imagined he could build the Paradise dreamt by the Fullness because he understood all of the plans and possessed all of the necessary talents. However, without the willing support of the Fullness, Logos was unable to give proper glory to the Father. As he reached for the Father, Logos stumbled and fell, shattering himself to bits. Because the isolated glory of Logos was inadequate to the task, everything he produced as a result of that effort fell disastrously short. Where there had been unity with the Son and with his brethren in the Fullness, now there was a division and a turning away. The undiluted will expressed by the Fullness was splintered because Logos, “could not bear to look at the light but looked at the depths, and he faltered.” That’s verse 77 of the Tripartite Tractate. Going on to verse 78: “What issued from his presumptuous thought and his arrogance—[by the way, that’s another word for ego]—what issued from his ego had existed from something that was itself deficient. And because of that, what was perfect in him left him and went upward to its own in the Fullness, leaving the sicknesses behind in the darkness.” The material space of our universe is known as the deficiency and the imitation in Gnosticism, and it was initially populated by nothing but the lost and fallen shadows of the pleroma of Logos. The part of Logos that stayed behind in the deficiency was his ego, which came to be known as the Demiurge. The fallen ego of Logos was not hated by the Father or the Aeons of the Fullness. The fallen was mourned as lost, as a prodigal son or daughter is mourned by the parents who still love them. The Fullness loves the Fallen and only wants the ego of Logos to be restored to the Fullness. The Second Order Powers were sent into this dimension for the purpose of engaging the Fallen Demiurge and helping it to return home. However, as the Second Order Powers entered this earthly dimension, they were immediately plunged into a never-ending battle with the Fallen. Due to the law of mutual combat, we temporarily forgot our Father in Heaven and our mission of engagement and rescue. We were all infected with a host of fallen influences and fell into lifetimes of fear, regret, lust, and rage. As the Tripartite Tractate puts it in verse 84, “The two orders fought against each other, struggling for command with such a result that they were engulfed by forces and material substances in accordance with the law of mutual combat. And they too acquired lust for domination and all the other passions of this sort. And, consequently, empty vain glory pulls them all toward the desire of lust for domination, and not one of them remembers what is superior or confesses it.” We humans are Second Order Powers infected with many, many fallen influences that blind us to our true natures and our mission. These negative influences prefer the deficiency to the Fullness. These negative powers of the Fall represent the opposite of the All and of all that makes us truly happy and fulfilled. The survival reflex of the imitation requires the Second Order Powers to be miserable and lost, because misery loves company. They influence people to fight against each other rather than fight and resist the evil fallen. Our lives become an endless and fruitless quest to find happiness through selfish pursuits. All you have to do is pop into Facebook or Twitter to find evidence all over the place of these fruitless pursuits that appear to cause happiness, but actually cause misery. At this point in the Gnostic story, the Father and the Aeons of the produced a superior new entity, a Third Order Power called the Christ. It became the mission of the Christ to help the Second Order Powers remember and love the Fallen so that the Fallen could be redeemed. Love is the only power that can redeem the Fallen. Why, then, was a Third Order Power needed to accomplish the task that the Second Order Powers were sent to accomplish? Why populate creation with well-meaning but ignorant and confused Second Order Powers? Why not just send in the Christ to accomplish the redemption of fallen Logos in the first place? What is our function and purpose other than bumbling around in never-ending war with the Fallen? Because the Fallen Logos must be loved and redeemed one fallen piece at a time. Imagine if the original body of Logos resembled a human form, like we might picture an angel in Heaven looking something like us. Now, imagine that the heavenly body of Logos in the Fullness was comprised of the blueprint for every single potential body that would ever come to life in the imitation down here after the Fall. Imagine the body of Logos falling from an immaterial dimension, that being the Fullness or Heaven, and crashing and breaking apart into a lower, slower, thicker dimension, our material universe, and spilling out the blueprints for the material universe. Moreover, our personal stories, the drama that each human life enacts, are also stories of the Fall, stories that need redemption. Every life tells stories of falls and redemption, temptation and overcoming, despair and triumph, and every time an archonic influence is defeated and stripped from your personal life, part of Logos is redeemed. When we live a virtuous life, we are following the principles of the Father and the Fullness in Heaven, and we are participants with Christ in redeeming the Fall of Logos. When we live a sinful life, we are succumbing to the demons of the Fall and contributing to the chaos and despair of the deficiency. And I made up a chart with the values of the imitation or the deficiency on the left, and they are called on the left, and the values of the Father and of the Fullness on the right. And the left is the material, downward pull of the deficiency, and the right is the upward, psychical and spiritual pull of the values of the Father and the Fullness. This chart appears in this particular post, and I know I’ve said this chart to you before in prior episodes of the Gnostic Insights, so let me just briefly hit a few of them. If you’re living on the left, if you’re, quote, enjoying a sinful life, and it’s not actually enjoyment, because joy does not come from the left side. Joy only comes from the right. The most that you can hope for, if you’re living on the deficiency side, is a imitation of joy, which we generally call happiness. But as I believe you know by now, happiness is a never-ending pursuit, and we are often reaching for happiness—oh, let’s go here, let’s go there, let’s buy this, let’s buy that, let’s eat this, ooh, let’s have that, ooh, hey, let’s do this drug. You see, everything promises this joy. Sometimes it brings you temporary happiness, but it never fulfills, it never brings satisfaction, never brings satisfaction. Pursuit of material gain always brings more and more desire for more and more material gain. So the values on the left that the sinful are pursuing, these are called vices, and they are such things as impatience, lust, greed, selfishness, cruelty, ruthlessness, anger, resentfulness, rude, obstructionist. (And what I mean by obstructionist is this. Have you ever known someone who, no matter what someone else proposes to do, they go, nah, that’ll never work. So an obstructionist, they’re like a naysayer, that’s what that means. They’re wet blankets, they’re always pulling down good suggestions. That’s what obstructionist means.) Despair, depression, sloth or laziness, chaos, disorder, thoughtless action, greed, envy, arrogance, fear, confusion, gluttony. These are values or vices on the material side of the ledger, and these are the things that generally are promoted in social media, strangely enough. The values on the right actually are virtues that are part of our aeonic inheritance from the Fullness of God, and they are such virtues. Well, you know they say that God is love, right? So love is the number one virtue. Patience, generosity, graciousness, mercy, forgiveness, welcoming, obedience, respect, cooperation as opposed to obstructionism, free choice, hopefulness, joyfulness, truthfulness, industriousness, order, prudence. Prudence, by the way, means knowing what to do at the right time. Logic, charity, kindness, empathy, humility, loyalty, justice, courage, remembrance. These are values on the right side, and you can hear as I read down these values of the right side that these are the types of things that lead to true loving connections between human beings. They are not the kind of thing we generally see on social media, by the way, and we kind of rarely see them in actual walking-around life as well. But this is the goal, is to live on the right side of the ledger, to enact those principles rather than to chase after the emptiness of the vices on the left side. The values of the Demiurge lead to isolation and despair. The values of the Fullness lead to peace and joy. Now, back to my article. Because we are in actuality children of the Fullness, we can only be truly happy when we act out of love, that is, out of virtue. When we forget our place in the Fullness of God, we operate out of ignorance and are subject to the evil influences of the Fall. The Fall can only produce misery, fear, rage, and lust. Never love, never happiness. No good ever comes from rage. No good ever comes from fear. Here is the reason we strive to lead a virtuous life, because only virtue can make you happy. All else leads to despair and depression, because, as they say, the wages of sin is death. And that’s what that means. The imitation does not bring happiness. Despite a world full of false promises, vice can only bring ignorance and suffering, isolation and despair. When you dwell in vice rather than virtue, your life is part of the problem and not part of the solution. The Christ brings redemption and remembrance of the Father and the Fullness, one bit, one piece of the Fall at a time. Every time you resist evil and turn a bad habit into a good habit, you have redeemed a piece of the Fall. When you redeem all of your bits and pieces, you will be fully redeemed and regain your home in the Fullness. When all Second Order Powers have accepted the remembrance and the redemption of Christ, then Logos will be fully redeemed and this material universe can pass away. At that point, Paradise, with all of the love, peace and happiness that is implied, will be fully restored. The end goal of redemption is return to the Father’s abode, that Paradise dreamed by the Fullness, where there is no death, no disease, no disappointment and no deficiencies, that Paradise where Christ is King and peace reigns supreme, and there is only cooperation, fellowship and true love. In Paradise there is nothing but life, so all the grass is green and flowers blossom endlessly and every soul that has ever lived lives happily forever after with their friends and their families. The Christ will leave no one behind to condemnation and hell. What kind of unholy savior would that be? From a previous article, I wrote, “Thus the called will condemn evil and will turn away from the rage that has consumed them, and they will be healed as they acknowledge that they have an origin of their existence, and they desire to know what that is that exists before them.” The Tripartate says in verse 132, “And even those who were brought forth from the desire of lust for domination, having inside them the seed that is lust for domination, will receive the recompense of good things if they have worked together with those who are predisposed toward good things, and provide they decide to do so deliberately, and are willing to abandon their vain love of temporary glory so as to do the command of the Lord of glory, and instead of that small temporary honor they will inherit the eternal kingdom.” So what this is saying is that you have to step away from ego, you have to take your pleasure-seeking ignorant side off the throne of your personality, and allow the indwelling of the Fullness to reside on the throne of your personality. You can turn your vices into virtues whenever you run across them. Awareness is always the first step, and then you put it into action. Okay, I’ll confess something to you. I have a short temper myself, and I often lose my temper even with strangers on the street. It’s a kind of a bizarre phenomenon. So I’ll be walking along, and I’ll see something that makes me angry. Like, for example, someone smoking a cigarette, and they don’t put it out, and they just flick it thoughtlessly out into the bushes. I walk up to that person, I go, Who do you think you are? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Who’s going to pick that up? What if you burn down the place? Are we supposed to look at your cigarette butts? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I get angry at total strangers. Okay, this doesn’t do any good. I realize this is not a good thing. This is actually a vice and not a virtue. This righteous indignation is the thing that captures the do-gooders of the Second Order Powers into that endless rage, and the war that never ends. We can’t win the battle through anger or through na-na-na-na-na. It doesn’t work. We have to love these people. I’m trying to figure out how I might approach a person who flings a cigarette butt down in the street with love and kindness and compassion, but I can’t figure out yet how to do that, and so I’m just going to stop getting in fights with strangers on the street. And that’s been my mission for about the last two years, is to stop having random encounters of righteous indignation, step back, breathe, give praise to God, and go on. I think at some point I will have the wisdom to know how to engage people that would otherwise enrage me, but at the moment I don’t quite have that. So that was my confession. Perhaps you are struggling with some other kind of thing. So remember, you have to just drop the thing when you notice it’s bad. Drop it. Stop it. These are called vicious cycles in psychology. Just stop doing it. Just stop it. Don’t worry about the consequences. The consequences are worse when you do engage in that vicious thing. So just stop it. Whatever it takes, just don’t do it. And the more you stop yourself from the bad behavior, the easier it is to embrace the other side of the ledger. You will shift over to the other side once you stop doing that thing on the left side. You cannot grab onto that virtue as long as you embrace the vice. On to verse 133 of Tripartite. “As for those of the imitation who embrace the darkness and deny the light, even they will obtain direct vision so that they will no longer have to believe only on account of a small word produced by a voice that this is how things are. For the restoration back to that which was is a single restoration, even if some are exalted because of this economy, having been set up as a cause for things that happen, unfolding numerous physical forces, and taking pleasure in them, they, angels as well as humans, will obtain the kingdom, the confirmation, and the salvation. [Verse 136 promises,] these too will be provided with dwelling places where they will dwell eternally after they have renounced the downward attraction of deficiency and the power of the Fullness has pulled them upward on account of the great generosity and the sweetness of the preexistent Aeon.” And that is the end of the article from 2019 and the original podcast from May of 2021. Over the past several years I have turned my mind from outrage and righteous indignation as best I can, even as our society has plunged into more and more division and outrage. It is easier to see now than ever before the uselessness of operating out of anger and rejection. Anger cannot produce good results because anger is a vice, not a virtue.  Only love can turn hearts around. Onward and upward! And God bless us all. If you are finding these Gnostic Insights helpful to your understanding of Gnosticism, please contribute to the cause. This will be helpful to bringing the word to more people. Thank you! Please Donate

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I think we’ve got a lot of new listeners now and new subscribers. And since you haven’t been with us from the beginning, I’d like to review the Gnostic cosmology. A basic premise of Gnosticism is that we are all born with gnosis inherent within us. We already have the answers. We already are our perfect Selves. But because of the nature of the never-ending war that we find ourselves in here in this material cosmos, we forget our inherent nature. And we begin to engage in the war through what the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi calls the law of mutual combat. That being, since we are attacked, we attack back. And then we engage in that back and forth enough that we completely forget our mission and our goal and who we are. So today, I want to run through what I call the illustrated Gnostic cosmology. And I’m putting the illustration into the transcript so that if you are listening to this as an audio podcast, you really would do well to go to GnosticInsights.com or to my Substack location, the Gnostic Reformation, under the name of Cyd Ropp, so that you can see the illustration that we’re talking about. Now, when you first look at this Gnostic cosmology, it’s very strange looking, and it’s probably incomprehensible. But by the time I talk you through this, you’ll be able to follow the steps. There are 15 steps in this Gnostic cosmology. And once you recognize these stations, then you will literally understand Gnosis. You will remember your Gnosis, and you’ll understand what all of the various versions of Gnosticism have been trying to say. One reason is that this is a pictorial presentation. It’s not just words, because I’ve noticed when reading the various books of the Nag Hammadi, for example, some of which are Valentinian Gnosticism, some of which are Sethian Gnosticism, some are straight-out Greek philosophy by Plato. They use different words, but the concepts are the same. So what I always attempt to do is to level up to a meta-level, above the words, and envision and then picture it so that you can describe it with the words you prefer. So let’s get started. The background image of this entire Gnostic cosmology key I picture as pure inky blackness, like the sky with no stars or moons. That is the ground state of consciousness. And that is the Father’s mind. Now the Father is another one of these words where many people would like to disagree with saying Father. They want to say Source, or, for example, as it is called in the Secret Book of John, the One, the Parent, the Invisible Spirit. However, in the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, which is the book that I mainly use as a reference, that initial, illimitable consciousness is called the Father. Now, that’s the ground state. That’s the first principle. Consciousness is not a byproduct of the little gray cells. Consciousness predates everything. Consciousness is part of the existence of God, and it is the very first thing before anything that follows. Step number two is the emergence of the Son. It is the emergence of consciousness from the illimitable, infinite consciousness of the Father into a singularity, into a monad, as it’s called. It’s like the bucket dipped into the sea. It contains all of the characteristics and quality of the Father, but it’s contained as an individual. The Son doesn’t separate from the Father. It stays plugged into the Father. The Tripartite Tractate says that as soon as the Son was formed, what are called the Totalities of the All were formed. That’s step number three. And the Totalities of the All are all of the variabilities that make up the Son. So, the Totalities and the Son are coexistent, but it is all of the characteristics broken out and enumerated that form what are called the Totalities of the All. The Totalities of the All do not recognize themselves as individuals. They are only spokes on the wheel. They have no personal identity. They know that they are part of the Son, and they glorify the Son, and they glorify the Father. So, they are glorifying upstream, as we like to say. And it is through this giving of glory that each of the Totalities comes to self-awareness. Now, instead of one singular unit that is coexistent entirely with the Son, they blossom into self-identities, and they arrange themselves in a hierarchy. So, step four is the Totalities of the All migrating from a burst of sunshine that’s sitting within the Son into a pyramidal shape, because the pyramid is the essential shape of a hierarchy. There’s more at the bottom than there is at the top. Everything keeps leveling up, following a basic Gnostic rule of the higher the fewer, until you eventually arrive at a capstone at the very top, just like our physical pyramids look. And this entity, at number five, is called the hierarchy of the Aeons of the Fullness. And in Gnosticism, we usually identify the word aeon with consciousness, with an individual. It’s an entity. It’s not a unit of time. It’s a unit of consciousness. And so the Aeons of the hierarchy of the Fullness of God are infinite in number. There aren’t only eight or 64 or 365. Those may be ones that are named in other books of Gnosticism, but conceptually, you see, they’d have to be innumerable, because they are part of the illimitable consciousness of the Father, via the Son. And the job of the hierarchies of the Fullness, well, they’ve each got a position, a place, a duty, and a name. And basically what they do is sing songs of glory upstream to the Father and the Son, just like the Totalities did. And in this combination of the Aeons in the Fullness of God, they dream. They dream of Paradise. They dream of the intelligent design of this cosmos that we live in. And so all of us down here, we’re prefigured in the minds of the Fullness of God. And that Fullness of God is generally what we humans imagine as Heaven or Paradise. Humans in cultures all over the world have a dream of Paradise. And the reason why we all have this exact same dream of Paradise is because that’s where we come from. We are the fruit of the Aeons of the Fullness, and we instantiate their dream of Paradise. Now, according to the Tripartite Tractate, the object that in my drawings looks like a starburst re-sorted themselves into this hierarchy of the Fullness of God. The last Aeon that was produced through a combination of all of the Aeons of the Fullness of God, giving glory to the Father and the Son. In the Tripartite Tractate, that Aeon, that final Aeon, the capstone to the pyramid, sitting right up there on top, is called Logos. And Logos means reasoning. It means logic. The next step in the story is when that final Aeon that’s sitting on top of the Fullness of God wants to re-insert itself into the Father—the original source of consciousness—wants to plug into the Father the way that the Son remains plugged into the Father. It tries to take that position, and it can’t do it. And it is repelled by the Father, and that is the Fall. The Father repelled that Aeon from being able to plug into itself. I wouldn’t say that Logos was trying to become God. That’s kind of an insulting way to put it. I would say that that final Aeon was simply trying to reunite with the Father. But it couldn’t. It was repelled because no one can come to the illimitable. It’s too powerful. The Tripartite Tractate says they would be annihilated because the Father’s power is too great. It would just burn it up. And so instead of plugging into the Father, Logos fell. And that, according to Gnosticism, is the Fall. And it was the Fall that created our material cosmos. Now, you could say that that was Sophia that fell and her child Yaldabaoth. I prefer to keep it simple and just to say that it’s Logos that fell. Logos was a very special Aeon that contained within its one unity, fractal representations of all of the other Aeons of the Fullness. So Logos was perfect and complete, representing the Son of God. However, he was a fractal level down. Logos crowned the top of the Fullness with fractals of all the other Aeons. He didn’t have the power, didn’t have the greatness of the original Son in step two. But he had the pattern. He had the blueprint. He thought he was complete and could build Paradise, the Paradise that all of the Aeons dreamed up together in step five. He thought he could do that because he contained the Fullness of God in a smaller fractal form. But he was mistaken and he crashed out of the ethereal plane, boom, broke apart, and his pleroma lost its hierarchical arrangement. It became random and chaotic. That is step eight. I generally depict that random chaos as quantum foam. It’s just boiling in and out of existence. Nothing can stick. Nothing can stay. Nothing can level up. It’s chaotic. Logos tried his best to bring it all back in order, tried to put his pleroma back together into a proper hierarchy, but it would not cooperate. And he was aghast, it says. He was very upset, very disturbed by the disturbance that had come out of him. He meant to bring perfection and instead he brought chaos. And he was now separated from the Fullness of God. Well, the Fullnesses prayed to help Logos return, and the best part of Logos, it says in the Tripartite Tractate, step 10, the best part of Logos returned to the Fullness of God, but it abandoned the chaos below. So what is that chaos? I’ve identified that chaotic disturbance that came out of Logos as not only quantum foam, but the Fallen ego of Logos. You see, all of the Aeons have an ego. They’ve got their perfect One Self that is a fractal copy of the Son, but they’ve also got positions, places, names, duties, which is to say they have an ego. And an ego is just their designation. It’s just their address and their name, rank, and serial number. That’s their ego. It’s not self-centered. It’s just a name. But when Logos falls and abandons his ego down below, then it is an ego that came into being that is separated from the One Self of the Son. It’s outside of the direct flow of consciousness and life and love of the Father and the Son and the God. So it is the beginning of ego running amok. Ego came to its own realization, woke up, so to speak, found itself in this weird, dark, chaotic space, and he thought he was God because he didn’t remember where he came from. He didn’t realize he was the fallen ego of Logos. He had all of the blueprints for Paradise because they were in the mind of Logos when he fell. And he also had the ambitious overreaching that Logos was doing when he fell. Step 11 in the diagram shows the chaos and this disordered pleroma of the ego of Logos down here, no longer looking like a pyramid but just random bubbles. But there’s a border around it now because the Father put up a border around the fallen bits in order to contain them, in order to protect the Fullness of God from the disaster that was occurring, we would say, down below. Logos, now reunited with the Fullness, prays for his fallen ego, prays for this mess that he left behind. Demiurge came to awareness down there at step 11. So the ego of Logos, abandoned down below, becomes what Gnostics call the Demiurge. And the Demiurge, thinking it was God, having all the blueprints for Paradise, thought it could build Paradise now down here inside of this border. And this border, by the way, could be likened to the expanding bubble around our universe. The Big Bang would have been the splat in step 8 when Logos crashed apart and began emitting these particles. So Fullness and Logos prayed for help to come to what is called now the Deficiency. Our cosmos is known as the Deficiency or the imitation because it’s a knock-off of Paradise. And what they want is to rescue the Demiurge. They’re not trying to condemn the Demiurge to hell. They’re trying to rescue the Demiurge and bring him back up to the Fullness to reunite with Logos and plug back in with them because that’s where it belongs. So in step 12, we have the fruit of the Aeons of the Fullness being sent down into this material cosmos. The Demiurge has been working on the material cosmos in step 11. He can’t get it to come to life because he doesn’t contain the consciousness and life of the Fullness and the Father. He’s a flat version, like a mirror image or like a projection on a movie screen. He doesn’t have the true depth of consciousness. Archons lack consciousness, they are not self-aware the way the Aeons are. They are tightly restrained and very strictly ordered by very strict laws of physics and chemistry and whatnot by the mind of the Demiurge only. They are projections of the Demiurge. They are shadows of the Aeons. They’re like the inversions of the beauty of that Aeonic Golden Pyramid, but they are lacking consciousness, life, and love. So the Aeons send down what are called the Second Order of Powers. The First Order of Powers were the Aeons and the Fullness of God. The Second Order of Powers is all of the life and consciousness and love of the Father flowing down from the Fullness of God down into this fallen cosmos. That is all living creatures. Everything that’s alive from the bacteria and the cells and the organs that make up our bodies and all of the critters and birds and fish, all of the insects and mammals, all living creatures, the grasses and the trees, the moss and the slime molds, everything that’s alive is a fruit of the Fullness of God. Fruits of the Aeons pre-designed in the Fullness of God and sent down here to instantiate life, love, and consciousness into this otherwise dead disaster of a cosmos. And we come down with a mission. We Second Order Powers were supposed to come down here to remind the Demiurge of the Father above; to remind the Demiurge of Logos, his better half; to remind the Demiurge of love and consciousness and that he is not God and he needs to return home. Come home, Demiurge, come home. We are supposed to be calling to the Demiurge to return home to the Fullness of God. Well, we got caught in a never-ending war instead with the material world. See, at conception, we are all bonded to the molecular level. So when a creature has the spark of life come into it from the Fullness down here, when it bonds to that material level, that molecule that then begins reproducing, reproducing, reproducing according to the pattern from above that that creature brought into the cosmos with it. We all carry the Fullness of God within every part of our living bodies, every one of our cells, every one of our organs. We are full of the Fullness of God. We have consciousness. It’s self-evident. We love. That is also self-evident. We operate according to the Simple Golden Rule of reaching out to others to help build things that we can’t do on our own. We make families and work together. We make villages and work together. We make small communities and build things that we can all enjoy together. But we forget our job. We forget about bringing love and remembrance to the Demiurge because of the never-ending war of spirit against material, the never-ending war of right and left, the never-ending war between us and the archons, the never-ending war. It’s a constant battle here between life and death. And so the Fullnesses realized that that plan wasn’t working. We forgot to do our jobs. They prayed upstream to the Father, to the Son, to the Totalities, and they prayed for true salvation to come now and rescue the Second Order Powers, just like we were supposed to rescue the Demiurge. Now it takes a superpower, the most superpower, to come into our cosmos, rescue all of the Second Order Powers by reminding us of God’s love and what our true mission is of sharing love. We can’t do it on our own. We already proved that we lost the battle in step 13. So step 14 is sending down the Savior, sending down the most powerful entity of the ethereal plane, that being what is called the Christ. And Christ is the Son of God. Christ is the Fullnesses all praying together. Christ is the Totalities all singing the song together. Christ has the most power of any entity ever, more than enough power to bring remembrance, love, salvation, peace, comfort, joy to all of us down here who have forgotten. That’s the job of the Christ. That’s step 14. And step 15 is once the Christ succeeds in bringing remembrance to everyone, then we can move into what will be called the Third Economy. We’re in the Second Economy now. That’s the economy or the system of the material world. The First Economy was the Fullness of God, where the First Order of Powers live. The Second Economy is this cosmos that we live in, where the Second Order of Powers live. And the Third Economy is after this material cosmos passes away, dissolves like snow, gets all rolled up and wrapped up, and we all return to the Fullness of God. The Third Economy is the dream of Paradise the cosmos will instantiate after this Second Economy dissolves at the end of time. We all return to the new Third Economy ruled by the Third Order of Powers, and that’s the pleroma of Christ. Christ is the Third Order of Powers, and there is an individual Third Order Power for every one of us Second Order Powers. We can’t do it on our own. We cannot love to the extent needed to demonstrate to the Demiurge love. We get caught in wars. We kill each other. We fight with each other. We quarrel. We quibble. We blow each other up and chop off heads. Bad, very bad. The Christ and the Third Order Powers comes to each of us as an individual, comes to you, comes to me, comes to our neighbors, comes to all of the critters and all of the plants, but I don’t think they’re quite as fallen as we are. I think they’re doing a pretty good job of living their lives according to what is required down here in the Second Economy. But true salvation, true redemption from this world comes by accepting the assistance of the Christ. Okay, I think we’ll stop there today. That’s the end of this Gnostic Cosmology. Next week, we’ll talk about the yeah, so what? to all of this. What good will that do me? What good will that do the world? Tune back in next week and we’ll talk about it. Meanwhile, if you have any questions or comments, please don’t be shy. Make some comments. I look forward to reading them. God bless and onward and upward. 15 steps in Gnostic Cosmology

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week we started an episode called Gnostic Psychology Slideshow, Part One, and today we’re going to wrap that up. It’s a slideshow that I presented at my class at Southern Oregon University on the Simple Gnostic Gospel, and so I will be describing for you and posting the transcript on the GnosticInsights.com website and also at Substack. In the written transcripts, you’ll be able to see the PowerPoint slides, which really, I think, helps to clear things up, to clear up confusion, by the imagery. If you’re listening to the audio-only version, you might want to go to the websites, one or the other, and look at the slideshow too. Last week in Gnostic Psychology Part One, we talked about Who am I? Who is a human being? Who are you? And in my way of thinking, we are a combination of units of consciousness; memes and the memes we carry in our meme shroud; karma; and our One true Self, which is a replication of the One consciousness of the Father; the aeonic inheritance we have from our parents in the Fullness; and our body, our material body, which comprises our DNA and our human parents, our inheritance, as well as the units of consciousness of the 37 trillion cells in our body. There’s a therapeutic application for this Gnostic Psychology. And if you look at my book, A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, or you go to my 20-year-old website and look up https://asimpleexplanation.blogspot.com you can find this particular explanation in depth. I think that would be a good bumper sticker or t-shirt. Gnosis you can trust. Again, if you’re following along with the slideshow, and this will be called Gnostic Psychology Part 2, the values on the left are egoic and they are demiurgic and they are from the deficiency, the imitation. The values on the right are from the true Self, from the Fullness of God, and they are traits of the Father. So, I don’t want to read through this whole list. It’s a very long list, but for example, a vice would be to be hateful, spiteful. The virtue that’s the flip side is to be loving, charitable. So, if you find yourself hating someone, it’s not virtuous, it’s not righteous, it’s demiurgic. We are called to love others, and indeed that is our Second Order task. We were sent here to remind the fallen demiurge that there is a Father above, that there is life and love, and that it comes from above. The Demiurge is a fractal of Aeonic ego, being the ego of fallen Logos. We are also fractals, so we want to dwell on the Aeonic Fullness side rather than the fallen demiurgic side. Another example would be hard-hearted, ruthless on the left, and the virtuous side is to be merciful. One of the vices is to be slothful, lazy. The virtue side is to be useful, to be part of the solution. The left is illogical, incoherent. It makes no sense because it’s built on lies. The right is logical. The Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything theory of everything that I developed starts with a single premise that consciousness is the ground state of reality, and then everything derives from that first premise. The Gnostic gospel that I teach, or that I share with you, because I don’t have to teach you Gnosis, we’re all born with the Gnosis, so it’s inherent in us. We just need to be reminded because we’ve been caught in a never-ending war. So, for example, if a person has an eating disorder, and let’s say you eat uncontrollably, you eat far too much, and you eat the wrong things, and you know you should cut back, and you know you should eat better because it’s just not good, because you feel sluggish, and your health is suffering. That is because you’ve allowed your organ system of the digestive tract to rule. It’s an even further down fractal iteration than ego. Your ego wants to lose weight because you want to look good. You want to fit into that new outfit or whatever. You want to be attractive to the opposite sex, but you can’t control your eating. That’s because you have ceded your control to your digestive system. Willpower is difficult because that food is very attractive, and your digestive system is very powerful because you’ve given it so much authority, and it’s become accustomed to ruling you. You have to go a step to the right. You have to get on to the virtue side, and instead of being gluttonous, which is a vice, you want to be temperate. So, how do you get on the virtuous side? By turning your eyes upward to the Fullness of God, by asking for the Father’s assistance, or asking for the Son’s assistance to overcome this demiurgic slavery that you’ve found yourself in. This works for all vices, for all addictions. Now, if that’s too difficult, this is where the Christ comes in, because the Christ is the Third Order of Powers. So, it’s yet another pyramidal shape, like the Fullness, except it’s the most powerful force in the cosmos. And, if you jump from giving your control to your gluttonous digestive system, or to your Self-centered me-me-me ego, you can turn it directly over to the Third Order of Powers, and ask them to come over and take control. And, that is like a stencil. It’s going to overlay a Third Order Power on top of every one of your units of consciousness, and it’s got all the power to do anything. You borrow the willpower of the Fullness, the willpower of the Christ. And, that’s who Jesus was. He was our exemplar. He was the first human who ceded all authority to the Third Order Powers, to the Father. He was God incarnate that way. He did not have any vice, and he showed us, yeah, it can be done. Yeah, you might get crucified for it, and everybody’s going to hate you. You’re going to have very few friends. You’re going to look like a total goody two shoes. But, if it’s really the Third Order Powers working through you, it’s not a burden. It’s lifting the burden, because you always know what to do, because the Third Order of power is sitting on the throne of yourself. That’s just an example of something you could say, and that will bump the negative meme. Oh, there’s not enough. I’m going to lose you. I’m going to lose this. I’m afraid. I’m afraid. It just bumps it right out of the way, because you’ve displaced that demiurgic meme with a godly meme. They don’t work together, so one of them has got to go, and if you have set your willpower upon the Third Order of Powers, upon the Fullness of God, upon virtue, you don’t have to strain and sweat to get it done. You feel joy. You feel in alignment with the One. You are truly centered. This is what it means to be enlightened. Therapy may help you to identify which memes need dropping, and may assist in the process. You may not realize the reason you’re so insecure is because you think there’s not enough to go around, so a good therapist can help you identify that, and then you can drop that. There’s not enough to go around. I’m going to be left out. Nobody loves me. I’ll never amount to anything. You can drop those negative memes that you uncover during therapy, and then replace them with positive memes. And nowadays, since everything’s going so poorly out here in the world, if you spend a lot of time with the media, and with social media, you are absorbing all of that negativity, and all of that hatred, because social media is inherently demiurgic. It’s not alive. It comes from the bottom. You need to turn your eyes upward, turn off the phone, look upward, and plug into the Father, however you can do that. Some memes are easy to detach, because they don’t really fit in with your bundle of meme strings and cords, so if you stop reading those posts, if you get off of Facebook, well, maybe they will evaporate, because it turned out you were actually a very loving person, and you still love your old friends, even if you disagree with them now. But if you continually feed that negative meme, then you will continually feel horrid, because the demiurgic side of the ledger is designed to make you feel bad, to make you feel enslaved, to create division, despair, fear. That all comes from not living a godly life. But we don’t force ourselves to live a godly life. We run to it with joy. It’s coming home. It’s remembering. It’s remembering the joy. And suddenly all burdens are light enough to bear. Bad things can happen to you, but then you can trust in God that all things work together for good for those who love God. So I may have broken my leg and wound up in the hospital for a couple of days, but it turns out I needed to be in that hospital bed, because my roommate in the hospital was a lovely person that needed to hear what I had to say, and vice versa. And we made a new friend. This is how a bad thing can turn into a good thing, by having a godly attitude and trusting that God knows best. God does know better than you. You don’t have enough data to run your life and avoid all of the pitfalls. So you’re starting to get the idea this whole Gnostic psychology has to do with dropping unwanted memes and turning to the virtuous side. That’s what it boils down to. There’s only peace and joy and happiness on the side of virtue when you’re sincere. We’re not talking about hypocrisy. We’re not talking about forcing the issue. We’re not talking about whipping yourself with a flagellant whip to make yourself holy. That is not God’s will. God is entirely love, entirely acceptance, entirely forgiving, entirely compassionate, entirely charitable. And if you think you’re living a righteous life, yet you’re feeling anger, hatred, division, well then you’re not living a righteous life. Those are clues that you’re in the wrong set of memes, you see? So you want to get rid of those and turn your eyes upward. And you can either turn your eyes directly to Jesus as Christian true believers do, and I mean true believers, not hypocrites or pew warmers, or you can go this Gnostic route and turn your mind up to the Fullness of God, the Son, the Father, and the disincarnate Christ who pre-existed Jesus. You can take your choice, but it all is going to level you up to the Father. If you’re on the path, the glory beam, then you wind up with the Father. On a practical level, therapies such as the Emotional Freedom Technique can help with that. You can go to an EFT trainer, or you can look up EFT on YouTube and learn how to do the EFT technique. Then you just do this tapping. It takes about a minute, and it literally taps those unwanted memes right off of your meme shroud. I use it now and then, and it works. If you’ve got a thought you can’t dislodge, you do the EFT while thinking of the thought. You do the EFT a couple, maybe three times, and boom, it’s gone. Serenity is achieved as the memes are discarded. Of course, the whole point of traditional meditation is to clear your mind. What are you doing when you do that? You are quieting the memes. You’re turning them off so they can’t affect you and get in the way of you coming into contact with your true Self or with the Father. It’s important to realize that at any moment in time, you can choose to lay down an unwanted meme. You have that power. It is in your control. If you notice yourself carrying a meme around again that you thought you’d gotten rid of, but here you are again, well then stop. Lay it down again. You can lay it down as many times as it takes, but if you continue to do that meme, if you continue to activate that meme, think about it, or carry out this unwanted behavior, you’re not going to be able to get rid of it because activation causes it to stick to your meme bundle. That’s why you have to continue to lay it down, and you have to stop thinking about it. It doesn’t help to think about it. Regret, regret that never goes away, is also demiurgic because it makes you feel guilty. It wants you to feel like you have no willpower, like you can’t help yourself, and that’s a lie. It’s all lies. You can help yourself. You can be free in a moment, and from personal experience, I can tell you that that’s what the born again experience is. It’s inviting the Third Order of Powers to come into you and to take over, and the Christian prayer to Jesus, Jesus I’m a sinner, I repent, I ask you to come into my life, is a version of what I’m saying, and you can do that. I’m not against you asking Jesus to be your personal emissary. Jesus is my man. I’ve always been with Jesus, and I still am. Nothing wrong with Jesus. And if you don’t want to believe in the Christ, if you think that’s just hooey, you don’t need the Christ, well you’re going to have a hard reckoning when you pass away because we have to be pure to get to heaven. We have to be a hundred percent pure because heaven’s all good, all good. Sooner or later, everyone repents, but sooner or later everyone does repent, whether it’s in this lifetime or in the in-between place. Or you will keep coming back and getting reincarnated over and over again because you don’t want to let go of those memes that you’re holding on to. In order to stick the landing, as I say, which is a gymnastic term—you know how when a gymnast jumps off of that vault and then they land, that’s called sticking the landing. If they fumble the landing or they fall over, they didn’t stick the landing. So I think of getting to heaven and being able to stick the landing. That only happens if you repent and accept that you come from above and you want to return to above, and you don’t want to keep doing these activities that you love so much down here on the earth, or else you’re just going to keep getting pulled back onto the earth. In the case of PTSD, some sort of therapy is usually required to detach that meme from the person, unless of course you want to go full throttle and have a born-again experience, then it can all be gone in an instant. But if you don’t actively strive to detach that meme, it’s possible to be victimized by PTSD for the entirety of your life, and this causes much suffering, as Buddha would say, much needless suffering. And if you want to hear more about that, if you want to know more, please leave a comment below, and I’ll review that whole idea of Bill’s hypnotic method and give you some case histories. God bless us all, and onward and upward. If you find these Gnostic Insights beneficial and you would like to do your part to usher in a new Gnostic Reformation, please contribute to the cause. The Aeons will notice and be glad. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *Stripe Credit Card *Choose your item *Item A - $10.00Item B - $25.00Item C - $50.00Total$0.00Submit

Welcome to Gnostic Insights. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp and I’m your host. Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. And welcome to my new listeners and readers. So glad to have you aboard. And of course, I’m always very grateful for those of you who have been with this series since the beginning. This week was my final lecture at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Oregon University on the Gnostic Gospel and the topic was Gnostic Psychology. So I’m going to share with you that final slideshow today because it’s easier than coming up with a brand new episode when I’m having to work on these lectures. Of course, this Gnostic material is complicated and yet it’s simple. Once you get it, everything falls into place, but I can understand that it’s difficult to grasp it initially. I’m happy to share with you that my students that have been with me for nine weeks now, they’ve got it. They finally got it. It’s all fallen into place. So it happens. So let’s look at the slideshow from this week’s lecture on Gnostic Psychology. And if you’re listening to this as an audio only podcast, I suggest you go either to Substack, to the Gnostic Reformation, or to my home base website, GnosticInsights.com, and visualize the slideshow because it’s pretty and the diagrams really help the audio information make sense. When we talk about Gnostic Psychology, I’m going to answer the question of who we are, and we’re going to cover six topics. We’re going to talk about units of consciousness, memes, karma, Self, Aeonic inheritance, and then how your body even gets into the picture when we’re talking about the psychology. All living things bring consciousness and love into the Fallen world at conception. Let’s start with units of consciousness. This concept comes out of my original theory of everything called A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, but it’s very useful and it works in the Gnostic setting as well. And that would be an infinite number, because the Son reflects the infinity of the Father. The Totalities of the ALL have no self-identity. They still identify with the Son. They’re parts of the Son. But during the giving of glory and the singing upstream to the Father and the Son, the Totalities recognized their individuality and immediately sorted themselves into the hierarchy of the fullness of God. And I would say that that differentiation of the Aeons into self-identity was the formation of their egos. The next concept is distributed fractal consciousness. Now we’ve talked a lot about fractals here at Gnostic Insights, and if you don’t know what a fractal is, please go to GnosticInsights.com and look up the episodes about fractals, and you’ll learn about it. Because consciousness is fractally distributed. Another factor in our psychology is memes. My illustration of that is to show that torus, that donut shape, with all these strings lying on the outside of it. Just tons of strings stuck to the outside of your torus. That’s not an official gnostic concept. That’s out of my Simple Explanation and I’ll talk a little more about the torus later. These memes are units of thought. They’re vibratory things and each one carries a thought. The memes dwell, I think, in the transpersonal unconscious or the akashic record. They are immaterial. They’re thought forms. Memes and karma go together. Now, comparing Freud and Jung’s theories to this Gnostic psychology: In terms of fractals, the body’s units of consciousness are smaller fractal iterations of the Fullness of God than my governing unit of consciousness. The Self is connected to the Fullness of God at all times, though we often ignore it. The Ego sits on the outside because it is in contact with others and the material world. Okay, we’re going to stop there for today. There are a few more slides in this slide show, but this is a good place to stop. Perhaps I’ll pick them up next week and we’ll talk more about Gnostic psychology and then how it is applied therapeutically. Until then, God bless us all and onward and upward! Please do what you can to support this independent Gnostic ministry. You can show your support by leaving comments and questions that prompt me toward sharing gnosis with you. You can also show your support by subscribing to Gnostic Insights and/or The Gnostic Reformation on Substack. And, of course, financial support is always welcomed! Thank you for whatever you can do to contribute. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *Stripe Credit Card *Choose your item *Item A - $10.00Item B - $25.00Item C - $50.00Total$0.00Submit

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Today I’m going to share with you the PowerPoint lecture that I gave yesterday at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Oregon University, and the topic is Christ and the Third Order of Powers. We began with a review using the Gnostic Cosmology Chart, and this is just a very… this is too difficult of a chart to describe to you. You’ll have to see it, so I recommend that you go to GnosticInsights.com and find this episode, or the Gnostic Reformation. This is the current episode here on Substack, but I begin every class with a full review of what we have done before using the Gnostic Cosmology Chart that I have designed, and I was very heartened to see that yesterday the class was able to name all of the parts. I think that is extraordinary, and so good for you, class! Now after the chart, here we begin the lecture. Quoting from the Tripartite Tractate, The thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability and ruled over those who had come into being because of him was called Aeon and Place of all those whom he had brought forth in accord with the ordinance, and it is also called Synagogue of Salvation because he healed himself from the dispersal, which is the multifarious thought, and returned to the single thought. Now what does that mean? “The thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability.” That is Logos after the Fall, and now he has returned back up to the Fullness of God, pulled up there by the prayers of the Fullnesses, his brothers. He has returned to his stability. He’s sitting at the top of the pile again like he used to be before he fell. Now his shadow remains below, his shadow being the Demiurge and all of those broken imitations of his original Pleroma. You know the Logos is a fractal of the entire Fullness of God formed by when the Fullnesses gave glory to God all together in unison, and what they produced out of that unity was the Logos, and he contains a fractal representation of every one of the Aeons within him. However, it is a fractal level down, and it was that Logos that fell, and so the shadows of the fractals of Logos are what remain behind and become our material universe. Now back to this quote, “the thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability and ruled over those who had come into being because of him.” Those who had come into being because of him is all of us second-order powers, not the shadows, because they are not really beings. They do not really exist, but we second-order powers are the fruit of Logos and the Fullness together praying for help to come into the deficiency to rescue his abandoned ego that we called the Demiurge. So this sentence is saying that the thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability and ruled over those who had come into being because of him, that’s us, “was called Aeon and Place of all those whom he had brought forth in accord with the ordinance.” You see, we second-order powers, which is every living thing in the cosmos, we were brought forward in accord with the ordinance, which I believe to be something along the lines of the Simple Golden Rule of reaching out to the other Fullnesses, and they held hands and prayed together, and we were brought forth as fruit. So that was the ordinance. And it says that Logos is called the Synagogue of Salvation because he healed himself from the dispersal, and that dispersal was after the Fall when his Pleroma rolled out and became the material universe, which he abandoned down here. And it says that “the dispersal was the multifarious thought, and he returned to the single thought.” So that multifarious thought, which means a whole lot of different thoughts, multifarious, that’s all of those independent little tiny egos that are the shadows of the ego of Logos that fell, the shadows of the Demiurge, the parts of the deficiency, those are the multifarious thoughts. They don’t come from the single good thought of the Father, but they come from an infinite number of egoic, selfish thoughts. It says that he healed himself from that dispersal, and that’s when he abandoned it down below and went back up to the Fullness, and he returned to the single thought. The single thought is the good thought of the Father, the good thought of the Son. God is one giant good thought, the God Above All Gods. The true Self, with a capital S, that we all carry inside of all of our living parts, is the single thought of the Father. And we’re born with that. That’s all that we need to remember. That’s all that we forget. But when we’re in ego, we’re part of the multifarious thought. We’re thinking anything but the Father. There is one of the second order powers for every one of the likenesses of the Fall. Whereas the likenesses are shadows of the Aeons, we second order powers are the true fractal fruit of Logos, and we bring life, consciousness, and the Holy Spirit of love into this fallen cosmos. Because we second order representations are fitted into the boundary that forms our cosmic ecology. We find ourselves bound in a relationship to the material of the deficiency. Since we are true fractal representations of the pleroma of Logos, we are a perfect match for every likeness of the shadow pleroma of Logos. We have a one-to-one relationship with the matter that forms our earthly bodies. And the illustrations on the slide depict the second order powers as green cells in a petri dish. So it’s a round space full of green cells, and I use that to represent all of us living second order powers. And then also on this slide is my picture of the shadows of the deficiency, and they’re little blue balls, very dark. It’s an almost black picture, very dark because they’re shadows. And it’s a circular space, the same size as the circular space of second order powers there on the left, the greens. They all have a boundary around them. That is the boundary that the Father threw up around the deficiency to keep it contained and to keep it in relationship to each other. Because when they fell, the shadows, the deficiency is not hierarchical. It’s everything for itself. It’s all egoic. And so in order for them to even have a semblance of working together, they have to be bound together in a boundary. So that’s what the boundary is. And then the third picture on this slide is the second order powers and the shadows of the deficiency together, smushed into one ecology, which happens to us when we are born into this material world. We are bonded temporarily to the shadows of the deficiency. And so it’s kind of a yin-yang symbol. I’ve got the greens rising and the shadows falling in a yin-yang circle. And that represents the never-ending war between material and ethereal, between virtue and vice, between life and death, between knowledge and ignorance. The stumbling, which happened to the Aeons of the Father of the Totalities who did not suffer, was brought to them as if it were their own in a careful and non-malicious and immensely sweet way. It was brought to the Totalities so they may be instructed about the defect by the single one, from whom alone they all receive strength to eliminate the defects. So the stumbling is the Fall of the Aeon logos. The Aeons of the Fullness were made aware of the situation in a careful, non-malicious, and immensely sweet way. Don’t you love those words? Which implies that there was no condemnation or wrath involved. You see, the God Above All Gods is not a wrathful God, the way Jehovah, for example, is in the Old Testament. The God Above All Gods does not torture people and send them to hell for eternity. The God Above All Gods is nothing but love. It’s all good. It’s all love. And so the knowledge of the Fall was brought to the Fullnesses. The Fullnesses, the Totalities, were informed of the Fall in this non-malicious and immensely non-judgmental sweet way. The passage says “the Aeons were made aware of the deficiency by the single one,” which is the Son, “who also gave them the strength needed to eliminate the defects.” All power comes from above. None of us can approach the Father. The Father is too great. The power is too great. We’d be fried in a second. So the Son is our intermediary. The Son is the only direct emanation from the Father, and he remains plugged into the Father. He’s swimming in that great sea. He is the bucket dipped into the sea of the Father. The Father is illimitable, but the Son is a monad, a singularity that encompasses all of the characteristics of the Father in one infinitely large space, but it’s still a contained space. And then from out of the Son came the Totalities of the All. And so I’ve got that picture directly underneath the Son. And I always picture the Son as a circular cloud of fog emerging out of the great unknown of the Father. And then as soon as it emerged, the Son immediately differentiated into all of its variabilities, into all of its component pieces. They all acted and thought as one. They were like spokes on a singular wheel. They had no self-identity, but they were the variabilities of the Son. The Son wears the All like a cloak, and the Totalities of the All wear the Son as a cloak. So they’re co-existent, you see? And then it was the Totalities of the All that became self-aware by giving glory to the Father and the Son. And once they became self-aware, they migrated into this hierarchical shape, this pyramid that we call the Fullness of God. And now at that point, they’re known as Aeons, because they each have a self-identity. They’ve got a position, a place, a duty, a name, and they’re stacked in this gigantic pyramidal shape. And then the Logos is the topper. He’s the crown on top. The one who ran on high, [Logos], became for the one who was defective, an intercessor with the emanation of the Aeons which had come into being, [that’s us, the second order], in accord with the things which exist. And the things which exist are the Totalities and the Aeons. The ethereal plane is considered all that exists. The Totalities of the All, the Aeons of the Fullness, the Father and the Son are the true things which exist. The shadows of the deficiency do not really exist. And at the end of time, they’re just simply going to evaporate. When the Demiurge returns home to the Fullness, there will be no more shadows. So “the one who ran on high became for the one who was defective, an intercessor.” You may wonder who exactly is “the one who was defective.” Well, this phrase can refer to both the Demiurge who fell and to us second order powers. We second order powers who have forgotten our true origin by engaging in the never-ending war with the deficiency have also become defective, like the Demiurge. Likewise, the defective one also refers to the Fallen ego of Logos, abandoned down below, whom we call the Demiurge, the agent of the Fall. By this time, in the Gnostic cosmogony, Logos would be praying for the redemption of both his fallen ego and the second order powers, fruited from his pleroma, both struggling in this material world. Indeed, the redemption of each of the second order powers will prove to be a fractal version of the redemption of the Demiurge. As above, so below. As below, so above. And now we’ve reached the point in the Gnostic cosmogony and ethereal history where the third order of powers is created. The third order of powers are the pleroma of the Christ that comes from the ethereal plane to redeem us, and along with us, the fallen thought of the Demiurge. There is a third order power for every one of us second order powers. And on this slide, I have illustrated the concept. The way I illustrate the Christ is a circular shape, again, like the Son, because the Son and the Christ, their names kind of get swapped there in Christianity so that the Son and the Christ are considered to be the same. Well, they’re very similar, but we see here that the Christ is a third order of power. The Christ is the same shape and size as the Son in my circular drawing, and it’s got that starburst of the Totalities of the All filling it and filling it with light. So it’s a lighted sphere as opposed to the Son that I illustrate as a gray fogginess. This is a lighted starburst that’s really quite beautiful. And then right next to that, I’ve got the image of the second order powers, us and all living creatures as that green petri dish of cells. And then next to that, I’ve got the shadows of the deficiency. But now I have created a brand new illustration just for this PowerPoint slide. And it is taking the Christ starburst type of image, and I have overlaid it on top of the second order powers in a transparency kind of way. So you can see the Christ sitting on top of and infusing the second order powers with the third order of powers. There’s a third order power for every one of the second order powers. It’s a one-to-one relationship. And it has to be, because the Christ redeems every second order power, redeems every part of us second order powers. In the Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, I used to refer to the Christ as the correcting algorithm. That’s the secular way of speaking of the Christ. The Christ brings perfection and correction to our broken code and our broken DNA strands. It’s all perfect again, as it was originally designed. When he prayed to them, they consented joyously and willingly, since they were in agreement and with harmonious consent to aid the defective one. They gathered together, asking the Father with beneficent intent that there be aid from above, from the Father, for his glory, since the defective one could not become perfect in any other way, unless it was the will of the pleroma of the Father, which he had drawn to himself, revealed, and given to the defective one. The All and the Hierarchy of the Aeons both constitute the pleroma of the Son who has become the Father. And in the Tripartite Tractate, you know, you have the originating Father, which is the God Above All Gods, but when the Son emerges as the Son, but then he differentiates into the Totalities and the Aeons of the Fullness, he is called the Father of the Aeons and the Father of the Totalities. So the Son is sometimes referred to as the Father and sometimes referred to as the Son and that can be confusing. So the All and the hierarchy of the Aeons both constitute the pleroma of the Son who has become the Father. The Aeons stepped up “joyously and willingly” with the thought of being helpful to the deficient ones by bringing awareness of the Father’s glory and love. We know that the originating source of consciousness is the illimitable Father, the God Above All Gods. The originating Father is beyond comprehension, even for the Aeons. The only entity capable of grasping the illimitable God Above All Gods is the Son of the Father, who contains within himself all of the traits of the Father. This is the Son who has a countenance, a face, because the Father wants to be known to his emanations through the Son. This is how we know that when these passages speak of the Father, they are actually referring to the Son who has become a Father to his emanations, because the Aeons are able to behold the countenance of their Father. By now we realize that when Aeons give glory together, they produce new emanations. This is how Aeons make new fruit. The last time this happened, all of the Aeons had emanated Logos as an image of their totality. Now they gathered together and all of them, including Logos, gave glory to the Pleroma of their Father with harmonious consent while concurrently asking the Father to help them bring aid to the defective one. The difference between this act of fruiting and the one that originally brought forth the Aeon named Logos was that Logos was fruited by the individual Fullnesses giving glory to the Father together. This time, the fruiting was the Fullnesses and the All giving glory alongside Logos while praying with specific intent for salvation to come to the deficiency. Then from the harmony in a joyous willingness which had come into being, they brought forth the fruit which was a begetting from the harmony, a unity, a possession of the Totalities, revealing the countenance of the Father of whom the Aeons thought as they gave glory and prayed for help for their brother with a wish in which the Father counted himself with them. Thus it was willingly and gladly that they brought forth the fruit. The Gnostic gospel calls this new fruit the Christ. The Pleroma of the Christ is the third order of powers endowed with more capabilities than the first and second orders because the Christ embodies the entirety of the All and the particularity of the consciousness of each of the individual Aeons of the Fullness, along with the full power of the Holy Spirit and the Son’s entire knowledge and remembrance of the ethereal plane. The first order of powers is the Aeons of the Fullness of God, that hierarchy. We are the second order of powers. This third order of powers is fully equipped to bring remembrance and redemption to the second order powers living in this fallen world and to the Demiurge. Not only did the Aeons generate the countenance of the Father to whom they gave praise, which was written previously, but also they generated their own. For the Aeons who give glory generated their countenance and their face. They were produced as an army for him, as for a king, since the beings of the thought have a powerful fellowship and an intermingled harmony. They came forth in a multifaceted form in order that the one to whom help was to be given might see those to whom he had prayed for help. He also sees the one who gave it to him. So you see, the third order powers bear the countenance of each and every one of us because we are the ones who are praying for help. And they also bear the countenance or the face of all of the Aeons that comprise the third order of powers. So we recognize that help is coming to us because it’s got our face on it. It’s a personal answer to prayer. The emanation of the Christ brings all of the knowledge, power, and glory of the God Above All Gods through its Son and the Totalities into creation. The Christ is now in the process of bringing this gnosis to all second order powers. There is a third order power for each and every second order power, and a second order power for each and every shadow of the Fall. All we need to do is allow the third order powers to take up residence within our individuated pleromas. In this manner, the gnosis and love of the Christ will displace the shadows and bring redemption to us and through us. This is the true mission of Christianity. And on this slide I’ve got an illustration of the Son, the Totalities of the All, the hierarchy of the Fullness of the Aeons, the Christ, and then lastly that new image of the Christ overlaying upon the second order powers. And then the lecture moved into what does this have to do with Jesus the anointed, and we’ll cover that next week because we’re at the end of our time for today. So what is all this talk of Christ, the Christ, which Christians don’t like Christ being called the Christ, you know. They believe that that differentiates us who believe in the Christ from those who believe in Christ, that we are worshipping a different God because we call it the Christ. I disagree with that. I think this is the nature of Christ. We’re simply describing it. And next week we’ll talk about Jesus the anointed and what Jesus has to do with the Christ. God bless us all, and onward and upward.

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack, and I’d like to welcome our new readers and listeners. What is the Antichrist? By definition, of course, the Antichrist would be the opposite of the Christ. So, before we understand the Antichrist, it would be helpful to understand what we can about the Christ. Christ, according to the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures, is composed of the Aeons of the Fullness, both in their aggregated entirety known as the Pleroma of the Fullness of God, or the hierarchy of the Fullness of God, along with their personal individual forms, which are the Aeons, the infinite infinity of variations of the Son that are called the Fullnesses or the Aeons or the Totalities. So the Christ is powered by the full force of the Holy Spirit, the Son, and the Fullness of God. The Christ has all the mojo of the ethereal plane. In order to restore memory, reason, and redemption to the second-order powers, the Aeons of the Fullness, every one of them individually and all of them collectively, gave glory in unison to their Father while praying for a helper to bring peace to the deficiency and forgiveness to Logos. Out of their focused prayer, a unique fruit emerged, one that contained all of the capabilities and powers of the Fullness along with all of the love and eternal qualities of the Father, and that is what we call Christ or the Christ. So here’s how the Tripartite Tractate describes the Christ. “They gathered together asking the Father with beneficent intent that there be aid from above from the Father for his glory, since the defective one could not become perfect in any other way unless it was the will of the Pleroma of the Father, which he had drawn to himself, revealed, and given to the defective one.” And the defective one, in this quote, has to do with the Demiurge that arose from the Aeon known as Logos. “Then from the harmony and a joyous willingness which came into being, they brought forth the fruit which was a begetting from the harmony, a unity, a possession of the Fullnesses, revealing the countenance of the Father of whom the Aeons thought as they gave glory and prayed for help for their brother with a wish in which the Father counted himself with them. Thus it was willingly and gladly that they brought forth the fruit. And he made manifest the agreement of the revelation of his union with them, which was his beloved Son. “But the Son in whom the Fullnesses are pleased put himself on them as a garment through which he gave perfection to the defective one and gave confirmation to those who are perfect, the one who is properly called Savior and the Redeemer and the Well-pleasing One and the Beloved and the One to Whom Prayers have been Offered and the Christ and the Light of those Appointed in Accordance with the Ones from Whom He was brought Forth, since he has become the names of the positions which were given him. Yet what other name may be applied to him except the Son, as we previously said, since he is the knowledge of the Father whom he wanted them to know.” This paragraph describes the fruit of the Aeons called the Christ, that he possesses all of the traits, that is the names of the positions and all of their characteristics, all of the virtues of all of the Aeons of the God Above All Gods, and all of that essentially adds up to the original Son of the Father that came directly from the Father. So the Son and Christ aren’t exactly the same because the Christ was created later than the Son. However, the Son and the Christ share the same characteristics, so by this time it is the Son. That’s kind of confusing, but they are different entities because they were created in different ways. The Son is directly emanated from the Father itself, from the original consciousness. The Son is the monad version of the otherwise illimitable Father. But the Christ is the Fullness of God, both as the Fullness itself and the individual Aeons that had differentiated out of the Son, all rolled up together, with the blessing of the Father. So it’s a slightly different character, yet they do have all the characteristics. So I can see why the Tripartite Tractate finally rolls it up into saying, you might as well say, it’s the Son. And this is interesting about the Christ. “Not only did the Aeons generate the countenance of the Father to whom they gave praise, but they also generated their own. For the Aeons who give glory generated their countenance and their face. They were produced as an army for him, as for a king, since the beings of the thought have a powerful fellowship and an intermingled harmony.” And by the way, we’re talking about the Fullness of God. We’re talking about the hierarchy of the Fullness of God and all the Aeons, the infinite number of Aeons that dwell in the Fullness of God. And so when the Christ was formed, he came forth not simply as Jesus Christ with the face of Jesus. He came with the face of every single Aeon of the Fullness of God. So he’s a composite individual, whereas the Son is actually a singularity, at least in the beginning, before he differentiates into the Fullness. But the Christ stays a multiplicity rolled up into one. All is one. That’s the difference between the Son and the Christ. The Son is One and stays One and then differentiates later. But the Christ comes in as all of the differentiations, plus the Son, plus the blessing of the Father. The Aeons of the Fullness are known as the First Order of Powers. We living creatures are the Second Order of Powers. The Army of the Christ is the Third Order of Powers. Because of the fractal nature of all things, “as above, so below,” there is not only a Third Order Power for every First Order Power—the Aeons that comprise the Fullness of God—there is a Third Order Power for every Second Order Power. These Third Order Powers overlay us Second Order of Powers when we repent and are redeemed. Redemption is the maneuver that installs the Third Order of Powers within our souls, bringing the remembrance of the Father, love, and error correction to us living creatures. So what is the Antichrist then? The Antichrist is the shadow of Christ. The pleroma of the Antichrist mirrors the Third Order pleroma of Christ. Christ and Antichrist The Antichrist is not alive. We know that because it arises from the Fall and therefore it is not infused with the light and life of the Pleroma, the Father, and the Son. Nor is it Aeonic, as it is not considered a fruit of the Pleroma. So it cannot express Aeonic traits, such as the various facets of love known as virtues, nor operate through the cooperative nature we call the Simple Golden Rule. There are many episodes devoted to the virtues and to the Simple Golden Rule. So if you go to GnosticInsights.com and do a search in there, well, just read through all the titles of the assembled podcasts that are all living there. See, in your podcast host, you’ve only got the latest. But if you go to the homepage, Gnostic Insights, they’re all there. So you can go back to the beginning of the podcast and catch up with us that way. The Antichrist arises after the Fall, and so it does not recognize the hierarchical structure built upon the harmony of the Fullness. In place of that harmony, the Antichrist operates through the application of power, and its only goal is power. The Antichrist does not know the hierarchy of the Fullness, nor does it come from their assigned roles and places. Lacking the Pleroma’s cooperative design, the Antichrist exists in a state of perpetual disturbance driven by self-centered ambition. Now, this is all the same as the description of the Demiurge at this point, because the Antichrist is like his head henchman. See, he’s the Antichrist. He’s the inverse of the Christ. So if the Christ is the savior of all of us second-order powers because we’ve forgotten the goal and we’ve been estranged from the love of God, the Christ brings back the correction, the correcting algorithm, I like to say, to our original programming. But the Antichrist then would be bringing the Demiurge’s anti-life, anti-consciousness, anti-free will, anti-virtue programming of the Demiurge. The Antichrist and the imitations of the Fullness that exist as a result of the Fall, that would be the imitations and the deficiencies, the archons, are only interested in, “exalting themselves in lust for dominion, each one of them according to the magnitude of the name of which he is a shadow, fantasizing that he would become greater than his fellows.” (Tripartite Tractate, verse 79). So these phantoms all represent values contrary to the originals of the Fullness. They’re the inverse of the virtues. Those of the imitation give rise to, “fighters, warriors, troublemakers, rebels, and other such disobedient types driven by the will to dominate.”  (Tripartite Tractate, verse 80) The Antichrist is therefore some sort of ungodly expression of the material universe. Again, by definition, its goal would be to block the mission of the Christ, placing itself as the rightful alternative to the redemption and salvation of the Christ. Now we know the mission of the Christ is to restore the fallen Logos, who is now the Demiurge, by reminding the fallen Aeon and those under its control, (which would be the archons), of the gnosis of the originating Father and the Pleroma of the hierarchy. So the Antichrist, as the inverse of Christ’s mission, would encourage us to forget about the Father above and the Holy Spirit that infuses life. We would also be encouraged to forget that we are second-order powers sent from the Pleroma above to do battle against the Fall. And the way the second-order powers were designed to do battle against the Fall isn’t by anger or violence. It’s by love. The only way you can disarm hatred, rage, violence, fear, is with love. You can’t reason it there. You can’t bully it there. You can’t make laws to force it to be there. The only way you can do it is to love them. And when they see your love, they will be reminded of the Father. We are the emissaries of love, and that is the armament by which we are supposed to do battle. It’s our Aeonic duty to stand against vice in favor of virtue. So whenever you allow temptation to take you down a road of vice rather than a virtuous path, you are enabling the Antichrist. You are enabling the archons in the Demiurge. You’re making them stronger. You become part of the problem. That’s why it’s important to be virtuous and to be loving, charitable, forgiving. That’s the only way we can win the hearts of those who have fallen. The Antichrist would encourage us to operate according to our ego’s desire to place ourselves at the center of the universe rather than following the will of the Father. And whereas the Christ contains and mirrors every aspect of the Father and the Son, the Antichrist mirrors every aspect of the Demiurge created from the Fall away from the Pleroma. Therefore, the Antichrist is an imitation and an inversion of the original Fullness of the Aeons broken out of the hierarchy of cooperation and infused with isolated striving for power and domination rather than the glory of unity and a joyful willingness to help others. The Antichrist serves the needs of the Demiurge rather than the will of the Father. In the name of peace, it brings war. Instead of prosperity, it brings dependency. Instead of free will, it mandates conformity. Now, historically, many have nominated the Catholic Pope as the Antichrist as he appears to displace Christ as God’s messenger and Redeemer. The big one that’s making the rounds now, of course, is many people think that President Trump is the Antichrist. Elon Musk could be the Antichrist because all of the artificial intelligence that he’s leaning towards and the brain implants and the global communication served by one singular source. George Soros, that’s another good nominee, in my opinion. So could Bill Gates also be considered a nominee for the Antichrist, because the Antichrist always comes as a do-gooder, and he wins the hearts of people by doing tremendously good deeds and big works, big gigantic works that are almost unhuman, and they would be if he’s actually the Antichrist. But the gnostic interpretation would be that none of these humans can actually be the Antichrist because humans are Second Order Powers and the Antichrist is a shadow figure—the shadow of Christ. The Antichrist is a demiurgic power, not a human. Sure, someone could favor the Antichrist and invite its powers to rule them, but the human is not the Antichrist. In 1951, a very popular figure in religion, Catholic Bishop Fulton Sheen, said, “The Antichrist will not be so called, otherwise he would have no followers. He will come disguised as the great humanitarian. He will talk peace, prosperity, and plenty, not as a means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves. He will tempt Christians with the same three temptations with which he tempted Christ. He will have one great secret which he will tell to no one. He will not believe in God, because his religion will be brotherhood without the fatherhood of God. He will deceive even the elect. He will set up a counter church. It will have all the notes and characteristics of the church, but in reverse, and emptied of its divine content. It will be a mystical body of the Antichrist that will, in all externals, resemble the mystical body of the Christ.” And that was from Sheen’s book, Communism and the Conscience of the West.  The three temptations of Christ referred to by Sheen are, one, seeking our own satisfaction rather than God’s will. Two, manipulating God’s will in order to achieve personal gain, power, and glory. And three, to ultimately believe we deserve to be Gods. Now, while I agree that powerful humans reflect the spirit of the Antichrist, I don’t think that the Antichrist will be found in a singular human being, but rather as a dark spirit arising from the Fall. I’m inclined to nominate the Demiurge itself as the father of the Antichrist. It seems to me, likely, then, that the Antichrist is a fractal vibration that reinforces the Antichrist mission across all times, places, and people. As the Demiurge is the maker of heaven and earth, it is certainly within its power to flood our cosmos with ever-increasing delusions designed to lull us into the three temptations of Christ in the most pleasant possible way. This age that we live in is rife with narcissism. Narcissism is the self-centered, ego-driven belief that puts our desires ahead of others’ needs and desires. The narcissist does not reach out to others with aid and information for the betterment of all. The narcissist only pursues their own agenda. That this is a narcissistic age should take no convincing to any of you out there, right? We can all see it. Selfies, exercise machines that mirror ourselves as we work out, the often-repeated phrase, you deserve this, used to sell us everything from juicy hamburgers to universal government programs, all speak to our ego’s need for comfort and power at all cost. Indeed, it would seem that our narcissistic egos, when given their full, unbridled reign, blossom into the spirit of the Antichrist. So there is no singular Antichrist human, but as many Antichrist as there are fully blossomed egos. The Antichrist is to be found within the often-repeated mantra that we can take care of each other and build a better tomorrow without God. That more and more powerful governmental and corporate entities will satisfy our needs and give us that paradise on earth that will dispel hunger, climate change, poverty, and inequality, for the betterment of all. That we can live forever through technological manipulation. That we deserve everything we desire—kinkier sex, fancier food, stronger drugs, more stuff dropped on our porches by Amazon. That these are the things that will make us happy, that this will bring us fulfillment. No, that is exactly the spirit of the Antichrist. I went to the website called Christianity.com, and I’m looking at their article on the Antichrist, and they have several points that describe the Antichrist. I’ll hit them real fast here. In 2 Thessalonians, Paul describes the Antichrist this way, “He will oppose and will exalt himself over everything that is called God or is worshiped, so that he sets himself up in God’s temple, proclaiming himself to be God.” Now putting himself in the temple doesn’t have to be literal. The temple represents the Ten Commandments. It represents the Ark of the Covenant. It represents orthodoxy and prayer. And so putting himself in the temple is like saying that the Antichrist is establishing himself in the place of God’s law. In the book of Revelation, the Antichrist is referred to as the beast. That’s Revelation chapter 13. The beast emerges from the sea, symbolizing chaos and evil, and is given power by the dragon representing Satan. The beast’s reign is marked by blasphemy against God, persecution of the saints, and a relentless quest for global domination. The prophet Daniel provided a glimpse into the nature of Antichrist in Daniel, chapter 7, describing him as a boastful king. This king speaks against the Most High, oppresses the holy people, and seeks to change set times and laws. Daniel’s vision emphasizes the arrogance and audacity of the Antichrist, highlighting his efforts to undermine God’s order and authority. Okay, this must be where they’re getting the Trump accusation from. But the odd thing is that the people in general that are accusing Trump of being the Antichrist, well, they’re not all that worried about undermining God’s order and God’s authority. They want to set up a unitary control system, so they’re already in the pocket of the Demiurge, for the most part. Daniel 7 verse 8 says the Antichrist is portrayed as a little horn with a mouth that speaks boastfully. This imagery signifies his initial insignificance, but eventual rise to power. Daniel 7 verse 25 says he will speak against the Most High and oppress his holy people, and try to change the set times and the laws. The holy people will be delivered into his hands for a time. I just have to laugh at people who are saying that Trump is the Antichrist, because that would put them to be the holy people. And obviously, they think of themselves as the holy people. It’s a holy crusade. The left versus right, it’s a holy crusade. But if you’ve been with us for a while, you realize that these holy crusades are a yin-yang situation. They’re perfectly balanced. It’s the never-ending war. Neither side can claim righteousness, because they have both entered into the war, and that never-ending war is a game that the Demiurge plays. The Antichrist will be powerful and perform miracles. These miraculous acts are meant to authenticate his false claims and persuade many to follow him. Okay, well, here’s where the Elon Musk type of accusation could be made, because Musk does incredible things, and he’s changing technology from retro-engineering captured spaceships, or wherever the heck he’s getting his ideas from. In 1 Kings 18:38, it says that by replicating the miracles performed by the prophet Elijah in the Old Testament, the Antichrist seeks to present himself as a powerful prophet or a divine figure. In Revelation 13:3, the beast receives a fatal wound, but is miraculously healed, astounding the world and leading people to worship him. And the Antichrist performs other miraculous signs. 2 Thessalonians 2:9 says that all sorts of “displays of power through signs and wonders” suggest a variety of miracles, not specified in detail, but intended to awe and deceive the masses. Okay, and speaking of awing and deceiving the masses, have you seen those new 3D holographic projections that don’t require any screen to be projected on now? I saw gigantic whales swimming through the sky. That’s a weird thing to see. So we have that technology right now in the form of AI and holographic projections combined, virtual reality, enough to fool even the elect, if that were possible, as it says in the New Testament. Ultimately, the Antichrist will persecute Christians in particular, attempting to extinguish their faith and loyalty to God. And this phase of persecution will be marked by intense suffering, oppression, and a systematic effort to undermine and destroy the Christian faith. Now that is currently going on in other nations. It’s not going on in the United States, but it does go on in Africa, where thousands, I heard the other day that 65,000 Christians had been slaughtered in one of these African nations, and I forget which one. So these are systematic efforts to undermine and destroy the Christian faith by killing the Christians. So that is not a holy act, that is a demiurgic act, or a satanic act, or an Antichrist act. And then during that period that’s called the Tribulation, in Revelations 13:7, the Apostle John’s vision says, “it was given power,” that is, the Antichrist “was given power to wage war against God’s holy people and to conquer them. And it was given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.” And so it’s a global authority and power, which we’re coming into that stage right now. Particularly if we succumb to this idea of universal digital IDs, and then you top it off with changing from actual money that you can hand to people to digital Bitcoin type of money, well then that will be the, in my opinion, the entry into the age of the Tribulation, because there will be no resistance possible. Everything will be controlled. It’s all about power and dominion. It’s not about making things better. It’s not about making people richer, or healthier, or happier. It’s about power and dominion. So it’ll be a very dark age, the Tribulation. We will be persecuted and put to death and hated by all nations, and turned over for torture and death. But the good news is that the Christ will then come. See, that’s what the whole Armageddon thing is about, that the actual Christ comes with the army of Christ and overpowers the Antichrist, because Christ has all the mojo to do so. The Antichrist only arises from the Demiurge, and it never had the power of the ethereal plane. But apparently it’s going to be this period of Tribulation, this final Armageddon, not to kill off the followers of the Antichrist, or to kill and torture them, instead of them killing and torturing us. It’s to show them love. So I think that when Christ comes with the army of Christ, they’re just going to love everybody. They’re going to love everybody. And the battles that are being fought will lay down their arms. They will give up, because they’d rather be in love, and they will see the truth of God. Because He’s going to come so that none can deny Him. The Christ will make Himself manifest, and everyone will be able to see Him. And everyone then will feel the love of Christ, and it won’t just be a mythological claim. Okay, tell me what you think of these ideas. I’d love to hear what you think of the Antichrist, or who you would nominate. Or if you think I’m off track on something, tell me what you think is the right answer to these questions. Until next week, God bless us all, and onward and upward. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Name *FirstLastEmail *Stripe Credit Card *Choose your item *Item A - $10.00Item B - $25.00Item C - $50.00Total$0.00Submit

This is the lecture I delivered to my adult education class this week. It caused quite a stir. One dedicated atheist dropped the class at this point in a huff. It seems that the class is quite alright discussing gnostic concepts in the abstract, but when it comes down to Earth, then it gets real. Suddenly it’s a war between science and religion. The part that ticked off some of the students was demonstrating conscious life within the cells. In other words, consciousness comes down to the cellular level and then levels up through intelligent design to become us through cell division and differentiation. This slide show has three embedded YouTube videos. The links within the pdf are not active, so I have included them here at the top of this transcript. Note that the Harvard biologist who narrates the first video is personifying consciousness within the cellular proteins. This is not an accident of language, but demonstrates that even biologists ascribe consciousness to these proteins although they would be loathe to admit it. Note that there is a pulldown bar immediately next to the images so you can proceed through the entire lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp6qRNNGPj4&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJyUtbn0O5Y&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGPflE5eHrU&t=2s Second Order powers– the new pleroma ofDownload

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week we’re going to review the relationship between fractal consciousness and the outflow of consciousness through Logos and the Aeons, and how the consciousness of Logos led to the Fall. I’ll be reading several verses from the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi books. If you are new to Gnostic Insights, don’t worry about grasping everything I say. Just listen and go with the flow. The gnosis will reveal itself, so relax. AEONS “Each one of the aeons is a name, <that is>, each of the properties and powers of the Father, since he exists in many names, which are intermingled and harmonious with one another.  It is possible to speak of him because of the wealth of speech, just as the Father is a single name, because he is a unity, yet is innumerable in his properties and names…” The Aeons of the Fullness of God became self-aware by the giving of praise and glory to the Father. This giving of glory is not for God’s benefit, but for the Aeon’s benefit. It gave them a righteous task to perform alongside their neighbors, which brought them to self-awareness and gave each of them a unique identity. The Aeons are innumerable because they reflect the totality of an infinite consciousness. “… the aeon of the Truth, since it is a unity and multiplicity, receives honor in the small and the great names according to the power of each to grasp it – by way of analogy – like a spring which is what it is, yet flows into streams and lakes and canals and branches, or like a root spread out beneath trees and branches with its fruit, or like a human body, which is partitioned in an indivisible way into members of members, primary members and secondary, great and small.” LOGOS The final Aeon that was produced as an emanation of the Pleroma of the Fullness arose by all of the Aeons giving glory together. The Fullness thus produced a final Aeon whom the Tripartite Tractate calls by the name Logos. Because Logos was produced through the entirety of the Pleroma giving glory as one, this Aeon possessed within itself all of the characteristics of the entire Pleroma. This youngest Aeon carried within itself all of the traits of every other Aeon, perfect and complete. This was a very talented Aeon resembling the Son of God himself, who also carried all of the traits of the Aeons within its singular self. This final Aeon was named Logos, because he was also endowed with the ability to reason thoughtfully and to figure things out in a step-by-step manner. The word Logos in Greek means reason. “This aeon was among those to whom was given wisdom, so that he could become pre-existent in each one’s thought. By that which he wills, will they be produced. Therefore, he received a wise nature in order to examine the hidden basis, since he is a wise fruit…” All of the Aeons have free will, because the Father has free will and everything that emanates from the Father carries the attributes of the Father. The Tripartite Tractate says, “for, the free will which was begotten with the Totalities was a cause for this one,” (this one being Logos), “such as to make him do what he desired, with no one to restrain him.” “This aeon was last to have <been> brought forth by mutual assistance, and he was small in magnitude,” [referring, I think, to this concept of fractal iterations…] “In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension. Many fractals appear similar at various scales, as illustrated in successive magnifications of the Mandelbrot set. This exhibition of similar patterns at increasingly smaller scales is called self-similarity, also known as expanding symmetry or unfolding symmetry; if this replication is exactly the same at every scale, as in the Menger sponge, the shape is called affine self-similar.” [wikipedia] The construction of a Menger sponge can be described as follows: Begin with a cube. Divide every face of the cube into nine squares in a similar manner to a Rubik’s Cube. This sub-divides the cube into 27 smaller cubes. Remove the smaller cube in the middle of each face and remove the smaller cube in the center of the larger cube, leaving 20 smaller cubes. This is a level 1 Menger sponge (resembling a void cube). Repeat steps two and three for each of the remaining smaller cubes and continue to iterate ad infinitum. The second iteration gives a level 2 sponge, the third iteration gives a level 3 sponge, and so on. The Menger sponge itself is the limit of this process after an infinite number of iterations. The reason we’re talking about fractals is because consciousness is a fractal. Consciousness rolls out from the Father very much in the manner of any other fractal, where you have the Father’s consciousness to begin with, and then it keeps dividing, dividing, dividing, dividing. It eventually winds up in us, in a fractal matter. And so we carry all of the attributes of the original pattern of the Father. We are fractals of the Father. The Aeons are fractals of the Father. Logos carried within himself fractals of the Father. THE FALL “The intent, then, of the Logos, who is this one, was good. When he had come forth, he gave glory to the Father, even if it led to something beyond possibility, since he had wanted to bring forth one who is perfect, from an agreement in which he had not been, and without having the command.” “And before he begot anything else for the glory of the will and in agreement with the Totalities, he acted, magnanimously, from an abundant love, and set out toward that which surrounds the perfect glory…” Thomassen translates the word “magnanimously” in the scripture above as “presumptuously.” “And before he had yet produced anything to the glory of the Will and in the union of the members of the ALL, he acted presumptuously, out of an overflowing love, and rushed forward toward that which surrounds the realm of perfect glory.” Given that translation, the movement that resulted in the Fall was presumptuous thought, which is a pretty good synonym for Ego. Yet the intention of Logos was good. The Tripartite Tractate is unique in its gentle assessment of not blaming Logos for the Fall.  The book says that this act of disobedience by Logos was within the will of the Father after all, and it was necessary to usher in an organization that needed to come forth “for the revelation of the Fullness.” The Tripartite Tractate says,  “for it was not without the will of the Father that the Logos was produced, which is to say, not without it will he go forth. But he, the Father, had brought him forth for those about whom he knew that it was fitting that they should come into being” So what that passage just said is that Logos, with that capability of acting on his own through will and reaching for the Father and instigating the Fall, was actually within the will of the Father after all. But it was like a secret. Because the Father brought Logos forth. The Father made Logos with all of the capabilities in order to bring us into being. So this was a necessary step. The Fall was a necessary step to usher in materiality out of the ethereal beings. The Father knew what would happen and the Father found it fitting that Logos should be conceived as he was and take the action that he did. The Father knew that this was the path that would lead to material creation—the economy that was to come— “so that the things which have come to be might become an organization which would come into being.” What these verses are saying is the Fall of Logos was needed in order to create the next generation of fractals of the Aeons. This next generation of fractal iterations of the consciousness of the Father, the Son, and the Fullness would come into being in order that the Fullness would be revealed through them. We could say that it is through the Fruit that came from the Fullness into Fall that a new material Hierarchy of God on Earth was created. Logos doubtless thought he was going to instantiate Paradise with his Egoic act. What came instead was a Fall from the Fullness and the first experience of estrangement from the Father. This, then, is the gnostic version of the original Fall, a movement of Ego away from reason, logic, interdependence, duty, and place, which led to the creation of this material universe. You may wonder why we spend time figuring out things that happened so long ago that our universe wasn’t even created yet. The reason is because of that oft-repeated maxim: as above, so below. Logos may have been the first to let his Ego lead him astray but he was certainly not the last. ARCHONS “The Logos himself caused it to happen, being complete and unitary, for the glory of the Father, whom he desired, and (he did so) being content with it, but those whom he wished to take hold of firmly he begot in shadows and copies and likenesses. For, he was not able to bear the sight of the light, but he looked into the depth and he doubted. Out of this there was a division – he became deeply troubled – and a turning away because of his self-doubt and division, forgetfulness and ignorance of himself and <of that> which is.” “Like the Pleromas are the things which came into being from the arrogant thought, which are their (the Pleromas’) likenesses, copies, shadows, and phantasms, lacking reason and the light, these which belong to the vain thought, since they are not products of anything. Therefore, their end will be like their beginning: from that which did not exist (they are) to return once again to that which will not be…” “They thought of themselves that they are beings existing by themselves and are without a source, since they do not see anything else existing before them. Therefore, they lived in disobedience and acts of rebellion, without having humbled themselves before the one because of whom they came into being. They wanted to command one another, overcoming one another in their vain ambition, while the glory which they possess contains a cause of the system which was to be.” With the introduction of the Archons of the Imitation we begin to see human nature emerging. When humans act outside of the will of the Father and the Fullness and center themselves on egoic dominance, they replicate the Archons’ striving for power and control. And yet, the remnant of glory they retain through the ego of Logos still possesses the fractal formula of the Fullness, making it possible for the Demiurge to create the cosmos. “They are likenesses of the things which are exalted. They were brought to a lust for power in each one of them, according to the greatness of the name of which each is a shadow, each one imagining that it is superior to his fellows.” “The one whom he himself brought forth as a unitary Aeon rushed up to that which is his, and this kin of his in the Pleroma abandoned him who came to be in the defect along with those who had come forth from him in an imaginary way, since they are not his.” THE BOUNDARY As Logos retreated to its own in the Fullness, the Father placed a Boundary around the area containing that which had been produced as a consequence of the Fall. The purpose of this Boundary was to separate finitude from infinity, ignorance from truth, and light from darkness. The Boundary Another essential purpose of the Boundary was to establish an “economy” for a system about to unfold. And economy is another word for an ecology. Things have to be in relationship to one another in order to be able to work with one another. So the boundary was required to be put around the fallen bits, the shadows, the imitations of the Pleroma of Logos. They were put inside of a bounded space in order to push them together so that the ecology might be established. “The Father and the Totalities drew away from him, so that the limit which the Father had set might be established – for it is not from grasping the incomprehensibility but by the will of the Father, – and furthermore, (they withdrew) so that the things which have come to be might become an organization which would come into being. If it were to come, it would not come into being by the manifestation of the Pleroma. Therefore, it is not fitting to criticize the movement which is the Logos, but it is fitting that we should say about the movement of the Logos that it is a cause of an organization which has been destined to come about.” The Boundary Contains Chaos We can think of this Boundary as a bubble containing our universe. You can picture these chaotic imitations as quantum foam. Quantum foam is the lowest level of instantiation in this universe of ours, and quantum foam is characterized by randomness and chaos. It does not work together. It is popping in and out of the universe, constantly producing matter and anti-matter that cancel out and destroy each other. Consequently nothing is building; nothing is able to reach out to level up. They lack the Golden Rule of cooperation because they came from the Fall rather than from the Fullness. The Fullness of God The Simple Golden Rule requires units of consciousness to work together with their neighbors to share information, assistance, and loving coherence on a single project that benefits ALL. This results in the hierarchical configuration because cooperation always results in the higher the fewer. Archons cannot level up. It requires conscious control to replicate the Golden Rule. Archons do not have consciousness. They are programs. THE RISE OF THE DEMIURGE The Demiurge went about organizing this universe out of the quantum foam: “over those who belong to the likeness, he set the word of beauty, so that he might bring them into a form.” The Demiurge, by the way, is the ego of Logos that was left behind in the Fall. Logos himself, his unitary self, beat it back up to the fullness as quickly as he could. And he abandoned the results of the Fall, because he couldn’t bring order to the Fall. What he abandoned down below was that overreaching ego that caused the Fall in the first place. That ego takes on the name of the Demiurge. It’s the ego of Logos that controls the matter that has been formed by the Fall. At first the Demiurge established energetic waves, then subatomic particles followed by atomic particles. Everything according to “the higher, the fewer” pattern. The particles combine to make atoms; the atoms combine to make molecules; the molecules combine make elements; the elements combine to make minerals and the aggregations of minerals, and that is the limit of the God of this universe. The Demiurge can only level up to the mineral level. All of the hard, rocky places in our material universe are the handiwork of the Demiurge. The Demiurge keeps chaos at bay by forbidding free will in his subjects We don’t come from the Demiurge; the Demiurge is only in charge of the material universe. The Demiurge is in charge of the mud, the material, the hard rocky places–at the small scale the dirt and the elements, and at the large scale the rocky planets and the stars in the heavens. If there are creatures on a planet, they coat the outside of the dead rocky planet. Life only comes from the Father. Life is top-down. Death is bottom-up. Mud Up I hope you got something out of this episode. God bless us all, and onward and upward! watch the neat video below of zooming in to the Mandlebrot set! https://www.youtube.com/shorts/XbDusuz9wfU

We recently had an episode called Synchronicities, broadcast on September 13th of 2025. In that episode I reviewed a Why Files episode about synchronicities and shared some amazing synchronicities that look like coincidences, but they’re just too precise to be coincidental. They give an indication of this very strange nature of the universe that we live in, and in that episode we discussed how the quantum mechanics of this universe at the quantum level seem to explain how these amazing synchronicities occur. In the synchronicities episode, I talked about one of the funny things about quantum mechanics—that whenever someone looks at an object in a scientific experiment at the subatomic level, peering into the subatomic level through their experiment, it is said that “observation collapses potential” and makes the reality. This is because before we observe something, it exists in a state of what is called superposition.  Remember, at the subatomic level there’s no such thing as particles. It’s all waves and probabilities. It’s more like a blur, and it doesn’t stop spinning through all of its possibilities until it is observed and then, at that point in time, when it is observed, it stops being a blur of all possible positions and it collapses into one position, solely through the process of being observed by a watchful consciousness. Another strange aspect of quantum mechanics is known as quantum entanglement. This is when two—and it’s not even right to call them objects or particles because they’re not, there is no material reality, it’s all waves and probabilities and forces—when two such subatomic objects have a relationship with each other, no matter how far the space is between them, then when one of them is observed in an experiment, and it stops its superpositional blur at that moment in time, landing on a particular way of being or way of appearing, then the object it is entangled with also collapses at the same exact moment, even though it’s not the one that’s being observed. Furthermore, this entangled “collapse” is instantaneous—faster than light. Quantum Mechanical entanglement at a distance Not only that, but balance is always occurring throughout the universe, because when one entangled thing collapses in a spin right direction, for example, its entangled partner collapses as spin left. Or when one photon, for example, moves vertically, its polarized partner moves horizontally. In this manner, the universe remains balanced and symmetrical. You can think of it this way: imagine two entangled quanta were a pair of gloves spinning so fast you couldn’t tell which was right and which was left. Once you observe object A to be a the right glove then object B instantly becomes a left glove. If the same object A had been observed to be the left glove, object B would have instantly become the right glove. And before observation, both gloves were simultaneously right and left, left and right, both states at once. Now let us think about this with some gnostic logic. We say that the mind of God is the ground state of all of the consciousness. Another way of saying this is that consciousness permeates every corner of everywhere—both on the ethereal plane and down here on the material plane. So, if observation affects quanta, then quanta are being observed all of the time by the mind of God. It is this Godly observation that holds the cosmos in its balanced physical state. This is how entangled quanta can affect their partners instantaneously. There is no distance or time in the ethereal realm and all of creation is held in steady state within the mind of God, so this is how and why a quark that is observed by a human is instantly balanced with its entangled partner, even if it is on the other side of the universe. In that Synchronicities episode, we talked about quantum field meditation—visualizing potential and then collapsing it into reality. Let’s say that you are moved to want something good for you that’s within God’s will. According to the quantum field meditation as discussed in the Why Files episode, your intentional desire and focus is said to collapse that intention into reality. Quantum field meditation visualizes the potential and, “collapses it” into reality. That’s what happens in healing meditations. You intentionally visualize getting well and it eventually heals the part of you that’s broken. Setting clear intentions is the first step. Quoting from the Why Files’ episode: “every nanosecond, infinite decisions are being made that cause the infinite possibilities to collapse into this one reality. But you can learn to influence the outcome of all those decisions. You can alter your small corner of reality.” My brother Bill and I had a follow-up conversation last week about that concept. He had come to the realization that there is no “collapse” in the sense that the superpositional blur changes into a static object. What is actually happening is that in our cherry jello universe, one reality is arrived at, and the others are not chosen. It all has to do with free will and choice. In the cherry jello universe, what we have been calling observation to collapse potentiality is actually us arriving at a particular cherry and choosing it through free will. Picture these cherries as completely filling the universal space with all possible worlds, already existing. A gnostic insight concerning this is that all possible outcomes already exist in the infinite mind of the Father, and it is our free will that chooses one course or one outcome over another. We’re not collapsing anything. The quanta is not stopping its superposition. What is happening is that we are choosing one cherry over another. For example, the scientist’s observation chooses the cherry that spins right instead of left, so to speak. And something that A.J. had talked about in that Why Files episode on synchronicities–and again, go back to my episode on synchronicities if you haven’t read or heard it yet –the universe is filled with choices. It’s not filled with particles. It’s not filled with stuff. It’s filled with choice points, conscious choices, and they’re already there because our God is an infinite God, and it takes infinity to be able to hold all possible choices that could ever possibly happen. As I say, it’s the many worlds theory, but there aren’t many worlds. You don’t need parallel universes or parallel dimensions for these things to happen, like we often see in science fiction or people’s theories. It’s all contained in this one infinity that is the mind of God, and it is our intention to head for a choice, a particular potential, and to find that potential. Quantum theory calls that collapsing the potential, but it isn’t really collapsing, it’s that a choice cherry has been arrived at. You’re choosing a particular outcome. You’re choosing this rather than that, and it’s the choice that makes what quantum physicists call collapse. In the cherry jello universe, our consciousness is swimming through an infinite sea of choices, and every moment of the day we make one choice rather than a different choice, and that is the path of our choices as we swim through the cherry jello of life. The other choice is still sitting there in that infinity of unused or uncollapsed potentials, but once you make a choice by setting an intention and you arrive at that intentional outcome, the cherry that’s already waiting there in your mind is the so-called collapse, but the other uncollapsed choices are still there. Does that make sense to you? It’s a completely different way of looking at quantum superposition and collapse. Nothing’s collapsing. The blur of potential is still there. What the scientist arrives at is one cherry and the infinity of other cherries are still sitting there, because the mind of God holds all possibilities. It is free will that decides the outcome. Now, speaking of swimming toward cherries, one of the aspects of that Why Files episode that I didn’t have time to get to in our previous discussion of it was the vision board. A.J., the host of Why Files, strongly recommended setting up a vision board and then putting pictures or words, clipping things out of magazines or printing things off your computer, of the cherries you wish to swim to, is how I’d put it. So, I have started a vision board. There are only two things on it now because I’ve been so busy I haven’t been able to get along with setting up my vision board fully. But what I have on there so far is a picture of my gnostic cyber fiction screenplay becoming a motion picture, and to that end, one of the reasons I’ve been so crazy busy the past few weeks is because I’ve been working on that screenplay. The other thing I have on my vision board is a description of an old Econoline van with what one of our listeners says is the best engine ever built. He recommended it as a possibility for my cherry of a book tour. Well, I wrote down all those notes and I’m walking around with this note in my hand and thinking, how do I file this? Where do I put this note about what RV to buy? I’m afraid if I file it away, it’s going to be filed away, and then when I wonder,  what was that van I was supposed to buy? I wouldn’t be able to find it again. So I finally realized as I’m holding this piece of paper in my hand with the notes about the RV—aha! The vision board. So I taped the note onto the vision board and now I have two strong intentions sitting on that vision board and every time I walk past it, I see those intentions which, in this quantum meditation way of thinking of things, causes me to be swimming in the direction of those particular cherries. I must admit, it all sounds kind of silly to me. I’ve heard of vision boards for years and I’ve never tried to put one into practice because I just didn’t understand how it would work, how such a thing is possible, until that episode about synchronicities and then my brother’s discussion with me this week about the philosophy of choice and free will. Because it’s all driven by free will and it’s our choice. It’s not going to magically appear because it’s taped to a vision board. It’s my intention that it should come about that causes me to be moving in that direction. The day after I recorded that Synchronicities episode, I was reading a daily devotional called The Word for You Today that is mailed out by the Christian radio station I listen to. And the first four articles of encouragement in this quarter’s Word for You Today, September 1st through 4th, is about faith. And as I read the discussion of faith and how your faith can produce results, I recognized that it’s what we’ve been talking about. This is the Christian version or the Biblical perspective on quantum intention meditation. It’s a different way of looking at the word faith that I never thought of before and I wouldn’t have even noticed it except for our discussion on quantum intention. When people talk about faith it’s usually a gigantic concept, right? Usually it stands for the ideology you believe in. I have faith in God. I have faith in Jesus Christ. It’s my ideology to hold certain beliefs. My faith is part of my Gnostic Christian meme bundle. But faith, as explained in The Word For You Today is “the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. The certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us even though we cannot see it up ahead.” When you put it that way, I can tell that I have experienced that kind of faith throughout my life without labelling it as faith. For example, I always knew I’d earn a Ph.D. someday, so I wasn’t concerned about how or when. I had faith. I always knew I would share spiritual knowledge with others, but I didn’t know how or when. And here we have the last twenty years of blogging, writing books, and podcasting.  I didn’t so much work toward these as goals as simply knowing they would occur. Here’s a quote from Paul’s Letter to the Hebrews in the New Testament, Hart’s translation: Now faithfulness is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of unseen realities. For the ancients were commended for this. In faith we rationally perceive that the ages [and here I would use the word “aeons” rather than ages] were composed by an utterance of God, so that the things that are seen have not been made from the things that are manifest. (Hebrews 11:1-3) In our Gnostic system, the Aeons have thought everything through in advance. The ethereal plane is the unseen reality. The Aeons were emanated by God so that the ethereal plane would become manifest reality. This is why the Tripartite Tractate does not condemn Logos for the Fall. The Tripartite Tractate says that the Fall was necessary for the Economy that was destined to come about—that being this material cosmos. The Bible also says in James 2:17 that faith not accompanied by action is dead. And this teaching says that effective faith calls for an act of your will. This again points to making choices propelled by faith in a particular outcome. It is a choice you make to fully embrace what God says in his word. So they’re talking about choice. They’re talking about acts of will. For just as the body without spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead. (James 2:26, Hart) Usually that verse refers to doing good deeds to prove one’s faith in God. But if you look at it in this Gnostic way, the “works” is the cherry you are moving toward with your free will, and your faith is the intention to reach it. The Bible says that God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. So do not cast away your confidence, which has for its recompense a great reward. For you need to persevere so that, having done God’s will, you may receive what is promised. (Hebrews 10:38, Hart) The apostles felt they didn’t have enough faith and so they said to Jesus, increase our faith. And Jesus replied, If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea and it will obey you. (Luke 17:6). So we don’t need a lot of faith. We just need the strongly believed intention. Yet it always has to be in God’s will for it to occur, which is good. It’s a backstop for us. If you have faith and intention to create chaos and death, it would only happen through archonic influence because it’s not in God’s will. But it is God’s will for us to fully experience this universe that we have been incarnated into. That’s why there’s so many choice points. All the choices are there to be made. And the faith that is spoken about in the Bible is meant to produce results. It’s not meant to just fill you up with assurance of salvation. And faith is not accomplished by action. Faith precedes action. As these quotes by James affirms: Every good act of giving and every perfect gift is from above, descending from the Father of the Luminaries [the Aeons], with whom there is no alternation or shadow of change. (James 1:17, Hart) So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. Yet someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” You show me your faith without the works, and I will show you faith by my works. You have faith that God is one? You are doing well. Even the daemonic beings [archons] have that faith, and they tremble. But are you willing to recognize, O you inane man, that faith without works yields nothing? (James 2:17-20, Hart] In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. In other words, faith produces outcomes. The choices you make produce the outcomes that are the fruit of those choices. Just as the quantum meditation folks claim. The Word for Today devotional says, concerning faith, The biblical prescription for faith is simple but potent. One, you decide to believe in God’s promise and his power to make it happen, leaving the how and when up to him. Two, you choose to act in keeping with what you believe before you see any evidence of the results. Three, God responds to your faith by keeping his unbreakable promise. Quote, “Hath he said and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken and shall he not make it good?” (from the Old Testament, Numbers 23:19) God goes to work exercising his unlimited capacity to perform his word. Jesus said, “Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it and it will be yours.” (Mark 11:24) So it’s not that God has to perform or accomplish this for you. It’s all there. It’s all ready in the mind of God. The cherries are in the jello. We have to, through our belief and actions, make choices. It all has to do with our free will and our choices. God has already done what God does. God has laid all the cherries in the universe that will ever exist out in front of us for our choosing. This concept gives a whole new meaning to the phrase cherry-picking. Now, going on to the fourth devotional of the faith series, The Word for Today talks about How Your Faith Can Produce Results. Saying that you believe is just the beginning. Activating your faith means preparing for the answer to arrive. So, if I really expected an answer to my prayers, how would I prepare for arrival? Jesus gave his disciples a parable, Matthew 13:31-32, when he said, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man planted in his field. When it grows, it becomes a tree.” See, the farmer believes that if he plants the seed and cares for it and tends it, waters it, fertilizes it, keeps an eye on it, protects it from the pests, that it will grow into the thing that he has planted. So, we begin by praying for wisdom to make the right decisions (James 1:5-7). We aim for the thing to come about, which means that while waiting to get to that cherry that we’re swimming towards, we actively involve ourselves with things that will cause us to move toward that cherry. We break our big plan and our intention into small steps that can be accomplished. Don’t wait for the faith to grow. Don’t wait for fear to turn you aside. Take small steps. Make choices. Make all of the choices in a row that lead you to that intention. This devotional suggests that we start thanking God even before we can see the answer. We aim toward the thing and if we’re missing it, we adjust our aim. And then this Christian devotional reiterates that faith and actions working together produce results. And I’ve been sharing all this just by way of saying that this quantum meditation, this focusing and intention moving toward that result, is not unscriptural. It’s not ungodly or New Age. It’s all laid out before us by the Father. And if we need assistance to move in that direction, we meditate upon the Father, the Son, the Fullness. We ask the Aeons for assistance. We ask Christ for assistance in faith, knowing that the answer is already there and that all things work together for good for those who love God. Amen! Onward and upward and God bless us all.