Gnostic Diagrams of the Cosmos & Glossary of Gnostic Terms
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Gnosticism: Pleroma-Aeons-Sophia-Demiurge/Yaldabaoth-Archons. Gnostic Cosmology. -The Diagrams I created using Microsoft Paint. Gnostic Glossary: * The All/The One - Pleroma: Greek, meaning "The Fullness" or "Perfection". The totality of Divine powers. The Divine Principal. The Good God. The one who is incomparable and incomprehensible. The Pleroma is the totality of beings in the Upper Aeons. * Aeons: Emanations of the All. In the various systems these emanations are differently named, classified and described, but the emanation theory itself is common to all forms of Gnosticism. They are described as existing in layers (like an onion) between human beings and The All. The Upper Aeons emanated outward from The All/The One, which lies at the centre as their Source (also 'Root'). The Lower Aeons IMITATE the Upper Aeons and have the Demiurge Yaldabaoth as their Source. * The Lower Aeons: Also called the "Deficiency" and "Imperfection". Through the power which Yaldabaoth took from his mother Sophia, he created the lower Aeons. "A veil exists between the world above and the realms that are below; and shadow came into being beneath the veil; and that shadow became matter; and the shadow was projected apart..." From: Hypostasis of the Archons. * Sophia: Greek for "Wisdom". One of the (lesser) Aeons formed out of the mind of The All. Sophia created Yaldabaoth, the 'Demiurge', when she tried to 'emanate' without her counterpart (Christ). * The Demiurge: The child of Sophia and the one who formed this material universe. The god also described in the Old Testament who said in Exodus: "For I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God..." The "half-maker". He is the spiritual being who had become forgetful of his origins, even of the Ultimate God. He thinks that he is the totality and that there is no God before him. * The Archons Servants of the Demiurge. False rulers. Demons. The rulers of the Lower Aeons. The lures and distractions of this material world. Created by the chief Archon Yaldabaoth, the 'Demiurge'. Music: Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
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Nobody knows shit . Everyone interpreting gnostics is saying something different
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This video is so wrong about Sophia...
Sophia is the highest Aeon, even higher than Barbelo, who is Origin.
Wisdom/Sophia didn't fell... No Aeon fell from Pleroma. The Aeons chose to incarnate inside the 14 densities of matter.
See this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgvxzXk57Fc -
How about not believing in anything people tell you because nobody knows?
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Thank you for the explanation.
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How do I free my soul from the demiurge and go "back" to the pleroma? I understand this schemes... I figure them out after reading the Gospel of St. Valentin and the Kybalion. To me all speaks about this and makes sense with this teachings acting as a source, but i'm confused. Where does Lucifer acts? I mean, the ninth gate seems to paint him as an aid to those willing to work it out... but just got lost. So... anybody knows how I can reach the pleroma? It's almost my only question by now.
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Are we loving our neighbours and fellow man by sitting in here bickering about what is what? I agree its very confusing but gnosticism is the best type of "religion" i have come across out of all the religions and philosophies. I too have a ego and thats what causes us to bicker and have opinions. The ego mind has ideas based on what we learn and have reasoned to make the most sense. I wish you all gnosis and to know the Good loving Aeons And Source or God which must be real, ETs are real and angels although i have never seen one so many people over 1000s of years cant be wrong, also there are negative ones too like the archons, this world is indeed sick cause they created us and we are made in their image. I am confused as to who is who as well. The demiurge is Yahweh i thought, maybe its Satan, and who is Lucifer? Does anyone think there is original planners for earth and our solar system who might be Good? Then the Archons came and have taken it over? Like David Icke says? I have to believe the sumerian tablets are probably more accurate than the modern bible as i think its been tailored by the romans.
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Great diagrams.
Good to see there's no dogmatism among Gnostics, huh?
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It is difficult to draw emanation from large to small using 2 dimensions. But a source of inspiration might be the Klein Bottle. Google that when you get a chance. You might see what I'm talkin' about.
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All correct except for one thing...Yahweh is not the Demiurge but his rebellious son...what we are calling Satan (not to be confused with Lucifer though).
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