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Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Gnostic Explanation of Yahweh, Lucifer and Creation

According to the Gnostics, Evil did not exist before the created universe since there was only pure Divinity of ineffable Godhead. That is, Godhead beyond all categories. Moreover, in the created Cosmos there exists a three-fold god subsisting in the fullness of being or "Light" ("pleroma"), which is separated from the material plane of existence by a great barrier ("horos"). Hence, two realms - "Light" and "Matter"- separated by a great battier - "horos."...

The Gnostics contend that man is a mixed entity, an admix of elements arising from both the World of Light (of the God of Light) and the World of Darkness (of the Demiurge). Moreover, that man can only be redeemed from this fallen state by knowledge - Gnosis. This knowledge, this Gnosis, is not something derived from study of conclusions reached by logical methods but by a "direct expedience of being."

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