/lit/ - Literature

>>14184037
I can work with that.
I am a Hermetic-Perennialist, but I believe Jesus was a messenger of the same God of Hermes Trismegistus, like all the Prophets. I dont believe he was a literal God in the flesh, thats just a meme made up by the church, but he did embody the Logos, thats what Hermes Trismegistus said is like a "Son" of God.
I dont believe the Demiurge or matter is "evil" per se, but I do believe it is an illusion, like the concept of Maya in the Hindu tradition, not evil in itself, but like Plotinus said, based on the decisions the individual makes regarding it.

I still think there is alot of value in Valentinian texts and Dead Sea Scrolls, even if the Sethians then exaggerated the teachings of Jesus from what they were originally. The Gospel of Thomas is the best preserved text that contains the original "Esoteric" teachings of Jesus and has nothing related to the Demiurge & matter being evil. 1
I am still reading through the Enneads but I see a lot of the same concepts that exist in Heremeticism and Esoteric Christianity