/lit/ - Literature

>>18634892
>The gnostic gospels are heresies

Would you be his friend?

Books for a gnostic who doesn't believe in anything beyond the material world and the demiurge?

It's not that hard to understand, OP. Like you can comprehend that you were an accident, right? Your mom and dad were fooling around one night when they were young and drunk. He pressured her into just not needing a condom for tonight, it would be fine, he'd pull out, etc. She was too drunk to really protest and truthfully she wanted to have sex more than she cared about the risk of pregnancy in that moment.

And you were conceived. Oops.

Now just apply that to a bigger scale.

Oops.

>Man is an emanation of the Monad who exists in the material world due to Yaldabaoth, who hinders the reunion of man with the Monad
Prove me wrong
Protip: You can't

>>11206150
>the gnostics believed matter was a prison
and unlike them, Spinoza doesn't, and is a monist and a panpsychist, why are you so dumb, anon
>>11206395
>if you are super-well read on the subject i'd actually be interested to hear your thoughts.
The transcendent eschatological efforts of Gnostics that would seek to separate thought from matter, and unite with a good, immaterial, Totally Other One True Principle that is above and outside the self-proclaimed god of this world, the evil, foolish demiurge originating more or less directly from said Principle, and his prison of matter, makes no sense to spinozism where matter too is an attribute of the One God, nothing existing isn't an attribute of his, and the universe doesn't have a creator because the universe is God and God doesn't have a creator. Monism isn't dualism. Moral realism isn't moral anti-realism. Theism isn't pantheism. Duh. One day I will know why you clowns that get your education from 4chan don't drop Gnosticism (and Spinoza while you're at it) and go with Schopenhauer instead, but this is not that day

>>10195698
Problem, Alex?

>>10151767
Your friend is more correct than he may know. Creation -- that is, all the worlds doomed to repeat forever because of Lorkhan's sacrifice/trick -- is only a mortal cage. Lorkhan is not god, nor are the et'Ada (Divines) that he tricked. It's a Gnostic parable, of course, but it's also a master's class in worldbuilding imo. The reader has a purpose, and that purpose is to make the original sacrifice not have been in vain. In my view its an exhortation to be a Clever Man oneself, to love and cherish the world for what it is. Which is what we are doing now.

>>10137598

>>10098993
>filename.jpg