The anti-Judaic aspect of their teachings is nevertheless clear, as we find echoed in a statement from Simon Magus (a main Gnostic leader of the day). Names for these lesser powers reflect different old Testament synonyms for Yahweh, who is considered the Demiurgic leader of the seven planes variously named in different Gnostic systems (many of which show some degree of interchangeability).
That film, by the way, is an extremely Gnostic presentation. More than a few Wanderers and other sensitive souls have had the same idea, in just the same terms as depicted here and in the film, Matrix. The seven concentric spheres around our Earth are "the seats of the Archons who collectively rule over the world warders of the cosmic prison" (ibid, p.43). the universe, the domain of the Archons is like a vast prison whose innermost dungeon is the earth." (Jonas, p.42-3) Almost all Gnostic sects believe that the creator of the human world is not the true transcendental Deity (which they call the "Unknown Alien God"), but is instead a false ruler, as our world is really the product of lesser forces. The basic Gnostic position is well explained by Hans Jonas and forms the basis of this discussion. Much can be gained from systematic comparative analysis, and at this time in human history with vast Mid East warfare looming, it is also highly relevant to personal life. The cosmic perspective so essential to the Gnostic message and praxis finds great response in modern times - both from renewed popular and scholarly interest in their work, as well as from some equally subjective "received information." This meeting of old and new is valuably combustible, and has strengthened (at least for me) the validity of each of the sources involved. Ra also explains Yahweh's hidden relations with humanity in terms quite close to the Gnostics", and puts them in a multi-dimensional context related to what they call, the "negatively-oriented Orion Empire." In no uncertain terms, we are talking here about War in Heaven (as above, so below"). To this academic recounting - using several Nag Hammadi (Egyptian source) texts, scholar Hans Jonas' classic The Gnostic Religion, and the more freewheeling Lacarriere's The Gnostics - I will also add information from The Ra Material, a set of channeled sessions published in 1981 that also speak at length about Yahweh. In this essay we will take a close look at the complex set of issues surrounding the Gnostic view of Yahweh, the Old Testament god of the Jews and so-called creator of the world.
Yet, when the scope of our inquiry into spiritual literature is expanded to include select modern New Age sources (equally abstruse and arcane), some provocative correlations with the Gnostic cosmos can be made. It may be a result of their commitment to the symbolic approach to religious systems (holding a view that religious content is merely figurative), or perhaps some kind of innate recognition by these "experts" that cosmic matters are rightly beyond their ken.
Indeed, such possibilities are not even considered by the conventional Gnostic scholars. Scholars imagine this strange reformulation of the Hebraic god to simply indicate the Gnostics' rejection of local Jewish authority.Īccording to this approach, whatever degree of metaphysical truth the Gnostic views might have (as a potentially accurate assessment of real cosmo-dynamics affecting Earth in real time and space), is also totally ignored. According to a rational approach to the academic study of the development of religion, the early Near Eastern Gnostic conception of an evil world-creating "Demiurge" (identified with the Old Testament Yahweh or Jehovah), is generally understood as merely an imaginative invention to help support the growth of their religion. For specialists, it may also clarify some the origins of the Gnostic view and the debacle of the Middle East in human history.
Having read widely among Gnostic texts in translation and modern New Age sources, I've come across an interesting linkage that may shed light on a few esoteric dynamics of Earth life.
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