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Your take on the inversion an perversion of the christian teachings is most refreshingly, an accurate. This video has significance to me, the nag, pkd, true teachings, all very important to me. Interesting to jabe them linked together.
Friends: are you religious? Me: it's complicated. Friends: well, if you had to say what religion do you belong to? Me: I'm probably closest to being a gnostic Friends: what does that mean? Me: it's *really* complicated
This is the clearest description of Gnosticism I have heard to date! 😀 Although I am on the Germanic Heathen/Pagan side of things, I have always admired the Gnostics' ability to question hierarchy of the church.
Denis I as a Muslim I am also alarmed at how my religion has become corrupted, seemingly by Islamic institutions. Whilst I cannot trace the antecedents as far back as the Romans, it does appear to originate with British Security Services in the 18th Century (to undermine the Ottoman Empire). With social media this corruption is becoming all pervasive, suggesting that Muslims with beliefs like mine are a minority. But the only data I can find suggests that we represent 90% of all Muslims, even I believe this to be an over-estimation, but it does highlight the magnitude of the deception.
Its happening to all forms of spiritual thought. Its described by hindus as the kali yuga. Essentially its a time where spiritual practice becomes corrupt by our spiritual leaders and we experience a long period of world wide suffering and lack of collective intelligence.
I have read so many different interpretations of the Sophia-Dmiurge story, but I never really solidified a very good point of view. This was the first and geatest explanation of the story. And it explains so much about this reality and why there is evil in the world and also a god. It also explains the curse in Genesis about the enmity between the seeds, and the strange devil-jesus-prometheus connection. The seeds that choose the fruit will forever be at odds with the seeds who refuse and choose ignorance. This channel is priceless.
Simply, thank you not so Foolish Fish. I have never encountered another person who could bring PK and Jung together besides my personal rabbit hole journeys. Sharing how the first codex of the Nag Hammadi library landed in Jung's hands is pure Argentium to me. Thank you.
I first encountered Gnosticism through a burgeoningly popular Japanese role-playing video game that I love: Persona 5 by Sega. The game has a lot of thematic elements that reference both the cosmology and the Demiurge without specifically naming those entities. I had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went when it came to it, however, and I'm very grateful to FF for enlightening me and others. Keep up the amazing content!
This is a beautiful introduction to a fraught topic. It is blindingly clear, now, that I've been quietly gnostic since I became conscious, at around age four, which is sixty nine years ago. It's been a fascinating journey since then, reclaiming what was lost and repairing what can be repaired. Not least, in myself. I now have a text of the Nag Hammadi Library I can turn to online, thanks to you, without buying more books. My bookshelves have gotten rather overcrowded in my casita and I've mostly forgotten what I have in storage, although surely one of the collections is in there as well. Please pardon my logorrhea! Thanks again.
Hi Clarke, I'm so happy to be able to help! And boy, can I relate to the heaving shelves xD I remember prining out the APocryphon of John and taking to it with pens and highlighters, all things I'd never dream of doing to a book :) But it's only now, almost 20 years later that I have finally bought a hardcover edition of this collection of texts that has been so central to my faith, but that's really for sentimental purposes. The Logos lives within :)
Denis, in 15 mins, I have to say, you delivered succinct, rich, easy to grasp and engaging content on the subject, better then I have seen anywhere. What a fantastic introduction. Consider many appetites now whet. Have to say, I am a sucker for Gospel of Thomas tho.. I get a helpful personal perspective every time I pick it up.
Rudolf Steiner's approach to christian mysticism and cosmology is my favorite, and I think expands on the ides of these texts in useful ways, even though he lived before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi. His teachings on Christ, Lucifer, and Ahriman are quite illuminating, Gigi Young here on youtube has a great video that explains the basics of that part of his school of esoteric teachings
@@bluwng Yes, the bible is still used as a major reference point in basically all forms of christian mysticism, but is read in an esoteric way that keeps in mind that the bible is a mix of deeply embedded spiritual symbolism and history, along with various different manipulations that were done to it by later actors seeking to distort christ's message and use it for control (which has happened to basically all religions in one way or another unfortunately). Steiner's esoteric interpretations of the bible are vast and hard to sum up, but incredibly insightful when you start looking into them. There is a youtube channel called Rudolf Steiner Press Audio where this one guy does readings of steiner's various lectures and books. If I were to recommend you some books for where you seem to be on your path, I'd give you: The Spiritual Guidance of The Individual and Humanity, Christianity as Mystical Fact, and An Outline Of Esoteric Science. All three of those are books by Steiner. I would also recommend Be Here Now by Ram Dass, which imo is just the best starting point for spiritual info in general
@@bluwng Run away from this. It is a false doctrine that I was in for 7 years. People interpret the Bible through the prism of esotericism, taking sentences out of context. A good example is the apostle Paul who claims that we are the temple of God. Taken out of context, that sentence can be interpret it as a divine essence that is in all of us and that we need to activate. But when read in the context of the Bible, that sentence refers to people who received the holy spirit. The same holy spirit that descended on the 70 elders in the old testament. Don't let yourself be misled by those idiots! Study Christianity in detail!!!
@@bluwng Gnotisim is heretical. The Gnostic worldview doesn't make sense their look on history is often very onesided. Look into Eastern Christian mysticism, you find the esoteric part there but in all the beter forms. Seeing the material world as something bad or a illusion and all the parts of God etc. it is just wired and confusing. Christians believe in a bodily ressurection. The material world has a function. Don't fall in this...
@@Bob-hf1ol all great recommendations. I don't know if I agree with Jordan Maxwell on everything (specifically he just seems to think certain mystery groups were all evil when i think it may have been more complicated than that) but he has alot of great information and is a really cool guy
Have you ever watched The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky? I feel the ties to Gnostic thought are spread throughout the movie and the symbolic lens Jodorowsky provides is a very refreshing one. He is able to say so much in such a short movie. Such a sharp commentary on Christianity, spirituality and the modern world. It's one of my favorite movies! I love Valis too! I have never been so entranced by a writing style! It was uncomfortably familiar
Gnosis is cognate to the Sanskrit word jñāna, which also means ‘knowledge.’ Depending on the context, jñāna can refer to ordinary knowledge, meaning knowledge of objective phenomena or knowing how to do something or understanding of philosophical concepts - but in a yogic context it generally refers to a state of consciousness where one knows universal consciousness in a similar way to how Adam knew Eve - through ecstatic union in which the experience of worldly boundaries completely dissolves in superconsciousness. I couldn’t say for sure if gnosis is used in contextually similar ways, but my understanding was that it referred to a similar union with the spiritual heart that creates, preserves, and destroys absolutely everything. By which I mean that the demiurge can only create the world by the will of the monad
Wow.. the story of the man who experienced the violet pink light that downloaded information to him.. In 2018 while I was living in San Diego, I was sitting on my balcony at night and felt something energetic hit me in the forehead between the brows from the outside. I experienced my pineal gland open. It was like in the movies when an alien puts their fingers on a person's forehead and transfer information. Another day while walking I could see/sense a light of that pinkish color coming through the top of my head from above. This was a start of some absolutely insane experiences and transmutation for me.
thank you for this video! i too have learned of Gnosticism from PKD. i think its really brilliant and important that you mention paranoia and panic that those who seek sometimes end up in. even PKD himself would indulge in or write in a very paranoid and panicked manner. i have found my peace or middle road though it sometimes has its bumps like any other road. i hope you can shed a little light on this so others can learn to at least find a way to, like you said, constructive outcomes.
A beautiful, short, and sweet summary of an otherwise quite complex and layered topic... especially from a devotional approach. Kudos my friend, you always seem to successfully circumvent the conundrum pitfalls. ;)
Haha! THank you for the kind words, dear Gabriel! Just you wait until next video xD Just dipping toes for now. But considering these 15 minutes took me a full 7 days to complete (compared to a usual 2 or 3), I wonder what the next one's going to take!
Denis, in 15 mins, you delivered modern context, historical context, an understanding of the texts and also early faiths of Christianity (they didn’t necessarily call themselves Gnostic back then) and on top of that you described the Sethian cosmology in a consumable way…. 👏 Making it look easy always takes a long time. Great job.
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Mate, you've done it again. I so need to do a "deep dive" into Philip K... (Ohh err) & get a boxed set. Then read the Meyer Nag Hammadi script. Both of which have been on "the list" for a while but I've been body swerving! My poor narrow boat is slowly turning into the soggy library of Alexandrea! I must admit that from your description I can't understand the way that the Cathar "perfects" were able to out quote the inquisitors in the Albian Heresy, but sure I will get there! Good vid- eh bienne, c'est l'e doc....
12:36 Sophia is the Greek word for "wisdom", not to be confused with LOGOS, or "expression of thought" or "word" as per John 1:1, a title given by John to our Lord Jesus Christ.
@@FoolishFishBooks In Genesis 24 and 25, the beginning of the Jacob and Esau drama, Jacob is described as (in one translation) a smooth or bald one, unlike his hairy older brother. Another smoothie to add to your collection, dear sir.
Sophia is in nag jammed means wisdom in greek. Interestingly many st Sophia churches in Greece and the first christian church was hagia Sophia Istanbul but now a mosque..the word wisdom is used in the bible..I can't remember which bit now but it says she was here at the beginning. I like john lamb lash on it
This has happened like 4-5 times with other videos of you and someone like @esoteric but I literally bought the complete texts of the Nag Hammadi yesterday, and then this comes out today...
I have grown in my approach to gnosticism since seeing your channel for the first time back in 2021. I can relate to the idea of us being early christians trapped within the roman societies shackles.
Your thoughts are very very similar to how I've been accepting Gnosticism in my life over the last 3/4yrs or so. That "middle path" you talk about, the sort of "Luciferian" implications of "Xristos" or "Gnosis" is exactly how I've been describing it. It's must be a growing Paradigm. Very looking forward to the next video.
Gnosis was one of the goals of the great mystery schools.. whereby one can come to "know thyself" and as Aristotle said “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle. This is what Jesus , Osiris, krishna, mithras et al are telling you how to do through symbolic allegory
Proverbs 9:10 predates Aristotle by ~550 years... The Divine grant of an intuitive conscience is aboriginal to the 'man' kind, demonstrating the vested likeness of the human mind and heart to those of our Progenitor, the Heavenly Father.
Excellent video Denis. I've very recently started a deep dive back into Christian scriptures (including what the churches have rejected, of course), so perfect timing for me.
It's also been fascinating for me revisiting these concepts that were so foundational to everything else that came after for me. But wow! this video did not come easy xD What normally takes one to two days took me a full week!
@@FoolishFishBooks Well, you did a tremendous job I, for one, will be going with the flows, however foolish of me Contradictions shouldn't demand concessions, certainly neither standardizations looking very much forward to the discourses Thank you so very, very much, indeed take your time, as needed this one happened to be very, very fun as well
"Aion is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingship belongs to a child," says the old man Heraklitos. If I may, I'd like to recommend watching Ergo Proxy anime. I think you'll enjoy the ride, or maybe not :) By the way, it was none other than you who directed at me a pink laser beam, i.e. the superposition of Valis and gnosticism, through one of your early videos. So I'm deeply grateful for that pink gift, sensei!
Any study of Gnositicism should include Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels. She is a well-respected historian of early Christianity. On Dick, there are a number of movies of his works, including A Scanner Darkly, and also many movies influenced by his thought, including The Matrix, Dark City, and The Sixth Sense, which depends heavily on Dick's Ubik. The most authentic Dickian movie is Radio Free Albemuth. The book was put together by a friend of Dick's after his death, from notes, but it is a good representation of Dick's mature thoughts.
An interesting thought I just had. I believe that the Bible we got nowadays is different then of what the source material was because it was in the end edited by humans and Roman empire used it to enhance their power/standing. God knew of this and thats why despite the edits and the cutout stuff. It still preserves (more or less) the main original message that was intended to be received. I'm seeing the other stuff resurfacing now as Gods/Worlds/Universe/call it whatever telling us that we are now ready to receive this knowledge
I know you're just making a joke, but his experience wasn't under the influence of drugs. She was delvering his pills to him which he hadn't even taken yet when he had his experience.
Gnosis is knowledge gained through experience. Experience obtained when someone is able to become conscious of their existence. Everything else is just a reflection.
I think Steiners cosmology is a "middle ground " between pure gnosticism and exoteric churchianity. In his cosmology we are part of earth and the perfected "way" is to evolve with the earth . We descend deep into matter in order to fully individuate and then re-spiritualize as an individual soul.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my basic superficial understanding of the bare-bones narrative of "Gnosticism" via Nag Hammadi, is that the entire physical _universe_ (and adjoining Planes) is the misbegotten creation of a misbegotten Creator, either directly or through His cohorts. I don't think I can "roll" with that. It's a big universe. Moreover, it inserts a fetid duality between the corporeal realm (lowly, outside and bereft of Divinity) and the more pleasing, energetic non-physical domains of Existence beyond. My suspicion is that those who writhe in revulsion against their flesh (been there, done that, _still_ not really digg'n it) are condemned to be reincarnated back into it, until they can realize the ultimate 'Divinity' inherent within it, and all things in this lower domain, particularly relating to the Earth experience. This weird haunted planet rides the knife's edge of being an existential boot-camp for a soul to grow through, while also being an effective concentration/prison-camp for those who can't transcend their illusions. Not recommended, at any rate. Unless your soul enjoys extreme pain, or extreme pleasure morphing-into extreme pain. That seems to be the basic Program here... fun fun _fun_
Really well written. Myself, I love the physical world in all of its pain, arbitrariness, and frustration. Its beauty amazes me, and it's fragility moves me.
I’ve been reading PKD since I was 15 or 16. I think he is the macrophage he wrote about in the tractate. I read as many of his books as I could get my hands on and nobody but me and two friends knew who he was. He died around a year and a half after we discovered him. The first story I read was Father Thing in The Best of Philip K. Dick. Flow My Tears was the first novel I read. Shortly afterwards, I read VALIS and that book consumed my life ever.
Have you heard of John Lamb Lash and his book "Not in His Image"? It's a wholly different take on Gnosticism. To be looked at with a grain of salt though
I love that book. It makes more sense to me than any other explanation. Let's face it the earth is a living being .and with the sun grows our plants fruits veg which sustains life
Ciao Denis, from a qabalistic point of view where would we find Yaldebaoth? If there is such . Would he stand above or behind Kether, or would he be between Malkuth and yesod? Or malkuth itself? Is my question pure heresy? If it is , feel free to ignore it
My occultists use of the Ph or Peh of Hebrew פ which can be used for the letter F is switched with V or Vav Peh being the letter of Rah Hoor Khuit instead of the Demiurge of the Hierophant and Taurus (Vav). Making Valis become Phallis
Are you referring to the word "phallus'? Wouldn't you say that's a stretch? VALIS stands for Vast Active Living Information System. In other words gnosis. Nothing Freudian here - except maybe on your end? 😜
My gateway to this was through fantasies of the leviathan. I made a story similar to alchemical texts without realizing what they were with leviathan as the setting
Loved this video. You got a sub from me. I actually just baught the book Valis. I already have the Nag Hamati scriptures and I learned about Gnosis from the recent book, The Imortality Key by Brian M.
13:10 That's so funny! I love academia but I'm pretty careful with who I trust for anything more than "just the facts" (academics with bad opinions are the worst) but between this and the last video I think I "get you". I've always been a little torn.. I could never place it. It's not that I find this boring maybe it is that I find it boring? Boring is entirely underrated. And it wasn't that I disagreed.. and I finally figured it out. We're approaching from the same perspective and I couldn't tell because you're so careful about keeping your thoughts separate. So, prompted by 'an esoteric understanding of the bible', might I solicit you for your recommends on the books of the bible for study towards that end? I've been wanting to read it completely, but.. there's a lot, I don't read often and if I'm reading the bible I'm going to be heading down a rabbit hole every other word. I find it helps to inform on 'what this means' but most of the people I talk to are more interested in 'what this says', so it's hard to find an opinion I trust here but at this point I'd guess you're entirely familiar with my plight.
I don’t quite get how folks end up panicking about the cosmology. Christ was sent to give us gnosis. By a miracle, these works were saved and are making their way into the zeitgeist. Did you ever do a follow up?
Wow, pkd part about pink light gmdata transfer. I had similar experience happen with a red dripping light while thinking about the alt shapes of earth, Crater, flat. Iy felt like an attack , I was paralyzed for many hours, whole able to move my 👀.
@Foolish Fish, I very much like your're summary, but I have one thought and I could not bounce it off anyone yet, perhaps it makes sense to you. Sophia, tried to create a mate, a duality , for the father, her thought could have been that all the aeons both have a masculine and feminine counterpart, thus if I look at the result of her creation, the blind ignorant one thinking he is the supernal being, I come to the conclusion, that she wanted to create a counterpart for the father. Just a thought!
Eradicated and did the most to remove the nose with the gnosis and removed the noses of the genetic Pharos with the pharomones. Follow your knows, it's always gnose
There is no question in my mind that PKD was on to something somewhere between enlightened and insane; with the upshot that he was getting or had gotten some sort of unique download. Anyone who has read his work at any depth can see that we are dealing with something like genius. He is not easy to read, often very dark, often self aware and cynical, often a product of the zeitgeist whence he formed. A Scanner Darkly is not my favorite novel of his, I found much of it to be disturbing and tedious, but it is genius nonetheless. He worked too hard, and dug himself an early grave. The Exegesis of PKD is like 1000 pages. He wrote it frantically, and wasn't meant for any eyes but his own.
I had an experience similar to Philip k. I interacted with a handful of what most people that I've heard talk about them as "dmt entities" or jinn. One was the same entity that Ezekiel describes. Wheels within wheels with spokes connecting them (go look up metatrons cube). I remember thinking (wtf is that shape.... And why is it staring at me)
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Your take on the inversion an perversion of the christian teachings is most refreshingly, an accurate. This video has significance to me, the nag, pkd, true teachings, all very important to me. Interesting to jabe them linked together.
I’d like to know the difference between Jung’s translation and the “fully revised edition’s”, lol.
I’d like to know the difference between Jung’s translation and the “fully revised edition’s”, lol.
Friends: are you religious?
Me: it's complicated.
Friends: well, if you had to say what religion do you belong to?
Me: I'm probably closest to being a gnostic
Friends: what does that mean?
Me: it's *really* complicated
xD Oh, boy! I can relate so much!
so basically its like asking your girl what she wants to eat, but "its complicated" haha
@@Icythot-m6i idk, I’m feeling pleroma tonight
This is the clearest description of Gnosticism I have heard to date! 😀 Although I am on the Germanic Heathen/Pagan side of things, I have always admired the Gnostics' ability to question hierarchy of the church.
Thank you Lil Tree Sap! So glad you found the video useful! :D
Denis I as a Muslim I am also alarmed at how my religion has become corrupted, seemingly by Islamic institutions. Whilst I cannot trace the antecedents as far back as the Romans, it does appear to originate with British Security Services in the 18th Century (to undermine the Ottoman Empire). With social media this corruption is becoming all pervasive, suggesting that Muslims with beliefs like mine are a minority. But the only data I can find suggests that we represent 90% of all Muslims, even I believe this to be an over-estimation, but it does highlight the magnitude of the deception.
Its happening to all forms of spiritual thought. Its described by hindus as the kali yuga. Essentially its a time where spiritual practice becomes corrupt by our spiritual leaders and we experience a long period of world wide suffering and lack of collective intelligence.
Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatu brother, I'm a Muslim too. Good to see fellow knowledge seekers who seek the Maarifat of Allah
I have read so many different interpretations of the Sophia-Dmiurge story, but I never really solidified a very good point of view. This was the first and geatest explanation of the story. And it explains so much about this reality and why there is evil in the world and also a god. It also explains the curse in Genesis about the enmity between the seeds, and the strange devil-jesus-prometheus connection. The seeds that choose the fruit will forever be at odds with the seeds who refuse and choose ignorance.
This channel is priceless.
Merci beaucoup pour ce partage sur votre cheminement, le gnosticisme et les textes du Nag Hammadi ! 😃
Simply, thank you not so Foolish Fish.
I have never encountered another person who could bring PK and Jung together besides my personal rabbit hole journeys. Sharing how the first codex of the Nag Hammadi library landed in Jung's hands is pure Argentium to me.
Thank you.
I first encountered Gnosticism through a burgeoningly popular Japanese role-playing video game that I love: Persona 5 by Sega. The game has a lot of thematic elements that reference both the cosmology and the Demiurge without specifically naming those entities. I had no idea how deep the rabbit hole went when it came to it, however, and I'm very grateful to FF for enlightening me and others. Keep up the amazing content!
This video must have been a huge effort. Thank you for your time, research, and for sharing your work with us.
Thank you so much, Vince 😄🙏 yep, a video like this normally takes me 2 (very) full days of work. This one took 7! 😅 I hope it helps a few out there 😄
@@genghisgalahad8465 hehe! 😄💫
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Dude, you said it!!!
This is a beautiful introduction to a fraught topic. It is blindingly clear, now, that I've been quietly gnostic since I became conscious, at around age four, which is sixty nine years ago. It's been a fascinating journey since then, reclaiming what was lost and repairing what can be repaired. Not least, in myself. I now have a text of the Nag Hammadi Library I can turn to online, thanks to you, without buying more books. My bookshelves have gotten rather overcrowded in my casita and I've mostly forgotten what I have in storage, although surely one of the collections is in there as well. Please pardon my logorrhea! Thanks again.
Hi Clarke, I'm so happy to be able to help! And boy, can I relate to the heaving shelves xD I remember prining out the APocryphon of John and taking to it with pens and highlighters, all things I'd never dream of doing to a book :) But it's only now, almost 20 years later that I have finally bought a hardcover edition of this collection of texts that has been so central to my faith, but that's really for sentimental purposes. The Logos lives within :)
are you in SW US per haps? A fasciinatiing intuitive flash at the word "casita" prompted me to ask...
@@ZephyrAvoxel Santa Fe, actually. Well, Eldorado just outside Santa Fe.
Denis, in 15 mins, I have to say, you delivered succinct, rich, easy to grasp and engaging content on the subject, better then I have seen anywhere. What a fantastic introduction. Consider many appetites now whet.
Have to say, I am a sucker for Gospel of Thomas tho.. I get a helpful personal perspective every time I pick it up.
Oh wow! I'm so glad you liked it 😄🙏
Yes, the Gospel of Thomas is very central to my faith!
Rudolf Steiner's approach to christian mysticism and cosmology is my favorite, and I think expands on the ides of these texts in useful ways, even though he lived before the discovery of the Nag Hammadi. His teachings on Christ, Lucifer, and Ahriman are quite illuminating, Gigi Young here on youtube has a great video that explains the basics of that part of his school of esoteric teachings
@@bluwng Yes, the bible is still used as a major reference point in basically all forms of christian mysticism, but is read in an esoteric way that keeps in mind that the bible is a mix of deeply embedded spiritual symbolism and history, along with various different manipulations that were done to it by later actors seeking to distort christ's message and use it for control (which has happened to basically all religions in one way or another unfortunately). Steiner's esoteric interpretations of the bible are vast and hard to sum up, but incredibly insightful when you start looking into them. There is a youtube channel called Rudolf Steiner Press Audio where this one guy does readings of steiner's various lectures and books. If I were to recommend you some books for where you seem to be on your path, I'd give you: The Spiritual Guidance of The Individual and Humanity, Christianity as Mystical Fact, and An Outline Of Esoteric Science. All three of those are books by Steiner. I would also recommend Be Here Now by Ram Dass, which imo is just the best starting point for spiritual info in general
@@bluwng Run away from this. It is a false doctrine that I was in for 7 years. People interpret the Bible through the prism of esotericism, taking sentences out of context. A good example is the apostle Paul who claims that we are the temple of God. Taken out of context, that sentence can be interpret it as a divine essence that is in all of us and that we need to activate. But when read in the context of the Bible, that sentence refers to people who received the holy spirit. The same holy spirit that descended on the 70 elders in the old testament. Don't let yourself be misled by those idiots! Study Christianity in detail!!!
@@bluwng Gnotisim is heretical. The Gnostic worldview doesn't make sense their look on history is often very onesided. Look into Eastern Christian mysticism, you find the esoteric part there but in all the beter forms. Seeing the material world as something bad or a illusion and all the parts of God etc. it is just wired and confusing. Christians believe in a bodily ressurection. The material world has a function. Don't fall in this...
James Allen is a lot like Steiner, Neville Goddard as well.❤️🧠👁️🙂 Also Santos Bonnacci, Jordan Maxwell ☮️
@@Bob-hf1ol all great recommendations. I don't know if I agree with Jordan Maxwell on everything (specifically he just seems to think certain mystery groups were all evil when i think it may have been more complicated than that) but he has alot of great information and is a really cool guy
Is this my favourite FF video yet?! It certainly in top 5. Thank you 💖😍😊 I feel so much wisdom.
Have you ever watched The Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky?
I feel the ties to Gnostic thought are spread throughout the movie and the symbolic lens Jodorowsky provides is a very refreshing one. He is able to say so much in such a short movie. Such a sharp commentary on Christianity, spirituality and the modern world. It's one of my favorite movies!
I love Valis too! I have never been so entranced by a writing style! It was uncomfortably familiar
Yes! I love the Holy Mountain! 😄♥️
Absolutely incredible film; I recommend it to people whenever I can, hahah.
Gnosis is cognate to the Sanskrit word jñāna, which also means ‘knowledge.’ Depending on the context, jñāna can refer to ordinary knowledge, meaning knowledge of objective phenomena or knowing how to do something or understanding of philosophical concepts - but in a yogic context it generally refers to a state of consciousness where one knows universal consciousness in a similar way to how Adam knew Eve - through ecstatic union in which the experience of worldly boundaries completely dissolves in superconsciousness. I couldn’t say for sure if gnosis is used in contextually similar ways, but my understanding was that it referred to a similar union with the spiritual heart that creates, preserves, and destroys absolutely everything. By which I mean that the demiurge can only create the world by the will of the monad
OMG please read his Exegesis and share your thoughts with us. I know it's immense but it's like everything is connected to that piece.
You're a fount of great information- thank you
Absolutely brilliant video.
this video is so precious, thanks!
Wow.. the story of the man who experienced the violet pink light that downloaded information to him..
In 2018 while I was living in San Diego, I was sitting on my balcony at night and felt something energetic hit me in the forehead between the brows from the outside. I experienced my pineal gland open. It was like in the movies when an alien puts their fingers on a person's forehead and transfer information. Another day while walking I could see/sense a light of that pinkish color coming through the top of my head from above. This was a start of some absolutely insane experiences and transmutation for me.
I swear that it's living inside of us all. I know for sure you are indeed my Brother! God bless you and happy thanksgivings!
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Happy thanksgiving to you, @K D!
I love your work brother. Best wishes
thank you for this video! i too have learned of Gnosticism from PKD. i think its really brilliant and important that you mention paranoia and panic that those who seek sometimes end up in. even PKD himself would indulge in or write in a very paranoid and panicked manner. i have found my peace or middle road though it sometimes has its bumps like any other road. i hope you can shed a little light on this so others can learn to at least find a way to, like you said, constructive outcomes.
This is absolutely the planned topic for the next video :)
@@FoolishFishBooks Can't wait
A beautiful, short, and sweet summary of an otherwise quite complex and layered topic... especially from a devotional approach. Kudos my friend, you always seem to successfully circumvent the conundrum pitfalls. ;)
Haha! THank you for the kind words, dear Gabriel!
Just you wait until next video xD Just dipping toes for now. But considering these 15 minutes took me a full 7 days to complete (compared to a usual 2 or 3), I wonder what the next one's going to take!
Denis, in 15 mins, you delivered modern context, historical context, an understanding of the texts and also early faiths of Christianity (they didn’t necessarily call themselves Gnostic back then) and on top of that you described the Sethian cosmology in a consumable way…. 👏 Making it look easy always takes a long time. Great job.
Oh i'm looking forward to the next part
Thank You, I needed this good Sir.
Glad you liked it, George! 😄🙏
HIGHLY recommend John Lamb Lash... a lifetime of work to dive through. Worth it.
Thanks brother 🙏blessed be!!
Sorry about my previous subscription lapsed. The method expired and got me flat footed. But I’ve fixed that and went to another tier. Thanks for your excellent work and Merry Christmas
Thank you so much. Joe! I just saw! That's incredibly kind and helpful! Very best wishes to you, and a Merry Christmas!
Mate, you've done it again. I so need to do a "deep dive" into Philip K... (Ohh err) & get a boxed set. Then read the Meyer Nag Hammadi script. Both of which have been on "the list" for a while but I've been body swerving!
My poor narrow boat is slowly turning into the soggy library of Alexandrea!
I must admit that from your description I can't understand the way that the Cathar "perfects" were able to out quote the inquisitors in the Albian Heresy, but sure I will get there!
Good vid- eh bienne, c'est l'e doc....
12:36 Sophia is the Greek word for "wisdom", not to be confused with LOGOS, or "expression of thought" or "word" as per John 1:1, a title given by John to our Lord Jesus Christ.
"Sophia, what is that?"
"A smoothie"
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@@FoolishFishBooks In Genesis 24 and 25, the beginning of the Jacob and Esau drama, Jacob is described as (in one translation) a smooth or bald one, unlike his hairy older brother. Another smoothie to add to your collection, dear sir.
Sophia is in nag jammed means wisdom in greek. Interestingly many st Sophia churches in Greece and the first christian church was hagia Sophia Istanbul but now a mosque..the word wisdom is used in the bible..I can't remember which bit now but it says she was here at the beginning. I like john lamb lash on it
This has happened like 4-5 times with other videos of you and someone like @esoteric but I literally bought the complete texts of the Nag Hammadi yesterday, and then this comes out today...
I study this stuff a lot. It’s very interesting and helps to explain current events.
Never really read into Gnosis. Thanks for making it easy to understand
Delighted this helps, Enrique! 😄🙏
I have grown in my approach to gnosticism since seeing your channel for the first time back in 2021. I can relate to the idea of us being early christians trapped within the roman societies shackles.
Your thoughts are very very similar to how I've been accepting Gnosticism in my life over the last 3/4yrs or so. That "middle path" you talk about, the sort of "Luciferian" implications of "Xristos" or "Gnosis" is exactly how I've been describing it. It's must be a growing Paradigm. Very looking forward to the next video.
Absolutely unique and fine content. thank you.
more please! really nice explanation
Gnosis was one of the goals of the great mystery schools.. whereby one can come to "know thyself" and as Aristotle said “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” - Aristotle. This is what Jesus , Osiris, krishna, mithras et al are telling you how to do through symbolic allegory
Proverbs 9:10 predates Aristotle by ~550 years... The Divine grant of an intuitive conscience is aboriginal to the 'man' kind, demonstrating the vested likeness of the human mind and heart to those of our Progenitor, the Heavenly Father.
I’m still trying to wrap my head around what exactly Abraxas is. People make him seem like the Demiurge, while others say he’s an Archon.
The Wikipedia page is worth a look. I'm sure I'll get round to Abraxas/Abrasax in due course in this series :)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraxas
@@FoolishFishBooks Thanks.
“But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us.”
2 Corinthians 4:7 ESV
Excellent video Denis. I've very recently started a deep dive back into Christian scriptures (including what the churches have rejected, of course), so perfect timing for me.
It's also been fascinating for me revisiting these concepts that were so foundational to everything else that came after for me. But wow! this video did not come easy xD What normally takes one to two days took me a full week!
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Well, you did a tremendous job
I, for one, will be going with the flows, however foolish of me
Contradictions shouldn't demand concessions,
certainly neither standardizations
looking very much forward to the discourses
Thank you so very, very much, indeed
take your time, as needed
this one happened to be very, very
fun as well
I am still mad at that woman for burning that one part of the nag hamadi library.
Hahaha! :D Yep, gets me every time xD
Thank you for the links!
Too bad I'm a single, broke mother. I'd love to hear more. Good job.
Excellent video. You got Jesus’s true message right.
I believe tht the first time that I encountered Gnosticism, was while reading the Seventh Sword by Andrew Collins, as a teenager.
Thank you!!
Can you do some more videos on gnosticism for beginners this is fascinating. Other texts such as Enoch would also be super
"Aion is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingship belongs to a child," says the old man Heraklitos. If I may, I'd like to recommend watching Ergo Proxy anime. I think you'll enjoy the ride, or maybe not :) By the way, it was none other than you who directed at me a pink laser beam, i.e. the superposition of Valis and gnosticism, through one of your early videos. So I'm deeply grateful for that pink gift, sensei!
Thank you @rheaklitos! I don't know that anime. Thanks for the tip!
@@FoolishFishBooks my pleasure!
Any study of Gnositicism should include Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels. She is a well-respected historian of early Christianity. On Dick, there are a number of movies of his works, including A Scanner Darkly, and also many movies influenced by his thought, including The Matrix, Dark City, and The Sixth Sense, which depends heavily on Dick's Ubik. The most authentic Dickian movie is Radio Free Albemuth. The book was put together by a friend of Dick's after his death, from notes, but it is a good representation of Dick's mature thoughts.
An interesting thought I just had. I believe that the Bible we got nowadays is different then of what the source material was because it was in the end edited by humans and Roman empire used it to enhance their power/standing. God knew of this and thats why despite the edits and the cutout stuff. It still preserves (more or less) the main original message that was intended to be received. I'm seeing the other stuff resurfacing now as Gods/Worlds/Universe/call it whatever telling us that we are now ready to receive this knowledge
This video is great. Thanks
oh my god, plesase upload the final part.
I don't know about the next ones......
Waiting waiting and waiting.
Thank you.
Excellent 🙏
Those must have been some fantastic meds he got from that nurse!!!
My thoughts exactly!
I know you're just making a joke, but his experience wasn't under the influence of drugs. She was delvering his pills to him which he hadn't even taken yet when he had his experience.
Hehe! But yes, Devin is right. The experience happened before he had a chance to take the meds 😊
@@genghisgalahad8465 😳😳😳😳 yes, what Genghis said...!!
Gnosis is knowledge gained through experience. Experience obtained when someone is able to become conscious of their existence. Everything else is just a reflection.
I think Steiners cosmology is a "middle ground " between pure gnosticism and exoteric churchianity. In his cosmology we are part of earth and the perfected "way" is to evolve with the earth . We descend deep into matter in order to fully individuate and then re-spiritualize as an individual soul.
churchianity...that is awesome...stealing the term, ty.
too much exicited for the final part.
Great vid.
Thank you for sharing
Again, such a fascinating subject. Is there any connection between the early Christianity and the name of your channel, I wonder?
I can't pretend that's a complete coincidence 😜
@@FoolishFishBooks interesting!😉
I recommend the youtube channel Unleash The Light, it talks about how gnosis is achieved through the HGA
This made my brain exploded 🤯
Correct me if I'm wrong, but my basic superficial understanding of the bare-bones narrative of "Gnosticism" via Nag Hammadi, is that the entire physical _universe_ (and adjoining Planes) is the misbegotten creation of a misbegotten Creator, either directly or through His cohorts. I don't think I can "roll" with that. It's a big universe. Moreover, it inserts a fetid duality between the corporeal realm (lowly, outside and bereft of Divinity) and the more pleasing, energetic non-physical domains of Existence beyond. My suspicion is that those who writhe in revulsion against their flesh (been there, done that, _still_ not really digg'n it) are condemned to be reincarnated back into it, until they can realize the ultimate 'Divinity' inherent within it, and all things in this lower domain, particularly relating to the Earth experience.
This weird haunted planet rides the knife's edge of being an existential boot-camp for a soul to grow through, while also being an effective concentration/prison-camp for those who can't transcend their illusions. Not recommended, at any rate. Unless your soul enjoys extreme pain, or extreme pleasure morphing-into extreme pain. That seems to be the basic Program here... fun fun _fun_
Yes, this is essentially what I'll be addressing in the next video 😊👍
Really well written. Myself, I love the physical world in all of its pain, arbitrariness, and frustration. Its beauty amazes me, and it's fragility moves me.
I would love for a third video
I’ve been reading PKD since I was 15 or 16. I think he is the macrophage he wrote about in the tractate.
I read as many of his books as I could get my hands on and nobody but me and two friends knew who he was.
He died around a year and a half after we discovered him.
The first story I read was Father Thing in The Best of Philip K. Dick.
Flow My Tears was the first novel I read. Shortly afterwards, I read VALIS and that book consumed my life ever.
Wow! That was great.
Hi Seven, I'm delighted you liked it! :D
I 100% believe I received this same “download”. And I’ve been unpacking it ever since. It was a orange light with me tho
I like your videos very much.
I wish and hope for more
such videos in future.
Greetings from Slovenia.
Your due for an episode on Aeon Byte.. The Red Pill cafeteria as Miguel Says :)
Can you help me which book to read on gnosticism, The Secret History of the Gnostics by Andrew Phillip Smith or Gnosticism by Stephan A. Hoeller?
I'm afraid I know neither. In all honesty, I would recommend reading the source texts and making your own mind up 😉
@@FoolishFishBooks Thank you for your answer, that's a good suggestion actually.
C.W. King, The Gnostics and Their Remains, Ancient and Medieval.
@@branddann Thank you. I'll look this one up
Have you heard of John Lamb Lash and his book "Not in His Image"? It's a wholly different take on Gnosticism. To be looked at with a grain of salt though
I love that book. It makes more sense to me than any other explanation. Let's face it the earth is a living being .and with the sun grows our plants fruits veg which sustains life
Ciao Denis, from a qabalistic point of view where would we find Yaldebaoth? If there is such . Would he stand above or behind Kether, or would he be between Malkuth and yesod? Or malkuth itself? Is my question pure heresy? If it is , feel free to ignore it
I'd say possibly at Kether of the Assiah World, the Princess scale, maybe.
My occultists use of the Ph or Peh of Hebrew פ which can be used for the letter F is switched with V or Vav Peh being the letter of Rah Hoor Khuit instead of the Demiurge of the Hierophant and Taurus (Vav). Making Valis become Phallis
Are you referring to the word "phallus'? Wouldn't you say that's a stretch? VALIS stands for Vast Active Living Information System. In other words gnosis. Nothing Freudian here - except maybe on your end? 😜
My gateway to this was through fantasies of the leviathan. I made a story similar to alchemical texts without realizing what they were with leviathan as the setting
Good stuff
Where are these PKD comic strip illustrations from? I just bought the Comics Biography, but that's not it I'm guessing, that's in colour...
Also, would you say the Jung Codex is worth having?
All knowledge is manipulated by the controllers to rule and keep the masses in line.
Loved this video. You got a sub from me. I actually just baught the book Valis. I already have the Nag Hamati scriptures and I learned about Gnosis from the recent book, The Imortality Key by Brian M.
13:10 That's so funny! I love academia but I'm pretty careful with who I trust for anything more than "just the facts" (academics with bad opinions are the worst) but between this and the last video I think I "get you". I've always been a little torn.. I could never place it. It's not that I find this boring maybe it is that I find it boring? Boring is entirely underrated. And it wasn't that I disagreed.. and I finally figured it out.
We're approaching from the same perspective and I couldn't tell because you're so careful about keeping your thoughts separate. So, prompted by 'an esoteric understanding of the bible', might I solicit you for your recommends on the books of the bible for study towards that end?
I've been wanting to read it completely, but.. there's a lot, I don't read often and if I'm reading the bible I'm going to be heading down a rabbit hole every other word. I find it helps to inform on 'what this means' but most of the people I talk to are more interested in 'what this says', so it's hard to find an opinion I trust here but at this point I'd guess you're entirely familiar with my plight.
Start at the beginning, and when you get bored, skip to Matthew and continue from there 😉👍
I don’t quite get how folks end up panicking about the cosmology. Christ was sent to give us gnosis. By a miracle, these works were saved and are making their way into the zeitgeist. Did you ever do a follow up?
Yes, two videos followed this one, they're linked in the description. 🙏
Wow, pkd part about pink light gmdata transfer. I had similar experience happen with a red dripping light while thinking about the alt shapes of earth, Crater, flat. Iy felt like an attack , I was paralyzed for many hours, whole able to move my 👀.
@Foolish Fish, I very much like your're summary, but I have one thought and I could not bounce it off anyone yet, perhaps it makes sense to you. Sophia, tried to create a mate, a duality , for the father, her thought could have been that all the aeons both have a masculine and feminine counterpart, thus if I look at the result of her creation, the blind ignorant one thinking he is the supernal being, I come to the conclusion, that she wanted to create a counterpart for the father. Just a thought!
But the Father has a consort - Barbello
10:25 it reminds me of the Kemetic Memphite creation story the world came from the primordial waters of Nun.
Oh, man. Sub’d.
Wow!!! 🤯
To say the least! 😄
Gnosis is not just knowledge.
The pink beam came from the necklace the nurse was wearing.
Just catching up on this - just realising how polarization and manipulation was just as active back then as it is nowadays. Jeez!
Anyone got a link or a name for the artwork or artist in the thumbnail? I need it
The Alchemical Tree of Life by Wolfgang Killian
@Foolish Fish Bless you for reading your comments and interacting with your community 🙌
@@sigarland2002 hehe! All part of the fun 😄🙏
Eradicated and did the most to remove the nose with the gnosis and removed the noses of the genetic Pharos with the pharomones. Follow your knows, it's always gnose
I will never EVER be a heretic. But it means that, according to other religions, I will always be a heretic.
I have the 1988 version of the Nag Hammadi.
There is no question in my mind that PKD was on to something somewhere between enlightened and insane; with the upshot that he was getting or had gotten some sort of unique download. Anyone who has read his work at any depth can see that we are dealing with something like genius. He is not easy to read, often very dark, often self aware and cynical, often a product of the zeitgeist whence he formed. A Scanner Darkly is not my favorite novel of his, I found much of it to be disturbing and tedious, but it is genius nonetheless. He worked too hard, and dug himself an early grave. The Exegesis of PKD is like 1000 pages. He wrote it frantically, and wasn't meant for any eyes but his own.
Right! And still the 1000 published Exegesis pages are just a fraction of what he wrote - apparently he wrote enough pages to filll a garage!
I had an experience similar to Philip k. I interacted with a handful of what most people that I've heard talk about them as "dmt entities" or jinn. One was the same entity that Ezekiel describes. Wheels within wheels with spokes connecting them (go look up metatrons cube). I remember thinking (wtf is that shape.... And why is it staring at me)
To think i found gnosis first from Clive Bakers' Jericho video game 😆