The Gnosticism beliefs

The Gnosticism expresses through medium of myths. Most Gnostic scriptures are myths. The language is poetic and imaginative, therefore some interpretations exist.

One main thing that separated the Gnostics from orthodox Christians was their myths and beliefs. The Gnosis is the knowledge of transcendence arrived at by the way of inner intuitive experience.

Gnostic myths begins with fundamental recognition that earthly life is filled with suffering. In order to nourish themselves, all forms of life consume each other, thereby pain, fear, and death upon one another. The humans suffer in this violent world that does not make much sense.

The Gnostic blame the Demiurge for the corrupt state of the world, he entrapped the Spirit in the Matter.

He or It "emanated" from within the substance off all there is in all the worlds, visible and invisible. It is true to say that all is God for all consists of the God' substance.

Some of divine essence had been projected so far from their original source that it changed in the process. All myths refer to Aeons as intermediate deific beings who exist between the ultimate True God and us.

One of the Aeon beings, Sophia (Wisdom) is of great importance to the Gnostics. Sophia emanated from her a flowed consciousness. The fruit of her desire was something imperfect and different from her. She was ashamed of it and threw it outside of the heavenly realm. This "child" was unaware of his origins and become the Demiurge or "half-maker."

Demiurge was the creator of the material and psychic cosmos. He created all in the image of his own flow. In doing this the Gnostics believed the Demiurge entrapped the Spirit in the Matter. This is the root cause of the corrupt state of the earthly world.

Humans have the Devine Spark within

Humans are generally ignorant of the divine spark resident within them. Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, but if there has not been a substantial work of Gnosis undertaken by the soul prior to death, it becomes likely that the divine spark will go back into the slavery of physical world.

Not all humans are spiritual prepared for Gnosis. Some are earth bounded, materialistic beings who recognize only the physical reality. Others live largely in their mind (psychics). Such people mistake the Demiurge for the True God and have no awareness of the spiritual world beyond matter and mind.

The Salvation of Man

They called this Gnosis or Illuminated Logos because it led to man' salvation. The principal teacher of Gnosis was Jesus; who did not come from the Demiurge but directly from God and the Holy Spirit.

The Gnostic claimed Jesus taught them secret knowledge which he did not share with the general congregation of the Church.

This sort of claim did not set well with the Church at a time when it was starving to gain strength and power.

Also the Gnostic did not accept that Jesus was born of a virgin. Holding that Jesus specially came from God and Spirit and entered the body brought about by Mary and Josef.

In the age when the self-awakening and self-knowledge are very much in the consciousnesses of people it is no wonder Gnostic teachings are being reexamined after twenty centuries.

P.S. I come to Gnostic myths trying to explain to you and myself the Pompeo Batoni's paint "The Fall of Simon Magus" (1755) and the mystery of canceling this Vatican's project - after the paint was done in nine years and the work of translating it into a mosaic for Saint Peter Cathedral altar had already been in progress for one year. See for more details Solved Mystery

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