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Sophia creates the Demiurge by trying to reproduce alone; the Demiurge is a monstrosity because it violates natural order and does not know the higher world exists.
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Gnosticism
Sophia creates the Demiurge by trying to reproduce alone; the Demiurge is a monstrosity because it violates natural order and does not know the higher world exists.
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The Monad is introduced as the one, the spiritual sun, or supreme source whose emanations create dyads and layered realities, with earth as the outer shell.
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Catharism is presented as a dualist belief that this world was created by the devil and traps pure souls in corrupt bodies.
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Jiang reads Dante as drawing from Gnosticism and from elite resistance to Catholic orthodoxy rather than merely repeating official church doctrine.
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"The Monarch is so powerful that when he breathes, okay, he vibrates divine energy. And over millions of years, this divine energy creates new..."
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"He doesn't need to mate. So Sophia says, you know what, I'm going to produce something by myself. I'm going to have a child..."
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"...now okay so this comes from plato and a religion called gnosticism okay the gnostics uh gnostic just means knowledge okay um so in..."
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"Does that make sense? And the earth, what we see, it is just the most outer shell in this universe. Is this clear to..."
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"A lot of their beliefs are still around today. The main focus of the Eternal Crusade is something called the Albigenesian Crusade, which lasts..."
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"So the goal of life is to discover that we are imprisoned and escape our bodies and return to heaven through good works, through..."
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"...clear that Dante is drawing a lot of his ideas from Gnosticism. Okay. So, in other words, what's happening is that even though the..."
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"...religious genius, and he, his idea would be what we call Gnosticism today, okay? And unfortunately, he got unlucky, and he ran into the..."
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