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He characterizes the Cathars as gnostic-like believers in a direct connection to God and in the relative unimportance of the material world compared with spiritual life.
"...The idea is that these Cathars are what we today call Gnostics. What are Gnostics? Gnostics are people who believe in the ideas that..."
"...tradition, but also the pagan tradition, also the Islamic tradition, the Gnostic tradition. There's all sorts of traditions. He's combining together in order to..."
"...about different religions and started to engage in hermetic philosophy, Neoplatonism, Gnostic philosophy, which were all considered heretical by the Catholic Church, okay? So..."
"...struck out on a more risky terrain in viewing a Jewish Gnostic duration from the Kabbalah as. The. National idea, ideology of Israel. I..."
"...into the different ideologies of Israel and shown that, um, this Gnostic understanding of the Kabbalah is an extreme, uh, version."
"...and um there are different sects of christianity for example the gnostics who don't really care and don't even talk about his death because..."
"...um if you read the gospel of thomas it's clearly a gnostic worldview we're all divine sparks and we're here to experience the world..."
"...of eschatology, the Kabbalah, geopolitics, I'm starting to develop a more Gnostic framework. But I would not say that I have one religious loyalty."
"...religion that has always fascinated me is Gnosticism, like, like the Gnostics. And the Gnostics believe like the path to salvation, the path to..."
"...so what Kabbalah tradition is trying to do is take the Gnostic and hermetic traditions and apply it to the Torah, right? So the..."
"...know, the Old Testament, and it's reinterpreting through the lens of Gnostic, Hermetic philosophy, understanding that the world is consciousness, that God is everywhere..."
"...And, and, and, I mean, like, people have said I'm a Gnostic, you know? I'm a Luciferian. You know, I don't know what these..."
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