The Bonds of Material Perception
The key to the Hermetic rebirth resided in attainment of gnosis, spiritual knowledge to free the mind from the bonds of material perception.
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Topic: “Gnosticism”
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Gnosticism
Gnosticism is the belief that human beings contain a piece of God (the highest good or a divine spark) within themselves, which has fallen from the immaterial world into the...
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It’s Energy Surrounds Us and Binds Us
For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we—not this crude matter.
Source: The Empire Strikes Back
It Affirms, in Effect, That Living Beings Create Themselves
As a scientific theory, Darwinism would have been jettisoned long ago. The point, however, is that the doctrine of evolution has swept the world not on the strength of its scientific merits, but precisely in its capacity as a Gnostic...
Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion by Wolfgang Smith
He Is a Lesser Divine Being Who Serves as the Instrument of the Higher Powers
What this secret tradition reveals is that the one whom most Christians naïvely worship as creator, God, and Father is, in reality, only the image of the true God. According to Valentinus, what Clement and Ignatius mistakenly ascribe to God...
Source: The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels
The Way the World Should Be
I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.
Source: The Truman Show
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I’ve Been Locked Up Way Too Long in This Crazy World
'Cause I've been locked up way too long In this crazy world, how far is Heaven?
Source: Heaven by Los Lonely Boys
I Don’t Really Want to Know, How Your Garden Grows
Maybe, I don't really want to know, how your garden grows, 'cause I just want to fly
Source: Live Forever by Oasis
Don’t Believe the Church and State and Everything They Tell You
Don’t believe the church and state and everything they tell you -
Source: Silent Running by Mike + The Mechanics
The Birds and the Bees They Are Wise to the Lies
The birds and the bees, they are wise to the lies - So they took to the trees and took to the skies
Source: The Mission by Puscifer
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🧵 Narrative Threads containing “Gnosticism”
Cause Everything Is Never As It Seems…
With a wave of his hand, he had made the Earth a planet and set it spinning.
Cause It’s the World I Know
We accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It’s as simple as that.
And I Will Try To Fix You…
Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right.
