Gnostic Panentheism

My metaphysics is gnostic panentheism, in that all manifested existence is a projection of one supreme consciousness that projects autonomous extensions of itself, each endowed with a locus of consciousness & freewill, & each fractally capable of projecting further sub-extensions (up to a point).
 

These extensions interact with each other freely within the universal thought-space of the supreme mind. This space is nonphysical, closer to what occultists call the spirit realm, Kingdom of Heaven, or higher astral plane. There’s no entropy, limitation, or physics there...


At some point, one or more of these aeonic fragments chose to create a sub-reality with such limitations. It created a demiurge (egregore/thoughtform) by using its own energy (or portion of the astral environment) & programming it with math, geometry, & the laws of physics.


This rigidly programmed astral energy field or thoughtform is identically the etheric plane, which is a precursor matrix (womb of generation) of physicality. Other fragments could bind themselves with this demiurge, thereby being coordinated by its psychic grip into a shared reality. Like personal computers logging into a game server to run a shared game environment.


So here we are in a sub-creation of greater creation, created by sub-creators of the true creator. We’re held in the psychic grip of a massive thoughtform that coordinates our individual “dreams” into a shared collective reality that operates by the illusory laws of physics.


Part of our consciousness is here, experiencing the illusion through illusory bodies. Part of our psyche is outside the etheric matrix, in the astral if not higher realms, like a satellite in orbit while we’re probes on the ground. This is fundamentally an experiment & game.


But due to exposure to this limiting environment that demands survival, compromise, and competition, there's a risk that we internalize such functions & “upload” these illusion-based prerogatives to aspects of us that are nonphysical (like our subconscious & soul). This corrupts the fragment.


Further, our own etheric/astral emanations, per our thoughts, feelings, intentions, and subconscious projections, can contribute to the demiurge and influence the nature/progression of this illusion. Thus we can corrupt it, & it executes that corruption by feeding it back to us.


So the fragments that bound themselves to the demiurge, incarnating into its dominion, many of them have gotten corrupted by it, internalizing its processes as unholy values, which traps them here via their attachment to it. Via feedback loops, their suffering begets suffering.


This environment makes for “fallen” fragments who willingly identify with the illusion-based principle of predation, as well as sub-fragments likely thoughtforms or NPCs, that together with the fallen fragments are now active agents of the corrupted demiurge.


This mess has triggered indirect divine intervention. Indirect means the supreme consciousness (which is beyond creation, as well as within it) doesn’t intervene directly, but delegates intervention to its projected fragments & their subordinates so each gets to “grow.”


This divine intervention employs the incarnation of helper-fragments (from rare spiritual avatars to everyday positive souls) who live within the illusion, helped when possible by telepathic/synchronistic guidance from fragments outside the illusion, all to counter the soporific spell of the demiurge & predation by its minions.


So we’re in a spiritual war now, all taking place within a “fallen” sub-creation within the mind-space of the supreme consciousness.


Our task is to a) disentangle from the illusion & return back to the higher realms, and/or b) gain control of this demiurgic creation & restore harmony here so that it serves the intentions of greater creation outside this illusion rather than serving its own ends to our detriment.

Source: Montalk Telegram

Gnosticism and Mani

Gnosticism, an early form of Christianity, flourished in the Middle East until approximately the second century CE when the movement was violently suppressed by Roman Catholic authorities. Dr. Stephan Hoeller, the current bishop of the Gnostic Church in Los Angeles, distinguishes Gnosticism from traditional forms of Christianity in this way:

[Gnosticism is] much more orientated toward the personal, spiritual advancement and transformation of the individual, regarding figures such as Jesus as being helpers rather than sacrificial saviours. It is a form of religion that has […] a much more ecumenical and universal scope in terms of its relationship to spiritual, religious traditions other than the Christian.

According to literary scholar Gregory Stephenson:

…the attitude that characterises all the Gnostic systems is that the world, the body, and matter are unreal and evil. They are illusions that are the products of malevolent powers called Archons, chief among whom is Sammael (the god of the blind or the blind god), also called Ialdabaoth or the Demiurge. These creator-gods are not the Deity of the Supreme Being, though they make claim to being so. The Deity is completely transcendent – absolutely distinct, apart, and remote from the created universe. However, a portion of the divine substance, called the pneuma, is enclosed in the human body – within the human passions and the human appetites […]. The aim of Gnosticism is to liberate the pneuma from its material, delusional prison and to reunite it with the Deity. The Archons seek to obstruct this liberation and to maintain their dominion.

The Manichean believe in an actual struggle between good and evil, which is not an eternal struggle since one of them will win in this particular area, sooner or later. Of course, with the Christians there was this tremendous inversion of values where the most awful people are thrown up as this paragon of virtue for everyone to emulate…

The Manichean sect of Gnosticism spread across three continents over the course of eleven hundred years beginning, approximately, in CE 240. It was founded by the Persian prophet Mani, who was eventually imprisoned at the age of 61, tortured for 26 days, and assassinated. According to Dr. Hoeller, Mani is among “two of the great luminaries of the Gnostic tradition.” 

Dr. Hoeller sums up Mani’s basic doctrine as follows:

In the beginning, said Mani, the kingdoms of Light and Darkness coexisted in uneasy peace. While Light had no quarrel with the existence of Darkness and would have remained content existing side-by-side with it, Darkness would have it otherwise. Darkness was in a state of agitation and wrath and decided to attack and invade the realm of light. As the legions of Darkness approached the realm of Light, the primal light needed to defend itself. It called upon the Mother of Life to bring forth the Primal Man (a cosmic figure, not related to Adam or other human beings except in an indirect way). The Primal Man in turn had five sons, and together the six expelled the Dark forces from the kingdom of Light and pursued them onto the battlefield of the lower aeons. Unfortunately, on the battlefield the chief demons of Darkness overpowered the Primal Man and his five sons and devoured them, incorporating their luminous essence into their dark forms. This is how the first terrible intermingling of Light and Darkness occurred […].

In the course of the rescue efforts the Primal Man is freed, and he gloriously ascends to the Godhead. The souls of the human beings, however, have been left behind, along with Light particles that derive from the captivity of the Primal Man and of his sons. It is only at this point that the material world as we know it comes into being. The Earth is created as an alchemical vessel of purification and transformation where the Light can be extracted from dark matter. The Sun and the Moon are both vessels of Light that serve as vehicles to transport Light upwards out of earthly darkness.

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