Be wary of gnostic thinking.
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Thanks I appreciate your writeup and explanation. I'm planning on reading literature on the subject next, (to fan out my knowledge from the single source I've so far discovered)
I can see how the left/right hand path works into this to twist gnosticism in two different ways.
yes, good on you, thankyou. I think you see my point anyway, that's basically what I was trying to say. There's a whole fascinating cosmology that different gnostic schools cooked up. There are several different branches of Christian Gnosticism and there are also things like Hermeticism. Hermeticism is kind of the root of all western occult schools, expanded upon by many others later including Crowley
My personal opinion is that the Cabal, through their occult knowledge, has a grasp of this stuff, and either willingly or unwillingly worships and draws power from what could be considered the demiurge. It's essentially the same as thing as 'Satan' or Satanism. It's also essentially the left hand path of ego worship or seeing yourself as becoming God. These 2 things are slightly separate yet related and I waver back and forth between what I believe it is that THEY believe.
This was primarily what I was thinking as well. You can really see the prevalence of that school of thought in the Trans ideology. The idea that the doctor "assigns" your sex/gender at birth rather than making an objective observation based on your primary sex characteristics therefore trapping you in a socially constructed wrong body that doesn't match your soul sounds very demiurgic at least to me.
I never really thought of that as having a spiritual reason (other than people having been indoctrinated and deceived), I considered it more a product of political indoctrination. Marxism (cultural Marxism), intersectionality etc. But I suppose, yes, if you want to see it in that context. But you're opening up a can of worms. Who was it exactly that was operating the Frankfurt School? And what exactly do these people actually believe? Might it have something to do with Kabbalah or Qliphoth? Probably. Interesting point.
I see why people prefer the simpler framework of other Christian traditions where it's all very black and white and well defined as to what is what. It's easier just to put faith in Jesus and label anything against it simply as Satanic in nature. You don't have to ask awkward questions about certain groups of people and examine a bunch of different things and go down a heap of rabbit holes. You stick to a simple truth and reject everything else.
Correction, you didn't open that can of worms I did so if that gets me in trouble so be it.
I see what you mean about the Marxism. I don't mind cans of worms, I have a very curious nature. However sometimes I find myself slipping into a superior mindset (gnosis) where my confidence in a particular stance I hold is much too high. Talking to you has illustrated I have a long way to go to humble myself. I was talking to my sister the other day about Margaret Sanger and she pointed out that a lot of quotes are misattributed to her that I had believed came from her, but hadn't double checked (who the hell lies about quotes, right? They can just be checked). Then again a lot of the things said about Sanger were said long before the internet existed to fact check things like that instantly. Don't get me wrong, I'm still against abortion but I learned that I shouldn't be so certain about many things I was. I'm usually pretty skeptical (otherwise I wouldn't be hanging out here) but clearly I'm not thorough enough.
Valentinianism might be a interesting place to start. The cosmology is pretty complex but also interesting if you have the mind to bother with it. Not saying that I personally subscribe to it, just that it gives you a good idea how fleshed out one of the Christian Gnostic schools can be.
What's also interesting, The Lord of the Rings lore includes a creation tale in the Silmarillion. J. R. R. Tolkien was a Catholic but he cooked up a really interesting cosmology and creation story that is part biblical retelling, but with a sort of Gnostic flare. The idea of sound or vibration and different harmonies sung by the Ainur to shape the universe of creation. That in itself isn't really a gnostic idea but it's pretty cool none the less.