Gnosticism - The Apocryphon of John - The Fall of Sophia and Origins of the Demiurge Ialdabaoth 

I love your works and your videos. We all appreciate it very much. Completely unrelated question I have though, what is the thumbnail icon for the channel?

@@27.vs.Entertainment Thanks so much - The symbol of the channel is a Maya glyph of a hand grasping a fish with the phonetic value being "Tzak," meaning "to conjure a mystical vision." The hand grasping the fish is also keen, the slippery fish isn't easily held so the grasp is always-already slipping away pointing to the concrete (grasping) and the illusive (the slipping away) aspect of mystical experiences. It's one of the most beautiful expressions for mysticism/gnosis I know of in any language.

If you are threatening me , when you die , we are gonna have such fun . 😡 I’ll be waiting UnJust in . Remember who I am ? The oRiGinal Boogeyman 🤨 I hope your on my side or your gonna wish you never existed

Is this the same book that was taking out of the bible if so I can see why this information is groundbreaking

I do not know if this is true this is a little bit of conspiracy theory don't virtually hit me"!!! It's said that high ranking freemasons practice what is called duelism/gnosticism and not the dualistic Chinese philosophical thought. Apparently they believe in not only Lucifer but Adonai and if I remember their so called great work is combining through actions Lucifer and Adonai to achieve synthesis a creation of a new. Talking about gnosticism do you know anything about this?

;) It's when you start obsessing about dialects - "The text is Sahidic but betrays many Subakhmimic qualities!" At that point, there is no escape - the condition is terminal!

Made me LOL

The word you are looking for is "Coptic".

@@TheEsotericaChannel This is some shit I would do. As if I don't already do it with other academic subjects.

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At first Gnosticism shook my faith a little but the more I researched it the more iron clad my faith became. Gnosticism is obviously traceable to outside of Jewish and Christian faiths. It has its roots in Greek philosophy that is forced onto and outside of Christianity.

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I know. Hee IS thorough and complete without being boring. Reminds me of a mentor in school

Yes!!! It did

Hello fellow truck driver interested in theology!

Plus the fact that it was the knowledge of good and evil, meaning they couldn't have known that the serpent was evil for saying something contrary to god or that disobeying was wrong

By that reading and logic, you could say it is allegory for mankind escaping the shackles of organized religion. I love it!!

Can’t know good and evil without committing some kind of evil. So it could be that there was nothing different about that tree than any other there, other than God said not to eat of it. So by disobeying God you sin and therefore have a contrast between good and evil. It’s a choice to know and they chose to know.

The most correct interpretation of the text is that people spend all their time moralizing and become threats to others through that. Instead they should just eat from the tree of life (pursue immortality). This world is the opposite of the garden of eden wherein every choice is a bad one except pursuing immortality. The first story refers to the importance of working hard at that goal.

I’ve always had a Connection to God, I have felt his presence and light&love my whole life… I’ve also always believed in Jesus but I couldn’t believe the Bible… This is exactly how I’ve felt, that this world was run by a lesser Evil God and he was not Christs father. I believe this evil god is Yahweh the Jewish god that they worship

Maybe you need to approach the OT without prejudice, otherwise you would end rejecting both Testaments and calling Jesus a liar.

@@damariowilson2350 what error? the real error i see is people believing in a foundation that is directly responsible for the crucifixion and hijacking of Christianity. the modern bible is utterly false and purposely edited in a very specific way. don't forget why your text is still around, it's because the Romans exterminated any other variation of Christianity with extreme violence, how ironic.

@@shoyupacket5572 ironic in the sense that the god of the Romans (i.e) Jupiter, Zeus, Sol Invictus, is the same god as of the old testament.

@@kilowhiskeyalpha6078 say something relevant because if you wanna talk about how christianity is just paganism i already know more than you

​@@lorenzoc.b.9809 It is not necessarily prejudice..millions of people are reading the old testament and are horrified God is an advocate of slavery, rape, murder, human sacrifice etc there are so many texts that just does not make any sense of an all loving creator. This actually leads many people to abandon christianity completely. However, if you read gnostic Christianity then it makes more sense because the god of the OT is actually evil and is a fallen being/deity named Yaldaboath/Saklas who falls from the Realm of Light and believes he is the one true God but he is actually created from the real God known as the divine spirit from the realm of light. The OT god Saklas is an imperfect being that created an imperfect universe with death and suffering and is extremely jealous and vengeful and imprisons humanity within human bodies by trapping their souls in there and erases their minds that they are actually part of the the divine spirit and have a spark of divinity within them. It is Jesus that comes from the realm of light as an illuminator to teach humanity and free their minds from Saklas enslavement and remind them that to escape this fake world they have to embrace knowledge of the truth that they are actually part of the divine spirit and can return there only if they remember who they are and they can be free and live once again in the realm of light and not under the evil creator gods world on earth which is essentially hell with disease, death, and suffering and injustice. Many christians saw this blatant evil in the old testament and came to the conclusion that being is evil and cannot be worshipped and isn't the true God who is just and all loving..which is how gnostic christianity came about. There is much more to this story but these are some broad strokes..if you want to know more look up the gospel of Judas, the secret gospel of John, the gospel of Thomas and the apocalypse of Adam to name a few..if you are into pop culture the movie "the Matrix" is based upon Gnostic christianity..Neo is supposed to be Christ and is there to free humanity from a world of illusion where their minds and souls are being enslaved

I kept thinking about Enki and Enlil during this presentation.

@@grittykitty50 I believe it's actually them in retrospect

Sad.

So now. Tell me again just what it is you have faith in and just where this faith resides ?

@@TheRoyalBavarian I can’t tell you “again”, you have a pretentious way of writing.

I think I get it. I had Catholicism shoved down my throat as a kid, stumbled through agnosticism as a teen, wandered into Hermetism, Buddhism, and New Age Christianity as a budding adult. Now that I’m learning from Gnosticism, I feel my framework’s becoming more complete. I doubt I’ll achieve gnosis in this life, but I’m further along than I used to be, and that’s pretty satisfying.

Sorry to necro a comment two years later, but I am curious as to how you find it easier to relate to people who have no faith. Is it simply by virtue of the more popular sects of Christianity being unfriendly to those views, or are you somehow finding common ground with us atheists?

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Heck yea!!

just pointing out this is a very not standard story of Jesus.. similarities can be found in interpretation, creativity is boundless.. we are forced to read everything with the same concepts so stories about similar topics which are parallel, well, the parallels can be taken too far. And risk subordinating one form of knowledge to the other. As you learn from studying the thousands of equally profound cosmologies and philosophies of the world: each is a unique account of being (ontology) but we can only understand these texts (unfortunately as we do not have direct lineage teachers) through a sort of collective epistemology where all religions are forced to exist with one another historically. There’s also the common notions which were borne from historically Orientalist or simply wide-ranging comparative studies of the Vedas and Buddhist texts alongside the Avesta and Talmud. Drawing links between Noah and Manu, and then some two legendary warriors (it can be any but also I don’t know this part so well) to prove that there was a sort of Theo-political and juridical necessity motivating the establishment of a brotherly link between the priest and the king, which is shown from Thai Buddhist ideas of the monarch as carkavartin (supreme monarch) and bodhisattva (supreme renouncer) to the similar Zoroastrian concepts of the priest-magician and warrior-king as brothers, certain scholars posit some conceptual link. (This figure also considered by some to be the shadow from which the rabbi inherits their magical powers, specifically from the Zoroastrian magush or fire priest). So Jesus could be considered to inherit his salvation powers from Shiva, through a much less direct conceptual route. However this would ignore the ways in which other societies and cultures mediated and indeed transformed and represented in their own indigenous stories reflections of the dialectic of Shiva. Zoroastrianism as it evolved could be a good example of such a mediating agency. However, I would suggest that there is also a void between these ideas. And similarly there is a void which skews parallels between Jesus and Shiva. One can only make elemental comparisons.

I was also touched by the similarities in Brahman mythology where Brahmā creates Daksha because Rudra sat at the bottom of the sea “too long” while creating the tapas by which to create life. When he was ready, he came up from the Sea to witness life already existing…so he destroyed it. Daksha means Ritual Skill, which goes into this Gnostic theme.

I'm pretty sure it's Vishnu and Christ (not Jesus) that are the parallels, where as Shiva and the Holy Spirit are parallels. Christ being the light and wisdom in all matter in the Universe, where as the Holy Spirit is the creative energy that flows from Christ. Jesus, the Rabbi/Teacher/Master/King/Lord represents the word of God.

@@WilliamTheDestroyer. The Trimurti work together just like the Trinity so they are interchangeable in a sense. Whichever way works for you is equally as good

I do not find those two deities to be very similar. They do, however, both have death and reserection stories. As so many Goods do. But those two stories are also not very similar. Shiva achieves reserection by means of erection. That is, the Goddess Kali evidently tramples him to death (longer story). Then, when she calms down, she notices that the dead body of Shiva has an erection. So she has intercourse with him and this brings him back to life. So unless you see the cross as a Phallic symbol (which, in Ancient Egypt, it was) the stories are quite, um, different.

Thanks - such a cool text!

Yeah, semen is full of protein. Wanna go for a drink sometime?

Hope it's a touch better than wikipedia ;) Glad you are liking the content!

Wikipedia is manipulated by the public.

Wikipedia is biased and full of inaccuracies, omissions and intentional lies, not to mention all the retconning and revisionist bs that goes on there. This was a great video, well presented, well spoken and, well read. Comparing it to Wikipedia is laughable, no offense to you ofc.

Oh great - which translation?

@@TheEsotericaChannel The Meyer translations, which are my go-to mainly just because I own the book. If you are interested, I have playlists of numerous other Gnostic and Alchemic audiobooks that I've also done.

@@AltrusianGraceMedia I've heard and appreciated them - thanks for making them!

@Sol Astus thank you much

I know you typed this out a year ago but I am going through so much personal strife and it has been so difficult to continue ... this depiction of our reality and why it is the way it is, I feel so closely to my heart. I have villianized Yaldabaoth myself with deep resentment, only now to feel upon reading your comment, to feel some semblance of sympathy, relation and understanding to him. I too, have 'parent problems'.

So now we see what unbridled power in an unstable psyche produces: mirrored now in corporate America.

@@MsBizzyGurl what 😳

@@patrickbrumm4120 within the context of your statement, and I accept i could be wrong, I believe alchemy teaches us that we can transmute our own 2s into 3s through the spiritual works.

@@coletaylor9847 I think trying to make 1+1=3 is the error of the demiurge. Within existing physical laws, this would be considered a miracle, and Einstein said "God does not play dice with the universe". At an early age I determined that actual, real miracles, such as turning water into wine or bring someone back from the dead, would require such vast sources of energy that it would probably result in a local nuclear blast. And while alchemy gave us Chemistry, we've only just recently begun to start noodling with matter, and that requires a Large Hadron Collider. We can only fly in our dreams.

Thanks - I'll take any excuse to gaze on some William Blake!

@@TheEsotericaChannel ever watch the movie Manhunter, based on the book Red Dragon? There's a lot of Blake in there. And an excellent long-play version of Inna-Gadda-da-Vida during the final scene. Intense movie!

Nooo, me no like . Blake's people are so stumpy. They usually have no necks and legs like logs.

Same same... I'm 51... Guess they drove us into that when we were tween g girls. Seances etc into black magick by early 20s.. worked for Ms Cleo.. may 2022 flat on my back fighting death I have it up to Yeshua. I have a brand new body! Mind & my soul is filled with joy. Blessings

It does make more sense than "God left his kids alone with a very dangerous item, then got angry when they exercised their curiousity."

@@d.b.624 hahaha, yeah very weird how that all played out! I don’t like creation stories but this one kinda vibes. If we look at it from Egyptian lore it’s almost exact so technically the gods and goddesses are the sun, moon and stars.

@@d.b.624 "God" in the bible likes to make us look like toddlers hes trying to control, yet he has a temper himself. Then Jesus comes along and says....no, its all BS...you are all Gods yourselves.

@@annikajohansson9171 the NT could’ve just been “the kingdom of heaven is within you” case closed 🤣

RALMAO! Stop kidding yourself, no he is not!

I saw an astral spider once. I was napping on the lounge and had a dream of a huge spider falling on me. I was jolted awake, looked up and there descending from the ceiling was a spider (about the size of a soccer ball) made of whispy light. As I gazed at it the thing vanished gradually before my eyes. I instinctively knew that thing was coming to feed on me. Yeah this place is definitely a prison, a farm, a zoo, a power station, a research lab, all of those and probably more, eg mine, factory, cloning facility, etc...

Thank you Johnathan , for sharing your vision bro. What you described...probably happens also on a bigger scale in the Universe.That great spider who traps us; might also be protecting us .

@jonathan Forlin - was wondering what you meant by "mystical journey"? the vision with a mother spider is a metaphor . We have been trapped in a reincarnational loop. This was done by evil forces (Deep State) manipulating with some powerful aspect of the moon's power.( I am yet unsure of details). But, this moon manipulation was remedied (reversed? undone?) by Gallactic Alliance forces working with Trump Whitehats so that is why at some point in Ascension process we are currently in, there will be disclosure. And, we no longer reincarnate as a result; this is our last incarnation now on earth. Humanity has been ensnared by veil of deception and this reincarnation loop for millennia. It has ended last year;earth in transistion now.

@@judyhickman5831 large dose of psilocybin.

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greetings from orthodox christianity

@@abertj.7365 Havah is also "experiencing".

I'm proudly Southern....just not proud about those obviously horrible bits

@@TheEsotericaChannel exactly 😂

U are from the real Egypt, dont waste your time on channels not teaching the ancient Americans.. try UB news,432 drop, kurimeo,mind unveiled,Dr lango..

They are. All religions are birthed thanks to Gnosis.

Many thanks for these kind words

I hope so! Glad you like my content - thanks for watching!

Glad you found it interesting!

Typo Tobia Singer the rabbi

I would like to know whether you were an Orthodox from birth, or converted from a different background ? I believe more Orthodox or Catholics need to be exposed to Gnosticism and the Nag Hammadi literature, because they only knew Gnosticism from the "church fathers" who painted the Gnostics with a twisted/perverted image.