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Gnostic Insights

Gnostic Insights

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  • The Nature of the Gnostic God

    The Nature of the Gnostic God
    May 4 2024
    Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. I’m starting to review a few of our previous episodes from a couple of years ago because we have a lot of new listeners and, in case you haven’t backed up to listen to the entire series, I’m picking out what seems to me to be important ideas. And for those of you who have already heard this, again, like I said last week, it really bears repeating. It takes many, many times to hear these things in order to fully grasp them, as I’m sure you agree. Now, my intent here at Gnostic Insights isn’t to teach you these things so much as it is to remind you of these things, because it is one of the basic tenets of gnosticism that we are born with this knowledge—we 2nd Order Powers—and that’s everything that’s living in the cosmos. We 2nd Order Powers come down from the Fullness with all of the attributes and knowledge of the Fullness of God, because the Fullness is throughout our entire bodies. Every cell carries a fractal of the Fullness, and we carry a fractal of the Fullness in our overall personhood, our Self. We tend to forget all of this in the living of our life down here. The Tripartite Tractate says the reason we forget this knowledge is due to the what they call the never ending war, and the never ending war is the tension between those of the Remembrance—we 2nd Order Powers—and that which did not exist from the beginning, which is the Archons and the Demiurge. They don’t know any of this. The Demiurge thinks that it is the beginning of all there is. It doesn’t remember the God Above All Gods or Logos, its better Self. It thinks it came into this cosmos and woke up and suddenly the cosmos existed, which is kind of the way it is because it is the result of the Fall, and it’s the Fall that made the cosmos. It’s the Fall that split Logos in two and the better part of Logos goes up, returns to the Fullness and to the Father. That’s its One Self, its overall fractal of Selfhood. But it left behind, down here in the Fall, its broken pieces. That is the ego that overreached in the first place—the part that left the Fullness of God. It works for its own self. It doesn’t work for the overall good. It doesn’t remember the Father, the God Above All Gods, the Fullness from which it came. It doesn’t remember the Golden Rule of cooperation. So the Demiurge thinks it is the God and it goes ahead. And it is a God. It is the God of this world, and it creates the heavens and the Earth and all of the dry, hard, rocky parts—the material, the particles, the atoms, the molecules, the elements, the minerals—that is all demiurgic. And that is the never ending war that we living creatures find ourselves engaged in. And because of the nature of always having to put up our dukes and fight, we forget the goodness and love and what our original purpose was for being incarnated in the first place, which is to remind the Demiurge of the love of the Fullness and the love of the Father and the love of the God Above All Gods. Our job is to bring love into this universe. So here is the beginning of that story. This is the story of the God Above All Gods, the God of the gnostic mythologies. Today we’re going to be looking at the concept known as the Father. As you know, we’ve been looking at the gnostic Gospel according to the Tripartite Tractate, which is one of the books of the Nag Hammadi scrolls. The Tripartite Tractate is a book that focuses on the origins of our universe and everything in it, including us. So I thought we would look around again today and revisit the Tripartite Tractate and what it has to say about the Father as the first principle of gnosticism. Philosophers often speak of the hard problem of consciousness. Materialist scientists don’t believe in consciousness. They believe in a thing called material monism, which is that we are only our physical bodies and that any appearance of consciousness or of a soul is merely a by-product of physical mechanisms, hormones, atoms moving around–this sort of thing. The counterpoint to that view, often called dualism, is that, yes, we have a physical body and then we also have a soul and it’s your soul that survives after death. This gnosticism that comes from the Nag Hammadi is a religious system that presupposes that there is a soul and there is a body. So, first off, we acknowledge that gnosticism is a dualistic philosophy. It seems to me that the soul that people speak of surviving is the consciousness that began with the Father and derives from the Father. And that is why, whenever I discuss the system of consciousness, whether it’s in A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything or The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated, (my prior gnostic book), it always begins with the Father, because the Father is where consciousness resides. The Father is consciousness itself. The Father is another word for consciousness. Then this entire creation cosmology that’s presented through the Tripartite ...
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  • The Son of the God Above All Gods

    The Son of the God Above All Gods
    May 9 2024
    In the previous episode, I talked about the characteristics of the Father as recounted by the Tripartite Tractate in the Nag Hammadi library. Now, the funny thing about that whole last episode discussing the characteristics of the Father is that the Father is unknowable. The father is ineffable and illimitable, and all those gigantic words which mean that we can’t really comprehend the Father at all. So, it was an ironic episode as a description of the Father. Let me add that this material is not easy. This is advanced material when trying to read directly out of the Tripartite Tractate. That’s why my book, The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated, is much simpler and easier to understand. In The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated I take this material and I reword it into simple, common vernacular that anyone can understand. It’s a very short book, beautifully illustrated—very, very simple as far as sharing the gnosis of the Tripartite Tractate. It is not an academic book. It is a very simple book for understanding. So if this material is too thick and difficult for you, forget about it. Skip it for now. Get my book, The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated, and sit with it for a while, and then I think if you come back to this type of material directly from the Tripartite Tractate, you will be able to easily understand what’s being said. You may purchase my original Gnostic Gospel at gnosticinsights.com or any online book dealer. So, how is it that we can claim to know these characteristics of the Father—his sweetness, his greatness, and so forth? Well, that is because the Father reveals his own characteristics through what is called the Son, and the Son is actually the God that we are able to relate to. The Son is the relatable father to us and to the Aeons, whereas the Son is the only Son of that Father who is otherwise inexpressible. The Son does reflect and incorporate the characteristics of the Father, so it seems to me that we can infer the characteristics of the Father from the Son, and that’s what I think the author of the Tripartite Tractate did—inferred what the characteristics of the Father must be by examining the characteristics of the Son. And so now, in this episode, I would like to share more about the characteristics of the Son. And, what is the Son? What does it mean to be the only begotten Son of God? And what was this first expression of the Father? In the Tripartite Tractate, the Son is the Father of the Totalities, and sometimes these names get interchanged where the Son begins to be referred to as the Father. Again, this is a confusing bit because the Father is the originating source, the ground state of consciousness from which all else emanates, but the Father of us and of the Totalities before us—that is the Son, the Begotten Son. The translation of the Tripartite Tractate that I’ll be sharing is from the gnosis.org website, and this is the translation by Attridge and Mueller. It all emanates from the Father. So here, near the beginning of the Tripartite Tractate, the writer is saying, “Concerning the Father, rather, one should speak of him as good, perfect, complete, being himself the Totality. Not one of the names which are conceived or spoken, seen or grasped, not one of them applies to him, even though they are exceedingly glorious, magnifying, and honored. However, it is possible to utter these names for his glory and honor, in accordance with the capacity of each one of those who give him glory.” Which is saying that it is a reflection of the speaker, like me saying these things, or the writer of the Tripartite Tractate claiming these things about the Father that are good and glorious. It is more a reflection of our capacity to understand and grasp the Father rather than the Father itself, because the Father is unknowable and ungraspable, and so the glory that we give is a reflection of our capacity to give glory. The Tripartite says of the Father that, “He is the one who is inconceivable by any thought, invisible by anything, ineffable by any word, untouchable by any hand. He alone is the one who knows himself as he is.” And, after describing our inability to conceive of the Father, the Father therefore brings forth the Son, which is someone that we can begin to praise and grasp with any sort of true reflection of its Self. So it is saying we really don’t know any of this stuff that we’re saying about the Father. But what we can infer is that now, as it says again, “He is the One who projects himself thus as generation, having glory and honor, marvelous and lovely; the One who glorifies himself, who marvels, who also loves; this is the One who has a Son who subsists in him, who is silent concerning him, who is the ineffable One in the ineffable One, the invisible One, the incomprehensible One, the inconceivable One in the inconceivable One. Thus, the Son exists in the Father forever. The Father is the One in whom he knows himself, who begot him having a thought...
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I was pleasantly surprised that Dr. Ropp was brave to tell this entire encounter with the experience to back it up. A lot of this knowledge has been purposely written off as fantasy and not advertised for many reasons. It is truly her experience and interpretation that has matched thousands of others through out history who have also been ignored.

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As a Gnostic Christian who was raised within mainstream Protestant Christianity, this podcast seems very inauthentic to me. I'm not saying her faith is inauthentic, only that it isn't actually Gnostic. It seems as though the intention behind Cyd Ropp's "Gnostic Insights" is a bit deceptive, like a Trojan Horse clothed with language adopted from Gnostic tradition but actually expressing mainstream Christianity. As well, beyond her primary focus on the mainstream Christian Bible, she mainly ignores most Gnostic scriptures, except for only one, which is the Tripartite Tractate, perhaps because she finds it easiest to bend to her goal, which is to draw people in with promises of Gnostic teachings, that quickly become a bait-and-switch leading to mainstream Christianity.

Seems inauthentic to me

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