tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post8772811358835330670..comments2023-10-11T03:48:57.606-04:00Comments on Head For the Red: Hermetic WorkRufus Opushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10806987441760167537noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-19556863251977763082010-08-15T17:44:40.519-04:002010-08-15T17:44:40.519-04:00the "insider" claims the earth to be _wo...the "insider" claims the earth to be _worse than_ a prison.<br />my current take on it is that it's a farm.<br />prisoners do their time but farm animals are exploited and their very species is alienated : genetic barriers, blocks and enslaving.<br /><br />another gnostic-like piece on this topic : http://www.rense.com/general91/wft4.htmquintaldonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-3391363800622580552010-07-23T00:09:42.936-04:002010-07-23T00:09:42.936-04:00I have figured out the source of your issues, Davi...I have figured out the source of your issues, David! I can heal you, make you stronger, faster, more at peace with the world. I can take away your pain, the conflict within your heart and mind, the sorrow of existence that threatens to blind you to the simultaneous joy. I can make you One.<br /><br />For the low low price of... ;)Rufus Opushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10806987441760167537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-58771702268999397292010-07-20T21:55:27.744-04:002010-07-20T21:55:27.744-04:00Well, I have the impression that we are the fallen...Well, I have the impression that we are the fallen ones, somethings seems to point in that direction to me, still a subject I'm trying to elucidate. Having said that, I see the "earth prison" concept as a valid one, personally I think that the prison is to be incarnated and to have to come back over and over again to endure so much evil and a lot of other not so kind things,for some this is to "learn" and become worth enough to be besides God, for me is precisely to serve time, pay the debt and then be worth to go back to "society"(could be heaven, metaphorically). By the way, that evil we must endure has been created by ourselves, because we are the fallen ones!MARCUShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08866427008122246600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-44377422652788164692010-07-20T16:26:20.426-04:002010-07-20T16:26:20.426-04:00I cringed at this at first because of the first li...I cringed at this at first because of the first line, then realized you were citing someone else. I swear, you're almost as bad as Plotinus for that. Speaking of Plotinus says very, very mean things about the gnostics, mostly because (1) they blaspheme the demiurge and (2) they regard matter as sinful. Plotinus goes out of his way to say insofar as matter is distant from the One, it is "evil," but it is not evil in the moral sense. Still, I like the later Neoplatonists better; they like matter just fine as a means of creating "symbola" back to the One.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-29582052982480002442010-07-20T15:06:55.865-04:002010-07-20T15:06:55.865-04:00Oh, and we weren't created by the demiurge in ...Oh, and we weren't created by the demiurge in the Hermetic Texts. It LOOKS like we were created by the Good, the First Father, but further research indicates that might have been the Nous. Still, not a demiurge in this belief system.<br /><br />Phil Dick never made it to the Rainbow Body, so fuck him.Rufus Opushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10806987441760167537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-68051142168402851992010-07-20T15:05:31.425-04:002010-07-20T15:05:31.425-04:00@Jack, the Demiurge isn't always a bad dude. I...@Jack, the Demiurge isn't always a bad dude. In Hermetic theology he's the consubstantiated LOGOS and the Workman. He never fell, was never a blind idiot god, and was never the abortive attempt by Sophia to create a reflection of the universe. SOME gnostics may have believed the demiurge was evil at worst, incompetent at best, but not all. I'm 99% sure the Corpus Hermeticum predated the gnostic perversion of the Demiurge and his Seven Assistants. Can't look it up at the moment though.Rufus Opushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10806987441760167537noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-67441593476661773262010-07-20T14:59:01.506-04:002010-07-20T14:59:01.506-04:00We have the true light of Gnosis - the divine spar...We have the true light of Gnosis - the divine spark - but were unfortunately created by the Demiurge...<br /><br />I mean, you could also go Phil Dick at this point and begin ranting about the Pink Beam and the Black Iron Prison...Jack Fausthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13693993943756621762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25882546.post-55931214686672028332010-07-20T10:49:34.189-04:002010-07-20T10:49:34.189-04:00This is a theme which runs through Gnosticism: Th...This is a theme which runs through Gnosticism: The earth is a prison, and we're all here because of a colossal mistake.Monsignor Scott Rassbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11685549734111626335noreply@blogger.com