The Gnostic Critique of Info Warriors / Truthers

“Holding the belief-system of salvationism (based on the four points of the Palestinian redeemer complex*) does not prevent info-warriors from doing an excellent job of exposing the New World Order, but it will almost certainly prevent them from defeating it because in salvationism they embrace the very beliefs that inspire and drive the system they are opposing.”
— John Lamb Lash, Sophianic Cosmology

*The redeemer complex has four components: the creation of the world by a father god independent of a female counterpart; the trial and testing (conceived as a historical drama) of the righteous few or “Chosen People;” the mission of the creator god’s son (the messiah) to save the world; and the final, apocalyptic judgment delivered by father and son upon humanity.

“To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”
― Hypatia of Alexandria

Image: Detail from Hypatia by Pandora Young

Additional Notes: Hypatia was the daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria, the last known teacher in the age-old tradition of the Mystery Schools, the spiritual universities of antiquity. Historians have long regarded her brutal murder by a Christian mob as the event that defined the end of classical civilization in Mediterranean Europe. It signalled the end of Paganism and the dawn of the Dark Ages.

“All saints revile her, and all sober men
Ruled by the God Apollo's golden mean -
In scorn of which we sailed to find her
In distant regions likeliest to hold her
Whom we desired above all things to know,
Sister of the mirage and echo.”
― Robert Graves, Extract from The White Goddess

Image: Apollo and the Muses (1921) by John Singer Sargent

Additional Notes: Here we see Apollo depicted by Sargent surrounded by nine muses. In Mystery language, the Ninth is code for the Earth as an organic planetary body distinct from the inorganic planetary system, called the Hebdomad or the Seventh. In many mythologies throughout the world, nine is the number of the Goddess. Three times three is the preeminent signature of feminine divinity. Graves says, "The Triple Muse is woman in her divine character: the poet's enchantress, the only theme of his songs”

Select notes on Bhairavi compiled from various sources

All spiritual phenomena in the universe tread the twin paths of beauty and danger. Goddess Bhairavi is the terrifying aspect of the Dasha Maha Vidya representing divine wrath and anger. With her piercing shrieks and petrifying rage she dispels negative forces that try to curb spiritual growth. Her name itself denotes terror or the one who is awe-inspiring. Although a frighteningly raw energy, she is mankind’s guide and protection. She signifies the proverbial wrath of a mother towards beings that threaten her children.

Sacred Anger, Sacred Honesty: Bhairavi's instruction on anger as a transpersonal force of perception, and the role of honesty in eliciting choice; a succinct and elegant teaching.

This is the call for heroic honesty.

Dakini Instruction: “Freedom stands at the end of secrecy.”

“If one of every five people in any group stands for the end of secrecy, then freedom is insured.”
― John Lamb Lash

Image:Bhairavi by Avinab Mukheerji

“Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne

Image: Lethe, the river of forgetfulness, Purgatorio, Canto XXXI by Gustave Doré

Additional Notes: The word ‘Lethean’ refers to Greek mythology, the river Lethe is one of five rivers of the underworld of Hades. The Lethe flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness.

The Gnostic understanding of Deep Ecology

In deep ecology, bonding to the land is the first condition for an ecologically sane society. “The first thing to do is to choose a sacred place and live in it.” So advised Pawnee tribe elder, Tahirussawichi. The Pagan pact with the land can be regarded as what is today called bioregionalism. Native Americans frequently insist that they belong to the land, the land does not belong to them.

In its reverence for nature the Pagan religious outlook honored and encouraged empathic bonding of person to place, not divinely ordained possession of the land. Mountains, hills, grottos, wells, rivers, all were sacred, not because any doctrine declared them to be, but because the experience of the peoples native to a particular locale was grounded in a direct and sensuous revelation of divinity.

Ancient bioregionalism, in Europa as well as in the Americas, was not superstitious folly, but a genuine, lived animism.

Image: Ceres Roman Fertility & Agriculture by Emily Balivet

"The polytheist envisaged his native place as a unique whole defined by geography, climate, history, and the local economy, as well as by the gods who particularly frequented it, ensured its prosperity, and might even assume its name. No part of this identity, a delicate interweaving of divine, natural, and human…could be subtracted or neglected without impairing the harmony and viability of the whole."
― Garth Fowden

Additional Notes: Paganism may be defined by the primary orientation of society to the natural world, the habitat, and perceived it holistically. Fowden notes that pagans were immersed in "that distinctive understanding of divinity that comes through dwelling together with the gods in a certain place, a precise local knowledge that no distant prophet could or would ever make into a noscripture." In the Pagan sense of life, culture is organically situated in nature.

Image: Andrey Shishkin

“It was lunar symbolism that enabled man to relate and connect such heterogeneous things as: birth, becoming, death, and ressurection; the waters, plants, woman, fecundity, and immortality; the cosmic darkness, prenatal existence, and life after death, followed by the rebirth of the lunar type ("light coming out of darkness"); weaving, the symbol of the "thread of life," fate, temporality, and death; and yet others. In general most of the ideas of cycle, dualism, polarity, opposition, conflict, but also of reconciliation of contraries, of ‘coincidentia oppositorum*’, were either discovered or clarified by virtue of lunar symbolism. We may even speak of a metaphysics of the moon, in the sense of a consistent system of "truths" relating to the mode of being peculiar to living creatures, to everything in the cosmos that shares in life, that is, in becoming, growth and waning, death and resurrection.”
―Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane

*unity of opposites

Image: Metamorphosis of the Moon by Liu Kuo-Sung

The Gnostic understanding of the moon

The surviving Gnostic writings contain no graphic denoscriptions of how the moon was created, what is indicated is that at some point that the Aeon Sophia discharges the moon from her terrestrial body. Within gnostic cosmology the Earth, Sun, and Moon form a symbiotic system enclosed on itself and dynamically distinct from the clockwork mechanism of the other planets.

Normally, we do not feel ourselves integrated into a planetary system, but into a three-body cosmos comprising of the Sun, Earth and Moon. These are constantly present, tangible and visible. They mark the rhythms of life and impact us in many ways, down to the cellular level. The planets cannot be said to do likewise, for they are not immanently and intimately active in all life-processes, even in our conscious living habits, as the Sun and Moon are.

Due to the “conversion of Sabaoth,” the physics of the Sun are integrated closely with the terrestrial biosphere. Thus, Sun, Moon and Earth reflect, although in a compromised manner, the three-formed intent of the Aeon Sophia. The Sun and Moon remain dominated by inorganic chemistry, yet they are intimately integrated into the organic chemistry of the biosphere. The Moon emerges during the same period that “the earth has consolidated itself through Sophia”, and acts as a counterweight to the Heptad (the inorganic realm of celestial mechanics).

The Moon was not ejected physically from the Earth, as the current, admittedly shaky theory of lunar formation asserts. Instead, the Moon was distilled from the biosphere by an act of secretion, a slow discharge of inorganic elements. This is why the Moon and its cycles remain intimately linked “structurally coupled” to all life-forms on earth.

With its pearl-like rotundity, the Moon represents the condensed end of the original “shoot” of cosmic plasma from the galactic core. Imagine a molten bubble of foam-like Pleromic plasma condensed and ossified, absorbing inorganic elements that would otherwise have penetrated the biosphere and loaded it down too heavily.

This assertion of Gnostic Cosmology is in much closer alignment with the Electric Universe Model and plasma cosmology, a growing alternative view of the universe spear headed by the Thunderbolts Project. The assertion of the moon being made of Plasma was also made by Professor Robert Foster in 1965 (see video clip below). Foster asserted that the moon was in fact made of plasma, not rock and that landing on it would not be possible. (For those aware of the fraudulent Apollo moon landings you will know that this is still yet to happen) Foster claimed that once his ‘profound and decisive’ investigations were proven, a complete re-investigation of the laws of nature would be necessary. From this we can assume that one of the purposes of the fraudulent moon landings were perhaps to occlude and halt investigation into plasma cosmology and undermine the sacred and mysterious nature of the moon by casting it simply as an inorganic ball of rock. The symbolic nature of the divine feminine of the moon conquered by Apollo (the masculine solar principle) is also of note.

-notes from Sophianic Cosmology and various sources

In 1965 Professor Robert Foster attempted to turn conventional science on its head. Among Foster’s assertions were that the moon was in fact made of plasma, not rock, and that landing on it would not be possible. Foster claimed that once his ‘profound and decisive’ investigations were proven, a complete re-investigation of the laws of nature would be necessary.

Gnostic intel on the moon

Link to the full version of the interview

“Without conscious rituals of loss and renewal, individuals and societies lose the capacity to experience the sorrows and joy that are essential for feeling fully human. Without them life flattens out, and meaning drains from both living and dying. Soon there is a death of meaning and an increase in meaningless deaths.”
― Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth

Image: The Sacred Groves by Arnold Bocklin

“To the extent that Catholicism contains any good ideas, they all come from the covert Mithraic and Platonic pagan elements of the religion. The Protestants got rid of the pagan elements and returned Christianity to a type of Judaism. In the absence of pagan elements, Christianity was never anything other than Messianic Judaism based on Jesus Christ as the Jewish Messiah, so the Messianic Jews are unquestionably the purest Christians in the world. Protestants are Jews who haven’t realised they’re Jews and Catholics are pagans who haven’t realised they’re pagans.”
―Adam Weishaupt

Notes: Weishaupt (1748-1830) was a German* philosopher and founder of the Bavarian Illuminati. His assertions and critique of the Abrahamic religions hold a great deal of truth however Weishaupt and his ‘illuminated’ brethren’s rejection appear to be carried out while still within the Abrahamic narrative framework preventing them from being truly liberated from the infernal dialectic.

*descendant of Jewish converts to Christianity

“All the clues in the world don’t count if you don’t know what crime has been committed.”
― John Lamb Lash

“In the beginning there was Isis-Hathor: Oldest of the Old. She was the Goddess from whom all Becoming arose. She was the Great Lady, Mistress of the Two Lands of Egypt, Mistress of Shelter, Mistress of Heaven, Mistress of the House of Life, Mistress of the Divine Word. She was the Unique. In all Her great and wonderful works She was a wiser magician and more excellent than any God.”
― Theban sacred text, 14C BCE, Egypt

Additional notes

Image: Hathor as Cow by Ravenari

Notes on Hathor, Primeval Cows and Gnosticism

Hathor is an ancient Egyptian goddess associated, later, with Isis and, earlier, with Sekhmet but eventually was considered the primeval goddess from whom all others were derived. On many occasions the Egyptian Goddess Hathor was personified as a cow, a figure of her material and sublime character, although she was usually shown as a woman wearing a triple headdress with a crown of cow horns or cow ears and a solar disk. Hathor was referred to as "the great one of many names.”

In Norse mythology Auðumbla is the great primeval cow from the Prose Edda. Mother of ancient Norse mythology whose magical milk sustains all with its nurturing power. She is the Great Mother who is the source of all, a creature of magic as old as time.

There is also Gavaevodata the primeval bovine of Zoroastrian cosmogony and cosmology. In Hinduism, Kamadhenu; the divine bovine goddess and mother of all cows. In Greek mythology, Amalthea represented as a goat who suckled Zeus.

The common feature with all of these divine entities is that of being the provider of magical milk which sustains and maintains life.

Initiates into the Gnostic Mysteries would experience the naked body of the Wisdom Goddess, the Aeon Sophia, the naked body of the earth itself. The luminous presence of the goddess is referred to as the Organic Light and described as having a luminous milky white quality. For those initiated into this experience and seeing that the planet appeared like ‘magical milk’ it would likely invoke the question of where this ‘milk’ could have come from. This common experience and subsequent question could explain the commonality of the ‘primordial cow’ as the sustainer of life mythological archetype.

Those who had beheld the Organic Light were welcomed into the company of the initiated with the benedictory greeting, "A kid, thou hast fallen into milk."

“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.”
― Derrick Jensen, A Language Older Than Words

Image: Ravine Rapture by Mark Henson

“Atheism was an exceedingly rare phenomenon in antiquity: very few people believed there were literally no gods.

The word “atheism” itself, however, simply means “without the gods,” and one could be “without” them while still acknowledging they existed.

...atheism applied more normally to “anyone who rejected or neglected the traditional modes of honoring the gods.”

That is to say, anyone who abjectly refused to participate in the worship of divine beings could be labeled an atheist.

Such a person could expect a good deal of opprobrium and sometimes civil action.

The Christians were often accused of being atheists.

Obviously that was not because they denied the divine realm but because they refused to acknowledge (and act as if) it was inhabited by more than the one being they worshiped and refused to interact with it in traditional ways.”
― Bart D. Ehrman, The Triumph of Christianity: How a Small Band of Outcasts Conquered an Empire

Image: Germania in Ketten by Ludwig Fahrenkrog

“Confronted with salvation history, it is difficult to tell what is more preposterous: the plot and purpose expressed in the noscript, or the widespread credence it has commanded. The "Divine Plan” is so alien to indigenous wisdom, so wrong for social guidance both in spiritual and survival terms, and so contrary to the innate moral instincts of humanity, that its acceptance by untold millions of people through the ages boggles the mind and staggers the imagination. Because it has become the dominant noscript in the psychohistory of our species, there is a universal tendency to assume that it must be true, in one way or another, at one level or another. But is the mere acceptance of any idea or belief proof of its veracity? With salvation history, the fact that so many people have embraced it, and still do, impedes an essential insight: beliefs that would be rejected and ridiculed if held by a cult of a few hundred members become sacrosanct and unquestionable when held by millions.”
—John Lamb Lash

“She taught them the ministry of her rites,
And revealed to them her beautiful mysteries,
Which are impossible to transgress, or pry into, or divulge,
For so great is one's awe of the gods that it halts the tongue.”
― Homeric hymn to Demeter

Additional Notes: Demeter is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. Although mostly known as a grain goddess, she also appears as a goddess of health, birth, marriage, and has connections to the Underworld. Demeter provides the gateway to the mysteries through the gift of wheat. The grain in the head of wheat held its own reproductive power but also, due to the fungus of ergot, its revelatory power. For the mystai the two powers, biological and mystical operate as a unity. The hymn hints at a vow of silence surrounding the mysteries however this was not due to fear or danger of repercussion but simply silence in the face of awe.

Image: Demeter by Zingaia

“And Adam was a laughingstock, and Abraham, and Jacob, and David, and Solomon, and the Twelve Prophets, and Moses, and John the Baptist…None of them knew me, the Revealer, nor my brethren in the Mysteries…They never knew truth, nor will they know it, for there is a great deception upon their soul, and they cannot ever find the mind of freedom, in order to know themselves, in true humanity."
-The Second Treaty,NHC

Notes: In order for Christianity to triumph, its adherents not only silenced the Gnostics but also destroy the networks of the Mysteries and eliminate all evidence it had ever existed. Gnostic scholar K.W Troger estimates that one-third of the Coptic corpus is anti-Judaic. The 2nd Treatise is exemplary of the Gnostic protest against salvationism. It contains page upon page of scathing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs and customs. It ridicules the biblical forefathers and castigates those who follow patriarchal religion, unable to see how it corrupts their very sense of humanity.

Image: Alex Levin