What is Gnosticism?

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Finally you managed to do what no one else seems to have been able to do. To explain Gnosticism in a wonderfully coherent narrative. It’s quite an accomplishment, thank you.

As a Buddhist, I find Christian gnosticism quite similar with our beliefs to some degre. This is really interesting.

I read the entire old testament in high school and thought to myself "This doesn't make sense. How can this truly be the God that everyone talks about". Since then, I've read the Kybalion and most of the corpus hermeticum looking for answers, but after finding this video, things are actually starting to make sense. I've ordered a translation of the nag hammadi yesterday and can't wait to learn more. I feel like a huge hole is starting to get filled and my questions are finally starting to get answered. Thank you for making this video, and I thank the all for taking me down this amazing journey.

I have often heard the term 'Gnostic' thrown around in my adult life, and having been raised Christian, the incredibly little I thought I knew seemed too weird to be understood. Enter a band called Meshuggah, and one of my favourite songs by them is called 'Demiurge'. After hundreds of listens, I recently thought to do a bit of an exploration of what it might be referring to. I'm only sad that I didn't do it sooner. My mind is absolutely blown. Thank you for such coherent content for a true novice like myself to perhaps just begin to try and understand all of this. Truly excellent starting point.

Gnosticism means to seek God look inward. This takes the preacher out of the equation as the middle man. No wonder the church hates Gnosticism. It's bad for their business model.

Great video as usual! Looking forward to future collabs.

For a long time I've tried to understand what is gnosticism and handled it poorly because all the explanations I've read were too complicated and vague. Your video is full and eye opening, thank you for such an amazing work!

I used to help out at a local funeral home after I got out of the military and I went to an Egyptian Gnostic funeral service and at first I was really aware that I was the only white person, but they offered me food, took my phone number, talked to me after the service, wanted me to attend their church, and were overall the nicest human beings I've met to this day. While I'm a Christian and didn't end up attending, their kindness has lasted in my heart ever since. Mad respect for explaining their religion better than any other video I've found! Human cultures and religions are so interesting to learn about, especially hidden gems like gnosticism!

Man, Japanese creators really loved Christian mysticism in 90-s. Xenogears (Big one), Final Fantasy 7, Neon Genesis Evangelion...

Gnostics: Sophia, can we ascend to the Pleroma to see God? Sophia: You already have a god in your world God in our world: Yaldabaoth

Thank you for being so positive but also intellectually responsible. Definitely a like and subscribe! I wish conversations like these were more mainstream. Not to claim someone as right or wrong, but to truly see history and how it effects every era. Well done!

I thank you for taking the time to go thru and explaining the rough draft of how Gnosticism works and applied in both the physical and meta, keep up the good work breh, greeting from New Caledonia btw

Your videos have been a big factor in me realizing how passionate I am about religious anthropology, and now its something I'm looking into for my major!

The Sethian breakdown of reality is SO similar to Hindu Vedanta. Even assigning the male gender to characterize the "Ultimate Oneness" and the female gender to "the Ultimate Original Thought", which in Sanskrit is called Brahman, or Purusha (male) and Prakriti (female), or God and Goddess. It is all within the Ultimate One and never (really) separate. I'm so grateful you took the time to teach us this... thank you. It's the best overview of Gnosticism I've ever seen so far.😍

This is probably the best in-depth video on this topic on the whole platform. Thank you!

this is so fascinating!! thanks for taking the time to properly set the stage, beautiful video

The hard work and effort you put into this

I'm so glad you and Andrew collaborated. You two are among my favorite channels on the platform. Great content as always

This may be my favorite episode yet. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us!