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Category Archives: The Alien God
God’s Family Tree
“Seeing that everybody, gods of the world and mankind, says that nothing existed prior to chaos, I, in distinction, shall demonstrate that they are all mistaken…” (1) Gnostic creation myths are unbelievably complex, bizarre and convoluted; compared to such texts … Continue reading
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God Above God : Before the Beginning
Before there was a God, a heaven or an earth, there was only the Alien God, the infinite and eternal mind who dreams all realities: “There is a perfect preexistent Aeon, dwelling in the invisible and unnameable elevations… in quiet … Continue reading
The Alien God and Panentheism
The gnostic Christians acknowledged a supreme being, but their god was not the bumbling, all-too-human creator god of the Bible. The Yahweh of Genesis was wrathful, jealous, particular and vindictive; how could he be the highest form of mind, when … Continue reading
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The Non-Existent God and the Multiverse
THE NON-EXISTENT GOD The main difference between the “Alien god” of gnosticism and the Biblical god of Genesis is the idea that the Alien god never created anything, much less the world; the Alien God simply is. Or is not … Continue reading
The Barbelo : Womb of the Universe
BIRTH OF THE BARBELO A convention common to many ancient philosophical speculations was the designation of deities as male and their thoughts as female. Neither, in this sense, is truly separable from the other; they exist in eternal androgynous union, … Continue reading
Immortal Man
The Gnostic trinity of Father, Mother and Child was made complete with the birth of Immortal Androgynous Man, first and only offspring of Barbelo and the Alien God: “The Invisible Spirit gazed at the Barbelo… and the Barbelo conceived by … Continue reading
The Infinite Aeons
Before the material world existed, the divine world was created, erupting from the ecstatic union of Sophia (the world soul) and Christ (Divine Mind). The universe they made together exists outside of time as a realm of infinite possibility and … Continue reading
The Fall of Sophia
“The power which overflowed from the Woman…fell from above [and] came down directly upon the waters, when they were motionless, and set them in motion, moving boldly as far as the abysses; and it took a body for itself from … Continue reading
