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The Forbidden Truth
“Adam’s apple is so named because a piece of the Biblical forbidden fruit is supposed to have stuck in his throat. The name Adam itself is the Hebrew word for ‘man’. What sticks in our throat, then, is the… Forbidden … Continue reading
Posted in Notes and Annotations
Tagged Bible, forbidden-fruit, gnosis, myth, tree-of-knowledge
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Black Light Posters
Created by Rev. Illuminatus Maximus These deluxe black light (or blacklight) rock art posters illustrate the occult secrets of the Gnostic gospels in cartoon form, telling the story the colonization of the Earth by reptilian predators called archons and its … Continue reading
T-Shirt + Gift Shop
Created by Rev. Illuminatus Maximus Welcome to the official Gnostic Friends Network Cafepress store, where you can buy t-shirts, postcards and posters illustrating a variety of strange and shocking scenes from the occult gospels of the Gnostic heretics. Annoy your … Continue reading
Adamic Ecstasies
“Perhaps the most interesting code name for MDMA that seems to have originated with a group of therapists on the West Coast is the term “Adam,” by which is meant not Adam as man, but rather Adam-and-Eve as androgynous ancestor. … Continue reading
Posted in Notes and Annotations
Tagged Adam, androgyny, ecstasy, Eden, Eve, gnosis, innocence
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Cut-ups
“Burroughs… developed the concept of ‘cut-up’ in using it to demonstrate the controlling quality intrinsic to ‘the Word’; possession over human beings by language. The cut-up is a way of exposing word and image controls thereby freeing oneself from them, … Continue reading
Posted in Notes and Annotations
Tagged brainwashing, Burroughs, control-systems, gnosis, magic
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Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes! Continue reading
Posted in Magazine Articles
Tagged antinomian, Bataille, Baudrillard, Cainites, Carpocrates, Carpocratians, Christianity, devil, Epiphanes, gnosis, Gnosticism, God, Jesus, magic, metempsychosis, reincarnation, salvation, Satan, sex, taboo, tantra, transgression
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Eve and the Breath of Life
Eve was not produced from Adam’s rib; rather, Adam was created by fallen angels who abandoned him as lifeless experiment, a soulless robot who lay twitching helplessly on the ground until Sophia’s daughter Eve descended from the heavens and brought … Continue reading
ART? Alternatives Issue #9
Back in 1994, one man began having startling realizations about “the very foundations of [his] being.” He… discovered several texts describing gnosticism, one of the three main branches of primitive Christianity. “Somehow, these ancient Christian heretics had already discovered and … Continue reading
Posted in Press
Tagged Bible, Christianity, devil, earth, gnosis, gnostic, Gnosticism, God, Hell, Jesus, magic, religion, serpent, sex, Yaldabaoth
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Many Heavens of the Hebdomad
In the gnostic view, Yaldabaoth built the universe as a sort of cosmic penal colony where “dimensions, times, and seasons” were created in order to keep humans “blinded” and “bound” to the cycle of reincarnation. [1] As a soul falls … Continue reading
Posted in Birth of the Demiurge
Tagged archons, earth, gnosis, gnostic, Gnostics, Jesus, Yaldabaoth
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False teachers will arise to deceive even the elect
"The Word warns of such, that in the end times false teachers will arise to deceive even the elect. WOW!!! The Word is true – here they are!!!" – Dan Downey
