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Rev Max Interview by Tim Boucher
Rev Max (a pseudonym) is the deranged mind behind Enemies.com, the weird art website which first exposed me to gnostic myths and symbols in the late 1990’s. I didn’t actually get really into gnostic thought until several years later, but I always really loved Max’s out-there artistic vision. So I was very excited when earlier [...]
Pavlovs Gods
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #95, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of brainwashing and trauma in primitive Christianity, touching upon a number of shocking and exotic themes!
Adam the Golem
Adam (the first man) was a misbegotten android, spawned when Yaldabaoth tried to duplicate and enslave a reflected vision of Immortal Man which startled the Rulers when it appeared in the waters of paradise.
“Now the Rulers took some soil from the earth and modeled their Man, after their body and after the Image of God [...]
The Demiurge and Disorder
The Biblical creator god's greatest flaw is his ignorance - he literally does not understand where he came from. The Demiurge's limited awareness made him the target of many cruel jokes in the gnostic scriptures, not least of which were the insulting nicknames he was given:
"This gloomy ruler has three names: "The first name [...]
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 endless exploration, fluid and ever-changing, a hyperspace of pure thought:
"Now Immortal Man revealed Aeons and powers [...]
