0353 Now, I attend to thirdness.

Here is the match between elements of the Gnostic origin myth and levels of the society tier.

0354 The association strikes fear into my heart.  Look who is queen.

0355 The pleroma associates to the suprasovereign religion. The suprasovereign places the sovereign office into perspective. The pleroma puts Personified Wisdom into perspective.

0356 This is the foundation of relativism of the deepest sort.

Each age actualizes a different personification of Sophia. The Sophia of any past age is not the Sophia of the present age. The Sophia of the present age is not the Sophia of the New Age.  Yet, ironically, the role of Sophia never changes.

0357 The division of ages by Joachim of Flora, in the 1100s, marks the birth of a new type of Gnosticism. The three ages inherent in Christendom, the disruption of the continuum of time by the entrance of God as a Person, were brought to Earth

Ever since, a New Age dangles in front of the type 2 Gnostic. The New Age lies just beyond the horizon. The New Age will be immortal. The present age is mortal.

0358 How to fly over the horizon?

No, that is type 1 Gnosticism.

0359 How to birth the New Age?

Yes, that is more type 2. 

The answer is: Seize sovereign power.

0360 The Marxist begins by destroying capitalism, the commodity fetish and the chains of surplus value.  The French revolutionaries of the late 1700s started by murdering the king while proclaiming a slogan, “fraternity, equality, and liberty”.

0361 Each contender for Sophia proclaims its own New Age.  Each pursues sovereign power in order to achieve the objectives of destroying the current regime in the process of giving birth to a New Age.

0362 Now, let me recall the Gnostic origin myth again.

The pleroma proceeds through emanations of male and female pairs, each grounding its own aeon. Then, female Sophia does not mate with her corresponding male emanation. She becomes pregnant and, before the child is even born, tears him from her womb and places him in a cloud.

No one can see Yaltabaoth. Yaltabaoth cannot see anyone else. So, in the cloud, Yaltabaoth creates his own universe.

What does he create his universe from?

From the personal part of the origin myth, I know this: He works with matter and he steals sparks from the Monad. He fashions beings with material concerns.

0363 To me, this sounds like institutions with organizational objectives. The organization of any institution deals with matters at hand.  The organizational objective, the spark within any organization, is stolen from the surrounding pleroma, the Zeitgeist, the spirit of the times.

0364 The Monad includes the realm of possibility within the normal context of the current age (the pleroma). The Monad cannot be divided into outside of the cloud and inside the cloud. The Monad is right there for Yaltabaoth to work with. From the spark of institutions, Yaltabaoth fashions organizations.

The Monad teems with possibility. But, Yaltabaoth is only aware of the sparks that he needs to fashion his own universe.

0365 What exactly is Yaltabaoth stealing from the Monad?

In order to see, allow me to expand the levels of the society tier into nested forms.

0366 Yaltabaoth thinks that he is stealing sparks. He grabs hold of an organizational objective. But, the spark is not the organizational objective. The spark is the righteousness underlying the organizational objective.

The Monad teems with righteousness. Yet, Yaltabaoth is only aware of the organizational objectives needed to fashion his own institutional universe. These organizational objects inform infrasovereign religions, seeking to impose their laws and decrees throughout the universe, in attempts to actualize the possibility of order.

0367 After all, Wisdom searches for order.

Who is the best ruler?

Obviously, the philosopher king is the best ruler.

0368 The best ruler knows how to avoid the evils within the organization tier through laws and decrees.

But remember: The entire organization tier is evil according to type 2 Gnosticism.

What is the next-to-best?

0369 The next-to-best ruler knows how to regulate the pathetic ego-driven morons who are consumed with material concerns. The next-to-best ruler would open the door to those who are Self-actualized, drawing their immaterial concerns from the cloud of unknowing, and forging organizations without capital, without market exchange and without surplus value.

0370 So, what is the problem?

As soon as institutions are fashioned into organizations, material concerns diminish the spark. Material concerns occlude the righteousness of the organizational objective.

So the next-to-best ruler becomes Yaltabaoth and the Establishment.

0371 Type 2 Gnostics do not know that there is a problem.

They imagine that Sophia matches sovereign power.  They are intent on seeking sovereign power in order to implement their diverse organizational objectives.  Each organizational objective carries its own righteousness.  Each righteousness is pure and unquestionable.

0372 This sounds like big government liberalism (BGL) to me.