0373 In type 2 Gnosticism, the term that best describes the Monad is “the Hive”.  BGL swarms with the drones of secular righteousness.

0374 Sovereign power is Personified Wisdom.  BGL organizational objectives that demand sovereign power are righteous.  Burdens are placed on the organization tier, yoking Yaltabaoth and the Establishment to “higher” ends.

Yaltabaoth and the Establishment no longer consist of simple rules or “fetishes”. They become a complex web of government-regulated organizations, where surplus value is harvested by bureaucrats as the Personifications of Sophiaand directed to establishing the New Age.

0375 Slogans about the organization tier multiply.

Assessment is discrimination. Capital is a religion, called “capitalism”. Capital is the undead remainder of profit and loss. Capitalists mindlessly, ruthlessly, and tirelessly strive to increase their capital. Capitalists are greedy.

Open markets need to be regulated. Both parties do not benefit from an open exchange. Salespeople are liars. Loans (based on assessments) discriminate. The commodity fetish is the failure of consumers to see that their purchases support the exploitation of workers.

People go into management, production or service because they have no other choices. They cannot make ends meet because Yaltabaoth does not value their efforts.  The Establishment harvests surplus value from those within the organization.  Corporations are evil.  They must be regulated.

0376 This list goes on.  Each slogan is righteous. Each slogan supports an institution seeking sovereign power. Each slogan becomes an organizational objective for an infrasovereign religion.

Each slogan puts anyone who is not a type 2 Gnostic is an easily labeled box. The box stereotypes the conditioning, the training, the ambitions and the fears of the other.

Other people are things to be regulated.

0377 Finally, the Self judges through an intuition based on fantasy.

The Real is not a concern for the type 2 Gnostic.  Sovereign power will be used to purify the organization tier and the ego-driven person.

0378 BGL applies to the society tier. Marxist theory applies to the organization tier. The psychoanalysis of Freud and Jung applies to the IiC tier.

0379 I summarize.

0380 There are two manifestations of religion, suprasovereign and infrasovereign. Gnosticism fits both. Gnosticism completely fits the presence underlying the word “religion”.

0381 There are two types of infrasovereign Gnosticism, type 1 and type 2.

In type 1 Gnosticism, the model of the Gnostic origin myth associates to the interscope of the society tier. The evil Yaltabaoth associates to sovereign laws and decrees. The good Sophia matches the object that brings all into relation.

In type 2 Gnosticism, the model of the Gnostic origin myth associates to the 3-tier system. The evil Yaltabaoth associates to market exchange. The good Sophia associates to sovereign power.

0381 BGL, Marxist economic theory, and Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis describe contemporary American type 2 Gnosticism.

0382 The adherents of each type of infrasovereign expression of Gnosticism may be identified through a series of straightforward questions.  These questions include:

Do you believe that the Federal government (sovereign power) is good or evil?

If evil, then the person is a type 1 Gnostic. If good, then the person is a type 2 Gnostic.

What should we do about the Establishment?

0383 If the person expresses the desire to escape, then the person is type 1.

If the person desires to reform the system, especially if the reform involves regulating markets or the behaviors of others, then the person is type 2.

0384 Be aware, in type 2 Gnosticism, both ego-driven others and anything associated with market exchange are evil.  Type 2 Gnostics seek positions of institutional power, in order to regulate and manipulate this evil thing.  They promote like-minded believers.

0385 The presence of type 2 Gnosticism signals social movements towards totalitarianism.  The birth and collapse of type 2 Gnosticisms dominate the history of Western civilization since the French Revolution in 1790 and influence its history since the dawn of the Age of Ideas in the 1600s.

0386 So far, I considered the meaning and presence underlying the word “Gnosticism”. I now turn to the message.

The student should read chapters 5,6 and 7 of Burfeind’s book.

0387 Part 2 of Burfeind’s book is titled: Love Sick.

What is this sickness in love?

Is it finding your Self?

0388 Allow me to return to my model of the origin myth, developed in the discussion of the meaning underlying the word “Gnosticism”.

0389 Burfeind perceptively notes that the Gnostic origin story addresses human psychology.

Human psychology mirrors a cosmic drama. The cosmic drama begins as a conflict between Sophia, finding her Self in an emanation, and the other party, a missing male element.  He is not even mentioned.  Where is he?  Where is the love?

0390 I can imagine Sophia at the emanation of the current aeon of the pleroma. She knows that she is. She senses that some thing is missing. That thing is someone who matters. She consoles herself, saying, “I matter, even if I do not matter to someone else”.

Yaltabaoth, the builder god, is in her womb. What is the matter? She got what she wanted.

No, she does not want this.

She tears the monstrosity from her womb. She aborts It. But, It remains alive. She hides It in a cloud. Unknowing, It begins to build. In a travesty of a travesty, here is someone who matters.

But, that is all Yaltabaoth does. He mindlessly reasons about matter.

Where is the love?

0391 What is it to find your Self?

Is it to find a Self without someone who matters?

Is it to be immaterial in a material world?

Is it to find your Self surrounded by those who matter?

But, matter is all they do.

Where is the love?

0392 Indeed, to find your Self is to be love sick.