0465 A type 1 Gnostic, who has been indoctrinated to be your Self, has an ego that says, “I am inadequate.” Otherwise, why would I need a Self-help book, or a drink, or a hit? Why would Sophia call to me?

Sophia says, “Escape. Return to the Monad.”

0466 A type 2 Gnostic, who may be so far into the conflict that the Self has won, projects her fallen ego onto others.  She demeans others as puppets of a rigid, doctrinaire, paranoid, traditional, Yaltabaoth-worshipping superego.

The ego of the Self-anointed is no longer responsible for the Self.  The Self may use her body for whatever purposes suits her proclivities.

0467 What do I mean by “her”?

I am “she” when my Self is my normal context.  My Self is an image of Sophia.

If everything is determined by culture, why can’t I declare my own culture?

My Self-wish transforms into a program for development.

My ego is like my ex-.  My superego is like his paranoid delusions.  My id^real is like a golden ring, serving as a gilded cage.

0468 A type 2 Gnostic sees others as marionettes of Yaltabaoth and the Establishment.  She stands beyond freedom and responsibility.  She serves another master.  She works for an institution.  She supports a cause. She stands righteous among the Self-anointed.

She knows about Freud.  She adores Jung.  She is a Marxist.  She is a big government liberal, demanding sovereign power.  Does that make her il-liberal?  Not in a world where “liberal” means “anything goes”.

Sovereign power constellates Personified Wisdom.

The type 2 Gnostic strives to grasp sovereign power.  She will master social evil. Her Self-wish is to control the builder gods and the Establishment, forcing them to work for her organizational objectives. Her Self-wish is to regulate and educate the pathetic ego-driven masses.

She is a post-religious social activist.

0469 A type 2 Gnostic will contextualize himself as a member of a New Age, the next emanation of the pleroma.

0470 What do I mean by “him”?

Is “he” the missing ingredient?

By “him”, I suppose, I mean Sophia-Self gives birth to… or rather, gives abortion to… the next Yaltabaoth.   She will put him into a cloud.   He will create the next age, even if he is a she, whatever that means.

0471 The next age comes in like a lion, then out like a snake.

Or, should it be, in like an ego, then out like a Self?

0472 Gnosticism is a religion of secret knowledge.

The Gnostic origin myth, itself, opens like lockbox, when the key is fashioned in truth.

0478 Ah, then, here we have it: What is truth?

On one hand, the words of the Gnostic are never to be taken literally.  They are symbols evoking fantasies that inform the Self.  The Self reads word-gestures. The Self relies on touch.

Sophia interpellates the Self through desire.

On the other hand, the possibilities inherent in the truth support the perspective-level actuality of the Holy Spirit. 

The Father virtually situates the Son [redeeming] me.

0478 I can put my hands together, with this conclusion:

The origin stories of Gnosticism and the Bible both point to a transition from the Lebenswelt that we evolved in to our current Lebenswelt.

The Gnostic origin story mythically re-creates a repetition disorder characteristic of unconstrained social complexity.

The Biblical origin story mythically portrays the transition as an actual historic event, serving as a fountainhead for disaster after disaster.

0480 Aren’t both these origin myths about Original Sin?

0481 If so, then what does that imply?