{"id":10723,"date":"2026-07-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10723"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:57:34","slug":"looking-at-peter-burfeinds-book-2014-gnostic-america-part-9-of-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10723","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Peter Burfeind&#8217;s Book (2014) &#8220;Gnostic America&#8221; (Part 9 of 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0143 How do these Gnostic models compare to Christianity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can I produce&nbsp;<em>a model for Christianity<\/em>&nbsp;similar to&nbsp;<em>the working model of the Gnostic origin story?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The model should defy Gnostic formulations.&nbsp;&nbsp;Otherwise, Gnostic infiltrates in the church would not be called \u201cchoices\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0144 Here is how I would replace elements of the Gnostic origin myth with Christian terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>One God<\/em>&nbsp;would go into&nbsp;<em>the slot for the pleroma<sub>3c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The emanations of the pleroma become creative acts by the one God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Holy Spirit<\/em>&nbsp;would replace&nbsp;<em>Personified Wisdom<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Holy Spirit, like Sophia, may be treated as a Person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The truth<\/em>&nbsp;would go into&nbsp;<em>the slot for the Monad<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0145 In a previous example,&nbsp;<em>the image of a world where friends do not lie to friends<\/em>&nbsp;belonged to the Monad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the Gnostic image is not Real.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Christian truth entertains a similar, but drastically more realistic, version.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is&nbsp;<em>the image of a world where the truth of the friend\u2019s lie is revealed<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Obviously, I cannot spiritually migrate to this world.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a world where the One God<sub>3c<\/sub>&nbsp;contextualizes truth<sub>1c<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is the world created by the One True God<sub>3c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0146&nbsp;<em>Rationality accessible to humans as (fallen) images of God&nbsp;<\/em>substitutes for mindless rationality<sub>3b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yahweh<\/em>&nbsp;goes into Yaltabaoth\u2019s slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Yahweh is not Yaltabaoth.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yaltabaoth operates under a regime of mindless rationality.&nbsp;&nbsp;Yahweh is much more clever.&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Bible to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0147&nbsp;<em>God\u2019s active will<\/em>&nbsp;goes into the slot of&nbsp;<em>the potential determining my form<sub>1b<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;I would not be here without God\u2019s active will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0148&nbsp;<em>The sacraments<\/em>&nbsp;<em>instituted by the Christian church<\/em>&nbsp;replaces the superego<sub>3a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0149 In this regard, Burfeind reports an interesting observation in the political sciences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting patterns between liturgical and pietist Christian traditions differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0150 How do these traditions differ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The liturgical traditions regard the sacraments as sacred.&nbsp;&nbsp;Pietist traditions do not.&nbsp;&nbsp;The pietist view the sacraments as symbols.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the liturgical traditions, the sacraments constitute the normal context of ritual activity.&nbsp;&nbsp;In this, they serve like a superego (a repository of rules and aphorisms).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the pietist traditions,&nbsp;<em>the gathering<\/em>&nbsp;calls the Holy Spirit.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the normal context of the Holy Spirit\u2019s movement,&nbsp;<em>the bread and wine<\/em>&nbsp;are served as&nbsp;<em>symbols of Christ<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These two traditions re-enact&nbsp;<em>the different normal contexts<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;contending for the ego<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;and id<sup>real<\/sup><sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0151 Here are the different voting patterns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liturgical traditions tend to vote to reduce centralization of political power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pietist traditions tend to vote to increase centralized political power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Voting to increase central power<\/em>&nbsp;is a marker for Gnostic values.&nbsp;&nbsp;This marker seems reasonable.&nbsp;&nbsp;Self-anointed Gnostic elites tend to congregate in institutional positions where livelihood is guaranteed, such as government bureaucracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0152 The sacramental habituation<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;(a super-ego<sub>3a<\/sub>, so to speak) of the liturgical traditions seems to resist<em>&nbsp;temptations to elevate the Self into the normal context of the personal level<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The pietist traditions do not have this habituation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If&nbsp;<em>the sacraments<\/em>&nbsp;replace the superego<sub>3a<\/sub>, then&nbsp;<em>the person<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;becomes&nbsp;<em>the union of ego<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;and Self<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0153 If I experience myself as a person (rather than a Self), then&nbsp;<em>my person<\/em>&nbsp;would correspond to&nbsp;<em>the encountered being in Suarez\u2019s model<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus would correspond to&nbsp;<em>the accounting being<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dyad in actuality<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;becomes&nbsp;<em>Jesus and my person<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The contiguity between the two fits&nbsp;<em>the old medieval depiction of the relation between grace (as actual) and nature (as actual):<\/em>&nbsp;Grace inflows nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the personal-level dyad would be rendered as&nbsp;<em>Jesus (redeems, graces, inspires&#8230;) person<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0154 Finally,&nbsp;<em>the potential of God\u2019s passive will<\/em>&nbsp;replaces the&nbsp;<em>id<sup>fantasy<\/sup><sub>1a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;God\u2019s passive will underlies&nbsp;<em>the actuality of Jesus [feeds] person<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thus, God\u2019s passive will turns my life into a theodrama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0155 The resulting model is strikingly different from the Gnostic origin myth, even though I merely substituted Christian terms for Gnostic elements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide15-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide15-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide15-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide15-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0156 Plus, the situation-level nested form is no longer evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is that not odd?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0157 Another oddity is how the Holy Spirit and the sacraments are not in opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The virtual nested form in actuality goes like this:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The person<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;experiences baptism<sub>1a<\/sub>&nbsp;and is drawn into a sacramental life<sub>3a<\/sub>, where&nbsp;<em>Jesus [blesses, instructs, inspires&#8230;] the person<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>. The sacraments<sub>3a<\/sub>&nbsp;draw the person<sub>2a<\/sub>&nbsp;into contiguity with Christ<sub>2a<\/sub>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Father<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;virtually situates&nbsp;<em>the person in the accounting of Christ<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Holy Spirit<sub>2c<\/sub>&nbsp;virtually brings the Father<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;into relation to&nbsp;<em>the person in contiguity with Christ<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>.&nbsp;<em>The Father<sub>2b<\/sub>&nbsp;and the Son<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em>&nbsp;reveal&nbsp;<em>the Holy Spirit<sub>2c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0158 Of course, this is not the only relational model of Christian concepts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, it raises disturbing questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why would Christian terms fit so convincingly into&nbsp;<em>the model for the Gnostic origin myth<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, why would the placements so directly refute the Gnostic origin myth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0159 At the same time, I can also see&nbsp;<em>the potential of subversion<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gnosticism is an opportunistic religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0160 In chapter 3, Burfeind relates this story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Around 1100AD, once Christianity was established to the West and Islam to the East, political consolidation gave the Gnostic myth an opportunity.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each religion became the Establishment.&nbsp;&nbsp;Gnostic heresies appeared.&nbsp;&nbsp;To the West, they were the Cathars.&nbsp;&nbsp;To the East, they were the Sufis.&nbsp;&nbsp;Both Cathars and Sufis wrote poetry, celebrated God using metaphors of erotic love, and drank a lot.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Establishments of the West and East tried to suppress these movements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0162 In chapter 4, Burfeind brings the story to modern times.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the next section, I comment on the sequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0143 How do these Gnostic models compare to Christianity? 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