{"id":10773,"date":"2026-07-07T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10773"},"modified":"2025-12-15T13:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T13:09:30","slug":"looking-at-peter-burfeinds-book-2014-gnostic-america-part-21-of-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=10773","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Peter Burfeind&#8217;s Book (2014) &#8220;Gnostic America&#8221; (Part 21 of 26)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0373 In type 2 Gnosticism, the term that best describes the Monad is \u201cthe Hive\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;BGL swarms with&nbsp;<em>the drones of secular righteousness<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0374 Sovereign power is Personified Wisdom.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>BGL organizational objectives that demand sovereign power<\/em>&nbsp;are righteous.&nbsp;&nbsp;Burdens are placed on the organization tier, yoking Yaltabaoth and the Establishment to \u201chigher\u201d ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Yaltabaoth and the Establishment<\/em>&nbsp;no longer consist of&nbsp;<em>simple rules or \u201cfetishes\u201d<\/em>. They become a complex web of government-regulated organizations, where&nbsp;<em>surplus value<\/em>&nbsp;is harvested by bureaucrats as&nbsp;<em>the Personifications of Sophia<\/em>and directed to establishing the New Age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0375 Slogans about the organization tier multiply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assessment is discrimination. Capital is a religion, called \u201ccapitalism\u201d. Capital is&nbsp;<em>the undead remainder of profit and loss<\/em>. Capitalists mindlessly, ruthlessly, and tirelessly strive to increase their capital. Capitalists are greedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Open markets need to be regulated. Both parties do not benefit from an open exchange. Salespeople are liars. Loans (based on assessments) discriminate.&nbsp;<em>The commodity fetish<\/em>&nbsp;is&nbsp;<em>the failure of consumers to see that their purchases support the exploitation of workers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Establishment harvests&nbsp;<em>surplus value<\/em>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<em>those within the organization<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Corporations are evil.&nbsp;&nbsp;They must be regulated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0376 This list goes on.&nbsp;&nbsp;Each slogan is righteous. Each slogan supports&nbsp;<em>an institution seeking sovereign power<\/em>. Each slogan becomes&nbsp;<em>an organizational objective for an infrasovereign religion<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each slogan puts&nbsp;<em>anyone who is not a type 2 Gnostic<\/em>&nbsp;is an easily labeled box. The box stereotypes&nbsp;<em>the conditioning, the training, the ambitions and the fears of the other<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other people are&nbsp;<em>things to be regulated<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0377 Finally,&nbsp;<em>the Self<\/em>&nbsp;judges through&nbsp;<em>an intuition based on fantasy<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Real is not a concern for the type 2 Gnostic.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sovereign power will be used to purify&nbsp;<em>the organization tier and the ego-driven person<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0378&nbsp;<em>BGL<\/em>&nbsp;applies to the society tier.&nbsp;<em>Marxist theory<\/em>&nbsp;applies to the organization tier.&nbsp;<em>The psychoanalysis of Freud and Jung<\/em>&nbsp;applies to the IiC tier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide41-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide41-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide41-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide41-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0379 I summarize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0380 There are two manifestations of religion, suprasovereign and infrasovereign. Gnosticism fits both. Gnosticism completely fits&nbsp;<em>the presence underlying the word \u201creligion\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0381 There are two types of infrasovereign Gnosticism, type 1 and type 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In type 1 Gnosticism,&nbsp;<em>the model of the Gnostic origin myth<\/em>&nbsp;associates to&nbsp;<em>the interscope of the society tier<\/em>. The evil Yaltabaoth associates to sovereign laws and decrees. The good Sophia matches&nbsp;<em>the object that brings all into relatio<\/em>n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In type 2 Gnosticism,&nbsp;<em>the model of the Gnostic origin myth<\/em>&nbsp;associates to&nbsp;<em>the 3-tier system<\/em>. The evil Yaltabaoth associates to&nbsp;<em>market exchange<\/em>. The good Sophia associates to&nbsp;<em>sovereign power<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0381 BGL, Marxist economic theory, and Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis describe contemporary American type 2 Gnosticism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0382&nbsp;<em>The adherents of each type of infrasovereign expression of Gnosticism<\/em>&nbsp;may be identified through a series of straightforward questions.&nbsp;&nbsp;These questions include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Do you believe that the Federal government (sovereign power) is good or evil?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If evil, then the person is a type 1 Gnostic. If good, then the person is a type 2 Gnostic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What should we do about the Establishment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0383 If the person expresses the desire to escape, then the person is type 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the person desires to reform the system,&nbsp;<em>especially if the reform involves regulating markets or the behaviors of others<\/em>, then the person is type 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0384 Be aware, in type 2 Gnosticism,&nbsp;<em>both ego-driven others and anything associated with market exchange<\/em>&nbsp;are evil.&nbsp;&nbsp;Type 2 Gnostics seek positions of institutional power, in order to regulate and manipulate this evil thing.&nbsp;&nbsp;They promote like-minded believers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0385&nbsp;<em>The presence of type 2 Gnosticism<\/em>&nbsp;signals&nbsp;<em>social movements towards totalitarianism<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>The birth and collapse of type 2 Gnosticisms<\/em>&nbsp;dominate&nbsp;<em>the history of Western civilization since the French Revolution in 1790<\/em>&nbsp;and influence&nbsp;<em>its history since the dawn of the Age of Ideas in the 1600s<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0386 So far, I considered the meaning and presence underlying the word \u201cGnosticism\u201d. I now turn to the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The student should read chapters 5,6 and 7 of Burfeind\u2019s book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0387 Part 2 of Burfeind\u2019s book is titled: Love Sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is this sickness in love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it finding your Self?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0388 Allow me to return to my model of the origin myth, developed in the discussion of&nbsp;<em>the meaning underlying the word \u201cGnosticism\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide42-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide42-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide42-1.png 600w, https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Slide42-1-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>0389 Burfeind perceptively notes that&nbsp;<em>the Gnostic origin story<\/em>&nbsp;addresses&nbsp;<em>human psychology<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Human psychology<\/em>&nbsp;mirrors&nbsp;<em>a cosmic drama<\/em>. The cosmic drama begins as a conflict between Sophia, finding her Self in an emanation, and the other party, a missing male element.&nbsp;&nbsp;He is not even mentioned.&nbsp;&nbsp;Where is he?&nbsp;&nbsp;Where is the love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0390 I can imagine Sophia at&nbsp;<em>the emanation of the current aeon of the pleroma<\/em>. She knows that&nbsp;<em>she is<\/em>. She senses that some&nbsp;<em>thing<\/em>&nbsp;is missing. That thing is&nbsp;<em>someone who matters<\/em>. She consoles herself, saying, \u201cI matter, even if I do not matter to someone else\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yaltabaoth, the builder god, is in her womb. What is the matter? She got what she wanted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No, she does not want this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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&nbsp;<em>someone who matters<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, that is all Yaltabaoth does. He mindlessly reasons about matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where is the love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0391 What is it to find your Self?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it to find&nbsp;<em>a Self without someone who matters<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it to be immaterial in a material world?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it to find&nbsp;<em>your Self<\/em>&nbsp;surrounded by&nbsp;<em>those who matter?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, matter is all they do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where is the love?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0392 Indeed,&nbsp;<em>to find your Self<\/em>&nbsp;is to be&nbsp;<em>love sick<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0373 In type 2 Gnosticism, the term that best describes the Monad is \u201cthe Hive\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;BGL swarms with&nbsp;the drones of secular righteousness. 0374 Sovereign power is Personified Wisdom.&nbsp;&nbsp;BGL organizational objectives that demand sovereign power&nbsp;are righteous.&nbsp;&nbsp;Burdens are placed on the organization tier, yoking Yaltabaoth and the Establishment to \u201chigher\u201d ends. 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