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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works

OP

Reminiscent / a version of Yaldabaoth / Chnoubis "The Demiurge"

  • Snake with the head of a lion
  • usually a negative / evil figure. Occasionally invoked / inscribed positively / for protection
  • said to be born of the concept of wisdom (Sophia) who attempted to create something without the other half of her syzygy. On it's creation yaltabaoth was expelled from heaven (The Pleroma or "fullness") into the material world (The Kenoma or "emptiness"). It dragged Sophia into the material world with it and shattered her into a multitude of fragments. It then created the earth and imprisoned those fragments of Sophia in the Kenoma as humans, doomed to reincarnate into the material world until they achieve gnosis and are able to ascend back into The Pleroma.

Note: Also reminiscent of another thing.

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Saturday Shitpost for You (sh.itjust.works)
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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/asklemmy/p/2138089/what-do-you-know-of-something-like-this

I made a blender model and animation of this thing I experienced to show how it looks like and moves, and to use that as a way to find out if someone knows what it is, where or why. I don't know much more and am wondering what others know based on their encounters. It's somewhere at some time, seems huge. The discs are flattish and don't reflect light other than from the edges. I've tried posting in a few communities and get mostly aggravated answers, or overtly focusing on how I got this knowledge (almost like I've done something forbidden when it's not an aspect I care about), and one got modded hidden.

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Not credible (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works
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Divine revelation (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works

Cross posted from https://lemmy.world/post/47436085

bonus artwork:

altr

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close enough (sh.itjust.works)

Original artist is tomatobird

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Misandry (quokk.au)
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Curious mfer 😡 (lemmy.world)
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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works

I'm over here spiritualitymaxxing by believing in astrology and a flat universe at the same time!

Apologies for the irreverence, it's the Aries in me; memes are the fire of my spirituality 🐏

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works

Thanks to everyone that mentioned fedi borked the resolution I genuinely didn't notice!

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Consumerist Demiurge (sh.itjust.works)

Screenshot of the actual reddit post in my browser (for maximum irony):

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works
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The Sacred Webcomic (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works
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Garden of Eden (lemmy.world)
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go big or go home (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by Apytele@sh.itjust.works to c/gnostic@sh.itjust.works

John Daly Smoking Next To Tiger Woods Meme: Tiger woods, conservatively dressed, is labeled "The New Testament." Join Daly, smoking and dressed outlandishly, is labeled "The Nag Hammadi Library."

reposted from reddit

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Per Wikipedia:

Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek γνωστικός (gnōstikós) 'having knowledge'; Koine Greek: [ɣnostiˈkos]) is a collection of different religious and philosophical ideas and systems that fully developed by the mid-2nd century among sects of early Christianity and other faiths. It is not a singular, homogeneous tradition or religion, but an umbrella term used by modern scholars to describe different groups and beliefs that shared certain characteristics. These diverse Gnostic groups generally emphasized personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above the authority, traditions, and proto-orthodox teachings of organized religious institutions.

TLDR: be spiritual; but also as weird as possible

Rule 0: Don't be a dick.

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