Gnostic Concepts and Luciferianism (Video Transcript)
11.9.2011
Hi, Jeremy Crow here. In this video I'm going to discuss a little bit about Gnosticism. So Gnosticism is based off of the root word "gnosis" which is Greek for knowledge. And this refers to not just book learning or information gathering but actual, direct experiential knowledge of something.
So for example, you can take a course, you can read books, you can watch videos about sex but until you've actually experienced sex you don't fully understand what it's like. So that's the difference between information about something and direct experience or knowledge of something. Now, I use the example of sex because in Genesis.. the scripture of Genesis, the word "knowledge" or "to know" was used as euphemism for sex. So for example, Adam knew his wife Eve and she bore him a son, kind of thing. Or "to know someone in the biblical sense of the term" means to have had sex with them.
Now this actually ties in with the Tree of Knowledge from that same scripture, which a lot of people (including myself) have seen a connection between the Tree of Knowledge and Eve being seduced into partaking of this Tree of Knowledge as sort of a sneaky way of saying that Lucifer had sex with Eve. But even that itself is yet another symbol. The creative force inherent within the human. Sex itself is the most powerful creative force that we have to create another life. That we have that power, and Lucifer symbolically initiates Eve into that knowledge and then she goes and initiates Adam to that knowledge as well. And then she has two sons: Cain and then Abel. Cain being Lucifer's child and Abel being Adams child. And that's why after Abel was killed they needed a replacement because that way Adam can still have a lineage, you know?
If you look at the actual... What happens with the Cain's lineage and the Seth lineage, which was the son that they had to replace Abel. All of Cain's descendants ended up becoming founders of Arts and Sciences and civilizations and Cain himself even founded a city, but if you look at the other lineage, the Seth lineage in the stories they all end up becoming mystics and priests and that sort of thing. So gnosis is about knowledge and gaining knowledge rather than having faith as the key component to your salvation, or good works. It's knowledge. "The truth shall set you free" kind of thing. And the freedom that you gain is from ignorance and this [ignorance] is embodied by the symbol of the Demiurge and the Demiurge's Archons.
This is one way of viewing, kind of "The God of this Earth" and usually it's associated with Yahweh in the Old Testament as a sort of half blind God who's an egomaniacal tyrant very similar to the Zeus figure, actually. And the serpent is seen as a Promethean heroic figure of giving the humans the knowledge that they needed to become their true potential. And this is not something that the ruling powers that be want to happen. So as you can see, this mythology is very compelling to our modern mind because in a lot of cases it really does seem as though we're living in a kind of prison planet where the worldly authorities are trying to keep the masses of humanity ignorant and easily manipulated and controlled. But once we can understand the truth we can free ourselves from those restrictions that we have allowed them to impose upon us.
So it's a it's kind of a "bucking the system" kind of philosophy which found itself very, you know, found very fertile ground in early Christianity but eventually was, you know, snuffed out by the Catholic movement. Although it did go underground and did make several recurrences, such as, for example, the Cathars is probably the most famous large-scale Gnostic movement. They were somewhat fundamentalist Gnostic because they believed that the earth was evil and that procreation was wrong because you're bringing more souls... you're creating more bodies for more souls to be trapped into this horrible place.
But in a more Luciferian understanding of it or Left Hand Path or you could even say Bodhisattva kind of ideal is not to try and escape the physical world but to perfect it. To kind of raise it up or eliminate that ignorance factor. At least not... you don't.. I guess ignorance cannot be eliminated but it can be... right now it's institutionalized, it seems. And it seems that it always has been institutionalized. That we're supposed to be ignorant and we're not supposed to look into certain areas of knowledge. But the Gnostic seeks that forbidden knowledge.
Now I'd just like to give you a few movie recommendations because there's a lot of great movies out that really embody that Gnostic myth. And I have to... The first one I have to say would be The Matrix and especially the first movie but if you watch the other two movies as well you get a much deeper variant of the whole Gnostic myth. The first movie is more Manichean or dualistic but then that dualism starts to resolve itself as you get through the trilogy. Dark City is another great one. It's a standalone movie and there is The Others... "The Strangers" they call them. And if you haven't seen that one definitely check it out. Pleasantville is excellent. It's kind of a comedy and these two siblings, a brother and sister, ended up getting sucked into this hyper-real "Leave it to Beaver" type universe. And they end up becoming the liberating force which is also in a sense a corrupting force. So definitely check that one out as well and Truman Show. Truman Show is another comedy but it does still embody that whole gnostic myth. So check those out.
Hope you like this video and I'll keep doing some more of these. Thanks!
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