/ufo/ - Paranormal and Conspiracies

They who?

Nothing, because "Gnosticism" isn't even a single religion. It just describes a philosophy originating from 1st century Greeks and Mediterranean peoples where spiritual knowledge is more important than faith to acquiring either spiritual perfection or in Christian Gnostic ideology as a way to finally being free from the material world into the spiritual (but spirtual perfection/enlightenment also played a part in that.)

The funny thing is that the whole dualism thing, with one god being a demiurge and another a pure spiritual being (say Sophia) probably didn't even originate from Gnosticism but from the nearby Zoroastrian religion, it was just easily syncretized because of Gnosticism's focus on the material vs the spiritual (which is also similar to Buddhism coincidentally enough). Multiple religions could claim to be "Gnostic" including Druzism, Manicheanism, Christian Gnostic's etc.

In terms of offering things to communism or revolutionary potential I would say almost nothing, in fact, Gnosticism is inherently anti-materialist because the material plane is seen as something undesirable and something to escape from.

>>661
>In terms of offering things to communism or revolutionary potential I would say almost nothing,
A better world is possible, even a mere alternative to neoliberal capitalism. Don't forget, no matter how much the bourgeois temple priests try to kill you and burn your holy texts (or TikToks, thanks Ellison!)
>Gnosticism is inherently anti-materialist because the material plane is seen as something undesirable and something to escape from.
<posting this on a website influenced by 4chan fascist pedo anime fans, which is hosted on some kind of demonic Amazon webserver, and powered by fossil fuels instead of the infinite blessing purity of sunlight

>>658
Yaldabaoth was the first capitalist (see: indulgences, televangelists, jews, etc.) and TRVE communism can only be achieved after the resurrection.

>>666
he just wanted to grill, brotha

>>666
>>777
nice GETs….

>>666
Yaldabaoth deez nuts

>>658
Nondualism. It can still be found in mainstream Abrahamism such as in Sufism, Kabbalah and certain notable Christian mystics such as Meister Eckhart (the mediaeval one, not the modern grifter) and Jakob Boehme

Interestingly, a lot of formerly heretical "Gnostic" views are now mainstream. Including the idea of 'going to heaven' when you die, early Christians thought it was heresy to say that the soul could exist without the body. They believed in a bodily resurrection here on Earth not an afterlife in some other realm.

>>810
Yes, for this reason Abrahamic religions have traditionally forbid cremation since for Christians destruction of the physical corpse by burning meant you had no body to come back to at the time of resurrection, and for Jews and Muslims the body belongs to God and must be returned to him intact.
The first Protestant Churches only began to tolerate cremation in the 1920s, and Roman Catholics have only permitted it since the 1960s.
For Orthodox Christians, Muslims and Jews it is still forbidden totally.