*SERMO I* ... 6:16 "What use, say Ye, to speak of it?.." 7:14 "What is the harm, Ye ask, in not distinguishing oneself? If we do not distinguish, we get beyond our own nature -- away from #Creatura..." 11:42 "... Not Your thinking, but Your being is distinctiveness..." *SERMO II* ... 13:07 "... Is #God dead?.." 13:34 "... God is quality of the #Pleroma and everything I said of Creatura also is true concerning Him..." 13:43 "He is distinguished, however, from Created Beings through this: ..." 14:20 "If therefore we do not distinguish *God, Effective Fullness* is for us extinguished..." 14:29 "Moreover, God is the *Pleroma* Itself..." 14:39 "*Effective Void*..." 14:34 "God & the *Devil*..." 16:22 "... Effectiveness... #Abraxas... " 17:21 " *Abraxas*... is Improbable #Probability... Unreal #Reality... is... the Effective itself... effect in general... Force, Duration, Change..." 18:17 >> The dead now raised a great tumult, for they were Christians. > Like mists arising from a marsh, the dead came near and cried: Speak further unto us concerning the supreme god. Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas. Its power is the greatest, because man perceiveth it not. From the sun he draweth the summum bonum; from the devil the infimum malum; but from Abraxas life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil. Smaller and weaker life seemeth to be than the summum bonum; wherefore is it also hard to conceive that Abraxas transcendeth even the sun in power, who is himself the radiant source of all the force of life. Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of the void, the belittling and dismembering devil. The power of Abraxas is twofold; but ye see it not, because for your eyes the warring opposites of this power are extinguished. What the god-sun speaketh is life. What the devil speaketh is death. But Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible. It is splendid as the lion in the instant he striketh down his victim. It is beautiful as a day of spring. It is the great Pan himself and also the small one. It is Priapos. It is the monster of the under-world, a thousand-armed polyp, coiled knot of winged serpents, frenzy. It is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning. It is the lord of the toads and frogs, which live in the water and go up on the land, whose chorus ascendeth at noon and at midnight. It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness. It is holy begetting. It is love and love’s murder. It is the saint and his betrayer. It is the brightest light of day and the darkest night of madness. To look upon it, is blindness. To know it, is sickness. To worship it, is death. To fear it, is wisdom. To resist it not, is redemption. God dwelleth behind the sun, the devil behind the night. What god bringeth forth out of the light the devil sucketh into the night. But Abraxas is the world, its becoming and its passing. Upon every gift that cometh from the god-sun the devil layeth his curse. Everything that ye entreat from the god-sun begetteth a deed of the devil. Everything that ye create with the god-sun giveth effective power to the devil. That is terrible Abraxas. It is the mightiest creature, and in it the creature is afraid of itself. It is the manifest opposition of creatura to the pleroma and its nothingness. It is the son’s horror of the mother. It is the mother’s love for the son. It is the delight of the earth and the cruelty of the heavens. Before its countenance man becometh like stone. Before it there is no question and no reply. It is the life of creatura. It is the operation of distinctiveness. It is the love of man. It is the speech of man. It is the appearance and the shadow of man. It is illusory reality. Now the dead howled and raged, for they were unperfected. gnosis.org/library/7Sermons.htm 33:20 *SERMO V* ... >> Distinctiveness leadeth to singleness. Singleness is opposed to communion. But because of man’s weakness over against the gods and daemons and their invincible law is communion needful. Therefore shall there be as much communion as is needful, not for man’s sake, but because of the gods. The gods force you to communion. As much as they force you, so much is communion needed, more is evil. In communion let every man submit to others, that communion be maintained; for ye need it. In singleness the one man shall be superior to the others, that every man may come to himself and avoid slavery. In communion there shall be continence. In singleness there shall be prodigality. Communion is depth. Singleness is height. Right measure in communion purifieth and preserveth. Right measure in singleness purifieth and increaseth. #Communion giveth us warmth, singleness giveth us light. > The daemon of #sexuality approacheth our soul as a #serpent. It is half human and appeareth as thought-desire. The daemon of #spirituality descendeth into our soul as the white #bird. It is half human and appeareth as desire-thought. The serpent is an earthy soul, half daemonic, a spirit, and akin to the spirits of the dead. Thus too, like these, she swarmeth around in the things of earth, making us either to fear them or pricking us with intemperate desires. The serpent hath a nature like unto woman. She seeketh ever the company of the dead who are held by the spell of the earth, they who found not the way beyond that leadeth to singleness. The serpent is a whore. She wantoneth with the devil and with evil spirits; a mischievous tyrant and tormentor, ever seducing to evilest company. The white bird is a half-celestial soul of man. He bideth with the Mother, from time to time descending. The bird hath a nature like unto man, and is effective thought. He is chaste and solitary, a messenger of the Mother. He flieth high above earth. He commandeth singleness. He bringeth knowledge from the distant ones who went before and are perfected. He beareth our word above to the Mother. She intercedeth, she warneth, but against the gods she hath no power. She is a vessel of the sun. The serpent goeth below and with her cunning she lameth the phallic daemon, or else goadeth him on. She yieldeth up the too crafty thoughts of the earthy one, those thoughts which creep through every hole and cleave to all things with desirousness. The serpent, doubtless, willeth it not, yet she must be of use to us. She fleeth our grasp, thus showing us the way, which with our human wits we could not find. With disdainful glance the dead spake: Cease this talk of gods and daemons and souls. At bottom this hath long been known to us.
I wonder if young here is using the word demon to refer to Angelic beings and not just evil the Greeks used to call angels and anything Supernatural daemons?
Under the guise of the pleroma being both distinctive and its opposite nullifying it into nothingness you have to assume the angels/demons/gods exist in the realm of creatura thus possessing distinctive traits. However, Being has a distinct nature posed in the zenith of the star that man is to become through im guessing, the process of individualization. In the seventh sermon there is mention of how within the star or god of man there is a microcosm correspondent to the greater one where man is abraxas and all other forces that act upon him. Good and evil are only poles which we perceive due to our distinctive natures.
Well, the pleroma can’t be thought of because it’s both order and chaos. The thing in itself prooooobably can be seen/thought of beyond the veil. Something like that yeah?
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*SERMO I* ...
6:16 "What use, say Ye, to speak of it?.."
7:14 "What is the harm, Ye ask, in not distinguishing oneself? If we do not distinguish, we get beyond our own nature -- away from #Creatura..."
11:42 "... Not Your thinking, but Your being is distinctiveness..."
*SERMO II* ...
13:07 "... Is #God dead?.."
13:34 "... God is quality of the #Pleroma and everything I said of Creatura also is true concerning Him..."
13:43 "He is distinguished, however, from Created Beings through this: ..."
14:20 "If therefore we do not distinguish *God, Effective Fullness* is for us extinguished..."
14:29 "Moreover, God is the *Pleroma* Itself..."
14:39 "*Effective Void*..."
14:34 "God & the *Devil*..."
16:22 "... Effectiveness... #Abraxas... "
17:21 " *Abraxas*... is Improbable #Probability... Unreal #Reality... is... the Effective itself... effect in general... Force, Duration, Change..."
18:17
>> The dead now raised a great tumult, for they were Christians. > Like mists arising from a marsh, the dead came near and cried: Speak further unto us concerning the supreme god.
Hard to know is the deity of Abraxas. Its power is the greatest, because man perceiveth it not. From the sun he draweth the summum bonum; from the devil the infimum malum; but from Abraxas life, altogether indefinite, the mother of good and evil.
Smaller and weaker life seemeth to be than the summum bonum; wherefore is it also hard to conceive that Abraxas transcendeth even the sun in power, who is himself the radiant source of all the force of life.
Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of the void, the belittling and dismembering devil.
The power of Abraxas is twofold; but ye see it not, because for your eyes the warring opposites of this power are extinguished.
What the god-sun speaketh is life.
What the devil speaketh is death.
But Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time.
Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.
It is splendid as the lion in the instant he striketh down his victim. It is beautiful as a day of spring. It is the great Pan himself and also the small one. It is Priapos.
It is the monster of the under-world, a thousand-armed polyp, coiled knot of winged serpents, frenzy.
It is the hermaphrodite of the earliest beginning.
It is the lord of the toads and frogs, which live in the water and go up on the land, whose chorus ascendeth at noon and at midnight.
It is abundance that seeketh union with emptiness.
It is holy begetting.
It is love and love’s murder.
It is the saint and his betrayer.
It is the brightest light of day and the darkest night of madness.
To look upon it, is blindness.
To know it, is sickness.
To worship it, is death.
To fear it, is wisdom.
To resist it not, is redemption.
God dwelleth behind the sun, the devil behind the night. What god bringeth forth out of the light the devil sucketh into the night. But Abraxas is the world, its becoming and its passing. Upon every gift that cometh from the god-sun the devil layeth his curse.
Everything that ye entreat from the god-sun begetteth a deed of the devil.
Everything that ye create with the god-sun giveth effective power to the devil.
That is terrible Abraxas.
It is the mightiest creature, and in it the creature is afraid of itself.
It is the manifest opposition of creatura to the pleroma and its nothingness.
It is the son’s horror of the mother.
It is the mother’s love for the son.
It is the delight of the earth and the cruelty of the heavens.
Before its countenance man becometh like stone.
Before it there is no question and no reply.
It is the life of creatura.
It is the operation of distinctiveness.
It is the love of man.
It is the speech of man.
It is the appearance and the shadow of man.
It is illusory reality.
Now the dead howled and raged, for they were unperfected. gnosis.org/library/7Sermons.htm
33:20 *SERMO V* ...
>> Distinctiveness leadeth to singleness. Singleness is opposed to communion. But because of man’s weakness over against the gods and daemons and their invincible law is communion needful. Therefore shall there be as much communion as is needful, not for man’s sake, but because of the gods. The gods force you to communion. As much as they force you, so much is communion needed, more is evil.
In communion let every man submit to others, that communion be maintained; for ye need it.
In singleness the one man shall be superior to the others, that every man may come to himself and avoid slavery.
In communion there shall be continence.
In singleness there shall be prodigality.
Communion is depth.
Singleness is height.
Right measure in communion purifieth and preserveth.
Right measure in singleness purifieth and increaseth.
#Communion giveth us warmth, singleness giveth us light. > The daemon of #sexuality approacheth our soul as a #serpent. It is half human and appeareth as thought-desire.
The daemon of #spirituality descendeth into our soul as the white #bird. It is half human and appeareth as desire-thought.
The serpent is an earthy soul, half daemonic, a spirit, and akin to the spirits of the dead. Thus too, like these, she swarmeth around in the things of earth, making us either to fear them or pricking us with intemperate desires. The serpent hath a nature like unto woman. She seeketh ever the company of the dead who are held by the spell of the earth, they who found not the way beyond that leadeth to singleness. The serpent is a whore. She wantoneth with the devil and with evil spirits; a mischievous tyrant and tormentor, ever seducing to evilest company. The white bird is a half-celestial soul of man. He bideth with the Mother, from time to time descending. The bird hath a nature like unto man, and is effective thought. He is chaste and solitary, a messenger of the Mother. He flieth high above earth. He commandeth singleness. He bringeth knowledge from the distant ones who went before and are perfected. He beareth our word above to the Mother. She intercedeth, she warneth, but against the gods she hath no power. She is a vessel of the sun. The serpent goeth below and with her cunning she lameth the phallic daemon, or else goadeth him on. She yieldeth up the too crafty thoughts of the earthy one, those thoughts which creep through every hole and cleave to all things with desirousness. The serpent, doubtless, willeth it not, yet she must be of use to us. She fleeth our grasp, thus showing us the way, which with our human wits we could not find.
With disdainful glance the dead spake: Cease this talk of gods and daemons and souls. At bottom this hath long been known to us.
Awwwsome job on the index!
Incredible. Never heard a clearer presentation of Gnosticism. Much appreciated what a great writer.
I wonder if young here is using the word demon to refer to Angelic beings and not just evil the Greeks used to call angels and anything Supernatural daemons?
Under the guise of the pleroma being both distinctive and its opposite nullifying it into nothingness you have to assume the angels/demons/gods exist in the realm of creatura thus possessing distinctive traits. However, Being has a distinct nature posed in the zenith of the star that man is to become through im guessing, the process of individualization. In the seventh sermon there is mention of how within the star or god of man there is a microcosm correspondent to the greater one where man is abraxas and all other forces that act upon him. Good and evil are only poles which we perceive due to our distinctive natures.
Yes this is my interpretation
The Roman word Daemon can mean Demons or angels
In hermetic thought demons and angels are interchangeable, just two sides of the same coin
Sounds like he's using a bit of the Pista Sofia here
Is using the seven hermetic principles such as the pleroma the totality of all opposites.
What was he on?
And where can I get some?
Really want to know?
He basically entered psychosis for 3 years in self meditation to come up with all this
@14:44 -16:09 sounds like Zurvanism.
Pity, the soul divider.
Is the pleroma something like "the thing in itself" or is that stupid?
Well, the pleroma can’t be thought of because it’s both order and chaos. The thing in itself prooooobably can be seen/thought of beyond the veil. Something like that yeah?