The gnostics themselves probably didn't refer to themselves as "gnostics" this like most religious terminology came later on named by other people. Its just that gnostics, try to have an appeal to all people that the gnosis transcends all beleifs, and is the same knowledge all philosophies and religions seek. It is a beleif that any person from any background can acknowledge. As for its relation to paganism, all paganism can be traced back to Babylon and the fertile crescent moreover to the Annunaki. ET beings mislabeled as gods throughout the ages that physically mutated us genetically, look up one of reefer or I's posts about them. This is the origin of all the pagan gods and goddesses since humanity migrated with these original beliefs after the flood. Now if you don't believe this just look at how China, Mexico, and the fertile crescent all had a boom in civilazation around the same time, all with very similar beleifs of alien gods, and a returning saviour. All of the Annunaki gods were just simply re-arranged by the European Pagans The greeks,Romans,Norse,Germanic,, except for the goddess worshippers in Gaul and Ireland who were basically GNOSTIC, seeing as how gnosticism regards the holy Sophia as the holy female that created the demi-urge, and the female wife of Christ, and how the druids practice a basically GNOSTIC version of initiation rites for direct contact with the divine. Now since all of the polytheistic gods of pagan cultures originated with the annunaki, and morphed through time and lost truth. The mystery cults that existed in Babylon and transfered to Egypt, TAUGHT THE GNOSIS, TAUGHT ALCHEMY OF THE WHITE AND BLACK FACTIONS. The spiritual and material. It was all a means of initation and rites, that thru ego death or other means of fear inciting awareness, or psychadelic experience a desired result could be achieved. This is how Gnosis relates to paganism. The cultures keeping gnosis as the highest ideal of knowledge in the priesthood, was taught by these alien creator gods one especially, Enki, Thoth,Hermes,mercury. THe messenger and knowledge giver are always the same in the pagan religions. After Egypt which was the last known world empire at its height (even though the known world was miniscule) broke into either attempting to learn the gnosis, or worshipping the gods that taught it, and created us, and mimicking their Hierarchy. Then the monotheisms lied and said they were aiming for gnosis, but basically just instigated complete, mental and spiritual slavery. Out of this is where the gnostic cults of the mid east arose in the times of Jesus Christ. Out of the missmash of crap (monotheisms and Paganisms) that came after the end of Egypt and the Exodus of the Wisdom, and backbone of the commercial agenda of the Pharoahs the Hebrews.
Can't recall now where I found this pic. However, it's been around for some time as I first saw it back in the 70's in a book. I think it's meant to show the famous if non-existent 'shperes' of ptolemaic philosophy. It looks to me like a kind of seeing of the mechanisms behind the visible universe. However, quaint is it is, I don't myself think that the world is evil and inimical to mankind, or that it was created by a lower power, or that our best course is to seek to escape from it.
I said like sci-fi fantasy. wheels within wheels. the layers of heaven. It's really entertaining stuff to read about. And, yes, if you read certain bible passages with the expectation that it will be sci-fi, it's not hard to see how many people thought Ezekiel and others saw UFOs. There's lots of symbolism in that drawing.
That was the biggest lump of dumb i have ever heard. Did you think that shit up yourself, or did you smoke too much weed while watching a Stargate marithon?
Stargate SUCKS, and i can vouch for him on that one How is that dumb? Because you don't understand it or because your too small minded?
no, because it is the most retarded argument i have ever heard, with absolutly no anthropological evidence to back it up. It is a bunch of Scientology sci-fi bullshit. I understood exactly what he meant, and have a mind large enough to say that it was the dumbest shit i have ever read.
Scientology is ridiculous i agree, it was made in 1953. What we're talking about goes back thousands of years and has transformed into modern day ideologies. Comparing Scientology to factual history, well, that's just fucking stupid, maybe you should close your mouth. BUT HOW IS THIS RIDICULOUS. If beleiving in tree spirits and creatures living in rocks isnt ridiculous I don't know what is, seeing as how it is spawned from the same thing we're discussing just a different form. and what do you mean no anthropological evidence, oh i forgot Sumerian cuneiform or the Nag Hammadi library don't exist anymore because the spirits in the trees says they dont!
wow, you've convinced me to joing the dumbass team with that wonderfully intellegent reply. Sorry, nevermind, keep your aliens, i will keep my trees.
well maybe you should pay attention more, we've cited evidence from sources, people with PhD's. So when you compare something to scientology, or let alone stargate, what deems that response intelligent?
Heron your a fat stupid white trash motherfucker. THat is the truth, but I guess I should've said polytheistic instead of pagan, because pagan is more goddess wicca type shit. All Polytheism trace their roots back to the the Annunaki, its all these alien gods that were reported all over the oldest civilizations in 5000 bc. The aztecs, sumerians and Harrapan civilizations all report of alien gods teaching them agriculture, and basic sciences. THen returned and taught them culture, building civilizations, architecture and modern sciences. Stargate is bullshit this is true, its as true as any written scripture, documented heavily in Cuneiform and coincides with the Bible and Mesopotamian accounts of their own history. All the polytheistic cultures, ARE THE SAME GODS REARRANGED WITH SOME DIFFERING CHARACTERISTICS. THIS IS FUCKING HISTORY, AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION. THE GREEK NORSE ROMAN EGYPTIAN and MESOAMERICAN GODS ALL CAN BE COMPARED. THEY ARE ALL DESCENDING FROM THIS ORIGINAL ANNUNAKI, whos name means THOSE WHO CAME FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH, in a physical form. Plus so what I smoke pot, I do shrooms, and coke and every other fucking drug. What does that have to do with this arguement? You are a pussy fat kid inside the box, that only knows attacking instead of proving facts. That lump of dumb is the fuckin TRUTH. Obviously you don't know what scientology is either, its nothing like gnosis or annunaki. Your proving to be the lump of dumb which is the same size as your fat ass. Dude I took a full year of Anthropology before I dropped out of college, so you want anthropological proof? How about the disappearing Neanderthal occurence? That science HAS NO PROOF OF only a few theories, that either modern man murdered them, they killed themselves, they inbred and like the Roman Empire over time bred their way with the foreign Homo Sapiens untill there genes were no longer evident at all. OR you can say the Annunaki, took homo erectus (which has black skin), from the central plains of africa, mutated Homo Erectus and Annunaki genes, and took Neanderthal and mutated their genes with Annunaki as well. Creating white and black modern humans whos only difference is physical appearence. Or the annunaki themselves couldv'e only mutated Homo Erectus and forced them to kill the Neanderthals. Your closed minded, only believing in science, what if 50 years Paleontologists discover dinosaur bones are all bullshit. That they weren't formed like we thin, and instead they walked on two legs just had a massive size. THe fact that you think your smarter is bullshit. Why can't we communicate with animals? Like other animals can? Why are humans becoming a virus to this planet? You seriously cant admit that we are not natural evolving beings? What about the recent surge for intelligent design? Evolution is only part of it man. You believe in trees and paganism and going back to the essence of the earth and trees and all that shit, yet what the fuck. Thats the whole excursion of humans in the past 10,000 years. TO GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ALL THAT, and join this material hell of civilization.
Well, seeing that Scientologists believe in alien creators, and Stargate has all of the old gods, Egyptian and Norse, as aliens, it is a proper analogy. I wasnt just pulling sci-fi out of my ass, I had reasons.
feel better? your gnosis is really starting to show. You are so smart. Polytheism instead of pagan, because pagan is goddess wicca type shit? you are showing more of your lump of dumb, and an angry dumb it is. So there are cuneiform writings that tell that Norse gods and Egyptian gods are aliens? I didnt figure that they knew what Norse gods were. Maybe you are putting your faith in more man written shit just like the Hebrew writings that say that an angry hemaphrodite made us out of clay and made it rain a lot before burning shrubbery. And honestly, taking a year of anthropology before dropping out doesnt give much credential on your part. I took a year of film before getting a degree, but i am by no means a director. This thread was fucking stupid from the get, so I will sit back and watch the dumb flow, and maybe Tom Cruise and John Travolta will show up and enlighten us with their oral feces as well. And for the record, i think most science theory is crap too, so dont be too offended. Sincerly, heron the fat stupid white trash motherfucker. douche.
Well, that's quite apparent. I find the above statement to be quite humorous. There's a big difference between remaining open minded, and allowing your brains to fall right the fuck out of your head. Color me unimpressed. Fjolnirsson-also a fat stupid white trash motherfucker.
Just like to say that i am in good company. Would rather be in the fat stupid white trash motherfucker category with Fjolnirsson than any other. and Nimrod (fitting name), as to proving facts, I hate to tell you, but there are no "facts" when it comes to religion.
Well the Norse gods are just re-written as the old gods, its all connected, based off the same shit. Just because I beleive in the gnosis, doesn't mean I follow it completely. Everyone has the same gnosis, it's an individual thing, which is why religion itself is petty and worthless. Each person has their own way of achieving the gnosis, rather through death, conscious awakening, or mushrooms, and other ways of achieving enlightenment on Earth. The point of the thread was that Gnonis is the underlying base for all religions. Religions themselves are just copies of all this, mixed together, added and subtracted. The creation myth, the norse mythology, sumerian mythology, paganism, christianity, islam, etc etc....They all stem from the same thing, the knowledge that we have yet to control fully. This is the gnosis, which was the point. Gnosticism might not go along with everyone's ideals, but it's not supposed to. Organized Gnosticism itself is an oxymoron. I myself don't have an exact definition of paganism seeing as how it itself is mash of so many different things. Basically it's just worship of mother earth, that's how I see it. Spirits in everything connecting to a greater diety, the Gaia, connecting to the father spirit, the creator of the universe (this is what I call God). That is my understanding of paganism. Paganism itself is an important part of the Gnosis, for you must respect mother nature, seeing as how we all come from Earth in the form of minerals and elements, only found in mother earth. But we were torn from these roots by the Annunaki, and our dna was altered and turned into this confusing blob of existence called humanity. The lesser demiurge is what disconnects us from this, and the gnosis is as close as we can get to the spirit of the father god, but by using all the ideas of religion, including paganism, the worship of the Earth we descend from, and transforming that into complete understanding. That is my belief of gnosis. All of this connected, to yes, Aliens. Seeing as how the definition of alien is something having characteristis or belonging to something not native. These are what modern God, the demiurge. You see how it's all connected? Too bad this discussion got so personal, I wish this could have been more of an educational process.
King Nimrod my friend. The first King, the builder of the first cities at Uruk, and Babylon. The first uniter of man from the fear of the outside, and putting them in a city surrounded by walls with an army. The first Emporer, the first creator of Law, the first Tyrant, the first Atheist, the man that thought he was above god, the first man wanting to prove that god didn't exist, the builder of the Tower of Babel. I am his apprentice because one day I'd like to kill him. You just didn't get the fact that the annunaki were all the other gods rewritten through time. Due to migration of the people after the flood. If you don't beleive in the flood, then howabout just any sort of cataclysm. If you don't believe in that, then well you can't believe in the dinosaurs either. You have to say that science is making up how these creatures look and their fossils. Science and Religion meet at hte point of a global cataclysm, somewhere in the near past. I guess reefer never figured the Pagans would be so opposed to the idea of a supreme knowledge, that one can attain in a million different ways. LoL this is like out of a Biblical story. The pagans! they can't accept anything! They don't acknowledge others beliefs facts, ideas, and theories!