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Christian Gnosticism was mostly wiped out by the time the middle ages ended but I do find the whole idea of it pretty interesting. For example, they largely believe that the Old Testament God was an evil creator deity who more or less fills the Satan archetype modern Christianity has. You hear a gnostic Christian talk about Yahweh and it's day and night compared to what the average christian/muslim or jew would tell you today. They describe Him as a jealous, malevolent slash genuinely evil entity (yaldabaoth) who demands ritual sacrifice (I guess all of the animal sacrifice talk in the Old testament?) and who kills anybody who displeases him (Sodom and Gomorrah?). Sometimes he IS yaldabaoth and sometimes he's just like of his henchmen. I'm unsure if even the gnostics themselves have to come to an unified conclusion on this.My own subjective opinion is that the Gnostics were pretty close to the truth- basically we were created by a "God" who was not the Supreme Being, but we each contain divinity within ourselves due to intervention by the "real" God. We are trapped within an energy-harvesting simulation because the "God" of this world doesn't have the divine spark and can't make divine energy himself, nor can "demons" who are basically his minions and exist by parasiting off human energy. The "real" God can't help us because we are trapped in the physical realm and breaking it would destroy us. This is why "messengers" like Jesus were sent, though their message is frequently corrupted and twisted to support earthly religious and political structures.
The upcoming technocratic state that is being built, is designed to make people not think about their own divinity and rely on tech and AI for everything, including knowledge and research. That's a feature, not a bug.
where this differs from regular gnosticism is that gnostic christians think the New Testament God is a "good God". One who holds love for humanity and one who doesn't demand total compliance from us. Jesus, his "messenger"/agent figure and His sacrifice is evidence to them that He is truly benevolent. Pretty interesting stuff because if we assume this to be true then that would explain why the New and Old testament "Gods" are so diametrically opposed to each other. Why the New testament God doesn't show Himself to us anymore, He has hope in humanity and even -if He wanted to help- He couldn't because of something something energy prison.
If this all appeals to you and you're considering converting to gnosticism, I would advise some caution. Gnosticism has a long history to it's name and it has a nasty habit of attaching itself to any religious canon it can. It's main framework of "good Gods vs evil Gods uhh something about energy and souls?" is an incredibly malleable concept so gnostics have no issue just bending their shit around whichever religion they've decided to attach their teachings onto. If you really wanted to you could go out, find some uncontacted nigger tribe in brazil and convince them their spearchucker voodoo religion is perfectly compatible with gnosticism. Maybe even convert a few of the progressive ones to your newly made gnosticism/jungle hut voodoo magic sect if you tried hard enough. That's just how vague and soft the "rules" of gnosticism are.
