/lit/ - Literature

>>16708447
Yes. If you listen to Voegelin (I don't), modernity is an immanentized gnosticism. I'd rather listen to Blumenberg: modernity isn't the fulfillment of whatever tendencies were latent in the gnostic schools of the 2nd-3rd centuries, it's actually a compromise with the fact that its dualism cannot be refuted. more to the point, it's a compromise with the fact that the possibility of us being slaves of a demonic god is just too much to bear for the majority of humanity. terrified by that possibility, Descartes could only fall back on his cogito, and from there the rest is history.

>>13652476
gnosticism is the original luciferian heresy. telling you the creator is evil and to revolt against the created order. some even say it’s the root of the common satanic heresies of today. (pic related)

It's the other way around

Has anyone here read his works? I haven't, but he seems very interesting. Seems to be of the few rational voices in the sea of garbage we call contemporary philosophy.

>>5270992


>The aim of parousiastic gnosticism is to destroy the order of being, which is experienced as defective and unjust, and through man’s creative power to replace it with a perfect and just order. Now, however the order of being may be understood—as a world dominated by comic-divine powers in civilizations of the Near and Far East, or as the creation of a world-transcendent God in Judaeo-Christian symbolism, or as an essential order of being in philosophical contemplations—it remains something that is given, that is not under man’s control. In order, therefore, that the attempt to create a new world may seem to make sense, the givenness of the order of being must be obliterated; the order of being must be interpreted, rather, as essentially under man’s control. And taking control of being further requires that the transcendent origin of being be obliterated: it requires the decapitation of being—the murder of God.

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/5081
http://thriceholy.net/Texts/Plotinus5.html