/lit/ - Literature

>>16105494
LET US THEREFORE TAKE UP THE PROPOSITION FROM THE BEGINNING, THAT THE SUMMIT OF BEINGS, WHICH WE REFER TO AS BEING OR SUBSTANCE, IS NOT DESIGNATED [AS SUCH] FROM A SINGLE CHARACTER, WHICH, HAS BEEN SAID, SHINES FORTH, SINCE ALL SUCH DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERS EXIST IN DISTINCTION. BUT THIS BEING IS ALL THINGS AS WELL AS THE PRINCIPLE OF ALL THINGS, AS WELL AS THE PRINCIPLE BEFORE ALL THINGS; AS THE UNIFIED, IT IS THE PRINCIPLE OF EVERYTHING THAT IS DISTINCT, THAT IS, OF BEINGS AND LIVING BEINGS AND KNOWERS AND OF ANYTHING WHATSOEVER THAT HAS EXISTENCE. AND JUST AS THESE ARE ALL THINGS IN THEIR DIFFERENTIATED CONDITIONS, SO THAT LOFTY NATURE IS ALL THINGS IN AN INTEGRATED WAY, AS A CONCENTRATION OF ALL THINGS. BUT BY MEANS OF INDICATION IT IS CALLED BEING, IN TERMS OF ONE OF THE ASPECTS THAT COME AFTER IT AND ARE FROM IT, BUT THIS HAS ITSELF RECEIVED THE SECOND RANK AFTER THE ONE. THIS NAME, ‘ONE’ WAS APPROPRIATE FOR THE FIRST PRINCIPLE. LET THIS BE OUR METHOD OF ASCENT: JUST AS WE ASCEND FROM THE DISTINCT CONDITIONS TO THE UNIFIED, SO WE ASCEND FROM ALL THINGS THAT ARE IN ANY WAY, AND FROM BEINGS THAT HAVE RECEIVED ANY FORM OF APPELLATION.
STILL, THERE IS ONE FOUNT THAT IS WITHOUT ANY DIFFERENTIATION, SINCE IT IS THE ROOT OF THE BEINGS THAT HAVE BECOME SEPARATE FROM IT AND EXIST IN A STATE OF DIFFERENTIATION, THIS PRINCIPLE THAT NEVER DEPARTS FROM THE ONE, AND THEREFORE UNIFIES THAT WHICH GROWS FROM IT AS A ROOT UNITES MYRIAD BRANCHES. THERE IS ALSO A KIND OF STEM FROM THE ROOT, THAT IS NOT YET THE BRANCHES, AND ALTHOUGH THIS STEM TOO IS ENVISIONED ENTIRELY AS A PART, IT IS NEVERTHELESS NOT YET THE BRANCHES.

>>15354303
Whenever you choose a partner you choose that a set of genes are superior to most other genes; once you love that other and all that they are, which includes their genes, that are now seen by you as most superior. Ergo, love is racist, and that is good.

>implicitly affirms the gnostic claims about the demiurge
>worships this evil creator
>>15316267
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