/lit/ - Literature

>>16387876
In a meme though, PicRel

>>16171795
If you consider PicRel as Gnosis and our experience of Consciousness as the Demiurge, then sure.

But it isn't how Gnosticism sees itself. It sees itself as a pluralism of substances all distinct and hierarchically arranged, much like Madhva Vedanta.

Fool.
Consciousness itself is Maya-shakti.
It is simply a mechanism to make quick and inaccurate models from incomplete sensory data for the purpose of achieving short term survival goals.
We can never know anything accurately through experience.
We can use experience plus logic to figure out a better model, but it will always be a model.
There is a real world that is totally invisible to us, but it is totally physical.
That doesn't mean that what we experience as Spiritual Beings aren't real, they are, they are energy life forms.
Kant understood that Noumena was the reality and Phenomena our mediated experience.
But Noumena is physical.
If we must think it must only be in circles outside of which lies the unthinkable.