/lit/ - Literature

Are there any good modern books on gnosticism? No schizo shit please.

>>22504070

>>20892783
>tfw you got the chuds seething

>>20665278
>Confucian (& other Eastern religious) values are really not too different from Judeo-Christian values
As if we needed further evidence from OP that the less one knows the more one says

>>20068932
For some, many such lifetimes!

>>19795148
this nigger

>>19095244
Need to have /christer/ and /jeets/ generals if we're not getting a /feel/ - Philosophy board

Is this to replace the anti-nondualism threads that christer kept posting every few days with the bible quotes about idolatry? The one's where it would be 200 posts of carnage and retroactive refutation of dualism, abrahamism, etc.? This is your response now, eh, "confirmed to be wrong?" It is (You) who are confirmed to be wrong.

>>18613493
The Law of Causality binds us in this world. This world of the stinking corpse of Yaldaboath, you are correct, but there is no escape.

>>18442238
>Shankara regards things as illusory in a totally different way than Buddhism
Tacking god to the end of your argument is just theology
>Basically all of Tibetan Buddhism is scholastic autistic over emptiness.
More or less, and much like Shankara the Tibetan schools represent a very late genealogical development in the religion in question
>Buddhists on /lit/ seem to be largely incapable of being honest when discussing Shankara because he triggers them too much so they prefer to repeat pejoratives and strawmen instead of honestly engaging with his ideas.
There is no idea of his that was not broadly refuted in either the nikayas or mahayana sutras. If Tibetan scholasticism is bad enough to parse for an outsider, why would a Buddhist bother with indo-thomism if its axioms are unsupported? If Shankara is as little of an innovator as you claim, having reclaimed the original gist of the Upanishads rather than representing a later Buddhist influenced development in Indian thought, were his ideas not already 'retroactively refuted' by the Buddhists who did the brahmin breaking centuries before Shankara?

Karl Jung

>>18033733
(You) deserve it tiger.
>>18035040
This might make my day.
>>18032250

Guenon talks about Kshatriya and the lower castes joining this kind of esoteric 'lower mysteries', but what are examples historically in India of this?

Is modern India with how westernized it has become irrevocably tainted? How serious are the initiatic orders today in India and are they under threat?

>>17592066
You are wrong in all but the most autistic of senses.

What are the best books about breaking out of Samsara?

>>17006893
Protagonist shouldn't be all good
antagonist shouldn't be all evil
Aristotle's "Poetics" gives a good synopsis of what makes a good story. He takes notes from the Iliad a lot so read that beforehand

Has any author explored the link between near-death experiences, gnosticism and dharmic conceptions of the afterlife?
Is it too early for something cohesive to be written about this, seeing as these ideas have only been linked together fairly recently?

How is having a successful life not a matter of karma and dharma? Shouldn't society accommodate this, or at least own up to it and stop peddling this horseshit that we are all equal?

Books on this topic

The Thunder and Zostrianos. Look it up. Await the reckoning.

>>16652199
The Jew is slave to
Him
The Demiurge.
The Kabbalhist is slave to
It
The Monad.

>he thinks he understands Christianity and Judaism
>he hasn't read the Gnostics, or studied to Ogdoad or Kabbalah
You know nothing.

>>16494456
That's why you need multiple lifetimes, fren.

>>16493355
Kek I'm not seething; god being dismembered to create the world is PIE as fuck. It also doesn't conflict with Buddhism since we are continously reborn from that god-world, which itself would have been dependently originated in an infinite cycle of god-deaths. We are not what we are born of, but together belong to the same set of voidness, the gods, men, and so forth.

Hello. I keep asking this one question but so far I haven't got good answer. How gnostics know that Sofia and Aeons aren't doing exactly the same shit with souls that Demiurge does? How can you be sure that their plane isn't another prison and that they prefer more enlightned souls just like someone prefers fine wine or expensive whisky over cheap canned beer (I know this is technically food analogy but I find it fitting). Feel free to point me to the texts explaining this.