/lit/ - Literature

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oh, meant to add one more thing, just to clarify
"Smashing the world's shell" in this case would mean destroying the border between the noumenal and phenomenal, the essence of the gnostic realization

“When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one, so that the male will not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in the place of a likeness; then will you enter the Kingdom.” - Gospel of Thomas
(The first part is elaborating on the destruction of the perceived duality, the latter part of that is describing the formation of the astral body through what people call the "imagination")