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>>15717799
There is nothing to refute, because your post selfrefutes itself by ignoring what Gnosticism consists in; Gnosticism pertains to the practice of leading a noble (derived from root: "gno-") lifestyle, actualized in the mediatory motion of optimization of: oneself, the world, and this kosmos --through reception of God's grace, with direction toward God's plenitude; gnosis consists in the total --physical, mental, spiritual-- synthesis of knowledge, that is: the motion of Wisdom; this can only be done with a root in Nobility, hence the reflected/common etymological root.

Gnosticism is as essential to Christianity as Neoplatonism is antithetical to it.

>...namely that the Demiurge was an evil entity as opposed to the creative principle of Plato's Timeaus...
The Demiourgos fashioned the kosmos in concord to the pattern of God, due to the remnant Sofian essence that it had inherited upon being expired, which manifested itself autogenetically; the Demiourgos itself is the source of all evil.

>...and that matter is inherently evil as opposed to creation being a beautiful manifestation of the One.
Christian doctrine does not hold that matter is evil; matter was created by Sofia as a means for order & stability after finding herself in the outer darkness; you are conflating, either: Christianity with judeochristianity, or matter with lust.

>>14559933
Your constant fear of failing to realize your own potential, and your own expectation of yourself, is what causes you to project your fear outwardly. Fear, elevated beyond the primal level, is a morbid, pessimal state of psykhe; God is as averse to morbidity, and to interacting with anything that is pessimally inclined, as it is absurd to claim that possessing fear toward God has anything to do with Wisdom, which is, firstly, realized through love. Instead of fearing God, which is both: aberrant, and redundant, you should strive to proactively overcome your fear, and receive God's grace, coming to know God's actual love for what is noble, and optimal.

>>14296742
>Sophia is mentioned in two books of the Bible.
It is no surprise that the judeochristian bible does not have extant, or virtually any, reference to Sofia, because revelation of the Telos, and ontology, of Sofia - particularly in the instance of her being the virgin mother of the original Aryans - with entailing reconciliation of her aspected personifications present in mythology, to the masses, would render the judeochristian system obsolete, and cause a disturbance in the zionist worldcolony.

>>14296831
Wisdom is of the Holy Spirit, which is present in both: Jesus Christ, and Sofia.