/lit/ - Literature

>>18776451
You're touching on some points of contention in deep gnostic theory. I honestly don't really feel like elaborating on them right now, but 7 Sermons of the Dead and Jacques Lacarriere's The Gnostics are short and sweet and available online. They should suffice for now.

I'd save Filoramo for last. He is a good cooldown author. Hans Jonas' The Gnostic Religion should be your centerpiece right now. Anyways, Marcion was not a classic gnostic but he did acknowledge that man is exhausted by the world without remainder, while naturally, classic gnostics like the Sethians would say there is a remainder, there has to be a remainder, and that remainder is the pneuma.

I moved on to these authors, currently I am reading Laruelle who formalizes a lot of these problems at an extremely high theoretical level. I truly believes he succeeds in reconciling these two views, but that's a story for another day.

Yes, praxis is indeed a kind of weaponization of your inner reality against the dominant, monocausal reality of the World. So you are onto something. You are urged to imagine yourself as the hero of your own story of salvation. You write it, it is not written for you.

You see what happens when people ask and engage with a topic with an open mind? I'm calm and helpful.