/lit/ - Literature

>>18606582
Don’t read modern interpretations, read the works for yourself.

i started reading this, was fairly well-written but i quickly realized i hate gnostic

>>18607319
why?

>>18606582
The Nag Hammadi library is a good start...

Hermeticism>>>>>>>>>weeks old dog shit>>>>>>>>>Abrahimic faiths>>>>>Gnosticism

>>18606684
Irenaeus, Clement, Hippolytus, Epiphanius are the real shit

>>18608196
Seething at God is silly. The theology they created is just the subsequent cope to the initial seethe.

>>18606582
The Timaeus and The Enneads (Ennead II tracate IX)
Gnostics are brain dead and aren't even familiar of the philosophical sources that they twisted into heresies.
Consider the ancient gnostic sects as modern day conspiracy groups. Flat earth group, lziard people group, alien groups etc.

>>18609364
If you put the abrahamic faiths below dog shit I sincerely doubt you understand anything of hermeticism.
Knowledge isnt your marvel vs capcom bullshit.

>>18611584
Plato's made up fantasy cosmology is every bit as fucking retarded and falsifiable today. Don't hold it up, because that's pure appeal to authority, and Plato knew less about cosmology than a middle schooler today

>>18611625
Cope. The Monad and Dyad were well proven through the mathematics and science of the Pythagoreans.

>>18606582

John.

>>18611584
>Consider the ancient gnostic sects as modern day conspiracy groups. Flat earth group, lziard people group, alien groups etc.
So youre saying Gnostics are extremely based?

>>18608196
>creation is... evil
Yes, why would anyone hate those retards?

>>18611734

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>>18611639
???

>>18611584
>muh gnostics are [contemporary american political category]
We have 4 surviving manuscripts of the Apocryphon of John which means it was a massively popular work at the time, practically mainstream. Don't ask for rigor and then get shown up like this, retard.