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Where to begin with gnosticism?

>> No.10514875

Plato of course. Then the early Christians. Then the heresies.

>> No.10514879

>>10514868
Don't.

>> No.10514962

>>10514879
I think OP should do some research at the very least until he stops associating the Judge with "gnosticism."

>> No.10514973

>>10514868
You should start by deleting this bad picture of the judge from your computer

>> No.10514974

The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity by David Brakke
Neoplatonism by Paulina Remes
The Secret History of Hermes Trismegistus by Florian Ebeling

Plato's Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
Nag Hammadi Scriptures by Meyer
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius by Brian P. Copenhaver
Enneads by Plotinus

>> No.10514985

>>10514868
>shows you Christianity
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT HOW DOES ANYONE BELIEVE THIS ABSURD BULLSHIT CANT BELIEVE THAT EUROPE BELIEVED THIS SHIT FOR NEARLY 2000 YEARS WHAT KIND OF FOUCAULDIAN FORCE OF KNOWLEDGE IS THAT
>shows you gnosticism
Ah yes, this seems completely reasonable. Let me study this please *uploads cum tribute video to Carl Jung on xvideos*

>> No.10514995

>>10514985
>Jung
>gnostic
wut?

>> No.10515009

>>10514995
not that anon but seven sermons, look it up

>>10514985
some people don't learn so good and must put their hand on the hot stove for themselves

>> No.10515018

>>10514985
are you ok

>> No.10515030

>>10515018
buster wolf

>> No.10515033

>>10515018
I'm fine, I just know shallow religious hipsterism when I see it.

>> No.10515048

>>10514879
Only right answer. Read the Enneads and go straight to neoplatonism. That's basically rational theism.

>> No.10515050

>>10515018
Asking someone on 4chan "are you ok" is probably the gayest thing you can do. This isn't Reddit, there's going to be people here unduly cynical, fiery, vehement, upset.

>> No.10515055

>>10515050
are you ok

>> No.10515066

>>10514868
Hans Jonas, the gnostic religion

>> No.10515070

>>10514974
>Plotinus
Plotinus despised that shit desu.

>> No.10515082

>>10514985
Anon, I see you've grasped that non-christianity is reaction and individuation.
But have you reached the truth of the Lord Christ, who died or your sins?

>> No.10515086

>>10515050
>nobody cares, he says
thank you for taking the time to explain this :^)

>>10515055
are you ok

>>10515033
best post itt. op isn't going to read a damn thing, except maybe wikipedia.

>> No.10515110

>>10515082
I have, Brother, I have. :)

>> No.10515123

>>10515082
Pure nonsense.

Some of us just weren't raised chrisitian, and had nothing to react against.

>> No.10515178

>>10515123
Says the non-Christian :^)

>> No.10515186

>>10515178

Not him, but not sure what this means

>> No.10515312

Read Against The Day desu

Pynchon knows.

>> No.10515749

>>10515178
Uhh.. yeah because I wasn't raised chrisitian. Like most people.

>> No.10517329

>>10514974
thanks for the recs, not the original anon but a good list. Starting with The Gnostics by Brakke and using Plato and Plotinus as my primary sources a good idea?

>> No.10517361

How to become a Gnostic in 3 Easy Steps:
1) Due to a stark and sudden revalation by the TRUE GOD, drop your friends, family and career and wander off into the nearest forrest.
2) create on alter with honeywax candles pointed directly at the star of your choosing.
3) get mauled to death by a bear and scream "ILL GET YOU NEXT TIME DEMIUUUUUUUUUURGE"
Jesus Christ I hate mystics.

>> No.10517364

>>10515070
Gnostics don't give a shit about Plotinus calling them imbeciles and blasphemers, and read him anyway.

>>10517329
No. Read the primary sources in that order, you cannot skip the Bible and Nag Hammadi Library.

>> No.10517500

holy shit this thread is sad

you guys are literal retards. >>10514974 is the only one who's been helpful. everyone is is just projecting some struggle or something.

>> No.10517510

>>10515033
>uses the word hipster in 2018

Anon... did someone fuck your girlfriend or something? Some pseudo mystic?

>> No.10518706

>>10515749
So what?

>> No.10518757

>>10514868
Bible first, then
The great courses lectures on Nag Hammadi