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Ch. 5 from A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel of the Tripartite Tractate
The division of the deeply troubled Logos was the first manifestation of Ego acting outside of the will of the One Self and the Fullness. The Fall was caused by an act of Ego falling away from the Sel
Emissaries of Consciousness
Logos and the Aeons sent down representations of themselves into our universe, each one being a much more fabulous original than these deficient copies of the Imitation. And so these organizational pa
Ego, Fall, Deficiency
When Logos overreached because of presumptuous egoic thought and fell into the darkness that is ignorance, he shattered into a confusing jumble of disconnected parts. These pieces of the Shattered Aeo
Fractals, Fullness, and the Fall
I suggest that the consciousness of God is fractal in the same way that the broccoli stalk is fractal. So we can imagine that the root of consciousness, the Father, is, for example the mother plant. T
Self-Awareness Emerges
This episode explains how consciousness unfolds itself and gives rise to self-awareness. How does consciousness originate from the single source and then keep branching out as self-awareness until it
Gnostic Cosmos Origin Story
To church folks this will initially sound like heresy, while to non-believers it will sound too churchy. To those folks who have fallen away from the church because they cant reconcile inconsistencie
Evolution and Conscious Design
In the Simple Explanation there is an ontological pull upward toward more complex aggregations of consciousness. Darwin's model is, on the other hand, a case of the blind simply bumbling by happenstan
Gnostic Evolution–in the beginning…
Someone left a comment on an old article from 2019 on my Simple Explanation blog, and it caused me to reread the article. And, gee, its a good article. I dont think weve ever shared it here on Gnos
If everybody is going to heaven anyway, what’s the point of being virtuous?
Welcome to Gnostic Insights. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp, and I'm your host. In 2019, I posted an article to my new Gnostic Gospel blog called If All Are Redeemed, Why Not Be Sinful?, and I'd like to shar
A Path to Gnosis
If you pursue wisdom, it will come. If you don't pursue wisdom, if you stay enmeshed in the world, if you are a materialist, if you only believe what you read from experts or the talking heads on tv,