Thank you so much for sharing this. Gnostic content is fascinating!
The highest are the pneumatics (from pneuma, “spirit”), referred to in the extracts above as “spiritual”. These people contain sparks of the light of the Pleroma. They are thus by the very nature of their being not of this world at all, belonging instead to the Pleroma, the realm of the True God. The pneumatics are ultimately destined to return to the Pleroma, and thus are assured of salvation no matter what happens. They are the elite of the human race.
The second category of people are the psychics–from psyche, which can mean, depending on the context, “soul” or “life”. In this context, “natural” might be the best translation. In the extracts above, the term is variously translated “animal” or simply transliterated as “psychic” (which in this context does not mean having paranormal powers, but being merely akin to natural life). The psychics are intermediate. They may, through evil living, be damned. This consists of either a hell-like existence or outright destruction–the sources aren’t clear. If they live a life of purity they are saved, either attaining to the Pleroma, or to a slightly lower but still blissful state–once more, the sources are unclear.
The lowest category of humans are the hylics, from hyle, “matter”, referred to above as “material”. Unlike the pneumatics, the hylics lack a spark of the Light. Unlike the psychics, the hylics are unable to choose for the true good by following the light. The hylics are understood to be material in all respects–their only concern is for food, sex, and material pleasures.
I've concluded that the Gnostics were created to offramp people from a Christianity growing in popularity. Most of what I've heard of their doctrine is nonsense, completely without base. That is, as you read any of their material, ask yourself, "How would anyone come to know this exactly?"
That being said, I thought they were dead on with this, and the subject is key to the source and solution for almost all the problems we face. It's importance cannot be overestimated. The Dark Occultists that run this world are well aware of it and wish no one was talking about it.
The Essenes (and Jesus may have been one) were on to this long before the Gnostics. They referred to it as souls that were "asleep", "awake", and "drowsy". So when Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead", he was really saying it was pointless to try to wake the sleeping, and moving ahead as a wakened person was to take precedence.
My guess has long been that we have an instance of the 80/20 rule on our hands: 80% hylics, 16% psychics, 4% pneumatics. (Disappointing, I know.) The focus should be on waking psychics to become pneumatics, as the hylics may be a lost cause.
There is much, much confirming and collateral evidence for this but this comment is too long already.
Thank you for bringing up the Essenes. I want to do more research on them. Do you have any recommendations on.... more accurate information about them and their beliefs? The best books, videos, etc?
No, I'm really sorry I don't. I've never actually researched them but I can tell you why I "turned on my radar" about them.
First, though, let me say that what you'll hear all the time is that, "Oh, they were just another sect of Jews like the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Ho hum." I think now that's a deliberate ploy to derail interest in them.
(Don't hold me to any of the following because as I say I never did any disciplined researched and it's off the top of my head.)
As I mentioned, I stumbled across a reference to Jesus being an Essene, but at the time I didn't make anything of it. Then I stumbled across someone saying that the Essenes were one and the same as the Therapeutae. That's where we get words like "therapeutic" and "therapy", because the Therapeutae were known primarily as healers of body, mind, and spirit.
And I had always thought it was just some sleepy burg, but one of their centers turned out to be in Nazareth. There they were known as the--you got it--Nazarene. Whoa, didn't they call Jesus "the Nazarene"? We're always told that "Jesus the Nazarene" just meant that he was a dude from Nazareth, which technically it does. But I did a little informal counting and found that he was called "Jesus the Nazarene" twice as often as "Jesus of Nazareth". And just as a note, the Hebrew for "Christians" is "nazrim" (while "goyim" means "non-Jews").
My conclusion is that, in addition to whatever else he may have been, Jesus was trained by and a member of this group of powerful healers. So it always seemed to me the Essenes deserved a good looking into (to which I've never got around).
A lot of the topic is still quite murky for me, but one thing I feel is fairly reliable is that virtually all humans were hylics until about 600 BC. The only exceptions were those we know as kings, high priests, and prophets (and there was a reason for that). There are many intriguing data points consistent with that idea, but here are just a couple:
If you look at ancient writings from before this period, say from the Sumerians, none of it is first person, at least none that I've ever run across. Babylonian doesn't even have a word or phrase for "thank you", because of course that is an expression of personal consciousness. From those numerous centuries, there's not a single cuneiform tablet that says something like, "Dear Ereshkigal, I like you. I want to touch your boobs. Do you want to go to the ziggurat with me?" Not a single one that I know of.
On a totally different line of evidence, check out the Axial Age. It's like humanity--or at least a small part--suddenly "woke up". You'll see they really try to play it down and smear it out, and of course steer around giving any reason for it. I've collected many, many more examples from that time period. When you look at the list all put together it is quite startling.
Something very significant, even crucial, went down at that time. If I'm right about what it was then I can see why the Elite don't want us to know about it.
I'll throw in a few others which I hope are not duplicative.
"The Iron Age is taken to end, also by convention, with the beginning of the historiographical record. This usually does not represent a clear break in the archaeological record; for the Ancient Near East, the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire c. 550 BC (considered historical by virtue of the record by Herodotus) is usually taken as a cut-off date"
(source)
"Greek drama is thought to have developed during the 6th century BC from imitative religious magic worship of Dionysus"
(source)
"The first manufactured coins seem to have appeared separately in India, China, and the cities around the Aegean Sea between 700 and 500 BCE."
(source)
[Nineveh] "... was the largest city in the world for some fifty years until the year 612 BC…"
(source)
Did you note the three-fer in the first reference? The idea of writing down history literally started!
It's actually a bit spooky to see it collected, isn't it? But see what you can pick up that's just laying around if you're alert to it?
Haha, I appreciate the interest! I always feel that we're next to an enormous ocean of knowledge, but They have got us looking at chicks in bikinis and the hot dog stand.
Same! Information is my fetish. Everyone loves reality tv, but what people in the past have done to each other in real life dwarfs all "scripted reality". History is amazing. Loomong forward to finding out the real stuff.
Well, at least you broke the ice by saying it first: it was space aliens. I can't say exactly what the treatment was, but I feel certain it's related to the pineal gland. Take a look at this carving.
The guys on the outside are "gods", which you can tell by the horns and wings. The other two are some kings or other. But look what's going on with the objects in the hands of the "gods": pine cone-shaped objects pointed directly at the pineal glands of the two human kings. Oh, just random artistic expression, right?
Want to see it from another angle, from the "revelation of the method" that "They" give us? Very long story, but it turns out that "Westworld" is an allegory containing key elements of human interaction with these aliens. In it, the robots are us humans, and the humans are the aliens. One thing they display to us is the ability of these powerful alien "gods" to make us conscious.
In S01E06, Maeve blackmails two of the techs to turn up her "bulk apperception" on a tablet (not a pine cone). After that, she's no longer behaves like a robot but just like a human. Indeed, she has become like them, "knowing good and evil". These are other direct allegorical messages that she has "woken up". It's explained in this article, but they have no idea about the allegory:
I've been living with this and all the other evidence for several years now, so it all makes sense to me, but I apologize if it comes off to someone new to it as the rantings of a lunatic. I can't stress enough that these are just little blocks in a much larger and coherent pyramid.
I've never read Biglino's work, and had never heard of him before I came to all my conclusions. When I finally ran into one of the handful of translated presentations on video, I thought, "Welp, I guess I wasn't wrong about my bush league translations of Hebrew."
So IDK what he says in his book, but in one of the videos he just sort of grazes by Zecharia Sitchin. I believe Biglino thinks the intersection of "ancient aliens" with the Bible is extremely sensitive to many, so it looked to me like he prudently steered around it as best he could. How much does he really know about it? I couldn't possibly say, but definitely more than he lets on.
SPOILER ALERT: The Bible is 100% about the Anunnaki. There is no question whatsoever. But people get death threats for that kind of talk, and also death for that kind of talk, so I don't blame Biglino.
Another guy that's on to the story is Michael Ledwith. Like Biglino, he has all the cred in the world. For many years, he was on the International Theological Commission, which is the official advisory body on theology to the Pope. You may be interested in this presentation:
If you ask me, he dances around the subject also, but again I don't blame him. It's not in that writeup, but Michael Tellinger relates a story about how Ledwith pointed out a mistranslastion of the very first sentence of the Bible, Gen 1:1.
All ancient Hebrew sacred texts begin with the letter "aleph". Oh, except Genesis. So what happens if you add it back in? You get: "The Father of the Beginnings created the Elohim, the heavens, and the Earth." Changes everything.
So yes, the Elohim are the Anunnaki, and you can reread the OT making that substitution and it not only holds, many puzzles in the text are instantly solved.
One final note since you used the phrase "in the image". It may have been Biglino but I think it was someone else that pointed out that a deep etymology of the word translated as "image", which is the Hebrew word "tselem", shows that it means "cut out", as in a smaller part cut out of a larger part. Not that deep, really, because you can read that right in Strong's. Genetic engineering, anyone?
We have to read very, very closely like that because the people that wrote it down probably had little idea what was really going on. The descriptions given by the Sumerians were even more illustrative, but I always like to stick with the Bible because people are more familiar with it, there are more resources and analysis, and people automatically give more credence to it. Also, they are even now trying to hide the truth with BS translations.
I think you may have misunderstood. The aliens were interacting with humans literally since our inception. What we recognize as "civilization" was rebooted by them in Sumer after the Great Flood. Then a significant change in the relationship between humans and the aliens and that state of affairs on Earth came along much later, around 600BC. We must carefully separate all these events and understand the status quo before and after each.
The model is inherently flawed, because it does not take into account psychopathy, which has been scientifically understood only in modern times. The pure psychopath—someone at the top of the checklist score—would be the closest thing we have to a true NPC. However, psychopathy is on a continuum of severity among the population. Most of us probably know, or have known, several people who score high in some of the characterstics measured but who do not create much trouble.
Thank you so much for sharing this. Gnostic content is fascinating!
I've concluded that the Gnostics were created to offramp people from a Christianity growing in popularity. Most of what I've heard of their doctrine is nonsense, completely without base. That is, as you read any of their material, ask yourself, "How would anyone come to know this exactly?"
That being said, I thought they were dead on with this, and the subject is key to the source and solution for almost all the problems we face. It's importance cannot be overestimated. The Dark Occultists that run this world are well aware of it and wish no one was talking about it.
The Essenes (and Jesus may have been one) were on to this long before the Gnostics. They referred to it as souls that were "asleep", "awake", and "drowsy". So when Jesus said, "Let the dead bury the dead", he was really saying it was pointless to try to wake the sleeping, and moving ahead as a wakened person was to take precedence.
My guess has long been that we have an instance of the 80/20 rule on our hands: 80% hylics, 16% psychics, 4% pneumatics. (Disappointing, I know.) The focus should be on waking psychics to become pneumatics, as the hylics may be a lost cause.
There is much, much confirming and collateral evidence for this but this comment is too long already.
Thank you for bringing up the Essenes. I want to do more research on them. Do you have any recommendations on.... more accurate information about them and their beliefs? The best books, videos, etc?
No, I'm really sorry I don't. I've never actually researched them but I can tell you why I "turned on my radar" about them.
First, though, let me say that what you'll hear all the time is that, "Oh, they were just another sect of Jews like the Pharisees and the Sadducees. Ho hum." I think now that's a deliberate ploy to derail interest in them.
(Don't hold me to any of the following because as I say I never did any disciplined researched and it's off the top of my head.)
As I mentioned, I stumbled across a reference to Jesus being an Essene, but at the time I didn't make anything of it. Then I stumbled across someone saying that the Essenes were one and the same as the Therapeutae. That's where we get words like "therapeutic" and "therapy", because the Therapeutae were known primarily as healers of body, mind, and spirit.
And I had always thought it was just some sleepy burg, but one of their centers turned out to be in Nazareth. There they were known as the--you got it--Nazarene. Whoa, didn't they call Jesus "the Nazarene"? We're always told that "Jesus the Nazarene" just meant that he was a dude from Nazareth, which technically it does. But I did a little informal counting and found that he was called "Jesus the Nazarene" twice as often as "Jesus of Nazareth". And just as a note, the Hebrew for "Christians" is "nazrim" (while "goyim" means "non-Jews").
My conclusion is that, in addition to whatever else he may have been, Jesus was trained by and a member of this group of powerful healers. So it always seemed to me the Essenes deserved a good looking into (to which I've never got around).
A lot of the topic is still quite murky for me, but one thing I feel is fairly reliable is that virtually all humans were hylics until about 600 BC. The only exceptions were those we know as kings, high priests, and prophets (and there was a reason for that). There are many intriguing data points consistent with that idea, but here are just a couple:
If you look at ancient writings from before this period, say from the Sumerians, none of it is first person, at least none that I've ever run across. Babylonian doesn't even have a word or phrase for "thank you", because of course that is an expression of personal consciousness. From those numerous centuries, there's not a single cuneiform tablet that says something like, "Dear Ereshkigal, I like you. I want to touch your boobs. Do you want to go to the ziggurat with me?" Not a single one that I know of.
On a totally different line of evidence, check out the Axial Age. It's like humanity--or at least a small part--suddenly "woke up". You'll see they really try to play it down and smear it out, and of course steer around giving any reason for it. I've collected many, many more examples from that time period. When you look at the list all put together it is quite startling.
Something very significant, even crucial, went down at that time. If I'm right about what it was then I can see why the Elite don't want us to know about it.
I will check out the Axial Age. Thank you. Any other references to 600BC are welcome. All the best :)
There's a good roundup here: 600 B.C.E.
I'll throw in a few others which I hope are not duplicative.
"The Iron Age is taken to end, also by convention, with the beginning of the historiographical record. This usually does not represent a clear break in the archaeological record; for the Ancient Near East, the establishment of the Achaemenid Empire c. 550 BC (considered historical by virtue of the record by Herodotus) is usually taken as a cut-off date" (source)
"Greek drama is thought to have developed during the 6th century BC from imitative religious magic worship of Dionysus" (source)
"The first manufactured coins seem to have appeared separately in India, China, and the cities around the Aegean Sea between 700 and 500 BCE." (source)
[Nineveh] "... was the largest city in the world for some fifty years until the year 612 BC…" (source)
Did you note the three-fer in the first reference? The idea of writing down history literally started!
It's actually a bit spooky to see it collected, isn't it? But see what you can pick up that's just laying around if you're alert to it?
Thanks for your interest!
Subscribe. When is your next lecture please?
Haha, I appreciate the interest! I always feel that we're next to an enormous ocean of knowledge, but They have got us looking at chicks in bikinis and the hot dog stand.
Same! Information is my fetish. Everyone loves reality tv, but what people in the past have done to each other in real life dwarfs all "scripted reality". History is amazing. Loomong forward to finding out the real stuff.
Well, at least you broke the ice by saying it first: it was space aliens. I can't say exactly what the treatment was, but I feel certain it's related to the pineal gland. Take a look at this carving.
The guys on the outside are "gods", which you can tell by the horns and wings. The other two are some kings or other. But look what's going on with the objects in the hands of the "gods": pine cone-shaped objects pointed directly at the pineal glands of the two human kings. Oh, just random artistic expression, right?
Want to see it from another angle, from the "revelation of the method" that "They" give us? Very long story, but it turns out that "Westworld" is an allegory containing key elements of human interaction with these aliens. In it, the robots are us humans, and the humans are the aliens. One thing they display to us is the ability of these powerful alien "gods" to make us conscious.
In S01E06, Maeve blackmails two of the techs to turn up her "bulk apperception" on a tablet (not a pine cone). After that, she's no longer behaves like a robot but just like a human. Indeed, she has become like them, "knowing good and evil". These are other direct allegorical messages that she has "woken up". It's explained in this article, but they have no idea about the allegory:
What is ‘bulk apperception’? Westworld season 1 episode 6’s Maeve cliffhanger explained
I've been living with this and all the other evidence for several years now, so it all makes sense to me, but I apologize if it comes off to someone new to it as the rantings of a lunatic. I can't stress enough that these are just little blocks in a much larger and coherent pyramid.
I've never read Biglino's work, and had never heard of him before I came to all my conclusions. When I finally ran into one of the handful of translated presentations on video, I thought, "Welp, I guess I wasn't wrong about my bush league translations of Hebrew."
So IDK what he says in his book, but in one of the videos he just sort of grazes by Zecharia Sitchin. I believe Biglino thinks the intersection of "ancient aliens" with the Bible is extremely sensitive to many, so it looked to me like he prudently steered around it as best he could. How much does he really know about it? I couldn't possibly say, but definitely more than he lets on.
SPOILER ALERT: The Bible is 100% about the Anunnaki. There is no question whatsoever. But people get death threats for that kind of talk, and also death for that kind of talk, so I don't blame Biglino.
Another guy that's on to the story is Michael Ledwith. Like Biglino, he has all the cred in the world. For many years, he was on the International Theological Commission, which is the official advisory body on theology to the Pope. You may be interested in this presentation:
Farewell to the Annunaki by Michael Ledwith
If you ask me, he dances around the subject also, but again I don't blame him. It's not in that writeup, but Michael Tellinger relates a story about how Ledwith pointed out a mistranslastion of the very first sentence of the Bible, Gen 1:1.
All ancient Hebrew sacred texts begin with the letter "aleph". Oh, except Genesis. So what happens if you add it back in? You get: "The Father of the Beginnings created the Elohim, the heavens, and the Earth." Changes everything.
So yes, the Elohim are the Anunnaki, and you can reread the OT making that substitution and it not only holds, many puzzles in the text are instantly solved.
One final note since you used the phrase "in the image". It may have been Biglino but I think it was someone else that pointed out that a deep etymology of the word translated as "image", which is the Hebrew word "tselem", shows that it means "cut out", as in a smaller part cut out of a larger part. Not that deep, really, because you can read that right in Strong's. Genetic engineering, anyone?
We have to read very, very closely like that because the people that wrote it down probably had little idea what was really going on. The descriptions given by the Sumerians were even more illustrative, but I always like to stick with the Bible because people are more familiar with it, there are more resources and analysis, and people automatically give more credence to it. Also, they are even now trying to hide the truth with BS translations.
I think you may have misunderstood. The aliens were interacting with humans literally since our inception. What we recognize as "civilization" was rebooted by them in Sumer after the Great Flood. Then a significant change in the relationship between humans and the aliens and that state of affairs on Earth came along much later, around 600BC. We must carefully separate all these events and understand the status quo before and after each.
The model is inherently flawed, because it does not take into account psychopathy, which has been scientifically understood only in modern times. The pure psychopath—someone at the top of the checklist score—would be the closest thing we have to a true NPC. However, psychopathy is on a continuum of severity among the population. Most of us probably know, or have known, several people who score high in some of the characterstics measured but who do not create much trouble.