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The Gnosis Archive
The Gnosis Archive lists every essay on Pleroma, newest first: 98 essays across 9 pillars of Gnostic and Hermetic thought, each with its sources named at the foot. Filter by pillar below. Essays reworked in the last 45 days also sit in a list of their own.
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Gnostic Cosmology: every essay, newest first
Choose a pillar to narrow the list. Each pillar also has a page of its own, with the essays in reading order and its Lexicon terms.
- Gnostic Cosmology
Are Archons Mentioned in the Bible? The Word Paul Used
The question has a short answer and a long one. The short answer is yes, four times at least, and your Bible has been translating the word out from under you for four hundred years.Abyss - Gnostic Cosmology
Gnosis vs Faith: What the Gnostics Actually Believed
Faith trusts what it has not yet seen. Gnosis is the seeing. What the Gnostics actually taught about the two, why the early Church feared it, and where the trap lies on both sides.Abyss - Gnostic Cosmology
The Demiurge: The Creator-God Who Forgot He Was Not the Highest
In the Gnostic texts, there is a creator god — but he is not the highest. He is blind to what is above him. And that blindness is the architecture of the world we live in.Deep - Gnostic Cosmology
The Seven Archons Are the Seven Deadly Sins: How Gnostic Cosmology Mapped the Chakras Before Yoga Reached the West
Before the Church called them deadly sins, the Gnostics called them the Seven Archons. Before yoga named them chakras, the Greeks called them the Hebdomad. Three traditions. One hidden map.Abyss - Gnostic Cosmology
The Complete Archontic Hierarchy — From the Demiurge to Your Inner Critic
The archontic pattern is fractal — the same blind architecture repeats from the Demiurge down to your inner critic. Here is the complete map, from cosmic ruler to the voice in your head.AbyssUpdated - Gnostic Cosmology
Archons vs Demons: What's the Difference?
Archons and demons come from radically different maps of evil. One system diagnoses ignorance, the other rebellion. The remedy changes everything.AbyssUpdated - Gnostic Cosmology
What Does "Archontic" Mean? The Anatomy of a Control Force
The word 'archontic' doesn't name a monster. It names a mechanism — the quality of any system that governs through blindness rather than wisdom, that enforces rules it cannot question, that cannot perceive the reality above it.Abyss - Gnostic Cosmology
The Pneumatic Awakening: Three Types of Human Consciousness
Gnostic tradition maps three types of human consciousness: hylic, psychic, and pneumatic. The Tripartite Tractate derives all three from the Logos; Irenaeus, writing against the Valentinians, says one person holds only one. Both accounts are quoted here.AbyssUpdated - Gnostic Cosmology
Logos: The Divine Mind That Orders Reality
Logos is the divine ordering principle of the cosmos — the rational mind of God that structures reality from the Pleroma down to your daily consciousness.Abyss - Gnostic Cosmology
What Are Archons? The 7 Gnostic Rulers, Named and Decoded
Archons are the parasitic rulers of Gnostic cosmology — entities that maintain the simulation we call reality. Learn what they are and how to transcend them.AbyssUpdated