1, Gnosticism is the most radical dualism in history. It is the division between self and the world, the alienation between man and nature, the metaphysical degradation of nature, the universal sense of spiritual loneliness, the nihilism of secular norms and an enduring paradigm of human situation. Similarly, the essence of existentialism is a dualism, which is the alienation between man and the world. ..... Existentialism is a more desperate nihilism, a dualism without metaphysics.
With the rise of modern science ... human beings look at nature through the eyes of instrumental rationality, thus becoming the target of control, deprivation and manipulation ... In Descartes' view, nature degenerates into "extensive matter" and human beings are redefined as "material of thought"-the gap between human beings and nature.
"Pseudo-body" is a concept borrowed by Bingler from mineralogy. Its original intention means that the crystals in a mineral layer disappear due to geological reasons, and the space left behind shapes new substances to fill this space, making them form new crystals, making these new crystals have the original crystal shape, but the substantive content is different from the original crystals. If it is not carefully distinguished, people will think that this new crystal is the original crystal, so it is called "pseudo-crystal".
3. Greek-logos, abstract concepts, theoretical expression methods, and reasoning systems (formal tools)
Oriental-non-conceptualized, expressed through images and symbols: the ultimate goal is disguised in myths and rituals, and there is no logical explanation. Dualism (Iran), astrological fatalism (Babylon) and transcendental monotheism (Judaism) emerged with the help of Greek conceptualization. The fusion of the two in the Hellenistic era: the fatalism of astrology-the coat of harmony and the laws of the universe in the Stoic cosmology, and the religious dualism-Platonism.
Under the monopoly of Greek spirit, oriental spirit can be divided into two trends: open tradition and secret tradition. Under the influence of Greece, the East has completed the transformation of three main spiritual forces of the Hellenistic structure: the original national and local beliefs have been changed and become the elements of international exchange of ideas.
Eastern Wave-Transcendental Religion of Dualism about Salvation: Transcendental God and Transcendental Salvation Goal-God and the world, spirit and matter, soul and body, good and evil, life and death.
Gnosticism: that is, knowledge, which emphasizes that knowledge is a means of salvation, even a form of salvation itself, and claims that this is in his clear doctrine. ...
Classical context: knowledge points to the object of rationality, and the tool to acquire knowledge is natural rationality. Gnostic context: knowledge points to the object of belief (religion, supernatural)-everything in the sacred kingdom, the order and history of the world above, and the problem of human salvation derived from it. The tool to acquire knowledge is enlightened experience and practice.
Hanack: Gnosticism is "the acute Hellenization of Christianity", while Christianity is the chronic Hellenization.
Gnostic thought: God is absolutely beyond the secular, and he neither creates nor rules the universe. He is the complete opposite of the universe, God's bright world is self-sufficient and far away, and the opposite universe is a dark world ... God's invisibility needs supernatural enlightenment and consciousness. ...
The universe is ruled by those in power (low-level energy people born indirectly from God). It's like a huge prison, the earth is its innermost cell, where human beings live ... The importance of this cosmic building: everything between this place and the transcendent is used to separate people from God, not only through space and distance, but also through the power of positive evil spirits ... people in power. Through the body and soul, man becomes a part of the universe, surrendering to "Heimameni" (that is, "the fate of the universe", the ruler's autocratic rule over the universe), and the spirit surrounded by the soul (that is, "Punuma", the sacred substance descended from the upper world, and the ruler's clear purpose of creating man is to imprison the spirit there), and Punuma is immersed in the soul and body. Gnostic's goal is to liberate the "inner man" from the shackles of the world and let him return to his bright hometown. It is necessary for us to understand the nature of this world, which is determined by the gods, ourselves and Feng ... The importance of revelation-becoming a "spiritual person"-two actions: 1 abstinence (sense of responsibility, free from the pollution of this world), lust (anti-legalism, spiritual people get rid of the constraints of moral laws and get it in essence.
In the name of the first great foreign life from the bright world, he is above everything else ... Life is different from this world in essence, and in some cases it is also different.
The absolute understanding of strangers is complete transcendence and "the other side", which is the remarkable attribute of God. The basic experience of the concept of "foreign land"-the road to existence-living in a foreign land and surpassing it?
The world is an energy system, an evil spirit, with personality tendency and compulsion. "All worlds" refers to a long series of such closed energy fields, which are fragments of a larger cosmic system, through which life transcends his path, and they are all equally different from life. Corresponding to the "world" of Manda School is the "transformation" of Greek Gnosticism.
"Migration" was originally a pure concept of time (the continuation of life, etc. ), and then became a general term, used to address all gods, or demigods, or groups of evil spirits. In this last meaning, "migration surge" represents the energy of evil spirits in the universe or dark kingdom in the sense of time and space.
At the beginning of the world, there were two kinds of existence, one was light and the other was darkness. -duality of light and darkness.
Mixing, dissipation, one and more.
Spirit, as a part of primitive life or light, has fallen into the world or body (the soul tends to lower the field ...), which constitutes the origin of the universe and the foundation of human existence. Light falls into darkness.
"An unauthorized creator gave the soul to the person he created" ... injecting the soul into the human body ...
As the third source, the soul is between the first two sources, namely spirit and chaos, and now it has been completely integrated into chaos.
In Gnostic thought, this world is equivalent to the so-called "underground world" in tradition, and it is the kingdom of death itself ... Only through external influence can people be enlightened from the unconscious "ignorance" state. ...
Because Gnostic information imagines itself as a response to world design, it is a call to break its magic. ...
..... What I want to convey is the secret of the Holy Way, that is, knowledge. (Poems by Nassene: Poems of the Soul)
I wandered around the world and times, and finally came to the gate of Jerusalem.
Happiness belongs to those who rediscover themselves and awaken.
The Red Sea refers to the symbol of this world and the water that separates it from that world. (Israel leaves Egypt)
6. The loneliness of people in the material universe of modern cosmology. "Being thrown into this infinite space, I knew nothing about it, and it didn't know me. I was frightened by the road". ..... As far as philosophy is concerned, existentialism tries to stand in front of him (nihilism-the weirdest of all guests). ) live together.
The function of explanation has been reversed, and it has become mutual explanation-the lock has become the key, and the key has become the lock.
The universe has no internal hierarchy of existence, just like Copernicus's universe, which makes the value lose the support of ontology, and the ego has to rely entirely on itself in the pursuit of meaning and value. Meaning is not discovered, but "endowed". Value is no longer regarded as an objective existence, but is conceived as an evaluation product. As a function of will, the purpose is entirely your own creation. Will replaces insight, and the temporality of behavior expels the eternity of "the goodness of freedom".
This world is a door to a silent and cold wasteland. People who have been lost, you are lost in a place of nothingness. Woe to those who have no hometown!
God is the name of the field of thought and ideal ... because the support of any value can only come from this field, and the disappearance of this field, that is, "the death of God", not only means the real depreciation of the highest value, but also means the loss of the possibility of compulsory value ... Transcendental world has no influence.
The Gnostic God is a completely different person, the unknown, the other ... In this God, the absolute other side is summoned to the inside of the closed shell of the universe. This concept of God is also a kind of nothingness rather than reality. This hidden God is a nihilistic concept: no norms … no laws …
The fracture between man and the whole reality is the root of nihilism. Modern nihilism-indifferent nature is the real abyss, only people worry, only people face death alone in his finiteness, and his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projected meaning are really unprecedented.
Clint believes that "the world was not created by the first God, but by an energy far away from and separated from the source of existence". He didn't even know that Christ, the God above all things, was the first person to preach the unknown God in the world. The knowable God and the unknowable God.
The two gods in Kyle Anfoin: one is Demuger, the creator, the ruler of this generation, the known and predictable (the god of justice and law). One is "hidden god", invisible, incomprehensible, strange and foreign (God of Wealth).
Boymandela: Darkness is fascinated by light and has a part of it. The light is fascinated by the darkness and can't help sinking into the darkness. The brilliance, shadow or image of light image is projected into the lower darkness, and the darkness firmly embraces it.