Before the next section on the nature of evil and the importance of perspective, I think it is worth mentioning that there are two different narratives to the creation story. There is the version held by the Torah and the Jewish people in Genesis, and a more colorful version in the gnostics, which goes into a story of asexual and sexual demigods and the story of Sophia. Normally, I would toss aside the gnostic interpretation, but given how amalgamated people’s belief systems have become and the prevalence of pagan and gnostic beliefs that are perpetuated from the United Nations (which were founded on Theosophy and published by the original name Lucifer Publishing Company), we will address these two narratives here. These will help people who are unfamiliar with the resources about two things, how Lucifer is in fact running this world in the current environment and that perspectives change interpretations and what people identify as truth (albeit subjective or objective).
The creation story of the Bible is fairly well known. God created everything in six days and rested on the seventh, starting patterns of continuity that would be identified through the later revealed Jewish feast days, commandments, etc. Whether one believes in literal or figurative years is essentially irrelevant, as God is not bounded by time (we are) and it has nothing to do with the biblical narratives and patterns other than suggesting the Scripture is invalid. Following the creation of all things, God held everything in perfect balance and all was good. One thing kept things in balance, man was not to eat of the Tree of Knowledge for he would surely die (which is true) as he gained knowledge of evil and selfish intention that plagues us to this day.
The gnostic version is completely different and filled with sexual stories, including a different perspective: that God was an evil being (“demiurge”) that restrained man from his divine authority and power. The general account of the gnostic creation, as provided in the link, summarizes creation as God (unknowable) created a divine Mother, who essentially created various forms of thought as children (foreknowledge, life eternal, truth, etc.) and Christ. One of the children, Sophia (wisdom), created her own child, Yaldabaoth (the blind “I am God there is no other besides me” god of Chaos) who created evil archons (angels) that kept men mortal and foolish out of jealousy, after tricking Sophia to give the breath of life to his creation, which was essentially better than himself. While we can see from a biblical lens, the narrative essentially calls the evil good and the good evil, some key things to note that are inconsistent:
- Christ commanded Adam to eat from the Tree of Knowledge for gnosis instead of the serpent
- Cain and Abel were created through sex with Yaldabaoth (which doesn’t make sense if Abel represented good)
- A creation that is greater than it’s creator is non-sensible, or hard to fathom (only thing I can think of is artificial intelligence, which reminds me of the Terminator premise)
- If Sophia was so wise, how was Yaldabaoth able to deceive her in creating a more intelligent creation (giving the breath of life)
Some of the greater conflicts within the gnostic narrative are that these interpretations are inconsistent with the words that Jesus Christ actually spoke. Everything that Jesus stated was in line with the Old Testament tradition, often citing the Torah, the Prophets, and even the Genesis account of creation. Even Paul identified in 1 Corinthians 15 that in Adam all were dead, but made alive in Christ, which would mean that Christ in the gnostic creation was the source of knowledge (evil) and of death and evil, which inherently conflicts with their posture of following his path of enlightenment into a godhood status through gnosis. Moreover, Christ never told men to follow the path of infinite wisdom and knowledge, but rather to rely on his efforts and to love God and their neighbor as themselves (Matthew 22:36-40). I guess this narrative was set up to create the position of the anti-Christ, whereby men could only be saved through gnosis, given to capable people at the behest of Christ’s suggestion, but the narrative itself doesn’t explain the knowledge of evil other than to say it was at the behest of an evil god who was jealous of the superior knowledge of his creation. I guess Lucifer had to make himself appear like Christ, by granting us the knowledge of self will and our consequent procession to death if we weren’t smart enough to attain gnosis (seems like a shitty version of a creator to me, I’d take the loving nature of Jesus any day).
I detail this account for the knowledge of the saints in disclosing that many of the elected rulers, the organizers of the United Nations, and many others actually believe and adhere to the principles of Gnosticism. Most esoteric philosophy systems (including theosophy at the UN), pagan groups, and Satanists, believe in this form of creation and that God (as personified through Christ) was the bad guy holding back the potential of human existence. They prefer to control the masses through propaganda, enforcing their agendas by using peoples elected forms of identity against them (as only the Gnostics deserve freedom), in order to form the illusion of freedom in a slave state. To put the illusion into an example, compare the tax system of the Bible to that of developed nations. God put a flat tax of 10% (tithe, abandoned post Christ) to be paid in food offerings as a means to feed the Biblical teachers. We put a graded tax system that can be as high as 50-60% (if you don’t use tax loopholes at the multiple levels of taxation (e.g., federal, state, local, property, sales)). Which version is more free than the other or carries more constraints than the other? Yet most people will be pursuaded of the latter since people aren’t taught to think anymore, but rather to do what they are told to believe as true under the promise of a better livelihood.
In conclusion, the gnostic version of creation is full of contradictions with the written teachings of Christ, yet rely on Christ as the source of Gnostic knowledge. It essentially elevates the status of man into a god, by relying on pride and does not really explain the nature of evil, rather than blaming it on ignorance. Yet history has shown us, people with significant knowledge do extremely evil things (e.g., Hitler, Stalin, Jeffrey Epstein). The narrative, however, provides a nice introduction to the next section, which is the power of perspective and the need to evaluate the sources and motives, including whether a purported truth is relative or absolute (i.e., is it good for one or is it good for all?).
