Gnostics

I meant to post about this last week but I forgot with everything going on (I know I could edit the date but I feel that's cheating :-) )

I've recently been reading about Gnosticism.

Interesting stuff. Now I'm not a Gnostic per-say but find their way of thinking fascinating. I think they were onto something. Now I'm not in agreement with their whole idea of being trapped within the material world and that we should strive to escape to the spiritual, but their idea of how we came here does fit rather well with my ideas on reality.

It did bring up an awkward inconsistency in my thoughts on the matter (my master work as I affectionately call it lol). I have several parts of the puzzle and as I expand each part they merge into other parts and they start fitting together (well usually!), but this one was a major fly in the Divine ointment.

If our lives in the physical world are to learn about physical existence then why do I strive to be closer to the spiritual? Isn't that running counter productive to the point of life? Then I realised that the reason that we are here is not to experience physical existence but to experience life as separate entities which ties in very nicely with my thoughts that the difference between the physical and spiritual realms is linear time. Take time out of reality then all things are one as all possibilities are possible simultaneously, but with time we are separate.

So we are here to experience separate parts of spirit and how they interact. And what better way to truly understand yourself is to look back at yourself from a different viewpoint. So striving for spirit is me trying to get closure to my origins so that I can gaze back at my Divine self, the greater spirit I am but a part of and by doing so my greater spirit learns about itself.

And that is where Gnostic thought and I agree - we are all part of the Divine, that we carry a part of of the Divine within, 'trapped' within flesh but it's the reason we are here is where we mostly differ.

Although I'm not sure where I stand on the Demi-urge... A deity purely of the physical realm? It could make sense, but food for thought another day (but knowing me, I'll mull it over in the back of my mind)