Moving past belief vs allegory
Hi friends,
I see a common thread in this sub that I want to call out. This endless argument about "true believers" vs "allegorists" needs to end. Gnosticism is about sharing knowledge, no matter what people believe, knowledge can be transferred. One person's true belief is another person's allegory, but it's a false distinction, it doesn't matter, it only serves to put up walls between us.
Remember, language evolves. Before, in the times that Gnostic texts were originally written, mythology was overwhelmingly the latest technology in which language functioned. Even something as objective as history in this time, such as Herodotus, was riddled with myth. The entire idea of empiricism had not widely spread at this time. For this reason, myth was the entire mode of thinking back then, it's difficult to pull apart belief vs allegory in this period because back then there was no distinction, and perhaps the entire idea of belief back then was something that would seem completely foreign to us today.
I ask "true believers" to not ever use their belief or their perceived difference of belief as an argument when we debate our ideas, full stop, knowledge, Gnosis can come from ANYONE so we need to remove these false distinctions. We are all one divine organism.
Let's pick up where the Gnostic fathers left off, with a genuine interest in protecting and training inner knowledge, let's focus on that from now on instead of purity tests.
Love you ALL