Gnostic Magick by Anousen Leonte

Author:Anousen Leonte [Leonte, Anousen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-04T04:00:00+00:00

In the Valentinian system, the liberating force is the Szygy of Christos/Pneuma Hagios. When one has been "graced" by this liberating force, then one can cross over the boundary between the material world (Kenoma/Hysterema) and the world of pure Spirit (Pleroma). This boundary is itself its own force, called Horos/Stauros (Limit/Cross), and once it is transcended then one may contact the Aeons and eventually be wedded to one of them (or all of them?) for all eternity—or so the story goes.

Though it is possible to make another religion out of these ideas, what if there is more to it than that? The same ideas as found in the Valentinian Gnostics are found also in the Kabbalah, in some Sufi sects, in European alchemy, in the Christian mysticism of the Pseudo-Dionysius, etc. All follow the central pattern of being given a power to go beyond the Earth, to travel to other worlds/planes, and eventually to reach a new kind of existence. And these teachings were not given to the vast majority of people, but only to those who had been "initiated" into them. Perhaps part of the initiation was where the actual techniques of attaining such were given, and it is especially in Kabbalah where we see the tie in with magick, as some of the oldest Grimoires in Europe were fully Kabbalistic, with very little European-Christian influence. And perhaps here we can find an answer to the question of how to navigate these new worlds, once we arrive at them.

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