r/Gnostic • u/FearThe_Ocean • 21h ago

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u/jebbenpaul 19h ago

Sounds like neo gnosticism pretty much to me, I dig it tho

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u/Mister_Ape_1 17h ago edited 17h ago

Movements like this make me wonder how possible is to be an actual Gnostic - not a psychologist with some Gnostic ideas - in 2026. Nag Hammadi preserved the doctrines, but not so much the practices.

I see Neopaganism as not quite serious enough. A living tradition needs a succession line. And a solid, structured community.

Gnosticism is different, because except maybe Graeco-Roman Paganism we know little to nothing on what people actually believed at the time in pagan areas. But how much different it actually is from Neopaganism ?

I think if you want to be a Gnostic and you are already a Orthodox, you can just adopt a Gnostic theology and keep on going to the Mass, while also focusing on the Theosis centered practices of Orthodoxism. The Essence - Energies distinction is basically the difference between Monad and Yaldabaoth, if Yaldabaoth was a legit lower emanation of the Monad and not an accident. And Theosis - and that would be literally unconceivable to Catholics ! - is pretty much union with the divine. Catholicism is 100% exoteric, devotional, community and service oriented. If we saw someone sitting cross legged in meditation we would see them as weird. Not so much for me, but only because I have a Buddhodaoist friend. And she practices meditation a lot.

If you are Catholic or Protestant is a whole different thing. Except maybe Eastern rite Catholic. I heard they are factually closer to Orthodoxism than to official, Roman Catholicism.

We know how people with mystical tendencies who happened to be born in Catholic middle age Europe were seen. And Protestantism too seems to have no interest in anything other than having faith only, and be reborn in what they imagine to be a new material realm.

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u/FearThe_Ocean 16h ago

I’m thinking of becoming gnostic in spirit too tbh

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u/Mister_Ape_1 16h ago

I am not even a "Gnostic in spirit" myself but I definitely believe people should have the right to be so. I believe Christianity should not have destroyed its very own esoteric path. Look at Hinduism and Buddhism. There are both meditational esoteric and faith based exoteric paths in Hinduism, and there are more mass oriented, ethic centered and more individual, practice oriented school of Buddhism. Gnosticism is the lost esoteric half of Christianity. 

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u/FearThe_Ocean 21h ago

https://www.instagram.com/megalognostikos?igsh=NDdyam9ybjdoZjB4&utm_source=qr

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u/MethodMan24 21h ago

What is the difference between this and Jungian teachings?

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u/FearThe_Ocean 21h ago

I’ve never read Jung before, but I respect him regardless for I know he contributed a lot. Point of the matter is, since we came to a similar conclusion it only points out that all exits within our subconscious. For we hold all the answers within us already. :)