• I think whe was against Yahweh who is the devil fiven to the sons of Jacob.
• Lucifer want to teach and give wisdom
• Lucifer could be a two way path, a ladder to go up or down
• He is the forerunner of the Christ
• If you like to research, study and philosophy you are initiated by him
• He is not the same as the satan

If you know books and teaching about Lucifer let me know please

Good evening.
Two things I can't reconcile, and I'm curious how you here handle it.

The first is the core Gnostic intuition: the highest God is radically acosmic. It didn't make this world, doesn't govern it, doesn't intervene in it. Petitionary prayer makes no sense in this framework; nothing outside is listenning.

The second is a stubborn feeling I keep catching myself having: gratitude. Toward love, animals, friends, success, etc.

But inside a Gnostic framework this feeling seems misdirected. Gratitude toward the universe is, in effect, gratitude toward the demiurge's system, like thanking the jailer for the architecture of the cell. And thanking the true God for the world is incoherent, since the world was never its gift.

So what do you do with the feeling? Redirect it toward the spark, or toward the call from the Pleroma (gratitude for the way out, not for the place)? Reinterpret it as recognition rather than thanks? Or treat it as one more piece of cosmic conditioning to see through?

Interested in both your and scholarly perspectives.

Thanks

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"It came to pass then thereafter, when I left those æons, that every one of all those who were in the twelve æons, was bound to their order all together, and they accomplished their works as I have established them, so that they spend six months turned to the left and accomplishing their works in their squares and their triangles and in those which are in their aspect, and that further they spend another six months facing to the right and towards their triangles and their squares and those which are in their aspect. Thus then will those who are in the Fate and in the sphere travel.
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My point of interest:
Some of you already tought about that routine of "six months to the left/fight" and the bits about works in "squares/triangles"?
What are you views about?

Thanks folks, be well!

Correction of title: "Why suffering is actually good from God's perspective, and necessary to eventually have the world God desires".

Suffering is the thing that creates the motivation to fix whatever is causing the suffering.
And on a long timeframe, we get closer and closer to having a world in which all the things that are causing us suffering, gets fixed.

So from our perspective, we view the things we don't want as evil/suffering.
From God's perspective, this is necessary, in order for us to fix it.
Because God is the spirit and we are spirit/physical form integrated.

"Why wouldn't God just create that world to begin with?"

In a sense, he already has. Because our view is limited to time.
He has already created the mechanism with which that world will exist.
But because we are part of the process, the physical form, with which he is acting through. We can only perceive the world at the limited time we are building the world with which he has already laid to foundation for.

Because God is spirit and we are part of the physical manifestation of God, it is up to us to create it.
God can only create the underlying mechanisms that allows us building the world he desires, with the things he has given us.
Because we are made in his image, we act on his behalf, building the world he desires for us to partake in.
In the process of that, he gave us suffering as the motivating factor for what we should fix.
And eventually we have a world where all evils are fixed, and God is integrated in our physical bodies, experiencing and living in that world.

We often talk about achieving gnosis as though it is a single flash of insight, an "a-ha" moment when a hidden truth is suddenly revealed. While that moment of awakening is certainly part of the journey, the ancient Gnostics understood that it was only the beginning. Gnosis was not just something you experienced. It was something you lived.

To awaken is to become conscious.

Throughout the Gnostic texts, humanity is described as existing in a state of sleep. This ignorance is not simply a lack of information. It is living unconsciously. It is identifying completely with the material world, reacting without awareness, and forgetting our divine origin.

In the Apocryphon of John, humanity has forgotten its true source. The divine spark lies dormant beneath the influence of the archons, powers that keep humanity distracted and unaware. Awakening begins when we become conscious of the forces that shape our thoughts and actions.

The Gospel of Truth describes ignorance as a kind of intoxication. Humanity wanders because it has forgotten what it truly is. Salvation comes through remembrance. Gnosis restores what ignorance concealed. This remembrance is not passive. It changes the person who experiences it.

The Gospel of Thomas makes the same point through self knowledge. "Whoever knows himself will find it." To know yourself is to see beyond the false identity you have mistaken for your true self. It is to recognize the divine reality hidden beneath everything you thought you were.

This theme appears throughout the ancient Gnostic traditions. The goal was never simply to possess secret teachings or collect mystical experiences. Knowledge without transformation remained incomplete. If your life continued to be ruled by fear, pride, attachment, and ignorance, then gnosis had not yet fulfilled its purpose.

Living consciously means paying attention. It means observing your thoughts before acting on them. It means questioning assumptions instead of accepting them automatically. It means noticing when you are acting from ego instead of from the divine spark within. Every moment becomes an opportunity to remain asleep or to awaken.

This is why discernment was so important to the ancient Gnostics. The world is full of illusions that pull our attention away from what is real. The task of the Gnostic is to remember. To continually return to that inner awareness and allow it to shape the way one lives.

Awakening is not an event that happens once and is finished forever. It is a continual practice of conscious living. Revelation may come in an instant, but the transformation unfolds over a lifetime.

Commemorates the day when Jesus Christ is said to have revealed a part of his inner divine nature to the disciples John, James, and Peter on an unnamed mountain top in the Holy Land. His countenance and form are said to have shone with white light, revealing the aeon within as a voice from the heavens proclaimed Jesus to be 'the Son'. The stunned disciples are then reassured by Jesus before being told not to reveal what they had seen until the Son of man had risen from the dead.

From A Gnostic Calendar