The Forbidden Truth
“Adam’s apple is so named because a piece of the Biblical forbidden fruit is supposed to have stuck in his throat. The name Adam itself is the Hebrew word for ‘man’. What sticks in our throat, then, is the… Forbidden Truth. When we manage to cough up the bolus and inspect it, what do we [...]
Black Light Posters
Created by Rev. Illuminatus Maximus
These deluxe black light (or blacklight) rock art posters illustrate the occult secrets of the Gnostic gospels in cartoon form, telling the story the colonization of the Earth by reptilian predators called archons and its eventual rescue by an alien shaman named Yeshua.
Printed with high quality inks in a special process, [...]
T-Shirt + Gift Shop
Created by Rev. Illuminatus Maximus
Welcome to the official Gnostic Friends Network Cafepress store, where you can buy t-shirts, postcards and posters illustrating a variety of strange and shocking scenes from the occult gospels of the Gnostic heretics. Annoy your parents, provoke your pastor, and show your gnostic pride today!
Click thumbnails to view or buy merchandise. [...]
Adamic Ecstasies
“Perhaps the most interesting code name for MDMA that seems to have originated with a group of therapists on the West Coast is the term “Adam,” by which is meant not Adam as man, but rather Adam-and-Eve as androgynous ancestor. The figure of Adam is a highly important symbolic figure in Gnostic and Hermetic writings, [...]
Cut-ups
“Burroughs… developed the concept of ‘cut-up’ in using it to demonstrate the controlling quality intrinsic to ‘the Word’; possession over human beings by language. The cut-up is a way of exposing word and image controls thereby freeing oneself from them, an alteration of consciousness that occurs in both the writer and the reader [...]
Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix
Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes!
Eve and the Breath of Life
Eve was not produced from Adam’s rib; rather, Adam was created by fallen angels who abandoned him as lifeless experiment, a soulless robot who lay twitching helplessly on the ground until Sophia’s daughter Eve descended from the heavens and brought him to life:
“When Eve saw her co-likeness cast down, she pitied him, and she [...]
ART? Alternatives Issue #9
Back in 1994, one man began having startling realizations about “the very foundations of [his] being.” He… discovered several texts describing gnosticism, one of the three main branches of primitive Christianity. “Somehow, these ancient Christian heretics had already discovered and written about almost every thing I had always suspected” [he later claimed]. Now, as the [...]
Many Heavens of the Hebdomad
In the gnostic view, Yaldabaoth built the universe as a sort of cosmic penal colony where “dimensions, times, and seasons” were created in order to keep humans “blinded” and “bound” to the cycle of reincarnation. [1]
As a soul falls to the Earth on its way to be born, each archon attaches a particular “sin” (or [...]
