Monotheistic Dualism
“Monotheistic dualism that separates God from everything else presents an almost whimsical picture of a God who is a supreme egoist creating the universe for the express purpose of being worshipped – rewarding those who do it properly (according to his rules) and punishing those who don’t. That this is reminiscent of all authoritarian power [...]
Yaldabaoth
"The God of old is dispossessed of His terrestrial empire, and every thinking being on this globe disdains Him or knows Him not. But what matter that men should be no longer submissive to Yaldabaoth if the spirit of Yaldabaoth is still in them; if they, like Him, are jealous, violent, quarrelsome, and greedy, and [...]
Samael
"Do you believe man is created in God's image?" "Yes," Fat said, "but the creator deity, not the true God." "What?" Fat said, "That's Yaldabaoth. Sometimes called Samael, the blind god. He's deranged." "What the hell are you talking about?" – Philip K. Dick, Valis, 1981
"One problem with Yahweh, as they used to [...]
Hidden History of the Flood
Almost every culture on Earth has some sort of flood myth – and the same haunting feeling accompanies them all, the same nagging suspicion that something so traumatic as to be almost unbearable might actually have happened.
Intense trauma can sometimes hide itself from awareness by short-circuiting the memory; this may be why so many of [...]
Yaldabaoths Vision
When Yaldabaoth realized that his creation was threatened by Immortal Man, he began to preen and bluster shamelessly:
“… when he actually knew that an enlightened, immortal man existed before him, [Yaldabaoth] was very much disturbed….
…Like a fool [he] acted recklessly, and said, “If someone exists before me, let him appear so that we might see [...]
Adam the Golem
Adam (the first man) was a misbegotten android, spawned when Yaldabaoth tried to duplicate and enslave a reflected vision of Immortal Man which startled the Rulers when it appeared in the waters of paradise.
“Now the Rulers took some soil from the earth and modeled their Man, after their body and after the [...]
Adam Awakens
When Adam came to life, the Rulers panicked as they realized that the creature they had created was becoming too clever for them to manipulate:
“The body moved, and became powerful. And it was enlightened.
At once the rest of the powers became jealous. Although Adam had come into being through all of them, and they [...]
God and His Angels Rape Eve
The Rulers laid plans to impregnate Eve and create a slave race to worship them, but Eve simply laughed and hid in the Tree of Knowledge, leaving her sperm-spilling suitors with naught but a ghostly decoy.
“…Eve, since she existed as a power, laughed at their false intention. She darkened their eyes and left her [...]
Tempted by the Serpent
The serpent arose from inside Adam and Eve as a whispering voice which prompted them to curiousity and rebellion, urging them to disobey Yaldabaoth and eat from the tree.
“Then the one who is wiser than all of them, this one who was called “the beast,” came. And when he saw the likeness of their mother, [...]
The Phony Fall
Adam and Eve awoke from the Rulers’ brainwashing and discovered that they had been experiments, built by Yaldabaoth in a misguided effort to imprison and enslave the light from above. The Rulers moved quickly to suppress this nascent rebellion, descending from the heavens with a thunderous clap:
“Then when the Rulers knew that they had [...]
