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Gnostic Insights

Cyd Ropp, Ph.D.

Gnostic Wisdom Shared and Simply Explained

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23:20

How The Hierarchy of the Fullness Came To Be

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/09/27

For each of the Aeons is a name corresponding to each of the Father's qualities and powers. Since He exists in many names, it is by mingling and through mutual harmony that they are able to speak of Him by means of logical thought. Thus the Father is a single name because He is one, but nevertheless innumerable in His qualities and names.Interesting that logical thought was mentioned in the Tripartite Tractate, because it is important to realize that logic is part of the mind of God. We are given

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2:58

Aeon Byte Appearance “What Is the Gnostic Pleroma”?

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2025/09/19

I believe that I have written the first ever Gnostic kiddie book. And it's ironic because people have this idea--and of course the way a lot of gnosticism is presented, it is very labyrinthian-- but they have this idea that gnosis is impossible to achieve or it's so difficult how can we grasp it? And I have actually simplified it down to uh well the book is 34 pages long but it's double page spreads like kiddie books are. It's a big size book and so it’s actually simplified down to only 17 story

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26:06

Synchronicities

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/09/13

And the only way to bring it back up, the only way to right the course of this fallen world, is to demonstrate the love, life, and consciousness of the ethereal plane to all of us down here, to remind us that we don't really belong down here. We are sojourners passing through. We come from the Father and we will return to the Father. And all of us bringing love, consciousness, and life, whenever we accept that and remember that and begin to manifest that love, that higher consciousness, that's when

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27:48

Pleromas-Who, What, Where, When, and How

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2025/09/05

The reason we focus so much on the Aeons of the Fullness and Logos in particular here at Gnostic Insights is because the Pleroma of any living creature is the sum total of the Pleroma of the Demiurge—our material or hylic part that makes up our physical bodies—and the Pleroma of Logos after his return to the Fullness, when he prayed alongside the Aeons to bring life to the deficiency he had caused.“The Logos turned to another opinion and another thought. Having turned away from evil, he turned

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15:26

Matter is an illusion

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2025/08/30

We call the result of the Fall the deficiency, commonly referred to as the material cosmos. Here's the Sethian take on the structure of our cosmos:Yaldabaoth organized everything after the pattern of the first aeons that had come into being, so that he might create everything in an incorruptible form. (The Secret Book of John, verse 12) The Tripartite Tractate adds this caution to the construction of the cosmos: Those who came into being from the presumptuous thought resemble in fact the Fullnesses

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20:05

Army of Love

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2025/08/23

In our modern Christian understanding, we think of the Christ as a singular entity—the Son. This is true, but our gnostic understanding adds the Pleroma of the Third Order of Powers into the equation. Even more limiting, Christians think of the Christ as only coming to Earth in the body of the man named Jesus of Nazareth. But the Christ also reflects and is able to redeem every representation that has ever come into this universe. Because of this, each one of us, whether we be humans or dogs,

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24:11

When Truth Falls, Ego Rises

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2025/08/16

All of our egos have a choice to cooperate with the Self or to deny the Self and stake a narcissistic claim to consciousness. Since this ego of Logos was unaware of its origin as the Logos of the Fullness and the Father, it believed it was its own originating consciousness. Hence, everything that it produced was similarly ignorant and disobedient to the Father and the Fullness. In this manner, the deficiency took on an imitation of life on its own, becoming the cause of the things that do not exist

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33:14

The Big Picture–Gnostic Cosmology

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2025/08/09

I thought today what we'd look at is the entire run—the overall big picture. You can't get a bigger picture than this of our existence and our universe. So this is the overall, overarching flow of consciousness from the Source to us and then after we pass how it all rolls up. This is the entire run, or cosmology, all rolled up into one package and presented for you today.

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5:16

Ode to a Dead Dog

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2025/08/02

When we’ve been there 10,000 years bright shining as the sun,We’ve no less days to sing God’s praise and bask in our doggies’ love. Amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see.

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32:10

What Are Archons

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2025/08/02

“Now on the one hand, The word gave birth to himself as a perfect single one, to the glory of the Father who had desired him and was pleased with him. The things he had wished to grasp and reach, however, he produced as shadows, phantoms, and imitations. For he could not bear to look at the light, but looked at the depths, and he faltered. Because of this, he suffered a division and a turning away. From the faltering and the division came came oblivion and ignorance of oneself and of that which is.”

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28:49

Meet the Demiurge–Its Birth and Occupation

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2025/07/25

The Demiurge is the creator god of this universe we live in. To faithful Hebrews and Christians, the name of the Demiurge is Yahweh or Jehovah. Other world religions have other names for this creator god. Stories of Jehovah fill the Old Testament and carry forward into the New Testament. However, an interesting thing about gnosticism is the declaration that there is another God who is called the Father--the God Above All Gods in gnostic theology. And in gnostic Christianity, the God Above All Gods

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30:17

The Fullness of God–Consciousness Branches Outward

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2025/07/19

If the members of the ALL had risen to give glory according to the individual powers of each, they would have brought forth a glory that was only a semblance of the Father, who Himself is the ALL. [verse 68]For that reason they were drawn into mutual intermingling union and oneness through the singing of praise. From their assembled Fullness they were one and at the same time many, accurately reflecting the One who Himself is the entirety of the ALL. Out of perfect union with itself and with the

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30:14

Authoritative Discourse of the Nag Hammadi

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2025/07/11

Death and life are placed before everyone, and people choose for themselves which of these two they want. The soul forgets her siblings and her father, and sensual pleasures and sweet things deceive her. She has abandoned knowledge and has fallen into the life of an animal. A person devoid of sense lives like a beast, not knowing what one should say or should not say. We are to be triumphant over the ignorance of those who contend with us, the adversaries who contend against us, through our gnosis,

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34:04

How do we know what we know? A conversation with my...

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2025/07/05

Aristotle and philosophers say that for something to be known, it must be true, must be believed, and must have evidence for it to be the case. The problem arises when trying to fulfill the evidence condition--what counts as evidence and how much evidence is enough. The scientific method can go only so far under the rules imposed by logic. Plato felt the evidence condition could never be met. Plato said that if one knows something to be the case, it must be inherent knowlege. In other words, it

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34:37

Birds Don’t Buy Bentleys–A Conversation with my...

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2025/06/28

There are just a couple of basic ways you can think about evolution. As commonly taught in school, “scientific” evolution explains the tremendous diversity of life on Earth as lucky mutations that add up to great results. Darwinism promotes the idea that mutations and mechanisms morph into increasingly sophisticated life forms, because genetic goof-ups allow the ones who change to better survive and dominate those who stayed true to form. These lucky mutations keep going in the same lucky direction

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26:05

Yearning for the Pleroma 2025

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/06/20

"To those who belong to the remembrance, however, he revealed the thought ... with the intention that it should draw them into a communion with the material. This was in order to provide them with a structure and a dwelling place, but also in order that by being drawn toward evil they should acquire a weak basis for their existence, so that, instead of rejoicing unduly in the glory of their own environment and thereby remaining exiled, they might rather perceive the sickness they were suffering

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27:33

All Is One–A Conversation with my Brother

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/06/13

The reason there is quantum entanglement is because there is no space and time. All potentialities exist within the mind of the Father and our consciousness notices one after another, giving the illusion of time and space. The Demiurge organizes the confusion of the Fall and that is the imitation. At the end of time, illusion drops away and all are redeemed into the ethereal awareness of pure consciousness.

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31:12

We Are the Second Order of Powers

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/06/07

These new creatures that were devised are better than the Deficiency because they come from the union of the entire Fullness, whereas the Deficiency came out of a mistaken solo effort by Logos alone. Out of this union of the Fullness and Logos came what are called the Second Order Powers, and these powers are better and greater than those of the imitation because they did not come into being out of ego and out of lack of thought. This new fruit of the Fullness and Logos was fitted purposely into the

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21:56

Tessa Lena’s Letter to Fellow Dissidents

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/05/31

It's not great to feel different from other people like this, and you honestly just want to fit in with your friends and not stick out like a sore thumb all the time. And you try to blend in. Oh, you try.You work hard to be normal. You try telling yourself that you are probably crazy. You deny the evidence of your lying eyes. It turns out that a life of compliance is not enough for you, though. Other people seem to be getting away with living shallow in a man-made matrix world, but not you. Your

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25:34

Gnostic Memes of Jesus, pt. 2

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2025/05/24

We are to have peace no matter the circumstances in which we find ourselves. The Demiurge is always trying to rile us up. The job of the archons is to bedevil us and to make us feel horrible, to knock us off our game, to take the love and light out of our lives. The Demiurge wants to bring us down to its level, down to the level of the archons, which is ego, negative emotions, vice, addictions, anger, hatred. That's all demonic. That's all demiurgic. Christ said, I want you to have peace in this

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