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Gnostic Insights

Cyd Ropp, Ph.D.

Gnostic Wisdom Shared and Simply Explained

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25:32

The Third Order of Powers

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/12/30

"Not only did the aeons generate the countenance of the Father to whom they gave praise, but also they generated their own; for the aeons who give glory generated their countenance and their face. They were produced as an army for him, as for a king, since the beings of the thought have a powerful fellowship and an intermingled harmony. They came forth in a multifaceted form, in order that the one to whom help was to be given might see those to whom he had prayed for help. He also sees the one who

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19:37

Gnostic Christmas–Alleluia!

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/12/22

The Christ came to Earth in the form of a Son of Man to bring the Third Order of Powers to Earth as the solution to overcoming the phantoms of the Imitation that have mired the Second Order Powers in error and ignorance. Those who have eyes to see the Christ are able to remember their Father in Heaven. Those who remember their Father in Heaven and repent from the Imitation are redeemed. In the Gnostic Gospel, redemption comes to all of creation through the incarnation of the Son of God into the

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26:00

Ch. 5 from A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel...

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/12/16

The division of the deeply troubled Logos was the first manifestation of Ego acting outside of the will of the One Self and the Fullness. The Fall was caused by an act of Ego falling away from the Self. The Tripartite Tractate calls this "presumptuous thought,” meaning going beyond what is right and proper. Egoic thought places the focus on one's own desires without regard to others. Presumptuous thought is all about me, me, me. The Aeons of the Fullness are not me types of creatures. The Aeons all

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31:42

Emissaries of Consciousness

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/12/09

Logos and the Aeons sent down representations of themselves into our universe, each one being a much more fabulous original than these deficient copies of the Imitation. And so these organizational patterns and names and faces of the Aeons came to bring order and stability and solidity. That solidity is the new economy, the new ecology of this universe. “He generated manifest images of the living visages, mingling the Logos with himself entirely. Therefore, those who came forth from him are great,

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31:07

We are the Second Order of Powers

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/12/02

The 2nd Order Powers come into creation fully loaded with gnosis, but in the course of doing battle in this never ending war with the Deficiency, gnosis is forgotten and needs to be remembered again. And that's the purpose of our Gnostic Insights podcast—to remember the gnosis from above.

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35:48

Ego, Fall, Deficiency

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/11/25

When Logos overreached because of presumptuous egoic thought and fell into the darkness that is ignorance, he shattered into a confusing jumble of disconnected parts. These pieces of the Shattered Aeon were sicknesses—small dark, ignorant, divided, roiling with chaos. They reflected neither the glory of the originals and the Fullness, nor the ecology of the hierarchy. Because they were no longer arranged in the pattern of the hierarchy, they forgot their functions and their names.

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32:37

Fractals, Fullness, and the Fall

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/11/18

I suggest that the consciousness of God is fractal in the same way that the broccoli stalk is fractal. So we can imagine that the root of consciousness, the Father, is, for example the mother plant. The Son is that first flower off of that mother plant—that first broccoli stalk if you will. And then the Son—all of its variables, all of its potentials, the entire blueprint of our universe, because it is, after all, the mind of God—each one of those Totalities is also a fractal. And each of them all

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28:28

Self-Awareness Emerges

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/11/11

This episode explains how consciousness unfolds itself and gives rise to self-awareness. How does consciousness originate from the single source and then keep branching out as self-awareness until it eventually reaches you?

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24:52

Gnostic Cosmos Origin Story

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/11/04

To church folks this will initially sound like heresy, while to non-believers it will sound too churchy. To those folks who have fallen away from the church because they can’t reconcile inconsistencies between the Old and the New Testament, it will come as a welcome relief. And to those people who have never believed in God, this version of Christianity may be exactly what they haven’t been expecting and didn’t realize they were hoping for.

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24:33

Evolution and Conscious Design

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/10/28

In the Simple Explanation there is an ontological pull upward toward more complex aggregations of consciousness. Darwin's model is, on the other hand, a case of the blind simply bumbling by happenstance, by lucky accident, by dumb luck, to be a superior adaptation from the norm. Where I find it unlikely is that there would be a billion such bumblings in the same direction, that by dumb luck keeps heading in the upward and onward direction. The Simple Explanation would say the patterns of

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21:41

Gnostic Evolution–in the beginning…

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/10/21

Someone left a comment on an old article from 2019 on my Simple Explanation blog, and it caused me to reread the article. And, gee, it’s a good article. I don’t think we’ve ever shared it here on Gnostic Insights, so I’m going to talk to you today about a Simple Explanation of Gnostic Evolution. (this podcast refuses to allow me to paste the link to the original Simple Explanation article! grrrr....) There are just a couple of basic ways you can think of evolution. As commonly taught in

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27:32

If everybody is going to heaven anyway, what’s the...

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/10/14

Welcome to Gnostic Insights. My name is Dr. Cyd Ropp, and I'm your host. In 2019, I posted an article to my new Gnostic Gospel blog called If All Are Redeemed, Why Not Be Sinful?, and I'd like to share that with you today. Much of this episode was broadcasted in May of 2021; this content has been updated as my gnosis has deepened. One of the big heresies of Gnosticism is that all Second Order Powers are redeemed by Christ and all will someday return to the paradise of the Fullness. Yes. Yay

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21:01

A Path to Gnosis

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/10/07

If you pursue wisdom, it will come. If you don't pursue wisdom, if you stay enmeshed in the world, if you are a materialist, if you only believe what you read from experts or the talking heads on tv, you're not going to mine wisdom. You're mired down in the mud. So turn inward, turn upward.

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14:13

Near Death Experiences Gnosis

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/09/30

We are loved. You are loved. Existence within and beyond this universe is love. There is no need to fear death or separation from loved ones. Consciousness does not cease with the death of the physical body—we move into a realm of love. And once you experience that cosmic love, you never forget it and you never doubt it, because it is not only as real as our normal reality, it is more real, more intense. And the experiencers who then return into their bodies are changed forever by that experience of

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32:14

Free Will. What is it? Do you have it?

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/09/23

Everything that is living, everything that is alive, everything that's gestated and is born into this world is a Second Order power. And we come directly from the Fullness. We bring down the remembrance of the God Above All Gods. We bring down with us the remembrance of love and glory and our aeonic parents who are in heaven. So we have all of these memories that the Demiurge doesn't even know about. And what else did we bring down with us? We brought down the free will of the Aeons and the ALL and

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31:00

Interview with Adrian Smith

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/09/16

There's a cognitive dissonance going on like you're constantly being told something is true but witnessing contradictions in behavior. And internal contradictions. George Orwell talks about this, you know—double think. You encounter two sets of facts and they don't match up. In order to continue to believe a lie, you have to put one of these beliefs in a memory hole and you have to forget about it or bury it.

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28:27

Our Spiritual Inheritance

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/09/09

The Father's consciousness and spirit flows out from him in an unending stream. It is His reflected glory, initiating through their singing of the hymns, that disposes the Totalities to grasp their own Selfhood, their own “individuality, seeds, and thoughts,” and that they will “live forever,” along with the Son. We are of that inheritance. We have inherited the dispositions and qualities of the Fullness of the Aeons, the Totalities of the Father. And to awaken to Selfhood, the way to do it isn't to

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30:41

The Nicene Creed

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/09/02

The Nicene Creed is a meme bundle of what one must believe in order to call themselves a Christian. And it came to be that anyone who didn't believe in those edicts of the Nicene Creed was labeled a heretic, and anyone such as myself that may profess other beliefs, other gnostic beliefs, for example, well, those are heretics because they don't believe in the Nicene Creed. So let's look at the Nicene Creed today and see what it is that we agree or disagree with, as far as this Gnostic Reformation

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31:07

Knowledge, Not Information

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/08/26

The presumption in the academic community is that we're developing knowledge. But all the best we can do is to develop well founded beliefs according to Plato and for the reasons that I've just argued for. Plato believed that learning, properly conducted, was a way of recalling what is already known by a person. So those who attended Plato's Academy were hoping to recall the forms in the ethereal world and therefore have knowledge. So in Plato's Academy, they weren't strictly scholastic. They were

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22:36

Karma and Memes

Gnostic Insights ·

2023/08/19

Our karma is the karma that we generate that causes the memes that we cling to to hold on to us. We hold those memes and they are bound to us like a covering through our karma, and my karma is different than your karma. Everybody's karma is unique to the individual. When you pass away, your karma is momentarily laid aside so that you can see the truth in the in between place after your material body dies.

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