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Gnostic Insights

Cyd Ropp, Ph.D.

Gnostic Wisdom Shared and Simply Explained

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27:12

Journey to Gnosis

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/01/10

When I first conceived of my theory of everything named “A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything” back in 2008, I was unfamiliar with Gnosticism. A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything is presented in secular terms, using common concepts from all fields of human endeavor from math and science on through religion, psychology, and sociology. In A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, God is usually referred to as Metaversal Consciousness, and we here on this plane carry that

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27:01

Three Glories

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/01/03

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack.This morning I’m going to read to you a large section out of the Tripartite Tractate, which is the book out of the Nag Hammadi scriptures that I generally follow and teach from. This is about the distinction between the Father and the Son. And again, remember there is no gender. The Father is our Father. It is the source of consciousness out of which all of us come. All consciousness, all life, all love in the universe comes

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20:54

The Illusion of Form: A Gnostic Inquiry into Gender...

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/12/27

Is transgenderism a mental disorder? Is transexualism a delusional pursuit? Is sexual identity a cultural value arbitrarily assigned at birth? This is the topic of today’s discussion.My first experience with a person seeking transexual modification was as a private practice marriage counselor in Idaho, back in the early 1980’s. This fellow was seeking an official diagnosis of transexualism as required by the state in order to proceed with surgical procedures. He had been denied certification by

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21:57

Another Gnostic Christmas

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/12/20

I had another episode planned for today, but at the last minute I decided to rerun this Christmas episode for you. I think this will become our traditional Christmas episode here at Gnostic Insights. And, if you are new to this podcast, welcome! Next week’s episode will be controversial, so I thought it best to wait until after Christmas for its release.Today, we’re going to look at the nature of the Christ—the who, what, why of Christ. Most people are familiar with seeing the baby Jesus in

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22:28

Children of the Fullness Gnostic Cosmology

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/12/05

Last week’s episode, The Key to Gnostic Cosmology, was well-timed to greet the slew of new subscribers who joined The Gnostic Reformation as a result of the wonderful review by The New Unhinged that appeared on Mariah’s Substack website on November 28, 2025. It’s titled: Roast for Relief #17: The Gnostic Who Broke My Brain in the Best Way If you haven’t seen the piece yet, please hightail it over there and take a look. It’s funny and reverentially irreverent at the same time. I feel honored by

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24:12

Remembering the Mission

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/12/02

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.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. Yay! Everyone’s going to Heaven! No one is going to hell, not even the Fallen angels. What joy! This seems to fly in the face of Christian orthodoxy that promotes the idea that only those humans who

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25:31

The Key to Gnostic Cosmology

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/11/28

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I think we’ve got a lot of new listeners now and new subscribers. And since you haven’t been with us from the beginning, I’d like to review the Gnostic cosmology.A basic premise of Gnosticism is that we are all born with gnosis inherent within us. We already have the answers. We already are our perfect Selves. But because of the nature of the never-ending war that we find ourselves in here in this

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28:33

Gnostic Psychology Slide Show, Pt. 2

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/11/22

There's only peace and joy and happiness on the side of virtue when you're sincere. We're not talking about hypocrisy. We're not talking about forcing the issue. We're not talking about whipping yourself with a flagellant whip to make yourself holy. That is not God's will. God is entirely love, entirely acceptance, entirely forgiving, entirely compassionate, entirely charitable.And if you think you're living a righteous life, yet you're feeling anger, hatred, division, well then you're not living

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20:30

Gnostic Psychology Slide Show pt. 1

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/11/15

In the Hierarchy of the Fullness of God, and within the pleroma of our bodies, we have every single type of unit of consciousness derived from the Hierarchy of the Son, from the cells on up through our governing unit of consciousness. Our governing unit of consciousness sits on top of our personal hierarchical pleroma. We are all fractals.Within my body, there are countless fractals of the Fullness of God, and each of them is doing its job to keep me alive and walking around.

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25:57

Christ and the Third Order Powers Slideshow

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/11/01

When he prayed to them, they consented joyously and willingly, since they were in agreement and with harmonious consent to aid the defective one. They gathered together, asking the Father with beneficent intent that there be aid from above, from the Father, for his glory, since the defective one could not become perfect in any other way, unless it was the will of the pleroma of the Father, which he had drawn to himself, revealed, and given to the defective one.The All and the Hierarchy of the

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28:35

The Gnostic Antichrist

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/10/25

The Antichrist arises after the Fall, and so it does not recognize the hierarchical structure built upon the harmony of the Fullness. In place of that harmony, the Antichrist operates through the application of power, and its only goal is power. The Antichrist does not know the hierarchy of the Fullness, nor does it come from their assigned roles and places. Lacking the Pleroma's cooperative design, the Antichrist exists in a state of perpetual disturbance driven by self-centered ambition.Now,

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28:31

Second Order Powers Slideshow

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/10/19

This is the lecture I delivered to my adult education class this week. It caused quite a stir. One dedicated atheist dropped the class at this point in a huff. It seems that the class is quite alright discussing gnostic concepts in the abstract, but when it comes down to Earth, then it gets real. Suddenly it's a war between science and religion. The part that ticked off some of the students was demonstrating conscious life within the cells. In other words, consciousness comes down to the cellular

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21:13

Logos, Fractals, and the Fallen Demiurge

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/10/11

Consciousness is fractal:“… the aeon of the Truth, since it is a unity and multiplicity, receives honor in the small and the great names according to the power of each to grasp it – by way of analogy – like a spring which is what it is, yet flows into streams and lakes and canals and branches, or like a root spread out beneath trees and branches with its fruit, or like a human body, which is partitioned in an indivisible way into members of members, primary members and secondary, great and

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23:27

Faith, Intention, and Action

Gnostic Insights ·

2025/10/04

In the cherry jello universe, our consciousness is swimming through an infinite sea of choices, and every moment of the day we make one choice rather than a different choice, and that is the path of our choices as we swim through the cherry jello of life. The other choice is still sitting there in that infinity of unused or uncollapsed potentials, but once you make a choice by setting an intention and you arrive at that intentional outcome, the cherry that's already waiting there in your mind is the

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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”?

Gnostic Insights ·

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

Gnostic Insights ·

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

Gnostic Insights ·

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

Gnostic Insights ·

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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