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Gnostic Insights

Cyd Ropp, Ph.D.

Gnostic Wisdom Shared and Simply Explained

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Gnostic Insights ·

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

Gnostic Insights ·

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

Gnostic Insights ·

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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