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Gnostic Insights

Cyd Ropp, Ph.D.

Gnostic Wisdom Shared and Simply Explained

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23:59

Reforming Gnosticism

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/02/28

Last week, I started talking about the nature of this Gnostic Reformation that I’m describing here. It turns out that the approach to Gnosticism that I am sharing with you here at Gnostic Insights is a reformation of what is understood to be Gnosticism. If you haven’t listened to last week’s episode yet, it would be really good for you to start there. Go back and listen to or read the episode called, This Gnostic Reformation.I didn’t read any books about Gnosticism; I

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20:54

This Gnostic Reformation

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/02/21

I occasionally get comments from people that the Gnosticism I’m sharing with you here at Gnostic Insights is different than the Gnosticism they’re accustomed to or the Gnosticism they see elsewhere on the internet. And that is very true, and that is why the Substack is called the Gnostic Reformation.This Gnosticism that I’m sharing with you—yes, it comes out of my own personal gnosis. It is a compilation of both Valentinian Gnosticism, primarily from the Tripartite Tractate of the

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15:06

Lost in the Hallways

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/02/14

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. It’s been a few weeks since I recorded a live episode, and here I am. Now, I don’t have any particular Gnostic insights for you today. However, I do have some interesting news to share and a very strange experience I had a couple of days ago. So, let’s start with the news.One of the reasons I don’t have a new episode for you this week, in particular a philosophical episode, is because I’ve been

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34:56

The Radiant Answer

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/02/07

Universal Salvation, part 4Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. I’m going to do my best to wrap up this review of David Bentley Hart’s book, That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. And I hope you understand, particularly those of you who are Christians that are listening to this, that I do all of this in the name of the Father. It’s not to tear down Christianity. It’s to uphold the mission of the Messiah, which has been lost over the past several hundred years of

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25:08

The True Nature of the God Above All Gods

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/01/31

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Today is part three of my book report on David Bentley Hart’s book called That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation. The past two weeks we covered the beginning of his book, the Introduction.I’m going to begin this section by reading out of his final remarks, because he does a good job of simplifying his arguments here at the end of the book. So we’ll start with that. Hart says on page 201, It may offend against our egalitarian principles

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28:37

Deluded? or Damned?

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/01/24

God is loving and merciful, not judgmental and cruelWelcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week I began sharing with you what is essentially a book report on the book called That All Shall Be Saved, Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation by David Bentley Hart, and he’s the translator of the New Testament that I’ve been using. So, last week we got up to page 21 out of this book, and now I’m all the way up to page 85, so we’ll see what happened in this latest

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28:37

Are You Going to Hell

Gnostic Insights ·

2026/01/17

I thought today I would share with you a book by David Bentley Hart. Hart wrote that translation of the New Testament that I’m very much enjoying, because it mirrors the same language that the Gnostic gospel uses in the Nag Hammadi codices, particularly the Tripartite Tractate, which is what I share with you here at Gnostic Insights.David Bentley Hart is extremely eloquent and erudite. His prose puts me to shame. He is a great writer and a brilliant mind. He’s an Eastern Orthodox scholar of

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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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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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