Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Today I'm going to share with you the PowerPoint lecture that I gave yesterday at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Oregon University, and the topic is Christ and the Third Order of Powers. We began with a review using the Gnostic Cosmology Chart, and this is just a very... this is too difficult of a chart to describe to you.







You'll have to see it, so I recommend that you go to GnosticInsights.com and find this episode, or the Gnostic Reformation. This is the current episode here on Substack, but I begin every class with a full review of what we have done before using the Gnostic Cosmology Chart that I have designed, and I was very heartened to see that yesterday the class was able to name all of the parts. I think that is extraordinary, and so good for you, class! Now after the chart, here we begin the lecture.







Quoting from the Tripartite Tractate,




The thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability and ruled over those who had come into being because of him was called Aeon and Place of all those whom he had brought forth in accord with the ordinance, and it is also called Synagogue of Salvation because he healed himself from the dispersal, which is the multifarious thought, and returned to the single thought.




Now what does that mean? “The thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability.” That is Logos after the Fall, and now he has returned back up to the Fullness of God, pulled up there by the prayers of the Fullnesses, his brothers.



He has returned to his stability. He's sitting at the top of the pile again like he used to be before he fell. Now his shadow remains below, his shadow being the Demiurge and all of those broken imitations of his original Pleroma.



You know the Logos is a fractal of the entire Fullness of God formed by when the Fullnesses gave glory to God all together in unison, and what they produced out of that unity was the Logos, and he contains a fractal representation of every one of the Aeons within him. However, it is a fractal level down, and it was that Logos that fell, and so the shadows of the fractals of Logos are what remain behind and become our material universe.



Now back to this quote, “the thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability and ruled over those who had come into being because of him.”



Those who had come into being because of him is all of us second-order powers, not the shadows, because they are not really beings. They do not really exist, but we second-order powers are the fruit of Logos and the Fullness together praying for help to come into the deficiency to rescue his abandoned ego that we called the Demiurge. So this sentence is saying that the thought of the Logos who had returned to his stability and ruled over those who had come into being because of him, that's us, “was called Aeon and Place of all those whom he had brought forth in accord with the ordinance.”



You see, we second-order powers, which is every living thing in the cosmos, we were brought forward in accord with the ordinance, which I believe to be something along the lines of the Simple Golden Rule of reaching out to the other Fullnesses, and they held hands and prayed together, and we were brought forth as fruit. So that was the ordinance. And it says that Logos is called the Synagogue of Salvation because he healed himself from the dispersal, and that dispersal was after the Fall when his Pleroma rolled out and became the material universe, which he abandoned down here.



And it says that “the dispersal was the multifarious thought,

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What is the Antichrist? By definition, of course, the Antichrist would be the opposite of the Christ. So, before we understand the Antichrist, it would be helpful to understand what we can about the Christ.



Christ, according to the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi Scriptures, is composed of the Aeons of the Fullness, both in their aggregated entirety known as the Pleroma of the Fullness of God, or the hierarchy of the Fullness of God, along with their personal individual forms, which are the Aeons, the infinite infinity of variations of the Son that are called the Fullnesses or the Aeons or the Totalities. So the Christ is powered by the full force of the Holy Spirit, the Son, and the Fullness of God. The Christ has all the mojo of the ethereal plane.



In order to restore memory, reason, and redemption to the second-order powers, the Aeons of the Fullness, every one of them individually and all of them collectively, gave glory in unison to their Father while praying for a helper to bring peace to the deficiency and forgiveness to Logos. Out of their focused prayer, a unique fruit emerged, one that contained all of the capabilities and powers of the Fullness along with all of the love and eternal qualities of the Father, and that is what we call Christ or the Christ. So here's how the Tripartite Tractate describes the Christ.




“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.”




And the defective one, in this quote, has to do with the Demiurge that arose from the Aeon known as Logos.




“Then from the harmony and a joyous willingness which came into being, they brought forth the fruit which was a begetting from the harmony, a unity, a possession of the Fullnesses, revealing the countenance of the Father of whom the Aeons thought as they gave glory and prayed for help for their brother with a wish in which the Father counted himself with them. Thus it was willingly and gladly that they brought forth the fruit. And he made manifest the agreement of the revelation of his union with them, which was his beloved Son.





“But the Son in whom the Fullnesses are pleased put himself on them as a garment through which he gave perfection to the defective one and gave confirmation to those who are perfect, the one who is properly called Savior and the Redeemer and the Well-pleasing One and the Beloved and the One to Whom Prayers have been Offered and the Christ and the Light of those Appointed in Accordance with the Ones from Whom He was brought Forth, since he has become the names of the positions which were given him. Yet what other name may be applied to him except the Son, as we previously said, since he is the knowledge of the Father whom he wanted them to know.”




This paragraph describes the fruit of the Aeons called the Christ, that he possesses all of the traits, that is the names of the positions and all of their characteristics, all of the virtues of all of the Aeons of the God Above All Gods, and all of that essentially adds up to the original Son of the Father that came directly from the Father. So the Son and Christ aren't exactly the same because the Christ was created later than the Son. However, the Son and the Christ share the same characteristics, so by this time it is the Son.



That's kind of confusing, but they are different entities because they we...

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 level and then levels up through intelligent design to become us through cell division and differentiation.



This slide show has three embedded YouTube videos. The links within the pdf are not active, so I have included them here at the top of this transcript. Note that the Harvard biologist who narrates the first video is personifying consciousness within the cellular proteins. This is not an accident of language, but demonstrates that even biologists ascribe consciousness to these proteins although they would be loathe to admit it.



Note that there is a pulldown bar immediately next to the images so you can proceed through the entire lecture.




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Second Order powers– the new pleroma ofDownload

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week we’re going to review the relationship between fractal consciousness and the outflow of consciousness through Logos and the Aeons, and how the consciousness of Logos led to the Fall. I’ll be reading several verses from the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi books.



If you are new to Gnostic Insights, don’t worry about grasping everything I say. Just listen and go with the flow. The gnosis will reveal itself, so relax.



AEONS




“Each one of the aeons is a name, <that is>, each of the properties and powers of the Father, since he exists in many names, which are intermingled and harmonious with one another.  It is possible to speak of him because of the wealth of speech, just as the Father is a single name, because he is a unity, yet is innumerable in his properties and names…”




The Aeons of the Fullness of God became self-aware by the giving of praise and glory to the Father. This giving of glory is not for God's benefit, but for the Aeon's benefit. It gave them a righteous task to perform alongside their neighbors, which brought them to self-awareness and gave each of them a unique identity. The Aeons are innumerable because they reflect the totality of an infinite consciousness.




“… 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 small.”




LOGOS



The final Aeon that was produced as an emanation of the Pleroma of the Fullness arose by all of the Aeons giving glory together. The Fullness thus produced a final Aeon whom the Tripartite Tractate calls by the name Logos. Because Logos was produced through the entirety of the Pleroma giving glory as one, this Aeon possessed within itself all of the characteristics of the entire Pleroma.



This youngest Aeon carried within itself all of the traits of every other Aeon, perfect and complete. This was a very talented Aeon resembling the Son of God himself, who also carried all of the traits of the Aeons within its singular self. This final Aeon was named Logos, because he was also endowed with the ability to reason thoughtfully and to figure things out in a step-by-step manner. The word Logos in Greek means reason.




“This aeon was among those to whom was given wisdom, so that he could become pre-existent in each one’s thought. By that which he wills, will they be produced. Therefore, he received a wise nature in order to examine the hidden basis, since he is a wise fruit…”




All of the Aeons have free will, because the Father has free will and everything that emanates from the Father carries the attributes of the Father. The Tripartite Tractate says,




“for, the free will which was begotten with the Totalities was a cause for this one,” (this one being Logos), “such as to make him do what he desired, with no one to restrain him.”



“This aeon was last to have <been> brought forth by mutual assistance, and he was small in magnitude,” [referring, I think, to this concept of fractal iterations…]









“In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales,

We recently had an episode called Synchronicities, broadcast on September 13th of 2025. In that episode I reviewed a Why Files episode about synchronicities and shared some amazing synchronicities that look like coincidences, but they're just too precise to be coincidental. They give an indication of this very strange nature of the universe that we live in, and in that episode we discussed how the quantum mechanics of this universe at the quantum level seem to explain how these amazing synchronicities occur.



In the synchronicities episode, I talked about one of the funny things about quantum mechanics—that whenever someone looks at an object in a scientific experiment at the subatomic level, peering into the subatomic level through their experiment, it is said that “observation collapses potential” and makes the reality. This is because before we observe something, it exists in a state of what is called superposition.  Remember, at the subatomic level there's no such thing as particles. It's all waves and probabilities. It's more like a blur, and it doesn't stop spinning through all of its possibilities until it is observed and then, at that point in time, when it is observed, it stops being a blur of all possible positions and it collapses into one position, solely through the process of being observed by a watchful consciousness.



Another strange aspect of quantum mechanics is known as quantum entanglement. This is when two—and it's not even right to call them objects or particles because they're not, there is no material reality, it's all waves and probabilities and forces—when two such subatomic objects have a relationship with each other, no matter how far the space is between them, then when one of them is observed in an experiment, and it stops its superpositional blur at that moment in time, landing on a particular way of being or way of appearing, then the object it is entangled with also collapses at the same exact moment, even though it's not the one that's being observed. Furthermore, this entangled “collapse” is instantaneous—faster than light.



Quantum Mechanical entanglement at a distance



Not only that, but balance is always occurring throughout the universe, because when one entangled thing collapses in a spin right direction, for example, its entangled partner collapses as spin left. Or when one photon, for example, moves vertically, its polarized partner moves horizontally. In this manner, the universe remains balanced and symmetrical. You can think of it this way: imagine two entangled quanta were a pair of gloves spinning so fast you couldn’t tell which was right and which was left. Once you observe object A to be a the right glove then object B instantly becomes a left glove. If the same object A had been observed to be the left glove, object B would have instantly become the right glove. And before observation, both gloves were simultaneously right and left, left and right, both states at once.



Now let us think about this with some gnostic logic. We say that the mind of God is the ground state of all of the consciousness. Another way of saying this is that consciousness permeates every corner of everywhere—both on the ethereal plane and down here on the material plane. So, if observation affects quanta, then quanta are being observed all of the time by the mind of God. It is this Godly observation that holds the cosmos in its balanced physical state. This is how entangled quanta can affect their partners instantaneously. There is no distance or time in the ethereal realm and all of creation is held in steady state within the mind of God, so this is how and why a quark that is observed by a human is instantly balanced with its entangled partner,

In 2019, I wrote a book called The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated, and what I am attempting to do in this podcast is talk you through the book so that you will have your own personal and very full understanding of what Gnosis is, and hopefully be able to actually realize Gnosis while you're hearing these podcasts.



You may purchase my original Gnostic Gospel at gnosticinsights.com or any online book dealer.



By the way, what is Gnosis? We keep talking about Gnosis and Gnostic. Gnosis means knowing, and in the Gnostic frame of reference, Gnosis refers to remembering the truth of our existence and our creation, and the creation of the entire cosmos. It is thought that we hold all of this knowledge within ourselves, and we have complete access to the Creator of the universe at any time that we turn our focus on the Creator, and it is this direct conduit to the Creator that gives us what is called Gnosis.



G-N-O-S-I-S, that's a Greek word. Another related word to Gnosis, and this is a big word, is anamnesis. You know the word amnesia means forgetting? Anamnesis means not forgetting. So, the process of coming to Gnosis is a process called anamnesis. Today we're going to talk about the qualities of the All, and how the All became what is called the Pleroma, and the Aeons of the Pleroma.



Many people claim that it's impossible to know or describe the full glory of the transcendent, immortal Father of Consciousness due to our own limitations. I mean, how could limited beings such as ourselves possibly imagine the greatness of the Originator of the universe, much less our place in the grand design? Wouldn't lesser beings reflect a diminished view of God? Wouldn't these lesser beings be limited to offering a tarnished glory that falls far short of the object of their praise? The Tripartite Tractate, which is the book of the Nag Hammadi that I'm working off of, the Tripartite puts it this way.




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.




Thus, creation would have been doomed from the outset to never comprehend the full glory of either the Father or itself. According to the Gnostic gospel, the Father realized this impossibility and so built a helpful workaround meant to aid comprehension: selfless union and cooperation with others in a shared task. Quoting from the Tripartite again,




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 ma...

This week I appeared as a guest on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio. I'm going to make that YouTube video this week's episode. The interview went well and the viewers like it very much, judging by their Comments of the episode. I'm including the YouTube link here on the transcript. The episode is called "What Is The Gnostic Pleroma? "



The episode lasts an hour and a half. People in Comments said it was their favorite episode from Aeon Byte. Seemed to cause quite a positive stir among the viewers.



It's funny, when the interview was over and we were saying our goodbyes, I failed to say "onward and upward" to Miguel and he noticed and called me out on it. He wanted to hear the blessing! Isn't that sweet?







On this Aeon Byte appearance I also give a reading of my new kiddie book "Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Myth."



I encourage you to go watch it and let me know what you think.







All of my gnostic books are available for purchase on amazon.com. I always price my book as low as amazon will allow in order to make them more accessible to the greatest number of people.



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Thank you,



ONWARD AND UPWARD! AND GOD BLESS.



cyd



Here's the YouTube transcript of the interview below.



My name is Miguel Connor and I am still your pompatus of Gnosis-- that man across the waters of creation. And good to see everybody on this moon day. And very excited today because we will be discussing a topic that is very important and often uh misunderstood about Gnosticism and that is the pleroma. And I can't think of anybody better to engage in this conversation than our guest Dr. Cyd Ropp. She will be discussing her new work, Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Gospel. And of course, we will touch upon the great ideas from her other recent book,  A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. And yeah, check it out. Definitely check it out if you're looking for a good audio book. I do the narration and you will be taken on an amazing Gnostic journey of awakening that is useful for you.



Cyd, thank you very much as always for coming to the virtual Alexandria.



My pleasure. I always like to be here. Thanks, Miguel.



We always like to have you here. Life the the world is better. Well, the world is the world, but at least uh the psyche is better. And with us, too, we got Mr. Graham Pong. Graham, how are you doing on a Monday? Are you Garfield or something other? Oh, no. I'm something other. I'm definitely uh this week I'm much more a fan of one of my favorite uh existential philosophers, Alfred E. Newman. You know “what me worry?” seems to be the answer to this mad world we're in.



Exactly. Exactly. There are answers and you got to find them where you find them. Again, I keep quoting Julian of Norwich. “All shall be well and all shall be well and all manner things shall be well.” It's going to be okay. And certainly Cyd's work and mining the Valentinian Tripartite Tractate tells us that.



So uh well where do we start? First we want to look at your new book. We'll talk about the pleroma but first Children of the Fullness. This is something you've been working for on for a long time,

This week I re-watched an episode of The Why Files. Are you familiar with The Why Files? It's a very fun show I watch on YouTube regularly. The episode I watched again was called Synchronicities, the Science Behind Your Meaningful Coincidences, and this was first broadcast in June of 2025. I enjoyed it a lot. I'd seen it before, but I wanted to watch it again.



You know, we talk about synchronicities in the Gnostic community. It's a word that was created by Carl Jung, and as we know, Carl Jung was Gnostic, and he, in particular, appreciated the Tripartite Tractate, which is the book out of the Nag Hammadi Codices that we use, the Tripartite Tractate. That's our major focus here on Gnostic Insights.







Well, anyway, the name of the host for YouTube is AJ. The episode on synchronicities that AJ talked about was a really astounding episode, and if you haven't seen it or if you've never seen the Why Files, I recommend it.



[Another thing I learned this week was that it's possible to get the transcripts of episodes from YouTube videos. I didn't know how to achieve that before, but I think now it's part of the new AI “enhancement” of our world. I put enhancement in quotes because the verdict is out as far as I'm concerned, whether AI is an improvement or not. But anyway, I was able to ask the new YouTube AI for the transcript, and then it magically appeared, and so I have the transcript from that episode that I'm working off of.]



The thing I liked most about this episode were the synchronicities that AJ cited. There's some pretty incredible stories, and I'm going to share a few of those with you today. Then Bill and I talked about it.



It was his favorite episode that I'd ever recommended to him, and so then we had one of our long talks yesterday about this episode, and I wish I had recorded it, but I didn't, so instead I came away with three pages of notes as we were talking on the phone. I'm going to try to coordinate here my notes with the transcript and do it all in a way that makes sense. So here's the story that AJ tells during this episode of The Why Files, and since I have the transcript, I think I'll just quote him because he tells it well. Listen to this.




“In June of 2001, Laura Buxton released a balloon at her grandparents' anniversary party. She was 10 years old, living in Stafford, England. She wrote her name and address on a tag, tied it to the balloon, and let it go. The balloon traveled 140 miles south. It landed in a hedge in Wiltshire, where another 10-year-old girl found it, and her name was also Laura Buxton.



The second Laura wrote the first, and they arranged to meet. Both girls showed up wearing pink sweaters and jeans. Both brought their pet guinea pigs. Both guinea pigs were orange and white, and of course the guinea pigs had the same name, and the coincidences kept piling up. Both Lauras were the same height. Both had brown hair and blue eyes. Both had three-year-old black labs at home, and both also had gray rabbits. When they opened their bags, both had packed the same stuffed animal, identical. And the odds of all this happening are so crazy that it's mathematically impossible, but it happened.



There's plenty of photos and video. The news covered the story. This is not an urban legend."




So that raises the question, how does such an impossible thing happen? Well, Bill and I talked about that, and we have a good theory that fits in with our jello universe concept.



Let's go on to another amazing synchronicity. Quoting AJ again,




“Anthony Hopkins needed a book. The book was The Girl from Petrovka.

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Boy, am I busy lately. I'm preparing a 10-week course to teach “A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel” at Southern Oregon University, which begins in a couple of weeks, so I'm busy with that. I've also been doing a lot of publishing. I'm waiting to receive the hardback copy of Children of the Fullness, a Gnostic Myth. Once I see that and that it looks good, I can release that book as a hardcopy and hopefully get it into libraries. That's my ultimate goal with Children of the Fullness. It's available now, of course, on Amazon for only $9.99 or free on Kindle for $3 if you don't have a Kindle subscription. So, it's affordable and it's really neat. It's got beautiful illustrations. People like it. It's very short. Everyone can understand this version of the Gnostic Gospel.



Children of the Fullness is the first ever gnostic kid's book!



I have an upcoming appearance on Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, the YouTube version, and that will be on September 15th of 2025. Miguel asked me to be prepared to discuss the Children of the Fullness book and also the concept of pleromas. So, we're going to review pleromas in today's episode. This is from an original broadcast that was in November of 2022, but it always bears repeating.



“Pleroma” is a common word in gnostic scriptures, and it has a particular meaning that only relates to the Gnostic Gospels. In fact, we gnostics are expecting to wind up at the end of days in a Pleroma that others usually call “Heaven.” Today, I’d like to take a closer look at Pleromas in order to discover where we all came from and where we will wind up at the end of days.



Pleroma is a Greek word for “all that which is contained within a body or organization.” The Pleroma of the Fullness of God is the Pleroma we most often refer to here at Gnostic Insights. The Pleroma of the Fullness of God is the sum total of all the individual characteristics and powers of the originating consciousness of the Father as manifested in the monad known as the Son. Here is how the Pleroma of the Fullness is described in the Tripartite Tractate:




“Each one of the aeons is a name, <that is>, each of the properties and powers of the Father, since he exists in many names, which are intermingled and harmonious with one another.  It is possible to speak of him because of the wealth of speech, just as the Father is a single name, because he is a unity, yet is innumerable in his properties and names…”








This first differentiation of the properties contained in the Son is known as the ALL or the Totalities. The Pleroma of the ALL is pictured as a central star with rays going out in all directions, yet unified without personal identity within the single body and will of the Son. When the Totalities of the ALL become self-aware, they name themselves and sort themselves into the Pleroma of the hierarchy of the Fullness of God.




“… 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,

My brother, Bill, and I had a good long talk the other day concerning what humans refer to as “death,” and its connection to the apparent material nature of the universe. Here’s the upshot of that conversation.



If you visit my gnostic websites or have bought your copy of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, you’ve seen my diagrams many times by now. Perhaps you remember that my own gnosis was unlocked through several years of contemplation on the simple phrase: “mud up, spirit down.” That little ditty eventually turned into these two diagrams:



Mud Up



Spirit Down



These two diagrams blossomed out into my theory of everything that I call A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything, which you can read on the simple explanation blog or in the book, A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything. It has proven to be a robust theory of everything that continues to hold up.



Later, my own search for gnosis led me into the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi codices. I find the logical cosmology of the Tripartite Tractate to be the one that resonates with me, unlike the Sethian codices which have their gnosis packaged within an old-school type of mythology not unlike the complex, personified mythologies of other cultures and religions. Yet, if we stand back and take the long view of both Valentinian and Sethian gnostic belief, they have many overlapping features. This leads me to surmise that it is the Big Picture flow of consciousness unfolding, outflowing, and then re-enfolding that is the gnostic takeaway, not the particulars of the mythologies.



Whether we call it The Father in Christian gnosticism or The Source or Virgin Spirit in Sethian gnosticism, the matrix of all existence is ethereal consciousness itself—the originating consciousness that we and all sentient beings are heirs to. And whether you call the consciousness that flowed out of the originating Source the Son or the Sethian’s androgynous Barbelo—it is still the first and only monad produced by the originating consciousness.




But since he is as he is, he is a spring, which is not diminished by the water which abundantly flows from it. (Tripartite Tractate, verse 60)




Then that singular representation of consciousness fanned out into all possible variables of that consciousness—all that was, all that would ever be: the ALL and Fullness of God in the Tripartite Tractate and the Child in Sethian codices such as the Secret Book of John, culminating in an eventual separation called the Fall.




Just as the Father exists in the proper sense, the one before whom there was no one else and the one apart from whom there is no other unbegotten one, so too the Son exists in the proper sense, the one before whom there was no other, and after whom no other son exists... Furthermore, he has his fruit, that which is unknowable because of its surpassing greatness. Yet he wanted it to be known, because of the riches of his sweetness... (TTT, verse 57)




Then that singular representation of consciousness fanned out into all possible variables of that consciousness—all that was, all that would ever be: the ALL and Fullness of God in the ...

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This week’s episode takes another look at the Third Order of Powers, also known as the Army of the Christ. We looked at this back in 2022, so it’s high time to look at it again. Let’s start with a brief review of gnostic cosmology for any newcomers to the podcast.



This exploration of gnostic cosmology is uniquely based upon the text of one of the ancient manuscripts recovered from the Egyptian desert in 1945. The concepts that I am sharing with you are universal and applicable to anyone who is seeking the truth about consciousness, God, the nature of life, death, and suffering, and the nature of the simulated reality we appear to be living in. This gnosis is also a “gospel” in that the word gospel means “good news.” The good news is that this gnostic gospel offers the promise of a personal relationship with higher order entities and the God Above All Gods. This is not a challenge to established religions, but rather a clarification of the nature of the Father and our relation to the Father. This gnosis also clarifies so many of the puzzles that established religions, philosophies, and even science have been unable to answer. If a Great Awakening is currently underway, then this gnosis is an integral addition to spreading the Word.



We Second Order Powers were the generation of the new Pleroma of Logos when he returned from the Fall. We living creatures were designed to fit into the Boundary so we could operate according to the Simple Golden Rule to bring life, love, and cooperation into the otherwise dead deficiency. The Second Order Powers also bring a remembrance of the Father into his material realm, a memory entirely lacking in the shadows and phantoms of the imitation. We inhabit the deficiency, yoked to the apparent material of the imitation, and find ourselves trapped in a never-ending war with the deficiency.



Never-ending War The upward yang side represents the 2nd Order of Powers; the downward yin side represents the imitations of the deficiency



The Tripartite Tractate says of us,




“It was not from the sickness which came into being that they were produced… but (from) the one who sought after the pre-existent. Once he had prayed, he both raised himself to the good and sowed in them a pre-disposition to seek and pray to the glorious pre-existent one, and he sowed in them a thought about him and an idea, so that they should think that something greater than themselves exists prior to them, although they did not understand what it was. Begetting harmony and mutual love through that thought, they acted in unity and unanimity, since from unity and from unanimity they have received their very being.”




Logos was content with the beings of thought—those Aeons of the Fullness that form the master formulae upon whom we living Second Order Powers are modelled—"because he had hope and expectation of him who is exalted.” That hope and expectation is another way of saying that Logos had faith in the Father of the Totalities. We humans feel the same way Logos did when we turn to the Father in faith—we feel hope and expectation that something will come of our prayers.

A piece of business here-- I have taken down the contact me form on the Gnostic Insights website because all I ever get from it is junk emails that jam up my box. So if you want to contact me, probably the best way to do it is to go to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack and then leave a comment underneath the latest podcast episode. Then I will definitely see what you are writing to me. Or you could contact me through LinkedIn, but I don't want you to contact me if you're trying to sell me something, some sort of service, because honestly, I get dozens of those a day and it's just too much. It's just really too much. And the chances of me saying, yeah, are practically nil. Okay. So that's why there's no longer a contact me form there at Gnostic Insights.



The children's book is published and out on amazon.com. It's already sold three copies. Hopefully that's just the beginning.







And on another matter, I'm going to run another free booksy promotion for A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel on Amazon. And you can get the ebook of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel for free from August 23rd through the 26th. That way, even if I had sent you a free copy for reviews or anything like that, or if you have been given a copy of the book as a gift, you can still qualify to leave a review on Amazon for the book because it will be a verified purchase, even though you didn't have to pay anything for it. We really need to boost those reviews, folks. So please do me a favor. Write a review or at least throw some stars my direction for the book. Okay?







What we're going to look at today is basically Chapter Five from A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel. And that chapter is called The Fall of Logos and the Rise of the Deficiency. I'm going to focus on the deficiency and what that means—why it's called the deficiency. I'm just going to skim through Chapter Five.



We know that in this form of Gnosticism that I teach that comes directly out of the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi, the Aeon we discuss is not Sophia, but rather Logos. And this is one of the big things that sets the Tripartite Tractate apart from the other books in the Nag Hammadi. The Tripartite Tractate talks about Logos. And I prefer this. Let me tell you why.



The story with Sophia and her Fall and then her illegitimate child, Yaldabaoth, and all of the things that happened to them down on the Earth—that's a mythological type of story. On the other hand, the story of Logos, the Aeon Logos and its Fall, it's not mythological in the same way. It's logical. It has to do with the way that consciousness rolls out from the Source. It has to come from the original Source and then keep coming down to us as we sit here talking and listening. The Tripartite Tractate follows that course of consciousness from the Source, which is called the Father in the Tripartite Tractate, and then through the first emanation of the Father, which is called the Son in the Tripartite Tractate. And then how does it get from the Son to all of us down here?

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.



All of this comes from the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi. The Nag Hammadi was a set of ancient books that were dug up out of the desert in Egypt in 1945. It's like a movie plot, this discovery of the Nag Hammadi, what are called codices, (and a codex is a one of the original books when they were changing from writing all books out as scrolls that you had to unroll to putting them into our current form of a book, which is pages between the covers). So this gnosis comes from one of those books out of the Nag Hammadi codices, (codices is the plural for codex), called the Tripartite Tractate, which is considered one of the most difficult books of the Nag Hammadi to understand but I find it the easiest to understand so that's why I focus on it. So let's get into the entire run of consciousness.







What I'm using for my visual reference for this episode is the Gnostic cosmogony diagram that appears on the last page of my book, A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, which of course you can pick up at Amazon and that's what I'll be referring to. So if you have the book you can go grab it and follow along in the diagram or if you're listening on an audio podcast this would be a good episode for you to go to GnosticInsights.com at some point and look at the illustrations that accompany this discussion. All right, so we're looking at the entire run of consciousness.



1: It begins with what we call the Father, other people call it the Source, and that is consciousness itself. The base state, the ground state of everything is just awareness, consciousness—that's where everything comes from. In my diagrams I picture it as the page itself upon which this story now is to be written.



2: The consciousness of the Father admired itself and in so doing it made itself into another entity that we call the Son. It could be called the Child, it's not gendered. So you have now the Father and the Son and the Son is the complete encapsulation of the Father.



The Son is the bucket dipped into the sea of consciousness. It contains everything that the Father contains except it's now in a place. It has a point of view; it's a singularity; it's a monad. So instead of being everywhere, omniscient, omnipresent, unfathomable Source, it's now a person, a personified place with its own self-awareness. And it says in the Tripartite Tractate that the Father and Son admired each other. The Son didn't leave the Father—the Son stays plugged into the Father at all times. It has an umbilical cord, so to speak, that remains one with the Father. The Son and the Father have identical consciousness. And because the Son has the consciousness or the characteristics of the Father, it's the complete encapsulation of the Father. It has the same creative drive, the same spark of identity and power as the Father.



3: And because of this creative nature of the Father and the Son,

My neighbor's dear dog, Morgan, passed away last week. She was a terrific working dog who helped out with Search and Rescue operations, finding people lost in the woods, alive or dead. We held a Memorial service for Morgan on Sunday. All of her doggie friends were invited, puzzled to find her missing at her own party. I sang a rendition of Amazing Grace, adapted for dogs. Here I am singing it, tears and all.




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.



‘Twas God that sent us dogs to love, and God that sets dogs free



How blessed is the love they share, when they pass on, how we grieve.



When we join our family, pets, and friends upon that golden shore



Our hearts will leap with everlasting joy to be with our pack once more.



Praise God, praise dogs, praise God again, Morgan is already there



She is not dead, she’s romping still in that meadow in the air.



She’s diving and swimming and sniffing and searching



But no one is lost only found,



There are no tears there, no sorrow or fear, nothing but joy unbound.



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.



Rest in Peace, Morgan

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This is a repeat of an earlier podcast. It's the most complete explanation I've ever given on archons, and since I mentioned archons in last week’s episode, I wanted to give the full explanation of what are archons, because archons are mentioned quite often in Gnostic circles.



Also, a piece of news, the children's book is completed. It's gorgeous. It's exciting.  It's for the little ones. It's for you to read to your children or grandchildren, ages two to six, probably. Beautiful illustrations, and it's the very simplest rendition of our Gnostic Gospel possible. Imagine—I’ve simplified the Christian Gnostic Gospel, although I don't mention Jesus or Christ. I talk about the Prince of Peace in this book, and it's the nugget of Gnosis.



So if you're struggling with Gnosis at all, I'm sure you can understand this children's book. I've published it to Amazon. It probably won't appear for about a week. They need to do their thing on their end with it. It's only $9.99, which is the very cheapest Amazon would let me sell it for. The name of the children's book on Amazon is Children of the Fullness: A Gnostic Myth.







Okay, onward and upward, and here's What Are Archons.



This episode is about archons. It’s kind of a long episode because what I’m going to do is read to you directly out of the Tripartite Tractate and then make explanations about that, and that’s a long process. Also, if this becomes too thick and too difficult to understand just by the hearing of it, go to GnosticInsights.com and read the transcript. And in the transcript, I’m going to put links to other episodes that have spoken on this sort of topic before so that you can have a bigger review or a more in-depth study on this topic, okay?



So reading from the Tripartite Tractate, and this version is translated by Einar Thomassen out of the book, The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer. I’m reading you three different sections out of the book. The first is called The Word Divided, and that’s verses 77:11--36.




“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 oblivion and ignorance of oneself and of that which is.”




So when this section says the word gave birth to himself as a perfect single one, the word is Logos. That’s another way of saying the Aeon named Logos.



And “the perfect single one” is the name for the overarching personality of the Aeon known as Logos. Here at The Simple Explanation of things, we call that the governing unit of consciousness. For example, my body has billions of little units of consciousness in the form of cells and organs and whatnot, but my single one is named Cyd, and that’s my governing unit of consciousness.



Within the overarching personality of Logos, was a fractal iteration of every Aeon, one level down from Logos, housed within his perfect single self.







Logos was a product of the entire Fullness giving glory to the Father in unison, and all together they fruited this final combinatory Aeon. He was the last Aeon to be born,

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We're having some summertime reviews here. Today's episode is a replay that was first broadcast on August 20th of 2022, and it's all about the Demiurge and the boundary that was put up around this material universe. We have a lot of new listeners and readers at the Substack. And so I think that this is new information to a lot of you. And for those of you who have been with me for several years now, it's always a good idea to review. So, here we go.



As we delve deeper and deeper into gnostic cosmogony and cosmology I feel the need to remind you that this information is what gnosis is all about. This information represents the long-hidden knowledge that has been guarded from all but those specially designated the privilege of seeing it.  Here at Gnostic Insights we believe that gnosis is written on every person’s inner being, and therefore available to every person that seeks it out. The only sense in which this gnosis is hidden now is the limitation set upon each person’s readiness to receive. But whether or not you grasp these Gnostic Insights, you can take comfort in knowing that none of this is in any way essential to your redemption and resurrection. All you need to recognize is that the Father above is the source of your life and consciousness; that you come from the Father and to the Father you will return. Christian Gnostics recognize the essential role of the Christ in our return to the Fullness, because Christ is the correction that returns us all to full gnosis of the Fullness and the Father. So with that reminder, here is this week’s continuation of The Simple Explanation of Gnosticism.



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In our last episode (The Fall and the Deficiency), we heard about the Fall and the beginnings of our material universe. The Tripartite Tractate says the irrational things produced during the Fall, known as the imitations of the deficiency, were condemned by Logos. During the chaos and disorder immediately following the Fall, Logos battled against what came forth from him.




“Until the one who brought forth into the defect these things which were thus in need, until he judged those who came into being because of him contrary to reason - which is the judgment which became a condemnation - he struggled against them unto destruction..."   




This passage is saying that Logos had produced these deficiencies that were in need of reason and order. And because they were contrary to reason, Logos judged and condemned them. He initially tried to destroy them, but that didn’t work because the ones who opposed his condemnation and wrath would simply not obey, which is to say that reason and facts are powerless against egoic irrationality.



And so Logos gave up trying to cure the deficiency. Instead, what was perfect in Logos separated itself from its Ego and went upward to his own in the Fullness. 




“The Logos turned to another opinion and another thought. Having turned away from evil, he turned toward the good things. Following the conversion came the thought of the things which exist and the prayer for the one who converted himself to the good.”




This passage indicates that Logos changed his mind about the feasibility of destroying the deficiency. He came to a new understanding of the situation and he realized the hopelessness of correcting it on his own. Once he realized this, Logos was able to remember the Aeons of the Fullness—those things that exist—and he responded to a prayer for “the one who had converted himself to the good.” Since Logos is the one who had converted himself to the good,

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week we're going to review one of the basic original teachings here at Gnostic Insights, and that is how what we call the Fullness or the Pleroma of God—how it came to be, what it is, what does it mean when the New Testament, for example, says the phrase the Fullness of God.



For Christians this generally just is an idea that God is big and great and huge and it's full, it's full of everything, the fullness. Yes, but it's actually more than that in Gnosticism. In Gnosticism, the Fullness or the Pleroma of God is a step in the way that consciousness rolled out from the Father through the Son and then differentiated into the Fullness of God. And each part of that differentiation is part of the Son of God. And the Son wears the ALL like a garment, it says, and the ALL wears the Son like a garment, meaning they're co-existent.



So we're going to review one of the very first episodes of Gnostic Insights. It's been quite a blessing to discover that over the last four years very little of what was originally taught here at Gnostic Insights has modified or changed, and it's just the ever so slightest thing here and there, like relabeling one item on a diagram. That's been about it.



Hey, if you live in Southern Oregon or Northern California, I'd like to invite you to come to Southern Oregon University if you're close enough to commute once a week, because I will be teaching a class at what is called the OLLI, O-L-L-I, which is the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Southern Oregon University. I'll be teaching a 10-week course called A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, and people will be using A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel book as the textbook, so this is a very exciting opportunity for me. And to have 10 weeks with the same group of people who sign up to sit and learn, or remember as it were, it should be an interesting process. Here is the OLLI link if you would like to register for the class. This course is for the Fall semester, beginning September 15th of 2025.







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Also, another piece of news is that the children's book is all but finished. Everything was completely done, and I uploaded it, and now I'm waiting for the proof copy to come so I can verify that everything falls within the margins. The illustrator's having to go back on two of the pages out of the children's book to move Logos, of all things—to move him into the page, because when you account for the trim size, Logos got cropped off of two of the pages, and we can't have that!



Front and back cover for Children of the Fullness. This is the first and only Gnostic kid's book, for ages 2+



By the way, I've noticed that everybody around here who uses the word Logos, even a school by that name and all the students that go to the school, pronounces it Lo-gahs, and I've also heard some radio preachers say Lo-gahs. It's not Lo-gahs, it's Low-gohs. That's how I learned it in graduate school, because we study what Logos means, not from a Gnostic point of view, but from Greek philosophy. Logos was often discussed in the major that I majored in when I was working on my PhD, which was Classical Rhetoric. So I thought, well, how come we called it Logos and everybody around here calls it Lo-gahs?



But I looked it up in the pronunciation guides on the internet, and they all say Logos, or Logoze, never Lo-gahs. So I think we're in good shape to be referring to our Aeon from whom we are descended as Logos.

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Today I'm going to read one of the books out of the Nag Hammadi that we haven't talked about before. It's called Authoritative Discourse, Authentikos Logos, and it was part of the original Nag Hammadi codices. I’ve been thinking of codices as scrolls but actually they were the first form of bound books. It's a very short book, unlike the Tripartite Tractate, which is the second longest book in the Nag Hammadi. This is one of the shortest books in the Nag Hammadi, but it was very well preserved except for the first page. It had gotten damaged and is missing a few words, but the rest of it's intact.







And I think it's such a lovely book, and it goes so well with our Gnostic Gospel teaching, that we're going to talk about it today. This book is not particularly Christian because it doesn't talk about the Savior, but what it does talk about a lot is the Spirit and the Soul. And these are two characters represented in this book as a fiancé, the Spirit, which we call the Self, and then the main character is called the Soul, but we refer to that as the Ego. So it's about the split between the Self and the Ego, and what drives them apart, and what brings them together. It begins with talking about the Fullness, or the Aeon of Aeons, is what I call it. And it says, From the Fullness,



From these, came the invisible Soul of Righteousness. One member with them, one body with them, one Spirit with them. Whether she's coming down or is in the realm of the Fullness, she is not apart from them, but they see her and she looks at them through the invisible Word, or Logos.



And by the way, this Soul, which I identify as the Ego, is characterized as a female gender, and the Self is characterized as the male gender. We haven't talked about gendering the parts of our Soul like that, but in this Authoritative Discourse, they're a betrothed couple. They belong together, though they have not yet joined each other. It says,




Secretly her bridegroom, [that's the Self], obtained the Word, [that's what we call Logos]. He held it to her mouth to make her eat it like food. He applied it to her eyes like medicine, to make her see with her mind, and perceive those who are kin to her, and learn about her root, that she may be able to hold on to the branch from which she has come, receive what is hers, and renounce matter.




So this is talking about how the Self is instructing the Ego not to become lost in this world. Then there's a little discussion about when a man marries a woman who already has previous children from another marriage, how those are different children than the children that he fathers with her, and that the children that he fathers with her are his genes, belong to him as well as to her when it comes to inheritance. And so this is a metaphor for our Self and our Ego to be wed to one another. This metaphor refers to after the Ego comes down to this fallen world, and leaves the Fullness of God, that the marriage she has is to our physical material body, and the children that she begets by the material body are her stepchildren, and that they possess the inheritance of their father, which are, get this,




exalted passions, life's pleasures, hateful jealousies, boastful expressions, foolish experiences, reproachful words.




And then there's a few more missing words here, and it says,




If a soul, [and whenever I say soul, think Ego], if a soul who is ignorant chooses a spirit of prostitution, he casts her out and throws her into a brothel. He has left her to corruption because she has abandoned modesty.




That is, the Self, which is still above in the Fullness,

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I have another treat for you this week, a conversation with my brother Bill and myself concerning what is knowledge? How do we know what is true? This is a field of philosophy known as epistemology. My brother Bill was a philosophy professor. He taught this at the university level for many years. I hope you enjoy this conversation and you learn something from it.



Cyd Ropp, Ph,D, Gnostic Insights author and podcast host



[Cyd] 



Okay, recording in progress. Here we are. Hi, Bill. Welcome back to Gnostic Insights.



Bill Puett, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Philosopy. Cyd's brother.



[Bill]



Well, it's nice to be back. I thought of a topic here that we've considered for a while. Let's get it done.



[Cyd]



All right!



[Bill]



Okay. So the question is, what is knowledge? And what is it to really know something to be the case?



[Cyd]



Wait a minute. Is this epistemology? Is that what is meant by epistemology?



[Bill]



That's right. Theory of knowledge, epistemology. It's as old as the hills. In fact, the conflict was back with Plato and Aristotle. Aristotle's saying we can get knowledge, and I'll explain kind of how we do it, theoretically do that. Plato said, no, you can't get it that way. You have to know it from the beginning. How about that? That's what we call our gnosis, right?



[Cyd]



Right. That's why Plato is included in the scrolls of the Nag Hammadi. Yes.



[Bill]



So the question is, where does gnosis fit in with regard to the knowledge? Okay. That's the point. So I thought, okay, let's just take it from the point of the scientific position, because the presumption is, isn't it, that science gives us knowledge, right? That's the presumption. So the debates that take place out there, someone says, well, that's not science, and so therefore they're negating what's being said. Okay, let's get this one answered.



It's a common belief that scientists believe that scientific method gives us knowledge. And so anything that is gained outside of science is not known. In other words, the word sometimes is dogma, right? The idea, you hold a position, but you can't verify it scientifically, but you hold it, so you're being so dogmatic. So let me make this point here.



Here it is. The best that science can really give us is well-founded belief, and I'm going to argue that. So that's the best. So why do I say that? Well, the scientific method is based on logical principles of modus ponens and modus tollens, okay? And let me explain what that means.



[Cyd]



How do you spell that?



[Bill]



M-O-D-U-S, modus ponens, P-O-N-E-N-S, okay? And tollens, T-O-L-L-E-N-S.



Now, symbolically, okay, I'm going to use words like this, and you'll get it. You'll get it for your listeners, by the standards. If P gets you Q, and if you have P, then you have Q. That's modus ponens. The idea, conditional. If P gets you Q, and you got P, then you have Q. That's the conclusion.



[Cyd]



You're saying if P is obliged to bring Q along, then if you don't have Q, you don't have P.



[Bill]



Exactly, that's well said. So in science, the problem occurs, you could put it this way. A problem is created, say that the science,

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Today we're going to revisit the idea of evolution. You know, religious people are usually mocked by being unscientific for not believing in Darwinian evolution. Well, I'm a highly educated person and I don't believe in Darwinian evolution. It's an absurd theory that has never been proven.



My brother, Dr. Bill Puett, is also a PhD. He's what's called a professor emeritus, which means that he's a retired full professor who taught at the university level for a full career. He doesn't believe in evolution either.



Today we're going to share with you another conversation that I had just this week concerning evolution with my brother on the telephone. The article that prompted this discussion of ours was published last week on the website called Aeon, and it's an essay called Why Birds Don't Buy Bentleys and Why Humans Will Never Fly. And it was written by a scholar named Anton Martino-Truswell, an evolutionary biologist, author, and member of the Sydney Policy Lab and School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. He writes on human culture and society, evolution, and behavior at his substack, which is called The Village Green.



Bill and I both read his article and came away with a number of criticisms of the article. Mine had to do with the little nuts and bolts of particular claims, but Bill's observation of the article was profound and overarching from the Gnostic point of view. And so I'm going to share with you Dr. Truswell's article and then our reaction to it.



Now before I start with that, I would like to remind you that I've been writing about evolution for many years, beginning with an article I wrote called A Simple Explanation of Tuskless Elephants’ Super-Quick Evolution that I wrote on November 11th of 2018 on the Simple Explanation blog, and it is still posted there if you want to go to the Simple Explanation blog and read it there. But I covered that article here at Gnostic Insights in October of 2021, and then I repeated it in October of 2023.



So if you would like to read my original articles concerning evolution in detail, I recommend that you go to my GnosticInsights.com webpage and you do a search for the podcast called Gnostic Evolution in the Beginning, and that was posted on October 21st, 2023. And this is a very long and quite detailed theory of evolution that is not Darwinian.







You know, I don't know why people get stuck on these old theories. Scholars are very habitual, because if you change one of the basic theories, then all of their scholarship goes out the window. Then what are they teaching anymore? They don't know what to teach; they don't know what to write about. People would rather harken back to this old theory of Darwin, which is about as outdated as the original evolutionary theory of Lamarck. So I'm inviting you to open your minds today and think of a different way of looking at evolution.



Then I broadcasted a second podcast the very next week on October 28th of 2023 called Evolution and Conscious Design. And again, you can find that at GnosticInsights.com.



First off, let me repeat something out of one of those original broadcasts.