13-08-2014: THE GNOSTIC VIEW, JOHN LASH, WESTERN RELIGIONS
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Channel: paradoxman316 · 2014 · Education
Yesterday, one of my friends posted this link on my video: http://youtu.be/tBC2FP9-sdo. It's part of a Red Ice interview with John Lash, a proponent of Gnosticism. He cited a source that claimed the Abrahamic religions were/are Archon controlled. Archon is the Gnostic term for demons, jinn, demiurge, etc. Archons are the source of malevolence or evil. I was fascinated at one point in my life with Gnostic teachings, just as I was at an earlier point with Fundamentalist Christianity. Today, I look at them both of them as ego driven philosophies that propagate what I see as a closed system. They speak in terms of absolutes, claiming that they alone know the truth and others are in error. These philosophies, based on a know-it-all attitude, are themselves polarizing, and therefore evil by their very nature. While ego development is part of our evolution, if we stay stuck in that adolescent stage, we will continue to experience our lives and a world where we are our own worst enemy.
