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A sermon from Gnostic Alchemy reads an old Christian myth rather than a modern chronicle. Drawing on the Reality of the Rulers, the speaker retells Sophia, wisdom pictured as a mother, wanting to create without her partner’s consent and bringing forth the demiurge. That child, left alone and unknowing, opens his eyes, mistakes himself for the only maker, and boasts that no other god exists. The sermon calls this the extreme of ego, not a cartoon devil added later by official churches, and it quotes a Gospel of Philip line in which ignorance is the source of what is evil. Yahweh in the Hebrew scriptures is then identified with that jealous maker, the one who punishes anyone refusing to call him the only god. Against him the speaker sets the perfect father in the Gospel of Truth, who holds all things and is not jealous of his own members. Jesus, in this reading, came to point people toward that higher father rather than the abandoned creator.
Key points
- The sermon summarizes the Reality of the Rulers rather than treating Genesis as straight reportage.
- Sophia creates without consent and gives birth to the demiurge, who does not know his origin.
- His boast that he alone is god is called a sin against the fullness, and a voice names him blind.
- Ignorance, not a later supernatural monster, is what this reading calls the root of evil.
- Yahweh of the Hebrew Bible is identified with that jealous maker.
- The Gospel of Truth’s perfect father is described as containing all and as free of jealousy.
Short quotes
Gnostic early Christians were deeply connected to Sophia the great mother
Gnostic Alchemy, Yahweh read as the demiurge
She contrasts that mother-centered Christianity with later churches that have no mother. Watch at 2:09
I am God there is no other but me
Gnostic Alchemy, Yahweh read as the demiurge
This is the boast she reads from the Reality of the Rulers when the maker first wakes. Watch at 10:35
Video by Great Mother Mystery School. Watch on YouTube.