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Great Mother Mystery School shares Graham Hancock’s Gnostic account of the biblical god. The claims are his, and this page only reports them. Jehovah, Yahweh, Allah, and the name God are, for him, one being the old Gnostics ranked as a demon, chief of the archons, jealous rather than final. Abraham sent to kill his son belongs in a body of harmful teaching. Churches blame the serpent for a fall. Hancock calls that creature the helper, because a soul cannot grow without knowing good from evil. This world is a school of pairs. The fruit brings exile and a guard on the tree of life, and some Gnostic pictures make the plant a vision mushroom. The flood punishes ascent and buries insight under toil. A divine spark stays in each person, and the archons mean to put it out. He praises Cathar France for literacy, paper, and equality of women and men, then recounts the Albigensian Crusade and the stake as sacrifice to a dark god. Clergy, he says, still block a direct meeting with spirit.
Key points
- Hancock identifies the god of the biblical traditions with the Gnostic demiurge, a jealous power rather than the source.
- He reverses Eden, making the serpent the helper and moral knowledge the point of human growth.
- The flood, on this reading, punishes human ascent and buries spiritual insight under toil.
- A divine spark in each person is what the archons are said to be trying to extinguish.
- The Cathar civilization and its destruction are his historical picture of that repression.
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The Serpent is the good guy
Graham Hancock, Graham Hancock on the Gnostic biblical god
In his Gnostic Eden, the serpent helps the pair learn instead of causing their ruin. Watch at 1:15
Kill Them All God will choose his own
Graham Hancock, Graham Hancock on the Gnostic biblical god
He repeats the order he attributes to a crusade leader at a Cathar town. Watch at 5:27
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