Mapping the Gnostic Gospel 2015-2025

I have recently taken down my older “New Gnostic Gospel” blog in favor of focusing on GnosticInsights.com and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack . Before taking down the old blog I saved this one article that was first printed in June of 2015. I’m going to go through it with you today to see how this gnosis has held up over the past 10 years. The obvious improvement is the quality of my illustrations. I thought it would be a treat for you to see how they have evolved. This was the original mapping of the new Gnostic Gospel. These concepts have been more colorfully illustrated, although the original mapping still holds up. You may find all of this in its most simple form in my book, The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated . For a more detailed explanation, pick up a copy of A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel at amazon. Monday, June 15, 2015 These diagrams are my visual representations of the “Tripartite Tractate.” The Tripartite Tractate is one book of the collection known as the Nag Hammadi scriptures that were discovered buried in the Egyptian desert in 1945. The Nag Hammadi texts were buried sometime in the 3rd century by monks who sought to preserve and protect them from those who wanted to weed them out as heresies as they designed the official shape of the Christian religion. After studying the Tripartite Tractate, I can see why the early Pope did not want this to make it into the Bible. For one thing, the Christ figure, the “Son of God,” is not all perfect and all powerful, as portrayed in the Christian Bible; matter of fact, Logos is directly implicated in the Fall. For another thing, salvation is a personal, mystical affair conferred directly by the Father through Logos, not something conferred by preaching or baptism. Thirdly, the cosmology presented here makes clear that those who, shall we say, struggle for righteousness against a sinful world are not necessarily doing God’s work, but are caught in an endless war against the “evil doers,” and have themselves fallen into some sort of earthly death trap. Okay. Let’s quickly amend that first concept about the Son of God. The Christian religion has lumped three distinct characters together into one Son of God. In the Gnostic Gospel, these three are broken out by their sequential appearance in the rollout of the Gnostic cosmogeny. 1: The Son of God is indeed the all-perfect “only begotten Son” of the Father’s originating consciousness. Because of His perfection and proximity to the Father, the Son is the only entity that can link directly up with the Source without the risk of annihilation. The Son is the bucket dipped into the Sea, reflecting every characteristic of the originating Father. All subsequent entities, life, consciousness, laws and power come through the Son. 2: Logos is not the Son after all. My confusion arose from John 1:1-5 where it states, “in the beginning was the Logos [Word], and Logos was with God, and Logos was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.” The church teaches this passage as describing the Son. Upon further reflection, the Aeon we call Logos fulfills the description in John 1, once we consider the earlier Gnostic cosmogeny—Logos, one of the Aeons of the Fullness—was with God prior to the Fall. After the Fall and the abandonment of the Demiurge, life, light, and consciousness was sent down into the otherwise dead material universe in the form of all of us 2 nd Order Powers. We are the fruit of Logos. 3: The Christ is the 3 rd Order of Powers, formed through the united prayer of the Fullness and the Son, with the approval of the Father. The Christ contains all of the power and majesty of the Son. The Christ presents Himself as the Redeemer of every 2 nd Order Power to bring us back home to the ethereal plane after our sojourn here in the material cosmos. Back to the 2015 article: As I said, the complete article is underway. Meanwhile, for those of you who want to get started, here it is in picture form. Gnostic Cosmology according to the Tripartite Tractate, by Cyd Ropp, Ph.D. 2015 On the big poster above, start at the upper left corner and read clockwise. Our earthly situation is portrayed in the middle of the diagram. Salvation and the end of the world comes in the form of the pyramid at the lower left. Below are various sections of the diagram presented on their own. If you have already been studying Gnostic cosmology, these diagrams will clarify various terms and activities. If you haven’t already been studying this, then these diagrams will be super confusing so don’t worry about it. All will be revealed in good time. In terms of A Simple Explanation of Absolutely Everything , [ which my readers in 2015 were all familiar with ] this cosmology begins prior