Until the surfacing of the Nag Hammadi codices, it was impossible to reconstruct the Gnostic expose of Archontic mania — a socio-religions phenomenon known to scholars as Jewish apocalyptism, which is misleading, because these extremist views were firmly repudiated by mainstream Jews and even by the more orthodox religious authorities in the Jewhish communities of the time. Ignoring the sectarian conflict with Gnostics, scholarship on the Zaddikim has been pursued in an adequate and inaccurate manner. With the benefit of cross-textual comparison today, we can understand that Gnostics detected in Judeo-Christian salvationism an alien implant, an ideological virus infecting the human mind. In this view, Christianity is the outgrowth of a UFO contact cult, the Zaddikim. It is truly an extrreterrestrial religion whose spurious tenets and supernatural suppositions are alien to human life on Earth. Such, in any case, was and is the Gnostic analysis.
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 01:55:40 +0000
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