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The Demiurge and the Shadow of Monotheism

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Gnosticism. Excerpt taken from “The Battle about God: Where do Gnostics stand?” – Dr. Stephan Hoeller. Illustrated with pictures and text.

* Some Gnostics used the term ‘Demiurge/Demiourgos’ to indicate the creator of the material forms, contrasting the Uncreated Spiritual substance, because they were quite saturated in Platonic philosophy. They adopted the term in their ways of expressing a specific paradigm in which there is a dualism between the created material forms and the Uncreated Spiritual forms. There were other terms used to indicate the creator god, also.

Gnosticism: The Sorrow of Sophia – Lecture by Stephan Hoeller

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Where does Humanity’s suffering come from? “Sophia” means Wisdom. Who is Sophia, one of the key figures in Gnostic systems of thought, and how does she relate to the creation of this world, this world’s and humanity’s predicament of sorrow, sadness and suffering, as well as the Redemption of humanity?

Date lecture: 1998 (?)

-Quotes: “Salvation/Redemption from a Gnostic point of view is not the conventional Judeo-Christian concept of Liberation or Salvation from SIN, but rather is the Liberation from a certain condition, a condition of which suffering is an integral part, namely our existential condition of unconscious existence in an unconscious world.. THAT is what the Gnostic wants to be redeemed from….” (Stephan Hoeller)

“To be Good you have to be tuned in to that which is Really Good, because a lot of your assumed Goodness is a device of the ego…” (Stephan Hoeller)