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Fullness above a lower cosmos
A highest divine reality. In many systems a lesser maker and archons rule the cosmos, and a divine element seeks to return.
Schools disagree. Do not paste one demiurge myth onto every text labeled Gnostic, and do not file this as ordinary Christianity.
Fullness above. In many systems a demiurge and archons below. A divine element in the human seeks return by gnosis.
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Highest reality
Not identical with the maker of matter in the systems that distinguish them.
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Fullness and cosmos
Layers are school-specific.
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Aeons, archons, demiurge
Present in many elaborate myths. Not in every short text.
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Human with a divine element
A common anthropology, not a universal one.
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Escape, not a shared heaven
Some texts add repeated embodiment. Some do not.
- Time
- Fall and hoped-for return. Not a civic flood story.
- Agents
- Whoever the text names above and below. Do not standardize the names.
- Human slot
- Often a stranger in the cosmos. The end is return of what is divine, differently described.
- Break
- The lower rulers, where the myth has them. Not every Gnostic text is that myth.