How do I into gnosticism?

Demian

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>>8939505
Readin' some books.

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>>8939505
Read some books.

The Nag Hammadi library. Kurt Rudolph's Gnosis. Jung's Seven Sermons. Campbell's Masks of God series is excellent, go read his Occidental Mythology.

>>8939505
Prometheus Rising

You'll know what to do after.

Plato: Phaedo, Republic, Timaeus (of course you can read all of his works...)
New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha
Nag Hammadi Scriptures by Meyer
The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
Plotinus: Enneads
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius

>>8941105
this
>>8941099
this to get you in the right mood

You don't.

There is literally nothing redeeming of Gnosticism.

Obviously not by reading.

>>8941105
Why would you read Plotinus? He was against the Gnostics

>>8941099
Don't fall for the Prometheus Rising meme. There are a few interesting bits, but it's mostly wild speculation about evolutionary psychology and stoner philosophy. He spends a decent chunk of the book talking about how UFOs might be real and that "life-extension pills" are just around the corner. You're better off listening to Joe Rogan desu.

>>8942019
Because this is /lit/ and nobody reads here;

>>8941532

>good goyim
>do not investigate the nature of the soul goyim
>hate each other and live in fear goyim

>>8942019
Why expose yourself to opposing views? I dunno man.

>>8943269
are you 12?

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>>8939505
playing videogames

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>>8939505
Valis will wet your whistle.