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Monad Against Demiurge

from Revelations Of The Gnostic Christ by Goatchrist

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"Monad Against Demiurge" [The Sophia of Jesus Christ, 3rd Century A.D., Nag Hammadi library & Apocryphon of John, 180 A.D., Nag Hammadi library] describes the metaphysical constructions of Monad and Demiurge, these being the set of all things (both abstract and physical objects) and the set of all physical things respectively. It must be noted the the set 'Monad' therefore includes the entirety of the set 'Demiurge'. Now it can be shown that the Demiurge - all physical things; the universe without abstract concepts considered - fulfils the criteria of Godhood: it is everywhere at once, being that all 'wheres' (4-dimensional spacetime 'zones') are within its set; it is in all things, being that it is all things; it controls everything, being that all physical laws exist within its set; it has consciousness, being that we are physical beings (at least, in part) and we have awareness. But recall that Monad contains Demiurge entirely. So if Demiurge possesses Godhood, so must Monad (necessarily and trivially). This grants us a new tool when reading scripture: that at any given point, "God" may be referring to two different 'things': the set of all things, with abstractions included, or the set of all physical things, with abstractions discluded. Clearly, if one 'God' contains no principles or ideas, it possesses different characteristics to one which does. Thus, whether some scripture is referencing Monad or Demiurge must be determined by inference from context, specifically in mind of how abstractions relate (or rather, if they relate at all) to said 'God'.

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MONAD AGAINST DEMIURGE:

Narrator:

First: the Monad there at the beginning,
Only abstract, not yet physical,
For matter had not
Yet been made material.

From the state of oneness and the
clause of omniscient mind,
Stem necessary consequences:
Further states unbound by time.

Voice of the Monad (existent already):

I am that which was at the beginning,
Sum of all the parts
Which are existent - in existence,
From the end unto the start.
I command all things,
Yet at the start I ruled ideas alone.
A world of things did not exist,
So there I did not set my throne.

Voice of the Demiurge (being born):

I am now awake,
I am the first thing to materialise,
I am the sphere of Malkuth,
I am the spark of dust and light.
I am the one who forges all life,
I am the one maintaining space,
I am the one you deem 'on high',
I am the 'it' in any place.

Narrator:

And so became these different planes,
Forged by these seperate being-states.
The Demiurge with matter and force,
The Monad with ideas and thoughts,
But too Monad with matter and force,
For Monad is the sum of all,
And too Monad with Demiurge form,
For Monad is the sum of all.

First: the Monad there at the beginning,
Only abstract, not yet physical,
For matter had not
Yet been made material.

From the state of oneness and the
clause of omniscient mind,
Stem necessary consequences:
Further states unbound by time.

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from Revelations Of The Gnostic Christ, released June 20, 2020

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