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Quotes From The Gnostics Jacques Lacarriere

 The world in which we live is not only opaque, heavy, and givenover to death, but is above all a world born of a monumental

machination; a world that was not foreseen, not desired, awedin all its parts; a world in which every thing, every being, is theresult of a cosmic misunderstanding. In this whirlpool of errors,this universal shipwreck which is the history of matter and of 

man, we on earth are rather like survivors condemned toeternal solitude, planetary detainees who are the victims of 

injustice on a truly cosmic scale. tars, ether, aeons, planets,earth, life, esh, inanimate matter, psyche ! all are implicated,

dragged into this universal disgrace. 

Injustice governs the universe. "ll that is made and all that isunmade therein carries the imprint of a corrupt fragility, as if 

matter were the fruit of an outrage in the womb of nothingness.#$I%# &I'(")

 A Short History of Decay  

 Thus, the simplest phenomenon, and the most elemental toboot ! that of nutrition ! would have been for the *nostics a

typical e+ample of this malecent interaction, for the very actof nourishing oneself, of sustaining life, specically implies thedeath of other living species. #ach birth, each perpetuation of life, increases the domain of death. It is a never!ending circle,

as vertiginous as the whirlpool of the stars or the cycle of time. 

$an has absolutely nothing to do with the curse that is laidupon him- the one who is truly responsible is the sadistic andperverse demiurge who dared to dream up such a cruel worldin all its minute detail.

 

o, to have done with this problem and give an e+act denition

of *nostic thought ! as I understand it, at least ! all institutions,laws, religions, churches and powers are nothing but a sham

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and a trap, the perpetuation of an age!old deception. 

*nosticism is, in essence, a genesis, it restores to man his true

birth, and overcomes his genetic and mental immaturity.