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Saint Irenaeus would be so proud of you :-)

You did the best job at exposing Gnosticism (other than Saint Irenaeus himself of course).

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Brilliant summary - just loving this direction you are going - inspired me to dig deeper into the whole Gnostic influence on the church. What if you spark a reformation for the church to bring her back to her true roots and out of a gnostic delusion? 😁

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Personally I think you did a great job on this. I've studied political philosophy for my schooling, and then in free time was exposed to hermetic and gnostic thought. This connection was mentioned in a class that involves Hegel, but it wasn't until someone I was taking with pointed out the gnostic nature of trans that I began to see it in everything built post hegel. Then you started trumpeting the hermetic/gnostic connection and I had to go back and reread things.

You're understandably concerned about how to present this (very complex in general and more so when current education, modern epistemology, current religious definitions, etc make it harder to establish a common language to explore the topic successfully) but this was a great podcast James. I'm going to definitely listen to again, and also look into Secret Religions of the West, Gnostic Return in Modernity, and Gnosis and Hermeticism from Antiquity to Modern Times.

Keep it up brother! This kind of foundational analysis is key to properly diffusing the bomb and saving the captives.

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