The Gnostic Never Blames Himself
Part II of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits
Voegelin’s New Science of Politics Put Gnosticism Back into Our Awareness
💡If you want to understand how gnosticism flourishes in our modern world, you need to understand why it developed in the ancient world
Time magazine ran a peculiar feature in 1953.
It used a five-page analysis of The New Science of Politics to celebrate the magazine’s 30th anniversary, stating
The Modern Gnostic Wants His Structure to Control
Part VI of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin’s Six Gnostic Traits (Part II of Two Parts)
The Gnostic Believes His Paradise is a Historic Inevitability and His Movement Will Bring It About
Parts IV and V of an Analysis of Eric Voegelin's Six Gnostic Traits
Why Gnosticism is Left Hemispheric
Gnosticism is logical.
In fact, it can be argued that logic and rational conclusions are the gnostic's gods.
The gnostic uses rationality to construct abstract ideas of how the world works . . . of what full reality is. The gnostic then embodies these abstract ideas into structures (the belief in
These Six Traits Make a Person a Gnostic
A Diagnostic of the Gnostic
Eric Voegelin was to modern gnosticism what Knute Rockne was to Notre Dame football. Rockne didn’t start the ND football program and Voegelin didn’t discover modern gnosticism, but they took their subjects to much higher levels.
The Swiss theologian, Hans urs Von Balthasar
Those Hippy Puritans
Exploring America's Millenarian Movements
💡The Puritans were Gnostics. If you understand Puritans, you start to understand modern Gnosticism. If you understand modern Gnosticism, you begin to see the glaring problem that is modernity.
We are a nation held together, paradoxically, by the agonism of conflicting millenarian projections: communists,
A Key Modern School of Philosophy Looked a Lot Like an Ancient School of Heresy
The pagan cosmic system of late antiquity put the earth at the center of creation, surrounded by eight heavenly spheres: (sun, moon, first five planets, and their stars).
The ancient Christian heresy of gnosticism accepted this view of the cosmos but added a few things.
The eight heavenly spheres, the
The Three Ideals of the Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin summarized the Enlightenment ideals in these three premises, which Enlightenment thinkers held with religious-like fervor (to David Hume's amusement and, later, to Dostoyevsky's disgust):
1. Every genuine question can be answered. If it can’t be answered, it’s not a genuine question.
2.