The Book of Genesis, but its Gnostic...

Summary

The video script delves into Gnostic cosmology, recounting the tale of the divine realm and the fall of Sophia. It explores the creation of the material world by Yal Deo, a monstrous being, and the entrapment of divine sparks within human souls. The narrative follows the attempts of various aons and archons to either aid or hinder humanity's quest for gnosis, culminating in the biblical stories of Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and the flood, all told with a unique Gnostic twist.

Takeaways

• 🌐 The Gnostic creation story posits that the world is a flawed place due to the actions of various divine beings, starting with the monad and the emanation of aons.
• 🔹 The monad, representing God, emanates a series of aons, which are divine entities that decrease in power with each generation.
• 😔 Sophia, an aon representing wisdom, makes a mistake by attempting to create a child without a partner, resulting in the monstrous being Yaldabaoth.
• 😈 Yaldabaoth, in his ignorance and arrogance, declares himself the one true God and creates a flawed material universe, imprisoning divine sparks within human beings.
• 🍃 The story of Adam and Eve is reimagined in Gnosticism, where they are entrapped by Yaldabaoth in a material world and are eventually given knowledge by the spirit of Sophia.
• 🐍 The serpent in the Garden of Eden is portrayed as a force of good, encouraging Adam and Eve to eat from the tree of knowledge to realize Yaldabaoth's deception.
• 🌊 Yaldabaoth, angered by the defiance of his creations, sends a great flood to destroy humanity, but is outwitted by Noah and the Gnostic figure of Norea.
• 🔥 Norea, an aspect of Sophia, escapes the material world with the help of the angel Alith, highlighting the Gnostic theme of spiritual ascension and knowledge.
• 🤝 The story includes a complex angelology with figures like Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Alith, who battle the forces of Yaldabaoth and his archons.
• 📜 The narrative is filled with moral ambiguity, where traditional notions of good and evil are subverted, and divine beings engage in deceit and violence.

Q & A

What is the concept of the Monad and Aons in the Gnostic story?

In the Gnostic story, the Monad refers to God the Father, and from this Monad, several other entities called Aons emanate or flow. These Aons are part of a divine emanation that forms a hierarchy, each pair of Aons being lesser in power than the previous.

What is the Ploma and what is beyond it?

The Ploma is the collective term for all the Aons and their emanations, representing the divine fullness. Beyond the Ploma lies the Kenoma, a realm of chaos.

Why did Sophia, one of the Aons, create Yal Deo?

Sophia attempted to emanate her own child without a partner, either due to not having one or trying to have a child independently. This resulted in the creation of Yal Deo, a monstrous being.

How does Yal Deo's creation differ from the Ploma?

Yal Deo's creation is a false Ploma, bound by arbitrary rules and filled with twisted and broken entities, unlike the infinite and perfect Ploma.

What is the significance of the primordial human Adam Kadmon in the story?

Adam Kadmon is the first human created by Yal Deo and contains a Divine spark. This spark desires to emanate its own creation, which is a central theme in the Gnostic narrative of the divine trapped within the material world.

Why did Yal Deo split Adam into Adam and Eve?

Yal Deo split Adam into Adam and Eve to prevent the primordial human from emanating its own creation and to keep the Divine spark trapped within the material world.

What is the role of the tree with the fruit of knowledge in the Garden of Eden?

The tree with the fruit of knowledge in the Garden of Eden is planted by the Ploma to provide Adam and Eve the knowledge that Yal Deo is evil and that their existence is a prison, which leads to their disobedience and the acquisition of knowledge.

How does the story of Cain and Abel reflect Yal Deo's nature?

The story of Cain and Abel reflects Yal Deo's capricious and malevolent nature, as Yal Deo favors Abel's sacrifice over Cain's, leading to Cain's murder of Abel and Yal Deo's subsequent amusement at the event.

What is the significance of the flood in the Gnostic narrative?

In the Gnostic narrative, the flood represents Yal Deo's attempt to destroy humanity and maintain control over the trapped Divine Essence. It also sets the stage for the continuation of the struggle between Yal Deo and the forces of the Ploma.

How does the story of Abraham and the binding of Isaac relate to Yal Deo's testing of loyalty?

The story of Abraham and the binding of Isaac is an example of Yal Deo testing loyalty by commanding Abraham to sacrifice his son. Abraham's willingness to comply demonstrates his devotion, and Yal Deo rewards him with a blessing.

What is the role of the four angels in the Gnostic story?

The four angels, Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Alith, are sent by Christ to rescue humanity from the chaos caused by Yal Deo's archons and the Nephilim. They play a crucial role in the battle against the forces of Yal Deo.

Outlines

00:00

🌐 The Gnostic Creation Myth

The paragraph delves into the Gnostic creation myth, which posits that the world's chaos stems from a divine mistake. It begins with the monad, or God, from whom a series of aons emanate, creating a hierarchy of divine beings. The story takes a dark turn when Sophia, an aon representing wisdom, fails to create successfully and gives birth to Yaldabaoth, a monstrous being. Yaldabaoth, in his ignorance, believes himself to be the sole deity and creates a flawed material universe. The paragraph also introduces the concept of the pleroma, the divine fullness, and the kenoma, the realm of chaos outside of it. The narrative continues with Yaldabaoth's attempts to trap the divine spark within his creation, leading to the story of Adam and Eve, who through the intervention of Sophia, gain knowledge of Yaldabaoth's true nature.

05:00

🌪️ The Fall and Redemption in Gnosticism

This paragraph continues the Gnostic narrative by exploring the consequences of Yaldabaoth's actions and the attempts at redemption. It discusses how Yaldabaoth's creations, including the archons and the Nephilim, bring chaos and suffering to the world. The paragraph introduces various characters such as Cain, Abel, and Noah, whose stories are reimagined through a Gnostic lens. It also touches upon the story of the Watchers, fallen angels who mate with human women, leading to further corruption. The narrative includes the intervention of the aons, who send four angels—Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, and Alith—to combat the forces of Yaldabaoth. The paragraph concludes with the flood, which Yaldabaoth uses to punish humanity, and the escape of Noria, an aspect of Sophia, who returns to the pleroma, signifying the possibility of spiritual ascent and knowledge (gnosis).

10:00

🔮 The Divine Game of Yaldabaoth

The final paragraph focuses on Yaldabaoth's continued manipulation of human history according to Gnostic beliefs. It describes how, after the flood, Yaldabaoth interacts with key figures such as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, often using them to further his own ends. The paragraph also recounts the story of Joseph in Egypt, where Yaldabaoth uses dreams and visions to manipulate events. The narrative suggests a cosmic game where Yaldabaoth seeks to maintain control over humanity, while the forces of the pleroma work to awaken humans to the truth and offer them salvation. The paragraph ends with a cliffhanger, promising further exploration of Yaldabaoth's adventures with Moses in the subsequent part of the story.

Keywords

💡Gnosticism

Gnosticism refers to a collection of ancient religious ideas and systems that emphasize personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) as the means to salvation. In the video, Gnosticism is central to the narrative, providing a unique perspective on the creation of the world and the nature of the divine. The script uses Gnostic concepts to explain the emanation of aons, the fall of Sophia, and the struggle between the material world and the divine realm.

💡Monad

In Gnostic cosmology, the Monad is the first principle, representing the one true God. The video script describes the Monad as the source from which all other divine entities, or aons, emanate. This concept is foundational to understanding the Gnostic creation story, where the Monad is the origin of the divine ploma and the ultimate goal for spiritual beings to return to.

💡Aons

Aons are divine emanations or beings that flow from the Monad in Gnostic thought. The script mentions aons as part of the divine hierarchy, with each pair of aons representing a lower level of power and knowledge. The aons play a significant role in the video's story, especially in the emanation process and their interactions with the material world created by Yal Deo.

💡Sophia

Sophia, meaning 'wisdom' in Greek, is an aon in Gnostic belief who represents wisdom. In the video, Sophia's mistake leads to the creation of the monstrous Yal Deo, setting off a chain of events that result in the material world's formation. Sophia's actions and her eventual repentance are pivotal to the narrative, illustrating the Gnostic theme of the divine's interaction with the lower realms.

💡Yal Deo

Yal Deo, also known as the Demiurge, is a figure in Gnostic mythos who creates the material world and is often depicted as a false god. The video script describes Yal Deo as the result of Sophia's failed emanation, who then creates a flawed material universe. Yal Deo's character is central to the video's exploration of the Gnostic view of the world as a place of spiritual imprisonment.

💡Pleroma

The Pleroma, in Gnostic belief, is the fullness of divine beings or the totality of the divine aons. In the video, the Pleroma is contrasted with the chaos outside of it, representing the perfect and infinite divine realm. The Pleroma is a key concept in understanding the Gnostic cosmology and the video's portrayal of the divine's struggle against the forces of chaos and the material world.

💡Kenoma

Kenoma refers to the void or emptiness outside of the Pleroma in Gnostic cosmology. The video script uses the term to describe the chaotic realm that exists beyond the divine order of the Pleroma. The Kenoma is where Yal Deo is cast after his creation, and it serves as a backdrop for the video's exploration of the battle between order and chaos.

💡Archons

Archons are lesser divine beings or powers in Gnostic thought, often depicted as rulers of the material world. In the video, Archons are the children of Yal Deo, who assist him in maintaining control over the material world. The script uses the Archons to illustrate the Gnostic concept of the material world as a place of spiritual deception and bondage.

💡Divine Spark

The Divine Spark is a concept in Gnosticism that refers to a piece of the divine that is trapped within the material world. In the video, the Divine Spark is present within the primordial human, Adam Kadmon, and is the source of humanity's potential for spiritual awakening. The Divine Spark is a central theme in the video's narrative, symbolizing the divine potential within all humans.

💡Nosis

Nosis, in Gnostic belief, refers to a form of spiritual knowledge or insight that allows one to understand the true nature of reality and the divine. In the video, Noria attains nosis, which enables her to escape the material world and return to the Pleroma. Nosis is a key concept in the video's message about the possibility of spiritual liberation from the material world's constraints.

💡Cain and Abel

Cain and Abel are figures from the biblical narrative, mentioned in the video as part of the story of the early generations of humanity. In the Gnostic interpretation presented in the video, Cain and Abel's story is recontextualized to illustrate the struggle between the material world's values and the divine order. Their story serves as an example of the moral and spiritual dilemmas faced by humans in the video's Gnostic universe.

Highlights

The world is viewed as a chaotic place, prompting a discussion on the origins of this chaos from a Gnostic perspective.

Early Christians had a story explaining the world's chaos, which was lost until discovered in a garbage dump.

The Gnostic creation story begins with God the Monad, from whom other entities called Aons emanated.

Sophia, an Aon, makes a mistake by attempting to emanate a child without a partner, resulting in the monstrous Yaldabaoth.

Yaldabaoth, in its ignorance, creates a flawed material universe and declares itself the only God.

Sophia's actions lead to a conflict with Yaldabaoth, who traps her within the material universe.

The Christ Aon sends part of itself to help Sophia and the trapped divine energy in the material world.

Yaldabaoth creates Adam and Eve, imprisoning them in a garden to keep the divine spark from escaping.

Adam and Eve's consumption of the fruit of knowledge allows them to recognize Yaldabaoth as evil and their imprisonment.

Eve's defiance against Yaldabaoth leads to her attempted escape and subsequent rape by archons.

Yaldabaoth's wrathful response to human disobedience includes curses and expulsion from the garden.

The story speculates on the role of the Watchers and the Nephilim in causing chaos and war among humans.

Four angels, including Michael and Gabriel, are sent to Earth to combat the archons and Nephilim.

Noah's ark is part of Yaldabaoth's plan to survive the great flood, which he intends to use to destroy humanity.

Noria, an aspect of Sophia, attains gnosis and escapes the material world with the help of the angel Alith.

The story concludes with a standstill between Yaldabaoth and the Pleroma, as both sides seek to free or trap divine souls.

The descendants of Noah attempt to build a tower to reach Yaldabaoth, leading to the confusion of languages and the scattering of nations.

The narrative includes the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Joseph, with Yaldabaoth manipulating events for his amusement.

The story of Joseph in Egypt is part of Yaldabaoth's larger plan, setting the stage for future events.

Transcripts

hi have you ever thought that the world

is a pretty messed up place I mean did

you hear about the most recent insert

political economic social or

environmental disaster here well an

early group of Christians had a story to

tell of how it got that way but then the

early church burned all of their stuff

because they didn't like it and their

story was lost until a whole bunch of

their stuff was found in a garbage dump

these group of Christians were anything

but consistent but a little bit of

speculation we can finally tell their

story in the beginning there was only

God the one the father or the monad from

this monad several other entities called

aons emanated or flowed from the monad

from these various aons they emanated

further aons in pairs with each

generation of pairs getting

progressively lesser in power but this

is what it would look like from the

inside from the outside perspective all

of these aons would be one Collective

which we call the ploma everything

beyond the ploma is chaos or the kenoma

but everything went wrong one day when

one of the aons Sophia or the wisdom

makes a mistake for whatever reason

Sophia fails to successfully emanate her

own child either she doesn't have a

partner or tries to have a child without

her partner regardless of the reason

this attempted virgin birth ends with

the monster yal Deo Sophia tries to hide

this creation by throwing it into the

chloroma YOLO and finds itself alone in

the chaotic nothingness and seemingly

all powerful because of its nature being

born from the ploma and out of spite yel

de beo emanates its own children in an

attempt to create its own ploma but its

Creations are twisted and broken broken

the most important of its children being

sabba o and the various evil angels

called the archons unlike the ploma

which is infinite and perfect this false

Poma of yal Deo was bound by his

arbitrary rules yal Deo creates a

shadowy veil and from it explodes the

concepts like matter space time Etc

creating the material Universe content

with its creation yal Deo declares

itself to be the one and only God Sophia

hears this and tells it that it's not

the only God and gives it the title of

samel God of the blind or saklas the

fool yo is angered by this and attacks

the ploma the archons take some of the

Divine energy from the ploma how they do

so is inconsistent among the various

Gnostic myths with all this Divine

energy yal Deo and archons Tra this

energy in the false ploma of the

material

Universe realizing that yal de beo is a

monster and Must Be Stopped Sophia

repents for what she did and leaves the

ploma to try and talk some sense into

her creation Beal the be has serious mom

issues and trap Sophia or parts of

Sophia or Sophia goes well ly or Sophia

tricks y de beo into breathing his

divinity into the world to be honest the

gnostics never really agreed on this

part of the story but somehow Sophia

enters the physical world as well within

the ploma the Christ another Aon decides

to help Sophia as well as many of yal

deth's Creations as possible and sends a

part of himself into the material

universe and thus Begins the Wacky

Adventures of yal Deo trying to keep the

Divinity trapped in the material

Universe within the universe yal Deo is

created he gaws at his newest creation

the primordial human Adam cadmon who has

a Divine spark within it this primordial

human being having a Divine spark wants

to emanate its own creation like Sophia

and yal Deo before it but yal Deo won't

let it and splits it into two parts the

male Adam and the female Eve rather than

torture them yalo decides to give these

two a prison so nice that they'll never

want to leave for as long as the two of

them live in ignorance the Divine spark

within them will never escape the

material world but there's just one

problem a tree sprouts from the ground

and in this tree it contains the fruits

of the knowledge of Good and Evil which

is planted by the ploma if Adam and Eve

eat from this tree they'll know that yal

Deo is evil so yal Deo tells them not to

eat from this tree or they'll die at

first Adam and Eve listen to yalo but

one day the spirit of Sophia speaks to

Eve through a snake in the garden and

tells her that yalo is lying and if she

eats the fruit she and Adam won't die

but will instead know that yalo is evil

Eve eats the fruit and then has Adam eat

the fruit and just as the snake told

them Adam and Eve don't die but instead

receive knowledge the two of them now

know that yalo is evil and that their

Garden is a prison and that they're

naked the two hide but yalo comes

looking for them because yal Deo is not

all knowing and all powerful he calls

out to Adam asking where he is Adam

immediately confesses to eating the

fruit and blames Eve throwing her under

the bus Eve then tries to escape out of

the material universe and back to the

ploma

but yalo has his archon stopper Eve is

then raped by the archons for insolence

yal Deo curses women for all time to be

subservient to men and kicks the two of

them out of the garden it is then

revealed that Eve was impregnated by one

of the archons and gives birth to her

son Cain later she and Adam have a son

named Abel knowing that if they defy yal

de beo bad things will happen to them

the family of Adam decid to play along

with yal deo's God complex and worship

him in order to try and appease yal Deo

the family plates him by offering

sacrifices this pleases yal to beo for

now and Cain and Abel are able to grow

up into adulthood Cain becomes a farmer

of Wheat and Abel raises livestock one

day when Cain and Abel present their

offerings to yalo yalo blesses Abel

sacrifice but not Cain's Cain is

naturally upset by this and yal Deo

explains that Cain offered plants to be

burned as a sacrifice whereas Abel

offered a goat to yal Deo wheat isn't a

proper sacrifice because it doesn't

suffer before dying this gives Cain an

idea and he murders brother yala finds

this event hilarious and gives Cain a

special Mark that will curse anyone who

tries to attack him Adam and Eve are

appalled by this and kick Cain out of

their family so Adam and Eve try again

to multiply and have two children this

time a son named Seth and a daughter

named noria the gnostics were horribly

inconsistent about Nora's character from

this point on in the story in most

versions she populates the Earth with

Seth but in a lot of nostic text it

implies or outright states that she

remains a virgin and goes off and does

her own thing either way at some point

she learns that she is an aspect of

Sophia and therefore greater than yal de

beo and disappears from the story of

Genesis until the flood regardless the

line of Seth populates the Earth with

humanity and it's here where we have to

speculate a lot because a lot of Gnostic

texts reference the events of the Book

of Enoch and the sons of God from

Genesis but to our current understanding

there is no surviving direct Gnostic

interpretations from the time of Enoch

beyond the general events of the

Watchers and the flood but that doesn't

mean we can't connect the dots and try

and make it work also it's funnier that

way so the line of have done a good job

populating and peace Reigns on the

planet beo isn't pleased by this and

sends a group of his archons called the

Watchers to Earth to cause Mischief

while on Earth the archons get really

horny and decide to mate with human

women y Deo allows this because he finds

it hilarious and it works so well with

Kan the last time the offspring of this

Union are the Nephilim who are Giants at

first the Nephilim eat all of the

livestock of humanity and then they

start eating people meanwhile the

archons decide to spread chaos into

human civilization and teach humans

Concepts like magic weapons and greed

this basically leads into an allout War

as humans begin killing each other in

Mass yal de beo gets a good chuckle at

this meanwhile four lesser aons or

possibly archons who switch sides the

gnostics were incredibly inconsistent

with their angelology anyway these four

Angels ask Christ if they can go help

Humanity Christ gives these four Angels

a rescue mission these four angels are

Michael Gabriel Raphael and in the

original Enoch the fourth is Uriel but

in the Gnostic text this role seems to

go to an angel called alith the the Four

Angels then go to Earth to kick butt

Raphael and Michael take on the Watchers

Gabriel fights the Nephilim and alith

stays on standby because noria is hiding

somewhere and he helps her later as the

archons and the Nephilim are getting

destroyed by the Angels yalo rage quits

and decides to destroy everyone in a

great flood but not wanting to give up

on his play things yalo beo finds one of

the few people on Earth who hasn't been

affected by This calamity named Noah and

commands him to build an ark for him and

his family and to put two of each animal

on the ark so that they can repopulate

the Earth as he's building the ark Noah

is approached by noria who has learned

that yala beo plans to destroy

everything in a flood and asks to board

Noah's ark Noah tells her no so noria

breathes fire and destroys the ark this

alerts yal de beo to her presence and he

sends more of his archons to try and

stop her the archons threaten to do to

her what they did to Eve but noria uses

her fire breath to fight back noria is

then joined by alith and the two of them

scare the archons away then alith

carries noria out of the earth back to

the ploma well on the way alith explains

to noria the entire cosmology of the

Universe from the fall of Sophia to

their predicament right now the reason

noria is able to leave Earth with alith

is because she has attained nosis

meaning that she can now Ascend to The

ploma Once alith and noria return to the

ploma noria becomes one with it and

reassumes her role as an aspect of

Sophia one of yalo archons sabba O sees

this and realizes that yal Deo has been

lying about being the only God this all

time so he repents and apologizes nor i/

Sophia forgive him and Saba o is given

the Throne of the seventh heaven to rule

over meanwhile back on Earth the

Watchers are bound and thrown to a pit

and the Nephilim are dead but because

the Nephilim are half Divine their

spirits still exist as demons who wander

the Earth Noah finishes rebuilding the

ark and yel de beo in a seething rage

floods the Earth killing everyone else

the Earth then floods for 40 days and 40

nights and Noah and those aboard the ark

survive ending up on top of a mountain

Yan basically calls for what I could

best call a peace treaty between it in

the pooma yal Deo won't flood the Earth

again as long as the pooma doesn't

invade again with this promise or

Covenant y Deo and the Poma are stuck at

a standstill yo still has billions of

souls worth of Divine Essence trapped in

ignorance these Souls need to have a

mind to understand that they're trapped

meaning the souls must be in a human

body before they can achieve nosis and

Escape like noria did be Al Deo also

needs these souls to have a body so it

has something to mess with if the Poma

simply sends an army to attack y to beo

well then he'll kill everyone leaving

these Souls trapped in the of matter

unable to escape but yth won't have

anything to mess with so both sides will

lose with this plan of mutually assured

destruction yalo simply waits as Noah

and his family repopulate the Earth so

at this point the descendants of Noah

were completely loyal to yal Deo and

repopulate the Earth living in total

servitude to him no just kidding they

immediately try to build a tower to try

and kill him yalo gets mad at this and

curses them confusing their language and

then destroys their towers scattering

them to the world from here the people

split into various Nations but yalo gets

bored simply watching and decides to

once again mess with Humanity so yal

deth goes to a guy named Abram later

renamed to Abraham and tells him to go

to Canaan because Abraham is going to be

the progenitor of yal deo's chosen

people but VAR Shenanigans take place

with Abraham's slave and her pregnancy

and Abraham's family drama is boring

seal Deo decides to let out some of his

blood lust while waiting for that drama

to subside and what better target for

his wrath than the city of Sodom the

problem is that Abraham's nephew lot

lives in

Sodom so Abraham pleads with the Alta

beo to spare the city Abraham proposes

that if there are 50 good people in the

city that it should be spared yal beo

agrees to this proposal and then Abraham

proceeds to haggle with yal de beo the

number down from 50 to 10 yo sends two

of his archons to go get lot and judge

the city while there a gang of thugs try

to R the archons and the archons blind

them ELO then destroys the city he also

kills Lot's wife by turning into her

pillar of salt for disobeying him after

Abraham's family drama was over he and

his wife have a son named Isaac Isaac

becomes Abraham's greatest joy in life

so much so that yal deth gets jealous

and tells Abraham to sacrifice his son

as a test of loyalty Abraham has no

choice and agrees he takes his son to

the top of a mountain and just as he's

about to stab his son to death an archon

appears before him telling him that he's

passed yal deth's test for doing this

yalo gives Abraham a blessing promising

that one day his descendants will rule

the world Isaac grows up and has two son

sons of his own Jacob and Esau Isaac

decides to transfer the blessing of yalo

to Esau but is tricked by Jacob into

giving it to him instead yalo finds this

act of deception interesting and allows

Jacob to carry on this blessing but

first yalo sends an archon to fight

Jacob to prove his worth Jacob wins and

is given the name Israel Israel would

have several Sons but his favorite was

Joseph yalo hatches a scheme that he

wants to pull off in Egypt so it gives

Joseph A Dream in which Joseph rules

over his brothers Joseph tells his

brothers and of course they're angry at

him and sell him into slavers heading

for Egypt while in Egypt Joseph gets #

Meed and thrown in prison while there he

gets the power to interpret dreams and

interprets the dream of other prisoners

the Pharaoh is given a strange dream by

yto beo and has Joseph interpret it for

him there is going to be seven years of

good times and seven years of famine

that will soon follow Joseph is then put

in charge of preparing Egypt for this

famine as predicted the famine is

horrible but Egypt is fine Israel sends

his sons to EGP eypt for food and after

various Shenanigans Joseph forgives his

family and Israel and all of his family

are then invited to stay in Egypt and

from there the sons of Israel would be

fruitful and spread all throughout the

land of Egypt and they all lived happily

ever after that is of course until yalo

put his plan for Egypt into action tune

in next time for the Wacky Adventures of

yalo and Moses