Aubrey Marcus

out there i mean and not that there haven't been horrors done by people who maybe ascribe themselves to those religions but it's it's interesting to see like what happens when there's enough there's enough kind of soil and enough seeds of of some deviation that can lead to a fundamentalism that is really like choking choking the voice of the people

Yeah, I think that's an important distinction about leaving the space for the mystery.

And I'd promised I was going to share with you this Gnostic idea of Abraxas.

I want to share this with you here.

This is Jung's description from his Seven Sermons to the Dead.

And he's talking about Abraxas, which was originally a Gnostic idea.

Abraxas is the god whom it is difficult to know.

His power is greatest, because man perceiveth it not.

From the sun he draweth the summum bonum, from the devil the infumum malum.

But from Abraxas life altogether, which is beyond measure and reckoning.

Abraxas is the sun and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of the void, the belittling and dismembering devil.

The power of Abraxas is twofold, but ye see it not, because in your eyes the warring opposites of this power are cancelled out.

What the sun god speaketh is life, what the devil speaketh is death.

But Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed word which is life and death at the same time.

Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness, in the same word and in the same act.

Wherefore is Abraxas terrible?

It is splendid as the lion in the instant he striketh down his victim.

It is beautiful as a day of spring.

It is the beloved and the lover.

It is the terrible and the dark and the cruel.