Divine Self: The Gnosis Of The Theory, History And Nature,

1 .What is Occultism (mysticism)?Every religion or theology would give an interpretation on at least two levels, god and man. Occultism thus includes two elements: first, God should be interpreted as an source with absolute transcendence, that is what the Negative Theology wants to say; the second, man should be interpreted as the divine self. The Negative Theology and the divine self thus make the two most basic elements of Occultism.2.What is Gnosticism?Gnosticism is first the reasonable exegesis of Genesis. It gives a three-god exegetical system (God, Sophia, Demiurge) by interpreting the creator in Genesis a second god. However, what this reasonable exegesis results in is Occultism. In this exegesis, God becomes an absolutely transcendent source while man becomes the divine self. Gnosticism is the Occultism with a reasonable exegesis of Genesis.3.What is gnosis?Gnosis is this divine self.To the divine self, two points are important: one is the inner-wrap of the divine element, the other is the extra-merge of the divine element. Although Gnosticism and Christianity are all doctrine of spirit (pneuma), but the spirit (pneuma) of Christianity is simple divinity in its monotheistic Trinity, while the spirit (pneuma) of Gnosticism becomes the divine self in its three-god system. The divine self is the real essence of gnosis. It is the common foundation of the chiliastic tradition, of the astrological, alchemical and magical tradition which was restored and renovated during the Renaissance, and of modern atheism.4. Why does Christianity condemn the divine self (gnosis)?The divine self contains the seeds which can destroy the Christian system. The inner-wrap divine self will lead to solipsism. And the ending of solipsism is the collapse or transformation of itself. Since the divinization of man is at the same time the humanization of God. The inescapable fate of the extra-merge divine self is atheism. While the divinization of man is coming to its end, man feels the dying of God (Meister Eckhart, Hegel and Nietzsche). The history of Christian heresy is basically the history of the divine self.The Negative Theology results in pantheism and the divine self result in atheism. Pantheism and atheism are the two respects of the same thing just as the Negative Theology and the divine self are the two respects of the same thing. This is the their inner connection and why Christianity will condemn Occultism and Gnostisim.