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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Bob Lao-Tse who wrote (39152)6/5/1999 12:05:00 PM
From: jbe  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Don't know about Satanists, Bob, but the Gnostics definitely maintained that the Creator God was a Demon.

This demon did not "usurp" the rightful place of the True God; he was merely an emanation of Him, or rather, of It. The Divine Source does NOT create -- it emanates, somehow; and the further away from the Divine Source an emanation is, the more inferior it is. Eventually it crystallizes into matter, which is at the farthest pole from spirit, and hence is evil.

Humans (or at least the gnostics among them) contain a "divine spark" somewhere in their souls, and their task is to use it to find their way back to the Divine Source, despite the traps laid for them by the wicked Creator God and his various henchmen.

Joan
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