Gnostics ≠ Manichean

In Two Gods?, the newly married Jordan Stratford+ debunks the oft-repeated nonsense that Gnostics believe in the Manichean notion that there are two gods, one good, one evil, locked in endless battle.

Along the way, he name-checks Blake, Yeats, the Rastafari and the Wachowskis and posts a great chart diagramming different conceptions of the Divine.

Rejection of such a system does not make us dualists, or polytheists. Recognizing that we, as daughters and sons of God, can and should do better is not “world-hating”. We as Gnostics sound the clarion call to accept our responsibility for ignorance and deception, and to awaken to gnosis: not to do battle with some malevolent third-party entity and settle this once and for all in an Armageddon-style smackdown, but to champion the compassion that is the antidote to Archonic force. To make art and poetry and music, to take a lover, raise a child, extend caritas that is just as visible, just as real a ripple in the pool of God.

Jordan at his brilliant, scintillating best.

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