The world is not a reflection of the inner self of men. Man is but a plaything, a silly or tragic puppet, automatons made on a daily basis by the Demiurgos' actvity !
Man has no power here nor elsewhere and what is hidden in this sphere of being shall become the outward clothing of his or her life to be, in the next. How can creatures who cannot know themselves create anything let alone think anything. Everything that they do or feel has been felt or thought for them before hand !...by something other then what they appear to be.
Only the liberated initiate can will anything and would he really will anything at all if admittedly he were truly a "free being"?
...and yet I believe that no one can be liberated, can a man escape his own shadow? And if so, then where is he ?...and what has he become? Apparently when he is freed he cannot be what he was, nor could he be conceived even remotely for what he had been.
Supposedly, the Gnostics (which ones?) believed that there were three sorts of human incarnation:
the carnal
the psychic
the pneumatic.
I believe that there are only 2 kinds:
the Noble Immortal
and the Dead Living Ignominous One.
Two Gods create Two Different Worlds:
The True God can only create what is like
Himself, because He is Aristocratic in nature
but the other one, the Bad and Evil Deity can only
create animal men and they are deservedly made
each and every day in his evil image and are but the
exterior "figure" or shadow of this Bad God, belonging necessarily to the Bad god's evil
body of knowing.
If you were happy to be here and felt you belonged then you belong in body and soul to this
very evil divinity !
But if in your heart since the beginning of your terrestrial journey you've always felt
that there was something amiss and that some how the others you saw around you got it all
wrong, then more than likely you are an Immortal Noble and you come from the Good and
True God who gave you the ability to know your Eternity and to strive toward your
Inner Being !
We fight the Battle of the Gods like silly Punch and Judies. Why ?
It is better to know "thyself" and to know your Lord and to belong to yourself as you belong
to your God.
If we dont belong and are not of the stuff of this Bad and Evil TETRAGRAMMATON,
then why let him dictate our will.