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Reforming the Demiurge

Gnostic Insights·Mar 7, 2026·21:06

About this Episode

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack.

First I have to tell you, what was lost has been found. I went back to White City VA yesterday and had an acupuncture treatment. And on my way out of the building, I saw a maintenance man, a custodian at his cart with his broom. I thought to myself, well, if anybody should be able to find something, it would be this guy. I told him I lost a book two weeks ago, somewhere between 201 and 209 in a lady’s room on a windowsill.

And he says, “Well, what was the name of the book?” And I said, “Culpability.” And indeed, the recognition went across his face. He said, “I have seen that book. I have dusted that book every day for two weeks.” And I said, “Why didn’t you turn it into lost and found?” He goes, “Well, it’s not my book. It belongs to somebody. So I just left it there.”

So then we had to look for the restroom that he had found it in, because he cleans a lot of ladies rooms in that big span of buildings. I told him it was on the second floor, that it was somewhere between 201 and on my way to the chiropractor in building 209. And so we went upstairs together and he took me right to the bathroom. And there was the book where I had laid it down.

I was absolutely overjoyed. I thanked him profusely for his assistance. And I asked him if I could give him a hug. And he said, yeah, sure. So I gave him a big hug and it was wonderful. It was just wonderful. We went back downstairs together. I proceeded out the door and he proceeded with his cart down the hall. I was ecstatic. I should mention that his name was Lester. That way we can all give a blessing for Lester. Thank you, Lester!

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Now, the past couple of weeks, we’ve talked about this Gnostic Reformation here at Gnostic Insights. My Gnosticism that I’m sharing with you is not different than classical Gnosticism, but it is a further refinement. It’s a proceeding onward. We don’t go back into history. We go forward into the future.

Today, we’re going to talk about the Demiurge and how this view of the Demiurge that I have is slightly different than the view that a lot of people have. See, most people think of the Demiurge as malicious, as an evil being. And when I first was studying Gnosticism, I was pretty much along those lines as well. I thought that the Demiurge was a very bad guy. But over the past few years, I’ve come to see that the Demiurge isn’t a bad guy. That he’s doing his best. He is the, as I like to say, he is the god of this world. So he’s done a pretty darn good job. He’s done better than you and I could do building a world.

But how did he do that? Why is he thought to be malicious? I mean, I often speak of him—and again, I say him, but it’s really an it. Because first off, let’s remember, the Demiurge is not a stand-alone entity. The Demiurge is the separated ego or identity—the presenting face of the Aeon known as Logos, the Aeon who fell. And when Logos fell because he overreached, his ego overreached and thought it could become plugged back into the Father the way the Son is plugged into the Father. Logos mistook himself for the Son, you could say. You could also say he mistook himself for the Fullness.

Because there he is sitting right there at the very tippy top of the hierarchy of the Fullness of God–the very top. He was the final Aeon to be produced by the commingling of all of the Aeons giving glory to the Father and the Son.

The pyramid atop the Fullness — Logos mistakes himself for the Fullness.

So Logos was sitting way up there at the tippy top. He didn’t have any neighbors to his left and right because he was the capstone. He didn’t have anybody over above him other than the Father. And the rest of the Pleroma was down there beneath him because he’s sitting as a capstone on the hierarchy of the Fullness of God, which looks like a pyramid. So I think that Logos simply mistook himself for the Son or mistook that he could go ahead and plug in to the Father. He’s right there. He’s so close.

You know, we have echoes of that same Fall in the story of the Tower of Babel where the humans built this incredibly tall tower reaching to the heavens, reaching to God. And God, [and in this case it was probably Jehovah, probably the Demiurge because we’re downstream here in the cosmos], thought that was not a good idea. And so he cast them into confusion by a proliferation of languages that they couldn’t understand each other and they stopped building and the tower fell.

Italian humanist manuscript late 15th century

It’s also the story of Icarus where he made wings and he flew too close to the sun, S-U-N in that case. And when he flew too close to the sun, it melted the wax that was holding his wings together and Icarus fell. These are other examples of falling.

18th century engraving by Bernard Picart

So in this case with Logos, Logos wanted to go up to the Father with his Pleroma, which was perfect because the Pleroma of Logos is a fractal of the Fullness of God. It’s a fractal copy of the entire hierarchy. Logos had within its Pleroma a fractal, one level down, of all of the other Aeons. He had a full and complete Pleroma. He had the entire plans. He knew everything to put together paradise, to put together the cosmos.

But that wasn’t his job and so he overreached. His ego got out of control and it was his ego that impelled him to overreach, which caused the Fall. The Father couldn’t allow Logos to plug back into him because, well, that space is taken by the Son. But not only that, the Father is too immense, is too illimitable, is too powerful for a lowly Aeon to be able to plug directly in. No one can control that much power. No one can hold that much energy except the Son. So Logos was repelled by the Father to save him from becoming cinders in the light of his immensity.

And he fell and he broke apart down here outside of the Pleroma of the Fullness. And it was his broken bits that became the quantum foam of this cosmos. Logos couldn’t get it back together. He couldn’t stuff it all back in. He couldn’t contain the chaos that erupted from him once his ego took over.

Logos stumbles and Falls while reaching for Glory.

And I hope, as I talk about the Demiurge, that you can hear the parallels to our egos when our own egos get out of control. That’s when all hell breaks loose.

The Aeons were designed to stay in the glory beam of the Father and the Son. They each had their position, place, duty, name in the hierarchy. And Logos overreached his position, place, duty, name. His ego took over. That’s why he fell. And then it was nothing but ego down here. The best part of Logos, it says in the Tripartite Tractate, was horrified. And it abandoned the chaos below and returned to the Aeons in the Fullness. But he was broken. He left half of himself behind.

So let’s look at this Demiurge that was left behind. The Demiurge is not a character that stands alone. The Demiurge is the shadow of the Fallen Aeon. The Demiurge is the shadow of Logos. Because when his ego took over and separated, all that was left was the shadows. So the Pleroma of the Demiurge is a shadow of the Pleroma of Logos.

We know that the Pleroma of Logos is a fractal level down from the hierarchy of the Fullness. What does it mean to be the shadow of that Pleroma? That’s what makes up the body and energy of the Demiurge. So there’s two questions that Gnostics have often wrestled with over the years, particularly the Sethians and then the Platonists in the Greek strain of thought. And these were the questions. How can the Demiurge be ignorant without being evil? And how can the cosmos be orderly yet spiritually deficient?

This is answered by thinking of the Demiurge as the shadow of the Fallen Aeon. This means that the Demiurge is not malicious; he’s not autonomous either. He is not the source of being. The Demiurge is a distorted reflection of the higher principle that was Logos. When we think of the Demiurge this way, we can preserve the goodness of the Father and the integrity of the Son and the cooperative nature of the Aeons. Evil didn’t fall from the Father. Evil is nothing but another word for chaos and shadow—lack of goodness.

So falling out of the pleroma of the hierarchy of the Fullness created our material cosmos as a shadow place. There is a cosmic deficiency hard-baked into this material universe. And that is, by definition, separation from the Father and the hierarchy of the Fullness of God. Ignorance is a shadow. It’s not a substance. It’s a lack. Again, ignorance is part of the shadow. It’s the ignorance of not knowing God. It’s the ignorance of not remembering where you came from.

My Gnostic insight is that the role of the Demiurge is to bring order to chaos, bring order to the quantum foam that was bubbling in and out in and out of existence down here. This is a way different place than the ethereal space. And in order to impose control upon the quantum foam, the Demiurge imposes strict physical laws like a puppet master. He controls physics through laws of physics. Strictly, there can be no deviation or there would be no material universe. That’s a principle that comes right out of physics.

The laws of our universe are strictly precise and any deviation causes catastrophic failure. So it was necessary for the Demiurge to impose strict physical laws on both physics and then higher up on the chemistry of how things go together. Bonds, chemical bonds.

The Demiurge controls through strings of power.

And the Demiurge knows how to do this because it is the shadow of all of that fractal knowledge of Logos. So it has the pattern, but it’s a dead pattern. It’s like he has the blueprints but he doesn’t have the life. He has a little small shadowy model of the way things ought to be. So he knows how things go. He creates structure, but doesn’t understand the meaning or the wisdom behind it.

Now, after we second order powers came to Earth to try to remind the Demiurge of love and the Father and the Son and the Fullness above and his better half Logos up there with the Aeons begging for him to come home, praying for him to come home, we second order powers were sent down to try to bring that remembrance to the Demiurge. But we have failed because we get caught up in this never-ending war down here.

And you know, it’s not just a never-ending war against the other political party. It’s not just a never-ending war against other people that frustrate our desires. It’s a never-ending war between entropy and creation. It’s a never-ending war between life and death, between material and ethereal. We get lost in the battle and we forget to stand within that beam of glory that comes directly down on us from the hierarchy above.

So the Demiurge tries to also impose laws and strict order upon us second order creatures, thinking that we are just wayward molecules because it doesn’t remember where we came from. It doesn’t remember where it came from. The Demiurge does not understand free will. Free will is not allowed in the Demiurgic universe because if the Demiurge allowed any free will in the material, things would fly apart. Things would not hold. So the Demiurge is trying to impose order upon us second order creatures and we are very unruly because of the free will that we inherited from the Aeonic realm and we just do not obey. That’s why the laws in the Old Testament and the Quran are so strict. There’s no deviation allowed because the Demiurge is trying its best to impose order upon us, thinking of us as simply disobedient pieces of material.

So in this Gnosticism that I am sharing with you, the Demiurge is cut off from the first principle of knowledge, wisdom, love, consciousness, life. And it’s down here all on its own in this dark and dreary place. The Demiurge is competent. He created this world that we live in. He created the stars in the heavens. He’s doing his best. He’s earnest, but he is spiritually amnesiac which limits his power and understanding. He’s not just a tyrant.

In the Gnosticism that I’m sharing with you, the goal has always been to restore the Demiurge back to the Pleroma and slap it back onto Logos, restoring his ego and making Logos whole. Because until the Demiurge returns to the hierarchy of God, there is an Aeon in that hierarchy who is not whole. And that diminishes the Fullness of God. We are actually joining in with the prayer of the Aeons to restore the Demiurge back to the Fullness, to restore the Demiurge back to Logos, which will then restore Logos, which then restores the Aeons of the Fullness.

The Demiurge cannot bring life and consciousness to the mud.

So we don’t discard the Demiurge but seek to heal the Demiurge. We are not merely trying to escape this material cosmos but we are part of the plan of redemption for the cosmos. The Aeons are not isolated from this universe but they become reconciled with the universe when the Demiurge is restored to Logos.

And as I was telling you for the last couple of weeks, humanity isn’t divided into those who are elect and therefore saved and those who are not elect in any of the religions that want to say that only their believers are the elect. Everyone is restored when the Demiurge is restored. And when everyone is restored, then the Demiurge is restored. Now we can’t be restored—we second-order powers already fell when our ego is in control and it is usually in control down here. It’s all a fractal system. It’s all resonating downward. So we resemble the Demiurge when our big S Self is not in control, our Self being a fractal representation of the pleroma of Logos. We failed in that and that is the purpose of the third order of powers which is Christ because we can’t do it on our own. We’ve tried. We’ve tried for millennia. We can’t seem to climb out of that egoic trap that we find ourselves in and therefore the Christ came to redeem us and to redeem the Demiurge.

The Christ is a later solution to the Fall. Second-order power was not enough. Send in the third-order powers and the Christ does have all the power necessary. The Christ has all the mojo of the ethereal plane. Nothing’s missing and it has the full blessing of the Father. We are all elect within the pleroma of Christ. So Christ is the restorative agent to the Demiurge, to us, to all of creation. Christ is the harmonizer. Christ is the healer of the Fallen Aeon and the revealer of the Father and the awakener of the Demiurge and the teacher of humanity.

Christ didn’t create the cosmos. Christ restores the cosmos. Christ does not impose law. Christ said he came to replace the law. He takes the law away from the hands of the Demiurge and instead rules through meaning and love. The Christ didn’t come to dominate the Demiurge, to kill the Demiurge. Christ came to enlighten the Demiurge.

I have come of late to feel more compassion for the Demiurge. The Demiurge is an innocent victim of the Fall. He’s a limited being that can only rule through strict control. He’s redeemable through the power of Christ, who restores the cosmos.

So let’s go through this again real quick. The Son is the primal image of the Father, the first expression of the Father, the first emanation of the Father. As soon as the Son was formed, his component parts were identified and those component parts—those are the Totalities, who then became Self-aware and now we call them the Aeons. They express the Fullness of divine life. See, the Son is one big entity, but the Aeons are all of the Son in smaller approachable forms. It’s like thinking of all of the humans on the planet as one giant mass and trying to relate to humanity as one thought, one thing. Well, that’s not true. We’re each individuals. We’re each a part of humanity and it’s that kind of relationship that the Aeons have to the Son.

You see, one Aeon falls and in this Gnosticism, we call that Aeon Logos and his shadow emerged, which is the Demiurge. The Demiurge orders chaos through strict laws, but lacks any spiritual memory and the Christ then, formed cooperatively by the Son, Logos and the Aeons, descends into our cosmic space to heal the Fallen Aeon, to enlighten the Demiurge, to awaken humanity and to restore cosmic harmony.

Here is a chart that very neatly displays today’s Gnostic Insights.

God bless us all and onward and upward.

THE FATHER

(Transcendent Source • Beyond Being • Silent Origin)

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Emanation flows downward (pure gift)

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THE SON

(First Emanation • Direct Image • Perfect Intelligible Form)

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Expression flows outward (intelligibility)

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LOGOS

(Articulate Intellect • Pattern of Order • Fractal Pleroma)

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Differentiation flows into multiplicity

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THE FULLNESS OF AEONS

(Harmonic Community • Modalities of Divine Life • Stable Radiance)

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(One aeon turns inward (self‑regarding Ego) Logos/Sophia)

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THE FALL SEPARATION FROM THE FATHER

AEONIC DEFICIENCY ARISES

(Ignorance • Misalignment • Loss of Orientation toward the Son)

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Shadow flows from the deficient Aeon Logos

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THE DEMIURGE – EGO PERSONIFIED

(Shadow‑Image • Earnest but Amnesiac • Competent yet Unillumined)

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Hidden influence flows from the LOGOS

(quiet guidance, unrecognized by the Demiurge, shaping his ordering activity)

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Ordering flows from Logos into the pre‑cosmic chaos/quantum foam

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COSMOS ORDERED BY THE DEMIURGE ALONE

(Physical Laws • Chemical Necessity • Biological Imperatives •

Governmental Structures • Order without Meaning)

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Human souls do NOT arise here. They descend from the Aeons above.

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DESCENT OF HUMAN SOULS FROM AEONS

(Soul-stream flows downward • Each soul carries a spark of the

aeonic harmony • Enters the cosmos under conditions of amnesia due to bonding with the Demiurgic material.)

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HUMANITY

(Divine Origin • Cosmic Conditioning • Spiritual Amnesia • Longing)

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Compassion flows from the higher Aeons

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CHRIST

(Restorative Agent • Cooperative Emanation of Son + Logos + Aeons •

Bridge Between Realms • Physician of Ignorance)

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Healing flows upward and downward

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CHRIST’S RESTORATIVE ACTIVITY

• Heals the fallen Aeon

• Illuminates the Demiurge (reveals the Logos behind his work)

• Reveals the Father to humanity

• Softens strict law with mercy and wisdom

• Restores harmony among the Aeons

• Awakens the soul’s memory of its aeonic origin

• Opens the path of universal return

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Reconciliation flows back toward the Source

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UNIVERSAL RESTORATION

(Demiurge Enlightened • Aeons Reharmonized • Humanity Awakened •

Cosmos Transfigured • All Return Through the Son to the Father)

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Transcript

Welcome to Gnostic Insights.

My name is Dr. Sid Rob and I'm your host.

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack.

Well, first I've got to tell you what was lost has been found.

I went back to White City VA yesterday and had an acupuncture treatment.

And on my way out of the building I saw a maintenance man, a custodian at his cart with his broom and I thought to myself,

well, if anybody should be able to find something, it would be this guy.

Now, I told him I lost a book two weeks ago, somewhere between 201 and 209 in a lady's room on a windowsill.

And he says, well, what was the name of the book? And I said culpability.

And indeed, the recognition went across his face.

He said, I have seen that book. I have dusted that book every day for two weeks.

And I said, well, you didn't turn it into lost and found.

He goes, well, it's not my book. It's some belongs to somebody. So I just left it there.

So then we had to look for the restroom that he had found it yet because he cleans a lot of ladies' rooms in that big span of buildings.

I told him it was on the second floor that it was somewhere between 201 and that it was on my way to the Kyberpractor on 209.

And so we went up the stairs together and he took me right to the bathroom.

And there was the book where I had laid it down. I was absolutely overjoyed.

I thanked him profusely for his assistance. And I asked him if I could give him a hug.

And he said, yeah, sure. So I gave him a big hug. And it was wonderful. It was just wonderful.

We went back downstairs together. I proceeded out the door and he proceeded with his cart down the hall.

I was ecstatic. I should mention that his name was Leicester.

That way we can all give a blessing for Leicester. Thank you, Leicester.

Now the past couple of weeks we've talked about this Gnostic Reformation here at Gnostic Insights.

My Gnosticism that I'm sharing with you is not different than classical Gnosticism, but it is a further refinement.

It's a proceeding onward. We don't go back into history. We go forward into the future.

Today we're going to talk about the Demi Urge and how this view of the Demi Urge that I have is slightly different than the view that a lot of people have.

See, most people think of the Demi Urge as malicious as an evil being.

And when I first was studying Gnosticism, I was pretty much along those lines as well.

I thought that the Demi Urge was a very bad guy.

But over the past few years, I've come to see that the Demi Urge isn't a bad guy that he's doing his best.

He is the, as I like to say, he is the god of this world, so he's done a pretty darn good job.

He's done better than you and I could do building a world.

But how did he do that? Why is he thought to be malicious?

I mean, I often speak of him. And again, this is a hymn, but it's really an it.

Because first off, let's remember the Demi Urge is not a single character.

The Demi Urge is the separated ego or identity presenting face of the eon known as logos, the eon who fell.

And when logos fell because he overreached his ego, overreached and thought it could become plugged back into the father, the way the sun is plugged into the father.

Logos mistook himself for the sun, you could say, because there he is sitting right there at the very tippy top of the hierarchy of the fullness of God.

He's sitting up there at the very top. He was the final eon to be produced by the co-mingling of all of the eons giving glory to the father and the sun.

So Logos was sitting way up there at the tippy top. He didn't have any neighbors to his left and right because he was the capstone.

He didn't have anybody over above him other than the father and the rest of the pluroma was down there beneath him because he's sitting as a capstone on the hierarchy of the fullness of God, which looks like a pyramid.

So I think that logo simply mistook himself for the sun or mistook himself that he could go ahead and put, he's right there.

He's so close. He wanted to plug right back into the father. You know, we have echoes of that same fall in the story of the Tower of Babel, where the humans built this incredibly tall tower, reaching to the heavens, reaching to God.

And God, in this case, it was probably Jehovah. It was probably the demi-erge because we're downstream here in the cosmos.

Thought that was not a good idea. And so he cast them into confusion by a proliferation of languages that they couldn't understand each other and they stopped building and the tower fell.

It's also the story of Icarus where he made wings and he flew too close. He wanted to plug back into the sun as you in that case.

And when he flew so close to the sun, it melted the wax that was holding his wings together. And Icarus fell.

These are other examples of falling. So in this case with logos, logos wanted to go up to the father with his pluroma, which was perfect because the pluroma of logos is a fractal of the fullness of God.

It's a fractal copy of the entire hierarchy. Locos had within its pluroma a fractal, one level down of all of the other eons. He had a full and complete pluroma.

He had the entire plans. He knew everything to put together paradise to put together the cosmos. But that wasn't his job.

And so he overreached his ego got out of control and it was his ego that impelled him to overreach which caused the fall.

The father couldn't allow logos to plug back into him because well that space is taken by the sun. But not only that, the father is too immense, is too illimitable, is too powerful for a lowly eon to be able to plug directly in.

No one can control that much power. No one can hold that much energy except the sun. So logos was repelled by the father to save him from becoming cinders in the light of his immensity.

And he fell and he broke a part down here outside of the pluroma of the fullness. And it was his broken bits that became the quantum foam of this cosmos.

Logos couldn't get it back together. He couldn't step it all back in. He couldn't contain the chaos that he repented from him once his ego took over.

And I hope as I talk about the demi-erge that you can hear the parallels to our egos when our own egos get out of control. That's when all hell breaks loose.

The eons were designed to stay in the glory beam of the father in the sun. They each had their position, place, duty, name in hierarchy.

And logos overreached his position, place, duty, name. His ego took over. That's why he fell. And then it was nothing but ego down here.

The best part of logos it says in the tripartite track date was horrified and it abandoned the chaos below and returned to the eons in the fullness.

But he was broken. He left half of himself behind. So let's look at this demi-erge that was left behind.

The demi-erge is not a character that stands alone. The demi-erge is the shadow of the fallen eon. The demi-erge is the shadow of logos.

Because when his ego took over and separated, all that was left was the shadows. So the pluroma of the demi-erge is a shadow of the pluroma of logo.

We know that the pluroma of logos is a fractal level down from the hierarchy of the fullness.

So what does it mean to be the shadow of that pluroma? That's what makes up the body and energy of the demi-erge.

So there's two questions that Nostics have often wrestled with over the years, particularly the sethians and then the platenists in the Greek strain of thought.

And these were the questions. How can the demi-erge be ignorant without being evil? And how can the cosmos be orderly yet spiritually deficient?

This is answered by thinking of the demi-erge as the shadow of the fallen eon. This means that the demi-erge is not malicious. He's not autonomous either.

He is not the source of being. The demi-erge is a distorted reflection of the higher principle that was logos.

When we think of the demi-erge this way, we can preserve the goodness of the father and the integrity of the son and the cooperative nature of the eons.

Evil didn't fall from the father. Evil is nothing but another word for chaos and shadow, lack of goodness. So falling out of the pluroma of the hierarchy of the fullness created our material cosmos as a shadow place.

There is a cosmic deficiency hard-baked into this material universe. And that is, by definition, separation from the father and the hierarchy of the fullness of God.

Ignorance is a shadow. It's not a substance. It's a lack. Again, ignorance is part of the shadow. It's the ignorance of not knowing God.

It's the ignorance of not remembering where you came from.

Minastic insight is that the role of the demi-erge is to order chaos, bring order to the quantum foam that was bubbling in and out of existence down here.

This is a way different place than the ethereal space. And in order to impose control upon the quantum foam, the demi-erge imposes strict physical laws like a puppet master.

He controls physics through laws of physics. Strictly, there can be no deviation or there would be no material universe.

That's a principle that comes right out of physics. The laws of our universe are strictly precise and any deviation causes catastrophic failure.

So it was necessary for the demi-erge to impose strict physical laws on both physics and then higher up on the chemistry of how things go together.

Bonds, chemical bonds. And the demi-erge knows how to do this because it is the shadow of all of that fractal knowledge of logos.

So it has the pattern, but it's a dead pattern. It's like he has the blueprints. He doesn't have the life.

He has a little small shadowy model of the way things ought to be so he knows how things go.

He creates structure but doesn't understand the meaning or the wisdom behind it.

Now after we second order powers came to earth to try to remind the demi-erge of love and the father and the son and the fullness above and his better half logos up there with the eons begging for him to come home praying for him to come home.

We second order powers were sent down to try to bring that remembrance to the demi-erge.

But we have failed because we get caught up in this never ending war down here.

And you know it's not just a never ending war against the other political party. It's not just a never-endering war against other people that frustrate our desires.

It's a never-ending war between entropy and creation. It's a never-ending war between life and death, between material and ethereal.

We get lost in the battle and we forget to stand within that beam of glory that comes directly down on us from the hierarchy above.

So the demi-erge tries to also impose laws and strict order upon us, second order creatures, thinking that we are just wayward molecules.

Because it doesn't remember where we came from, it doesn't remember where it came from.

The demi-erge does not understand free will, free will is not allowed in the demi-urgic universe.

Because if the demi-erge allowed any free will in the material, things would fly apart, things would not hold.

So the demi-erge is trying to impose order upon us, second order creatures, and we are very unruly because of the free will that we inherited from the aeonic realm.

And we just do not obey. That's why the laws in the Old Testament and the Quran are so strict, there's no deviation allowed.

Because the demi-erge is trying its best to impose order upon us, thinking of us as simply disobedient pieces of material.

So in this nasticism that I am sharing with you, the demi-erge is cut off from the first principle of knowledge, wisdom, love, consciousness, life.

And it's down here, all on its own, in this dark and dreary place. The demi-erge is competent, he created this world that we live in, he created the stars in the heavens.

He's doing his best, he's earnest, but he is spiritually amnesiac, which limits his power and understanding. He's not just a tyrant.

In the nasticism that I'm sharing with you, the goal has always been to restore the demi-erge back to the pluroma and slap it back onto logos, restoring his ego and making logos whole.

Because until the demi-erge returns to the hierarchy of God, there is an eon in that hierarchy who is not whole, and that diminishes the fullness of God.

We are actually joining in with the prayer of the eons to restore the demi-erge back to the fullness, to restore the demi-erge back to logos, which will then restore logos, which will then restore the eons of the fullness.

So we don't discard the demi-erge, but seek to heal the demi-erge. We are not merely trying to escape this material cosmos, but we are part of the plan of redemption for the cosmos.

The eons are not isolated from this universe, but they become reconciled with the universe when the demi-erge is restored to logos.

And as I was telling you for the last couple of weeks, humanity isn't divided into those who are elect and therefore saved and those who are not elect in any of the kinds of religions that want to say that only their believers are the elect.

Everyone is restored when the demi-erge is restored, and when everyone is restored, then the demi-erge is restored.

We can't be restored. We second-order powers already fell when our ego is in control, and it is usually in control down here.

It's all a fractal system. It's all resonating downward. So we resemble the demi-erge when our big S self is not in control, our self being a fractal representation of the plurum of logos.

We failed in that, and that is the purpose of the third order of powers, which is Christ, because we can't do it on our own. We've tried, we've tried for millennia, we can't seem to climb out of that egoic trap that we find ourselves in, and therefore the Christ came to redeem us and to redeem the demi-erge.

The Christ is a later solution to the fall. Second-order power was not enough. Send in the third-order powers, and the Christ does have all the power necessary.

The Christ has all the mojo of the ethereal play, nothing's missing, and it has the full blessing of the Father. We are all elect within the plurum of Christ.

So Christ is the restorative agent to the demi-erge, to us, to all of creation. Christ is the harmonizer. Christ is the healer of the fallen Eman, and the revealer of the Father, and the awakener of the demi-erge, and the teacher of humanity.

Christ didn't create the cosmos. Christ restores the cosmos. Christ does not impose law. Christ said he came to replace the law. He takes the law away from the hands of the demi-erge, and instead rules through meaning and love.

The Christ didn't come to dominate the demi-erge, to kill the demi-erge. Christ came to enlighten the demi-erge.

So I have come of late to feel more compassion for the demi-erge. The demi-erge is an innocent victim of the fall. He's limited being that can only rule through strict control.

He's redeemable through the power of Christ who restores the cosmos. So let's go through this again real quick. The Sun is the primal image of the Father, the first expression of the Father, the first emanation of the Father.

As soon as the Sun was formed, his component parts were identified, and those component parts, those are the totalities who then became self-aware, and now we call them the eons.

They express the fullness of divine life. See, the Sun is one big entity, but the eons are all of the Sun in smaller, approachable forms.

It's like thinking of all of the humans on the planet as one giant mass, and trying to relate to humanity as one thought, one thing.

Well, that's not true. We're each individuals. We're each part of humanity. And it's that kind of relationship that the eons have to the Sun, you see?

One eon falls, and in this nusticism we call that eon logos, and his shadow emerged, which is the demi-erge.

The demi-erge orders chaos through strict laws, but lacks any spiritual memory. And the Christ then, formed cooperatively by the Sun, logos, and the eons, descends into our cosmic space to heal the fallen eon, to enlighten the demi-erge, to awaken humanity, and to restore cosmic harmony.

And if you go to the transcript, if you're listening to this as an audio podcast, if you go to the transcript at gnosticinsights.com, or to my substacks, Sidrop Substack, to the gnostic Reformation, you will find a chart that very neatly displays all of these gnostic insights.

God bless us all, and onward and upward.

Thank you.

Reforming the Demiurge

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