The Gnostic Demiurge vs. The God of Love

About this episode

This episode explores the Gnostic concept of the Demiurge and the spiritual journey towards Divine Love as depicted in various mystical texts.

In the Anurag Sagar, India's most Gnostic scripture, souls are depicted as being held captive inside the Palace of Kal, the lord of time and illusion (called "the Demiurge" by the Gnostics). The Satguru does battle with Kal to free the souls. The genuine Living Teacher, the Sant Satguru, guides his or her students through this internal struggle with the mind or ego (the agent of Kal in the matrix of mind), this labyrinth of self-sabotaging, limited belief-systems of the negative power (Kal Mat: the teachings of Kal), so that the initiates may experience Divine Love, Light and Sound within and follow the Path back to God (Dayal, the Merciful One), the Ocean of Love. Today we explore the following, a outline or playlist of what we're covering during this satsang podcast: mystic poems of Sant Dadu Dayal of Rajasthan: The Results of True Love, and, The Vision of the Beloved; a saying from the Gnostic Gospel of Judas which sounds a bit like a Rumi poem; definitions of the term "Demiurge" from Platonism, Gnostic Christianity, Judaism, and the Sant Tradition of India; definitions of the eastern term for the Demiurge: the Kal Niranjan: a false god, negative power, lord of time and…

People in this episode

Host: James Bean

Topics covered

• Gnosticism
• Demiurge
• spiritual struggle
• Divine Love
• mystic poetry
• Kal Mat vs. Dayal Mat

Keywords

• Gnostic scripture
• Demiurge
• Kal
• spirituality
• mystic poems
• Sant Mat
• Divine Love
• illusion
• truth

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Anurag Sagar, Gnostic Gospel of Judas, Kal Mat, Dayal Mat

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