THE FALL AND REDEMPTION OF THE SOUL ACCORDING TO GNOSISThe salvation of our soul is a really transcendental matter. This subject has been thoroughly discussed along the centuries by the Gnosis of each time or by the different expressions that Gnosis has acquired through millennia. Dr. Serge Hutin, from the University of Sorbona -Paris-, tell us the following in his work entitled “Les Gnostiques”: “According to the Gnosis, the soul, the immaterial part of man, is always a luminous fragment of divinity that has been detached from above and confined on the Earth: therefore, a descent or a fall from the Light happened in the beginning of humankind. A sexual reason is sometimes imagined as the cause of this fall: The Divine seed is lost, it is infiltrated into the womb, that is to say, into the chaos, into the matter, but afterwards, “the Saviour” recovers the Divine seed by bringing the chosen souls towards Him. “On the other hand, in Manichaeism we find an involuntary fall: the primordial man descended in order to fight the darkness, but the darkness caught him, and he could only |
get free by abandoning his heart of light. These are the fragments of light that mixed with the tenebrous matter and gave origin to the world. So, the point is how to separate the luminous substance from the mud –tenebrous matter–: in the Creation, the superior parts await the moment in which they will be set free. Here we find again the fundamental idea of all Gnostic teaching: a divine element has been lost in the inferior regions; this Divine element that is sunken in the matter, will try to be recovered”. "The problem of the Gnostic is to learn how his soul, that is a divine spark, will be able to return to the superior regions from where it has fallen". An ancient Gnostic text states: Since I was joined to the flesh –says a Manichaean psalm, that sings the unhappiness of the soul– , “I forgot my Divinity”. |
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