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Those who live that nightmarish existence will experience terror and confusion, instability and doubt and division, and they end up trapped in a lot of illusions. Thus, according to the passage called the nightmare's parabola by the scholars, those people The Gnostics said that such a person lives in the deficiency -the opposite to satisfaction- because deficiency consists of ignorance: "The same as ignorance vaporises itself when someone realizes of his own ignorance, or the same as the darkness disappears when the light appears, in the same way the deficiency is vaporised by the satisfaction. The ignorance of oneself is a form of self-destruction. According to the Dialogue of the Saviour, those who do not understand the elements of the universe and themselves, are destined for their self-annihilation. |
If one does not understand how the fire was set on, one will burn oneself, because one does not know the root of fire. If one does not understand the water, one does not know anything. If one does not understand how the wind that is blowing was born, one will be blown away. If one who does not understand how his body was born, one will perish with it. The one who does not understand how he came, will not understand how will leave... How or where should one look for the knowledge of oneself? Many Gnostics agree with psychotherapy in another important premise: Both state -in opposition to the orthodox Christianity- that the psyche carries within itself the potential for its self-liberation or its self-destruction. Few psychiatrists would disagree with the words of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas:
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