Status Updates From The Seven Sermons to the Dead

Check out Abraxas or Abrasax on Wikipedia r/t Abracadabra and Gnosticism.

I keep thinking of Nietzsche whilst reading this, even though I have never read a text written by him. I also have been reminded of William Blake.

"Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference, ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being."

From Wikipedia: Creatura and Pleroma...gnostic terms in his "Seven Sermons To the Dead". Like the Hindu term maya, the basic idea captured in this distinction is that meaning and organization are projected onto the world. Pleroma refers to the non-living world that is undifferentiated by subjectivity; Creatura for the living world, subject to perceptual difference, distinction, and information.

From Wikipedia: Pleroma (Greek πλήρωμα) generally refers to the totality of divine powers. The word means fullness from πληρόω ("I fill") comparable to πλήρης which means "full", and is used in Christian theological contexts: both in Gnosticism generally, and by St. Paul the Apostle in Colossians 2:9 (the word is used 17 times in the NT).

Reading a pdf version of this. 7 Sermons to the Dead.