The texts on this website are published for religious education and teaching purposes only. Writer and (Neo-Gnostic) Philip Kindred Dick also deals deeply with the theme of humanity and genuine empathy in his novels and short stories.
Mercerism – 1st list of Holy Texts to teach Empathy (book Do Androids Dream of Electronic Sheep?)
Source of quotation: Blade runner: Do androids dream of electric sheep. Prague: W. Smith, 1993. Science fiction (Winston Smith). ISBN 80-85643-07-3; electronic version.
Writer and (Neo-Gnostic) Philip Kindred Dick – Modified
The writer Philip Kindred Dick had a few revolutionary ideas in his writing – that is, in his stories, novels, and philosophically – (novo) gnostic theses. Not that the ideas are entirely new, but just as every new human generation must do in the bigger picture, that they will reassess (on the basis of their subjective contemporary viewpoint) truth and reality in their own way, for their current times, so it applies to individuals. For individuals, this journey means even more – they must subject all the ideas of past generations and their thinkers (science – all parts of science, religion, spirituality, philosophy) to radical scrutiny. The writer and (new) Gnostic Philip Kindred Dick (this journey for himself and others) found him on a journey of (new) Gnostic personal exploration called the Path of Radical Inquiry.
This journey, the journey of the Path of Radical Inquiry, involves first and foremost challenging everything you know so far and what you have learned in any field of knowledge. No area is a TABU, and there is no possibility of circumventing the challenge, because without extreme radical challenge you cannot go forward freely.
Imagine becoming a locomotive, and coming out with workshops where the master of railroad construction has fine-tuned you to an absolute state of perfection, and suddenly, standing on the track the engineer has wheeled you out of the workshop after finishing, you expect the best they could attach behind you – an endless line of royal cars built with absolute luxury for their passengers, or even becoming something else, like the most amazing train in the world – the Orient Express.
But something terrible happens, and now back to the man from the locomotive, because you are „God’s spark“ in the human body, that is, you are the best lost bit of God in the human body, and suddenly you are nested through physical birth into this world. If you were just the locomotive, they would attach to you a place of royal carriage-pulling or Orient Express just despite your new and perfect brilliance, eventually even charcoal wagons, but you just accept that as a locomotive, because the locomotive is only supposed to be a useful tool, but here, here is the change to humanity, where my likeness is no longer enough.
Yes man is not a locomotive, he has had „God’s spark“ in him since birth, and he really doesn’t have a designated exact path as a technical (entirely purpose-built) device – a locomotive. A man with „God’s Spark“ is destined for freedom, a freedom unconstrained by the Pharisees. So we mustn’t attach any carriages to a person, and we must let everyone, even mistakenly, attach for a time, despite all of them even the worst carriages full of dirt and sludge, but let us rather wish everyone to attach only the best that they drag with them all their lives. And here’s the stumbling block that destroys the basic rock in a person – the cornerstone (the one with God’s spark) and that’s the stumbling block that every person has in the beginning, whether they want or not to attach many cars with coal, sludge, urine, feces – an excuse for language, but there’s no other way to call it, I’d be lying like those refined gentlemen, what they call spirituality a frighteningly decent story. But with all that can utterly deflate a man destroys himself just to „God’s spark,“ and the only way to stop it is by the coming of grace (God’s) and you realize, in the gift of the miracle of history (remembering everything), that you have to do one thing only – you have to get rid of everything that previous generations have given you as a gift – (stolen not-gift) for your locomotive (that is, your life) and thus get rid of all these carriages just in the Path of Radical Inquiry)
Unless you start questioning everything, smash all the foundations to smithereens, leave no stone unturned, and sweep all the Pharisaical precepts from your temple of the human heart with a whip, the learned spirituality in the thrall of scholastic, white-bearded, all-knowing teachers, you will get nowhere. So the practice, not the theory, of the Path of Radical Inquiry involves a lifelong practical journey of daily honestly cutting ourselves off from anything that kills the „God-spark“ in us, and forcing us to take every doubt we have about anything, especially doubts about God, to the point of ad absurdum, because if we don’t do it honestly, we’ve missed an opportunity for real change. And not only will we not meet ourselves and our (God’s precious spark), but we will also miss out on the false path of the real Living One True Good God – the Logos revealed in Jesus Christ, and that will be the saddest thing in the universe.
Just look even at the fresh example of Russian Orthodoxy and its extremely insane support of state Rashist totalitarian thinking and state management – Patriarch Kirill, by secular name Vladimir Mikhailovich Gundiev, is on constant alert to give what is the Emperor’s to Emperor Putler, but the things of God are already gone from the Orthodox Rashist State Church – Jesus Christ would certainly not crawl before a snake and a liar and a mass murderer from the Kremlin, but unfortunately Patriarch Kirill does it quite openly and with his whole apparatus (like some priests under Hitler in the last century). Thus, the Orthodox Rashi Church in Russia is a participant in the war now underway (August 2022) and is blessing the hands of its priests with weapons for the war that the modern Russian Hitler – Putler launched six months ago against his neighbor Ukraine with nonsensical and untenable reasons. Thus the priests serve only the Emperor in all parishes and God, in the power of Christ, is pushed away by the Demons and Archons. But I’m glad that the Underground Orthodox Church of Christ is not silent on this madness, even though the Rashist Russian regime severely punishes priests and shamans who reveal the Demon-Archontian form of the Russian autocrat elected by no one (this also happened under Hitler – he hated priests and mystics, and gnostics of all kinds, because they knew what he really was and to whom he had subscribed with blood for worldly power). Will this country also experience freedom again – now that it has completely lost it because of Satan (Putin must have promised something to Satan, demons and Archons usually pay a blood sacrifice for worldly power)? For some people, this understanding of Rashism is only in a political understanding – I see Rashism as a Spiritual – Demon – Archon background (demonic influence and paying with war and blood sacrifices for WORLD POWER)). But it is necessary to see a little bit into the background, into the spiritual level of Rashism, from what it was born and why? No dictator has ever had worldly power without bowing to one of the Black Archons.
Now it wants to pray for Ukraine all the time, but it also wants to pray for Russia all the time, but one must not forget that this is rather a spiritual struggle and that we „12do not wage our struggle against human enemies, but against the powers, forces and everything that controls this age of darkness, against the supernal spirits of evil.“ The Bible; Ephesians 6; 12. A terrible time when the Demons of Evil and Hatred have stirred up the Spirit of Hatred and extreme Evil in the Russian people.
Image source and link to the video here – On 10.12.2021 a video called Gnosticism (subtitles) was released on the Reformed YouTube channel
EDITOR’S PERSONAL VIEW: Personally, this article and the featured video critical of Gnosticism touch me deeply, not because such criticism is unwarranted, but because it was primarily the Bible and the teachings of Jesus that led me to extreme reverence for the Truth. Therefore, when I moved on and became a conscious Gnostic/Gnostic Christian, I never forgot my roots, my Christian Orthodox roots. I also still consider them to be of very high quality, even though at some point in Life I moved on from the orthodox understanding of the Faith due to the influence of Truth, but I will never go down the path of Hate, because Jesus Christ never taught me that on my path of discipleship (on the contrary, He taught me from the beginning a radical love for all, even enemies). Likewise, as I mentioned at the beginning, he also never taught me to LIE, which led me on my life’s journey in the direction of a true researcher – a religionist who can simultaneously be an extremely factual and scientifically critical skeptical researcher, while remaining on the religious path as a Gnostic (with full understanding of RELIGIO).
GNOSTIC CONFESSION OF DIRECT EXPERIENCE: I have no faith, no creed to profess, no religion to form me, and I discard even consciously any spirituality that drags me down into the mire of human physical, mental, and spiritual ideas of God. Thus I do not understand any beliefs because they contain NOTHING, you have nothing to take from me human or non-human friend or enemy because I hold NOTHING. I am, after all, just a wind that blows only because it is driven forward by the breath of God! I do not hold God by faith or bound in human belief, He holds me by His unconditional Love! Where else would I get the smallest, imperceptible faith, at least as small as a grain of sand? And the mountains moved at His command, not mine.
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