Gnostic Reformation, Clear and Simple

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. You know, I often tell you that I’ve been a Christian since I was about five years old, and I’ve been a follower of Jesus in particular, sometimes going to church, most often not going to church. But I’ve always loved Jesus, and I’ve had many dreams and visions of being with Jesus, and this has shaped my current Gnosticis...

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:30 — 26.8MB) For regular Gnostics Insights, subscribe here. Apple Podcasts | Amazon Music | TuneIn | Deezer | RSS For those of you who are new to Gnostic Insights and The Gnostic Reformation on Substack, this reformation lays out a clear cosmology of Gnosticism according to the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi codices. This gnosis is uniqu...

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The times, they are changing... Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Recently, I fed my book, A Simple Explanation of the Gnostic Gospel, into the Copilot AI, in order to see how it would say what I’ve said in my book. And now I have a result, but I’m not sure whether to use it or not. We’ve had these conversations in the comments section concerning AI and t...

During the long months of the 2020 shutdown, I spent a surprising amount of time watching the History Channel series Ancient Aliens. I began as a skeptic, but the sheer variety of evidence presented gradually challenged my assumptions. Many years earlier I had read Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods? , so I was already familiar with the basic outline of ancient alien theory. I had also read...

What is gnosis? There’s a lot of “Gnosticism” floating around on the Internet these days, isn’t there? And the gnosis I’m sharing with you is quite different from most of what’s out there. Before 1945 and 1947—before the Nag Hammadi and Qumran scriptures were dug out of deserts and caves—the only Gnosticism anyone knew was what had survived the Great Purge by the early Catholic Church and the Nice...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Back in 2022, I recorded an episode called Simple Model of Universe, and I’m updating the audio and the transcript for that post. This was originally recorded as I was preparing to put on a feature presentation at the AstroGnosis Conference that Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio held in March of 2022 down in Mexico, and this descri...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Wow, the question posed at the end of the last episode concerning the role AIs may have in order to deepen gnosis struck a chord and stimulated a good, long conversational thread—29 comments and rising at this point—among three educated and erudite Gnostic gentlemen. I’m not going to attempt to summarize that conversation...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the new subscribers to the Gnostic Reformation here on Substack and to GnosticInsights.com. Did you know that there are three Gnostic Gospels that I have written ? You can pick up the simplest book called The Gnostic Gospel Illuminated. It’s very short. Half of it is illust...

Welcome to Gnostic Insights and the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Before I get into this week’s episode, let me tell you that the entire uninterrupted interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of The Gnostic Union is now available on YouTube under Cyd Ropp Gnostic Insights playlist. I’ve tried and tried to upload the captioned transcript underneath the video, but neither YouTube nor my video editing...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. For the last four weeks we’ve been listening to my interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson concerning the Gnostic Union and his interpretation of the New Testament and also some Gnostic texts. And I want to make comment on it, although it’s very difficult to compose a comment on this long interview. I don’t want to in any way...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Today’s episode is the last installment of my interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of The Gnostic Union. Brother Nathan continues with his illustration of how correct translation of the original Koine Greek of the New Testament changes the way we may interpret Biblical scripture more precisely. The translations he shares c...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. We’re continuing this week with part three of my long interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of the Gnostic Union. We don’t usually talk about this sort of thing here at Gnostic Insights, and so this is a special treat for those of you who like this sort of thing. This week we’re going to hear Brother Nathan speaking about w...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. Last week was part one of my interview with Bishop Nathan Wilson of the Gnostic Union, and he explained to us a bit about who the Gnostic Union is and what they believe in. At the beginning of that episode, I read from the Gnostic Union website their history and mission statement. And my brother Billy called me up and sai...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week I interviewed Bishop Nathan Wilson of the Gnostic Union, and it was a good long interview, so I’ll be breaking it up probably into three segments for the next three weeks here. Bishop Wilson earned a diploma of ministry from The Gnostic Catholic Union, and then he later went on to create The Gnostic Union, and h...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week, we’re going to follow up on last week’s episode, which was called Gnostic Pentecost, and that was first broadcast on the 6th of June, 2026 . I have a lot more examples out of the New Testament of the Bible about Pentecost, and as we learned last week, Pentecost is what we’ve been calling the coming of the Third...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. This week I was listening to one of the radio preachers I like to listen to and I caught a sermon on the Pentecost, and I realized I had at that point a Gnostic insight that Pentecost, the coming of the Holy Spirit, when it infused the disciples in the upper room—that is the coming of the Third Order of Powers released by...

Every once in a while I like to go back and share with you the original scriptures out of the Tripartite Tractate of the Nag Hammadi from which I derive these teachings. So this week will be scripture-heavy. Don’t worry if the language is unwieldy or unfamiliar. You’ll get the hang of it. The original economy was that of the hierarchy of the Fullness, wherein every Aeon knew its place, position, a...

Yesterday, my Hindi tech services guy asked me whether or not Gnosis is Christian. It seems like it should be a simple question. Is Gnosticism Christian? I explained to him that I certainly think that Christian Gnosticism is Christian, fully. And in fact, I believe it’s true Christianity—that Jesus was Gnostic, that John the Baptist was Gnostic. But what does that mean? Most of the Christians, pre...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights. Today we are going to look at what is called “The Army of the Christ.” Saying that Christ comes into the cosmos with an army is a rather strange way of labeling Christ. It gives rise to the same misunderstanding that caused the first century Jews to expect a mighty, war-faring Christ to ride in on a white stallion accompanied by a legion of warrior angels ready to...

Gnosis means knowing, and to be a Gnostic means that you are one who knows. It may appear as though I am spit-balling all of this. I’m not. I’m taking it out of an ancient scripture called the Tripartite Tractate. But more than that, I’m deriving a lot of this information through contemplation and direct communication with the Father and the Fullness of God. That is something that every person can...

Let’s talk about pleromas. Pleroma is a common word in gnostic scriptures, and it has a particular meaning that only relates to Gnosticism. Today, I’d like to take another look at pleromas because they describe the flow of consciousness from the origin and tell us where we all came from, where we are, and where we will wind up at the end of days. I know that when I run through these various plerom...

Welcome back to Gnostic Insights and to the Gnostic Reformation on Substack. I’ve been sharing these Gnostic Insights for a few years now, and I’ve discovered that the one topic that flares people up, the most controversial aspect of Gnosticism, doesn’t really have anything to do with the nature of God, or the Archons, or where we go after we die. Believe it or not, Darwinian evolution is the thin...

Today we’re going to talk about how the Aeons of the Fullness of God were generated. And the reason we talk about the Aeons so much is because we are downstream from the Aeons. We are representatives of all of the traits of the Aeons—we second-order powers, and we humans in particular, since I am a human talking to other humans here. So everything I say about the Aeons and how they relate to the F...

On today’s episode, we’re going to talk some more about fractal stories and archetypes. These fractal stories make up our lives. We have very little original material in our lives. It’s as if we are each a character in a play. And this play was written by the Aeons of the Fullness before time began. These are archetypal stories. And when Logos fell and broke open all these stories into the world,...