For those of you wondering what the hell Susan was talking about- (Patreon)
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2024-06-03 16:05:01
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2026-06
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It's real. It's terribly real. I cannot possibly exaggerate how complicated the cosmology of the early Christian sects were. While that first diagram is labled "Schools of Gnosticism" please note that modern academics no longer believe that 'Gnosticism' was a thing. Rather, it was a catch-all term used by Ireneus and others to refer to several similar schools of thought, such as Valentinian, Sethinan etc. Some of you may remember Truth running into a fictionalized Ireneus when he recieved the Blessing of the Brass Sea. Behold- simplilfied (very, very, leaving a lot out) diagrams: