snip: evidently we are supposed to submit ourselves, not to God, but to the self-selected “anointed ones.”
Spirited: That is the definition of the Gnostic. Irenaeus described them as the ‘lawless ones.’ They acknowledged no ‘law’ but their own, no ‘truth’ but their own.
Gnosticism is truly the
‘demonic inversion’: Lucifer over God the Father, death over life, immoralism over morality, lie over truth, Cain over Abel, Judas over Jesus Christ, androgyny over male-female sex norms, chaos over order, fantasy over reality.
Not surprisingly, Gnostics were the first Progressive Liberals and fellow travelers such as the Bolsheviks.
They are the ‘systems builders’ of second realities.
PLENTY OF TRUTH in your well put assertions.
Care to name which Bolsheviks were Gnostcis?