Debunking James Lindsay on Gnosticism and Hermeticism - CQ
On most things, in most ways, I think James Lindsay if terrifyingly correct. On religious history he is dead wrong.
March 19, 2024 - Spring Equinox.
On this day, the Sun dawns on the cusp of Ares and Pisces. First Day of Spring. Birth of the year. Light wins over darkness as day becomes longer than night.
I'm a fan of James Lindsay and credit where credit is due, he's a an important social critic, and icon of sense and reason in the age of wokeness. He's also an author of a growing number of books, and Founder of New Discourses. His most recent title is "The Queering of the American Child" which I recommend.
I do not recommend his work on Alchemy and Gnosticism however, as he does not have the depth in religious studies, nor the insights on these important models, to be able to claim that a secret religion (Gnosticism) is responsible for modern wokeness, communism, identitarianism, and collectivism.
IF Marx and Hegel were influenced by Alchemy, Hermeticism and Gnosticism, they completely inverted the philosophy from the maxim, "Know Thyself" to "control the world with lies and delusions"
I talk about the origins of Christianity as a collectivist, group-identity project, compared to the individualism of Hermetic Philosophy and the Gnostic experience of the Divine.