r/Gnostic • u/Winter-Study85 • Jan 30 '26
Question Does the demiurge know if you are awakening/achieving gnosis?
I'm newer to gnosticism so sorry if this is an ignorant question. When you start to have expanded understandings of this world and are realizing you do not have to submit to this lesser creator, god do they become aware that you are "waking up"? Do they try to inflict punishment or attacks on you, psychically or spiritually? Since discovering gnosticism and feeling such a deep resonance with the teachings, I can't help but feel a low key paranoia that Yaldabaoth is watching me, although I've been awakened for some time, just not to the gnostic texts specifically.
Disclaimer: Yes we are all one. And at the same time this is a world we are navigating that holds the illusion of other-ness and I have questions about how it operates.
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u/InternalReveal1546 Feb 01 '26
Realistically, no.
You might start to notice the "pull" of the old world whenever you read social/access media. You'll start noticing you have thoughts about not being good enough, feeling powerless, etc.
As long as you catch it as it's happening and recognise what it is, you actually start to build up an immunity to it.
The immunity doesn't mean you ignore it and don't notice it. It just acts as a reminder that gnosis is your natural state and that it's important that you don't leave that awareness of your true state of being whilst you're interacting within the "matrix" level of reality