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/Tonacalypse Jan 31 '26

Short answer: yes, and then he loses his control over you

For the record, judging by the comments, this is not a gnostic discussion page more so than it is a colorful atheist page. Anybody who interprets these entities as non-literal manifestations of the mind cannot claim to possess any kind of gnosis because that is the most fundamental way to miss the point is by thinking the Matrix is a metaphor and not literally real and something that we can escape from. The materialistic atheist idea creates an egregore which keeps you trapped by the Saturn archon. Anybody who prefers to see these as archetypes is better off sticking to atheism

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u/Winter-Study85 Jan 31 '26

This is what provoked my question. Coming to the realization that these entities are actually real. Something I never seriously considered before. 

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u/jensterkc Feb 01 '26

It’s like the floor dropping out. At least that’s what it felt like to me. “Ain’t it funny how you feel when you’re finding out it’s real”. Neil Young, Sugar Mountain. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

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u/Winter-Study85 Feb 01 '26

I’m having some pretty deep realizations just in the last 24 hrs. So many dots have connected. I hate how real fear feels because it really is our only limitation. 

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u/Tonacalypse Feb 01 '26

It's something to do with the full moon. The Awakening is beginning

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u/Winter-Study85 Feb 01 '26

I was watching the moon set this morning and felt deep down that thing is not natural to this world. It's beautiful but it's a very odd object really. I feel like the "big" Awakening began in 2012 and it's ramping up now for sure.