Gnostic Koan #1

People say that the greatest trick the Devil ever played was in convincing people He isn’t real. But if the Devil and God are sort of like opposites, then doesn’t that mean that the greatest trick that God ever played was in convincing people that He is real?


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  1. Nathan
    Posted August 16, 2005 at 1:32 am | Permalink

    The greatest trick God ever played was convincing people that they are real…and if they are real, then He must be real too, as something distinct, and apart. Which He’s not - not really.

  2. Tim Boucher
    Posted August 16, 2005 at 1:42 am | Permalink

    That’s kind of a cool idea. That God didn’t actually create people; he just convinced them they were real. And then once they believed it, they became it, only to become trapped by it.

  3. Segovius
    Posted August 16, 2005 at 3:51 am | Permalink

    Or maybe both God and the Devil work together to convince people that there are such things as opposites - real/unreal, God/Devil, man/God - when there is only ‘is-ness’.

    Of course this would mean that God, the Devil and us are all the same thing - or that none of us exist. Or both.

  4. james
    Posted August 16, 2005 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

    If you accept that God is a trickster, then yes, it would be his greatest trick.

  5. alistair
    Posted August 16, 2005 at 10:37 pm | Permalink

    jesuit word games. the words “god and “the devil” are semantic constructs. hallucination words. what do those terms really represent?

  6. Thomas Conlon
    Posted August 19, 2005 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    Again, what is the hegelian dialectic concomitant with “God’s will”/Thelema.

    -tc

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