All language subtitles for Ancient Civilizations Series 1 02of10 Gnostic Origins 1080p

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>> The creator.

Who or what might be the
creator of all that exists?

Humans have pondered
this question

since the beginning
of time, hoping

to understand their own
purpose by looking to the sky.

What if this
explanation is so big?

What if our universe is
one gigantic cell living

in an organism?

A living organism
that has many cells,

otherwise known
as many universes.

And these many universes
make up a living body.

If we take, for
instance, the context

of the universe compared
to the human cell,

we have a cell made
up of a molecule.

A molecule consists
of atoms, and an atom

consists of electrons that
form around a nucleus.

This looks similar to our own
understanding of the universe.

There's a famous quote
from the "Emerald Tablet"

of Hermes Trismegistus that
states, "as above, so below."

What if the concept
of the Garden of Eden

is just the beginning of
a much bigger picture?

What if we are all
part of the creator,

from the very first cell, to
the universe we see today?

If that might be true,
how do the ancient texts

reveal this knowledge?

Maybe the answer to our question
is buried right below our nose.

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>> 1945-- it's an
intriguing date, of course,

because that's the end
of the Second World War.

We're moving into a new era
following the Second World War.

The Gnostic texts are
found in Upper Egypt.

Almost exactly the same
time, the Dead Sea Scrolls

are found in Israel as well.

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>> Nag Hammadi is a small
village along the Nile River

in Egypt.

And a young boy was
tasked by his mother

to find kindling, which
was in very short supply

because there are very
few trees-- there's

no forests that grow along Nile
River in that part of Egypt.

Being very resourceful,
he went to what

he knew were old
gravesites and old tombs,

and he found papyrus
books that were bound.

These are the Gnostic texts.

And it wasn't until
someone recognized--

a neighbor recognized--
what it was that he had,

that the Department of
Antiquities in Cairo

became aware, and, of course,
they moved very quickly

to preserve the
remaining documents.

So the Nag Hammadi library--

it is the most complete
record of the Old Testament.

And the reason it's
so controversial

is because it contains many
of the books that have not

been seen since the
Church edited them

in the fourth century.

>> Now, I don't want to
get mystical or spooky,

but it's as though something is
at work to not allow us to be

blinded and silenced.

Something is at work to
allow these ancient ideas

to come back into the world.

And Gnosticism has indeed
come back into the world.

I'll try to reconstruct
the situation.

In the early years of
Christianity, really,

from sort of 30 AD onwards
through to about 400 AD,

there are actually many
different kinds of Christians,

many different sects that regard
themselves as Christians--

as followers of Christ--

but they have very
different views.

Amongst those early
Christian sects,

were a group that called
themselves Gnostics.

They believed that there is
a divine spark in humanity.

The Gnostic mission was to
liberate that divine spark,

to provide us with
the saving knowledge,

to lead us to the
revelation that

would help us to understand
the true nature of things--

not the illusory
nature that's been

created to hoodwink all of
us, but the real, true nature

of things.

>> What is life for animals?

>> Now, you can see a video
game that's photorealistic--

almost photorealistic-- and
millions of people playing

simultaneously.

And you see where things are
going with virtual reality.

If you extrapolate that
out into the future

with any rate of progress
at all, then eventually

those games will be
indistinguishable from reality.

They'll be so
realistic, you will not

be able tell the difference
between that game

and the reality as we know it.

Well, how do we know that that
didn't happen in the past?

And that we're not in one
of those games ourselves?

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>> Some believe this concept of
a simulated universe originated

from these ancient Gnostic texts
that suddenly were discovered

in 1945.

These lost books named the
creator of the universe

as an Aeon named Sophia.

Sophia was considered
to be a frequency,

and her frequency would
manifest into certain humans

and the material realm.

This myth of Sophia
has challenged

some to look at the
universe differently

than they have before.

>> The manifestation of Sophia--

the personification of Sophia--

might be representative of
fractal energy, and the fact

that fractal energy
fills the gaps

between the symmetries of the
very small and the very large.

And it's this energy
that we're basically

saying is controlling this
ancient technology-- that all

of this ancient technology
is based upon that same idea

that it goes on and on through
every single ancient teaching,

that this idea that there is
this all-encompassing unified

energetic field
makes a lot of sense

that that would be
equated to Sophia.

Fractal energy has a
very deep relationship

to the golden mean ratio.

And the golden mean ratio
is present in human DNA.

That's what our DNA
is based off of.

And it's through this
fractal energy and the fact

that the golden mean ratio
basically keeps it in check,

and keeps it going in
a certain direction,

that we're able to derive a lot
of new technology, even today.

It's something that
they're beginning

to rediscover-- something
Nikola Tesla had come across

in his work.

But it's interesting that
these ancient civilizations

were recording information like
this and doing it in such a way

that a parable could back up
actual scientific information.

>> Could the ancient Gnostic
texts be explaining not only

the creator, but the frequency
in which the creator exists

through mathematics
and quantum physics?

>> This third dimension is what
we consider to be a holographic

reality.

It's not just me
saying this, it's

a lot of scientists
have come forward

now-- a lot of scientists
involved in supersymmetry

and quantum physics--
quantum mechanics--

stating that the nature of the
reality of the universe itself

appears to be
holographic in nature.

So what scientists
did was they did

an experiment called a
double-slit experiment, where

they put two little
tiny microscopic slits

and they put
photons on the back,

and they shot these photons
through these slits.

But when they weren't
looking, the photon

created a wave pattern on the
back wall of this experiment.

So they said, why?

How can this be?

How can individual photons
create a wave pattern?

So they went back and
put a looking device--

a camera-- to see
how the photons were

going through these slits
to create a wave pattern.

They wanted to know
how that can be.

Well, when they did that--

when they looked-- it
created a digital pattern

on the back wall.

So all of a sudden,
it was a wow moment.

The actual prospect of looking--

in other words, conscious
intervention can change matter,

can change the shape
of the universe.

So basically it tells us
that consciousness is really

what-- is all that
exists in the universe.

The universe is
pure consciousness.

And what consciousness
has actually done,

it is actually recreated
itself-- or it had actually

split itself into pieces to
experience itself subjectively.

So consciousness wants to go
out and it wants to create.

And what it has done, it has
gone out with these energies

and it has created,
subjectively, humans, planets,

galaxies so that it
can experience itself

from another perspective.

And this is what we take from
it from the quantum level,

in terms of the Sophia
energies and some

of these Gnostic energies.

It appears that consciousness
is the only thing that

really exists, and everything
else seems to be an illusion.

>> Nassim Haramein been doing
some really interesting work,

which does tie in very much to
the old view of the ancients

and the Gnostics in that
it explains how creation

transpires.

What he's talking about in more
of a metaphysics or quantum

level is how
existence comes to be.

It's cosmogony-- so it's
how the cosmos comes

to form, which to
the Gnostics, was

the flow of reality from
eternity into nature and back.

This flow is
actually represented

by the goddess Sophia.

She is the flow
of reality itself,

coming out from the
preexistent state of spirit.

>> But if this is true, why
would this understanding

of the universe and an Aeon
named Sophia be hidden beneath

the sand for so long?

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>> There's that movie,
"The Usual Suspects."

There's a line in the movie--

>>The greatest trick
the devil ever pulled

was convincing the
world he didn't exist.

>> Gnostics took it
one step further.

The greatest trick
the devil ever played

was to convince the
world that he is God.

In other words, from
the Gnostic point

of view, what have been
worshipping for thousands

of years isn't God at all.

It's a demonic force.

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>> The Sumerian texts allude to
the same principle that a great

administrator named Satam looked
over the people of the Garden

of Eden.

His name in the Sumerian
text was the god Enlil,

and his hopes were to
enslave the human race.

He then appears in the garden
as Yahweh, the biblical God.

The serpent in the
garden, however,

was another Sumerian
god named Enki,

whose desire was to free the
human race through knowledge.

How did this concept
of good and evil

get so flipped upside down?

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>> In 2003, we discovered a
degeneration in the brain that

seemed to be programmed due
to a molecule called PP1.

We don't know why.

We cannot explain why.

But at a certain point, humans
have this incredible ability

to forget.

This molecule affects
the brain, and it

is a degeneration of memory.

I think that there is a
programmed blockage, which was

performed on the human brain.

What is interesting
about great myths--

whether it is for Native
Americans or for Africans

very much as well--

is that they have the
ability to constantly recite

those myths, their history,
so as not to forget.

Some people, the
Hebrews as well,

probably, have managed
to have this ability

to pass on information
across generations.

>> Could there really be a
molecule that blocks our true

remembering of who we are?

Was this a programmed
manipulation

of our genetic code?

This might explain
our constant search

for where we as humans
originated from, and who

or what might be God.

>> The Garden of Eden to the
Gnostics refers to the center

principle from which
all creation springs.

So it's the preexistent
spirit of God, so to speak.

So this is before
time and space.

So it's a circle whose
center is everywhere

and whose circumference
is nowhere.

So everything that
exists in this world

preexists within
what the Gnostics

refer to as the pleroma,
which means fullness.

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>> It is hard to imagine where
the pleroma could be located

with our current point of view.

Some say that it is
linked to dimensions,

but I think that, inherently,
the idea of pleroma

is more linked to frequency--

another frequency.

>> If we go back to our
understanding of quantum

physics and the
creation of matter,

could this frequency transcend
into our physical universe

today?

And how do the Gnostic
texts explain this?

>> There's a preexistent
tension in the pleroma where

the archetypal deities or
archangels almost demand

their expression or
substantiation within

the playing fields
of creation itself.

Because they preexisted
in the state of light,

but they almost need
to express these ideal

forms that they represent.

So what Sophia, the
myth, kind of represents

is the urge for them
to create themselves.

>> The goddess Sophia--

the Aeon Sophia, whose name,
of course, means wisdom.

And she enters a
trance-like dream state.

And in that dream state, she
envisages a singularity--

the anthropos, humanity.

>> So she exits the pleroma
and then falls into a state

of deficiency, and in that
state of deficiency, she splits.

So there's a higher
version of Sophia

that remains in the
pleroma, which is kind

of like her celestial twin.

And when the lower
Sophia exits, it

becomes the physical
universe-- the cosmic,

the soul of the world,
which is deficient

because now evil is introduced
into that-- or a deficiency

or a corruption.

>> As a result of
that fall, tearing,

tearing through the layers and
levels of reality is created

the entity that the
Gnostics call the Demiurge.

And he is also the creator
of the physical Earth

and of the beings
who dwell upon it.

It is Sophia's
work that, inserted

into the heart of
humanity, deep within us,

is this divine spark that we
are fundamentally creatures

of spirit immersed in matter.

>> If Sophia is the creator
of our divine spark,

then could the Demiurge be the
creator of the matter we exist

in?

Is he the architect
of our reality?

>> The Demiurge becomes
a representation

of Sophia's irrational passions.

So Sophia's irrational
passions takes

on the form of the
Demiurge, which also becomes

the rulers of the archons.

>> According to Graham Hancock,
the Demiurge is what humans

might refer to as the biblical
God or creator of the universe.

And this creator created
himself, angels or demons,

depending on how you look at it.

And these archons help
keep order in the universe.

>> The goddess Sophia is
incarnated in the Earth itself,

but the Earth is the
domain of the Demiurge.

And the project
of the Demiurge is

to get rid of that divine spark
in humanity-- to snuff it out,

to stamp it out forever,
so that we become entirely

his creatures.

>> The Archons-- which were
created by the Demiurge,

according to the Gnostic texts--

stand between the human race
and the great architect himself.

In most cases,
they are considered

to be semi-hostile
angels and demons.

>> The Demiurge's motives
were not that good,

according to the Gnostics.

And then, the Demiurge put
and created these archons

to be in charge of making
sure that the universe stays

intact as a prison for souls.

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>> Every generation
is a step lower,

further from the
perfect monad holiness,

and they created
worlds of their own.

Now, they were only one
step above pure evil--

so these were corrupted worlds.

>> In the Gnostic text,
specifically the "Apocryphon

of John," it gives a detailed
account of the various archons.

In this chapter, it
suggests there are seven.

>> These actually correspond
very nicely with the seven

planets.

And the actual names of the
planets, in our tradition,

have very different names
when they are called archons

in the Gnostic tradition.

Saturn in the Gnostic tradition
is called Yaldabaoth or Samael.

Jupiter is called Iao.

Mars is called Sabaoth.

Venus is called Astaphanos.

The sun is called Adonaios.

Mercury is called Elaios.

And the moon is called Horaios.

We now have astrology,
where planets

appear to have influences
on the personality that

vary from one to the other.

We then have this opportunity
to understand there

is a ghost in the machine--

something is going on that takes
the apparent mundane reality

of life on its
surface, veneer level--

and you look past
that veneer and you

see that there is an
organized plan in place.

>> Could the ghost in the
system be the energy of Sophia

reincarnating herself
into goddess archetypes?

And could these concepts of
the Demiurge and the archons

coincide with some of the
motivations of the characters

in the Sumerian text?

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>> This world is completely
offset compared to our way

of thinking.

It really seems like
science fiction.

When we watch science
fiction movies nowadays,

we can find that the same
themes are being explored.

In Egyptian Gnostic
texts, we find

the recurrent main character--

she is called Sophia.

And Sophia will become Tiamat--

Tiamata from the Sumerian text.

Tiamata can be decomposed
in "ti," "ama" and "ta."

The latter is not always added.

In very concrete terms,
it means "lady of life."

"Ama" is lady and "ti" is life.

It is interesting to see that--

right off we get that
she is a supreme goddess.

Then we can actually find
her in different mythologies.

Tiamat is the archetype
of the mother goddess,

and, as Sophia's
spokesperson, is all-powerful.

And according to
the Sumerian text,

she is going to create
herself a lineage of females

that we call Amashatun.

This could be translated
to "the lizard mothers."

In the Sumerian
text, I think it's

important to note that
the Sophia energy is going

to create a new being named An.

You should know that the An
particle also means "the sky."

That character is then
going to create a people

we find in Sumerian text.

It is important to
note that gods were

created in artificial matrices.

An creates Enki, and
then Enki creates

another son, who will
become An's spokesperson

for his agenda.

His name is Enlil and
Enlil will ceaselessly

be against Enki in order to
impede him and his knowledge

from getting out to the humans.

As soon as An steps in,
things are going to change.

We can see that An
wants to overthrow

the matriarchal royalty
and enforce his own rule.

This marks an
important separation

in the history of
the Sumerian gods,

and of the gods in general.

On the one hand, there
is the matriarchal energy

with Tiamat--

with Sophia's energy.

And on the other
hand, these new gods--

fresh out of the matrices--

male gods, who are going
to revolt against Tiamat.

We see Enlil going to fight
Tiamat, enforcing his power.

And this is what we
find in the Enuma Elish.

>> The Sumerian texts suggest
that Tiamata was defeated

by Enlil, and he takes over as
ruler to instill the principles

of the false god.

In the Gnostic text,
however, it suggests

that the Sophia energy
that embodied Tiamata

was not defeated,
but rather ignored.

And the knowledge
of her existence

was taken over by the
knowledge of the Demiurge.

The Gnostic texts
explain to us that we

had been under the influence
of this great archon who

is not the true creator
he fashions himself to be.

And because of this,
we suffer greatly

under our own false reality.

But the Sumerian texts remind
us that throughout this battle

of humanity, there
is given to us

an ally by the name of Enki,
who fights to keep the Sophia

frequency alive.

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>> It is important to know that
the so-called Gnostic texts--

the ones from Nag Hammadi--

were all excavated in Egypt.

That is crucial information,
because the character of Enki

lived for awhile in Mesopotamia.

But after awhile, was in such
disagreement within Enlil

that he left for Egypt.

He attempted civilizing mankind.

He's then found under
the name of Osiris.

These archives, probably
created by Enki,

usually depict events that
took place prior to the ones

that we find in Sumerian text.

They are about the creation
before creation itself.

>> There is a return of Sophia
to the Logos, or the Godhead.

And when that return
happens, it is

described as being this
incredible burst of light that

actually changes the very
fabric of the bodies themselves.

This, to me, sounds
like another example

of the widespread prophecies
that we see of this energy

release from the sun.

The Greek and Roman philosophers
often called ekpyrosis--

a massive fiery
release from the sun.

So when we're looking
at this story of Sophia

and her redemption,
it seems that it

is another example of
the prophecies that

go all the way back to
the Greek texts, the Hindu

texts, in which we
go through some sort

of massive transformation
and this sort

of fallen state of our
solar system or humanity

is then brought up to a higher
spiritual level in some way.

>> Could the Gnostic texts be
supporting the meaning behind

the Sumerian creation story?

If the Gnostic texts are able to
explain our possible beginning

as humans and our current
state of simulated reality,

why do we still feel
lost in the system?

And will all this
understanding of who we are

and why we are here return?

>> The story of the fallen
Sophia does appear to mirror

the story of each of us, in
terms of how we have become

blinded to the afterlife.

We become blinded to
higher consciousness.

We don't really understand
if we're going to live again

or if we have lived before.

We don't understand
if there is a purpose

and a plan for our lives and
for the greater universe.

>> It's hidden, you
can't really perceive it.

It hasn't become
substantiated yet--

it's becoming substantiated
through this life process

that we're living,
which is kind of like I

like to think that we live in
the greatest story ever told.

Like all these myths are
is-- we're living it, right?

Right now.

It's a living mythology.

And it's also a collective
universe-- it's all integrated.

There's nothing-- the only
thing that separates us

from each other, and from
nature, and from the divine

is our own misguided perception.

>> Our misguided perception
may have been the work

of the ancient gods, but there
is more evidence to support

that the original creators of
the Garden of Eden might have

planted a seed on Earth.

>> It's as though something
slipped past the redactors

in the Bible.

A little bit of
truth came through,

instead of all the lies that
the Demiurge has spread.

>> Up next-- the tree of life
and its imprint on the world.

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