“Cioran – a philosopher of redemption. Procession and conversion in La Chute Dans Le Temps” – Horia Vicenţiu PĂTRAŞCU

Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, 65, 1, p. 125–143, Bucureşti, 2021 Abstract: The question we want to answer in this paper is the following: is there soteriology, i.e. doctrine of redemption, in Cioran’s work from his French period? If – as we had the opportunity to show elsewhere – his writings in Romanian indicate a kind…

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“The Evil Creator and The Sethians” – David LITWA

The idea of a deficient Demiurge was widespread in early Christian times. Why? Between a literal reading of the Hebrew Bible and pagan polemics, the moral and authoritative standing of the creator was fiercely questioned. From Egyptian priests to Gnostic sects, from Paul to Marcion, we read the ancient Yelp reviews of Yahweh. As a…

“Praise Ialdabaoth!; or, Notes Toward a Treatise on Averse Gnosticism” – Nicholas LACCETTI

PATHEOS / THE AGORA, September 13, 2016 In his essay “Base Materialism and Gnosticism,” French philosopher Georges Bataille extols the potential value of a kind of Averse Gnosticism — a Gnosticism in which the demiurge of the material world, considered by the ancient Gnostics to be the “chief guard” of the prison of matter, and…

Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio: “The Egyptian Origins of Gnosticism” – Miguel CONNER

Any true ecstasy is dangerous. It resembles the last stage of initiation in the Egyptian mysteries when, instead of the ultimate knowledge, one is told, "Osiris is a black divinity." The absolute remains unknowable. I see a form of madness, not of knowledge, in the ecstasy of life's ultimate origins. You cannot experience it except…

“Cioran and Gnosticism” – Ciprian SONEA

STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI THEOLOGIA ORTODOXA, vol. 63, no. 1, June 2018 Abstract: This study presents Cioran’s relation with Gnosticism that is marked by the fragmentary and contradictory style of Romanian thinker. This is caused by the specific ambivalence signaled by the Romanian essayist, ambivalence that is affirmed by the vitalist standpoint, and negated by the…

“The category of the religious in Cioran’s discourse” – Rodrigo MENEZES

ANALE SERIA DREPT, Universitatea Tibiscus, Timișoara, Romania, n° XXV, 2016, p. 49-80. Abstract: We aim at demonstrating the hermeneutic plausibility of reading Cioran as a heterodox religious thinker, a hypothesis that sits comfortably well alongside the assumption of him being a secular spirit–one with a concern for religious matters and an appeal for some ever-problematic…