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