Gnostic Materialism
From Plastic Tub
A seeming contradiction in terms, Gnostic Materialism is a rough-hewn ontological system elaborated but thinly by Stimes Addisson in his seminal work, The Railroad of Filament. It best can be summed in his closing remarks from that work:
- "I am confident the space around my head is clogged with spirit, the air is very nearly boiling with vapor. Demons, angels, the hands of various Gods and Countenances reach into my consciousness and alight with symbols, damnations and benedictions of Grace -- but I am an athiest and such things are the purvey of children and idiots. But that does not diminish their power, their influence or thier ability to set ablaze a firmament of associations, each trembling filament an epilipetic paean to a mute Power, an eminently utitlitarian belief in the everlasting power of things that don't exist."
Non-Canonical Text
Like a Gnostic receding in the mirror, Gnostic Materialists retreat from Sophia and reject the pleroma. Believing that substance is tainted through knowledge, they seek a state of mute slumber with dumb apes. As such, they serve as disruptive element in civilization and elevate the Dark Ages to the status of a Golden Age. Both ornery and capricious, their philosophical convolutions and warped logical extremities are almost predictable in their unpredictability. Their yearning for the opened head, for example, is driven by an understanding that the Gnosis is released in this state, for they believe that dull, gray substance of the brain seeks to rid itself of the mind.
