Good morning! You mentioned how Gnosticism influenced your cosmology beliefs, and I think it's very interesting. So, can I ask if you can talk a little more about this? (I think cosmology is one of the most interesting parts when it comes to beliefs) Thank you have a lovely day.
"Influenced" would perhaps be not quite the right word; studying Gnosticism allowed me to clarify my beliefs for myself and put them into language.
I believe in the Creator - a source that makes existence possible and defines the nature of all, material and immaterial. It does not necessarily require veneration or has consciousness in the way humanity can recognise, really, as one would expect from an immeasurable multitude expressed thought an endless number of minds and items, separate and one through being contained within It. On the other hand, through the very awareness we are able to make the connection coscious; it can not be made or severed, as it is a matter of being itself. The Creator is infinitely good and kind, as, containing, experiencing, and being all at once, It can have nothing but acceptance, compassion, and love for all of Itself.
Through It are formed other spiritual beings, including what we would call gods; among them those that can be, with a certain backgroud knowledge, categorised as devils. Among them, too, is every other soul, friendly, hostile, hungry, giving, and everything in between.
Particular names aside, the one major disagreement I have with the mainstream Gnostic current is in the attitude towards the physical. In my personal and most humble opinion, the, well, badness of the earthly is a conclusion, not a prerequisite - and a conclusion one does not have to make.
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