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That's the direction I've been going, Christian Gnosticism, Esoteric system.

Dark magick, left hand path stuff. I won't go into specifics as far as what I actually practiced.

it's probably still seen as a favorable by the Roman church, The man who defeated Gnosticism: St. Irenaeus - National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception And as far the the Cathars, they were wiped out by Pope Innocent III in what was an act of genocide called the Albigensian Crusade, more were...

The Cathars believed in reincarnation, and their main belief system was based on Gnosticism.

At first I was shooting for Christo-Paganism, which is actually pretty popular, but life unfolds and you feel yourself traveling in a different direction than you intended, so I just rolled with it, and ended up on the darker side of things. I felt I could get more out of it. I'm on Cape Cod.

The spirituality of all of it, the end game of Christianity, what we'll have to endure to attain that. What they preach is how to be like Jesus, which is a good thing, but it's presented in such an unemotional fashion. Too much like being in school.

The Gnostics believed Jesus came here to teach us to to tap into the divine spark that's in all of us, and salvation is finding Gnosis with his divine energy. Sounds like Spiritualism, but these beliefs are actually from 1st century AD. Salvation brought your energy in line with God's and...

I'm actually trying to claw my way back to being a Christian, but I don't like the way modern churches carry themselves.

How do you work on getting it back when you don't trust any forms of modern Christianity? What I mean by that is I feel the true message has gotten lost and modern churches are more like Tony Robbins self help seminars. Besides that everything seems geared towards couples and families, churches...

You have to learn from a real Shaman to become a real Shaman, in my case I practice Shamanism. Dark Paganism is simply the practice of working with dark deities, as opposed to the basic Norse, Greek or Roman deities. Not just dark, but all aspects. So it's sort of grey magick. use whatever tools...

Not off hand..

In a historical context, where and when was the first mentioning of Lucifer?

Hi all, Shamanic and Dark Pagan practitioner here, I also study some left hand stuff, jack of all trades master of none, but someday I hope to settle on one belief system. Until then I'd like to learn more from others. I'm also a multi-instrumentalist and produce my own music.