“Of all these [Gallic] peoples, the Belgae are the bravest, because they are the farthest removed from the civilization and refinement of [Roman] Province, and merchants least frequently resort to them and import those things which tend to effeminate the mind..."
Jews can divorce, Muslims can divorce and remarry. And it genuinely brings me close to tears when Ptolemy writes to Flora: “Moses in hard-heartedness permits parting, but Jesus knows that everything can be endured, and reconciled in love.”
ABRAXAS is the force of the Sun and the radiant source of Life, and at the same time the eternally vacuuming gorge of the Void.
Basilides (Seven Sermons to the Dead)
The fact that Catholicism begins with cathexis but ends in deconstruction and Buddhism begins with deconstruction but ends in cathexis perfectly illustrates that the formula of "things containing their own opposites" is itself the ultimate cogency of the "Big Other"—Yaldabaoth.