Chapter 2726 Gnostic Sect
On Monday night, Zheng Qing had another 'beautiful nightmare' similar to the previous day.
After waking up the next morning, he sat on the bed holding his head for a long time, thinking seriously about whether he had taken too many blood-replenishing pills in the past few days, causing the substance to affect his consciousness.
Originally he was not so superficial.
But to be honest, superficiality is indeed attractive. It’s no wonder that everyone likes superficiality.
The first class on Tuesday morning is divination.
In this class, Professor Yi did not let everyone sit in the classroom and listen to boring lectures for the first time in a long time. Instead, he took everyone to the astronomical tower and set up a series of strange-looking brass telescopes.
Compared with ordinary telescopes, these telescopes seem to be wearing thick tortoiseshell glasses.
"——The filter can help you observe the stars during the day."
The divination class professor took off a pair of 'tortoiseshell glasses', pointed to the translucent brown lenses on them, and simply explained: "This is a stargazing instrument improved by the great wizard Irenaeus from Smyrna, the capital of Asia Minor, using the eyes of a fire dragon -
—Here is a test point. The reason why Master Irenaeus invented this kind of lens was to refute the Gnostic sect's theory of being 'good at discerning and perceiving'... Do any of you know about this sect?"
The moment he heard the word 'Gnostic', Zheng Qing's ears perked up. Thomas also mentioned this name in the illegal laboratory a few days ago.
Perhaps because the term was a bit unfamiliar, no one raised their hands.
Even Xiao Xiao - when the classroom atmosphere was silent for three seconds, everyone turned to look at the 'doctor', but saw hesitation on his face and no intention of raising his hand.
"No one knows?"
Professor Yi opened his eyes wide in surprise, looked at Xiao Xiao, then looked at Zheng Qing, and asked again: "Gnostic sect, don't you even know this?"
Still no one raised their hands.
The professor shook his head, held on to the brass telescope beside him, looked around, and said with a hint of emotion in his tone: "No wonder Professor Qian complained to me a few days ago - the level of students today is not as good as before - the level of students is not as good as the world.
They seem to be the only two things that have regressed in this era of progress."
Zheng Qing didn't know which subject Professor Qian mentioned by Professor Yi taught.
But he knows that he has the ability to slightly restore the reputation of "current students".
So, after hesitating for a few seconds, he finally raised his hand hesitantly. There was a sigh of relief from the crowd. Professor Yi also happily called the boy's name.
"Classmate Zheng Qing?"
"I don't know much."
Feeling the encouraging gazes around him, the boy said slightly awkwardly: "As far as I know, the word 'Gnostic' means 'knowledge' in Greek. The Gnostic sect is a group of spiritual people who believe in mysterious religious teachings.
Intellectuals. They call the knowledge or consciousness gained through personal experience "gnosis" and "true knowledge", and believe that "gnosis" can free them from ignorance and the world... This is an attempt to neutralize matter and spirit.
Dualistic worldview.”
Because when Nikita and Thomas talked about this word on Saturday night, Zheng Qing had just been cut and was sober from the pain, so he was deeply impressed by this word.
After returning from the school hospital, he immediately flipped through the "Encyclopedia of the Wizarding World" and found the relevant definition of this entry.
Thinking of the entries in the encyclopedia, Zheng Qing couldn't help but glance at Xiao Xiao again - he had heard Xiao Xiao tell him about the content of "The Gospel of Judas", so he didn't think that Dr. Xiao didn't know about this sect.
After a pause, he looked away. The thoughts that had been rolling around in his mind for the past few days came to his mouth unconsciously, and he couldn't help but talk endlessly: "...Atlas Academy has no beliefs about Gnosticism, but
But there is discussion about this sect. Because many Gnostic believers use the Gospel of Judas as a theoretical basis, records show that debates about this gospel in the Atlas Academy occur every few decades. Many.
Everyone regards it as a heresy. Correspondingly, no one will doubt the appeal of this heresy. Because the logical foundation for its birth is very solid-God is omniscient and omnipotent-Gnostic's 'good at knowing,
Being able to discern is very important in discussions about divinity, and one of the most important, or perhaps the worst, is the discussion of sin.
Why does God allow sin to exist?
In the view of many Gnostics, evil is a necessary condition for the existence of good. Dialectically speaking, this view is not bad, but their subsequent reasoning goes astray. They believe that if evil is necessary, then it
It is also 'good'. Because all evil deeds demonstrate the preciousness and necessity of good, and those who do evil play a necessary role in the divine plan, so doing evil is doing good.
In the words of some Gnostics, you can never truly understand light without contact with darkness..."
Professor Yi finally couldn't help it, raised his hand, and interrupted Zheng Qing's endless digression.
"Okay, okay."
He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and smiled awkwardly: "...If I didn't know better, I almost thought I was taking a Bible debate class in Atlas."
There was a chuckle in agreement from the observatory.
Zheng Qing felt slightly embarrassed, lowered his head, and rubbed his brass telescope with his sleeve.
"Well, first of all, I need to emphasize that the Gnostic view of good and evil is not as simple as what classmate Zheng Qing said."
In order to prevent Zheng Qing's long speech just now from causing conflicts among colleges or misunderstandings among students, the divination class professor had to patch things up on the spot: "For Gnostics, those who cannot distinguish between good and evil are truly free people. At the same time,
They are also ignorant people, so they have to accept the pain of poverty, sin and injustice caused by ignorance... and the way to get rid of these pains is 'gnosis'... In short, what classmate Zheng Qing said is very good and very good.
Rich, but the following content—to be precise, the part after his first sentence—doesn’t have much to do with our course today.
As classmate Zheng Qing just said in the first sentence, the word Gnostic means 'knowledge' in Greek - the 'knowledge' here is in the meaning of the word, and actually refers specifically to astrology. This means that astrology in this world It has a unique status in the sect, and the wizards of the Gnostic sect happened to be very good at astrology. In order to fundamentally disintegrate the Gnostic theory, Master Irenaeus specially studied astrology and invented this kind of astrology device that can be used during the day. Lenses for observing stars... That’s the end of the digression. Today, your task is to observe the characteristics of the constellations during the day and compare them with the records of previous night observations. Before get out of class, each person will submit a copy of more than 120 lines. Report...remember what is the most important thing when looking at an astrolabe?”
"Look at the zodiac signs in the forward direction and the horoscope backwards!"
There was a uniform response from all around.
This chapter has been completed!