VERSION|0.5.1|NAME|Matt Westwood|DATE|1371113885|CONTENT|&quot;to despise the [surely god given?!] intellect as if it were some kind of toxic trap created by the devil.&quot;

That&#039;s precisely how I read it. &quot;Satan&quot; is just a rework of &quot;Saturn&quot; which in itself is the equivalent of Thoth, the Egyptian bringer of knowledge. So anything to do with science and truth is satanic. The big lie is &quot;God is truth&quot;.

Was it not the Manichaean heresy that expressed the view that God is evil, and hence so is the world, and therefore we need to &quot;transcend&quot; God into a state of &quot;gnosis&quot; (that is, &quot;knowledge&quot;)? And for that the Cathars were wiped out in C12-13.|EMAIL|prime.mover@proofwiki.org|IP-ADDRESS|81.142.211.61|MODERATIONFLAG|