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Originally Posted by aussenseiter
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My limited knowledge says Vormotus is claiming to be a Gnostic, or a servant of the Devil in some other fashion.
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The premise of gnosticism is that the goal of existence in samsara (this hellishly false plane of material reality) is escape from samsara, so it takes exactly one successful generation of aspiring gnostics succeeding in that aim with no importance whatsoever in establishing a foothold in samsara as a "church" because all successful gnostics are no longer here, which means that only failed gnostics can remain here to manage a church, which means all the clergy are failures with no ethos whatsoever in commenting and providing guidance, on their own religion, for others to follow.
Catharism resolves this paradox by reserving consolamentum (ritualized purification and absolute abstinence from the continued consumption of matter until death by starvation meets you) for the terminally ill, as a final act of defiance from this fallen material creation.