Gnosticism Blog 3

So I learned about this word that was new to me, Gnosticism. Some religious movements felt that the world was created by ordinary people in a bad spirit, and the religious movements felt that their body was a divine soul living in this materialistic world created by the ordinary people. Created by this bad spirit, people thought it was evil. The believers of this wanted to free themselves from the materialistic world, so they thought God sent Jesus of Nazareth as an embodied supreme to die and bring freedom to them. To the believers Jesus was sent to teach them and free them, but to others he was this regualr man. People just wanted to break free from this evil world.

I see how Allegory of the Cave is related to Gnosticism. In Allegory of the Cave, the people stuck in this cave that try to break free are Gnostic people. People who want to break free from the ordinary and what they know because they know there is more out there then what they are taught. They are living in this cave created by people, the ordinary people. Just like movement felt the world was evil, these people in the cave felt the same way about the cave.

Tieing all of this into The Matrix, The Gnostic people are like Neo and the Nebuchadnezzar, and the agents are just like the ordinary people that created the materialistic world trying to make everyone same. The Nebuchadnezzar felt Neo was "The One" like a supreme being role Jesus played in Gnosticism. He was here to free them and make this movement possible. They wanted to free themselves from this materialistic world the agents created, and free themselves from what the only knowledge they are taught, as in Allegory of the Cave. All of this makes sense.