>>21052260The mental sphere of creation has concepts as living entities, its the mental plane from which all thoughts of the mind are derived.
Interpreting the scripture literally is silly for the material and astral spheres, but since concepts become beings in the mental plane the literal interpretation becomes valid once again.
The demiurge is depicted as a lion headed serpent because its head is ego and its body is illusion - it is a metaphor
The demiurge is literally the concept of time as an embodied being in the mental sphere, all of the illusory hologram is dependent on time and so in the illusory creation he is all powerful
Both the literal and the metaphoric interpretation of gnosticism are valid - just at different points on the inner journey
The good part is if you invert your flow of consciousness and stop feeding the illusion of the lower worlds you will have direct experiences of the higher reality therefore you gain gnosis
