Open Veils · Answer
Who is the true god?
The question of the 'true god' is precisely where esoteric, Gnostic, and alternative scholarship diverges most violently from orthodoxy. The Gnostics identified the creator-god of Genesis not as the supreme deity but as the Demiurge — a lesser, flawed craftsman. Mauro Biglino argues from a literal Masoretic text reading that 'Elohim' is a plural noun denoting physical, technologically advanced beings, not a singular supreme deity. The deepest esoteric traditions converge: the God of institutional religion is a subordinate administrator, not the ultimate source.
Evidence
- According to Elaine Pagels' landmark work on the Nag Hammadi texts, the Sethian and Valentinian Gnostics drew a sharp distinction between the Monad — the ineffable, unknowable true source — and the Demiurge, the arrogant craftsman-god who declares 'I am a jealous god' precisely because other gods exist above him.
- John Lash Lamb extended this in 'Not in His Image,' identifying the Demiurge with Yaldabaoth, a blind lion-faced deity who mistakes himself for the ultimate.
- Mauro Biglino, former Vatican translator of the Masoretic Hebrew Bible for the official Pauline editions, argues in 'The Naked Bible' that Elohim and YHWH are demonstrably plural and physical — the Anunnaki-adjacent 'Elohim' being one clan-deity among many, not a cosmic absolute.
- This corroborates Zecharia Sitchin's reading of Sumerian cuneiform, where Enlil (the biblical YHWH analog) is a territorial administrator, while Anu sits above as a higher authority.
- Rudolf Steiner and Manly P. Hall both placed the Judeo-Christian Yahweh at the rank of a 'Time Spirit' or Demiurgic regent — subordinate to the Logos, which is the true animating principle of the cosmos.