Seth and Gnosticism

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I am interested in Gnosticism because, 25 years ago, I attended a weekly Gnostic group for three years. I eventually decided that this group was teaching a distortion of Gnosticism.

Here is a definition:

"The term 'Gnostic' has traditionally referred to the various groups
which flourished in the early centuries of the Common Era and
which stressed the importance of gnosis – direct inner knowledge of
God – above dogma. The early Church Fathers condemned them as
heretics, and until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Codices, it
was largely through their tirades against Gnosticism that the various
Gnostic teachers and schools were known."

A Seth quote which could be relevant:

"We all prepared ourselves for a blistering commentary on our chosen costumes for the evening, with personal analysis of what we had or hadn't done. Instead, Seth's voice went low and intimate. "There was once a god who was not a god—who was not a god, for you are dealing with legends," he said, nearly whispering. "There was a god in ancient Egypt, and his name was Seth, and he was disreputable. And he threw aside establishments, and whenever other gods rose up and said, 'We are the truth, we are pure and we are holy,' this disreputable god stood up, and with a voice like thunder, said: 'You are nincompoops!'" "Right on, yeah," Lauren chimed in. "And the other gods did not like him," Seth continued in his storytelling whisper, "and whenever they set up their altars, he came like thunder, but playfully, and tossed the altars asunder, and he said 'Storms are natural, and good, and a part of the earth, even as placid skies are. Winds are good. Questions are good. Males and females are good. Even gods and demons are good, if you must believe in demons. But, structures are limited!' "And so this god, who was not a god, called Seth, went about kicking apart the structures, and he gathered about him others who kicked apart the structures. And they were themselves, whether they were male or female." (from "Conversations With Seth: Book One: 25th Anniverary Edition (Deluxe Ed)" by Susan M. Watkins, George Rhoads, Jane Roberts)

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There is a website which deals with this topic:

The Sethian Gnosis, Old and New (http://thenewgnosis.org/thesethiangnosisoldandnew.htm)

A quote from that site:

The 'gods' were never identified by the gnostics of old with God - the pleroma - but known as aeons. The word aeon referred both to an eternal spirit being and to an distinct sphere or dimension of awareness. Not all aeons were seen as having incarnate forms but some were regarded as sending messengers or emissaries to mankind – Seth being foremost amongst these. The spiritual entitly calling itself 'Seth' and channelled by Jane Roberts described himself as part of a larger aeon or 'pyramid awareness gestalt'. To such trans-physical entities, awareness gestalts or aeons belongs a knowing awareness of potentiality of such potency or power that it is the source of countless consciousnesses and actualities.

What is an aeon? I found this in a book on Gnosticism:

Before time and space began, the true God existed in a realm
known as the Pleroma, which means fullness, together with a
female divine principle, known as Ennoia, or Thought. The true
God does not create, but rather emanates, which is to say that
things come forth from him. In other words, rather than the true
God saying 'Let there be light', as the God of the Old Testament
does, light comes forth from the true God as if it were breath; it
is not deliberate, willed creation. A series of emanations resulted
in the creation of a number of divine figures known as aeons.

("The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics" by Sean Martin)

It appears that according to the Gnostic view, Seth is probably an "aeon".