The Christian Conspiracy: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Gnostic Christianity - Part Two

The Christian Conspiracy: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Gnostic Christianity, by Ralph Macchio, Part Two.
(chapters 6 - 10)
This book chronicles the replacement of an original Christianity which was diverse and Gnostic in character by an orthodox pseudo-theology defined by a narrow set of doctrines quite different in scope and spirit. If it shatters any image, it is the myth that there was an "original" Christianity, somewhat in the image of modern fundamentalism, where all held to the four Gospels, the concept of Jesus as God, His death for our sins, the resurrection of the body at the last day, etc. Rather it lifts the curtain on a profoundly different "original" Christianity--a rich set of doctrines in the Gnostic tradition defined across many sects existing at Christianity's very earliest beginnings including even the communities and teachings of St. Paul and the Nazorean community at Jerusalem, and including doctrines of reincarnation, the origins of evil in a class of beings called "archons," the preexistence of souls, the divine spark in each, therefore the divinity of each--all befitting the universalist character Jesus in fact had. And it chronicles the grim, often political and ultimately violent destruction of this diversity and these doctrines by the end of the fourth century, their replacement by a stark orthodoxy of distorted and narrowed dogmas, the destruction or suppression of the many gospels by an arbitrary and edited canon of four, and the concomitant establishment of a power structure set in a hierarchy which moved increasingly to the denial of freedom of belief and its final alliance with the power of the state.

Contents:

VI. The Emergence of Orthodoxy

The Misuse of the Old Testament-Clement of Rome
Ignatius of Antioch
The Power Politics of Orthodoxy
The Emergence of Creed
Ignatius Attacks Sectarian Christian Communities
Marcion-Marcion Formulates the First New Testament Canon

VII. The Great Schools of Christian Gnosis

Basilides
Basilides' Doctrine of Reincarnation
Valentinus
The Doctrine of the Three Natures
The School of Valentinus
Valentinian Literature-The Gospel Of Truth
The Valentinian Sacraments
The Doctrine of the Resurrection

VIII. The Orthodox Movement Formulates "Anti-Christian-Gnostic" Theology"

Justin Martyr
The Doctrine of the Incarnation of the Word
The Resurrection of the Body

IX. Irenaeus and the Formulation of Orthodox Pseudo-Theology

Irenaeus
The Doctrine of Deity
Origins Of Christianity
The Doctrine of the Logos and Christ
The Doctrine of Salvation
Irenaeus Fabricates His Own Apostolic Succession
The Myth of the Orthodox Apostolic Succession
Tertullian
Cyprian of Carthage

X. Origen of Alexandria and the Golden Age of Christian Theology

The Catechetical School at Alexandria
Clement of Alexandria
Origen-The Synthesis of Christian Orthodoxy and Christian Gnosis
The Theology of Origen
The Trinity
Origen on the Doctrine of Christ
Origen on the Fall of Souls
Origen on the Fallen Angels
Origen's Doctrine of Salvation
Origen and Reincarnation
The Golden Age of Christian Theology
The Attack on Origen