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...VOEGELIN Louisiana State University Baton Rouge...
...comments on Gnosticism and ancient-world Catholicism by TIME and Dr. Voegelin are unnecessarily pedantic. Gnosticism and Catholicism were to ancient Christianity what Trotskyism and Stalinism are to today's Marxism. And just as orthodox Catholicism defeated Gnosticism in the ancient ideological battle, so did Stalinism defeat Trotskyism in the modern one; while the result in both instances was that the victorious doctrine became orthodox, its leaders and followers in political control of their areas, while the ousted ideology became heretic (or "deviationist," to use the mildest Kremlin term), its leaders and followers subject to official persecution, banishment, execution...
Thanks for the absorbing synopsis of Political Scientist Voegelin's thesis. The waters of TIME are running deep. Such earnest probing into the roots of the current intellectual crisis inclines me to agree with you that there are signs of movement toward a solution...
...Garbled nonsense . . . This Voegelin is just another egghead...
Gnostic influence on Western policy did not stop with the peace of 1945. Says Voegelin: "If a war has a purpose at all, it is the restoration of a balance of forces and not the aggravation of disturbance; it is the reduction of the unbalancing excess of force, not the destruction of force to the point of creating a new unbalancing power vacuum. Instead, the [Western] Gnostic politicians have put the Soviet army on the Elbe, surrendered China to the Communists, at the same time demilitarized Germany and Japan, and in addition demobilized...