did you know the movie The Matrix is connected to an ancient Christian heresy that says the world we're living in is a prison ruled by the devil and these same band gospels contain the secret knowledge of how to escape this material world entirely so strap in because we're about to dive down the rabbit hole of hidden knowledge and heresy that would have gotten you burned at the stake I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes we're going to see how the movie The Matrix connects to these Gnostic ideas the false reality we're trapped in the Divine spark within us and the journey to wake up and escape this material world ancient scriptures straight from the Bann books of the Bible Well they lay it all out the secret book of John reveals the God of this world is an ignorant fraud and on the origin of the world tells us this place was actually mistake and the Gospel of Philip talks about a sacred secret ritual of Awakening and the Gospel of Mary shows how one disciple Mary Magdalene was entrusted with a path out of the Matrix itself and here's where it gets wild Neo isn't just the one because it sounds cool he reflects the secret god of the gnostics that's called called you guessed it the one see these ancient texts didn't just expose the LIE of the world they revealed how to beat the system and Ascend Beyond it are you ready to see the world as it really is then let's begin all right first things first what the hell is gnosticism if you're not familiar with it don't worry that's kind of the point most people aren't because they were some of the very first Christians that were actually a secret society but see they got branded as heresy and they were nearly wiped out nosis means knowledge in Greek now this isn't any kind of ordinary knowledge but mystical secret knowledge into the true nature of reality and according to the gnostics reality as we know it is basically a cosmic scam an illusion a lie sound familiar Gnostic Gospels basically read like a matrix script that were written 2,000 years ago in The Matrix Morpheus straight up tells Neo that his everyday world is a prison for your mind you are a slave Neo gnostics 2,000 years ago were saying the exact same thing that this world is a prison for the Divine spark inside you a fake reality that's made to keep you ignorant it's not actually where you're from you're from another world entirely but you forgot but here's the thing these texts they were hunted down seized and destroyed by the early church the Council of NAA the Bishops the Emperors they worked to rewrite history to make sure that only their version of Christianity survived now think about it in the Matrix the machines wiped out any trace of Zion in every cycle because they didn't want people to know that there was a way out the church did the exact same thing to the no they tried to erase them from history because nothing says Eternal truth quite like a bunch of dudes setting people on fire for having a different opinion but just like in The Matrix some truths refuse to be buried so think about this why would they work so hard to destroy these books unless they were dangerous why was the idea that this world is a prison ruled by a fake God so threatening because if people had actually believed it they wouldn't have feared the church they wouldn't have obeyed but guess what in 1945 a stash of these banned Gnostic text next were discovered buried in nagamati Egypt they'd been hidden away for over, 1500 years probably someone knew the system would try to delete them well now they're back just like how Morpheus wakes Neo up these lost scriptures wake us up to the terrifying truth according to the gnostics at least that the world we live in is a prison of control but how can we escape well here's the wild Gnostic story in a nutshell now brace yourself it's a trip in the beginning there is the true high God not the god of the Bible but an Indescribable being known as the one it's basically the source pure light in fact the secret book of John says the one rules all nothing has authority over it it is more than just God it is utterly Perfect Light so this true God of Light emanates a bunch of divine beings that are called eons one of these eons is a feminine figure called Sophia which is Greek for wisdom and she kind of messed up by creating from a place of imbalance and this made a an inferior ignorant God of Shadow think of him kind of like a cosmic glitch this accident of a God is called yal deot or the demiurge which means Craftsman why because he's the one who crafted this material world but here's the thing he's ignorant and believes he's the only God in town in the secret book of John the Demi urge says I am God and there is no other God beside me now that's already pretty cringe but if that sounds familiar it's because in the Bible God says this all the time so yeah the gnostics were saying the god of the Bible was the ignorant lying false god of Shadow and the fruit from the Tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden that was the red pill which is why the demiurge lied to Adam and Eve saying it would kill them and that they shouldn't eat it this dark Creator is the ultimate false god who's basically like the architect of the Matrix I am the architect I created The Matrix he created minions called archons which means rulers and these are basically the agents in The Matrix keeping everyone in the dark about what they really are see the Demi urge created a fake World a prison a world of Illusion our world to trap pieces of the Divine Light of the one why well just like how in The Matrix humans act like batteries to power the Machine World in nstic ISM Divine Sparks of light from the one power the dead Material World of the demiurge The demiurge Wanted humans to be his slaves but without the Sparks of light from the one the bodies would have just laid there lifeless so according to the nost the material world is the Matrix a flawed simulation a collective hallucination and these material bodies are traps imprisoning our souls the secret book of John even calls human bodies a tomb one Gnostic text the Gospel of Philip says bluntly that the world came about through a mistake in other words this reality is buggy as hell basically the Windows 95 of existence in The Matrix the world that humans know is a lie it's a neural interactive simulation built by an AI God that isn't Act God the architect in Matrix Reloaded is basically a digital demiurge a pompus know-it-all who created The Matrix and who impersonates the fatherly maker role gnostics would have pointed at him and said yeah that's yal de beo in a suit even the fundamental idea of waking up from an illus world to discover a truer reality is exactly in line with Gnostic philosophy and other related mystical Traditions see the creators of the movie The Matrix the wowski have talked about their Broad philosophical influences everything from Plato's Cave to the Buddhist ideas of Illusion Maya but nostic ism is like the edgiest most punk rock Blasphemous version as Lana and Lily wowski once explained when they were thinking about how to make the Matrix they were grappling with the big questions about reconciling the world of appearances with a hidden world of Truth they know that most people feel like something's off that everyday life might be missing something the film was designed so that like Neo the audience would sense an underlying truth and go on a journey of Awakening in a way the machowski were doing what ancient Gnostic teachers tried to do jolt people out of their ignorance and open their eyes to a disturbing reality using badass fight scenes and shiny pills instead of esoteric sermons because let's be honest Gnostic teachers didn't have bullet time camera to keep people interested now let's talk about that disturbing reality that the gnostics preached see in their view our world it's a prison and on the origin of the world even says human Souls were taken captive and thus they were shut into the prison prons of the body basically flesh cages for the spirit I'm telling you this gets dark humanity is asleep duped and manipulated by the archons the rulers who keep us distracted with mundane life so that we never seek anything beyond it the Gnostic book called the reality of the rulers says the archons threw Humanity into great distraction and a life of toil so that humans might be occupied by worldly Affairs they wanted humans too distracted to have time to realize the truth sound familiar that's basically the 9 to-5 grind that keeps people too busy to question reality so the Gnostic message is essentially hey wake up literally the message Neo sees on his computer wake up you're trapped in a fake world I mean this is so close that hey if they had him back then the gnostics probably would be wearing black trench coats and sunglasses so in gnosticism the big bad is the demiurge and his archons just like the machines the architect and the Agents the programs in The Matrix but how do we escape The Matrix well we'll get to that in a minute but remember that each of us has the spark of true Divinity a piece of the one hidden within us well how did that spark get there remember the Demi urge trap these pieces in material bodies like batteries to power his creation but this is a catch 22 the Demi urge needed this light to get his world up and running but he didn't realize that it also means that Humanity secretly gets a soul that is a fragment of the true God the one and when the Demi urge and the archons create create the first human they realize there's a big problem since Adam contains a spark of the one he's smarter and more powerful than the dark rulers realizing they [ __ ] up the demiurge and the archons create a new kind of body one that's a lot more limited and will cause forgetfulness they're basically reprogramming it remember how in The Matrix the architect had to keep creating different versions of the Matrix because people kept rejecting the program and waking up it's like that the secret book of John says they intended to make him a new this became a tomb a new kind of body those thieves bound the man in it and chained him in forgetfulness yeah but that's not all see Adam and Eve actually used to be a single Divine being but the Demir and the archons split them in two to limit their power and cast them into the material world yeah sonostics had a totally different interpretation of Genesis the serpent was the good guy and the Creator was the bad guy but the key point is that each human including you and I contain a divine spark from the true reality the one the realm of light The Matrix equivalent to all this well all those humans wired in pods have the potential to wake up they have Minds Sparks that if they were freed could do amazing things like bend spoons or stop bullets once they Unshackled themselves from the illusion of course Morpheus outright tells Neo that deep inside you know something's wrong with the world you felt it your entire life that there's something wrong with the world that's why Neo spent his life looking for more Morpheus for morpheus's truth see that Restless feeling that splinter in the mind was driving neoc crazy that's the spark of nosis trying to ignite is that something you've ever felt see the wowski use the term architect for The Mastermind of the Matrix and this is a direct nod to the demiurge which literally means Craftsman now here's where gnosticism gets really fun if the whole world is an illusion set up by a fake god well then how do we escape the Gnostic said through nois which means knowledge Enlightenment but not just any kind of knowledge a kind of Awakening a realization of one's true origin and nature just like in The Matrix how do people wake up they have to have knowledge of what the real world is and that everything around them is fake the Gnostic Gospels aren't about worship Blind Faith or sin the Gnostic Gospels were more like an underground Manifesto about how to hack your way out of this reality in other words revealing Hidden Truths that would free your mind from the illusion the truth will set you free but first it'll get you labeled a heretic which honestly is probably the best compliment you can get trust me it's almost like organized religion stole the cheat codes deleted them from the instruction manual and told you to just Spam Faith instead but in the Gospel of Mary for example Jesus gives Mary Magdalene secret teachings about how the soul can escape the material world and straight up says there is no sin which by the way is the fastest way to get yourself banned from the church gnosticism reveals a radical instruction to look Within for truth not outside very much like Neo who eventually realizes that he's the one and that the power was inside him all along it also resonates with morpheus's advice that Neo has to free his mind no one can just tell him what the Matrix is he has to see it for himself no one can be told what the Matrix is you have to see it for yourself in the Gnostic view a Divine mystical and self- knowledge that's the key to Salvation knowing that your true self is beyond this physical shell and that you actually come from the true real of light in the Gospel of Thomas Jesus says when you come to know yourselves you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father basically this means to know yourself is to realize you're a spark of the infinite not just Mr Anderson software engineer from Chicago es Anderson the parallels in The Matrix are pretty blatant here the red pill that's pure nosis knowledge unfiltered even though it can be hard to accept Morpheus says it only offers the truth nothing more remember all I'm offering is the truth nothing more Neo swallowing that pill is essentially Neo saying yeah I want to know reality no matter how hellish it might be and boy does he get an eyel fields of human batteries machines controlling everything his entire life a computer construct talk about a traumatic Enlightenment and Gnostic initiations at least as portrayed in their myths when someone gets nosis the experience can be just as jarring the Gospel of Mary describes the Soul's Ascent after death passing through terrifying powers that try to drag it back down into the material world into another cycle of incarnation the soul has to basically confront and defeat the archons the archons of Desire ignorance wrath basically inner demons in Cosmic agents and as the soul defeats each of these archons they even call the soul Slayer of men and conqueror of space meaning that it's transcending the physical body and the material world at one point the soul declares its Victory by saying what binds me has been killed what surrounds me has been overcome my desire is gone and ignorance has died from now on I'll receive rest in silence this is like Neo at the end of the film after he dies to his old self and wakes up with Godlike Powers calmly saying no to the bullets and stopping them midair he even returns to the silence at the very end of revolutions where he lets himself be absorbed into the source but we're not there yet let's talk about the one both in the context of the Matrix and the philosophical concept of neoplatonism and gnosticism Neo's title like the one isn't just a cool sounding gamertag it's loaded with meaning in The Matrix Universe the one is the liberated human with the ability to reshape The Matrix within the story it's a role tied into the machine's cycle of control the one actually turns out to be an anomaly that the architect manipulates to reboot the system which is a sneaky twist but on a symbolic level the one is like the Savior figure kind of like I don't know Jesus and he's the Gnostic logos the word that comes from the true God to save souls and interestingly in real world philosophy the one is also a concept from something called neoplatonism referring to the Ultimate Reality the source of existence utterly Transcendent the wowski surely knew this Neo is an anagram of one after all and Neo is the one it's probably a playful nod to NE platonism and the one now the gnostics also called their Ultimate Reality the one but they wouldn't say that the one itself comes into the world rather it emanates Christ to kind of do the Dirty Work of saving souls in Christian Gnostic texts Christ is kind of like the Avatar of the one in the sense of that he's unified with the supreme god in other words Jesus is the Neo of gnosticism in The Matrix Neo has a lot of Christlike qualities think about it resurrected from the dead power of Miracles Etc but the story also subverts the typical Messiah Trope by making him one of several anomalies a system glitch but still Neo is different and fulfills the Gnostic savior role almost to a te he wakes up realizes his divine nature as the one and his presence in the Matrix lets him wake others up too by The Matrix Revolutions Neo literally sacrifices himself to defeat ancient Smith to save Zion like Jesus dying on the cross it's equal part Christian symbolism and hacker heroism but here's the real kicker gnosticism isn't about worshiping Christ not at all guess what it is about becoming Christ see this is where traditional Christianity flipped out and hit the emergency heresy alarm the gnostics didn't believe in bowing down to some Divine authority figure instead they taught that Jesus came to show you what you are how to wake up and break out of the Matrix and become like him the Gospel of Philip has this to say about a person who understands the Truth for this person is no longer a Christian but a Christ let that really sink in it's not about believing in Jesus it's about realizing you are a Christ The Gospel of Thomas goes even further Jesus right out tells his disciples he who drinks from my mouth will become like I am and I will become he and the hidden things will be revealed to him translation if you really understand his teachings you won't just be a follower you'll become what he is you and Christ will be one and the same this isn't some vague metaphor about being a good person this is a radical blueprint of Awakening for realizing that the divine power Jesus had is inside of you that whole Son of God thing yeah it's not exclusive just to Jesus from 2,000 years ago it applies to all of us and this is exactly Neo's Journey he doesn't spend the movies worshiping a savior or even the idea of the one he realizes that he is the one he becomes the one that's gnosticism in a nutshell meanwhile Christianity went yeah let's not do that and turned Jesus into some authority figure that you have to obey see if people realized what Jesus was actually saying the whole system of control would collapse because the real message is not bow to Christ Jesus would probably think that was pretty weird it's about wake up and realize that you're the same thing back in the day discovering this kind of secret knowledge would have gotten you burned at the stake lucky for you today's heresy is as easy as clicking like And subscribe so go ahead take the real red pill check out my books and downloads on inner transformation links are in the description and prove to the algorithmic architect that you prefer Forbidden Knowledge over cat videos but there's a bigger twist to this story see Neo isn't alone he has Trinity and according to many Gnostic Gospels Christ isn't alone either so let's shift Focus to something really spicy that the Matrix resurrections actually leaned into the idea that Neo alone isn't enough it's Neo Plus Trinity together that really crashes the system this is where an obscure Gnostic concept called the bridal chamber comes into play remember how the Demi urge originally split Adam and Eve in two to limit their power well according to some gnostics particularly the valentinians was the idea that the ultimate salvation and transformation involved the reunion of the male and female elements within ourselves in other words a restoration of the original androgynous human Unity the Gospel of Philip talks about how in the beginning the first human was split into male Adam and female Eve which brought death and that salvation requires a return to Unity when Eve was in Adam death didn't exist when she separated from him death came into being if he enters again and receives her back there will be no death It also says Christ came to repair the separation that existed since the beginning by uniting the two again those who have United in the bridal chamber won't be separated any longer this is some deeply symbolic stuff here it's it's not about sex or gender in a literal way so get that out of your head it's about a kind of spiritual marriage of opposite energies or polarities that exist within us we can use the symbolism of male female Soul Spirit human Divine you ever notice how every real spiritual tradition ends with you actually needing to integrate your opposites and becoming whole meanwhile mainstream religion is like nah just feel guilty and Obey and give us 10% of your money in the Gospel of Thomas Jesus says when you make the male and female one and the same so that the male not be male nor the female female then you will enter the kingdom in Matrix resurrections the big twist is clear Neo and Trinity together they're basically the ultimate power couple that the Matrix can't handle the analyst who's like the new architect figure explains that keeping Neo and Trinity near each other but always slightly apart generates an insane amount of energy to Fu The Matrix but if they ever fully unite the system could collapse damn that's straight out of the Gospel of Phillip Neo equals the masculine element Trinity equals the feminine and it's only when they come together that they unlock true power in the climax of resurrections Neo and Trinity together confront the analyst Trinity even surpasses Neo's powers and and flies which is a nice subversion where she becomes the one as well well in gnosticism Jesus is Neo and Mary Magdalene is Trinity the Gospel of Philip doesn't beat around the bush about this it says the companion of the Savior was Mary Magdalene he loved her more than all the disciples and used to kiss her often on her mouth see that kiss wasn't just about making out it was symbolic for representing Christ and Mary's equality and unity the disciples were jealous as [ __ ] when the other disciples whined about it asking Jesus why he loved her more his comeback basically boil down to because she actually gets it and you guys don't like Mary Trinity wasn't just Neo's romantic interest she was his guide Confidant and ultimately his savior remember she literally brought him back from the dead with a kiss in original Matrix a textbook Bridal chamber moment likewise Mary Magdalene wasn't just tagging along she was critical essential in the Gospel of Mary it's revealed that Jesus gave her secret teachings and according to this gospel she was actually supposed to take Christ's place as leader after she left Mary told the disciples what is hidden from you I will reveal to you the Matrix resurrections doubles down on this Dynamic Neo who's everyone's favorite digital Jesus might have started out as the one but Trinity ends up stealing the show flying around and bending reality it's really a nice twist especially if you're tired of watching dudes always getting the spotlight similarly Mary magin took Center Stage after Jesus was gone see the Gospel of Philip tells us explicitly that those who enter the bridal chamber which means those who unite their inner opposites are Untouchable those who enter the bridal chamber will Kindle the light and None Shall be able to torment a person like this basically enlightened people are spiritually bulletproof and Power couples like Neo and Trinity or Jesus and Mary they're the ultimate symbols of spiritual powerhouses Mary Magdalene wasn't just some passive follower she actively continued Christ's Mission becoming the teacher of the other disciples in the Gospel of Mary Peter even throws a fit about having to listen to a woman this is also similar to the Gnostic story of Adam and Eve in Gnostic texts Eve actually isn't a sinner at all but the heroine who wakes Adam up just like how Trinity is the one who finds Neo wakes him up with that iconic follow the White Rabbit tip and then brings him back from the dead with her love in fact in many Gnostic texts Eve is actually the one who gives life to Adam in resurrections Neo and Trinity together form a balanced whole Neo had the will to resist the Matrix but Trinity provides the passion and creative spark to actually change it together they remake the false world and this fits the Gnostic idea that salvation is a collaborative act a re Union in Gnostic terms each person's soul has an inner counterpart and in the bridal chamber an actual ritual they practiced the two are united so the person can Ascend as a complete being by the way this isn't just a gnostic thing it's psychology Carl Young The Swiss psychiatrist said that everyone has an inner feminine or inner masculine called the Ana and animus and that they need to unite with them to become psychologically whole and healthy and you don't even need to talk in terms of gender that's just a symbol here you could just say inner opposite but speaking of gender we need to talk about how the Matrix has been interpreted totally backwards by a lot of people today are you ready for this I don't know if you are the two creators of the Matrix films the wowski have openly said that the Matrix was always on some level a transgender allegory about feeling reality is false and Breaking Free to live as your true self did you know that the Matrix films were created by Two Sisters Lana and Lily wowski who were publicly known as brothers at the time of making the original trilogy they themselves proudly transitioned I'm glad that people are talking about the Matrix movies uh with a trans narrative I'm glad that it has gotten out that was the original intention but the world wasn't quite ready the corporate world wasn't ready for it so many people even believe that the red pill was inspired by estrogen pills to represent transition they were literally red in the 9s want more proof the wowski initially envisioned the character switch as gender fluid appearing as as a man in the real world and as a woman within the Matrix but the studio wouldn't let it happen we had the character of switch who was like a character who would be a man in the real world and then a woman in The Matrix now this is a really beautiful layer of meaning here because this means that the Matrix resonates with anyone who sensed that the identity Society gave them is a lie and who seeks to find their true identity in that sense the film is both deeply Gnostic and deeply personal to the wachowskis now fast forward to the 2010s and have this bizarre spectacle of red pill becoming a meme among right-wing and anti-feminist groups who claim they've awakened to the truth and say that feminism is evil or some other nonsense they completely missed the point that the creators of the film are two trans women who Infuse their journey and Progressive philosophy into the DNA of the movies it reached total absurdity when in 2020 Elon Musk tweeted take the red pill and Ivanka Trump replied taken basically appropriating the term for a reactionary agenda and Lily wowski tweeted back [ __ ] both of you isn't that crazy it's as if the archons themselves hijacked the Matrix imagery to keep people in yet another layer of delusion turning a symbol of Liberation into a weird alt-right dog whistle talk about the Matrix within the matrix it's like watching people used the handmaid's tail as an instruction manual instead of a warning hm where's that happening the film is literally about how the world is an illusion imposed by a false Authority and how you got to find your authentic self to be free but this was co-opted by people pushing conformist patriarchal ideas the very thing that the film was rebelling against it's like someone using Jesus's words to justify doing the exact opposite of what Jesus taught oh wait are you starting to see the truth here gnostics would shake their heads and basically say yeah the ignorant will always twist truth into a new trap in fact get this the Gnostic texts say that's exactly what the archons do they take what is good and twist it the Gospel of Philip says the rulers archons wanted to deceive man they took the name of those that are good and gave it to those that are not good so that through the names they might deceive him and bind them to those that are not good for they wanted to take the free man and make him a slave to them forever well it's a good thing that the Matrix resurrections took the red pill imagery back and made Neo and Trinity literally say that they'll paint the sky with rainbows just to give bigots a meltdown kind of like to paint the sky with rainbows idea so what do we have we have the Matrix which is a kick-ass action Trilogy now a quadrilogy and we have gnosticism an ancient set of beliefs that says the material world is a fake and evil and Enlightenment nosis is the only way out the correspondences are almost too on the nose but you might be thinking did the wowski actually intend all this I mean were they sitting around reading the nagadi library and saying let's put this in a blockbuster well the wachowskis have been fairly private about their exact thought process but they've openly acknowledged drawing from mythology religion and philosophy very widely so we know that the Matrix makes a lot of references like to Boulder Lay's simulakra and simulation this is the book that Neo keep keeps his illegal software in Lewis carrols Alice and Wonderland and a lot of Iber Punk literature they also mention Buddhism and the Matrix has that spoon bending kid in it who basically quotes Buddhist ad philosophy there is no spoon try to realize the truth there is no spoon but the Gnostic Vibes here are way too strong to be coincidence the wichowski being the well- read creative Geniuses they are were almost certainly aware of gnosticism the convergence of ancient and modern of spiritual and digital is what makes the Matrix feel so profound to so many people even if they never heard the word Gnostic it triggers that feeling that maybe you too are asleep in some ways that maybe you need to wake up to your own potential in The Matrix what saves you is knowing the truth the red pill learning how the Matrix Works seeing the code similarly for gnostics salvation isn't about Good Deeds or Blind Faith but knowledge specifically knowledge of the truth of your origin and the illusion of matter as Jesus in The Gospel of Thomas says recognize what is right in front of you and that which is hidden from you will be revealed to you and as Morpheus would say I'm trying to free your mind Neo trying to free your mind Neo and remember there is no spoon but there sure as hell a lot of [ __ ] so stay sharp but if you want to know how and why this Matrix of a reality was built watch my video called the real reason God is trapping Souls on Earth you'll never see reality the same again