The State Preceding This Existence

The State Preceding This Existence

🔹 Are you aware that you are ignorant? And do you admit it?
🔹 Could ignorance be the origin, and knowledge merely the exception?
🔹 How can knowledge emerge from ignorance, as light emerges from the heart of darkness?
🔹 Is existence the key to understanding what came before it—or is understanding what came before it the foundation?
🔹 And how is all this related to the idea of the Holy Trinity?

🔹 Is gnosis merely a spiritual experience, or is it a form of knowledge that can one day be transformed into technology?
🔹 How can science turn this type of knowledge into a tangible reality?
🔹 Are we moving toward making gnosis accessible to all? And is every human being inherently capable of becoming a gnostic?

We’ve said this before and we say it again: this phase of gnosis is among the most difficult—not only for those receiving intellectual knowledge, but even more so for those living the actual experience.

It could be said that the high-ranking gnostics, when they reach this phase, often remain there for long periods—some never leaving it until death—unless they acknowledge their ignorance. As Plato said about Socrates in his famous statement: “I know that I know nothing.” True knowledge begins with the admission of ignorance.

No matter how much knowledge the gnostic attains, they must admit that certainty about this phase remains out of reach—for now. Those who refuse to acknowledge this remain trapped in this stage, incapable of grasping the true nature of existence.

Some gnostics have gone even further, suggesting that even if we one day understand this phase, there will always be one that precedes it—entirely unknown to us.

Thus, ignorance remains ever-present. From here comes the gnostic saying: “Ignorance is the origin, and knowledge the exception.” There will always be a phase we do not understand, no matter how much we learn. And that is what keeps driving humanity toward knowledge—because ignorance is the primary motivator for inquiry and discovery. That’s where gnosis comes in as a path to salvation: one pursues it because they do not know. Without ignorance, knowledge would not be a means of liberation—just as without darkness, there would be no need for light.

If you wish to know, you must first acknowledge and admit that this phase—what we call “absolute void”—is completely unknown. It is the beginning, the source of this existence. But calling it the beginning or source does not mean it is the first or only phase—there may be others entirely unknown to us.

Yet what matters here is not the unknown phases, but the one that immediately preceded this existence—for understanding it is key to understanding existence itself.

That is why high-ranking gnostics, who have attained enlightenment, return to this existence—not aimlessly, but to understand what can be grasped, leaving the unknown to remain unknown. They know that “if the whole cannot be known, at least part of it should not be abandoned.”

Their focus is on what can be understood, rather than getting lost trying to comprehend the utterly unknowable at this stage.

Our presence in this world is an opportunity to understand at least this existence—because it might one day lead us to pierce the unknown and illuminate it with knowledge.

The key point here is that “the absolute void” is the mysterious phase that directly preceded this existence. Research stops there—until a day comes when we can understand it—whether from within this existence or from beyond it.

This does not mean that what preceded the absolute void does not exist. It simply means we cannot speak of it before we understand the absolute void itself. For now, we must return to this existence and reflect on how it emerged from that void—how light was born from darkness.

As you know, the high-ranking gnostics differ in their views about this completely unknown “absolute void.” They fall into three main schools:

• The Deists

• The Atheists

• The Indifferent

Key Points for Understanding the Absolute Void

1. This phase is neither divine nor satanic.
   It has no will, no mind, no laws. It does not intervene, does not reward, does not punish.
   It is beyond moral duality and religious metaphor.

2. This phase is the purest form of ignorance.
   Not in the sense of stupidity, but of complete absence: no knowledge, no awareness.
   It is the state that precedes all conception—before self, before other.

3. It precedes all known categories:
   Time, space, logic, creation, identity, light, matter, energy…
   It is the ultimate negation before all affirmations.

4. It is the true origin.
   But not in the religious sense of a “Creator” or “Supreme Being.”
   Rather, it is the dark womb from which being, thought, and consciousness were born.

The Role of Names and the Meaning of the Word “Void”

When we speak of the “void,” we are not referring to a place or space.
Rather, it is a symbolic term to point toward the absence that preceded presence.
That’s why gnostics say:
“The void is not a thing—it is the absence of things.”

This distinction is important because the human mind tends to turn everything into an object or concept.
But the absolute void is the absence of all objects, all concepts, all dimensions.

The Symbol of Water

Water is the most powerful symbol used by gnostics to describe this phase.
Why?

Because water is formless. It adapts to everything, fills everything, resists nothing.

The void is like water:

• It gives birth to all forms without having a form of its own.

• It precedes life without being alive.

• It contains without being contained.

This is why in ancient traditions—Sumerian, Egyptian, Hindu, Chinese, and even early Abrahamic mystical texts—“primordial water” is the image of the original state.

Water in gnosis symbolizes potential:
Everything emerges from it, yet it remains untouched.

Why Can’t We Describe the Void?

Because description requires contrast.
And in the absolute void, there is nothing to compare to anything else.

There is no self or other, no dark or light, no motion or stillness.
Thus, all language fails.
We do not speak of the void to explain it—
we speak of it to point beyond the limits of understanding.

That’s why the highest gnostics use symbols and metaphors—not to simplify things, but to protect the mind from collapse.
The mind cannot face pure nothingness directly—it must approach it gradually, symbolically.

From the Void to the Breath: The Birth of Existence

From the absolute void emerged the first phenomenon:
The Breath.
A symbolic term used by gnostics to describe the subtle shift from non-being to being.

This “breath” is not a divine will, nor a sound, nor a force as we know it—
but a kind of vibration, or disturbance within the stillness of the void.
It is not movement in space—because space did not yet exist—
but a pulse within the fabric of absence itself.

Gnostics say:

“From the most silent silence came the first breath…
Not spoken, not heard—but felt through the soul of the void.”

This breath was the beginning of the beginning.
It carried within it the potential for everything:
Light, sound, dimension, time, being, self-awareness.

It is from this breath that all polarities unfolded:

• light and dark

• self and other

• life and death

• form and formlessness

• spirit and matter

And so began the architecture of reality.

Did the Void Will This?

No. According to gnosis, the void does not will.
It does not act with purpose or desire.
The emergence of breath from the void was not an act of creation.
It was an emergence, an unfolding, like a seed sprouting not because it decides to—but because it must.

Gnostics reject the idea of an almighty creator in this phase.
Not because they deny the sacred, but because they place it elsewhere.
The breath is sacred—not because it was willed—but because it was first.

It is the first mirror in which the void saw a glimpse of itself.

From Breath to Awareness

The breath, as it expanded, gave rise to awareness.
Not full consciousness, but the first shadow of awareness—
the faintest whisper of “I am”.

Here, the gnostic path begins:
From void ➝ breath ➝ awareness ➝ separation ➝ question ➝ journey.

The rest of existence unfolds from here.
And the role of the gnostic is to reverse the path—not to erase existence, but to return with understanding.

Three Gnostic Attitudes Toward the Absolute Void

Throughout history, gnostics have approached the concept of the absolute void in three main ways—each one reflecting a deeper stance toward ignorance, existence, and meaning.

1. The Deist Gnostic

This is the gnostic who sees in the breath the trace of a hidden will.
Even though the void has no intention, they believe that the breath itself contains an inner purpose.
They speak of a subtle god, not like the gods of religion, but one that is woven into being,
whose presence is not commanding—but essential, like gravity or time.

To them, the breath was not an accident,
but a sacred necessity—
not a command, but a consequence of what must be.

This gnostic believes in meaning,
even if that meaning cannot yet be grasped.

2. The Atheist Gnostic

This gnostic accepts the same path—void ➝ breath ➝ being—
but denies any higher will or purpose.
They see the emergence of breath as a natural accident, a mathematical inevitability,
not sacred, not cursed—just real.

They do not seek meaning in origins—
but rather in what emerges from those origins:
life, intelligence, compassion, liberation.

Their journey is not toward a divine reunion—
but toward full understanding of this reality,
so that they may become free within it.

To them, the breath was not sacred—
but the fact that we can witness it is what makes it wondrous.

3. The Indifferent Gnostic

This gnostic neither affirms nor denies.
They see the void, the breath, the being—
but choose not to attach belief, hope, or doubt.

They live in awareness,
but do not seek to master or explain.

Their path is one of quiet observation—
not out of apathy,
but out of humility.

They do not speak of god, or science, or destiny.
They simply walk the path.
And in their stillness, they sometimes glimpse truths that both deists and atheists miss.

Final Thought

No matter which path the gnostic takes—
they all return to the same place:
the threshold between unknowing and knowing,
between breath and silence,
between being and the void.

There, they wait.
Not for an answer—
but for the next breath.