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"Dick felt a need to blame somebody for his twin sister's, Jane's, death but he also felt a need to understand a world that showed such cruelty. In view of the twinning motif, it hardly comes as a surprise that he should turn to Gnostic teachings and other related doctrines, for the Gnostic theory about the split in the Godhead (see "Gnosticism" and "Valentinus and the Valentinians") answered his need for understanding Jane's death. The Godhead, at the time when the world was created, was dual (similar to Yin and Yang in Buddhism). Then an accident occurred, and the Godhead split in two and the female half, SOPHIA, fell into a lower realm. She then spawns a creature, the demi-urge, sometimes called Yaldaboath, who creates the material world we now live in, and believes himself to be the true God. But actual, true reality, created by the actual, true God, is hidden behind the material world, just as the true God is also hiding. Our reality is therefore a false manifestation of the real thing. The Godhead must be healed for the true, united God to be able to, once more, assume control over the world he created, and when that happens, true reality will be revealed. The Valentinian system, one among many Gnostic systems, centres on the myth of the redemption acquired through the union: "[r]edemption is essentially accomplished through the union of the heavenly Soter with the fallen Sophia" ("Valentinus and The Valentinians"). Dick, combining Gnosticism with he yearning for his lost sister Jane, creates his own cosmogony, the "Two Source Cosmogony", expressed in detail in the Exegesis and, gives it life in Valis and The Divine Invasion. In the Appendix to Valis, Dick presents the Tractates: Cryptica Scriptura, which is a summary from the Exegesis, explaining Dick's/Fat's "Two Source Cosmogony":"
EXCERPT FROM http://www.krumma.net/MA-thesis/themes.htm
IN OTHER WORDS IN VANILLA SKY SOPHIA, A DEMIgod, WAS MESSING WITH DAVID'S LIFE TO TEACH HIM A LESSON IN A MATERIAL WORLD (DREAM). EXACTLY WHAT I SAID. THE MATERIAL WORLD WAS CREATED BY HER CREATION AS THE ABOVE EXCERPT SAYS.
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