Hidden Knowledge & False Prophets: Pt 2, The Gnostic Current in History

In this two-part episode, we continue the story that began with Gnosis, Shabbatai Zevi, the false prophet who shook the Jewish world of the 17th century.
In this new chapter, we turn to Jacob Frank — the self-proclaimed successor to Zevi — whose movement blended Kabbalah, heresy, and deliberate inversion of moral and religious order. From false conversions and secret doctrines to the roots of revolutionary ideology, the Frankists carried forward a spiritual virus disguised as enlightenment.

But the story doesn’t end there.

In the second half of the video, we step back to uncover the ancient idea behind it all: Gnosis — the belief that salvation lies in hidden knowledge, not in grace; in the self, not in God.
Tracing this current from early Gnosticism to modern times, we explore how its inversion of truth still echoes in today’s world — where light and darkness, knowledge and rebellion, often exchange their names.
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