Been wracking my brain for a while over the bit from the Gnostic scriptures where "Forethought" retaliates for learning that they are not actually God by creating death. It hit me recently though, that later ancient Egyptian culture was indeed obsessed with death to the point where people would work their entire lives to furnish as lavish a tomb as they could afford in the City of the Dead. So if "Forethought" created death in retaliation, perhaps it was the forethought of death that was created, by the Pharaohs who did seem to believe they were actual Gods, at least at one time.
The beautiful thing about the real world is that it has an infinite depth, anywhere you want to come at it from. The entire reason that powers seek to keep everyone scared and afraid of the world is because of just how much opportunity there is for finding joy in the every day, once you stop expecting them to supply it for you.
>This sounds like "the secret" new age mindset
Of course it does. They can't actually create anything new themselves, so they take bits and pieces from people who were actually wise, like this quote, and twist them to fit their control narratives.
That was a plural, not singular, and an honest person might readily understand that it's speaking of any narratives deliberately designed to control people, like the CCP's social narratives for example.
See? You can learn!