# Andjelkovic 2021: The Mystery of Cicada 3301: Constructing Gnosis in Cyberspace

> Filip Andjelkovic, 2021. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The only peer-reviewed treatment found; a reading of the ideology, not of the ciphers.

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# The Mystery of Cicada 3301: Constructing Gnosis in Cyberspace

Filip Andjelkovic, 2021. _Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 6(1): 79–103_.

Reads the Cicada mystery as "cyber-gnostic": its texts frame spiritual enlightenment in the libertarian terms of information freedom and privacy, and its community may count as an online form of religious expression.

**Cicada 3301** Articledoi: **[10.1163/2451859X-12340103](https://doi.org/10.1163/2451859X-12340103)** Checked against the original0

## What it's used for here

The only peer-reviewed treatment found; a reading of the ideology, not of the ciphers.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[The texts use spiritual language of enlightenment and pilgrimage, which a religious-studies reading treats as…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cicada-3301/evidence/EVD0D7R72QY204V/the-texts-use-spiritual-language-of-enlightenment-and)

Evidence

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[Andjelkovic publishes a religious-studies reading of Cicada in Gnosis](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cicada-3301/events/EVT0D7R6YTY04SV/andjelkovic-publishes-a-religious-studies-reading-of-cicada)

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[Cicada 3301](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/cicada-3301)

The mystery article

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## Cite it

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Andjelkovic, F. (2021). The Mystery of Cicada 3301: Constructing Gnosis in Cyberspace. Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies 6(1): 79–103. https://doi.org/10.1163/2451859X-12340103
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[Find it at doi.org](https://doi.org/10.1163/2451859X-12340103)

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