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| | Gnosis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Thomasine Church has reinterpreted Gnosticism and the thomasine gospels from an Illuminist viewpoint. | | | Gnosis is the name of magazine [1] published between 1985 and 1999 in California as a "Journal of the Western Inner Traditions" covering traditions of spirituality and mysticism. | | | The Thomasine Church teaches that gnosis is first and foremost a matter of self acquaintance and the goal of enlightenment. |
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| | Gnosis/Gnosticism |
| | Gnosis (small "g," silent) is a generic term with Greek origins meaning intuitive knowledge of spiritual mysteries, or more simply "to know." It's an internal spiritual certainty grounded in personal experience rather than faith. | | | Humans, say Gnosis, are born ignorant of the divine spark of the true God residing in them. | | | Far from the common belief that the world and mankind was created by a good and kind God, Gnosis contends that the world and everything in it was created by a blundering God at best, a downright evil one at worst. |
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| | Gnosis and Mysticism |
| | Gnosis and mysticism is concerned with the latter. | | | Gnosis means knowledge, usually of deeper, inner, spiritual truths, based on direct experience.Spiritual knowledge has been sought by human beings since the beginning of time. | | | Our history is filled with many great spiritual leaders, from the Buddha to Christ, who taught on two different levels: exoteric and esoteric. |
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| | The Gnostic World View: A Brief Summary of Gnosticism |
| | ancient Gnosis, albeit in its form of universal religion, in a certain sense prefigured, and at the same time helped to clarify, the nature of Jungian spiritual therapy." In the light of such recognitions one may ask: "Is Gnosticism a religion or a psychology?" The answer is that it may very-well be both. | | | Not all humans are spiritual (pneumatics) and thus ready for Gnosis and liberation. | | | Death releases the divine spark from its lowly prison, but if there has not been a substantial work of Gnosis undertaken by the soul prior to death, it becomes likely that the divine spark will be hurled back into, and then re-embodied within, the pangs and slavery of the physical world. |
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| | Review: From NEW AGE to NEW GNOSIS |
| | The New Gnosis is a theo-political critique of the ruling secular and cultural gods of our era, and of the social-economic cultures and scientific cults that support them. | | | This took the form of a spiritual critique of the ruling gods of the era — the gods of both Old and New Testament ‘orthodoxy’, of Greek paganism and Roman imperialism. | | | In this and subsequent sections to P.116, the author develops the integral tenet in Sethian Gnosis; that is, there is a hidden knowledge behind the word, a spiritual tonality or dimension beyond the sound. |
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| | GNOSIS |
| | Gnosis, a word that means “knowledge”, has served to define diverse ideological currents through the centuries. |
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| | Gnosticism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | The exact origin(s) of this school of thought cannot be traced, although it is possible to locate influences or sources as far back as the second and first centuries BCE, such as the early treatises of the Corpus Hermeticum, the Jewish Apocalyptic writings, and especially Platonic philosophy and the Hebrew Scriptures themselves. | | | It is for this reason that Mani's followers revered him as the redeemer and holy teacher of humankind (Rudolph, p. | | | The doctrine of Mani is not 'philosophical,' in the manner of Basilides, Valentinus or Ptolemy; for Mani's teaching was not the product of a more or less rational or systematic speculation about the godhead, resulting in Gnosis, but the wholly creative product of what he felt to be a revelation from the divinity itself. |
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| | Gnosis - The Practical Gnosticism of Samael Aun Weor - Home |
| | True Gnosis is universal to all mankind and can be found in all genuine religions and mystical traditions. | | | Gnosis is experiential knowledge, not merely intellectual or conceptual knowledge, belief or theory. | | | All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of the divinity. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism |
| | One of the earliest forms of this myth is found in Simonian Gnosis, in which Simon, the Great Power, finds Helena, who during ten years had been a prostitute in Tyre, but who is Simon's ennoia, or understanding, and whom his followers worshipped under the form of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. | | | According to Basilides, it is a flaw in the last sonship; according to others it is the passion of the female Æon Sophia; according to others the sin ofthe Great Archon, or Æon-Creator, of the Universe. | | | By this latter name, however, he meant not the original religion of Babylonia, but the syncretistic religion which arose after the conquest of Cyrus. |
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| | Psychognosis |
| | And the base of morality is found in the mystical gnosis event, and which is transcendent of the perception of space and time. | | | It is unfortunate that by far the majority of books, literature and articles on the subject of the mystical gnosis are not actually about the event of gnosis itself at all, but rather about cultural and historical beliefs about it. | | | Everyone has this gnosis (eternal base wisdom) within them; but some come to experience it here and now, and some do not. |
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| | History of the Gnostic Ecclesia |
| | Doinel proclaimed the year 1890 as the beginning of the "Era of the Gnosis Restored." He assumed the office of Patriarch of the Gnostic Church under the mystic name of Valentin II, in homage to Valentinus, the 5th century founder of the Valentinian school of Gnosticism. | | | Interim control of the Church was assumed by the Synod of Bishops, and at a High Synod, in 1896, they elected one of their bishops, Léonce-Eugène Fabre des Essarts, known as Tau Synesius, to succeed Doinel as patriarch. | | | The church was to be administered by male bishops and female "Sophias" (sometimes also called "Kephra"), who were to be elected and consecrated according to the Gnostic Rite. |
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| | Reincarnation and the early Christians |
| | They indicated that they possessed secret knowledge (i.e., "gnosis" in Greek) concerning the hidden meaning of the "resurrection." This was a part of the secret teachings of Jesus handed down to them by the apostles. | | | As more and more people hear the call to "Wake up!" and attain the Christ gnosis and become liberated, their souls are received back into the bosom of Divine Consciousness. | | | In Gnostic terms, this quote from Jesus refers to a person's past "resurrection" (i.e., physical rebirth, reincarnation) and the fact that we are already living in the kingdom of God which exists within us. |
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| | Hermetic Fellowship : Gnosticism |
| | This Divine knowledge, or Gnosis, is known in certain myths as the Pearl. | | | “The term "Gnosticism" is a modern one, although accurate in that it is derived from the Greek gnosis, higher or spiritual or Intuitive or Divine knowledge, as opposed to episteme, which is knowledge in the more mundane sense. | | | “Valentinus was the founder of Roman and Alexandrian schools of Gnosticism, an eclectic, dualistic system of religious doctrines postulating the evil origin of matter and the revelatory enlightenment, or gnosis, of an elite. |
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| | Spermo-Gnostics and the Ordo Templi Orientis |
| | The "Caliphate", for instance, can be looked at as a bureaucratic firm which tries to maintain the copyrights of Aleister Crowley; or a mundane "club" without spirituality as it is described by one of its ex-leading member. | | | But the mystery has gone astray: there is too much materialism in the O.T.O.-groups; and this tears the seeker down to earth, and hinders him from becoming one with the Divine. | | | Although all the splintered O.T.O.-groups as a whole also are "rotten places", where the seeker can easily enter into the Pleroma; Gnosis does not happen there, (54*) because these "rotten places" have changed from Gnostic places into psychological projection screens, where the seeker throws his image of his Holy Father upon, i.e. |
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| | The Gnostic Society Main Page |
| | Children of God and slaves of the Demiurge; Spiritual death against Gnosis; Reaping Gnosis; Miracles of the Spiritual life. | | | April 8: Anointed by Gnosis: "Christ" means the Anointed. | | | Within the context of this Gnostic world view it is essential that there should be spiritual practices assisting souls in their quest for Gnosis. |
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| | A Definition of Gnosticism |
| | In order to do this, he must recognize the divine element within him by cultivating it with gnosis, which is the key to salvation. | | | There is also a scene on the forth heaven in which a soul is tortured, judged, and sent back into the world. | | | Where most religions require faith, good works, or a combination of the two to avoid damnation, the Gnostic believes salvation comes through gnosis, or knowledge. |
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| | Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion |
| | Yes, the canon of orthodoxy does exclude gnosis, and yes, the canon (insofar as there is one) of Gnosticism excludes, among other things, the exclusivity of Christ's gnosis, holding instead that is universally available and applicable. | | | Yes, the word gnosis in and of itself does not make this distinction, but in the context of Gnostic scripture the meaning is clear. | | | There is no "human gnosis" vs. "divine gnosis". |
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| | The Sons of Zadok and The Christian Gnosis |
| | We are also told that John came from a priestly family, as did a great deal of the Essenes, who called themselves the 'Sons of Zadok'. | | | In many of the Essene hymns we find allusions to preparing the way of the Lord in order to give a knowledge (Gnosis) of salvation. | | | The name Melchizedek is derived from the Hebrew 'Melki Tzaddiq.' meaning king or ruler of righteousness. |
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| | New Gnosis Publications |
| | From The New Gnosis to The New Yoga | | | We at NEW GNOSIS PUBLICATIONS aim to contribute directly in taking apart the structures of both fundamentalist religions and materialist sciences, consumerist culture and market economics, biological medicine and pharmaceutical psychiatry - subverting both the 'New World Order' of global capitalism and the superficial nostrums of 'New Age' spirituality. | | | A fascinating account of the theo-political history of Gnosticism and with it a scathing spiritual and philosophical critique of contemporary 'New Age' culture. |
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| | All Sides of the Story |
| | Gnosis is the science of awakening the consciousness, the "narrow and difficult way to Life," and to direct, experiential knowledge of the divine. | | | GNOSIS is not exclusively affiliated with any single doctrine or religious outlook but tries to assist our readers in discovering the path that may work best for them. | | | It's about life: looking for wisdom and gnosis - A variaty of material from various traditions, as well as personal observations. |
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| | The Gnosis Archive: Resources on Gnosticism and Gnostic Tradition |
| | It is a unique array of insights on Christianity and Gnosis throughout their history with special focus on the impact of Pope John Paul II on the Catholic Church and on world affairs. | | | We have recently add a large new collection of resources dedicated to the Gospel of Thomas, and have completely reformatted the Nag Hammadi Library collection. | | | The popular PBS television special "Genesis: A Living Conversation", hosted by Bill Moyers, directed wide attention to the many interpretations of the Book of Genesis. |
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| | Gnosis and Gnosticism, theosophy and theosophism according to F. Schuon |
| | It is humanly admissible not to believe in gnosis; what is quite inadmissible in anyone claiming to understand the subject is to include under this heading things having no relation of species or level with the reality in question, whatever the value attributed to that reality. | | | For if in the human order there are pearls and holiness, these are certainly to be found on the side of the intellect, which is, according to Meister Eckhart, aliquid increatum et increabile, hence something divine, and this is precisely what annoys and disturbs the partisans of pious superficiality and militant fanaticism. | | | Gnosis is characterized by its recourse to pure metaphysics: the distinction between Atma and Maya and the consciousness of the potential identity between the human subject, jivatma, and the Divine Subject, Paramatma. |
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| | Tongues of Fire, Whirlwinds of Noise, by Erik Davis |
| | Logos hangs between the self and the transcendental divine like a cloak, the luxurious "Chinese silk" of the hero's letter, the patterns of quivering gnosis on the holy robe. | | | There he changes his clothes, and puts on a stunning robe that "quiver(s) all over / with the movements of gnosis." Spiffed up, he ascends to greet the king. | | | Though ostensibly an action-packed tale of serpents and battles, the Hymn is essentially a story about messages. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Gnosis (The Matrix) |
| | Its name is from the Greek word gnosis, meaning 'knowledge'. | | | When the Nebuchadnezzar returns to Zion, Neo is worshipped by some residents who believe he has the power to save them. | | | Look up Gnosis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The word gnosis (from the Greek word for knowledge, γνÏ&;) has several uses. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Gnosis-%28The-Matrix%29
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| | Gnosis Central - Samael Aun Weor - Gnostic - Gnosis |
| | The Gnostic Doctrine searches, by means of objective auto- experimentation and transcendental meditation, to find and live mystical experiences which take the devout student to the revelation of his real being and where he can find his true self. | | | Gnostic interpretation is definitely different than the interpretation of Official Science, who reads the ancient scripts and hieroglyphics by means of that which is called "the dead world" within Gnosis. | | | Mysticism: Insight into truth or contact with God through an exaltation of the mind or soul. |
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| | [Download] Gnosis: Reversing Reality |
| | Notes: There is a "hidden ending" to Gnosis: however, revealing it here would nullify the entire point behind it. | | | From cyberspace to traditional puzzles to casting off what you know of reality, Gnosis -- hopefully -- will stretch your perceptions. | | | Interested in what other people have to say about the Gnosis experience? |
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| | Commentary to the Centenary Journal "Apostolic Gnosis" |
| | It is of some interest that many of these ecclesiastical pronouncements seem to have been set aside within the last decade, or are beginning to in many churches, even in the Latin Rite! | | | These fraternities have endured relentless Bulls of Excommunication from the Latin Rite Church, as well as rejection from a number of Protestant bodies. | | | Only within the Sanctuaries of Gnosis have they been allowed their right to the Holy Sacraments. |
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| | Gnostic Christianity.com. The outlawed logic/logos teachings of Jesus. |
| | In this enlightened consciousness we are personally empowered to resolve all problems and as Paul said "live the good life as from the beginning He [God] had meant us to live it." (Eph 2:10) | | | It documents what scholars refer to as Jesus' oral or logos/logic tradition, which he taught in private (Mk 4:33-34). | | | The Gnosis, or reasoning process, that Gnostic Christianity introduces, does not contradict Jesus' spiritually-centered public teachings. |
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| | A Chronology of the Gnostic Movement - azothgallery.com |
| | The existence of the Pneumatic Gnosis was preserved in the repressive attacks in the writings of Iranaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian, and Augustine, while the texts | | | The "Pleroma," or "fullness in the world of the Aeons," in the profound cosmology of Valentinius, 2nd century Roman bishop from Alexandria, then taught in Rome, CE 135-160, possibly also the author of the "Pistis Sophia." | | | The reemergence of Gnosis in Ficino’s natural magic, Pico della Mirandola’s Cabalism, and Giordano Bruno’s cosmology. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Aeons |
| | Refutation of all Heresies, as above V, 9; Baur, Christliche Gnosis (Tubingen, 1835); DeFaye, Introduction a l'etude du gnosticisme, in Revue de l'histoire des religions, (1902, 166 sq.); DuFourcq, La pensee chretienne, Saint Irenee (Paris, 1905), 41-112; Duchesne, Histoire ancienne de l'Eglise (Paris, 1906), I, 153-194; Mead, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten (London, 1900). | | | See also works on Gnosticism and on the heresiarchs referred to above. |
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| | Reincarnation and the Church |
| | “James the Righteous, John and Peter were entrusted by the Lord after his resurrection with the higher knowledge (gnosis). | | | In a passage surviving only with Eusebius, he quotes Clement in "Institutions, Book 6": | | | "The Gnosis itself is that which has descended by transmission to a few, having been imparted unwritten by the apostles." |
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| | Gnosis |
| | The premier examples of Gnosis are Shamanism, Hermetism, Christian and Jewish Gnosticisms, Kashmir Shaivism and Siddha Yoga in general; also, some schools of Vajrayana/Tantric Buddhism (six Yogas of Naropa- here, things become fuzzier due to the Mahayana Buddhist dogma of illusory nature of the Cosmos). | | | Briefly, some other points, especially regarding relation to the cosmos and the eschatological or "evolutionary" questions, can be subsumed under single differentia specifica not necessarily shared with multiplicity of orthodoxies and heterodoxies. | | | Only those that affirm the reality of Reality qualify (this adjunct dumps Advaita and Ch'an/Zen). |
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| | The New Gnosis - Home Page |
| | "GOD is GNOSIS – not a divine being but a divine knowing – one that is the source of all beings and immanent within them all." | | | Hence the need to reaffirm the essence of gnostic spirituality in a new way suited to these times – the need for a ‘New Gnosis’. | | | Understood in this way, gnosticism is highly relevant to our own times - in order to "lead mankind behind the symbolism upon which religion has relied for centuries." (Seth). |
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| | GNOSTICISM - ANCIENT AND MODERN |
| | The name is derived from the Greek word "gnosis" which literally means "knowledge. | | | Gnosticism is not factual, intellectual, rational knowledge, such as is involved in mathematics and physics; that would have been more accurately represented by the Greek world "episteme. | | | " However, the English words "Insight" and "enlightenment" capture more of the meaning of "gnosis." It is pronounced with a silent "G" (NO-sis). |
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http://www.religioustolerance.org/gnostic.htm
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| | KtB - Gnosis Reloaded |
| | We see a ship called the Logos, which to the Gnostics is the light that brings knowledge (and which manifests in the Messiah), and we even hear a woman mention her son Jacob, who is stationed on a ship called Gnosis. | | | It’s suggestive of the stories of the saints who would exorcise demons from the sick; as they did so, the nearby statues would break, evidence that the spirits had been dispelled. | | | The hints are all there, but only the very receptive may perceive them. |
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http://www.killingthebuddha.com/critical_devotion/gnosis.htm
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| | The Unified Field of Gnosis |
| | The developed geometry of the gnosis gnomon structurally inter-relates systems as diverse as the I Ching, the DNA transfer code, the Mayan calendar, the houses of the Zodiac and the kabbalistic Tree of Life. | | | Traditionally symbolized by an eight-pointed star, pointing the vertices of the gnomic octagon, knowledge of this gnostic geometry ranges from the ogoad/ennead of ancient Egypt, through Alexandrian mathematics and mysticism to the Islamic scholars and renaissance hermetic humanists at the dawn of modern science. | | | In this sense, the eight-sided gnomon is indeed the essence of gnosis, since it describes a kind of knowing about that which can be never be known precisely, the irrational numbers. |
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| | The Invisible Basilica: Valentinus |
| | Iesous Sôtêr manifested on Earth by uniting at birth with the Messiah promised by the Demiurge. | | | His task on Earth was to utter the Word of Truth, to impart the Gnosis to the Psychic Race that they may turn themselves toward the Plêrôma, the world beyond Space and Time, and away from the illusory and transitory material world. | | | In the end, when the task of Iesous Sôtêr has been accomplished, Achamôth will ascend to the Bridal Chamber and be wedded to Iesous. |
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| | *** THE EGYPTIAN FOUNDATIONS OF GNOSTIC THOUGHT *** |
| | This thesis firmly grounds the rise of Gnosis in ancient emanationist theologies, preeminently Egyptian and, furthermore, presents a socio-historic perspective for the rise of Gnostic thought in Alexandria. | | | Presented here, as well, are a number of original Gnostic tractates, translated by the author. | | | Hiddenness in this study is a hermeneutic issue, one that requires an interdisciplinary orchestration of philosophy, comparative religious studies, and social-historical research in order to unearth the ancient and tenacious precepts of Egyptian emanationist thought, and to reveal them as a pre-eminent contributor to Graeco-Roman Gnosis. |
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| | Gnostic Society Library: Sources on Gnosticism and Gnosis |
| | While the Nag Hammadi Library represents our richest source of classical Gnostic texts, many other primary Gnostic documents were discovered in the century prior to the Nag Hammadi find. | | | Ours was perhaps the first major collection of such texts to appear on "the web" (in 1994), and thus has served as a source for others creating "their own" collections. | | | This is of course exactly how the manuscript tradition has propagated errors in the past centuries, though with vastly different "technologies" of reproduction. |
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| | GNOSIS & HERMETIC Symposia |
| | of the Nag Hammadi Gnostic texts in the Dualism of the ancient Near East, ancient Greek mythic esotericism, and Roman Christian "Pneumatic" theology; and their echoes in the Neo-Pagan Gnosis of the Renaissance. | | | author of the book "Gaia Matrix, " a writer whose work can be described as "a Gnosis of the Land. | | | Lecture: "Sophia and the Dragon" -- Near Eastern and Western esoteric traditions at the core of Gnosis, and their realization in the synchronicity of modern life. |
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| | purevolume™ Gnosis |
| | Their first LP "Lucid Dreams" released Dec.10, 2004 | | | Gnosis brings high energy performances to the norcal region. | | | You must be logged in as a “LISTENER” to add comments. |
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