Wednesday 3 October 2007

About Gnosticism

About Gnosticism and Gnosis

"GOD is GNOSIS – not a divine being but a divine knowing – one that is the source of all beings and immanent within them all."
- Peter Wilberg -
"... the noble person recognises God in everything,the common person the form, not the spirit."God is gnosis - a divine inner knowing that is the source of all beings and immanent within them all. Each human being is linked to God and to all other beings through this divine inner knowing - through gnosis.
"The soul is an exhalation that percieves"
"The body is a projection into a three- dimensional world"
Jesus said" The kingdom is inside and outside of you"
Gnosticism' is a word usually used to name a variety of early Christian sects, later deemed heretical, that sprang up in the first centuries after Christ and whose 'gospels' were made famous by their discovery at Nag Hammadi in Egypt. In essence however, gnosticism is nothing more or less than the unacknowledged world religion of all times - an underground spiritual tradition that has always rejected reliance on religious rites and symbols and instead affirmed "the wordless knowledge within the word" (Seth). 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). Hence the need to reaffirm the essence of gnostic spirituality in a new way suited to these times – the need for a 'New Gnosis'.

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