tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-177657022011-07-29T07:25:52.483ZGnosis is a way of being, a state of perception. It is not locked within any denomination, tradition or form.A Glasgow Gnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17915563231738593786noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17765702.post-49327428003591369582009-12-13T22:42:00.002Z2009-12-13T22:47:59.515Z

Christmas Eve, sometimes called Holy Night, celebrates the ageless story of the birth of Christ. As the divine light of Christ incarnates in a tiny babe in a lowly manger, to us this story represents the nativity of the divine light within the Gnostic soul, the coming of the royal light into the lowly frame and darkness of this world. When the outer world grows cold and dark it is even more

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Of all the strands of thought, tradition, and belief that make up the Islamic universe, Sufism in its doctrinal aspect stands out as the most intact, the most purely Islamic: the central strand. Opponents of Sufism often charge it with having originated outside Islam, but a close study of the various schools of philosophy and theology, and a comparison with "primordial" Islam as revealed in the

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Gnosis is a way of being, a state of perception. It is not locked within any denomination, tradition or form. Too often Gnosticism is related to the Christian origins period when a variety of sects seeking wisdom existed. While these groups illustrated Gnostic tendencies they cannot really be called Gnostic. Gnosticism is a way of looking at the world which is found in all religions, movements

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by Isya Joseph[1919]This is one of the only public domain sources of information on the religious beliefs of the Yezidi, a small group originally from the northern region of Iraq. Although they speak Kurdish, they are a distinct population from the Kurds. The Yezidi are notable because they have been described as devil-worshippers, which has, unfortunately, led to constant persecution by the

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The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an explosion of spiritual teachers and impresarios dealing in "secret wisdom." Their ranks included hacks and frauds – as well as more than a few genuine scholars of esoteric traditions. Most have vanished from memory, their writings a historical footnote. There exists one distinct figure, though, whose movement and teachings not only survived

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The date and circumstances of Christianity's origin in England are unknown. According to the legend of St. Joseph of Arimathea's missionary journey to Glastonbury, it was shortly after the Crucifixion. Bran the Blessed is credited by the Welsh with bringing Christianity to the British Isles in the first century, and there is a record of King Lucius's receiving missionaries from Rome in 167.

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Pual's writings are the oldest documents in the New Testament. The teaching of Paul when examined closely bears little resemblance to the orthodox Christianity of today and yet Paul has been considered one of the pillars of Christendom for centuries. Paul's theogoly is decidedly "gnostic."Paul did not base his teaching exclusively on the "tradition" of the Nazorean (Jerusalem) community but

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"The Influence of the Mystery Religions on Christianity"[29 November 1949-15 February 1950] [Chester, Pa.]King wrote this paper for the course Development of Christian Ideas, taught by Davis. The essay examines how Christianity developed as a distinct religion with a set of central tenets and how it was influenced by those pagan religions it assimilated. King repeats material from an earlier

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Monoimus was an Arab Gnostic from the 2nd century CE. He was known only from one account in Theodoret until a lost work of anti-heretical writings (Refutation of All Heresies) by Hippolytus was found. He is known for coining the usage of the word Monad in a gnostic context.Hippolytus claims that Monoimus was a follower of Tatian, and that his cosmological system was derived from that of the

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Charles Rennie Mackintosh architect, designer and artist is celebrated around the world as one of the most creative figures of the early 20th century.Born in Glasgow in 1868, he attended evening classes in architecture at Glasgow School of Art. The School, under the remarkable direction of Francis Newbery, was recognized as one of Europe's leading design schools, its main function being toeducate

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Lost for 1,600 years In 1945, in an Egyptian cave near desert town of Nag Hammadi, 52 papyrus texts were discovered, some dating from the beginning of the Christian era, revealing a Jesus who teaching akin to a Shin myokonin, a Zen Master, or even Shakyamuni Buddha himself. Lost for 1,600 years, these are known as the Gnostic Gospels, from the Greek word "gnosis"...meaning "to know"...’to know

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Academic theologians identify two distinct manifestations of religious traditions, called Dogmatism and Gnosticism. Dogmatism is any religious tradition based on a set doctrine of beliefs. Gnosticism is any religious tradition based on one particular way of looking at the world. An example of Dogma is the belief that a person can only find salvation if they accept Jesus as their savior. An

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Gustav Holst’s The Hymn of Jesus (written in August 1917) has always been one of his most widely performed works. Its first performance in London in 1920 was an outstanding success. Very few Gnostic texts had been published or studied and they were generally classed among New Testament Apocrypha. However one scholar actively engaged in making these texts better known. Theosophist G.R.S.Mead

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The Russian Old Believers (Raskolniki) originated in the widespread 17th century resistance to the reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. The dissenters represented both a revolt against ecclesiastical tyranny and a grass roots revival of esoteric doctrines once protected within the inner sanctums of the Eastern church. Eastern Christian mysticism fused with the native spirituality of the Slavic

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Most religions began as radical, agnostic, and mystical organisations to become, after some time, authoritarian institutions under the leadership of Literalists. This is true for Christianity but also for Islam. Islam's founder was the mystical visionary Muhammad in the 7th century AD. Within a few hundred years it was an authoritarian religion under the leadership of dogmatists who imposed a

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And the Seven Sermons to the DeadThe Seven Sermons to the Dead is a mysterious, little known or understood work of C. G. Jung’s, which was privately printed in German, without copyright or date, sometime between 1920 and 1925, and distributed to a select group of friends. Stephan A. Hoeller copied, then translated it from the original. Then he wrote a book in which he not only calls The Seven

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"Faith is the key of Christendom," saith Chaucer, and the penalty for lacking is as clearly stated as words can make it, in St Mark's Gospel, Chapter xvi., verse 16th: "He that believeth and is baptised shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned."It troubles the Church very little that the most careful search for these words in the oldest texts during the last centuries remained

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Catharism was a religious movement with Gnostic elements that originated around the middle of the 10th century, branded by the contemporary Roman Catholic Church as heretical. It existed throughout much of Western Europe, but its home was in Languedoc and surrounding areas in southern France.The Cathars were also sometimes labelled Albigensians. This name originates from the end of the 12th

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It was February of 1974, and the American science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick was in pain. The man whose darkly comic novels of androids, weird drugs, and false realities stand as some of the most brilliant and visionary in the genre had just had an impacted wisdom tooth removed, and the sodium pentathol was wearing off. A delivery woman arrived with a package of Darvon, and when the burly,

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In December 1945 an Arab peasant made an astonishing archeological discovery in Upper Egypt. Rumors obscured the circumstances of this find--perhaps because the discovery was accidental, and its sale on the black market illegal. For years even the identity of the discoverer remained unknown. One rumor held that he was a blood avenger; another, that he had made the find near the town of Naj '

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Remember them O Lord, in Thy kingdom, Thy faithful servants Jacques de Molay, Guy de Auvergne, and all the glorious martyrs of the Order of the Templars, who have shone as brilliant lights of the eternal Gnosis in their days. Thou who art ever the comforter of the oppressed and the repose of those who suffer for the sake of the truth, grant them peace, refreshment, glory and the splendour of Thy

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Although the presence of individual Christian elements within the film is clear, the overall system of Christianity that is presented is not the traditional, orthodox one. Rather, the Christian elements of the film make the most sense when viewed within a context of Gnostic Christianity. Gnosticism was a religious system that flourished for centuries at the beginning of the Common Era, and in

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Gnosticism is the teaching based on Gnosis, the knowledge of transcendence arrived at by way of interior, intuitive means. Although Gnosticism thus rests on personal experience, it is a mistake to assume all such experience results in Gnostic recognitions. It is nearer the truth to say that Gnosticism expresses a specific religious experience, an experience that does not lend itself to the

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