The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve

by | Oct 5, 2016 | Quotes

“That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.” ~ Albert Pike

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Just like positive science, this Gnosis is systematic

by | Oct 4, 2016 | Gnosis, Quotes

“Just like positive science, this Gnosis is systematic; it is the same as the other knowledge in its systematic arrangement of the Cosmos, in its ensemble as well as in its smallest parts.” – Boris Mouravieff

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The Catholic Authors Were Gnostic

by | Sep 30, 2016 | Gnosis

The quote below is from a college professor, Ioan Culianu who was murdered for his words, political views, and criticism of the ioan-petru-culianuRomanian government. Culianu was a Romanian living in exile in the U.S. where he taught a class on Gnosticism, the study of secret mystic sects at the University of Chicago Divinity School. The same school where he was shot in the head as he went to the restroom in a hit style murder that some say was typical KGB fashion.

In a European publication concerned with contemporary aspects of Gnosticism, Culianu writes: (more…)