The Gnostics and Illuminati claimed to pin their faith on the primitive Christian tradition of St. John

by | Sep 26, 2016 | Gnosis, Mystical Christianity

The French occultist, Eliphas Levi had said, “The societies of the elder world perished through the materialistic egoism of castes, saint-john-the-apostlebecoming petrified on their own part, isolating the common people in a hopeless reprobation and reserving the reins of power to a small number of the elect, so that it was deprived of that circulation which is the principle of progress, motion and life.

Power without antagonism, without competition and hence without control, proved fatal to the sacerdotal royalties. (more…)

Ignorance is Dissolved in Gnosis

by | Sep 26, 2016 | Gnosis

The Gnostic Valentinus had said, “Perfect redemption is the cognition itself of the ineffable greatness: for since through ignoranceQuote rsie above the flesh came about the defect . . . the whole system springing from ignorance is dissolved in Gnosis.

Therefore Gnosis is the redemption of the inner man; and it is not of the body, for the body is corruptible; nor is it psychical, for even the soul is a product of the defect and it is a lodging to the spirit: pneumatic (spiritual) therefore also must be redemption itself.

Through Gnosis, then, is redeemed the inner, spiritual man: so that to us suffices the Gnosis of universal being: and this is the true redemption. (Adv. Haer. I. 21,4)