Gnostic heresies have arisen time and time again – Today they are back again

“Gnostic heresies have arisen time and time again. Today they are back again.” – Princeton scholar Robert George

The article below is a hit piece on all modern Gnostics by the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. The writer of this article associates “social liberalism” as a form of neo-Gnosticism, and quotes Princeton scholar Robert George who says, “Same sex marriage, abortion, euthanasia, transgenderism all derive from a neo-Gnostic view of what a human being is, George said. Gnostic ideas are “ideologically dominant among our cultural elites.” (more…)

There are, however, but few mature minds in the world

By Manly P. Hall – “When confronted with a problem involving the use of the reasoning faculties, individuals of strong intellect keep their Mature Mindspoise, and seek to reach a solution by obtaining facts bearing upon the question.

Those of immature mentality, on the other hand, when similarly confronted, are overwhelmed.

While the former may be qualified to solve the riddle of their own destiny, the latter must be led like a flock of sheep and taught in simple language. They depend almost entirely upon the ministrations of the shepherd.

The Apostle Paul said that these little ones must be fed with milk, but that meat is the food of strong men. (more…)

The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction

“The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness labyrinth 2against themselves and others, in experiments.

Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct.

Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism.

They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.”

By Friedrich Nietzsche

The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted

“No, it’s not fools who turn mystics. It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary Crowd (1)queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.

The fools, the innumerable fools, take it all for granted, skate about cheerfully on the surface and never think of inquiring what’s underneath.”

By Aldous Huxley