Gnosis & Gnosticism
Gnosis involves an intuitive process of knowing oneself
“Gnostics, from the Greek word gnosis, usually translated as “knowledge.” For as those who claim to know nothing about ultimate reality are called agnostic (literally, “not knowing”), the person who does claim to know such things is called gnostic (“knowing”). But...
Thoth, as the inspirer of all sacred writings and the president of all priestly discipline
Thoth, as the inspirer of all sacred writings and the president of all priestly discipline, was, as Jamblichus tells us, a name which was held by the Egyptians to be "common to all priests "—that is to say, every priest as priest was a Thoth, because he showed forth...
This Shepherd was no man, but Divine Humanity or the Great Man or Mind
The main Gospel of the Trismegistic Gnosis is contained in a sacred sermon which bears in Greek the title "Pcemandres." This may perhaps have been originally the Greek transliteration of an Egyptian name (ii., 50); but from OF the treatise itself it is manifest that...
Gnosis of all things
"To such My Presence doth become an aid, and straightway they gain Gnosis of all things, and win the Father's love by their pure lives, and give Him thanks, invoking on Him blessings, and chanting hymns, intent on Him with ardent love." - Hermes
The Gnosticism of Barack Obama
"One by one the barriers have fallen to President Obama’s “gnostic revolt,” and few dared challenge him for fear of being called “racist.” But Obama’s race does not account for his revolution; it is ideology, fueling his revolt against “God and man,” remaking God and...
The School of Gnosticism was divided into two major parts
By 33rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall - "The School of Gnosticism was divided into two major parts, commonly called the Syrian Cult and the Alexandrian Cult. These schools agreed in essentials, but the latter division was more inclined to be pantheistic, while the...
The Gnostic viewpoint concerning the Christ
By 33rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall - "The Gnostic viewpoint concerning the Christ is well worthy of consideration. This order claimed to be the only sect to have actual pictures of the Divine Syrian. While these were, in all probability, idealistic conceptions of...
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...
33 Degrees to Enlightenment
Up the spine I travel 33 degrees bringing the liquid gold of God to your own Golgatha (place of the skull). A trip down the yellow brick road to deliver the philosopher's stone to the house where I illuminate your thoughts with the divine. Like the Messiah, I come to...
Gnosis Under a Thousand Different Names
All religions, secret societies, open societies and who we can call new age organizations that teach their followers the secrets of life and being human are derived from the ancient wisdom teachings of the Gnostics. If we are to strip away all the different names of...
Carl Jung on Our Shadow
According to Jung, the human being deals with the reality of the shadow in four ways: denial, projection, integration and/or transmutation. Filling the conscious mind with ideal conceptions is a characteristic of Western theosophy, but not the confrontation with the...
What is Hell? The Answer – “You make your own hell”
"Man is himself the creator of his heaven or hell, and there are no demons except his own follies." - Elphias Levi (This article is Part II on What is Hell?) - There are no horned demons, Mr. Satan, or an official known place on a world map called hell. These man-made...
The Gnostics caused the Gnosis to be prohibited by Christians
"That profanation has befallen the doctrines and mysteries of Magic we have no intention to deny; repeated from age to age, the misuse itself has been a great and terrible lesson for those who made secret things unwisely known. The Gnostics caused the Gnosis to be...
Egyptian Gnosis: How to subdue your lower animal self
By fellow Gnostic Brother Richard Cassaro...
The Will of God is Gnostic
"The Will of God is Gnostic; He wills to be known. The Divine Purpose is consummated in Self-knowledge. God is knowable, but only by "His own," that is by the Divine Sonship, as Basilides, the Christian Gnostic, calls it, or by the Race of the Sons of God, as Philo...
The Main Gospel of the Trismegistic Gnosis
"The main Gospel of the Trismegistic Gnosis is contained in a sacred sermon which bears in Greek the title "Poemandres." This may perhaps have been originally the Greek transliteration of an Egyptian name (ii., 50); but from the treatise itself it is manifest that it...
The Gnostic aspires to be freed by Gnosis
“The Gnostics held that the essential nature of the human is divine. They look upon men and women as gods and goddesses who have forgotten who they are. It’s from this predicament that the Gnostic aspires to be freed by Gnosis.”ㅤ~ Manly P. Hall
How to interpret your own dreams
“Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” - Carl Jung Dream interpretation and or analysis is a science that is thousands of years old. In ancient Egypt, Greece and other cultures,...
There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you
"Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time-to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You...
33rd Degree Masters of Enlightenment
The number 33 is directly related to human enlightenment, health and true Gnosis. Our spine which in the occult is sometimes called the serpent has 33 vertebrae. Initiates in ancient times were known as Nagas, a word that means serpent. Top level Freemasons are said...
The Ever Burning Lamp of Spiritual Fire Within the Spinal Column
33rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall had said, "The ever-burning lamp of the alchemist which having burned thousands of years without fuel in the catacombs of Rome is but a symbol of this same spiritual fire within himself. In the picture we see the ever-burning lamp...
We humans operate most effectively when we use the Golden Rule
"We humans operate most effectively when we use the Golden Rule to manage how we sense and learn using the math of 5 ^ .5 * .5 + .5 = Phi or 1.6180339. When we humans live by the Golden Rule, is when the philosopher or adept turns their DNA lead into DNA gold, or...
A 3-D Hellish Holographic Reality Program for Human Experience
Contrary to popular misbelief, you do not create and control your current reality. Sure, you have the ability to co-create on the superficial level, and to take a small part in helping shape the reality that is your life, but to say you are solely responsible for the...
Gnostic philosophy is a dangerous science
By 33rd Degree Freemason, Manly P. Hall - "Gnostic philosophy is a dangerous science. One of the greatest philosophers of all times said: ‘In much wisdom there is much sorrow; he who increases knowledge, increases sorrow.’ The knowledge meant by this philosopher was...
The Nag Hammadi Codices were made by monks
(Source: Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo) - The provenance of the Nag Hammadi Codices has been a point of contention among scholars ever since they were discovered in Upper Egypt in 1945. A new book strongly supports the hypothesis that they were...
Pike: The Kabalah is the key of the occult sciences; and the Gnostics were born of the Kabalists
Albert Pike was a 33rd Degree Freemason, and Sovereign Grand Master of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite who had written extensively on Gnosticism in his Masonic Gnostic masterpiece, Morals and Dogma. Throughout this great book, you will find many truths that he...
The Lonely Life of a Knower
"If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely." - Carl Jung My life has always been filled with the feeling of being alone. These feelings I can recall all throughout my childhood, teen years and as an adult. They followed me like faceless monsters in a bad...
Gnosis of the Ages
"It is no small thing—this Gnosis of ten-thousand-times-great Hermes, as Zosimus in an ecstasy of enthusiasm calls Him; For it has as its foundation the Single Love of God, it endeavours to base itself upon the True Philosophy and Pure Science of Nature and of Man,...
The word hippocampus is derived from the Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippokampos), ἵππος (hippos, “horse”) and κάμπος (kampos, “sea monster”)
The word hippocampus is derived from the Ancient Greek ἱππόκαμπος (hippokampos), ἵππος (hippos, “horse”) and κάμπος (kampos, “sea monster”). This is why they are named after each other, and the reason for the fabulous Greek legends of Neptune and his sea horses. This...
Archaeological Discovery Yields Surprising Revelations about Europe’s Oldest City
New evidence suggests that an ancient Aegean city not only recovered but also flourished following the collapse of the Bronze Age. The discovery suggests that not only did this spectacular site in the Greek Bronze Age (between 3500 and 1100 BC) recover from the...