Gnostica

Or, G = AL + AS
Gnosis must be a deeply personal experience, but not every deeply personal experience is gnosis.
According to this contemporary approach, true Gnosis (G) requires three variables:
A: An Awakening Event– This might be an epiphany, a theophany, a revelation, etc., but it must be personal and must be experienced.
L: [...]

The world of misleading headlines gets a little larger today with the lede to this story on MSN:
Earliest reference describes Christ as ‘magician’
The bowl itself is pretty interesting– dating to between 200 BCE and 100 CE, it carries an inscription currently being read as DIA CHRHSTOU OGOISTAIS (ΔIA XPHCTOY OΓOICTAIC). The story continues:
If the [...]

“Though many of we Gnostics do not look to The Cross as the
source of our salvation nor do we view the Crucifixion as
some type of blood atonement, we may see in it as an example
of love laid bare or even the happening of something divine.

From my  perspective, there is no “blood atonement” in the
Crucifixion, (and [...]

I’m still seeing “dogma” consistently used as a bad word. As in, people believe that “dogmas” are bad simply because they’re dogmas. I feel like I need to say something about it, because it seems to me that holding an opinion or adopting a teaching that holding opinions and adopting teachings is bad is a [...]

The idea that people who are not Gnostic are “worshipping the demiurge” is a huge misinterpretation of what is a very nuanced position. The ancient Gnostics were not completely in agreement about the nature of the Demiurge. Some sects undoubtedly considered the Demiurge a literal “Tyrant in the Skies,” whereas some considered it a simple [...]