Gnostica

In one of those weird flashes of insight that occasionally comes along at about 3 am, I recently came to the realization that my own spiritual journey is leading me to establish a formal syncretization between Buddhism and Gnosticism. I’d like to share my preliminary notes on the subject, and invite conversation. These [...]

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 [...]

“All the comparisons that (Jesus) makes tend to show that the disciples of Jesus are necessarily few in number with little power. The leaven in the dough. The salt in the soup. The sheep in the middle of wolves, and how many other images. Jesus seems to have never had the vision of a triumphant [...]

 God of Power, God of Light
 God of Power, God of Light…God of Power and Light; how often have we heard these two terms used in close conjunction?…as if they went “hand-in-hand”, complimentary aspects of a single Deity?
In truth, they are nothing of the kind.. Rather, they are two competing conceptions of God, two irreconcilable visions [...]

July 22 is the Holy Feast Day of Mary Magdelene, a central figure in Gnosticism and representative of the divine feminine aspect of spirituality.  Happy Day of the Holy Mary Magdelene to all!
And when Mary had said this, the First Mystery said unto her, “Well said, finely, Mary, blessed one.”
And he continued again in the [...]