Quotes About Gnostic

Remember the words of the Gnostic Jesus, I forget which book: 'If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.' " "It was Thomas." "Yes, the Book of Thomas.

According to Gnostic teaching, the world is a mixture of the seeds of light and of darkness. Though it is impossible to distinguish between them now, in the fullness of time they will separate naturally, as ordained.

The created world, including a major portion of the human mind, is seen as evil by the Gnostic primarily because it distracts consciousness away from knowledge of the Divine.

Gnostic teachings speak of the reality and power of evil and its fundamental presence throughout manifest existence. They declare that while we may not be able to rid the world or ourselves of evil, we may, and indeed will, rise above it through gnosis.

To sum up, salvation to the Gnostic means not reconciliation with an angry God by way of the death of his son, but rather liberation from the stupor induced by earthly existence and an awakening by way of gnosis.

The real gnostic does not attribute any "state" to himself, for he is without ambition and without ostentation; he has a tendency rather--through an "instinct for holding back"--to disguise his nature inasmuch as he has, in any case, awareness of "cosmic play" (lila) and it is hard for him to take secular and worldly persons seriously, that is to say, "horizontal" beings who are full of self-confidence and who remain, "humanists" that they are, below the vocation of man

The Gnostic Gospels. Vintage: New York, 1989

Gnostic tales tell of the homesickness of the soul, its yearning for its own milieu…

Even at the moment of direct perception when gnostic awareness of emptiness as form and form as emptiness is experienced, the mind is preparing to dualize the situation.

Perhaps because alchemy combines the ancient, Gnostic focus on the immaterial and transcendent soul, or spark, with the modern, scientific-like focus on the transformation of worldly matter, it serves to connect the two. Despite his professed closer kinship to alchemy

If ignorance alone, according to Gnostic orthodoxy, keeps humans tied to the material world, knowledge frees them from it. Because humans are ignorant, that knowledge must come from outside them. Because the powers of the material world are ignorant, too, that knowledge must come from beyond them as well: it can come only from the godhead. The dependence of humanity on the godhead matches the dependence of the ego on the unconscious to reveal itself.

As Jung says more clearly of Christ: This Gnostic Christ … symbolizes man's original unity and exalts it as the saving goal of his development. By "composing

There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity and multiplicity of approaches to this. If you think the story of the virgin birth is mistranslated, for instance, it doesn't mean you have to throw out the whole thing.

Spirito.D'altro canto, quando Lukács sostiene che l'irrazionalismo filosofico degli ultimi due secoli è un'invenzione della borghesia che cerca di reagire alla crisi cui si trova di fronte legittimando filosoficamente la propria volontà di potenza e la propria pratica imperialistica, sta semplicemente traducendo la sindrome gnostica in linguaggio marxista. C'è

Rather than a cognitive procedure of the intellect alone, Gnostic knowledge is experience, a lived experience of spiritual regeneration. It is a transforming knowledge, whose immediate effect is salvation.

What happened to the Divine Feminine? Why has She apparently disappeared from Judaism, Christianity and Islam? In the Gnostic Gospels, we learn that Mary Magdalene was probably the closest disciple of the Christos, the one whom the Master taught the most arcane esoteric wisdom. She was and is the representation of all wisdom. The male apostles of the Christos demonstrated both their jealousy and respect for the wisdom and position of Mary Magdalene.

The Pleroma plays a central role the Gnostic cosmology. The Pleroma has a physical location in the astronomical mythology of Gnosticism; it is situated in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

None of the various Gnostic groups that existed approximately during the first and second century of the Common Era (anno Domini or AD), which scholars today term Gnostic groups, called themselves by that name. Gnosticism is a seventeenth-century term that scholars invented to define those groups that sought truth and direct experience with the Divine, and who existed approximately during the first two hundred years after the Christos walked the Earth in a physical body.

Sex magick existed before Crowley. It is quite ancient, having been observed by Gnostic and Tantric practitioners, and later by the pagan (indigenous) pre-Christian peoples of Europe.

Hermes Trismegistus is the most famous Gnostic. He was the founder of the pre-Christian lineage of Greek Gnosticism.

Gnostic manuscripts lead people to an understanding of themselves as sons and daughters of God, sharing God's Divinity.

The fundamental motif at the heart of many ancient myths is that the primal oneness of being is manifesting as the multiplicity of life, so that it can come to know itself. As the Gnostic sage Simon Magus says in 'The Great Announcement': There is one power… begetting itself, increasing itself, seeking itself, finding itself… One root of the All.

I stepped through the doors of the SA Café with a borrowed copy of Isaac Asimov's I, Robot in my hand, expecting to find more of the same, only to find Philip K. Dick sitting at a table, obsessing over Gnostic demiurges and ersatz realities, Robert A. Heinlein across from him, spouting libertarian aphorisms but paying for Dick's coffee.

Are there, as science fiction and Gnostic speculation imply, different species of time in the same world, 'good time' and enveloping folds of inhuman time, in which men fall into the slow hands of the living damnation?