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Post by Admin on Feb 19, 2023 0:59:33 GMT
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Post by Admin on Mar 6, 2023 13:52:34 GMT
Gnosticism is an ancient religious and philosophical movement that emerged in the first century CE and was particularly influential in the Mediterranean world during the second and third centuries. The term "gnosticism" comes from the Greek word "gnosis," meaning knowledge, and refers to the belief that salvation can be attained through secret knowledge or insight into the divine.
Gnostics believed that the world was created by a lesser, imperfect god, and that the true God was unknowable and transcendent. They also believed in a dualistic cosmology, in which the material world was considered evil or inferior and the spiritual world was considered good or superior. Salvation, in this worldview, involved freeing the spirit or soul from the physical body and the material world.
Gnosticism drew on a variety of religious and philosophical traditions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Greek philosophy. Many Gnostic texts were later considered heretical by orthodox Christian authorities and were suppressed or destroyed, but some were preserved in the Nag Hammadi library discovered in Egypt in 1945.
Today, Gnosticism continues to influence spiritual and philosophical thought, particularly in esoteric and New Age circles.
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Post by Admin on Mar 13, 2023 14:51:58 GMT
As students of the Ancient Mystery Traditions, the early Gnostics believed the Christ was not an actual Being, but a state of consciousness we are all destined to one day attain. They followed the teachings they’d learned directly from Jesus, who they felt didn’t come to teach us to worship Christ; he came to tell us to be the Christ. Therefore, they believed that when we call upon this omnipotent inner Christ, we are actually claiming our own true identity. Realizing our own Christ consciousness is “living in the Pleroma.” To the Gnostic Christians, remembering that the human being is divine, that the inner Christ and our outer personalities are one, was the most crucial part of Jesus’ message to his disciples. Yet, historically, the Orthodox Christian Church has basically ignored this teaching. It’s gotten lost in memorizing religious dogma and worshipping outer religious authorities. But thankfully, the Gnostic gospels have retained this vital truth. In The Nag Hammadi Library, Philip reminds us in his Gospel that the Teacher said: “I have come to make the lower realities like the higher realities, and the outer realities like the inner realities and to unite them in this Temple Space where they reveal themselves through images and symbols…It is right to say that the inner and outer are one.”
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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2023 23:07:40 GMT
The Dark Messiah:Magick, Gnosis and Religion Brian J. Allan whitecrowbooks.com/books/page/the_dark_messiahmagick_gnosis_and_religion/Did religion legitimise magick or magick legitimise religion? Logic would suggest the latter, because shamanic and animistic traditions have long predated organised religion. In this book the author considers the observations made by Sir James Fraser in The Golden Bough, when he wrote: “Magic is the bastard sister of science; it is therefore a truism, almost a tautology, to say that magic is necessarily false and barren, for were it ever to become true and fruitful it would no longer be magic but science”. In demonstrating just how accurate that statement is Allan considers sorcerer priests, biblical magick, wicca, the inquisition, the Big Bang and even quantum physics and concludes that religion and magick are, and indeed have to be, one and the same. He also asks if there any difference between the magickal displays attributed to saints and other conventionally ‘holy people’ and those manifested by people such as faith healers, psychics and mediums? Most controversial of all he poses the question, was Jesus really the Son of God or a Master Magician? All of this and much, much more is considered here. This book could permanently change how you see the world. About the author Brian Allan has been interested in manifestations of the supernatural and paranormal since an encounter during his early childhood, and since then he has seen more than enough to convince him of the existence of another reality that lies alongside our own. He is also sure that if the conditions are right, and they are willing, we can contact and communicate with whatever exists there. He also believes that the paranormal and ufology are only two sides of the same coin and as result of this he has lectured extensively and also written several twelve subject related books and several documentary scripts dealing with these matters. Another of his interests is the enigma of Rosslyn Chapel, where his research revealed what is thought to be one of its secrets and that relates to specific frequency based on a chord structure called the ‘augmented fourth’, which is encoded into some of the carvings within the building. Brian is a presenter and scriptwriter and was a former editor of Paranormal Magazine, he is currently the editor of Phenomena Magazine: www.phenomenamagazine.co.uk and can be contacted at paratec7@aol.com . Publisher: White Crow Books Published March 2018 222 pages Size: 229 x 152 mm ISBN 978-1-78677-057-8
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