The Greek word Gnosis refers to the knowledge acquired through the experience of the awakened consciousness, as opposed to knowledge that we are told in the many educational entities or might believe. Genuine Gnosis is the knowledge universal to all humanity that frees the consciousness from suffering. Gnosis – by whatever name in history or culture – is conscious, experiential knowledge, not merely intellectual or conceptual knowledge, belief or theory.
The Gnostic student seeks to acquire their own direct experience of the light (the Truth) by means of awakening the consciousness and eliminating obstructions to perception.
The method to accomplish this task has been called:
- Gnosis (Greek) knowledge
- Jnana (Sanskrit): knowledge
- Daath (Hebrew): knowledge
- Dharma (Sanskrit): righteousness, law, truth, teaching
- Torah (Hebrew): teaching, instruction, law
“We are not against any religion, school, sect, order or lodge because we know that all religious forms are manifestations of the great Cosmic Universal Infinite Religion latent in every atom of the Cosmos. We teach the synthesis of all religions, schools, orders, lodges and beliefs. Our doctrine is the Doctrine of the Synthesis.”
—Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony
“All Religions are Pearls entwined in the Golden Thread of the Divinity.”
The venerable science of Gnosis is the universal to all humankind and is the essential “knowing” that arises from the experience of objective reality, universally experienced by all those who fully awaken and develop their consciousness. The science or path to arrive at knowing that reality for oneself, in one’s own experience, is also called Gnosis, because it leads to the acquisition of one’s own Gnosis of fundamental truth.
“Gnosis is a very natural function of the consciousness, a perennis et universalis philosophy.
“Unquestionably, Gnosis is the enlightened knowledge of the divine mysteries, which are reserved for a certain elite.
“The word Gnosticism encloses within its grammatical structure the idea of systems or methods dedicated to the study of Gnosis.
- Gnosticism implies a coherent, clear, and precise series of fundamental elements that can be verified through direct mystical experience:
- Damnation, from a scientific and philosophic point of view
- The Adam and Eve of the Hebraic Genesis
- The Original Sin and the fall from Paradise
- The mystery of Nahua Lucifer
- The death of the myself
- The creative powers
- The essence of the Salvator Salvandus
- The sexual mysteries
- The intimate Christ
- The igneous serpent of our magical powers
- The descent into hell
- The return to Eden
- The gift of Mephistopheles
“Only the Gnostic doctrines that entail the above mentioned ontological, theological, and anthropological bases are part of genuine Gnosticism.” —Samael Aun Weor, The Secret Doctrines of Anahuac
Gnosis is, in its essence, the method to escape suffering, because to experience fundamental reality, one must abandon the deluded mind, within which we all suffer intensely. Our delusions cause suffering, and prevent us from seeing the truth.
The method to experience the fundamental reality is exact and has existed for millennia. True Gnosis – conscious knowledge of this experience – is free of separatism, dogma, politics, fanaticism, and sectarianism. Gnosis comes from the divine and cannot be bottled into the limited concepts of the intellect or mere belief.
The hallmarks of true Gnosis are seen in the world’s greatest human beings: profound compassion, penetrating wisdom, and sparkling intelligence.
…there is every reason to believe that all so-called secret schools of the ancient world were branches from one philosophic tree which, with its root in heaven and its branches on the earth, is–like the spirit of man–an invisible but ever-present cause of the objectified vehicles that give it expression. The Mysteries were the channels through which this one philosophic light was disseminated, and their initiates, resplendent with intellectual and spiritual understanding, were the perfect fruitage of the divine tree, bearing witness before the material world of the recondite source of all Light and Truth.
– Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
All religious forms are manifestations of the great Cosmic Universal Infinite Religion latent in every atom of the cosmos.
There is Gnosis in the Buddhist doctrine, in the Tantric Buddhism from Tibet, in the Zen Buddhism from Japan, in the Ch’an Buddhism of China, in Sufism, in the Whirling Dervishes, in the Egyptian, Persian, Chaldean, Pythagorean, Greek, Aztec, Mayan, Inca, etc., wisdom.
We teach the synthesis of all religions, schools, orders, lodges and beliefs. Our doctrine is the Doctrine of the Synthesis. – Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony
“It is impossible to bring souls into the Light without the Mysteries [gnosis] of the Light-kingdom.” –
Jesus, from The Pistis Sophia (ch 103)
Master Samael Aun Weor wrote about seventy books disseminating gnosis, the path to the Self-realization of the Being. His books are filled with practical exercises and detailed instructions regarding the many requirements to entering into true and genuine Initiation.
He founded the International Christic Gnostic Movement and instituted many levels of instruction and assistance for humanity. His entire life was dedicated to offering to humanity the essential keys in order to awaken the consciousness.
He was known to be very rigorous in his teaching method and demanding in his guidance, as a fully awakened Master, he fully understood the dangers of the path and the many pitfalls that exist within our own minds. Yet, in his works one can find the balsamic essence of true love, as the one that we all can perceive in all sacred treatises of philosophy and spirituality of all times.
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