Gnosis is the root wisdom of all the world’s great sacred traditions. The Greek word “gnosis” refers to the direct experiential knowledge of fundamental Truth, which develops all the possibilities of the human being and brings about the end of suffering.
This mystical science links every religion and mystical tradition like pearls on a golden thread. It is recognized by its primary virtue - compassion or conscious love.
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Many in these times associate the word Gnosis with a collection of texts found in the deserts of the Middle East, such as the Nag Hammadhi texts or Dead Sea Scrolls. Some believe that Gnosis is exclusively the belief system of long-lost groups of spiritual seekers like the Essenes or Nazarenes. In truth, these writings and groups were but one fraction of a much older, more widespread understanding.
While some have argued that the remarkable ubiquity of common themes, principles and symbols in religions are mere happenstance, the truth is far more powerful. Such clear similarities exist because the many sacred traditions of the world share the same core knowledge.
The same mysteries are traditionally taught within the innermost sanctum of every great tradition. This knowledge is veiled within the devotional acts and wisdom teachings of Sufism, the deepest profundities of Vajrayana Buddhism, the Kabalah of Judaism, the sacred rites of Eleusis, the highest yogic tantras of Hinduism, the secret teachings of Jesus to his disciples, or the carefully guarded initiatic rites of the world’s mystery schools ever-present throughout history. This is Gnosis.
All religions have the same principles. Under the sun, every religion is born, grows, develops, multiplies into many sects, and dies. This is how it has always been and will always be. Religious principles never die. The religious forms can die, but the religious principles, in other words, the eternal values, can never die. They continue; they are re-dressed with new forms.
- Samael Aun Weor, Religious Principles
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True illuminates have no dreams. Dreams are for those who are asleep. True illuminates live in the higher worlds, out of the physical body, in a state of intensified wakefulness without ever dreaming.
- Samael Aun Weor, Mental Representations
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“Many people are pleased and satisfied with the various limited religious doctrines existing in the world today. They all hope to live in the Kingdom of Heaven someday and sit sublimely at the side of their personal deity. But by entertaining such hopes and beliefs they only foster concepts of self and others, longevity and brevity, life and death, and so on without end. With such conceptual entanglements they cannot even listen to the Truth, much less study, practice and embrace it or explain it to others.”
- Lao Tse, Hua Hu Ching, Chapter 16
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