Category: Awakening to Gnosis

  • Prisoners of Earth Come Out

    Prisoners of Earth Come Out

    I stand in the midst of the world and in the flesh was I seen of them. And I found all men drunken, and none found I athirst (for God) among them. And my soul grieveth over the sons of men, because they are blind in their heart, and see not. For empty they came…

  • Christianity: The Ultimate Secret

    Christianity: The Ultimate Secret

    Today there is an unprecedented thirst for the innermost secrets of Christianity. The quest for these lost teachings drives the plots of best-sellers like The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail; it is discussed in major newsmagazines; and it is the subject of intense speculation and debate among believers and nonbelievers alike. What are these secrets?…

  • Out of Body Experience

    Out of Body Experience

    Belief: A state or habit of mind in which trust confidence, or reliance is placed in some person or thing: FAITH. Gnosis: Of, relating to, or characterized by knowledge or cognition. – Webster’s Third New International Dictionary When Robert Monroe began having his first out-of-body adventures in 1958 only two scholarly, scientific books had been written about the…

  • Awakening Our True Potential

    Awakening Our True Potential

    Man is born an unfinished creature. He cannot walk or talk or feed himself. Long years of care are required to bring him to even the most minimal levels of self-sufficiency. And yet even after the typical person has reached the stage of functioning that we call adulthood, something still seems to be missing. In…

  • The Death & Rebirth of the Self

    The Death & Rebirth of the Self

    Ancient myths exercise such great allure that one cannot help wondering what meanings lie behind them. The great psychologist C.G. Jung suggested these myths were projections of the collective unconscious, a universal level of the mind that expresses itself in symbolic and religious forms. By contrast, the French esotericist René Guénon and his school, who…

  • A Way to Live: The Path of Self-Knowledge

    A Way to Live: The Path of Self-Knowledge

    For all the scarcity in the world, one thing we never seem to be lacking is advice. We’re constantly deluged with exhortations of one sort or another – for diet, exercise, health, wealth, happiness, spiritual illumination. Of course these pieces of advice often conflict. The question then becomes, whose advice do we take? There are…

  • Humanity, Environment & Spirit

    Humanity, Environment & Spirit

    During the last few decades, many people have become justifiably alarmed by the continuing growth of technology. In recent years this has been augmented by the concern over global warming, which may be at least in part caused by human activities. We may observe a certain anxiety arising from such concerns that impels many to…

  • The Mystery of Iniquity: Does Evil Exist or Do Bad Things Just Happen?

    The Mystery of Iniquity: Does Evil Exist or Do Bad Things Just Happen?

    On June 10, 1991, a cover story appeared in Time magazine on the topic of evil. The author, Lance Morrow, did not argue for a particular thesis and did not reach any conclusions. What he did, however, was in a sense more important. He began by stating three propositions: God is all-powerful. God is all-good.…

  • Eros & Gnosis: A Gnostic Study of Human Sexuality

    Eros & Gnosis: A Gnostic Study of Human Sexuality

    Human beings are not only the funniest monkeys: they are the sexiest ones as well. In many ways we are a species singularly devoted to sex. We talk, write, read, joke and argue about it; we dress and undress for it, and, given favourable circumstances, we perform it regularly. More importantly, and sometimes lamentably, we…

  • Transfiguration

    Transfiguration

    The following by Raymond Abellio was privately released in the 1954 publication Cahiers du Cercle d’Etudes Metaphysiques. It is reprinted here from The Morning of the Magicians: Secret Societies, Conspiracies, and Vanished Civilizations by Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier (Destiny Books, 2008) When, in the natural attitude which is that of all “normal” existing beings, I “see”…