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    Is this Gnosticism?

    Another part of the problem is that too many people view Gnosticism as being a heresy of Christianity, and it isn't. It is a derivative of ancient Egyptian religion that is similar to Hermeticism, which has been demonstrated fairly well as being a Greek response to the older Egyptian system of...
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    Pantheons?

    Well, I have a deep connection to the Egyptian Pantheon, in particular the Memphite Triad of Ptah - Sekhmet - Nefertem but at the same time, I also have a deep sense of personal honor to the Norse Pantheon, in particular to Odin Warfather All-Powerful and Tieuw - One Hand (who lost his hand to...
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    The Egyptian Connection

    Hi All, I was here a few months ago and made several posts about the Ancient Egyptian Religion as a possible source for Gnosticism. Since that time, I have found an online doctoral dissertation on that very subject, called "The Egyptian Foundations of Gnostic Thought" at the following link...
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    What is the Gnostic View of Chaos

    In the New Kingdom Egyptian worldview, there are two forms of "Chaos", one being the watery abyss of potential existence, called "NUN", and a hostile intelligence that seeks to overthrow all order including the annihilation of NUN, preventing even latent existence from existing and thus reducing...
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    What is "Gnosis"?

    The Gnostic Library is a good online reference source and contains both the Nag Hammadi translations as well as the whole heresiological remains preserved by the Church. I will be making references to this resource as I continue my discussion, as well as a few others.
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    Your views on Aleister Crowley

    Crowley is one of the most interesting people of the last century. At the same time, he is one of the most misunderstood people of any century. Let's get something out of the way: was Crowley a "Black Magician"? The late English occultist William Gray posed that question and answered it...
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    What is "Gnosis"?

    You raised a good point, but on some levels your comment about "relationship with God" deflects the point about what is Gnosis. One oculd say that everyone has a relationship with God, which would be both completely true and at the same time totally meaningless. One could say that one has a...
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    Is there an Alien-based spiritual system on earth now?

    From reading a comment by Kyabje Namkai Norbu in his "Crystal and the Way of Light", an introduction to Dzogschen, the answer would have to be Yes. For in that book, Namkai Norbu says that this world is one of thirteen star systems where Dzogschen is currently being taught.
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    What is "Gnosis"?

    What is Gnosis?: Continued The earlier Gnostic writers and teachers seemed to delight in waving a red flag in front of others. Perhaps you may have seen a cartoon showing a mouse flipping the bird at a hungry owl who is getting ready to pounce on the mouse, with the caption "The Last...
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    What is "Gnosis"?

    First, it is important to provide a brief overview of "Gnosticism" as it has evolved over the last hundred years. Early Christianity was a highly unstable mix of many different strands of evolution of Christianity. What we know as "the New Testament" was not really stabilized until the...
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    What is "Gnosis"?

    I was planning to write some items out and then copy and paste them in, but I just tried to do that and found I could not paste from a thing I had written. Any thoughts?
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    What is "Gnosis"?

    This is a question that I have been digging into since my first introduction into Gnosticism back in the late 1950;s when I read Mead's "Fragments of a Faith Forgotten". Now almost fifty years later, I have a pretty good idea of what the early Gnostics were talking and writing about. It is a...
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    Greetings

    I started my own searching back in college and forty seven years later ... have been down many wrong alleys and gotten stuck more times than I care to admit. But thanks to some recently published work, I feel I can make a reasonable statement and will do so over on the Gnosticism forum...
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    Greetings

    Well, I used to hang out over at Jim Berkland's syzygyjob site, and about five years ago they had a general forum called "Prophecy". And the flame wars erupted constantly between the Biblers and anyone else. In time that board was split into two, "Dreams and Visions" and "Religious Prophecy". It...
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    New Tibetan Book of the Dead

    My own introduction to Vajrayana Buddhism began with the Tibetan Book of the Dead as edited by Evans-Wentz back in the 1920's, published by Oxford. It was an incredible aesthetic experience to read that book. I found it during my first year at College. The work had been translated by one Lama...
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