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  • They Lied About the First 100 Years of Christianity | Gnostic Informant

    They Lied About the First 100 Years of Christianity | Gnostic Informant

    Neal Sendlak (Gnostic Informant) documentary provides one the most detailed study and history of the early schools of Christianity, before the schism with Gnosticism.

  • The Meaning of Pistis and the Science of Gnosis

    The Meaning of Pistis and the Science of Gnosis

    The writings of Christian authors and theologians about those called Gnostics and Gnosticism often indicate insecurity and fear of it as a legitimate threat, even after attaining victory over it. I will demonstrate what I mean. Bible Hub explains, that “gnṓsis (“applied-knowledge”) is only as accurate (reliable) as the relationship it derives from.” It adds, “the…

  • William Quan Judge: “The Occultist is reverently and progressively Gnostic”

    William Quan Judge: “The Occultist is reverently and progressively Gnostic”

    “The modern scientist is confessedly and boastfully agnostic. The occultist is reverently and progressively gnostic. Modern science recognizes matter as ‘living’ and ‘dead,’ ‘organic’ and ‘inorganic,’ and ‘Life’ as merely a phenomenon of matter. Occult science recognizes, ‘foremost of all, the postulate that there is no such thing in Nature as inorganic substances or bodies.”…

  • “Use the Eyes of the Spiritual Intelligence” | H.P. Blavatsky

    “Use the Eyes of the Spiritual Intelligence” | H.P. Blavatsky

    “First let the student clearly realize that he cannot see things spiritual with the eyes of the flesh, and that in studying, he must use the eyes of the Spiritual Intelligence, else will he fail and his study will be fruitless.” HELENA BLAVATSKY, COLLECTED WRITINGS, VOL. 12, P. 691

  • Survival of Post-Christian Successors to the Mysteries

    Survival of Post-Christian Successors to the Mysteries

    “Thus it is not Judaism and Christianity that remodelled the ancient Pagan Wisdom, but rather the latter that put its heathen curb, quietly and insensibly, on the new faith; and this, moreover, was still further influenced by the Eclectic Theosophical system, the direct emanation of the Wisdom-Religion. All that is grand and noble in Christian…

  • The Seven Numerations of Nature in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Trans-Himalayan Occult Tenet

    The Seven Numerations of Nature in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs and Trans-Himalayan Occult Tenet

    The Secret Doctrine defends the doctrine on the Seven Numerations of Man and Nature, held by the Trans-Himalayan Occultists’ School taught in the Theosophical system. Helena Blavatsky did not invent Theosophy, nor this concept, but explains it in no way others have hitherto done. She further tied this to Greek Esotericism (Theosophy and Platonism: The Seven…