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Why Gnostics Shouldn't Vote Republican
Exploring Our Matrix | October 9th 2008 by James McGrath
If you are a Gnostic and are thinking of voting for McCain, I should remind you of an important Scripture reference. In the Gospel of Philip 80 it says:"one must not give help to those who are well off"This is the translation by Marvin Meyer in The N read more
Some Problems with the West
Manifold Oneness | October 3rd 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
[Image available as a poster]The prevalent Western worldview is hampered by intellectual structures and practices that limit capacity, conceptual imagination, and our ability to adapt to reality.Here's the first and perhaps most central problem: the read more
Mage of the Day
Manifold Oneness | September 30th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
A fun and insightful few minutes. (I will add the comment that magic needn't be as strictly inward as this segment, by itself, implies). read more
Free Mystic
Manifold Oneness | September 23rd 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
The most attractive self-name for me—more than Pagan or Witch (both of which I accept and use)—is Free Mystic. I like that better because it’s looser and freer, and because it describes my transcultural sources and my refusal to commit to ins read more
The One
Exploring Our Matrix | August 5th 2008 by James McGrath
The One is the invisible Spirit. We should not think of it as a god or like a god. For it is greater than a god, because it has nothing over it and no lord above it. It does not exist within anything inferior to it, since everything exists within it, read more
Subverting the Archons: Decreasing Resistance on the Path
Beyond Within | July 22nd 2008 by Palehorse Redivivus
Well, our network has been down for a while (which would be a fitting basis for this post in itself), but hark, for I hath returnethed! In my last post I mentioned one of the hallmarks of the Gnostic path: running up against the Archons (insert dr read more
Maarif | Bahauddin Valad, the father of Rumi
Inspirtational and Creative Thoughts | July 12th 2008
Alif Lam Mim.If God says We, meaning I AM, then any pronoun I use becomes superfluous. Designations fall like petals. Wisdom comes, and I feel such pleasure flooding me that I fear losing my sense of it. I tell myself: Inquire into how lover, beloved read more
Freedom, Gnosis and Linkage, Oh My!
Beyond Within | July 6th 2008 by Palehorse Redivivus
No big collection of links today; just a plug for an awesome gnosis-related blog I found, and some commentary. What happens when a Gnostic “wakes up”? Things can get a little difficult. You see, when you start fighting the chloroform of creation read more
.: Gnosis, la Era de Acuario :.
Loxley Blog | June 30th 2008 by Loxley
Fuente: www.gnosishoy.comHace ya 46 años, el 4 de febrero de 1962, daba comienzo la Era de Acuario. Ese día se produjo un evento sideral, en el cual los planetas del sistema solar se alinearon, describiendo una especie de "danza cósmica" y anuncia read more
How Should We Regard the Flesh?
Beyond Within | June 28th 2008 by Palehorse Redivivus
Fear not the flesh nor love it. If you fear it, it will gain mastery over you. If you love it, it will swallow and paralyze you. –Gospel of Philip The Gnostics are often portrayed as extremists. Not religious extremists as we think of them t read more
What is Gnosticism?
Beyond Within | June 25th 2008 by Palehorse Redivivus
Over the course of my developing interaction with the divine figure Sophia, I’ve dug up some of my favorite sources and have been taking a fresh look at Gnosticism. I have long cited Gnostic thought as one of my main influences, though as with read more
On Unity, Epistemology and True Will
Manifold Oneness | June 7th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
The world used to be trapped in a construct of magic, then of faith, then one of philosophical reason, now perhaps one of engineering. More likely, now is fragmented between competing camps with different kinds of power. Via the root concept of tec read more
By the Shore
Manifold Oneness | May 20th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
A mystical poem by Edward Carpenter (1844-1929), spiritual and literary initiate of Walt Whitman. In addition to being the best-selling poet of his day, Carpenter was a pioneer of Queer Spirituality, the Pagan Revival, communalism, feminism and econ read more
The Essene Gospel of Peace
Inspirtational and Creative Thoughts | May 18th 2008
"A dark age began,a time of savagery of barbarism,of book-burning, of superstitionand worship of empty idols.The gentle Jesus was lost foreverin the image of a crucified God.The Essene brothers hid their teachings in the minds of the few who could p read more
Boldness of a Seed in Fury
Manifold Oneness | May 9th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
This poem was realized after a recent long day in the garden, partly thinking about my ancestors (my father's and my generations are the only ones in my family who were never subsistence... that is, sustainable...farmers). I must have asked to be bor read more
I Stand with Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Manifold Oneness | April 30th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
In a time of universal deceit,telling the truth is a revolutionary act.George OrwellThis man is being vilified in the press for telling the plain truth. To my eyes, he looks like an authentic prophet... or at least a temporary oracle. In Christian te read more
Spirit AND Matter
Manifold Oneness | April 17th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
One of the foremost syntheses of immanent and transcendent, material and spiritual, eastern and western modes is represented in the person and thought of Sri Aurobindo (c. 1872-1950):"IF then the conclusion at which we have arrived is correct,—and read more
Proceed According to "Instructions"
Manifold Oneness | April 15th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
And here's another quite similar set of instructions. read more
My Abraxas
Manifold Oneness | April 11th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
Abraxas speaketh that hallowed and accursed wordwhich is life and death at the same time. Abraxas begetteth truth and lying, good and evil, light and darkness in the same word and in the same act. Wherefore is Abraxas terrible.-- Prophet Carl Jung, read more
Tim Freke’s New Website
Azedia | March 22nd 2008 by J.K. Bowman
Timothy Freke is my favorite gnostic author. He’s also a philosopher (degreed), an infrequent comic, and now he’s the owner of a website that’s clearly avant-garde in terms of what most of us expect from spirituality. This is a bo read more
Gnostic Palm Sunday Liturgy at the New Seminary
:ight and Life | March 12th 2008
Palm Sunday Liturgy at the New Seminary -2672 Broadway at 102nd St, 2nd Floor in Manhattan.Discussion: What is Gnosticism? 1:30-3:30 pmLiturgy of Divine Wisdom 4:00 pmJoin us this Sunday for an exciting introduction to modern Gnosticism.Beginning at read more
Monism is not Monotheism
Manifold Oneness | March 3rd 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
“Listening not to me but to the Logos,it is wise to agree that all things are one.”Heraclitus"Oneness is like the clear blue sky--everything arises, unfolds, and subsides within its all-compassion. Oneness is our real Self. Everything is an aspec read more
God is Not All Powerful
Beyond Within | February 29th 2008 by Palehorse Redivivus
Well, if that title doesn’t get me burned at the stake, I don’t know what will. Nice knowin’ all you fine folks! In the recent post of musings on reincarnation, I stated that “the divine is persuasive, not coercive.” read more
Thoughts on Reincarnation
Beyond Within | February 26th 2008 by Palehorse Redivivus
At a certain point in one’s spiritual development, the seeker usually begins to question the whole incarnative process. Why am I here? Why do we keep incarnating? Who or what makes us keep coming back? Do I have any say in the circumstances read more
The Essence of Christianity--Knowing God through Christ
Healing the Wounded Feminine | January 30th 2008 by Julie Smith
When packing for a trip, one thinks of the essentials that one will need. It is never fun to get somewhere and find that something you need is missing from your suitcase. Sometimes what you have forgotten is so essential that you have to either bor read more
YOGA: Suatu Studi dan Praktek
Lone Sharing is Caring | January 28th 2008 by Johnny Lone
Source: mayapadaprana Reposting, sumber dari leaflet Teosofi =========================== YOGA: Suatu Studi dan Praktek Transformasi-diri dan pertumbuhan spiritual merupakan konsep penting dalam filsafat agama manapun. Transformasi-diri dan pertumbuh read more
Gnosis--A New Way of Seeing and Hearing
Healing the Wounded Feminine | January 27th 2008 by Julie Smith
We have just spent the last week vacationing in Mexico along the Pacific Ocean. It has been a wonderful time to rest, relax, and reflect. I have been surrounded by Mother Nature and have been enveloped by the beauty and spaciousness of the feminine read more
Dark Matter or Ether
Le Revue Gauche | January 12th 2008
UBC astronomer makes first map of dark matterDark matter is a cosmic mystery -- though it has detectable mass, that mass doesn't emit any light, so it's as dark as a black hole. But there is so much of it in the universe that its gravitational effec read more
Awakenings and Ecstasy
Manifold Oneness | January 8th 2008 by Copper Asetemhat Stewart
The Gods and Spirit Powers of Pagan religions are very Real forces with manifest personalities and intelligence, not mere metaphors. They are accessible to us according to our willingness and level of preparedness. Gods respond to freedom and opennes read more
Holy Agnosis
The Website of Unknowing | January 4th 2008 by Carl McColman
Something that I keep mulling over is the relationship between gnosticism and agnosticism and how both of these categories relate to contemporary Christian mysticism and Christian spiritual practice. We know that Gnosticism was the first great Christ read more
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