Gnosis is a greek word meaning knowledge. But it is a knowledge that goes much deeper than what you can learn in books, or what someone can tell you. Gnosis goes far beyond the intellectual study of spiritual principles or the mere belief in them. Instead, it seeks to verify those principles through experience. The experience of Gnosis is a mystical insight that occurs within the consciousness of the individual. It is, therefore, beyond the mind. Gnosis is a knowledge attained through the intuitive apprehension of spiritual truth. Gnosis is not a religion. It is not a product of time or place, culture or personality. It is the golden thread which leads us back to our own individual divinity. Gnosis extracts the essential wisdom from all great spiritual traditions in order to provide a practical path that leads us to freedom from suffering. All great religions, all the great sages and saints, have addressed the difficult reality of human suffering. Any legitimate spiritual teaching is intended to provide a pathway out of suffering to a state of liberation. But the difference between a truly liberating spiritual path and a path based in unverified belief lies in the individual's internal experience. In an age when we are taught by society to seek external gratification as a source of happiness, it is difficult to comprehend that true happiness lies within. Only by awakening to our reality as an essence – a divine spark – of divinity, can we begin to release ourselves from the captivity of our egoical nature. Gnosis offers practical keys, combined with meditation practice, which allow us to experience liberation in our day-to-day life. Whether we are sleeping or eating, walking or talking, our potential in every moment is the same: we can awaken to a higher reality. This awakening becomes possible when we perceive all of life's situations – good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant, easy or difficult – as a part of the whole, the changing manifestation of an unchangeable reality. And by awakening we comprehend our predicament: we are a spiritual being who has forgotten its true nature. Our task, then, is to remember, to wake up, to re-unite with that within us which is truly divine. This is the synthesis of the Gnostic teachings as taught by Samael Aun Weor. Who is Samael Aun Weor?
"The basic principles of the great universal wisdom are always identical. The Buddha, Hermes Trismegistus, Quetzalcoatl, Jesus of Nazareth, and other great Masters, delivered a message; each of these messages from above contain in themselves identical principles of a completely impersonal and universal type. Gnosis, the initiatic science, the science of cosmic knowledge, has many names and exists in many languages, but it is the synthesis of all doctrines."
Samael Aun WeorSamael Aun Weor was born in Colombia in 1917. From an early age he began to search within the various esoteric schools that existed at that time, in order to find answers to the eternal questions: Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here?Together with his wife Litelantes, he founded the first contemporary Gnostic movement in the early 1950’s, with the sole aim of bringing to humanity the wisdom of Gnosis and the keys to attaining self-knowledge.He wrote over seventy works during his life, setting forth in a very direct, clear and practical way a marvellous synthesis of the path of Self-Realization; this path, as it has been bequeathed to us, is based in the Three Factors for the Revolution of the Consciousness. The stream of Gnosis runs through all Ancient Mystery Schools and now this stream has been re-enlivened by Samael Aun Weor through the contemporary Gnostic movement. "We do not want idolaters…, nor are we interested in followers. We are signposts; so do not become attached to us because our work is not one of proselytizing. We indicate the path to follow with logical thought and exact concept so that each person may arrive at his or her Inner Master, the One that dwells in silence within each one of you."
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