Gnosis is a word of Greek origin that means “knowledge” (mystical knowledge and understanding). This refers to universal knowledge which includes both physical and metaphysical knowledge. 

In Gnosis we find art, science, philosophy and transcendental mysticism, because these are the four basic foundations of all great cultures. We must say that from gnosis came the culture of the most important civilizations of our world, such as: Mayan, Aztec, Incan, Egyptian, Greek, Mesopotamian, Chaldaean, etc., so that we will find Gnosis in all Schools, Religions, Orders, Denominations and Spiritual Societies.  

We also find Gnosis in the secret science of the Dancing Dervishes and Sufis, in the secret doctrine of Buddhism and Taoism, in the sacred magic of the Nordics, in the wisdom of Buddha, Confucius, Lao-tse, Pythagoras, Hermes, Mahomet, Jesus Christ, Zoroaster, etc.

“As gnostic studies have advanced extraordinarily in the last years, no enlightened person would commit today the simplistic error of trying to conect the gnostic currents to some exclusive spiritual current. 

We must take into account, whatever gnostic system it may be, its oriental Hellenist elements, including Persia, Mesopotamia, Syria, India, Palestine, Egypt, etc.

However, we must not ignore the perceptible gnostic principles in the sublime religious cults of the Nahuas, Toltecas, Aztecs, Zapotecs, Mayas, Chibchas, Incas, Quechuas, of native American tribes. Speaking sincerely and straightforwardly, we would say: “Gnosis is a Philosophia Perennis et Universalis.”

Unquestionably, Gnosis is the superior knowledge of things. Without a previous conformation about Gnostic Anthropology it would be impossible to study accurately the various anthropological parts of the following cultures: Aztec, Tolteca, Maya, Egyptian, etc."  

(V.M. Samael Aun Weor)

“The religious forms preserve eternal values and these are organized in accordance to psychological and historical needs of every people, of every race. All religions have the same principles, the same eternal values and only differentiate in outward form.”

(V.M. Samael Aun Weor)

Gnosis is in the Doctrine of Christ

We all know that Jesus of Nazareth was Essenian and he thoroughly studied Hebrew wisdom and afterwards he studied at the pyramid of Kefren pyramid, traveled through Chaldaea, Persia, Europe, India and Tibet. Therefore, in the doctrine of Christ we will find synthetically the knowledge of the Yogis, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Talmudics, Chaldaeans, Tibetans, Hermetic Science, etc. 

The Great Master gave us the knowledge in a synthetic manner, already detailed in his gnosis.

To disseminate his doctrine, he founded the Catholic Gnostic Church to which Peter, Paul of Tarsus, Basilides, Saint Matthew, Valentin, Marción de Ponto, Clement of Alexandria, Saint Augustine, Empedocles, Saint Jerome, Saint Thomas of Aquinus, Tertullian, Hippocrates, Saint Ambrose, etc. belonged.  

We must understand that the Roman Catholic Church is a deviation of Primitive Christianity or Gnostic Christianity. Never would the true Church of Christ create a Holy Inquisition to torture and burn people. 

The Roman Catholic Church is a dissidence of authentic Christianity; this is the reason for many contradictions which came to oppose directly the christly principles.  

In the doctrine of Christ we find Gnosis and Ancient Wisdom completely detailed and explained. In Christ Gnosis is the practical synthesis of all Lodges, Orders, yogas, Religions, Schools, Systems, etc. and etc. 

The Great Master Jesus, the Christ, had thoroughly studied all ancient wisdom and gave it all to us synthetized in an absolutely practical manner. 

When we study the Christian Gospels we can find in them Pythagorean Mathematics, the Babylonian and Chaldaean Parable, as well as the Buddhist Moral.  

In the Divine Gnosis we find the secret of sexual magic, of Maithuna, so that man may achieve the Innermost Self-Realization of his Being.

“In fact, there is only one religion, single and cosmic. This religion assumes different religious forms, according to time and needs of mankind. Therefore, it results in irrational religious conflicts, because in fact all of them are merely modifications of the Universal Cosmic Religion.”

(V.M. Samael Aun Weor)

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