GNOSIS - ITS CONCEPT AND ORIGIN

Like a sun of bliss, today and ever, rises the Gnosis of yesterday announcing the dawn of a new day for the confused man of our present time.

This word «GNOSIS» encompasses the image of an ardent and impassioned knowledge longed by a mysterious elite -self-selected- completely divorced from the prattling, dull, ambiguous, speculative and absolutely vain intellect.

The word «GNOSIS» defines the science of all sciences, and the art of which the fruit of a revealed inspiration, rises within the artist until fusing him with his work, conforming therefore a binomial of transcendental expression. Although Gnosis is not a philosophy, it is the link that connects the historical chain of the development of human thought, and it also gives exact and logical answers to the disquieting dilemma of TO BE OR NOT TO BE, that struggles in the field of the consciousness and thinking of every person.

GNOSIS is not a religion per se and in spite of it, is the key of the legitimate «RELIGARE»,

which is the goal of all religious systems, no matter the epoch when the religious system appeared or their place of expression.

Many purported definitions have tried to monopolize, for themselves, the true meaning of what we must understand by GNOSIS or GNOSTICISM. This brings some difficulties when we want to talk in extensu about the development of the Gnostic thought, mainly, due to the fact that many of the trustworthy documents that structured the Gnostic system in the past times, no longer exist today; and consequently this has been the origin of many «adventurous» assertions unleashed by some researchers without a suitable basis around this matter.

Dictionaries emphasize that the word GNOSIS has a Greek origin and in general stands for a kind of KNOWLEDGE. However, in a deeper meaning, the word GNOSIS refers to a «Modus Operandis» that explains the physical and metaphysical phenomena concerning the Universe and man as «protagonist».

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