Getting started on a "gnostic" path.

Cool. I will look into them.

To know what is real, one must know what is unreal. To walk through the desert of the real, is an existential experience. Not sure agostic covers it, though it is part of it. There is only one gnosis, though there may be seven billion ways to describe it. There are a million billion archons laying in wait to convince one that they have discovered "gnosis", but that too can be unreal. To know what is real, and what is fantasy or self deception is essential. To know this, one must also explore their inner self, to know what temps and what rings true, and not be willing to fall for every seductive sounding "truth", for there are many things that sound sweet indeed, but when cast in the true light of inner knowing, disintegrate like any other illusion.

Sounds good thus far? That inner light may also be a false light. One must set pride aside, a much more difficult feat than it sounds, and be willing to turn from false lights, false teachings, and grind the serpents head under thy heel.

To make matters even better, there are no assurances, no helping hands in an inner journey, no "spirit guides" for they too end up being another archon. Gnosis is Truth, but not all that is true is gnosis, that indescribable experience of coming face to face with the sublime. Yet Gnosis is also salvation, that rope sent down from above that provides the means of our escape from the illusions of the archons. Without it, any salvation is also illusionary, and faith but another deception, for faith is placed in a window that will not shatter, a leaf that will not fall. Once gnosis is given, then faith is placed in what is known to be real.

It sounds like a difficult and long road but it seems so worth it. I am willing to stick it out, I just want that experience. I have really been trying to focus on knowing myself as to my mind it seems to be fundamental. I have always felt like there was some sort of emptiness to my being and I feel like this may be what it is that I have felt I am missing. I do not expect an easy journey but it is one I feel like I need to make.

Ill have to check into it. Thanks for the recommendation, I seem to have a small library developing.

I second that recommendation:



I would also add: Michael Allen Williams (1996). Rethinking "Gnosticism" - An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category, as authorative and good correction to set You on the right track, and I give credit for that to Soulgazer who originally made the recommendation to me, and I've seen the same recommendation since elsewhere.