Gnosis and the Gnostic Teachings

What is Gnosis?

The light of spiritual wisdom has expressed itself in many forms, according to the needs of any particular time and place. Those forms have been called "religions" but all spring from that one light: the one true religion. All religions have ...

Psychology and Awakening Consciousness

Gnosis is a practical methodology whose goal is the awakening of the consciousness and the complete development of human potentiality. What is needed to acquire results in such an effort is summed up in the famous maxim, "Man, know thyself!" Wh...

Meditation: The Science of Awakening

Meditation is an open doorway within the human being, that opens the way to personal knowledge of any phenomenon in nature. Through the scientific and practical technique of meditation, one no longer needs to believe in anything: one can know. Me...

Kabbalah: The Universal Tree of Life

The word Kabbalah comes from the Hebrew language and can be spelled Cabala or Qabala, since it is derived from the Hebrew QBLH, which means "to receive." In the Gnostic tradition, the spelling with the "K" is preferred because the three arms of the...

Alchemy and Tantra: Sacred Sexuality

At the base of all human activity one finds the central importance of sex. Religion is no exception. However, the public has not been introduced to the sacred role of sexuality in the esoteric or "secret" knowledge hidden inside every religion. Thu...

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Closing Speech at the 1975 Gnostic Congress

I address my word, at these moments (1975), to all the brothers and sisters of the Universal Christian Gnostic Movement who are reunited here at this great banquet. The hour has arrived in which we have to comprehend that in fact we are one great family, without distinction of races or nations. Indeed, at any cost we are organizing the Worldly ...

Daath, the Doorway to Knowledge (1)

The doorway to knowledge is what we seek when we enter into a religion, or any kind of spirituality, that doorway of which Jesus spoke in the Gospel: Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall b...

Three Modes of Perception

The basis of this teaching is direct experience. When we discuss Gnosis, we have to put our mind in the correct position in order to properly understand the nature of the lectures that we hear. In other words, what we discuss, what we examine, and what we explore in these lectures about Gnosticism is direct experience, practical experience — ...

The Garden of Eden (3)

In our previous lectures, we explained in detail about the symbols related with the Garden of Eden, however, we did not talk about the tempting serpent of Eden and what relates to temptation as it is written in chapter three of the book of Genesis. It is very important for us to comprehend the symbolism of the tempting serpent of Eden, in order f...

Peace and the Third World War

Editor's Note: More than forty years ago, Samael Aun Weor predicted a set of circumstances that will result in another world wide war. It is distressing to see in the news today all of the elements of his prediction. It is with all the force of our being that we pray on behalf of humanity that these circumstances be dissolved, that we may have mo...