We initiate ourselves into the secret mysteries of Gnosticism using our minds. Hence, the famous Gnostic saying, “To know thyself, look within.” When we look within, the goal is to simply use our minds to solve problems about ourselves and our lives. To look in the mirror and correct those faults we despise and enhance the traits that make us happy. To use our brains to think with a good heart and use reason to process information we intake in the search for wisdom.
Gnosticism is also both, mistakes made in life, and lessons learned. Sublime ignorance and vigilant wisdom. Victories won and many more battles lost. The path of true Gnosis is when we think with our brains and attempt to master our monster minds in which we master our beastly selves, only then can we operate from our higher selves, whom some call our spirits or souls. This allows us Gnostics to utilize our bodies and minds in the most effective ways possible with the short time we are allotted here on earth.
This does not mean we have to be the complete masters of ourselves and our environments, and it certainly doesn’t mean you have to know about everything under the sun. If you seek knowledge with a true heart and with unselfish motives, you shall find. Knock on the door with love and a smile, and it shall be opened to you in the same fashion.
Gnosis (Greek for knowledge) in its simplest form is “knowledge of thyself.” Philo also refers to the “knowledge” (gnosis) and “wisdom” (sophia) of God. In its purest form is the intuitive spiritual knowledge that comes with knowing thyself. This fact we find in the biblical passage Proverbs 2.6; “The Lord gives wisdom (sophia), from his face come knowledge (gnosis) and understanding (sunesis).” Plato calls this a recollection and restoration of the views a person once had, and original knowledge that was once lost.
This process of being initiated into Gnosticism starts with seeking knowledge about yourself and the universe we live in. But it must be done with a good heart and intentions in order to reach true Gnosis.
“Know what is in front of your face, and what is hidden from you will be disclosed to you. For there is nothing hidden that will not be revealed. And there is nothing buried that will not be raised.” – Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas
“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.” – Buddha
Moe is the founder of GnosticWarrior.com. He is a father, husband, author, martial arts black belt, and an expert in Gnosticism, the occult, and esotericism.
I see that this whole idea is rather off base. You have in effect declared these spiritual environs holy, even though in fact they are persecuting dungeons of an evil demuirge. It cannot be presented sincerely that this world’s top to bottom infliction of misery is sustained in any significant way by the overall horizontal negativity, so that it should be that those more cunning with evil should rise to the top, always with the hand grey propaganda that “hey, in the next life we’ll get what’s coming to us, and in this life you are getting what was coming to you”. That just won’t cut it for a test of Truth. It does not pass the test of Truth, because it is inherently subject to abuse. There is no way to trust oneself to a system that pays back relationships by a gap in which forms completely transmutate just to give an indirect, but very inefficient for of reaping what one has sown. It cannot be said that the world is just that reflection of a person who sees it, and that it is a true reflection of his own interiority. NOT “as within, so without”, and NOT “as above, so below”. People “below” DO NOT all share in the spirit of causing suffering and receiving it through middlemen, who ARE NOT exploiters of that and seek to rise in the world on the backs of those less adept in the management of others’ suffering. A hellish bureaucracy is what you have set up on a pedestal here.
The DNA, the planets, the forces of cause and effect, simply cannot write a REAL SPIRIT’S INNER NARRATIVE, cannot and will not. So whatever the outer narrative it is being presented by the “DNA inheritance”, it is a spurious adjunct to what will manifest in a Spiritual Person’s Life. Therefore this message is based on a false view, that the body or the world of manifestation is THE Primary Datum. It is NOT. It is totally secondary in the EXTREME. But putting this on its head, “as without, so within” is what you have said, not “as within, so without”.
Clearly, this is not about REAL Gnosticism, but is about FREEMASONRY.
Hence, the famous Gnostic saying, “To know thyself, look within.” When we look within, the goal is to simply use our minds to solve problems about ourselves and our lives. To look in the mirror and correct those faults we despise and enhance the traits that make us happy. To use our brains to think with a good heart and use reason to process information we intake in the search for wisdom.
I see that this whole idea is rather off base. You have in effect declared these spiritual environs holy, even though in fact they are persecuting dungeons of an evil demuirge. It cannot be presented sincerely that this world’s top to bottom infliction of misery is sustained in any significant way by the overall horizontal negativity, so that it should be that those more cunning with evil should rise to the top, always with the hand grey propaganda that “hey, in the next life we’ll get what’s coming to us, and in this life you are getting what was coming to you”. That just won’t cut it for a test of Truth. It does not pass the test of Truth, because it is inherently subject to abuse. There is no way to trust oneself to a system that pays back relationships by a gap in which forms completely transmutate just to give an indirect, but very inefficient for of reaping what one has sown. It cannot be said that the world is just that reflection of a person who sees it, and that it is a true reflection of his own interiority. NOT “as within, so without”, and NOT “as above, so below”. People “below” DO NOT all share in the spirit of causing suffering and receiving it through middlemen, who ARE NOT exploiters of that and seek to rise in the world on the backs of those less adept in the management of others’ suffering. A hellish bureaucracy is what you have set up on a pedestal here.
The DNA, the planets, the forces of cause and effect, simply cannot write a REAL SPIRIT’S INNER NARRATIVE, cannot and will not. So whatever the outer narrative it is being presented by the “DNA inheritance”, it is a spurious adjunct to what will manifest in a Spiritual Person’s Life. Therefore this message is based on a false view, that the body or the world of manifestation is THE Primary Datum. It is NOT. It is totally secondary in the EXTREME. But putting this on its head, “as without, so within” is what you have said, not “as within, so without”.
Clearly, this is not about REAL Gnosticism, but is about FREEMASONRY.
Hi Moe
I’m M M, Had a truther channel on You Tube, I want to learn more about Gnosticism. What is the missing Solomon’s key? Is that the holy grail?
Good post, it will be helpful for those wanting to become a Gnostic.
Thanks hipmonkey and that is one of my missions to help people just beginning to learn about Gnosticism.