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Transformation and the path
Gnosis
Gnosis is direct, saving knowledge of the divine, the experiential acquaintance with reality that no doctrine can supply secondhand. It is not knowledge about God but knowledge of God, the kind that transforms the knower in the very act of knowing. For the Gnostics this gnosis was the spark by which the soul, forgetting its heavenly origin in the world of matter, remembers who it truly is and finds the way home.
Carried by 40 teachers · across 5 traditions · 9 quotes
The word runs as a golden thread through Hermeticism, Neoplatonism, and the mystical heart of every tradition, wherever seekers trust inner illumination over external authority. To know thyself, Hermes teaches, is to know the All, for the human spirit is a fragment of the divine mind. Gnosis is therefore both the method and the prize: the immediate seeing that closes the ancient wound of separation between the soul and its source.
In their words
The eye with which I see God is the same eye with which God sees me.Meister Eckhart
The One is all things and no one of them; the source of all things is not all things.Plotinus
That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below.Hermes Trismegistus
Abandon the search for God and the creation and other matters of a similar sort. Look for him by taking yourself as the starting point.The Gospel of Mary (Nag Hammadi)
There is no religion higher than truth.Helena Blavatsky