What is Gnosis ?
The word gnosis comes from the Greek language, meaning direct knowing. Whenever a prophet comes to teach humanity, he or she teaches the gnosis, the path towards direct knowing. Genuine Gnosis is the Universal Knowledge that frees the soul from suffering. This Gnosis has been expressed by all the world's great saints and enlightened souls.
"All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinty."
Samael Aun Weor
The venerable science of Gnosis is universal to all humankind and can be found in all genuine religions and mystical traditions. Thus, within all of them is The Doctrine of the Synthesis: the Universal Teaching from which all religions have been born. This root knowledge is the essential science that every Human Being needs in order to know the Mysteries of Life and Death directly, personally, through one's own experience.
Within each religion, there is an inner and an outer teaching, an esoteric and exoteric teaching. The exoteric teaching is what the majority of people see and experience. The esoteric is the hidden teaching that only a minority of people will see.
What we offer here at the Portland Gnostic Association is an esoteric teaching. Each person verifies his or her own truths through direct experience. We ask students to neither accept nor reject what is taught, but rather, like a scientist, to verify through direct knowing. This way, students can truly comprehend and experience the truth.
"All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinty."
Samael Aun Weor
The venerable science of Gnosis is universal to all humankind and can be found in all genuine religions and mystical traditions. Thus, within all of them is The Doctrine of the Synthesis: the Universal Teaching from which all religions have been born. This root knowledge is the essential science that every Human Being needs in order to know the Mysteries of Life and Death directly, personally, through one's own experience.
Within each religion, there is an inner and an outer teaching, an esoteric and exoteric teaching. The exoteric teaching is what the majority of people see and experience. The esoteric is the hidden teaching that only a minority of people will see.
What we offer here at the Portland Gnostic Association is an esoteric teaching. Each person verifies his or her own truths through direct experience. We ask students to neither accept nor reject what is taught, but rather, like a scientist, to verify through direct knowing. This way, students can truly comprehend and experience the truth.
Genuine Gnosis is the Universal Knowledge that frees the soul from Suffering. This Gnosis has been expressed by all the world's great saints and enlightened souls.
"For the crime of having accompanied Jesus Christ in the holy land, and because of having celebrated our rituals within Rome’s catacombs, we, the Gnostics, faced the lions in the circus of Rome. Then later in time, we were burnt alive in the flames of the Roman Catholic inquisition. Previously, we were the mystical Essenes of Palestine. So, we are not improvising opportunist doctrines. We were hidden for twenty centuries, but now we are returning once again to the street in order to carry on our shoulders the old, rough and heavy cross.
Paul of Tarsus took our doctrine to Rome. Yes, he was a Gnostic Nazarene.
Jesus-Christ taught our doctrine in secrecy to his seventy disciples.
The Sethians, Peratae, Carpocratians, Nazarenes and Essenes were Gnostics. The Egyptian and Aztec mysteries, the mysteries of Rome, Troy, Carthage, of Eleusis, India, of the Druids, Pythagoreans, Kabirs of Mithra and Persia, etc., are in their depth that which we call Gnosis or Gnosticism.
We are now once again opening the ancient Gnostic Sanctuaries, which were closed with the arrival of the Dark Age. Thus, we are now opening the authentic Initiatic Colleges."
- From The Major Mysteries by Samael Aun Weor
- From The Major Mysteries by Samael Aun Weor
Gnosis is not an intellectual knowing but instead a knowing that comes so directly that not even a thought comes between you and what you know. It is for this reason that we offer classes on how to obtain experiential gnostic knowledge. We do not offer pamphlets or additional information beyond this website as we feel the classes and practices speak for themselves. Thus, you will come to classes and discern through intimate reflection whether it offers something for you or not. It will be based upon your direct experience. There are no obligations to remain.
All courses at the Portland Gnostic Association are offered on a donation basis. Donations are not mandatory but greatly support the needs of the center. No one will be turned down for lack of funds.
All courses at the Portland Gnostic Association are offered on a donation basis. Donations are not mandatory but greatly support the needs of the center. No one will be turned down for lack of funds.
Many who try to find the path are blindfolded by thier own psychological sleep.
-S. Michelspacher, Cabala. 1616
-S. Michelspacher, Cabala. 1616
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