Portland Gnostic Association
We offer a variety of activities to assist the student on their path to awakening consciousness. Please review event details, protocols and information below.























An Introductory Course in Practical Gnosticism
Beginning Tuesday, March 6th at 6PM
Where:  The Portland Gnostic Association
3555 NE Emerson St
Portland, OR 97211


This course will introduce the esoteric principles needed by every aspirant of the Light, regardless of race, creed, sex or financial means. Each class will include lecture, meditation practice and additional exercises to help the student enter into that relationship between the Consciousness and the Inner Being, between the Inner Being and the Consciousness: a sacred and personal relationship we call Gnosis.

Each person will be given the tools apply the timeless teachings of Gnosis to his or her life so as to experience first hand the presence and compassion of the Divinity that lies within.

This 17 week course will cover such topics as:

             * Introduction to Gnosis.         
           * Practical Methods to Bring About Inner Change
           * Gnostic Psychology: The Ego, the Personality and the Consciousness
           * The Mysteries of Life and Death
           * Karma: The Divine Law
           * The Positive Awakening of the Consciousness.

Classes include Meditation Practice and lecture.

Please call or email to register in advance as space is limited: 503.347.4737.
email: portlandgnosis@gmail.com
 
This and all courses are offered on a donation basis with the hopes that each person can make an inner transformation regardless of financial means. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.


Gnostic Sufism.
This course will be offered again in the future.
 







 

 

The most ineffable part of Mohammedan mysticism is Persian Sufism. It has the merit of

struggling against materialism and fanaticism, and against the literal interpretation of the

Koran. The Sufis interpret the Koran from the esoteric point of view as we, the Gnostics

interpret the New Testament.



What is most disconcerting to occidentals is the strange and mysterious mixture of the

erotic with the mystical in the oriental religions and Sufi mysticism. Christian theology

considers the flesh to be hostile to the Spirit, but in the Muslim religion, the flesh and the

Spirit are two substances of the same energy; two substances that should help each other.

Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

Where: The Portland Gnostic Association
3555 NE Emerson St
Portland, OR 97211
Please call or email to register in advance as space is limited: 503.347.4737
email: portlandgnosis@gmail.com
Attendance of the 1st Class is required.

Classes include Meditation Practice and lecture.

Class 1:  Introduction to Gnostic Sufism
  • Gnosis: the Foundation of all Mystical Paths.
  • Exoteric and Esoteric Schools.
  • The 4 ways to study God.

Class 2: The Path of Mystic Revelation.
  • God as the Multi-Perfect-Unity.
  • The 4 Ways to God.
  • The Ethics of the Path.

Class 3: Imagination, Clairvoyance and Intuition.
  • The 3 Pillars of Islam.
  • The Esoteric Purpose of Ramadan.
  • Intro to the 4 Stages of the Spiritual Path.

Class 4: The 4 Stages of the Spiritual Path
  • Mindfulness and Mysticism.
  • Self-Observation in Self-Remembering.

Class 5: Hal: Mystical Experience.
  • The Cosmic Drama.
  • Transmutation of the Doctrine.

Class 6: Divine Love and Human Love
  • Ego, Essence and Personality.
  • Observation and Comprehension of the Ego.
  • Psycho-Analytical Meditation.

Class 7: Tohid: The Experience of Unity.
  • The Great Peregrination of the Soul:
  • Rumi's Degrees of the Work: Raw, Cooked and Burnt.
  • The 3 Factors for the Revolution of the Consciousness.

Class 8: Faith vs. Belief in the Mystic Path
  • Blind Fanaticism vs. Conscious Faith.
  • Direct Experience through Mystic Revelation.
  • The Esoteric Understanding of the Inner-Jihad.
 
 
This and all courses are offered on a donation basis with the hopes that each person can make an inner transformation regardless of financial means. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.


The Gnostic Gospels










"The definition of Gnosis and of Gnosticism is much more demanding in the scope of the Gnostic Movement itself. It is not only about sharing a certain doctrine received by the tradition, but to rise to the intimate revelation and to confirm in one's self the reality of that doctrine."                                                                                 
Gnosis: Tradition and Revelation

Classes include Meditation Practice and lecture.

Class 1:

  • Gnosis: Awakening Consciousness and liberation from suffering.
  • Classical Gnosis and the Modern Gnostic Movement.

Class 2:

  • The Anthropomorphic God and the Supreme Divinity.

Class 3:

  • The Planetary Role of the Savior.
  • The Gnostic Myth and the Esoteric Path.

Class 4:

  • The Esoteric Meaning of Christmas.

Please call or email to register in advance as space is limited: 503.347.4737.
email: portlandgnosis@gmail.com
 
This and all courses are offered on a donation basis with the hopes that each person can make an inner transformation regardless of financial means. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Meditation Retreats
Experience the Consciousness itself in the intensified practice of Spiritual Reatreat


















We offer 3 and 4 day meditation retreats several times per year.
To attend, we ask that students first attend an entire public course, missing no more than one class.
Please contact us for more information:
503.347.4737 / portlandgnosis@gmail