Lesson 1: What is Gnosis?

Topics

  • Its origin.
  • Etymology of the word GNOSIS.
  • The GNOSIS in front of the UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE.
  • The GNOSIS like DIVINE WISDOM.
  • The Doctrine of the Eye and the Doctrine of the Heart.
  • The Art, the Science, the Philosophy and the Religion as a method of knowledge.

What Should Be Taught

  1. The GNOSIS like Perennial and Universal Philosophy.
  2. The Initiatic life and the necessity to arrive to the SELF-GNOSIS (Knowledge of itself). Life of Purification.
  3. The necessity to eliminate the false thing inside us (the I, the MYSELF), since this subjective knowledge is that which impedes us from the ascent to the Integral knowledge.
  4. Aims and Purposes of the Course.

Bibliography

  • Zodiacal Course. Introduction.
  • The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac. Chap. 10: Gnostic anthropology.
  • The Perfect Matrimony. Foreword; Chap. 12: two Rituals.
  • The Major Mysteries. Chap. 58: Gnostic traditions.
  • The Three Mountains. Foreword.
  • Message of Aquarius. Chap. 30: the Budha Maitreya.
  • Message of Christmas 1955-1956. Gnosis XX Century.
  • Book of LITURGY. Foreword.
  • Normative aspects of the I.G.C.U.