All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.
- Samael Aun Weor
The word Gnosis is a Greek word meaning ultimate knowledge, obtained by direct inner experience. Gnosis is the perennial philosophy that enlightened Jesus, Mohammed, Krishna, Buddha, Hermes, Pythagoras, Moses, Socrates, Orpheus, Quetzalcoatl, etc.
Gnosis has been expressed in many forms in different civilizations, through a variety of symbols and structures. Nonetheless, beyond this illusory veil of differences exists the Golden Thread that is Gnosis - the pure universal expression of Love and Wisdom.
Gnosis is the path of self realization through experience. With the awakening of higher consciousness, we can obtain direct experience of our inner Truth.
The Gnostic teachings are based on four pillars of study: Science, Art, Philosophy, and Mysticism/Religion and consist of a wide variety of esoteric disciplines, all of which are presented in a very practical way. Practices are given to the students by Gnostic Instructors to verify what is learned, so that the knowledge can be experienced directly.
We study and practice many subjects such as: Meditation, Gnostic Psychology, Dream Yoga, Subtle Anatomy of the Human, Hermetic Astrology, Medieval Alchemy, etc.
True Gnosis is universal to all mankind 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 their own experience.
Gnosis is Greek for "knowledge." Gnosis is experiential knowledge, not intellectual or conceptual knowledge. The venerable science of Gnosis is the universal and essential knowledge of objective reality, and it expresses the means to arrive at knowing that reality for oneself, in ones own experience. It is, in its essence, the method to escape suffering, because the entrance into objective reality is the escape from the subjective mind, within which we all suffer intensely. This science is exact and unchangeable and has existed for millennia. Gnosis has been expressed by all the world's great saints and is free of dogma, politics, fanaticism and sectarianism.