By Max Gorman
The e-book offers an creation to mystical philosophy and the concept that of internal improvement by way of taking a look at a couple of its nice colleges. Mystics concur in announcing that we're ultimately “asleep”—and needs to realize this to evoke. a substantial try to determine the character of this sleep is made within the past a part of the booklet, with the actual aid of the educating of Gurdjieff. additionally studied are methods of the prior and current, together with the secret colleges, Gnosticism, Alchemy, Zen, the Fourth means, and how of the Sufi. it's also made obvious that the best way of Jesus, until eventually it used to be overlaid by way of Christianity, used to be understood as this sort of waves or teachings for the advance of man or woman and cognizance. The resonance of this educating with all different mystical teachings is an important topic. the aim of the booklet is to motivate the reader to ascend the Stairway to the celebrities.
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But other schools, like the Naasenes, the Barbelites and the Ophites, indicate no obvious relationship with Christianity, and we do not know the source from which they spring. It may indeed be that their common origin was extra-historical. The Gnostics sought ‘Gnosis’, which means ‘knowledge’. This was not knowledge in the usual sense, but transcendental or mystical knowledge available only through spiritual illumination arrived at as a result of special effort and education. One would then become a ‘Knower’, possessed of a permanent state of knowing, a higher level of perception, and thus be able to fully and consciously participate in the Life of the Universe.
He lacks memory, consciousness, purpose; and thus, of course, fulfilment. As the Gnostic teacher, Valentinus, tells us in his work ‘The Gospel of Truth’, recently recovered from the sands of Egypt, ‘He who is a-gnostic lacks, and indeed it is a great thing that he lacks. ’ ‘Completion’ therefore is the Gnostic aim. It is also that of the Sufis who say, ‘Mankind is asleep in a nightmare of unfulfilment. ’ For only the complete can completely play his complete part in the Universe. Only the real can really inhabit reality.
And the curious doctrines it has instead produced have ensured its continued stultification and paralysis. Morality is mistaken for spirituality. Doctrine replaces development. But unknown to the externalists, and beyond their understanding, the inner stream of real teaching flowed on. The universe of the Gnostics The Gnostics believed—they would say knew—that the great Universe, visible and invisible, was created by a Supreme Being— God, who is Alone, Ineffable, Beyond, Above, and yet mysteriously Within, all His Creation.