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- From: Frank.Gaude@highsierra.wmeonlin.sacbbx.com (Frank Gaude)
- Date: 03 Dec 94 19:09:11
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- Subject: Gnosis-Overview
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- Hello, Dean!
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- D >From: deane@netcom.com (Dean Edwards)
- D >Subject: Gnosis-Overview
- D >Date: Fri, 2 Dec 1994 23:45:08 GMT
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- D >Today, new schools of gnosis such as the Ecclesia Gnostica have
- D >emerged in the West. The ancient movement still thrives in several
- D >Sufi orders of Islam, which continue to attract many new adherents.
-
- On what basis do you claim Sufi orders of Islam exist?
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- I am a Chisti Sufi of Order of the West, and my understanding is that Sufis
- do not and never have had any tie to Islam or any other religion, be it
- Christian, Moslem, Jewish, Hindu, or Buddhist.
-
- Sufis likely were the first of gnosis, and they go back 50,000 years and
- more to the beginnings of homo sapiens, conscious mind in humans. None of
- this can be proven, of course.
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- D >There are also strong gnostic influences in Jewish wisdom tradition,
- D >Kabbalah, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. Similar patterns are foun
- D >in India in the teachings of the Fifteenth Century poet Kabir and in
- D >the Sikhism.
- D >
- D >As a field of academic study Gnosticism has risen to prominence as a
- D >result of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library materials in Egyp
- D >in 1945 and earlier discoveries of Manichaean writings. This documen
- D >is intended to serve as a foundation for a continuing serious exchan
- D >of information, questions and views about historical and contemporar
- D >gnosis, gnostics and Gnosticism.
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- Thanks for your delightful postings here...
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- Regards,
-
- Frank
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