What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

Near the nexus of Hillhurst Avenue and Sunset and Hollywood boulevards, Bishop Stephan Hoeller has presided since 1977 at Ecclesia Gnostica, the tiny, incense-infused chapel of the Gnostic Society.

In What Is Gnosticism?, Ms. King undermined the term by tracing the history of its use to the present day. In essence, she says, she intended the book to “clean the slate” for a radical rethinking of ...

Father Alfonso Aguilar's essays “Gnosticism and the Struggle for the World's Soul" and “Into the Gnostic Wonderland" (March 30-April 5 and April 6-12) were excellent and entirely correct. I believe he ...

That false history, the bishop asserted, appeals to growing numbers of Westerners who think truth cannot be known, distrust authority, seek private spiritual experience and love conspiracy theories.

Father Thomas Weinandy, OFM Cap., is a member of the Vatican's International Theological Commission, an accomplished professor of theology, and a prolific author. His most recent book is Jesus ...

alentinianism was a prominent variety of early Christianity starting in the 2nd century CE. Some call it a form of Gnosticism. But what is Valentinianism all about? Nickels only? Grocers warn ending ...

Though Gnostic sects faded in the early church, Gnostic ideas have had a long shelf life. This world is not my home. As it stands, that statement reflects the views of a great many orthodox Christians ...

This, therefore, is the true testimony: When man comes to know himself and God who is over the truth, he will be saved, and he will crown himself with the crown unfading. —The Testimony of Truth The ...