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.

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 ...

Just before Christmas, an article appeared in The Washington Post comparing the Star Wars prequel trilogy to the “Gnostic gospels,” such as the “Gospel of Thomas” and the “Gospel of Judas”: “Like the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... People love a mystery and, these days, Jesus is the biggest mystery of all. “The Da Vinci Code” has turned many into spiritual detectives, on the hunt for ...

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 sprawling conspiracy theory traces the influence of ancient Egyptian and gnostic ideologies concerning a dualistic, Manichean cosmos prefiguring the earthly order, knowable only through secret, ...

For Linda Hazen and her coven, today is Litha, a time for thanksgiving, bonfires and celebrating the start of the harvest season. At Hazen's house on Lake Patience Road, she and her coveners will ...