Gnosis – Page 6

Yin-Yang: The Geometric Equivalent of The Golden Ratio

30 Dec 2014

I have discovered that Yin-Yang and Golden Ratio are different representations of one and the same metaphysical principle. The metaphysical principle of our interest is Unity Within Duality which states the complementary character of conflicting tendencies. This is of course similar to the Hegelian trinity in his interpretation of history: Thesis-Antithesis-Synthesis. After giving a short account … More Yin-Yang: The Geometric Equivalent of The Golden Ratio

The Direct Vision of Truth

28 Dec 2014

What are the things that characterize human life? What is the wish of all men and women? There are three things that characterize human, three objects for which all men and women strive and which have shaped the course of human civilization: 1) Knowledge, in the sense of an answer to the questions “Who am … More The Direct Vision of Truth

The Primordial Ignorance: Subject-Object Duality

24 Dec 2014

Object and the knowledge of object are one and the same. Thus, object is knowledge-of object, that is: Object is of the nature of knowledge. Subject is the knower of object; therefore, subject is nothing but an occasion for knowledge. But subject is itself an object because as it is something known: Subject is known as the … More The Primordial Ignorance: Subject-Object Duality

Identity

24 Dec 2014

Object and the knowledge of object are one and the same

Toward Truth: The Way of The Gnostic

23 Dec 2014

Salutations to my revered Guru whose blessing and grace is the light of the Self and the guide of intelligence; may it be that we speak only of truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The path of knowledge as the highest undertaking for the attainment of truth is designed for the intellectually … More Toward Truth: The Way of The Gnostic

The Face of the Father

22 Dec 2014

My father, the father whose sight is the most shocking and the most unbearable for the wicked and the fainthearted; he is the father whose face removes all thoughts and doubts, whose glance robs the heart of all attachment to the mundane. Knowledge of truth, the face of the father, is the most disturbing of … More The Face of the Father

Present: The Divine Present

20 Dec 2014

To lead a spiritual life is to live in vicinity to God, or Jnani’s Supreme Principle, and constantly moving upward toward the realization and establishment of the Supreme Identity, that man is essentially divine: “Thou Art That.” God, the supreme principle, is Satchidananda, that is, pure Being-Consciousness-Bliss. It is not that God is that which … More Present: The Divine Present

Silence and Solitude

19 Dec 2014

I have come to go, to fly away, and do so forever. This going away, the feeling that this world, this embodiment, is a prison was always in me from the very beginning. I always felt claustrophobic in this existence. Family, friendship, relatives, culture and convention and conviction, I disliked all of it from the … More Silence and Solitude

Questionable World: A Phenomenology of Wonder

26 Nov 2014

Why does man raise questions? There are many criteria based on which man is distinguished from animal, such as language and logic. One peculiar aspect of man, in contrast with animals, is his ability to refuse to accept matters of fact, to turn away in the face of the inevitable, to act as if, to … More Questionable World: A Phenomenology of Wonder

Sufi Quotes

25 Nov 2014

Sufism is the esoteric dimension of Islamic. It is concerned with objective truth which is also the ultimate reality, the Absolute and the Infinite principle. Sufis adhere to the Unicity of the Real which posits the oneness of existence. Sufi mystics also consider Plato as one of their sages worthy of sacred salutations. Here are … More Sufi Quotes