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"To understand Gnosticism, said Hans Jonas, one needs something very much like a musical ear. Such a Gnostic "musical ear" is not come by easily. One person who seemingly possesses it is Professor Clark Emery of the University of Miami. In a small work on William Blake, Emery summarizes twelve points on which Gnostics tended to agree. Nowhere in the current literature have I found anything else so concise and accurate in describing the normative characteristics of the Gnostic mythos. Hence I shall present it here as a suggested collection of criteria that one might apply in determining what Gnosticism is. The following characteristics may be considered normative for all Gnostic teachers and groups in the era of classical Gnosticism; thus one who adheres to some or all of them today might properly be called a Gnostic:

The Gnostics posited an original spiritual unity that came to be split into a plurality.
As a result of the precosmic division the universe was created. This was done by a leader possessing inferior spiritual powers and who often resembled the Old Testament Jehovah.
A female emanation of God was involved in the cosmic creation (albeit in a much more positive role than the leader).
In the cosmos, space and time have a malevolent character and may be personified as demonic beings separating man from God.
For man, the universe is a vast prison. He is enslaved both by the physical laws of nature and by such moral laws as the Mosaic code.
Mankind may be personified as Adam, who lies in the deep sleep of ignorance, his powers of spiritual self-awareness stupefied by materiality.
Within each natural man is an "inner man," a fallen spark of the divine substance. Since this exists in each man, we have the possibility of awakening from our stupefaction.
What effects the awakening is not obedience, faith, or good works, but knowledge.
Before the awakening, men undergo troubled dreams.
Man does not attain the knowledge that awakens him from these dreams by cognition but through revelatory experience, and this knowledge is not information but a modification of the sensate being.
The awakening (i.e., the salvation) of any individual is a cosmic event.
Since the effort is to restore the wholeness and unity of the Godhead, active rebellion against the moral law of the Old Testament is enjoined upon every man."

http://gnosis.org/whatisgnostic.htm
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Everyone makes it so complicated when it really isn't. Gnosis is the knowing that comes from within. Hence, know thyself. As within, so without.

We do not look without for our answers or spiritual path because that is only the illusion.
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I would think there is more illusion possible inside, than outside, where reality sits.
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Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily life is but a dream
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Isn't free will great?

You can float your life away on the stream, enjoy the experience.
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You said reality is outside and I disagree. I think our waking lives are an illusion, much like a dream as the nursery rhyme states.
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Your internal reality is a constantly shifting, reactionary, sensory experience, the only respite are brief moments of meditative silence, in which you cannot remain because you must drink, eat and seek shelter to survive.
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Our DNA is where Gnosis comes from. It takes a long time to change the internal. In this life, we are just recording new memories and cells to add on to the circle of life which is us incarnated in the flesh. To must drink, eat and seek shelter to survive is our carnal beastly flesh needs.

It is in meditative silence where we either

A. Tap our DNA for Gnosis or

B. Tap into the God consciousness to create or for ideas

If you live "only" in the beastly flesh, you will not be Able to do neither A or B like a Gnostic Cain and or an Adept or Magi.
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In DNA, is the smallest molecule, that also gives matter its 
substance, if this molecule is conscious, it would be the God particle.
If your communication with it is only to feed knowledge to it, you can never hear its (His) response.
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Bea-U-T-i-fUl:hf:

Hence, meditative silence and why in this day and age can be one of the hardest feats of human will. Therefor, it has been a war against our DNA and soul.
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Original Message The biggest point of departure is,
that Christians become empty of themselves
in order to let the spirit of Christ work in them and through them,
Gnostics become full of themselves.

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