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As we mentioned in Volume One, the Gnostics, like the Stoics, were most likely a pan-Druidic order. Gnostic groups were very likely making a return to the highest principles of the Egyptian Amenists and the Irish Druids. This is the reason why Gnostic groups were so ruthlessly persecuted. Given that this is the truth, we are not surprised that modern academics are, on the whole, loath to get to the bottom of what Gnosticism was about. They know, all too well, what it would mean for the orthodox hegemony, should the truth about the Gnostics and their inclination toward Druidry be brought to light.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

Gnostics, whose only "crime" involved anon-literal interpretation of scripture, suffered unbearable tortures. They were barbarically massacred because they chose to interpret bible's passages allegorically, because they incorporated the feminine principle, and because they had a different take on the ancestry and identity of Jesus.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

One of the most interesting and puzzling Gnostic sects with a deep connection to Egypt were the Mandeans. Their existence was brought to light when Jesuit missionaries discovered remnants of their cult still existing in modern day Iraq. The Mandeans said that they were descendants of the church of John the Baptist and that they did not accept the Jesus of the official Church. They considered Jesus a "lying Messiah." This attitude was also found among the Essenes of Qumran who referred, in their texts, to John as the "Teacher of Righteousness" and Jesus as the "Wicked Priest." The Mandeans referred to themselves as "St. John's Christians." Their chiefs or priests were known as "Nasoreans." The Moslems knew them as the "Sabeans," a word that means "of the stars" or "heavens." The Mandeans declared themselves descendants of the Egyptians and their master to have come from Alexandria in Egypt. Naturally, the existence and teachings of these Gnostic Mandeans has been obscured by the hegemonic forces from Rome and London.The Iraqi Mandeans are now practically extinct.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

...Frederick D. Kershner, who, in his book Pioneers of Christian Thought says that "the Gnostics were the founders of Christian theology in the full sense of the word"

— Gerald Massey; Lectures (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

...every trait and feature which go to make up the Christ as Divinity, and every event or circumstance taken to establish the human personality were pre-extant, and pre-applied to the Egyptian and Gnostic Christ, who never could become flesh.

— Gerald Massey; Lectures (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

I could keep on all day, and all night, or give a dozen lectures, without exhausting my evidence that the Canonical Gospels are only a later literalised réchauffé of the Egyptian writings; the representations in the Mysteries, and the oral teachings of the Gnostics which passed out of Egypt into Greece and Rome.

— Gerald Massey; Lectures (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

Gnosticism was founded on a union between Greek, Egyptian, and Jewish opinions, it probably took its rise in Heliopolis, which was the most celebrated school before the building of Alexandria...afterward it spread from Alexandria to all the countries where Greek was spoken.

— Samuel Sharpe; Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

The Church did not want the teachings of the Gnostics to be studied. They knew only too well that Gnosticism was nothing more or less than Egyptian religion. It was the faint echo of the theologies of Egypt mixed with many other religious and spiritual traditions commonly found in Hellenistic Alexandria long after the great dynasties had passed into oblivion. They do not want it known that the Gnostics themselves were a later offshoot of the more ancient Solar and Lunar Cults that had their roots in the Stellar Cults of Egypt and Ireland. And they did not want it known how the Gnosticism of the Egyptians had influenced their religion and bible.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

Gnostics did not attribute much meaning to a physical Jesus even though they did believe in one. For the majority of the Gnostics it was Jesus' divine presence that was important. And this is most significant since this was also the mindset of the Solar Cult members of ancient Egypt. The interest of the Gnostics was on the archetypal rather than stereotypical level. Jesus was a symbol of what all men can and must become. Their Jesus was a spiritual model and not a physical being whose earthly lifestyle mattered.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

"Knowledge." Gnosticism was a general term for mystery cults of the early Christian era and for derivative heresies of the medieval period. Their "knowledge" meant secrets of the after-life, spells and words of power required for advantageous placement in heaven, and revelations of the true nature of God. Leading Gnostic sects focused on the Great Mother and her Dying God—e.g., Eleusinian, Orphic, and Osirian mysteries. Angus says Gnosticism was "for over half a millenium the approach to religion for thoughtful minds."

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

The Gnostics divided the nature of the Christian Redeemer into two parts--the one Jesus, a mortal man; the other, Christos, a personification of Nous, the principle of Cosmic Mind. Nous, the greater, was for the period of three years (from baptism to crucifixion) using the fleshly garment of the mortal man (Jesus). In order to illustrate this point and still conceal it from the ignorant, many strange, and often repulsive, creatures were used whose rough exteriors concealed magnificent organisms. Kenealy, in his notes on the Book of Enoch, observes: "Why the caterpillar was a symbol of the Messiah is evident; because, under a lowly, creeping, and wholly terrestrial aspect, he conceals the beautiful butterfly-form, with its radiant wings, emulating in its varied colors the Rainbow, the Serpent, the Salmon, the Scarab, the Peacock, and the dying Dolphin * * *."

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

Before their [Dead Sea Scrolls] discovery, the world had not heard of the Gnostics. We knew nothing of them or of their teachings. And this was by design.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Officially, the Gnostics were Gentile Christians and Essenes were allegedly Jewish Christians. Both groups believed that Jesus had lived centuries before the orthodox enclaves were insisting in the bible. And both groups knew that the Christ archetype was not their own creation or concept. It was for these reasons that the hierarchs of the early Church in Rome decided to persecute and eradicate these sects and, in more recent times, tried to ban and sequester their various texts (the Dead Sea Scrolls and Gnostic Gospels, etc). Vatican-appointed priests and agents were on site to monitor every stage of the translation of the apocryphal Dead Sea Scrolls after their discovery in 1947.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Not only did some Gnostics believe that Jesus Christ had not sunk so low as to inhabit a physical body, that he had lived on earth only as some kind of phantom, but they also practised bizarre extremes of mortification and debauchery as a way of disrupting their own, despised bodily senses and gaining access to the spirit worlds.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Both Epiphanius, and Irenoeus before him, say of the Founder of the Nicolaitans : ' Being ashamed of his own Remissness, he audaciously pronounced, that no one, who was not lascivious every Day could be Partaker of eternal life. ' •— " Therefore those Gnostics, after a Debauchery, were used to boast of their Happiness, as having done a meritorious Thing : and when they had their Will on a complying Female, they told her ' she was now a pure Virgin' ; though she was daily corrupted, and for many Years together.

— Lady Queensborough; Occult Theocrasy view

To quote Clemens Alexandrinus. ' I will bring in to open Light your most secret Mysteries : not ashamed to speak what you are not ashamed to worship " i. e. the secrets of both Sexes. ' For I may well call them Atheists, who impudently worship those Parts, which modesty forbids to mention.

— Lady Queensborough; Occult Theocrasy view

The Valentinians, says Irenoeus, being in Love with certain Women, would, without a Blush, seduce them from their Husbands, and make them their own Wives. Others of them, seemingly modest at first, pretended to live with them as Sisters ; and in Process of Time were discovered, Sister being found pregnant by Brother.

— Lady Queensborough; Occult Theocrasy view

The Ophites (also called Ophians or Serpentinians) (from Greek ὄφιανοι > ὄφις = snake) were members of numerous Gnostic sects in Syria and Egypt about 100 AD. The Ophite sects revered the serpent of Genesis as a symbol of gnosis, which the tyrant Yaldabaoth tried to hide from Adam and Eve. As John 3:14 tells that "as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up," the Ophites felt perfectly justified in their position, and Christian heresiologists took particular offense at turning their view of the serpent on its head.

— Wikipedia view

The Ophites, or Cainites, say, that Cain was the Progeny of a higher Principality than Abel; and they confess that Esau, Corah, and the Sodomites, and all such, were their Relations : — That Vulva was the Creator of the Universe ; and that none could be saved, unless he passed thro' all. So also Carpocrates taught.

— Lady Queensborough; Occult Theocrasy view

Satanic practices throughout the world can be traced in an unbroken line directly back to Gnosticism.

— Eustace Mullins; The Curse of Canaan view

Against the Bible’s learning, which demonstrated how man could have eternal life simply by believing in the facts of Christ’s death and resurrection, would be put the learning of the gnostics. Gnosticism held out the hope that man could achieve everlasting life by doing good works himself. To put it succinctly, Bible-learning was Christ-centered; gnostic learning was man-centered.

— Tupper Saussy; Rulers of Evil view

The Gnostics divided humanity into three parts: those who, as savages, worshiped only the visible Nature; those who, like the Jews, worshiped the Demiurgus; and lastly, themselves, or others of a similar cult, including certain sects of Christians, who worshiped Nous (Christ) and the true spiritual light of the higher Æons.

— Manly P Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

To the Gnostics, the Christ was the personification of Nous, the Divine Mind, and emanated from the higher spiritual Æons. He descended into the body of Jesus at the baptism and left it again before the crucifixion. The Gnostics declared that the Christ was not crucified, as this Divine Nous could not suffer death, but that Simon, the Cyrenian, offered his life instead and that the Nous, by means of its power, caused Simon to resemble Jesus.

— Manly P Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view