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.

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 ...

Timothy Mansfield is Australia's first Gnostic bishop for the Apostolic Johannite church. In this episode of the goodlife Brisbane-born Tim Mansfield reveals his path from Anglicanism into the more ...

This week your professor continues a very brief introduction into the early rivals of Christianity. We know of a great many religious cults which existed in ancient times, most of which have vanished ...

Washington Is Fighting the Wrong Battle on Health-Care Costs Can a California Billionaire Spend His Way into the Governor’s Mansion? The conspiratorial belief that massive hidden systems need to be ...

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 ...

224 224 people viewed this event. Lecture & discussion. 7 pm. Free. In Christianitys first centuries, a powerful challenge to leaders of the emerging orthodoxy came from the Gnostics. Gnostic means ...