The Four Categories of Gnostic Religious Rites

by Miguel Conner | Nov 15, 2016 | Blog posts

One of the most impactful releases in Gnostic studies in years is the recent The Gnostic New Age by April DeConick. As Birger Pearson writes, the book is a “paradigm shift in our understanding of religion, breaking new ground in scholarship on Gnosticism.” I certainly...

Is Gnosticism a Reincarnation Religion?

by Miguel Conner | Sep 29, 2016 | Blog posts

You saw Christ, you became Christ. For this person is no longer a Christian but a Christ.If someone first acquires the resurrection, he will not die.—The Gospel of Philip—Jesus said, “Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that...

The Gnostic Cosmos [Infographic]

by Miguel Conner | Sep 22, 2016 | Blog posts

A main reason I was attracted to Gnosticism was its original, intricate, and potent mythology. It felt like spiritual wasabi to my Daemonic senses. As Erik Davis wrote, Gnosticism had that “an almost sci-fi sensibility of ‘alien gods’ and supramundane universes of...

Did the Gnostics Believe in Hell?

by Miguel Conner | Sep 6, 2016 | Blog posts

The doctrine of Hell may have lost some of its fire in the modern world. Many scholars and theologians now argue that eternal damnation was never in the minds of early Christians or even the words of Jesus. One ancient Christian tradition where the traditional view of...

Apocalypse of the Alien God: Interview with Dylan Burns [Part 2]

by Miguel Conner | Aug 25, 2016 | Blog posts

Dylan M. Burns is the author of Apocalypse of the Alien God: Platonism and the Exile of Sethian Gnosticism, as well as Research Associate at Leipzig University. Beyond understanding the origins and theology of the enigmatic Sethians, our interview covered these...