Gnosticism

Gnosticism is a blanket term for various mystical initiatory religions and sects, which were most prominent in the first few centuries CE. It is also applied to modern revivals of these sects and, sometimes, by analogy to all religious movements based on secret knowledge gnosis, thus leading to confusion.

External links

Ancient Gnosticism

• Gnostic Society - multiple texts on Gnosticism and a bibliography of secondary reading
• Early Christian Writings - primary texts
• Introduction to Gnosticism
• Religious Tolerance - A survey of Gnosticism
• Catholic Encyclopedia Entry
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Entry
• Jewish Encyclopedia: Gnosticism
• Proto-gnostic elements in the Gospel according to John - Article in Theandros
• Gnosticweb - Article: Gnosis Through the Ages, Early Christian Gnostic texts to download.

Modern Gnosticism

• Apostolic Johannite Church
• Ecclesia Gnostica
• French Gnostic Tradition (i.e. Doinel, et al.)
• The North American College of Gnostic Bishops
• Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Hermetica
• Eglise du Plérôme - Cathar/Valentinian
• Church of Gnosis (Ecclesia Gnostica Mysteriorum)
• The Gnostic Friends Network
• Thomasine Church
• Gnosticweb - Providing Free Global Access to Spiritual Information.
• The Gnostic Movement - Advancing Esoteric Information.
• Mysticweb - Articles on Practicing Gnosis.

Gnosticism in Popular Culture

• Frances Flannery-Dailey & Rachel Wagner, Wake Up! - Gnosticism & Buddhism in The Matrix, an essay on Gnostic and Buddhist influences on The Matrix.
• Geoff Klock, X-Men, Emerson, Gnosticism, an essay discussing Gnostic influences on The X-Men.

Gnostic Blogs

• inTerjeCted, weblog of Norwegian Gnostic Terje Bergersen
• fantastic planet, blog featuring Gnostic philosophy on events political, fortean and otherwise interesting
• Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion, blog of Jordan Stratford, a priest in The Apostolic Johannite Church
• Homoplasmate, "A forum for the discussion of Gnosticism and Gnostic Christianity"
• Ecclesiastical Gnosis-Personal Reflections, weblog of Bishop Shaun McCann of The Apostolic Johannite Church
• Enormous Fictions: A website exploring Gnosticism, creativity, culture and various other ideas

Discussion Groups and Email Lists

• gnosticism2 - Learn the history and ideas of Gnostics
• eglisegnostique - Eglise Gnostique, share information, discuss issues, network