Welcome to the Growing Scholarly Center of Gnosticism
 

The Gnosis Institute serves the world through the application of wisdom from the Gnostic tradition and allied inner spiritual traditions. The Institute also serves by developing and applying knowledge that frees and transforms the mind and spirit. Transforming our world through individual growth and service. Living the motto “the truth shall set you free,” the Gnosis Institute fosters and values academic freedom, and individual freedom of conscience. Seeking the truth together while respecting but not being restrained by scholarly and spiritual traditions.

This is accomplished by:

• Developing and offering coursework to lead to accredited degree programs in Developing Psyche & Spirit, Gnostic Studies, Living Philosophy, & Spiritual Ministry.
• Providing a framework for developing a scholarly community and supporting scholarship.
• Supporting a diverse Learning Community, with various individual interests & goals.

We invite you to become a part of this grand project and grow with us!

Although membership in the Institute Community is required to participate in the work of the Institute, papers and other work produced through the projects of the Institute are available to the public as a personal and scholarly resource.

The mission of the Gnosis Institute is to act as the academic center for Gnosticism, one that holds to the highest standards of scholarship. It is a non-profit research and educational corporation. Like any other non-profit, we rely on donations to be able to perform our mission. If you support our mission, please support the Institute.

Please feel free to look around while the site is completed, and aspects of the Institute are formalized.

Some information currently on the site is provisional and subject to change.

Gnosis is not what you think. It is not an idea, not a doctrine. It is not objective. It is not definable. It is not found inside of rigid limits, nor outside of all considerations. It is not yours. It is not ours. It is something attained, and is a quickening of what we already have. It is a knowledge that you are, not a knowledge that you have.

If you are looking for a label, Gnosis is not it. If you are seeking a path with answers, Gnosis is not it. If you are looking for a path that fits you, Gnosis is not it. If you are seeking what is real beyond yourself and your ideas, then you may already be on the path of Gnosis.

We do not seek to propagate a set of beliefs or doctrines, nor to spread one set of teachings or one perspective. We seek to follow the injunction from the Gospel of Thomas: “If you see what is before your face, there is nothing that will not be revealed to you.” We seek to know what is real, and to follow that beyond our current notions, ideas, and understandings. We stand apart from mainstream culture only in that we do not prejudge the real to exclude the spiritual. We do not exclude what has always been a part of human experience, what has always been a part of human culture. For to do that would be to veer from the path of Gnosis towards mere ideas.

Gnosis is not what you think. And it is not something you will understand quickly. It is something you will come to know, and grow in that knowing. You may know someone to a large extent after a few years, but you cannot know someone entirely in the span of a lifetime. If you think you have hold of it, you have not. It is in the living, in the growing—it is never complete.

Scriptures tell us that the truth shall make us free. In Greek, the word for “truth” is “un-hidden.” The un-hidden, the unveiled, the examined shall set us free. This requires discipline and commitment, training and work. It requires an allegiance to the real that is higher than the allegiance to the ideal.

How seriously do you take your spiritual path? How committed are you to your liberation?