Do you ever ponder the meaning of Life? Have you spent a lot of time seeking the Truth? If you have an open mind and a questioning nature then perhaps you found the answers to your questions often lacking, whether at the university or at church. That is because most explanations are based on opinion or theory, not on direct experience.
At a very young age I tried to reconcile the discrepancy between the historic record of paleontology and the book of Genesis. The answers I received were lacking in imagination and thought.
Were the stories of mythology just entertainment for savage people who had no movies or internet? Or did they, as I suspected, contain a depth of knowledge that was lost long ago – ideas that modern, educated people would laugh at and dismiss as primitive superstitions.
The enigma of the pyramids and the Sphynx were baffling. Who made them, how did they make them, what were they for? The theories of grave robbers and academics were unsatisfactory.
Have you ever perused a threaded discussion on the topic of evolution? Here you can find a multitude of idiots espousing an opinion on a topic where it is clear they are not well-read, let alone open-minded.
Along the same lines is the question of Creation. Was there intelligence behind it or did this mysterious universe happen by accident? And who can honestly say they know the answer to that one? Most of us (including the academics) can only guess and speculate.
Does Man have a soul or doesn’t he? This has always been a thorny question. If this question is to be resolved only by human reasoning, then for every plausible explanation which concludes that man does have a soul, there is an equally plausible explanation which concludes man does not have a soul. At some point it becomes apparent the such questions cannot be answered by the use of reason alone.
And yet there are a number of rare human beings throughout the Ages who have provided the answers to these questions. These masters and sages left behind books and teachings that contain the Truth. These truths were not garnered through reason, but are based on a higher intelligence along with their singular and unusual experiences.
Which brings us to the introduction to Gnosis which is based on the Greek word for Knowledge.