“In order to understand the Bible, one needs to be a Gnostic, because the Bible is a highly symbolic book, and if we try to read it in the Protestant style, like one who reads newspaper columns, we fall into the most terrible absurdities.”
Samael Aun Weor
Luke 11:52
Woe unto you, you knowers of the Law [Torah]! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge [γνῶσις, gnosis] : ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. Luke 11:52
An excerpt from glorian.org
You Must Look Deeper
All matters in the Torah are of a superior nature and are uppermost secrets.
Woe to those wicked who say that the Torah is merely a story and nothing more, for they look at the dress and no further.
– Zohar, Bamidbar 152a
It’s not for Everyone
The mysteries of the faith are not to be divulged to all. But since this tradition is not published alone for him who perceives the magnificence of the word; it is requisite, therefore, to hide in a mystery the wisdom spoken, which the Son of God taught.
St. Clement of Alexandria, The Stromata, ch. 12 (circa 200 AD)