Gnosticism

Gnosticism was defined by Albert Pike, the Pope of Masonry, as "the soul and marrow of Freemasonry."

A 33rd degree Mason, Dr. Domenico Margiotta, reveals on Page 97 of his book Adriano Lemmi that Albert Pike, in revealing the Luciferian cult of his Palladian lodges, "had only specified and unveiled the dogmas of the high grades of all other Masonries, for in no matter what rite, the great architect of the universe is not the God worshipped by the Christians. Lemmi, the third Masonic Pope, said on the day after his election, "We must not forget that Masonry had Italy for its cradle, and the Socinius for its founder."

In the Masonic publication New Age of January 1989, Scottish Rite Sovereign Grand Commander Fred Kleinknecht wrote: "The apex of our teachings has been the rituals of our degrees, and Morals and Dogma written by Sovereign Grand Commander Albert Pike over a century ago". But in Morals and Dogma Pike had written: "Masonry is a search after light: the search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Cabala...Cabala alone consecrates the alliance of the universal reason and the divine word. Everything scientific and grand in the religious dreams of all the Illuminati, Jacob Boeheme, Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, and others, is borrowed from the Cabala; all the Masonic associations owe to it their secrets and their symbols...Lucifer, the son of the Morning! It is he who bears the light...Knowledge of Nature had for its symbolic key the gigantic form of that huge Sphinx..Masonry is a worship....Every Masonic Lodge is a temple of religion; and its teachings are instruction in religion...Masonry, around whose altars the Christian, the Hebrew, the Moslem, the Brahmin, the followers of Confucius and Zoroaster, can assemble as brethrem, and unite in prayer to the one God who is above all the Baalim".

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A version of Gnosticism called Theosophy lusts after godhood. In fact, Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky were Theosophists. In 1875, the Russian occultist Helena Blavatsky founded the Theosophical Society with the aim of making occult knowledge available to all, and to synthesize religion on a base of occultism. What she really sought was the establishment of Lucifer's one-world religion. When she settled in London in 1887, she started a Theosophical magazine called Lucifer the Light-Bringer.

Blavatsky received a high Masonic degree for her book Isis Unveiled, and her successor Annie Besant and several of the society's first officers were Masons. The teachings of Blavatsky and Alice Bailey, well known Theosophist, form the New Age Bible. Bailey's book Initiation Human and Solar was published in 1922 by their Lucifer Publishing Company, New York. When they realized that they were giving the game away, they changed it to "The Lucis Publishing Company," 886 United Nations Plaza, New York-an appropriate address close to the heart of the whole thing!

Bailey in her book is quite frank in her revelations concerning the secrets of initiation-necessary, as she puts it, until all have been occultly "saved." Their Theosophy takes evolution to its logical conclusion, godhood for everything. Their belief is that the whole universe is evolving in consciousness, directed by those with paranormal abilities, who will create for Earth a brain and a heart, and raise up all matter to godhood by initiation into complete knowledge-godhood for everything. The occultism of the New Age movement is man's attempt to achieve the total consciousness of God, but according to them, many reincarnated lifetimes are necessary to attain this goal. So in reality what it all adds up to is the devil, once again as in Genesis, saying it is not a sin to disobey God,di you will be like god, you will not die!" Transmigration after death will save you!Reincarnation, or transmigration of souls, of course, is a teaching of the Jewish Cabala, The Encyclopaedia Britannica, under "Theosophy," states that, "the Theosophical movement of the 20th century with which Gnosticism has much in common, rightly claims the Gnostics as its spiritual ancestor." It also states in the Encyclopaedia that the most characteristic feature of this modern theosophical teaching is belief in reincarnation. In the Manichaean Gnostic system, after death, transmigration of souls was a method of purification for the less perfect (Auditors or Catechumens). This means of liberation for the souls of Catechumens finally ended up in the body of an elect, thereby securing salvation. As regards damnation, that is the consequence, they held, for those who refused to accept truth, Gnostic Manichaean dualism. It is surely a supremely clever trick of the devil to persuade people that they are damned unless they believe that he is God. A prominent "guru" of the New Age, David Spangler, author of the book Revelation: Birth of a New Age, has been very candid in another book of his called Reflections on the Christ (Scotland: Findhorn, 1978), where he writes (pp.40-44):

"Christ is the same force as Lucifer. Lucifer prepares man for the experience of Christhood. As we move into a new age, each of us in some way is brought to that point which I term the Luciferic initiation, the particular doorway through which the individual must pass if he is to come fully into the presence of his light and his wholeness. Lucifer comes to give us the final... Luciferic initiation... that many people now and in the days ahead will be facing, for it is an initiation into the new age."

Alice Bailey, in her book The Extemalization of the Hierarchy (New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1957) discloses that New Agepreparations were being directed by Freemasonry, the chief cornerstone of the New Age movement (p. 51 1).

In the New Age book Toward A Human World Order.- Beyond the National Security Straitjacket (Mische, 1977), a strategy is outlined that includes consciousness-raising in groups for building world order agencies, commitment to political action, groups to produce grassroots movements, and the crucial control of the media.