Demeter's Kore

I have been surfing around the web lately reading a lot of Gnostic Christian and Gnostic Pagan sites. The Gnostic Christian sites have disappointed me greatly because they all seem to claim that Gnostics believe that Jesus was a real person. I don't know how you can be Gnostic and claim such an absurdity. Gnosticism is the quest for spiritual knowledge and how can you obtain spiritual knowledge when you hold firm to man. We don't need to believe that there was once any man that walked the earth as the son of god. In Gnosis we are all the sons of God. Have these modern Gnostics missed the point. YES!!!! Most likely they have come from a literalist Christian background and can not make the transition without the authoritarian feeling that a Jesus man did actually exist. These are the ones who are truly falling short of Gnosis and they are bringing who follow down with them. I don't claim to be superior but I do know the difference between myth and fact. Jesus was a myth, an

The spirit lies within all of us. It teaches, if we choose to listen, about every wonder within this Universe and beyond. We learn that we are all one, man, woman, child, animal, plant, even the very soil we walk on, we are all one. We learn that everything that happens is not without ourselves but within. Every experience, every hardship, every joy, every minute is within us. The spirit can probably be best described as a big pool of dark water. Many are afraid to go near it because to the naked eye we can not see the bottom. When we look in the water all we see is what we think is a disfigured mirror image of ourselves, but in reality that is our true image and the image that we perceive every day is the disfigurement. As we dive deep into the water and become engulfed in its darkness we feel the helplessness that comes from the pressure of the water pounding around us. Some of us become scared, begin to struggle to the top, some of us lose all control and are lost within the

Aleister (Alexander Edward) Crowley was born on the 12th of October 1875 in Leamington Spa, England, into a family of Plymouth Brethren, a strict Christian sect. The Bible was the only book Crowley was permitted to read .The Plymouth Brethren were a sect that believed even Christians of other denominations were going to hell. Hmmmmm, not too much unlike the many denominations around now. Anyway, his father was the only person that kept Aleister from being abused completely by his mother, who called him the Beast, and his uncle. He was enrolled in many schools that were run by men in the Plymouth Brethren, they would find every reason they could to "discipline" Crowley as well as the other students.In time, the young Crowley rebelled against the bigoted atmosphere in his home. His first gesture of defiance was to masturbate, a grave sin for Christians in Victorian times.In 1895, Crowley went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and a year later, at the age of 21, came into a subs

The first thing to be understood is what ego is. A child is born. A child is born without any knowledge, any consciousness of his own self. And when a child is born the first thing he becomes aware of is not himself; the first thing he becomes aware of is the other. It is natural, because the eyes open outwards, the hands touch others, the ears listen to others, the tongue tastes food and the nose smells the outside. All these senses open outwards. That is what birth means. Birth means coming into this world, the world of the outside. So when a child is born, he is born into this world. He opens his eyes, sees others. 'Other' means the thou. He becomes aware of the mother first. Then, by and by, he becomes aware of his own body. That too is the other, that too belongs to the world. He is hungry and he feels the body; his need is satisfied, he forgets the body. This is how a child grows. First he becomes aware of you, thou, other, and then by and by, in contrast to you, thou, he