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History of Gnosticism This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Image File history File links Simple_crossed_circle. ... The History of Gnosticism is subject to a great deal of debate and interpretation. ...

Persian Gnosticism Mandaeism Manichaeism Mandaeism or Mandaeanism (Mandaic: mandaiuta) is a blanket term for the religion of the Mandaeans (Classical Mandaic mandaiia, Neo-Mandaic Mandeyānā) who are the followers of Mendā d-Heyyi (Mandaic manda Knowledge of Life). Mandaeism is a monotheistic religion practiced primarily in southern Iraq and the Iranian province of... Manichean priests, writing at their desk, with panel inscription in Sogdian. ...

Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism Sethians Thomasines Valentinians Basilideans Syrian-Egyptian Gnostic Schools were ancient Gnostic sects from around the middle east, with some Judaic influences. ... Sethian is also a Finnish progressive metal band. ... Thomas, also called Judas Thomas Didymus or Jude Thomas Didymus, was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. ... Valentinianism was a religious doctrine named after Valentinius, a Roman theologian who lived circa 2nd century. ... The Basilideans were a Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria in the 2nd century. ...

Fathers of Christian Gnosticism Simon Magus Cerinthus Marcion Valentinus The death of Simon Magus. ... Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon of Gitta, is the name used by the ancient Christian Orthodoxy to refer to someone they identified as a Samaritan (Proto-)Gnostic, and, also according to ancient Christian Orthodoxy, founder of his own religious sect. ... Cerinthus was the leader of a late first-century or early 2nd century sect, an offshoot of the Ebionites yet similar to Gnosticism in some respects, interesting in that it demonstrates the wide range of conclusions that could be drawn from the life and teachings of Jesus. ... Marcion of Sinope (ca. ... This article is about the Gnostic Valentinus. ...

Early Gnosticism Ophites Cainites Carpocratians Borborites Thomasines Early Gnosticism Ophites Cainites Carpocratians Borborites Thomasines ... The Ophites is a blanket term for numerous gnostic sects in Syria and Egypt about 100 A.D. The common trait was that these sects would give great importance to the serpent of the biblical tale of Adam and Eve, connecting the Tree of Knowledge (of Good and Evil) to... The Cainites were a Gnostic and Antinomian sect who were known to worship Cain as the first victim of the Demiurge Jehovah, the Old Testament God, who was identified by many groups of gnostics as evil. ... Carpocrates was an early Gnostic from sometime in the second century A.D. who was mentioned by Clement of Alexandria in the Mar Saba letter discovered in 1958 by ancient historian Morton Smith. ... According to Epiphanius of Salamis book Panarion/Adversus Haereses chapter xxv, xxvi and Theodorets Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium the borborites (or barbelos, barbelites, phibionites, stratiotici, coddians etc) were a extraordinarily filthy and evil Gnostic ophite sect. ... ...

Medieval Gnosticism Paulicianism Tondrakians Bogomils Cathars Paulicianism was a Gnostic and Manichaean Christian sect that florished between 650 and 872 in Anatolia, outgoing from Armenia and the Eastern Themes of the Byzantine Empire. ... Tondrakians were members of an anti-feudal, heretical Christian sect that flourished in medieval Armenia between the early 9th century and 11th century and centered around the city of Tondrak, north of Lake Van. ... Bogomilism is the Gnostic dualistic sect, the synthesis of Armenian Paulicianism and the local Slavonic Church reform movement in Bulgaria and Bosnia-Herzegovina between 950 and 1396. ... Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209. ...

Gnosticism in modern times Gnosticism in popular culture // Literature Harold Bloom explores Gnosticism in his novel The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy, and, with William Golding, traces Gnosticism in American beliefs in The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. ...

Gnostic texts Nag Hammadi Library Codex Tchacos Gnosticism and the New Testament Gnosticism used a number of religious texts that are preserved, in part or whole, in ancient manuscripts or are lost but mentioned critically in Patristic writings. ... The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts discovered near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. ... The Codex Tchacos is an ancient Egyptian Coptic papyrus document containing early Christian Gnostic texts: The Gospel of Judas The First Apocalypse of James The Letter of Peter to Philip A fragment of Allogenes It is important because it contains the first known surviving text of the Gospel of Judas... This article discusses the relationship between Gnosticism and the New Testament. ...

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Gnosticism includes a variety of ancient religions prevalent in the Mediterranean in the third century CE. Prior to the 20th century, little was known about the various Gnostic movements, due to paucity of original material available to scholars and the public. Since the emergence of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945, and its translation into English and other modern languages in 1977, Gnosticism has undergone something of a rapid dissemination, and has as a result had observable influence on several modern figures, and upon modern Western culture in general. This article attempts to summarise those modern figures and movements that have been influenced by Gnosticism, both prior and subsequent to the Nag Hammadi discovery. This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... The Common Era (CE or C.E.), sometimes known as the Current Era or Christian Era, is the period of measured time beginning with the year 1 (the traditional birthdate of Jesus) to the present. ... The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts discovered near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. ... 1945 (MCMVL) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... The word culture, from the Latin colo, -ere, with its root meaning to cultivate, generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... The town of Nag Hammadi in Egypt Nag Hammâdi (Arabic نجع حمادي; transliterated: Naj Hammādi) (26°03′N 32°15′E), is a town in the middle of Egypt, called Chenoboskion in classical antiquity, about 80 kilometres north-west of Luxor with some 30,000 citizens. ...

Scholars of Gnosticism and those influenced by it

There follows a list of those figures who are known to have undertaken a study of Gnosticism, and who have occasionally incorporated elements of Gnostic systems into their own work, or whose own work subsequently contains recognizably Gnostic traits. All figures and movements, as throughout the article, are organised alphabetically: individuals are organised by surname, while groups are organised by title. Thus, both "Jules Doinel" and "Ecclesia Gnostica" precede "René Guénon" in the listing. Where two or more figures are discussed (for example, in the case of co-authorship of a text), listing is based on the first surname alphabetically. A Specimen of typeset fonts and languages, by William Caslon, letter founder; from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...

William Blake

William Blake, the nineteenth century Romantic poet and artist, was according to Gilchrist, his biographer, well-versed in the doctrines of the Gnostics, and his own personal mythology contains many points of cohesion with several Gnostic mythemes (for example, the Blakean figure of Urizen bears many resemblances to the Gnostic Demiurge). However, efforts to dub Blake a "Gnostic" have been complicated by the complex nature and colossal extent of Blake's own mythology, and the variety of myths and themes that are referred to as "Gnostic"; thus, the exact relationship between Blake and the Gnostics remains a point of scholarly contention, though a comparison of the two often reveals intriguing points of correspondence. William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips William Blake (November 28, 1757–August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. ... Romantic poetry was part of the Romantic movement of European literature during the 18th-19th centuries. ... A poet is some one who writes poetry. ... Look up artist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Gilchrist may refer to: Gilchrist, Oregon Gilchrist County, Florida James Gilchrist, founder of the Minutemen Project Adam Gilchrist, Australian wicket-keeper This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... // Today, films and television programs surrounding the lives of famous people are a major part of the entertainment industry. ... Urizen is depicted in Blakes watercoloured etching The Ancient of Days. In the complex mythology of William Blake, Urizen was the embodiment of reason and law. ... The prophetic books of the English poet and artist William Blake contain a rich mythology, in which Blake worked to encode his revolutionary spiritual and political ideas into a prophecy for a new age. ...

Madame Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, founder of Theosophy, wrote extensively on Gnostic ideas. These are discussed in her biographical article and the article on her philosophy. Helena Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society. ... Possible emblem of some Theosophical Society Theosophy, literally knowledge of the divine, designates several bodies of ideas. ... Helena Blavatsky Helena Petrovna Hahn (also Hélène) (July 31, 1831 (O.S.) (August 12, 1831 (N.S.)) - May 8, 1891 London), better known as Helena Blavatsky (Russian: ) or Madame Blavatsky, born Helena von Hahn, was a founder of the Theosophical Society. ... Possible emblem of some Theosophical Society Theosophy, literally knowledge of the divine, designates several bodies of ideas. ...

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley's Thelema reflects some of Crowley's interest in Gnosticism as reported by various Christian heresiologists. Thelema requires that adherants work to arrive at their own direct knowledge (or 'gnosis') of the divine (this is referred to in the Thelemic system as the 'Great Work'). There are several Thelemic Gnostic organizations, including Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica as an ecclesiastical body and Ordo Templi Orientis as an initiatory body. Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander Crowley, (12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947; the surname is pronounced with the first syllable sounding like the bird) was an English occultist, prolific writer, mystic, hedonist, and sexual revolutionary. ... Thelema is the English transliteration of the Ancient Greek noun : will, from the verb θέλω: to will, wish, purpose. ... The philosophers stone, a longtime Holy Grail of Western alchemy, is a mythical substance that supposedly could turn inexpensive metals into gold and/or create an elixir that would make humans immortal. ... Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (EGC), or the Gnostic Catholic Church, is the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), an international fraternal initiatory organization devoted to promulgating the Law of Thelema. ... This article should be transwikied to wiktionary Ecclesiastical means pertaining to the Church (especially Christianity) as an organized body of believers and clergy, with a stress on its juridical and institutional structure. ... Lamen of Ordo Templi Orientis Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) (Order of the Temple of the East, or the Order of Oriental Templars) is an international fraternal and religious organization. ...

Hans Jonas

The philosopher Hans Jonas wrote extensively on Gnosticism, interpreting it from an existentialist viewpoint. For some time, his study The Gnostic Religion was widely held to be a pivotal work, and it is as a result of his efforts that the Syrian-Egyptian/Persian division of Gnosticism came to be widely used within the field. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... German-born philosopher Hans Jonas (May 10, 1903 - February 5, 1993) studied under Martin Heidegger and Rudolf Bultmann in the 1920s. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Jung and Mead

Carl Jung and his associate G.R.S. Mead worked on trying to understand and explain the Gnostic faith from a psychological standpoint. Jung's "analytical psychology" in many ways schematically mirrors ancient Gnostic mythology, particularly those of Valentinus and the 'classic' Gnostic doctrine described in most detail in the Apocryphon of John (see gnostic schools). Carl Jungs autobiographical work Memories , Dreams, Reflections, Fontana edition Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875, Kesswil, – June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) (IPA: ) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. ... George Robert Stowe Mead (1863-1933) was an author, editor, translator, esotericist, and an influential member of the Theosophical Society. ... Analytical psychology is part of the Jungian psychology movement started by Carl Jung and his followers. ... Valentinus can refer to: Pope Valentinus Saint Valentine Basil Valentinus, a 15th century monk from Erfurt who may have described Bismuth Valentinius, a Gnostic also known as Valentinus Roman emperors - Valentinian I (364 - 375) and Valentinian II (371 - 392) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

Jung understands the emergence of the Demiurge out of the original, unified monadic source of the spiritual universe by gradual stages to be analogous to (and a symbolic depiction of) the emergence of the ego from the unconscious The term Demiurge refers in some belief systems to a deity responsible for the creation of the physical universe and the physical aspect of humanity. ...

However, it is uncertain as to whether the similarities between Jung's psychological teachings and those of the gnostics are due to their sharing a "perennial philosophy", or whether Jung was unwittingly influenced by the Gnostics in the formation of his theories. Jung's own 'gnostic hymn', the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos (Latin: "The Seven Sermons to the Dead"), would tend to imply the latter, but after circulating the manuscript, Jung declined to publish it during his lifetime. Since it is not clear whether Jung was ultimately displeased with the book or whether he merely suppressed it as too controversial, the issue remains contested. The Perennial Philosophy (Latin philosophia perennis) is the idea that a universal set of truths common to all people and cultures exists. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...

Uncertain too are Jung's belief that the gnostics were aware of and intended psychological meaning or significance within their myths.

On the other hand, it is clear from a comparison of Jung's writings and that of ancient Gnostics, that Jung disagreed with them on the ultimate goal of the individual. Gnostics in ancient times clearly sought a return to a supreme, other-worldly Godhead. In a study of Jung, Robert Segal claimed that the eminent psychologist would have found the psychological interpretation of the goal of ancient Gnosticism (that is, re-unification with the Pleroma, or the unknown God) to be psychically 'dangerous', as being a total identification with the unconscious.

To contend that there is at least some disagreement between Jung and Gnosticism is at least supportable: the Jungian process of individuation involves the addition of unconscious psychic tropes to consciousness in order to achieve a trans-conscious centre to the personality. Jung did not intend this addition to take the form of a complete identification of the Self with the Unconscious.

Eric Voegelin

Eric Voegelin was concerned with certain patterns and tendencies of modern thinkers and movements which 'immanentized the Christian eschaton', which reacted to severe dissatisfaction with the world through escapism, utopianism, and theoretical disregard for facts that were contrary to one's fantasy. He noted that the success of Western science and culture lead some to become progressivist, utopian, and unrealistic about the limits of human nature or the constraints of reality upon social organization. The earlier Gnosticism's bleak awareness of such limits, was ignored and transferred by new Gnostics who then tried to make the heavens of the last days into a reality in the present, in various ways. Voegelin criticized this newer manifestation of Gnostic reaction, and also various trends of mysticism, neo-Platonism, magic, and apocalypticism. He described Moore's Utopia, the Puritan's social vision, Compte's Positivism, Marx's Dialectical Materialism, Freud's Psychoanalysis, the Nazi's racial ideology, Scientism, and other modern phenomena as new manifestations of "Gnosticism" in world-distorting political or ideological garb. Eric Voegelin, born Erich Hermann Wilhelm Vögelin, (January 3, 1901 – January 19, 1985) was a political philosopher. ...

He identifies the root of the Gnostic impulse as alienation, that is, a sense of disconnectedness with society and a belief that this lack of concord between the individual and the wider community is the result of the inherent disorderliness or even the evil of the world.
This alienation has two effects. The first is the belief that the disorder of the world can be transcended by extraordinary insight, learning, or knowledge, called a 'Gnostic speculation' by Voegelin. The second (for those who he categorizes as Modern "Gnostics") is the desire to implement a policy to actualise the speculation, or, as Voegelin describes it, to "Immanentize the Eschaton": to create an, as it were, heaven on earth within history.
The totalitarian impulse is derived from the alienation of the proponents of the policy from the rest of society. This leads to a desire to dominate (libido dominandi) which has its roots not just in the conviction of the imperative of the Gnostic's vision but also in his or her lack of concord with a large body of society. As a result, there is very little regard for the welfare of those in society who are impacted by the resulting politics, which may range from coercive to calamitous in nature(cf. Stalin's nostrum: "You have to crack a few eggs to make an omelet"). // Look up eschatology in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Iosif (usually anglicized as Joseph) Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин), original name Ioseb Jughashvili (Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვი&#4314...

This totalitarian impulse in modernism has been noted by Catholic writers, particularly in Henri de Lubac's work "The Drama of Atheist Humanism", which explores the connection between the totalitarian impulses of political Communism, Fascism and Positivism with their philosophical progenitors Hegel, Feuerbach, Marx, Comte and Nietzsche. Indeed, Voegelin acknowledges his debt to this book in creating his seminal essay "Science, Politics, and Gnosticism".
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Voegelin's identification of Gnosticism as being best defined as opposition to the world (what he called "the gnostic attitude") has been criticised, as it led to a tendency for him to find Gnosticism in almost anything. Thus, Voegelin saw Gnosticism as the preeminent western philosophy since the middle ages, and the greatest threat to decency on earth. In fact, it would seem that in seeing the negative influence of Gnosticism in everything, and by so urgently suggesting a return to fundamentals, Voegelin too was guilty of the "gnostic attitude," and was indeed trying to "immanentize the eschaton" himself.

Samael Aun Weor

Between 1950 and 1977, Samael Aun Weor wrote some seventy books. He taught that there was a universal basis of all religions in Kabbalistic and Alchemical terms. The Pistis Sophia Unveiled is a 650-page interpretation of the long-debated Gnostic scripture. His works are only recently becoming available in English. His schools count their students in the millions. Similar to Crowley and Blavatsky, he expanded on his own views, with reference to many religions and traditions, including what was then believed about Gnostic thought. Samael Aun Weor Samael Aun Weor (March 16, 1917 - December 24, 1977) was a prolific writer, lecturer and teacher of occultism. ... The tree of life Kabbalah (קבלה Reception, Standard Hebrew Qabbala, Tiberian Hebrew Qabbālāh; also written variously as Cabala, Cabalah, Cabbala, Cabbalah, Kabala, Kabalah, Kabbala, Qabala, Qabalah) is a religious philosophical system claiming an insight into divine nature. ... The Alchemist. ...

Modern gnostic revivals

• In the United States there are several Gnostic churches with diverse lineages, one of which is the Ecclesia Gnostica, based primarily in Los Angeles, which is affiliated with the Gnostic Society, an organization dedicated to the study of Gnosticism. The current leader of both organizations is Stephan A. Hoeller who has also written extensively on Gnosticism and the occult. Parishes of the Ecclesia Gnostica and educational organizations affiliated with the Gnostic Society are active in Portland, Oregon, Seattle, West Virginia, Sedona, Arizona, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Oslo, Norway.
• Samael Aun Weor founded many Gnostic institutions in Latin America, and formed a partnership with Swami Sivananda of the Divine Life Society in India. Among the students of these groups were many noted celebrities (such as Cantinflas) and political leaders of Latin America. Subsequent to his death, his schools and organizations separated and spread to every continent in the world. As an example, although there are hundreds of Gnostic schools teaching in the United States, only a small handful teach in English. The primary source of English teachings has been disseminated by a website known as Gnosticweb.
• Mar Didymos I of the Thomasine Church has reinterpreted Gnosticism and the thomasine gospels from an Illuminist viewpoint. The method employed by clergy and initiates of the Thomasine Church involves the use of the scientific method and of critical thinking rather than dogmatism. Mar Didymos stresses the use of scientific theory or the use of a synthesis of well developed and verified hypotheses derived from empirical observation and deductive/indicative reasoning about factual data and tested through experimentation and peer review. The Thomasine Church describes this as antithetical in principle and method as compared to all of the existing modern Gnostic churches.
• After a series of visions and archival finds of Cathar-related documents, Jules Doinel "re-established" the Gnostic Church in the modern era. Founded on extant Cathar documents with a heavy influence of Valentinian cosmology, the church, officially established in the autumn of 1890 in Paris, France, consisted of modified Cathar rituals as sacraments, a clergy that was both male and female, and a close relationship with several esoteric initiatory orders (see Gnostique.net for more information). The church eventually split into two opposing groups that were later reconciled under the leadership of Joanny Bricaud.
• The "traditionalist" René Guénon founded in 1909 the Gnostic review La Gnose. He believed in and throughout his works exposed the idea that modern thought, by its preference to the quantity more than to the quality, is the root of all evil aspects of modernity. The whole scientific enterprise would just be the beheaded relic of a lost Sacred Science. Modern technology and its realizations, worshipped by his contemporaries, would have been just a latter epiphany of the Kali Yuga (alias Dark Age), in a Cyclical Conception of Time.
• Mar Iohannes of the Apostolic Johannite Church is president of the North American College of Gnostic Bishops, a group dedicated to working together to promote Gnostic growth, while avoiding the production of dogma. The Apostolic Johannite Church is a bridge-building organisation with traditionally-styled rites, understood via a Gnostic interpretation.
• The Gnostic group SCIO is based near Monsegur, France and is led by William Sheridan.

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Gnosticism in popular culture

Main article: Gnosticism in popular culture

Gnosticism has seen something of a resurgence in popular culture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This may be related, certainly, to the sudden availability of Gnostic texts to the reading public, following the emergence of the Nag Hammadi library. // Literature Harold Bloom explores Gnosticism in his novel The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy, and, with William Golding, traces Gnosticism in American beliefs in The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation. ... The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian Gnostic texts discovered near the Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi in 1945. ...

Modern gnostic mysticism

Gnostic believers today retain much of the gnostic mysticism of early Christian centuries, in particular that This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ...

• human minds (equated with souls) are independent of the realm of matter, and are emanations of the One, the non-physical Spirit;
• the physical world is a result of the Demiurge manifesting himself, and it is ruled by Archons, or demons, which prevent the spiritual progress of the mind in every possible way and maintain its entrapment in matter. Aeons help human souls to escape from the material world and the cycle of reincarnation.

These doctrines are well explained by Dutch gnostic scholar and Rosicrucian Jan van Rijckenborgh. The One can refer to several things: The Absolute The Downbeat is the first beat in the bar. ... The term Demiurge refers in some belief systems to a deity responsible for the creation of the physical universe and the physical aspect of humanity. ... The Latin word æon means forever. ... The Temple of the Rose Cross, Teophilus Schweighardt Constantiens, 1618. ...

Other developments might be said to include relation of Gnostic mysticism to information theory and Digital Philosophy, such as in writings about TechGnosticism (Erik Davis), Infomysticism (Steve Mizrach, [1]), and possibly Rupert Sheldrake's holarchy of morphic fields. A bundle of optical fiber. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Erik Davis is a San Francisco-based writer, culture critic, and independent scholar. ... Rupert Sheldrake Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, born 28th June 1942 [1] is a British biologist and author. ... A holarchy, in the terminology of Arthur Koestler, is a hierarchy of holons — where a holon is simply a part of a hierarchy which itself is a complex system. ... A morphic field (a term introduced by Rupert Sheldrake, the major proponent of this concept, through his theory of Formative Causation) consists of patterns that govern the development of forms, structures and arrangements. ...

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• Apostolic Gnostic Church in America
• Apostolic Johannite Church
• Belzebuub Belzebuub's homepage
• Church of Gnostic Luminism
• Codex Gnosticus Gnostic Wiki (at the Palm Tree Garden)
• Ecclesia Gnostica
• Ecclesia Gnostica Aeterna
• Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica Hermetica
• Ecclesia Gnostica Mysteriorum
• Eglise du Plérôme - Cathar/Valentinian
• French Gnostic Tradition (i.e. Doinel, et al.)
• GnosCast: The Gnostic Podcast
• Gnostics & The Social Revolution
• Gnostic Teachings
• Gnostic Liberation Front A Gnostic revival group based heavily in Voegelinism and the conspiracy sub-culture
• Gnostic Radio
• Lectorium Rosicrucianum
• The Gnostic Movement & Gnosticweb - Gnosticmovement , Gnosticweb , Mysticweb , Astralweb
• The North American College of Gnostic Bishops
• The Palm Tree Garden
• Sophia Fellowship
• Thomasine Church
• Universal Gnostic Church