The Mystical Experience - The Gnostic philosophy is all based upon a secret discipline for the release of our internal content, by means of which we can become aware of our place in the Divine Plan of things. The Gnostics believed that salvation must be earned. They believed that the individual must make a science out of our own redemption and that the redemption of the individual is the great science, the final end of all scientific searching. - They did not have the laboratories or the technical facilities that we have today, but only certain basic means of exploring the world of causes. They had first, of course, the traditions of their people and the religious revelations of antiquity. These revelations, many of which were very old by the beginning of the Christian era, seemed to contain some tremendous archetypal ideas. The mystics gradually realized that the real source of these scriptural revelations was the mystical experience—these revelations were internal experiences of enlightened human beings which made possible the apperception of the divine truths of life. _______________________________________________ Shared via @eyeofhorus1 Art: ‘The Magician’ from the True Black Tarot by Arthur Wang (#trueblacktarot #arthurwang) #Wisdom #Esoteric #Symbolism #Philosophy #Spirituality #Mystery #Gnostic #Gnosticism #TheWisdomoftheKnowingOnes #KnowingOnes #ManlyPHall #TheLibraryofThomas #vedicshastras #astrology101 #bhramhavaastu (at Vedic Shastras) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHvF1kZFO4p/?igshid=2elzpy6l949
