New Age Christianity
Charles Filimore and Myrtle Filimore founded the Unity School of Christianity, based on New Age Philosophy.
Mark Prophet and Elizabeth Claire Prophet founded the Church Universal and Trimuphant, based on New Age beliefs.
One of the most popular and expanding Churches is the Church of Oprah, with more than 4 million adherents. Oprah Winfrey is hailed as a New Age philosopher.
New Age is nothing but Gnostic Christianity. In the West, there are Gnostic Churches, Ecclesia Gnostica and the greatest saint of Gnosticism is St Mary Magdalene. She is the noblest, she is the purest, she is the simplest in all Chrisitan Mythology. If Jesus is the Male Component of the Ultimate, Purusha, She is the Female Component of the Ultimate, Prakriti. She is the Bride, the Sophia, the bereft Divine Wisdom, widowed through the ages by her errant sons, till they return to kinship with her and She becomes justified of Her children !
Gnosticism is the Western equivalent of Yoga, Sufism, Zen and the Kabbalah. Gnosticism maintains that spiritual salvation can only be had through intuitive Gnosis. Gnosis is revealed Knowledge or intuitive Knowledge. The Oxford Dictionary defines Gnosis as a knowledge of spritual mysteries. From the word Gnosis comes Gnostic and Gnosticism. Gnosticism is a system influenced by Oriental wisdom, which flourished during the early Christian era, which claimed to have supernatural knowledge or religio-philosophic knowledge.
The term being Kone Greek, has a much broader and universal meaning. The term Gnosis is used by Byzantine and Hellenic cultures as a word to mean special knowledge or insight into the supernatural and it refers to knowledge that comes from the Intuitive Mind. It refers to
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