FINDING MY RELIGION / Tau Malachi, a Sophian Gnostic bishop, talks about Gnosticism and 'The Da Vinci Code' By David Ian Miller, Special to SF Gate May 22, 2006.

Identical esoteric ideas suf-fuse the novels, the movies, the lodges, the “alternative spirituality” and the cloning “atheistic religion,” and this ideological soil has a name — Gnosticism.

It has been 30 years since the cultural historian Christopher Lasch’s “Gnosticism, Ancient and Modern: The Religion of the Future?” appeared in the quarterly magazine Salmagundi.

The Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion Princeton University. Gnostic texts of nag hammadi. ... Gnosticism is a term that's etymologically connected with the word "to know." ...

Explore the mystical world of Gnostic Christianity, where salvation comes through secret knowledge (gnosis), the material world is seen as a flawed creation, and the true God is beyond comprehension.

Gnosticism is the most radical religion I know, because it is the only one that entertains the idea that God is evil -- and wants us all to rebel against his bullying, rapacious, jealous rule.

Mandaeans are followers of ancient Gnostic religion, whose traditional homeland was the region of Iraq and Iran. Today, this small minority lives in many parts of the world, including the US.

Gnosticism is a term that's etymologically connected with the word "to know." It has the same root in English, "kno" is related to "gno" the Greek word for gnosis. And Gnostics were people who ...