What is Gnosticism?
Gnosticism is a spiritual tradition which focuses on the individual pursuit of gnosis. Gnosis is a salvific knowledge of the self and God that frees us from the ignorance and suffering of this transitory world. This tradition has manifested, historically, in many different religious cultures, most prominently in Judeo-Christianity. Although much of what we know as Gnosticism utilizes what we may call Christian mythology, Gnosticism is as different from Canonical Christianity as Zen Buddhism is from traditional Hinduism.
