| Charles Filimore and Myrtle Filimore founded the | | | | Gnosticism is the Western equivalent of Yoga, |
| Unity School of Christianity, based on New Age | | | | Sufism, Zen and the Kabbalah. Gnosticism |
| Philosophy. | | | | maintains that spiritual salvation can only be had |
| Mark Prophet and Elizabeth Claire Prophet founded | | | | through intuitive Gnosis. Gnosis is revealed |
| the Church Universal and Trimuphant, based on | | | | Knowledge or intuitive Knowledge. The Oxford |
| New Age beliefs. | | | | Dictionary defines Gnosis as a knowledge of |
| One of the most popular and expanding Churches | | | | spritual mysteries. From the word Gnosis comes |
| is the Church of Oprah, with more than 4 million | | | | Gnostic and Gnosticism. Gnosticism is a system |
| adherents. Oprah Winfrey is hailed as a New Age | | | | influenced by Oriental wisdom, which flourished |
| philosopher. | | | | during the early Christian era, which claimed to |
| New Age is nothing but Gnostic Christianity. In the | | | | have supernatural knowledge or religio-philosophic |
| West, there are Gnostic Churches, Ecclesia | | | | knowledge. |
| Gnostica and the greatest saint of Gnosticism is | | | | The term being Kone Greek, has a much broader |
| St Mary Magdalene. She is the noblest, she is the | | | | and universal meaning. The term Gnosis is used |
| purest, she is the simplest in all Chrisitan | | | | by Byzantine and Hellenic cultures as a word to |
| Mythology. If Jesus is the Male Component of the | | | | mean special knowledge or insight into the |
| Ultimate, Purusha, She is the Female Component | | | | supernatural and it refers to knowledge that |
| of the Ultimate, Prakriti. She is the Bride, the | | | | comes from the Intuitive Mind. It refers to |
| Sophia, the bereft Divine Wisdom, widowed | | | | experiential knowledge, and not merely the |
| through the ages by her errant sons, till they | | | | rational. Knowledge as in Revealation or Intuivie |
| return to kinship with her and She becomes | | | | Knowledge ( see Gnosiology ). |
| justified of Her children ! | | | | |