New Age Christianity

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