Gnosticism Quotes:

Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung (1989). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Psychology and religion”

topic: Gnosticism, Special, Study

In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

- Nancy Pearcey

topic: Attitude, Suffering, Enlightenment, Cultivating, Gnosticism

Mysticism has often been misunderstood as the attempt to escape this simple, phenomenal world to a more pure existence in heaven beyond. This is not mysticism, but Gnosticism. Biblical mysticism is the attempt to exit 'this world' to an alternative reality that pervades the old order. Its goal is to jettison the mind-set that says 'greed is good,' selfishness is normal,' and 'killing is necessary.' Mysticism in biblical terms is not escapism, as so many have caricatured it, but a fight for ethics and social change.

- Walter Wink

topic: Biblical, Fighting, Simple, Greed Is Good, Mind Set

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

- Leo Tolstoy

source: Leo Tolstoy (2013). “The Non-Fiction of Leo Tolstoy: (Includes A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, A Letter to a Hindu, Youth, Tolstoy on Shakespeare, What to Do)”, p.138, Golgotha Press

topic: Jesus, Christ Consciousness, Gnosis, Kingdom Of Heaven, Chariots

The perpetual enemy of faith in the true God is not atheism (the claim that there is no God), but rather Gnosticism (the claim that God is known).

- Martin Buber

topic: Enemy, Atheism, Claims, Gnosticism, True God

Bog-lights, vapors of mysticism, psychic Gnosticisms, veils and tissues of words, gibbering subjectivisms, gropings and maunderings, ontological fantasies, pan-psychic hallucinations—this is the stuff, the phantasms of hope, that fills your book shelves. Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget.

- Jack London

topic: Book, Psychics, Glasses, Bogs, Gnosticism