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Search - From New Age To New Gnosis: The Contemporary Significance Of A New Gnostic Spirituality

From New Age To New Gnosis The Contemporary Significance Of A New Gnostic Spirituality
Author: Peter Wilberg

In our divided world, the connection between religion and rulership, spirituality and politics is clear for all to see. "Gnosticism" is an ancient underground tradition of politically subversive spirituality that has always recognised this connection. The 'Gnostic Gospels' discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945 were both a spiritual and a political c... more »hallenge to the ruling gods or "archons" of their age - the egotistical and envious god of the Old Testament, the pagan gods of Greece and Rome, and the "New-Age" style marketplace of cults that preceded the birth of Christianity. Today's "New Age" spirituality is a commercialised "spirituality" whose gods are impersonal cosmic "energies", whose sacraments are healing "technologies", whose religions are new "therapies", whose "word" is the worldwide marketing of holistic health products - and whose festivals are the trade fairs of "Body, Mind and Spirit". Peter Wilberg presents a theo-political history of gnostic spirituality, and with it, a theo-political critique of all the ruling god-concepts of our age - "energy", the "eternal gene", and above all "globalisation" - the worship of economic values over all deep spiritual values. The temples of these secular religions are the global stock markets. Their theologies are new technologies. In the first century of the second millennium AD, just as in the first centuries AD, true spiritual knowledge or gnosis has been replaced by adherence to superficial sciences or religious fundamentalisms. Similarly, true spiritual powers or "charismata" have been replaced with the military might and evangelical mission of new imperial superpower - not Rome but Washington. From New Age to New Gnosis is a spiritual-political spear aimed at the New World Order of global neo-liberalism, neo-conservatism and neo-imperialism, and challenging all four faces of its famous pyramid - the dollar, the idolatry or 'i-dollartry' of new technologies, the politically illiterate platitudes of New Age 'spirituality', and the spiritually illiterate 'literalism' of Christian bible-bashing fundamentalism - one which now sees its own face reflected in the deathly clash of Islamist and Zionist zealots. What Peter Wilberg's book recognises is that what our divided world now calls for is not a revival of old religious fundamentalisms or archaic symbolisms and mythologies but a spirituality rooted in the very essence of gnosis as 'the wordless knowledge within the word' (Seth) - an intuitive inner knowing that is also the spiritual bond of inner connection between human beings of all cultures and religious traditions.

ISBN-13: 9781904519072
ISBN-10: 1904519075
Publication Date: 7/1/2003
Pages: 192
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Publisher: New Gnosis Publications
Book Type: Paperback
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