What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

gnōsis, knowledge) refers to diverse, syncretistic religious movements in antiquity consisting of various belief systems generally united in the teaching that the material cosmos was created by an ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Harvard Theological Review has been a central forum for scholars of religion since its founding in 1908. It continues to publish ...

I was assigned to build my own religion. And sometimes I get carried away with my projects. <BR>This is what I've outlined so far, and I want to flesh it out and create a mythology and "universe" for ...

His Gnostic phase lasts for a month during the summer before his sophomore year of high school. It begins after his friend Richard tells him about smoking a joint with Sasha Baker. To hear Richard ...