What is Gnosticism?

Gnosticism is religous existentialism and the gnostic is in search of the answer to the mystery of existence his quest is for a fragment of the divine its a quest for redeeming knowledge and a quest for oneself its far more than just a doctrine in this sense its the historical dimension of the traditions cultural figures

Gnosticism is the belief that one knows everything, a belief that is inherently flawed, except by God Himself. Agnosticism, a much more appropriate belief for us, is a belief that one doesn't know everything.

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