Religion knows things. Lots of things. Very small things like what to eat and what to wear. Very big things like how to get to Heaven and/or avoid an eternity in Hell. Ancient Gnostics knew quite a lot, too, but they held their gnosis with a different spirit than their Orthodox brethren. The Gnostics were more fluid where the Orthodox were rigid and employed the same sort of organizational controls as any other tightly managed religious cult.
As a self-described Neo-Gnostic, my only claim of genuine gnosis is that I truly don't anything. Oh, I accept many things as being "true" -- such as my own existence, the need to figure out how to sustain myself if I want to see how far I can take this thing called being human and that there seem to be some observations from which we can draw some inferences about a few things. But, when it comes to the Ultimate Questions like is there something like the God of the major religions that wants us to do very specific things while on Earth or if there's an Afterlife where I'll still have my human personality -- I simply DON'T KNOW.
This is where I'll begin this journey that I call the Not-So-Secret-Gnosis of the Gneo Gnostic -- with this first affirmation of Neo-Gnosticism:
I do not know the answers to life's Ultimate Questions and yet I choose to live by faith that I will be Eternal.
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