How to Join one of the top Gnostic hangouts on the web.

 How to Join one of the top Gnostic hangouts on the web.

It's a forum called Gnostic Gospels. I'm a mod there. To join it, one needs to be a member of Discord. If you don't have a Discord profile already, create one at Discord: https://discord.com

Then, to find the Gnostic Gospels group, go to DisBOARD, a kind of search engine for Discord groups: https://disboard.org

Type in "Gnostic" and you'll see the Gnostic Gospels group associated with the pink image with a gnostic cross.

When joining, answer the five questions. I helped write those. It helps filter out spammers, as the group only seeks new members who are into gnosticism, spirituality, mysticism, etc...

Gnostic Gospels is dedicated to the study and practice of books missing from the Bible. Join our community of heretics, mystics, and other spiritual wayfarers in our discussion of ancient texts!

Explore lost Gospels like Thomas, Nag Hammadi, the Apocrypha, and more!

Our focus centers squarely on scripture and the spiritual insights offered by extra-canonical sources. Become a "heretic" today!

Direct link: https://disboard.org/server/1278825379825582101

Gnostic Rumi

 Gnostic Rumi

In Islamic and Sufi terminology, these terms translate: Gnosis: Ma’rifat (divine, experiential knowledge of God).  Gnostic: ‘Ārif (the mystic knower who possesses this inner, direct vision). 

"The fall of man is the result of the blinding of the 'eye of the heart' (chashm-i dil), which alone sees with the vision of gnosis." — Rumi, Masnavi, Book V (scholarly rendering by William C. Chittick / R.A. Nicholson)

"Gnosis is not attained through arguments or books, but when the flame of Love blazes up and consumes everything except the Beloved."  — Rumi, Masnavi, Book V  

"The gnostic [mystic knower] transcends all relations of 'otherness'; he sees only the One, sitting on his own roof while looking upon all roofs."  — Rumi, Masnavi, Book IV (trans. R.A. Nicholson) 

"The gnostic's prayer is not made of words or ritual forms, but of silent contemplation and the surrender of the heart. To the gnostic, the carpet of the universe is flipped open, and every breath is praise."  — Fihi Ma Fihi (Discourses of Rumi)

"That laughter remained with him as an endowment unto everlasting, like the untroubled spirit and reason of the gnostic [‘ārif]. How should the light of the moon ever become defiled, though its light strike on everything good and evil?"  — Rumi, Masnavi, Book I (trans. R.A. Nicholson) 

"Observing spiritual courtesy (adab) is to the gnostic what repentance is to the novice seeker."  — Rumi, Masnavi, Commentary & Prose Selections (quoting classical Sufi definitions of the ‘Ārif) 

"Discursive knowledge (‘ilm*) is a burden on the body; gnosis (ma’rifat) is the lifting of the heart. Knowledge acquired by the senses is a shadow; true gnosis is the Sun itself."*

— Rumi, Masnavi, Book I