Subcategories

• Sex Magic Groups' use of 'Gnostic'

  How a US magician invented modern sex magic. How through the meeting of French Gnostic Church leaders and a founder of a German sex magic group (the OTO) at an Esoteric conference in France, led to the adoption of a subsidiary 'church' by the OTO. And how these elements came back to the Americas and were modified.

   

• New Age Groups 'Rebranded' as Gnostic

  Self-described as "Gnostic" groups while originating in the less savory end of the diverse New Age movement. They have little, if any, consideration for the sources and practices of ancient Gnosticism.

   

• Misappropriated

  Misappropriation, Misuse, and Misapplication of "Gnostic" and associated terms to describe that which is not related to the meaning of these terms used in ancient texts or mainstream scholarship.

   

• Wrong Word, or, Expand your Vocabulary

  Misuses of the descriptor "Gnostic" as a replacement for a more a more apt word. Generally used in empty rhetoric in an accusatory fashion.