Living Gnosis: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Christianity

by Tau Malachi

Gnostic revival is growing in the United States and Europe as people are discovering the mystical roots of their own Western Tradition. This easy-to-read, deeply spiritual introduction to Gnostic Christianity helps beginners down the Gnostic path to esoteric insights and wisdom. Focusing primarily on Sophian Gnosticism, Tau Malachi explains the origins, teachings, and nature of this living tradition. Readers also learn how to apply Gnostic practices,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073870718X
• ISBN13: 9780738707181
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

This is THE ONE!

I'd read a lot on Gnosticism up until now, but they were all scholarly intellectuals who seemed to have no value of mystical experiences or refer to the ongoing process of Gospel in OUR times. Mostly a bunch of people ponficating on Gnosticism from the outside. So this book is what I was waiting for! I'm glad to know that there is a Living Tradition in the West with methods for getting connected to God in some practical ways! I'd always loved Christ and the Gospels, and I love the Gnostic Gospels, too. But between all the Religious dogmas and the academic pontifications, I was ready to throw the baby out with the bath-water. Thank God for LIVING Gnosis!

What a guide!

I'm an Episcopalian who's been discouraged by the itchy sense that there's a bigger picture in Christian faith than its religious traditions allow to be expressed or discussed. Anytime I feel and ask the harder questions, most faithful people who mean very well keep taking me back to what the Bible literally said. While I feel and experience the Bible to be the inspired word of God, I also know that there are other gospels and texts which didn't somehow make it into the approved version. What is Gnosticism saying and how might it deepen what I already believe and feel? Tau Malachi's works, more than any other source I've yet found, has grounded the bigger picture I've always intuited to be present. How the Divine Feminine can be incorporated into Christian tradition is probably the biggest help of all. Going to Mass now isn't the same! I feel so grateful for this and can't recommend it enough!

Wonderful!

I was absolutely amazed from the first page of the book. The clarity with which Tau Malachi writes is stunning, he puts complex mystical principles such as the second coming and the Resurrection in a very Gnostic, very Christian but very understandable way. This is the perfect book for anyone who is new to Gnostic Ideas because it is easy to understand, and for those who may have a bit more experirence because within the easy-to-understand format, there are subtile and sublime myteries being spoken. I am in such deep gratitude for this book and the teachings contained in it! It completely changed my veiw on Jesus and Magdalene as well as the Bible as a whole. I have not read another book on Gnosticism quite as illuminating as this one.

An amazing work!

Until I read this book, I never knew that things like the Beatitudes and the ten comandments had such deep metaphysical meaning! It is so refreshing to read a book about Christianity that includes Mary Magdalene and has such deep insights into things that main-line Christianity tends not to question, like the nature of the conciousness, reality and the purpose of ignorance and evil. There are also several practices and meditations so that the reader can put the teachings in this book to work! all in all, a very well rounded overveiw of Christian Gnostic principles, and a wonderful addition to the library of any practioner of any wisdom tradition. I Very Highly recomend this book.

Beautiful!

What an amazing work of written art! This is such a wonderful book I can't tell you how much this book changed my life! It provides the most sane veiw of the mystical side of Christianity that I know of so far. It is unique, in that, not only are there teachings about Jesus, the Crucifixtion, Resurrection, Mary Magdalene etc... but Tau Malachi also provides a set of extremely useful meditations, so that, a person has the tools to advance in the spiritual life to the degree that they wish, espesially when this book is coupled with the three other books that Tau Malachi has written, but this one definitley offers the best beginning. Most Everything that I have ever really wondered about spiritualy is contained in this book in one way or another. From elucidations of scripture to a teaching on the perfection of sucess. An Absolutely lovely peice!