When you apply gnosis to many of the ludicrous biblical stories and references, you will see that they do symbolically lead us to Self-knowledge. For instance, when Jesus said, “hate your mothers and fathers and follow me,” the word ‘hate’ could be a mistranslation. He was obviously saying that we sometimes have to turn away from our own family to follow our chosen spiritual path.

I’m sure some of you may have found that you cannot discuss your kind of spirituality with certain members of your family. Without the heartfelt open-mindedness of gnosis, we are often left adrift in rigid orthodoxy, or even in some of our closest relations.

Through gnosis, the spirit of the law is written in the heart and is discerned through each person’s own way of knowing. And everyone’s own truth is to be honored.

This personal way of knowing one’s spirituality is what Jesus witnessed in the assembly of ekklesia as those who came here to build the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth, noted in the earliest biblical texts. This wisdom lives inside each of us in the depths of our being, back in behind all the “stuff” we’ve been programmed to believe.