Gnosis: This Is One Of The Most Dangerous Sects In The World
They say that faith moves mountains. Belief is for many a reason for hope, something that gives strength and provides an explanatory framework for reality and the universe and, although sometimes there may be divergences, they generally aim at its deepest basis to offer peace of mind and the exercise of kindness and compassion (although they have sometimes been used in a utilitarian way). And there are many religious beliefs that exist in the world.
However, not all of them have a positive orientation: there are numerous sects that seek to take advantage of those who fall into their hands. One of them is Gnosis, a dangerous sect which has recently received a high level of media attention after the disappearance in 2017 of a young woman from Alicante, Patricia Aguilar. It is about this sect that this article is about.
The name Gnosis is a collective that defines itself as a movement but is also considered a dangerous sect. This organization It was founded by Víctor Manuel Gómez, a healer and writer of books on esotericism in 1954. During that year, he declared that he was an incarnation of Samael (a fallen angel from the Bible) and that he had come to the world to spread his word.
This man took the name of Samael Aun Weor and began to preach his beliefs, which are based on the practice of the Great Arcanum and sexual magic within marriage (rejecting onanism, climax or homosexuality among other things) and takes up some of the Gnostic beliefs (in fact, he also uses the name to apply it to the sect in question) that emerged during the first centuries of Christianity. His followers expanded little by little and after his death they were distributed to different countries.
Gnosis members They consider themselves the invisible church of Jesus Christ and they defend following a doctrine or ideological current that seeks the self-realization of the being and the development of all human possibilities through the evolution of the psyche, soul and body. It also considers itself a scientific school that aims to regenerate humanity in all possible areas, and provide and expand scientific, artistic, mystical and philosophical knowledge (considering that these four are the pillars of knowledge).
Among some of their most notable beliefs, it stands out that they consider the salvation of the soul not through faith but through the introspective knowledge of what is divine: for them redemption is something personal and requires forgetting and leaving everything behind to achieve the knowledge, this being a sacrifice they must make. Likewise, they distinguish between essence, personality and ego (against which we must fight) as the main components of the human being. On the other hand, Gnosis defends the aforementioned sexual magic in which you should not reach orgasm.
The Patricia Aguilar case
Although Gnosis has existed for many years and is widely expanded in various countries (including Colombia, where it originated, Peru and Spain), the truth is that if it has recently been under the spotlight of media attention it is due to the case of a disappearance: that of Patricia Aguilar from Alicante.
This young woman disappeared at the age of eighteen, in 2017, and numerous documents and notes linked to the group were found in her room and diaries. It was later discovered that she had traveled to Peru, with the help of Félix Steven Manrique.
This man, who claimed to be a spiritual leader of the Gnosis group, seduced the young woman in a way similar to that used by numerous sects: in a moment of vulnerability after the death of a family member and while she was still a minor, He began to contact her after the young woman entered an esoteric blog to tell a dream Little by little he would begin to establish an increasingly deeper relationship, in which he would encourage her to believe in finding her salvation and in which he even ended up making the young woman leave her home to flee to Peru.
There Manrique, who considered he needed women to repopulate the Earth after an upcoming apocalypse and who had maintained contact with numerous young women, kept her with him and two other women and their children and left her pregnant, having a daughter with her. Their conditions were terrible: When they were found, both Patricia and the baby were malnourished and surrounded by filth. Fortunately, the young woman is currently located and back in Spain with her baby, while the man who used her is detained.
Gnosis version of the case
Félix Steven Manrique claimed to be a spiritual leader linked to Gnosis, but his representatives claim that although he was linked to the sect, he was expelled shortly after due to his mythomaniac nature. In fact, he was not a leader but an initiate who was only in the group for a few months.
Now, Gnosis indicates that the man falsified sect material for his own purposes, also establishing that he is going to file a lawsuit for identity theft and distances himself from the actions of the person responsible for manipulating the young woman from Alicante.
