The ASSOCIATION OF GNOSTIC ANTHROPOLOGY Samael Aun Weor is an institution created with the purpose of achieving the self-development of man through the study of Being and knowledge. Its object of study is man; his origin, what he is, the cultures he has created and the universe in which he lives. As the basis of this study we have Gnosticism and its universal principles.

The meaning itself of the term “Gnosticism,” contains the idea of systems or currents dedicated to the study of Gnosis.

The word "gnosis" comes from the Greek "gnosis," which means "knowledge." Gnosis is the enlightened knowledge reserved for an elite.

Gnosis is a very natural function of the Consciousness, a Philosophia Perennis et Universalis. Gnosis is the intelligent principle that in each age is hidden in symbolism, and which, in a philosophical form, responds to these three eternal questions: Why? How? Where?

Gnosis is a profound superior emotion that leads us to the search for all that is beautiful and sublime of the magisterial art or Ars Regia (Royal Art) of nature. Gnostic science is mathematical in its investigation and exact in its expression.

Speaking definitively, Gnosis is the eternal cosmic principle, clothed in the religious forms of each race, people or culture, according to the idiosyncrasy of each age. It is a doctrine of synthesis with values that are completely its own and which allow the sincere seeker to discover the essence of the universal knowledge.