A Religião Proibida

by José María Herrou Aragón

Gnosis means knowledge. But we are not referring to just any knowledge. Gnosis is knowledge which produces a great transformation in those who receive it. Knowledge capable of nothing less than waking up man and helping him to escape from the prison in which he finds himself. That is why Gnosis has been so persecuted throughout the course of history, because it is knowledge considered dangerous for the religious and political authorities who govern mankind from the shadows.

Every time this religion, absolutely different from the rest, appears before man, the other religions unite to try to destroy or hide it again.

Primordial Gnosis is the original Gnosis, true Gnosis, eternal Gnosis, Gnostic knowledge in its pure form. Due to multiple persecutions, Primordial Gnosis has been fragmented, distorted and hidden.

By recovering and uniting the scattered fragments, Primordial Gnosis can be reconstructed and brought to the world once again. This book is a complete synthesis of the forbidden theology of Primordial Gnosis.

Genres: Religion, Nonfiction, Gnosticism, Spirituality

102 pages, Paperback

First published April 19, 2007

Reviews

[David Crawford · Rating 5 out of 5]

A short masterpiece. I can't understand anyone who is interested in Gnostic thought even reading this book in the first place and if those who are rate this poorly they understand little.

This is a fabulous book, a book which instantly spoke to me far beyond hypothetical debate and direct to one's Spirit. If you wish to 'fast track' to the heart of Man in a mere 113 pages, then this is you.

The author doesn't bother with such things such a tribalist sectarianism or other delusions of Mankind, he simply states the tenets at the core of Gnosis and metaphysical remedy for the Spirit of Man. If you're trapped in the 'this is good', 'this is bad' dualistic thinking that is pushed by the Father of the Churches, Islamic conservatives and so on then turn a blind eye for you won't see with the only Eye that matters.

I can't recommend this short book enough for travellers along the Way.

[Aleta · Rating 1 out of 5]

I don't know how representative this is of Gnosticism, but what is presented here is conspiracy theory on a supernatural level.

[Brian Peterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I gave this book three stars due to its informative presentation of the extremeties to which gnosticism can go. It is apparent that the author is an ardent modern day gnostic and a believer in Luciferian thought (i.e., Yahweh is the evil creator god, Lucifer is a Messenger of Light, and Jesus is also a Messenger of Light). Some may find this book to be disturbing and as such I would not recommend it to everyone. In chapter 22, the author summarizes the three questions and their associated answers that are representative of his gnostic beliefs:

"Who am I? I am an uncreated and eternal Spirit, chained up in the created and ephemeral body-soul, imprisoned in matter. Why am I here? I am here to be used as a lab animal, in a crazy insane experiment conceived by an inferior god...What must I do in this life? I must wake up. I must become aware of my real situation and find a way out. Then I must liberate myself and escape from this prison."

Of particular interest was the treatment of the following three topics:

(1) "Mani, the great Gnostic master who founded the Manichean religion, to which Saint Augustine belonged for nine years." In fact, its been awhile since I've read anything about or written by St. Augustine (read "Confessions..." many years ago), so reading about St. Augustine's early gnostic ties has me wanting to learn more about Augustine as well as Manichean religion (which which may have its roots in Buddhism).

(2) The comparison of Brahma to Yahweh, including the cycles of creation represented in Hinduism and how gnostics associate this with their concept of a creator god (Yaldabaoth or Yahweh) as opposed to the "Unknown God"; and,

(3) The gnostic perspective of body, soul, and spirit.

For those who are unfamiliar with gnosticism, I would recommend beginning with Elaine Pagels' book entitled "The Gnostic Gospels" (terrific, scholarly treatment of this subject matter, written by an objective academic as opposed to a proclaimed gnostic per se - her belief system was not the focus of her book (unlike the focus of "The Forbidden Religion"). Her treatement includes an excellent historical perspective of Gnostic Christianity and its clash with early Christian orthodoxy in the first three centuries...).

[Chronics · Rating 2 out of 5]

Had some interesting concepts and ideas but too much of the book was contradictory and didn't make sense. For instance criticizing God for death and destruction but then saying that his arch enemy "The Unknown God" cant stand the materialism of this world and so wants to destroy it. Worth reading if you have the time.

[Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bwahahaha! That was one of the silliest most pompous books I have ever opened. It made absolutely no sense; it was written like a cross between a bible and an apology. It was an amazon free read for a good reason

[Susan Molloy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bizarre theories.

[Mike · Rating 5 out of 5]

Don’t read this! Just don’t it will turn the world upside down. Just don’t!

[Emilia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Muy bueno para investigar, detalla clara y precisa las bases de esta religión

[Onur · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well. Very radically gnostic book. It s completely against world religions. He calls the supre God as the unknowable God. He tells us about fake gods a lot but nothing about the unknowable god. So, it didnt make sense to me much

[Denese D. Enriquez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another good read and the 2nd book I've read from this author in the past two weeks. I like that his writing gives a different, thought-provoking perspective on interesting topics. They also peek my interest to research and find out more.

[Anthony Sullivan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Illuminating

This has to be the most straightforward book I've read on gnosticism, it shines a light on the important differences between gnosticism and Christianity, an excellent starting point for anyone interested in this subject.

[Nikki · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this on my kindle....it was a page turner....much different from the indocturnation I received as a child.

[Hermit Hank · Rating 1 out of 5]

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Satanic influence
Weird fiction
Put forth as true
The truth is out there
But this is NOT it.
God bless and protect us all !

[Jera Igo · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read, THE FORBIDDEN RELIGION by Jose M. Herrou Aragon.

I learned:
The material universe, including this material world, is hell.

The God of this universe, and this world, is Satan.

Satan has underlings that help him. The lord of the material earth is, Satan Kumara.

There is a Higher God and a Higher Realm. This God is shrouded in mystique. He is referred to as, God the Unknowable.

The god of this world (Satan) has worked to deceive people into confusing him with the Unknowable God.

The Unkowable God sends a Representative of Himself to earth on rare occasions at enormous sacrifice and pain to His Messenger. This Person inspires worship of the Unknowable God.

Religious truths and writings are twisted over time to direct people's love and service away from the True God to the false god. The false god has also created the illusion of a devil that is not himself.

The serpent, Lucifer, who spoke to Eve in the Garden of Eden, was the Messenger of the Unknowable God. He encouraged Eve to eat the fruit of the tree of Knowledge. The god of the world had commanded her and Adam not to eat the fruit of that tree, saying they would die. When Eve and Adam did eat the fruit, their eyes were opened and they knew the difference between the Uncreated Kingdom and the created realm. Their god had lied, they did not die. The serpent had told the truth, they had been made wise.

The god of this world created the body and the soul of man. A physical material part, the body of dust, and an animic part, the breath of this creator, which we call soul.

But there is a third part, an Uncreated and Eternal Spirit. That Spirit was asleep in Adam and Eve until they ate of the Tree of Knowledge. The god of this world prefers that that part remain asleep so people will accept him as God and he can feed on their passive spiritual energy.

The god of this world likes battles, wars, diseases, accidents, plagues, disasters and so forth, so he can feed on the misery of human beings. He likes animals to be slaughtered by humans and other animals so he can feed on their misery as well.

The imperfections of this world reflect the imperfections of its creator.

Gnosticism was persecuted and it's writings destroyed early in the Christian Era. The only books on Gnosticism that survive are those written by its critics. The critics would have, in my opinion, highlighted the more shocking of the Gnostic beliefs and exaggerated them to make them appear absurd. With that filter I have mollified some of the ideas which I found difficult to reconcile with my existing belief system as follows:

My Belief
I don't believe that the Perfect, Just, although Unknowable, God would have abandoned human beings into the care of a lunatic demigod, other than Divine Messengers being sent every age or so. I believe there is a way that we can come into His presence right now. (Of course that would be through our relationship with the Messenger which Gnosticism also acknowledges).

I don't believe that the Unknowable God would have delegated the created universe to an arrogant, inept, perverse spirit without there being a way to improve on his ineptitude. Perhaps that is where we come in.

I found The Forbidden Religion to be somewhat depressing to read. There are demons and devils everywhere and there is next to nothing we can do about it, is what I understood the writer to be emphasizing. I derived comfort from the following passage from the writings of Baha'u'llah:

"Say: Beware, O people of Baha, lest the strong ones of the earth rob you of your strength, or they who rule the world fill you with fear. Put your trust in God, and commit your affairs to His keeping. He, verily, will, through the power of truth, render you victorious, and He, verily, is powerful to do what He willeth, and in His grasp are the reins of omnipotent might." From the Writings of Baha'u'llah (Cited in Shoghi Effendi, "The Advent of Divine Justice" p. 82)

[James · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a non-fiction book about Gnosticism by Jose M. Herrou Aragon, a Spanish-speaking parapsychologist. He says that the Gnostics (from the Greek “Gnosis”, meaning “knowledge”) possess secret knowledge. It starts with the belief that the god creator as described by monotheistic religions is not good, as he is usually presented by tradition, but that he is an evil god (demiurge) who holds us captive inside a prison made of a physical body on Earth and a soul attached to it that draws us to him after death. But we also contain a divine Spirit from a larger, Unknowable God, also known as the Monad, who is the true origin of everything, and our task in life is to rebel, break away from the lies of the demiurge and follow this Spirit.

This is the first time I’ve read about the Gnostics, and it was loosely translated into English from its original Spanish, so it's hard to summarise the text. It’s a little repetitive and contradictory, uses several Hindu words to explain concepts that suggest it’s an amalgam of ideas, and is written in a sensationalist fashion that seems intent on inciting outrage that these beliefs have long been suppressed and the Gnostics persecuted ever since they first appeared as a subset of the first Christians two millennia ago. After finishing, I went to Wikipedia for a more detailed review of Gnosticism and it seems that Señor Aragon has the basic principles right in his short book but has very much simplified it for his intended readership. I’m not sure who that’s supposed to be, as it’s hard to find anything about him online but his books are listed in the original Spanish on the Mexican Amazon pages. So maybe he’s writing for anyone exploring spiritual concepts in Mexico, and now in English-speaking countries in translation.

I read this book simply because the title was provocative and I knew nothing about the Gnostics except that they have been controversial. Now I know a little bit more about them. To me, they are historically interesting but not very convincing in their argument.

[Helen Grover · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was written by someone who took DMT while also expiriencing meth induced psychosis (my source on that is that I made it up). If you want a historical perspective of who the Gnostics were, what they believed, and how the early church censored a variety of ideas that would seem bizarre to modern Christians, you will not find it here. However if you want to own a book with loads of material for death metal lyrics that will scare all of your religious relatives, you should definitely downlaod it off google books or something beacuse it's free. The book presents an ahistorical distorted and extreme version of gnostic ideas (to the extent that you can even consider "gnostics" to be a group with a unified belief system) that really only works well for scaring superstistious people. It's not dense, and you can read it in a day. Throughly entertaining, and I feel like the distinction between having a soul and a spirit is something most people could apply to their lives as a metaphor. There's a really weird Stalin cameo, and also apparently the Demiurge created political correctness so I'm gonna take off a star for that.

On a final note, any book that tells you you are actually a fire spirit bent on destroying the material universe to avenge the damnation of your people is super awesome and you should read it.

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[Eddie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but contradictory

One of the biggest contradictions that stands out to me is how the author describes light from the unknowable god being unseeable because it is too powerful. it would immediately blind you, however the author describes during self-initiation he sees a light appear in his room and he's able to see it very clearly, which would indicate to me that this is not the light of his so-called true unknowable god, but rather the light of the satanic god as he describes it.

another issue that plagues me about this book is the main premise of this gnosis theory is that our spirits have been held captive by this so-called demerge "satanic God", yet it is never explained to the reader how our spirits became "captive" in the first place. if our spirit truly comes from the most high unknowable god, why would this god or how could this god even allow our spirits to be taken prisoner by this evil, imperfect and incompetent satanic god?

the author conveys his message in a very simple to read manner but also in a very angry kind of a pessimistic manner as well. A very interesting read nonetheless, if nothing else.

[Simoo]

Now this book presents good facts, But at the same time it is extremely and completely subjective with a hint of schizophrenia, But again does not overlook the fact that we Humans have an unknown place we came from and we must seize the chance to seek it, But again there are fallacies that makes Nietzsche's fallacies seem correct.

He literally contradicts everything he says in every sentence he puts, How can the Unknown God let the "Demiurge" control his world without intervening, Why isn't even the Unknown God helping you against the "Demiurge", Why isn't the unknown God helping kids in Gaza, So kids in Gaza must also seek out gnosis to liberate their spirit ? Spirit is just your animal instincts, Soul is the dominant because it is your rational mind which tries to keep you a functioning human being in the Society, Not a useless "light seeker".

But still I believe that one must atleast seek out Knowledge to refute his illiteracy.

[Jim affleck · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you have ever asked, why does God allow bad things to happen, or felt from time to time why the hymn "All things bright and beautiful", does not sit easily, then this book might, just might hold an answer, all be it as far from established religion conviction, as one can possibly imagine. This book requires very patient reading, a willingness to accept that it's content requires a gigantic leap from faith, and a willingness to set aside all conventional biblical teachings. It must be read in the context that it's teachings are primordial Gnosticism and very different from conventional gnosticism. Has been an interesting, but at times, honestly, unsettling read. Cannot recommend simply because, customers who read this book followed onto works by Alister Crowley. Jim

[Karla Cabcam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me hace gracia la gente que se ataca por este tipo de material que plantea lo opuesto a lo establecido por cualquier religión de hoy en día.

Tengo apenas unos dos años de haber iniciado a indagar en la información que nos dejaron los Gnósticos, y a cambiado completamente mi percepción de todo el mundo esotérico.

Este libro tiene el espectro general de la enseñanza, toca indagar mas en temas específicos por separado para tener una mejor comprensión.

[Yvette M. · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Real Key to True Salvation

This book high lights the true keys of salvation.
Salvation was never done by a single man in a cross. That man pointed the path to salvation, but did not bring salvation through his death. We are only saved by freeing our own Spirits by our own choices and actions. Read this book! Essential for eternal living.
The True Kingdom is within. Not observable.
Luke 17

[Ralu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure about what it offers...

I was very hyped after the first few chapters where he talks about primordial gnosis, it was very informative, made a lot of sense and the tone was just perfect. The last part of the book changes the tone and the way it relates what gnosticism is about and the ways to achieve liberation of the soul.

[Carla S · Rating 1 out of 5]

Considero que maneja verdades distorsionadas (no me atrevería a afirmar que a propósito pero eso sentí) y mezcladas para que sea confuso pero al mismo tiempo atrapante, como si estuviera intentando llamar tu atención para engañarte. No sé si esto tiene sentido pero eso sentí y no me gustó
No lo recomiendo

[Jorge Crescente · Rating 4 out of 5]

Una interpretacion opuesta del antiguo testamento que desemboca en una historia diferente a la enseñada desde el judeo cristianismo. Interesante de leer para el que no adhiere a una religión en particular, pero, aquel lector creyente podría considerar este libro una blasfemia y abominación.

[Carlos · Rating 4 out of 5]

very interesting book

I would say that it’s best to everyone to read it with open mind, when one reads this book I know many will think about the Film The Matrix. Makes you wonder if the writer of the Matrix was also a Gnostic.

[Don Horrocks · Rating 5 out of 5]

Shocking book yet overall very true

I liked the bitter truth about the nature of this realm we are prisoners of. I enjoyed it and hope that the author has more books on this subject

[Cathy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting material.

[Cory Hull · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well said!

Thank you for this! This was such an intriguing read. I have finally learned, what was needed to know. Know I can defeat the demiurge!

[Stacie Mason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting

Very informative. I found the details enclosed in this book are very interesting and give you many things too contemplate.