What does the word Apocalypse really mean?
What is Gnosis?
Well the definition to both are as follows:
APOCALYPSE (Gr. α̉ποκάλυψις, disclosure), a term applied to the disclosure to certain privileged persons of something hidden from the mass of men. The Greek root corresponds in the Septuagint to the Heb. gālāh, to reveal. The last book of the New Testament bears in Greek the title Ἀποκάλυψις Ίωάννου, and is frequently referred to as the Apocalypse of John, but in the English Bible it appears as the Revelation of St John the Divine (see REVELATION). Earlier among the Hellenistic Jews the term was used of a number of writings which depicted in a prophetic and parabolic way the end or future state of the world (e.g. Apocalypse of Baruch), the whole class is now commonly known as Apocalyptic Literature (q.v.).
Gnosis (from one of the Greek words for knowledge, γνῶσις) is the spiritual knowledge of a saint or mystically enlightened human being. Within the cultures of the term's provenance (Byzantine and Hellenic) Gnosis was a knowledge or insight into the infinite, divine and uncreated in all and above all, rather than knowledge strictly into the finite, natural or material world which is called epistemological knowledge. Gnosis is a transcendental as well as mature understanding. It indicates direct spiritual experiential knowledge and intuitive knowledge, mystic rather than that from rational or reasoned thinking. Gnosis itself is obtained through understanding at which one can arrive via inner experience or contemplation such as an internal epiphany of intuition and external epiphany such as the Theophany.
The word Revelation, just to clear up any confusion means:
In religion and theology, revelation is the revealing or disclosing, or making something obvious through active or passive communication with supernatural entities (divine, …). It is believed that revelation can originate directly from a deity, or through an agent, such as an angel. One who has experienced such contact with or communication from the divine is often called a prophet. An article (p. 555) under the heading "mysticism," and contributed by Ninian Smart, J.F. Rowny Professor of Comparative Religion, University of California, and President of the American Academy of Religion, writing in the 1999 edition of "The Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought," (W.W. Norton & Co. Inc.), suggests that the more proper and wider term for such an encounter would be mystical, making such a person a mystic. The prophet's encounter would of course have a more dedicated purpose, so that all prophets would be mystics, but all mystics would not be prophets.
Some religions have religious texts which they view as divinely or supernaturally revealed or inspired. Revelation from a supernatural source is of much lesser importance in some other religious traditions. It is not of great importance in the Asian religions of Taoism and Confucianism, but similarities have been noted between the Abrahamic view of revelation and the Buddhist principle of Enlightenment.
Now having put all that up top. I'm sure your wondering what the site is all about. The site is as it's name say's, the truth revealed, and knowledge gained via that truth. What has and has not been taught, re-taught in a whole new way. In a more plain English, though sometimes in your face manner. The truth can and does hurt. In no way am i saying the Bible is wrong, what I am saying is the truth behind the scriptures have been "sugar-coated" so to speak for way too long.
The fact of what and how the Bible is taught, is the only way people can get a grasp on much of it's contents. It isn't just a religious book of scriptures, it is several types of book's all in one.
The Bible as a whole is as follows:
Religious
Prophetic
Literature
History
Diet
Law
6 different books all in one. Very impressive for a civilization that was only just beginning. But a devout civilization, devoted to it's "gods". Before Moses was given any information from God about any of the creation, the people of the ancient middle east worshiped many different gods, each village had it's own. If you traveled from your home village to a neighboring village, you didn't worship your gods, you worshiped the gods of that particular region.
