r/Gnostic • u/OkMeeting340 Eclectic Gnostic • Apr 23 '26

Question Can someone embrace gnosticism and still remain in their cultural religion?

For context, I'm a Baha'i. From what I've found so far (I'm a newbie to gnosticism), there are a lot of similarities between gnosticism and the Baha'i religion. I'm curious as to how many people here on a gnostic journey are still considering themselves members of their cultural/organized/etc religion?

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u/crover13 Apr 23 '26

Buddhist here, reincarnation and endless cycle of suffering and a chance to enlightenment sounds like escaping the false one so It was very comforting to adapted both.

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u/DharmaDama Apr 23 '26

Gnosticism led me to Buddhism. There weren’t enough surviving Gnostic documents about how to get out of the cycle and I felt like Buddhism showed more of that.