I found your blog to be interesting, and I think it’s especially important within Hellenismos to keep UPG in perspective.

I receive quite a bit of gnosis. I have no idea if this is because I am intuitive and emotionally empathic by nature, or if I have a vivid and active imagination.

I have never tried to pass off my gnosis as historical. I have never believed my personal gnosis to be anything other than what it was, personal to me. I have never had a need to test it. I accept it as what it is, and honestly…since my practice has nothing to do with my gnosis, it doesn’t carry much weight.

All it does is help me build my own personal relationship with the gods.

I have met others that have shared some of my gnosis…and I have no issues talking about it. For me, it’s just another aspect of Hellenismos…the spiritual side of it….

But, considering Hellenismos is an orthopraxy….that’s all it is, a sharing of experience.

Now…if I was trying to reconstruct cult worship of Aphrodite, I would say that gnosis has a much greater impact, and I would probably use that gnosis or group gnosis, to develop the worship…but cult worship is much different than the public religion.