Throughout the ages, sages have known and lived the truth that it is possible to connect directly with the most divine form of knowledge, called gnosis. In its essence, gnosis is not about acquiring information, but about entering a state of deep recognition and inner truth. It has been forgotten or buried in many traditions, particularly through the suppression of its mystic roots by religious institutions. Yet gnosis, divine knowing, remains ever present, waiting to be rediscovered.

Gnosis is not external, it is the presence of divine intelligence within the mundane. It is the capacity to be fully awake, fully incarnated in this moment. True incarnation, then, is not only about taking physical form, but about becoming present in the here and now with such clarity that the divine expresses itself through your awareness. This state of presence is not something we achieve through effort, it is a state of grace, into which we fall. Presence is a divine state of relaxation, where doing ceases and being takes over.

To access this grace is to understand the nature of wisdom. From presence comes insight, and from insight arise wisdom and compassion. These are not trained qualities in the usual sense. They emerge when the state of presence is established. This is the origin of genuine compassion. This is the foundation of wisdom.

Presence is our natural state. It is what we are made for. Human beings are vessels for this divine expression, shaped in such a way that we can reflect the infinite. This is what is meant when it is said that we are made in the image of God. Not that God looks like us, but that our structure allows the divine to move through us, to be known, to be expressed.

This recognition, this capacity to remember oneself, is what Gurdjieff called self-remembering. It is to return to your essence. In that moment, the ego becomes a tool, not the master. Thoughts and emotions continue, but they are no longer the centre. The centre becomes stillness, awareness, a vessel of divine intelligence.

The now is the gateway. It is in the now that our thoughts, actions, and feelings align. In presence, these are not separate. They are one expression of being. In this unity, there is no fragmentation, only emergence. The divine begins to speak and move through us. We become the echo of that which is beyond us.

This is why meditation, and the art of falling into grace, is not a technique, but a return. To be present is to return to your source. It is to remember yourself not as the body or the thoughts or the emotions, but as the space in which these occur. That space is divine. That space is what gives rise to the yearning to know oneself more deeply.

If these words reach something within you, they may activate that yearning. That longing to live from the truth of your being. To act not from the fragment of the personality, but from the whole. To think not in reaction, but from clarity. To feel not from conditioning, but from the depth of the heart.

This is what is meant by unity of being. It is a state in which there is no contradiction, no separation between your inner state and your outer expression. In this state, real being becomes possible. The divine does not remain abstract, it becomes embodied. Not as a belief, but as a lived radiance. This is the gift of presence. This is the doorway to gnosis.