ABSTRACT
Among the spiritual groups to have emerged in the twentieth century are a number who draw in various ways on the broad constellation of earlier Gnostic ideas as a touchstone for their own teachings. While studies of earlier streams of the Gnostic tradition are of paramount importance, how various Gnostic ideas have been used by Neo-Gnostic groups, that is, practical attempts amongst (predominantly) esotericists since at least the nineteenth century, to rediscover, revive, re-establish, re-imagine, and/or re-institute various Gnostic teachings within a series of more-or-less organized religious or spiritual movements, is also worthy of study. This chapter offers an introduction to the thought of one such self-identified Neo-Gnostic, the Columbian esoteric teacher Victor Manuel Gómez Rodriguez (1917–1977), with particular emphasis on the centrality of sexuality in his teachings.
