The 3 Phases of The Onset of Reason : So the process of Self Realization has many phases and sections and lessons but the 3 primary phases as I have seen are these :
1. Atheism : A person recognizes the hypocrisies and wickedness perpetuated by the various so called “religious” establishments, their histories of murder, torture, slavery, and the destruction of the various cultures that they encountered, the child molestation, the attempts at genocide and all the various transgressions against humanity in general that all this represents. A person recognizes that such conduct ultimately disqualifies the various Nations and Religious Establishments as moral authorities and a person abandons organized religion and decides that it is all false. A person declares that no Divinity exists and humanity is a product of sexual union meant for sensual pleasures alone.
2. Agnosticism : An “Agnostic” is a person who “Does not know”. The greatest words in the English language are the words “I do not know”. Why? Because in a world full of experts it is a travesty to assume that a person knows that which they in fact and in truth do not know. When a person could just as well admit their lack of knowledge and thus benefit from learning and instruction. Agnosticism is opposed to “Hubris” : Stubborn belief in an unworthy or ultimately unworkable cause. A person begins to sincerely question and analyze data they receive in life. A person who is honest spends time scientifically analyzing reality and verily determines that their current materialistic models of reality do not suffice to explain all the strange mystical phenomenon that occurs in their own life or in the world or in nature and a person begins to question the very nature of reality itself. This process of seeking the true nature of Reality constitutes “knocking on the Door of Divinity”. The one who sincerely knocks receives an answer…
3. Gnosis : The Onset of Knowledge. Gnosis is the process of Divinity reaching out to the soul in response to the soul reaching out to Divinity. A person knocks at The Door of Truth long and hard and then Divinity opens the door. A person experiences Divinity in Person, a person has all their questions answered by Divinity, and a person then rests in Knowledge. The Seeker has become a “Gnostic” : a Knower of the Universal Truth which is constituted of a simultaneous Seeing of Divinity and of Divinity looking back and recognizing your endeavor. At this point a person returns from their experience and they can study The Various Scriptures of The Various Cultures, and a person can see that the same current of truth runs through them all. That all the various cultures did their best to describe Divinity in their own languages to the best of their ability but the true seers of each culture were all preceptors of the same Dimension and Reality and they did their best to express those truths in their own languages and cultures according to time place and circumstances. One can recognize how each culture endeavored to express Gnosis in their own language relative to their own culture at that time and that accounts for the various scriptures in various languages endeavoring to secure Knowledge of The Supreme Absolute Truth in their own minds.