Excerpt taken from http://www.geocities.com/gnosis4you/aboutsamael.htm
The author of these books, Samael Aun Weor, (Victor Manuel Gomez Rodriguez; (1917-1977) has published over sixty books on Gnosis and the Esoteric Path, as well as a vast collection of lectures and conferences.
From childhood, he sought knowledge from many sources: science, mysticism, legend, parapsychology philosophy, art, archaeology anthropology mythology etc.
In rediscovering, researching and renewing the teachings of Gnosis, Samael Aun Weor, together with his wife, Litelantes, founded the International Gnostic Movement, now an organization with centers in South and North America, Europe, Japan, Australia and Africa.
As founder of the International Gnostic Movement, he lectured widely, wrote extensively on a broad range of esoteric, philosophical and anthropological subjects, taught and oriented many people in their esoteric studies, and conducted numerous seminars and international congresses on Gnostic studies.