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"Samael Aun Weor" was born Víctor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez in Bogotá, Colombia. His childhood and family life are not well known, except that he had a brother, and his father remarried after a divorce.
Samael began teaching by 1948, and in 1950, now going by the name Aun Weor, he managed to publish "The Perfect Matrimony of Kinder" (or The Door to Enter into Initiation) with the aid of a few close disciples. The book, later entitled The Perfect Matrimony, unveiled the secret of sexuality as the cornerstone of the world's great religions. Speaking in such a frank manner about sex was met with disdain upon the majority of the public at the time. Seen as immoral and pornographic, Aun Weor often found himself fleeing angry mobs wishing to silence him by whatever means necessary. He was incarcerated numerous times, at least once for "healing the sick without permission." While in jail, however, he continued to write books. Around this time Aun Weor and his small but growing number of disciples build the Sumum Supremum Sanctuarium, an "underground temple" in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
By the mid-1950s, Aun Weor had become Samael Aun Weor, stating by choosing the "Straight Path" he (Aun Weor) had begun to incarnate his particular Glorian or Logos (Samael). Later, in The Aquarian Message, he stated "the Maitreya Buddha Samael is the Kalki Avatar of the New Age." The Kalkian Avatar and Maitreya Buddha, he claimed, are the same "White Rider" of the book of Revelation (Weor 2004b). As Samael has historically been synonymous with both a demonic connotation, such as "blind God," as well as an Angel, he stated that in previous incarnations he was a "fallen Bodhisattva" or a fallen angel, who has since repented. Furthermore, he claimed to be the superior teacher prophesied by Rudolf Steiner and H. P. Blavatsky.
Before 1960, he had published twenty more books with topics ranging from Endocrinology and Criminology to Kundalini Yoga. Gnostic centers in Mexico, Panama, El Salvador, and Costa Rica were also established, and the Gnostic Association for Anthropological, Cultural, and Scientific Studies (AGEAC) was founded. A "triangle" relationship formed between the World Gnostic Movement founded by Samael Aun Weor, the South American Liberation Action (AGLA) headed by Francisco Propato in Argentina, and the Sivananda Aryabarta Ashram directed by Swami Sivananda in India (Weor 2004b). Nevertheless, the development of the Gnostic Movement was not without dramatic setbacks. At the time of the publishing of the revised edition of The Perfect Matrimony (1961), the movement had fallen apart. He wrote that "those who did not leave the Gnostic Movement can be counted on the fingers of one hand" (Weor 2001a). However by the time of his death, Samael Aun Weor had completely re-established the broad international reaches the movement previously held.
Into the 1960s, he continued to write many books on esoteric topics, such as Hermetic Astrology, Flying Saucers, the Kabbalah, etc.
In what was to be the last decade of his life, he penned works such as Parsifal Unveiled, which details the esoteric symbolism of the Wagner opera, and Gnostic Anthropology in which he heavily criticizes the theories of Darwin, Haeckel, "and their henchmen." The books The Great Rebellion, Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, and The Revolution of the Dialectic provide a ground work for the vast knowledge of esoteric psychology found rooted in every religion.
Although he never actually received any income from his books, at the 1976 "Gnostic Congress" Samael Aun Weor publicly renounced all his copyrights in an effort to help the books he wrote become more widely available. During this time he was preparing the highest vehicle of his doctrine, "The Pistis Sophia Unveiled," in which he meditated, verse by verse, upon the extremely esoteric Gnostic text The Pistis Sophia. By August 1977 he had developed stomach cancer but he continued to inspire not only his students but the general public with remarkably uncanny oration, giving radio and television interviews throughout tours of Mexico. Eventually he was forced to stop due to the debilitating stomach pain he encountered, and his condition steadily worsened until his death on December 24, 1977. He was survived by his wife and children.