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Comparative studies often uncover similarities between greatly different cultures, even if those cultures are geographically separated by thousands of miles or historically particular by thousands of years. It has been especially true in religion where similar ideas have been propounded by tribes or clans that have on the top no contact historically or geographically with each other. For the phenomenologist, this kind of transcultural website link or synchronicity is important because it raises the question of how spiritual ideas emerge and develop as time passes. Are spiritual ideas part of your innate, natural, developmental sequence that manifest over the course of human development? Or are spiritual ideas this is the product of historical transfusion, played out within the course with time where one tribe touches another tribe therefore transforming concepts in a very materials and socially determinable way? Although this thesis will not answer those deep questions, it does provide a remarkable example of spiritual synchronicity, where two diverse spiritual traditions, Gnostic and Sant, posit very similar ideas about salvation and the nature of God. In this particular thesis, I show how Gnostic and Sant Mat ideas related to ontology, cosmology, and soteriology are incredibly close, despite the fact that the Gnostic traditions arose in the Middle East in the first and second century C.E. and this Sant Mat surfaced in North India in the 14th and 15th century. My main sources are the Nag Hammadi Collection for the Gnostic traditions and the writings of Tulsi Sahib and Shiv Dayal Singh for the Sant traditions.
