Nicholas Kazanas runs an institute named Omilos Meleton and here he has published his paper on Advaita and Gnosticism.
A study on the possible connection between the ancient Indian philosophical system Advaita (an aspect of Vedanta) and certain ideas that circulated in the first two centuries of the Christian Era in the Easter Mediterranean and particularly in Egypt. Also, an attempt to trace great philosophical ideas e.g. The Unity of Being, The identity of Man's self with the Godhead, etc in Hermetic texts, Vedanta, Christianity, Gnostic writings, Judaism, Greek Thought and Egyptian culture.
Published in VVRI Research Bulletin (Hoshiarpur) vol 2 (43-112), 2003.
Well disappointingly, even he could not find any reasonable explanation for the startling similarities found between Advaita and Gnosticism. It is this kind of unsolved mystery which compels me to dig deep through the rabbit hole and I am not approaching the problem from a historical perspective but from an esoteric perspective.
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