In several posts on this blog I have referred to myself as a Gnostic Christian minister but if you follow the links to the International Community of Christ or Jamilian University web pages, you see the term "mystic" rather than "gnostic".  So what is the difference?  Very little actually and the two terms are often used interchangeably.     
    A Mystic is one who is pursuing awareness and identity with divinity, the spiritual worlds and God.  The mystic believes in a deaper state of existance beyond the physical world and sees heaven as a non-physical realm or "field".  They practice prayer, meditation, contemplation, and other methods (often secret) to achieve oneness with this ultimate state of existance.
    A Gnostic is one who seeks knowledge of the divine and God not by reading books, but through direct contact with Angels and other advanced beings of Light.  The means of making such contact is kept secret to prevent it from being used by those who would abuse such knowledge as was done by Hitler and emperor Nero.  The Gnostic considers spiritual realms or dimensions the "real" or permanent world and the physical universe a temporary one created by a being less that the true God.  This lesser being is generally known as the demiurge.