Gnosticism, which gets its name from the Greek word gnosis (“knowledge”) was a religious movement beginning, possibly, before the time of Christ and...
Gnosticism is a term modern scholars have used to refer to any of various philosophical and ideological movements in the Greco-Roman world in the early Christian era, particularly in the 2nd century. The meaning of the term is, however, disputed, and there is little scholarly consensus on ...
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In fact, theirs was a curious religion that apparently came to France from what is now Bulgaria. Catharism was a blend of Gnosticism, which claimed to have access to a secret source of religious knowledge, and of Manichaeism, which said matter is evil. The Catharists believed in two gods...
Creation in Gnostic Christian Texts, or: What Happens to the Cosmos when its Maker is not the Highest GodPierre Létourneau
[Note: I’m aware thatfundamentalist Christiansandanti-religious peoplealike will likely take issue with this article. If you’re one of these people, you’d be best to leave (or else stay with an open heart) as this article is for the mystics-at-heart. I’m not interested in arguing...
According to Gnosticism, each person possesses a portion of God—the greatest good or a divine spark—within them that has descended into their physical form from the immaterial universe. All physical matter is liable to rot, decompose, and die.. Click f
In its core belief, Gnosticism is diametrically opposed (the complete opposite)to the message of the Christian Gospel as taught by the apostles. Jesus taught, and the apostles continued this teaching, that we cannot, as humans, find our own salvation. It is only through the sacrifice that Je...
Now, all this is diabolical in the highest degree, and is not this intuition of the symbols of a lost science something truly marvellous, for it is transcendent magic which, basing the universe on the two pillars of Hermes and Solomon, has divided the me
What are the Gnostic Gospels? Early Gnosticism: Much like early Christianity, early Gnosticism arose from the confluence of a number of different ideas about religion, spirituality, and philosophy in the Hellenistic and post-Hellenistic era. Gnostic thought borrowed heavily from a variety of differen...