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substance, being), and demiurge (creator God). Both Sethian Gnostics and Valentinian Gnostics seem to have been influenced by Plato, Middle Platonism, and...

Proto-Gnosticism or pre-Gnosticism refers to movements similar to Gnosticism during the first century of Christianity. Proto-Gnostics did not have the...

form resolves to the ending -d in declension. Prominent early Christian gnostics like Valentinus taught that the Monad is the high source of the Pleroma...

(Perfect) and Sophia (Wisdom) According to Irenaeus, the followers of the Gnostics Ptolemy and Colorbasus had Aeons that differ from those of Valentinus....

representing understanding, with the face of a flaming fire In the system of the Gnostics mentioned by Epiphanius we find, as the Seven Archons, Iao Saklas (the...

specifically addresses his target in the Enneads as the Gnostics. A. H. Armstrong identified the so-called "Gnostics" that Plotinus was attacking as Jewish and Pagan...

needed] and elements from Hellenic philosophy. Both Sethian Gnostics and the Valentinian Gnostics incorporated elements of Christianity and Hellenic philosophy...

extensively on Gnostic ideas. A compilation of her writings on Gnosticism is over 270 pages long. The first edition of King's The Gnostics and Their Remains...

the Mother, on whom the faith of the Gnostics is fixed. Thus a baptismal confession of faith of the Gnostics runs: In the name of the unknown Father...

Christians. Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God, and the Demiurge, "creator" of the material universe. The Gnostics considered...

mysteries. In Gnosticism, Sophia is a feminine figure, analogous to the human soul but also simultaneously one of the feminine aspects of God. Gnostics held that...

the seventh heaven. Some Church Fathers report on the other hand, that Gnostics identified Sabaoth with Yaldabaoth himself. The name Sabaoth appears in...

known as the Chenoboskion Manuscripts and the Gnostic Gospels) is a collection of early Christian and Gnostic texts discovered near the Upper Egyptian town...

Gnostic church may refer to a variety of Gnostic religious organizations. Various Gnostic churches include: Bosnian Church Ecclesia Gnostica Ecclesia...

Pseudo-Gnosticism is a term used for groups which have been labelled Gnostic, either by their contemporaries or modern historians even when the accuracy...

Marcellians identified themselves as "gnostics", many modern scholars do not classify them as members of the sect of Gnosticism. Women played prominent roles...

of subordinate existence from the great First Principle. All the early Gnostics of whose opinions Irenaeus gives an account, in a section (i. 23 sqq.)...

seems to direct his attacks at a very specific sect of Gnostics, most notably a sect of Gnostics that held anti-polytheistic and anti-daemon views, and...

Gnostics. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987. A comprehensive, well ... (This book was written to accompany a television documentary, The Gnostics...

that is, knowledge or insight, and not with the Gnostics, because too little was known about the Gnostics as a social group. Based on Conze's eight similarities...

epistles were read by 2nd century Valentinian gnostics and demonstrates that Paul could be considered a proto-gnostic as well as a proto-Catholic. Her treatment...

Adversus haereses, I, viii, 5. Hær. XXXIII, 3–7. The Gnostic Society Library Gnostics, Gnostic Gospels, & Gnosticism – from earlychristianwritings.com...

(2009). The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead. Quest Books. ISBN 978-0-8356-3024-5. King, Charles William (1887). The Gnostics and Their Remains:...

he and the Gnostics based their arguments on Scripture. Irenaeus argued that since he could trace his authority to Jesus and the Gnostics could not, his...

iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and alchemy. The term derives from Ancient Greek οὐροβόρος...

[1]. A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion, Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites. Another name for the Gnostics according...

In Sethian Gnosticism, Yao or Iao (Ἰαω) is an archon. In On the Origin of the World, he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being...

Ptolemy, Marcus and possibly Bardaisan. Many of the writings of these Gnostics, and a large number of excerpts from the writings of Valentinus, existed...

referred to themselves as "gnostic" or "gnostics". Also, Williams mentions the argument that none of the groups labeled "gnostic" shared a common set of...

The pneumatics ("spiritual", from Greek πνεῦμα, "spirit") were, in Gnosticism, the highest order of humans, the other two orders being psychics and hylics...

In Sethian Gnosticism, a luminary is an angel-like being (or heavenly dwelling place in the Apocryphon of John). Four luminaries are typically listed in...

Christians. Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God, and the Demiurge, "creator" of the material universe. The Gnostics considered...

such as the Grail romances, that the Templars were Gnostics and the "Templars' head" was a Gnostic idol called Baphomet. One commentary on Hammer-Purgsal...

Parthenos ("virgin"). In other texts she is equated with Zoe (Life). In other Gnostic texts, such as the Hypostasis of the Archons, the Pistis Sophia is equated...

Mandaeism are called Mandaeans, but can also be called Nasoraeans (Nazorenes), Gnostics (utilizing the Greek word gnosis for knowledge) or Sabians. The religion...

The Gnostic Society was founded in Los Angeles in 1928, and incorporated in 1939, by John Morgan Pryse (1863–1952) and his brother James Morgan Pryse...

Justin's most important work, Baruch. He is counted among the earliest Gnostics, having lived in the era of Simonians like Simon Magus, Dositheus, Menander...

mislead their followers. In contrast, certain blessed ones (presumably Gnostics) have immortal souls, and Jesus reassures Peter that they will eventually...

of the invisible beings as a savior, for the deliverance of men". Other Gnostics including Basilides and Cerdo became followers of Menander and were said...

was her place amongst some Gnostics that some schools were designated as Barbeliotae, Barbēlō worshippers or Barbēlō gnostics. In the Apocryphon of John...

Short Sketches Among The Gnostics. pp. 232–236 – via The Gnostic Society Library.  Salmon, George (1911). "Epiphanes, a Gnostic writer" . In Wace, Henry;...

originated within a school of proto-Gnostics. Critics have questioned whether the description of Thomas as an entirely gnostic gospel is based solely on the...

him as a bringer of freedom. Other religious communities, such as the Gnostics and Freemasons, have been accused of worshipping Lucifer as their deity...

violence of the novel can best be understood through a Gnostic lens. "Evil" as defined by the Gnostics was a far larger, more pervasive presence in human...

The Sethians (Greek: Σηθιανοί) were one of the main currents of Gnosticism during the 2nd and 3rd century AD, along with Valentinianism and Basilidianism...

superior but that he was only known through his son, Jesus. Like later Gnostics, he was a docetist who rejected the bodily resurrection of the dead. According...

GnosticPlayers is a computer hacking group, which is believed to have been formed in 2019 and gained notability for hacking Zynga, Canva, and several...

Ptolemy the Gnostic, (Greek: Πτολεμαίος ο Γνωστικός Latin: Ptolemaeus Gnosticus) was a disciple of the Gnostic teacher Valentinius and is known for the...

A Gnostic Mass is a liturgical Mass administered by a Gnostic church. There are several such churches, each with its own version of the Mass. Some of...

followers, presumably Gnostics, and is the "friend of Sophia." Meanwhile, the proto-orthodox are "ignorant and of no significance." If Gnostics live in harmony...

to discredit them, accusing them of debauchery. The Carpocratians were Gnostics, believing in a dualism of evil matter and good spirit, and pursuing gnosis...

followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection. In the Gnostic writings, Mary Magdalene is depicted as Jesus's closest disciple who uniquely...

today part of the region of Macedonia. The Bogomils were dualists or Gnostics in that they believed in a world within the body and a world outside the...

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basis for the development of Gnostic beliefs about Yaldabaoth. The origins of Gnosticism are obscure and still disputed. Gnostics emphasised spiritual knowledge...

the same author. A primary difference between Marcionites and Gnostics was that the Gnostics based their theology on secret wisdom (as, for example, Valentinius...

theological noncognitivists, who consider all talk of gods to be meaningless. Gnostic atheism is distinct from strong atheism in an important and precise way...

The Hyperion Cantos is a series of science fiction novels by Dan Simmons. The title was originally used for the collection of the first pair of books in...

Gnosticism was a competing religious tradition to Christianity which shared some elements of theology. Elaine Pagels concentrated on how the Gnostics...

Vav, Lamed) Hebrew for "Leviathan". The Church Father Origen accused a Gnostic sect of venerating the biblical serpent of the Garden of Eden. Therefore...

had relied upon in his own writing; however, he noted that the film's Gnostic themes distinguished it from Neuromancer, and believed that The Matrix...

being considered for merging. › The Gnostic Church of France (French: Église gnostique de France) is a neo-Gnostic Christian organisation formed by Jules...

In Sethian Gnosticism, Youel or Yoel is an angel who is described as a male virgin. Youel is mentioned in Nag Hammadi texts such as The Holy Book of the...

Mandaean cosmology is the Gnostic conception of the universe in the religion of Mandaeism. Mandaean cosmology is strongly influenced by ancient near eastern...

(fullness). In Gnostic systems, the concept of the world soul often carries significant ethical and soteriological implications. Gnostics believed that...

Ecclesia Gnostica (Latin: The Church of Gnosis) is a neo-Gnostic church based in the United States. It has ordained clergy and conducts regular sacramental...

mistakenly reckoned among the Gnostics, and really represents a fourth interpretation of the significance of Jesus. Gnostics freely exchanged concepts and...

many forms of Gnosticism is the idea that the Logos Spermatikos is scattered into the sensible cosmos, where it is the duty of the Gnostics, by whatever...

the Proto-Gnostics. However modern critics have disputed their affiliation with Gnosticism, especially because they lack many uniquely Gnostic beliefs....

the devil. His appearance is that of a lion-faced serpent. Although the Gnostics and Jewish originally used the same source, both depictions of Samael developed...

Gnostics in the first to third century, as well as some modern Mandaeans and Muslims and a few skeptics. The Book of Thomas the Contender, a Gnostic text...

described as a Gnostic philosopher. In some essential respects, Marcion proposed ideas which aligned well with Gnostic thought. Like the Gnostics, he believed...

180 by Valentinian Gnostics (or, as some posit, by Valentinus himself). It was known to Irenaeus of Lyons, who objected to its Gnostic content and declared...

and those of the Gnostics are due to their sharing a "perennial philosophy", or whether Jung was unwittingly influenced by the Gnostics in the formation...

the Gnostics and Marcionites. In particular, he sought to disprove what he saw as incorrect interpretations of scripture on the part of Gnostics such...

Buddhist, Chaldean, Chinese, Christian, Egyptian, Etruscan, Finnish, Greek, Gnostic, Guanche, Hindu, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Japanese, Mandaean, Mapuche...

features as such in various belief systems (including Judaism, Christianity, Gnosticism, Islam, and the Baháʼí Faith). According to Christianity, Adam sinned...

the dead. Some Gnostics were docetics, believing that Jesus did not have a physical body, but only appeared to possess one. The Gnostic Jesus can both...

conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism. Her best-selling book The Gnostic Gospels (1979) examines the divisions in the early Christian...

Thus, the original work was likely written before Plotinus's Against the Gnostics in c. 265. The text lacks specifically Christian elements; the triadic...

of the early importance of the Roman See. Anicetus actively opposed the Gnostics and Marcionism. The Liber Pontificalis records that Anicetus decreed that...

Mani's Iranian origin, and it was also rooted in prior Middle-Eastern Gnostic beliefs. Manichaeism adopted many of the Yazatas for its own pantheon Gherardo...

Crowley and is recognised as a saint of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica in the Gnostic Mass of Ordo Templi Orientis. Krishnaism Vishnuism This article contains...

Atheistic Feminist theology Thealogy Womanist theology Fideism Fundamentalism Gnosticism Henotheism Humanism Religious Secular Christian Inclusivism Theories about...

divine powers. It is used in Christian theological contexts, as well as in Gnosticism. The term also appears in the Epistle to the Colossians, which is traditionally...

explaining what it is not. The third concerns how truth was revealed to the gnostics at the beginning of time. The fourth concerns how one must awake to see...

debate the relationship between esoteric Christianity and Gnosticism. While some see Gnostic movements as among the earliest expressions of esoteric Christian...

Blood Meridian as Gnostic Tragedy", literature professor Leo Daugherty argued that McCarthy's Holden is—or at least embodies—a gnostic archon (a kind of...

example role reversal, as the Gnostics, per the Gospel of Thomas, was written and evidence linked establishing the Gnostics earlier in time than the documentation...

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The Gospel of Judas is a Gnostic religious text that consists of conversations between Jesus and his disciples, especially Judas Iscariot. The only copy...

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Peter and Andrew; Acts of Peter and Paul; Acts of Peter and the Twelve; Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter; A Letter of Peter to Philip, which was preserved in...

"Faith Wisdom", "Wisdom in Faith", or "Faith in Wisdom". To some later Gnostics, Sophia was a divine syzygy of Christ, rather than simply a word meaning...

originated from the Jordan Valley, as well as another group of Mandaeans (or Gnostics) who were indigenous to southern Mesopotamia. Thus, the historical merging...

Dostoyevskian Meditations" (from his 2020 book Theological Territories). Gnostics discussed Adam and Eve in two known surviving texts, namely the "Apocalypse...

another actually died on the cross. This is part of a belief held by some Gnostics that Jesus was not of flesh, but only took on the appearance of flesh (see...

television programs including the award-winning GNOSTICS series accompanied by the book The Gnostics (1987). He has since published further ... Goodacre...

interpreted it differently from non-Gnostics. Gnosticism taught that salvation came from gnosis, secret knowledge, and Gnostics saw Jesus as not a savior but...

the Nicolaitans, Epiphanius claims that certain Gnostics, a subset of those "who are called Gnostics and Phibionites, the so-called disciples of Epiphanes...

teachings directly from Blavatsky and Gurdjieff, these are considered by Gnostics to be only a conceptual foundation in Aun Weor's teachings, as preparation...

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that the author rejected docetism, an idea frequently found among the Gnostics. The text also says that Jesus "displayed himself as the Son of God." Aside...

and the Sampsaeans, most of whom were Jewish Christian sects who held gnostic or other beliefs rejected by the Ebionites. Epiphanius, however, mentions...

Origen never taught reincarnation. Reincarnation was taught by several Gnostics such as Marcion of Sinope (c.  85 – c.  160). Belief in reincarnation was...

(PDF) on 2011-10-04. Retrieved 2012-10-17. Charles William King (1887). "Gnostics and their Remains". p. 433 note 12. Archived from the original on 2012-11-04...

Fallon, Francis T. (1 January 1978). "The Prophets of the Ot and the Gnostics". Vigiliae Christianae. 32 (3): 191–194. doi:10.1163/157007278X00102. Retrieved...

not only Enlightenment rationalism, but also Christian theosophy and Gnosticism and were not unfriendly to the original Rosicrucian manifestos, which...

separate Beelzebub from the Devil. According to the teachings of the Modern Gnostic Movement of Samael Aun Weor, Beelzebub was a prince of demons who rebelled...

worldview "essentially monist" but punctuated by superficial duality and Gnostic conflict. Lynch directly invoked the Vedic scriptures known as the Upanishads...

dictionary. Sophia most commonly refers to: Sophia (Gnosticism), a feminine figure in Gnosticism Sophia (wisdom), a central idea in Hellenistic philosophy...

and Christian theologians, whereas many Gnostics felt that God was completely unknowable. While the Gnostics often indulged in and expanded upon mythological...

uphold early orthodox Christian doctrine, refuting Gnosticism and docetism. The teachings of the Gnostics Cerinthus and Simon Magus are denounced as false...

Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica (E.G.C.), or the Gnostic Catholic Church, is a Gnostic church organization. It is the ecclesiastical arm of Ordo Templi Orientis...

and ignorant. The Truman Show has themes that can be perceived as being gnostic, with its symbolism and Truman exiting the world echoed in the Flammarion...

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recognized..." The Paraphrase of Shem, which contains ideas unique to other Gnostic scriptures,[clarification needed] states that Shem was the first being...

The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala. Archived from the original on 23 April 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021. Denova, Rebecca (9 April 2021). "Gnosticism". World...

Fleury Fitchy Forked Fourchy Fylfot Globus cruciger Archbishop's variant Gnostic Grapevine/Saint Nino Greek Greek Orthodox Huguenot Iron Jeremiah Jerusalem/Crusaders...

conventional Christian thought in key places, and include gnostic elements. However, unlike many gnostics, Steiner affirms the unique and actual physical Incarnation...

with other sects called gnostic by later church historians. Later Orthodox writers sharply condemned Gnostics, and Gnosticism eventually faded. The term...

formal logics of metaphysical systems, such as Platonism, Neoplatonism, Gnosticism, Taoism, Kabbalah, Wuxing or the great chain of being. In Zoroastrian...

The Apocalypse of Adam is a Sethian Gnostic apocalyptic writing. It is the fifth tractate in Codex V of the Nag Hammadi library, transcribed in Coptic...

born, ate and drank, suffered, and died. This is unusual for Gnostic writings; most Gnostics seemed to endorse docetic views that Jesus did not truly suffer...

Ogdoad may refer to: Ogdoad (Egyptian) Ogdoad (Gnosticism) Ogdoades, a work of history by Guillaume du Bellay Tonality diamond This disambiguation page...

(HarperCollins, 2006), and Heretics: The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011) (on heresy). Wright...

used the incantation as well. It was used as a magical formula by the Gnostics of the sect of Basilides in invoking the aid of beneficent spirits against...

Frederick C. Grant and Hyam Maccoby emphasize, in the view of the dualist Gnostics, "Jews were regarded as the special people of the Demiurge and as having...

The Gospel of Philip is a non-canonical Gnostic Gospel dated to around the 3rd century but lost in medieval times until rediscovered by accident, buried...

later lived in London. His book The Gnostics: The First Christian Heretics, was on the early Christian Gnostics.[dead link] He wrote a book on new wave...

Christians. Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God, and the Demiurge, "creator" of the material universe. The Gnostics considered...

world. This supramental transformation gives rise to a new individual, the Gnostic being, which is fully formed by the supramental power. Division and ignorance...

while for Gnostics, his task was to save humanity from God". Elizabeth Dipple stated that Rudolf Steiner's system was a "neo-Platonic, semi-Gnostic, occult...

ὁμοούσιος was used by the 2nd-century Gnostics, as is noted by the orthodox heresiologists, though this Gnostic use of the term had no reference to the...

Anarchists have traditionally been skeptical of or vehemently opposed to organized religion. Nevertheless, some anarchists have provided religious interpretations...

Aleister Crowley wrote The Gnostic Mass — technically called Liber XV or "Book 15" — in 1913 while travelling in Moscow, Russia. He described it as representing...

Book of John or the Secret Revelation of John, is a 2nd-century Sethian Gnostic Christian pseudepigraphical text attributed to John the Apostle. It is...

contained in the 2675 and 2727 sections. Queen Jasmina of the lighthugger Gnostic Ascension wakes Quaiche, a member of her crew, from Reefersleep. She is...

Sed festival Related religions Atenism Church of the Most High Goddess Gnosticism Hermeticism Kemetic Orthodoxy Kemetism Kushite religion Mysteries of Isis...

Assassin's Creed is a historical action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft...

ISBN 978-3-11-058584-1. Perring, Dominic (2003). "Deconstructing the Frampton Pavements: Gnostic Dialectic in Roman Britain?" (PDF). In Carr, Gillian; Swift, Ellen; Weekes...

(Latin: Septem Sermones ad Mortuos) is a collection of seven mystical or "Gnostic" texts written and privately published by C. G. Jung in 1916, under the...

The Gnostic Trio. Allmusic said "The Gnostic Preludes is poetic, deceptively simple, and spiritually vast in scope." All About Jazz stated "Gnostic Preludes...

Belial was personified as a demon. In the Secret Book of John, an early Gnostic text, the ruler of the underworld is referred to as Belias. Belial is a...

various Muslim denominations. Isma'ilism, whose teachings are rooted in Gnosticism and Neoplatonism as well as by the Illuminationist and Isfahan schools...

remaining number of Gnostics throughout the Middle Ages, though a few isolated communities continue to exist to the present. Gnostic ideas became influential...

Norea is a figure in Gnostic cosmology. She plays a prominent role in two surviving texts from the Nag Hammadi library. In Hypostasis of the Archons,...

In Gnosticism, kenoma (kenoma, κένωμα) is the concept of emptiness that corresponds to the lower world of phenomena, as opposed to the concept of pleroma...

born Bret Cagle in 1962) is an American neo-Gnostic religious leader and writer. He is currently the Gnostic Apostle of Ecclesia Pistis Sophia, also known...

crucified. This interpretation could be either taken from the Quran or Gnostics. Since the crucifixion of Jesus, the cross has become a key element of...

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On the Origin of the World is a Gnostic work dealing with creation and the end time. It was found among the texts in the Nag Hammadi library, in Codex...

Mandaean may refer to: Mandaeism, a Gnostic religion Mandaeans, the ethnoreligious group who follow the Gnostic religion Mandean, the language family...

formal membership. The term agnosticism is not the direct opposite of gnosticism, which refers to a family of Hellenistic religions that flourished in...

respectively. He is considered to have opposed both the Valentinians and Gnostics during his papacy. He is considered a saint by the Catholic Church with...

rape both Norea and Eve. Hypostasis of the Archons is a Sethian Gnostic text. The Gnostics held a negative view of the material world, which they believed...

of a fictitious country, who is imprisoned and sentenced to death for "gnostical turpitude." Unable to blend in and become part of the world around him...

to holiness" for all persons. He counters contemporary versions of the gnostic and Pelagian heresies and describes how Jesus's beatitudes call people...

Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani Self-styled order "The Gnostics: History, Tradition, Scriptures, Influence" by Andrew Phillip Smith, Watkins...

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anticipates the fully developed Christian Gnosticism in later decades. Irenaeus numbers Cerinthus among those Gnostics who denied that Jesus is the Logos (Word)...

Apocalypse of Stephen Apocalypse of Thomas Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah Gnostic Apocalypse of Peter First Apocalypse of James Second Apocalypse of James...

charm ends and is taken over by a Mandaic magic story that tells of a gnostic tree made up of different demon groups and of a "Dew" demon dwelling in...

universal. Paul did not, however, reject the body—as did, for instance, the gnostics—but rather promoted a system whereby the body had its place, albeit subordinated...

School of Religion. Retrieved 19 February 2023. "Radiocarbon Dating the Gnostics Gospels". Mountain Man. Retrieved 19 February 2023. Porphyry. "On the Life...

Nusayrism (Arabic: نصيرية, romanized: Nuṣayriyya), is a Twelver Shi'a Gnostic religion, originating with 8th-century Ghulat sects. Its adherents, the...

of true interpretation of the apostolic writings. In the conflict with Gnosticism Rome played a decisive role, and likewise in the deep division in Asia...

Eden, making it possible for humanity to re-enter Paradise. The ancient Gnostic codex On the Origin of the World predicts that the kings under the archons...

leaders, heretics rejecting divine or ecclesiastical authority, proto-Gnostics, or critics of Pauline teachings—but their exact identity remains uncertain...

originally just one out of many early Christian sects, such as the Ebionites, Gnostics, and Marcionists, that was able to eliminate all major opposition by the...

not in flesh). Most notably, the group that would eventually become the Gnostics were docetic. 1 John fiercely denounces this belief in favor of the view...

In chaos magic, gnosis or the gnostic state refers to an altered state of consciousness in which a person's mind is focused on only one point, thought...

The Ophite Diagrams published by the Gnostic Society Owens, Lance (editor) citing A. H. B. Logan, The Gnostics: Identifying an Early Christian Cult,...

have been a Jewish convert and certainly wrote against heresies of the Gnostics and of Marcion. The dates that Hegesippus flourished are insecurely fixed...

ISBN 978-0-226-79156-2. Lupieri, Edmundo (2001). The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics. Grand Rapids, Michigan & Cambridge, UK: Eerdmans. pp. 65–66, 116, 164...

For example, the Abrahamic creator deity is an evil god according to gnostic traditions. The concept has been used frequently in popular culture and...

form of an expounding of the esoteric cosmology and ethics held by the Gnostics. Often this was in the form of dialogue in which Jesus expounds esoteric...

Apelles (Greek: Aπελλής) was a second-century Gnostic Christian thinker. He began his ministry as a disciple of Marcion of Sinope, likely in Rome. However...

their notion of a lesser creator god), though unlike the second century Gnostics, they did not apparently place any special relevance upon knowledge (gnosis)...

through mention in the Panarion. Epiphanius attributes the tale to the Gnostics. The Phibionite story tells of the death of Zechariah, who is supposed...

fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened. Gnostics used Genesis 1:2 to propose that the original creator deity, called the...

viewed the Logos as a distinct person or as an impersonal force. In the Gnostic text known as the Gospel of the Egyptians, the Trinity is presented as...

absolute). The idea is further developed in Late Antiquity by Neoplatonists, Gnostics, and Church Fathers. Aside from ancient Greek studies of the "good", more...

Gnostics and one of the first to investigate them. The work satirized the bizarre elements that appear in Gnostic mythology, ridiculing the Gnostics for...

Pearson, Birger A. Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian Christianity. Fortress Press, 1990. pp. 100–102 Pearson, Birger A. Gnosticism, Judaism, and Egyptian...

takes form through visions, heavenly bodies, and textual metaphors. In Gnosticism, the concept is inverted—divine sparks are seen as trapped in material...

letters exchanged between Solomon and the kings of Egypt and Tyre. The Gnostic Apocalypse of Adam, which may date to the 1st or 2nd century, refers to...

regarding Gnosticism in early Christianity. His best-known published work is Gnostic Truth, Christian Heresy, in which he works to redact the Gnostic movement...

melting pot for philosophies of Pythagoreanism, Platonism, Stoicism, and Gnosticism that formed the origin of alchemy's character. An important example of...

deviated from it. Meanwhile, Valentinus, an Alexandrian teacher, developed a Gnostic theology in which Christ brought saving knowledge (gnosis) that enabled...

the Baptist to be their chief prophet. Mandaeans are the last surviving Gnostics from antiquity. East Asian religions (also known as Far Eastern religions...

Treatise on Angel Magic). The earliest mention of Chamariel is in Rossi's Gnostic tractate (see Meyer and Smith, Ancient Christian Magic). It is probable...

phenomenon occurs in the Gnostic myth of the Fall of Sophia and the theme of purification present in The Exegesis of the Soul, another Gnostic text composed between...

The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity (Harvard University Press, 2010) argues that the contested categories of "Gnosticism," "orthodoxy...

argued the tale is an example of a black theodicy, with similarities to Gnosticism with Yakub as the Demiurge, as well as the fall of man. It has also been...

Christians. Gnosticism presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable God, and the Demiurge, "creator" of the material universe. The Gnostics considered...

Examples of their culture are found in Judaism's Babylonian Talmud, the Gnostic Mandaean religion, the East Syrian Rite of Christianity, and Manichaeism...

the earliest stages of Gnosticism. The Philosophumena's author regards them as among the first to be called simply "Gnostics", alleging that they alone...

he helped found their "GEM" program, with a doctoral concentration in "Gnosticism, Esotericism, and Mysticism". His work includes the study of comparative...

Middle East and North Africa, Allah Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer The Gnostic Bible: Revised and Expanded Edition Shambhala Publications 2009 ISBN 978-0-8348-2414-0...

this, Jesus was able to free himself from the material powers (what other Gnostics call Archons, the Demiurge, etc.). Carpocratians believed they themselves...

contrasts in nature, or of the syzygies ("pairs"), as they are called by the Gnostics, occupies a prominent place in the Sefer Yetzirah. This doctrine is based...

Bardesanes, was a Syriac-speaking Christian writer and teacher with a Gnostic background, and founder of the Bardaisanites. A scientist, scholar, astrologer...

there is an ancient occult conspiracy—started by the first mystagogues of Gnosticism and perpetuated by their alleged esoteric successors, such as the Kabbalists...

Cerinthus was also called Merinthus, a fellow laborer of his, God knows". The Gnostics had various gospels. Epiphanius speaks of their writing "The Revelation...

Neon Genesis Evangelion (Japanese: 新世紀エヴァンゲリオン, Hepburn: Shin Seiki Evangerion; lit. 'New Century Evangelion' in Japanese and lit. 'New Beginning Gospel'...

personal fulfillment, often referred to as the Great Work. The Creed of the Gnostic Mass also professes a belief in Chaos, Babalon, and Baphomet. Magick is...

says that the gnostic Valentinus came to Rome in Hyginus' time, remaining there until Anicetus became pontiff. Cerdo, another Gnostic and predecessor...

generally the fourth. Uriel is listed as the fourth angel by Christian Gnostics (under the name Phanuel). However, whether the Book of Enoch refers to...

"great tower" built in the region of ancient Sumer/Assyria/Babylonia. In Gnostic tradition recorded in the Paraphrase of Shem, a tower, interpreted as the...

Above Human". His writings, which combined aspects of Millennialism, Gnosticism, and science fiction, suggest he believed himself to be Jesus' successor...

(scholastic; tantra = 'book')." -- C. G. Jung, from Segal, Rober A. (1992). The Gnostic Jung. New Jersey: Princeton University Press. p. 86. ISBN 978-0-691-01923-9...

suggested that the author had based his discussion on Jacques Lacarrière's The Gnostics because he had known the essayist and critic since 1971 and wrote the "Foreword"...

divine spark is a term used in various different religious traditions. In Gnosticism, the divine spark is the portion of God that resides within each living...

extraordinary insight, learning, or knowledge, called a Gnostic Speculation by Voegelin (he claimed that the Gnostics themselves referred to that as gnosis). The...

Restored New Testament: A New Translation with Commentary, Including the Gnostic Gospels Thomas, Mary, and Judas. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-06493-3...

not˺ tell you that Satan is your sworn enemy?" — Surah Al-A'raf 7:22 A Gnostic interpretation of the story proposes that it was the archons who created...

Book of John, a second-century text found in the Nag Hammadi codices of Gnosticism, Michael is placed in control of the demons who help Yaldabaoth create...

beings involved in the creation of the world. According to one ancient Gnostic manuscript, the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, Gabriel is a divine...

paint their opponents as rejecting the salvific death of Jesus. Like other gnostics, Basilides taught that salvation comes through knowledge and not faith...

Primeval Man (‘’Protanthropos’’, Adam) occupies a prominent place in several Gnostic systems. In the Coptic Nag Hammadi texts, the archetypical Adam is known...

Meyer; Willis Barnstone (June 30, 2009). "The Secret Book of John". The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala. Retrieved 2022-02-14. p. 213 Encyclopedia of Angels:...

Manichaeans, Sabaeans, Elchasaites, Archontics, ḥunafāʾ (either as a type of Gnostics or as "sectarians"), or as adherents of the astral religion of Harran....

Serpent and of Cain, as the early ophitic gnostics were.[citation needed] Hans Jonas offered this gnostic analysis: ... it is the serpent that persuades...

secret rites and knowledge. Mandaia (Classical Mandaic: ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡀ, lit. 'Gnostic, Knower, Enlightened One'; plural: Mandaiia ࡌࡀࡍࡃࡀࡉࡉࡀ) is a Mandaic term...

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out in the Paedagogus were influenced by Gnosticism; however, later in the work, he argues against the Gnostics that faith, not esoteric knowledge (γνῶσις)...

accepts elements of Buddhism and Ken Wilber's spiritual ideas as well as gnosticism. In 2009, he launched Everything From Here to There, an interfaith website...

October 2024. Twitchett (1986). Barnstone W & Meyer M (2009). The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic texts of mystical wisdom from the ancient and medieval worlds. Shambhala...

center of Christianity, but was also, as a cradle of Gnosticism, a center for Christian-based Gnostic sects. The tradition of John the Apostle was strong...

off conversions to Christianity. Some Gnostics did not believe in a literal physical resurrection. "For the gnostic any resurrection of the dead was excluded...

and by Carpocrates. According to Epiphanius, this is a Jewish Gospel or Gnostic Gospel identical to the Gospel of the Ebionites and, apparently, is a truncated...

the metaphysical and theological theory Monad (Gnosticism), the most primal aspect of God in Gnosticism Great Monad, an older name for the taijitu symbol...

compounds like foghorn, pigheaded. The digraph ⟨gn⟩ may represent: /n/ as in gnostic, deign, foreigner, signage /nj/ in loanwords like champignon, lasagna Non-digraph...

as the pinnacle of materialism and despotism, which, after forcing the Gnostics underground, had kept the population of Earth enslaved to worldly possessions...

which is none other than the sensible world. The pessimistic vision of the Gnostics extends to all the cosmos, conceived as a failed work, even fatal or criminal...

Father. In Gnosticism, Sophia is a feminine figure, analogous to the soul, but also simultaneously one of the emanations of the Monad. Gnostics held that...

sacrificed Lamb, which is central to Revelation, is repugnant to Gnostics. Christian Gnostics "believed in the Forgiveness of Sins, but in no vicarious sacrifice...

Buddhism, Vedanta, Advaita Hinduism, Christianity, Messianism, Judaism, Gnosticism, existentialism, obscurantism, and nihilism. The films' premise resembles...

split EP with Riek Boois, as well as their first solo outing, Cabbalic Gnosticism, both of which were originally on cassette. Other material was recorded...

between heaven and hell in Luke 16:26 as chaos magnum. According to the Gnostic On the Origin of the World (late 3rd century AD?), Chaos was not the first...

Alexandria was a major centre of the cosmopolitan religious movement called Gnosticism (today mainly remembered as a Christian heresy). Alexandria's Jewish community...

Publishers. Ryen, Jon Olav (2009). "Baptism in Jordan – for Christians and Gnostics: Remarkable similarities between Old Syrian baptismal liturgies and the...

ISBN 9781032199344. Brakke, David (2010). "Imagining "Gnosticism" and Early Christianities". The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity...

In Sethian Gnostic texts, the Five Seals are typically described as a baptismal rite involving a series of five full immersions in holy running or "living...

Hierarchia List of angels in theology Living creatures (Bible) Luminary (Gnosticism) Davidson, Gustav (1994). Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels...

religions, Canaanite religions, Manichaeism, Mithraism and various monotheist gnostic sects. The Middle East has recently become more prominent in hosting global...

Routledge Press included an introduction to the book by Carl Jung. Some Gnostics have been associated with identifying the theft of fire from heaven as...

1832, accessed on 31 May 2026 Meyer, Marvin; Barnstone, Willis (2009). "On the Origin of the World". The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala. Retrieved 2021-10-25....

Total Recall is a 1990 American science fiction action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, with a screenplay by Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, and Gary Goldman...

early Christians opposed the deterministic views (e.g., fate) of Stoics, Gnostics, and Manichaeans prevalent in the first four centuries. Christians championed...

The Archontics, or Archontici, were a Gnostic sect that existed in Syria and Armenia, who arose towards the mid 4th century CE. They were thus called...

form of the Christian heresy of Gnosticism. This awakening from Sin had taken place with themselves, so the Gnostics held, and therefore there could be...

philosophers like Plotinus and Porphyry of Tyre condemned Gnosticism (see Neoplatonism and Gnosticism) for its treatment of the monad. In his Latin-language...

"Mazzarot" Lofts, Mark J. (2010). "Mandaeism: the sole extant tradition of Sethian Gnosticism". ARAM Periodical. 22: 31–59. doi:10.2143/ARAM.22.0.2131031....

Syria in the East. A Mandaean baptismal formula was adopted by Valentinian Gnostics in Rome and Alexandria in the 2nd century CE. John the Baptist adopted...

the Gnostic Jesus is the Egyptian Horus who was continued by the various sects of gnostics under both the names of Horus and of Jesus. In the gnostic iconography...

ISBN 978-2-503-58667-0. Doresse, Jean (1986). The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics. New York: MJF Books. p. 269. ISBN 978-1-56731-227-0. Ma & Wang (2018)...

Digital Library. Marcovich, Miroslav, Studies in Graeco-Roman Religions and Gnosticism, Brill, 1988. ISBN 9789004086241. March, Jenny, Cassell's Dictionary of...

of Zoroaster. The term in general enjoyed high consideration among the Gnostics (see Acts of Thomas, pp. 10, 27, 44). The adjective apocryphal is commonly...

in the Eastern Mediterranean during Late Antiquity, where Hermeticism, Gnosticism and Neoplatonism developed as schools of thought distinct from what became...

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involution have "much in common" with "theories of the descent of God in Gnosticism, Kabbalah, and other esoteric schools". With spirit, Vivekananda refers...

Christianity became the state religion in the 4th century CE, although Gnosticism lingered and incorporated pure elements of Stoicism and Platonism. Since...

Muslim rule were subjected to dhimmi status (along with Jews, Samaritans, Gnostics, Mandeans, and Zoroastrians), which was inferior to the status of Muslims...

distorts both the canons and Calvin's own thought. Gnosticism held a position of its own. On the Gnostic account the material world is the work of a lesser...

pre-Islamic and post-Islamic culture of Iran (particularly Zoroastrianism and Gnosticism) with the spirituality of Persian Shia Islam and Sufism. Practiced in...

213–216. ISBN 978-3-11-017599-8 Fontaine, Petrus Franciscus Maria. (1994). Gnostic Dualism in Asia Minor During the First Centuries, A.D. II. Brill Academic...

Michael (1989). The Voudon Gnostic Workbook. Magickal Childe. ISBN 0-939708-12-4. Bertiaux, Michael (2007). The Voudon Gnostic Workbook: Expanded Edition...

Abracadabra is an incantation used by stage magicians, and formerly in Gnosticism and ancient Roman medicine. Abracadabra, abra cadabra or abra kadabra...

2020-05-26. Verman, Mark (Fall 2005). "Reincarnation in Jewish Mysticism and Gnosticism (review)". Shofar. 24 (1): 173–175. doi:10.1353/sho.2005.0206. S2CID 170745364...

93 Current being the current of Thelema or Agape), Tibetan Buddhism, Gnosticism, runes, swastikas, Noddy, The Wicker Man, and a variety of occult notions...

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Greeks, and also from Anatolian and Balkan Eastern Orthodox Christians and Gnostics, and therefore Bektashism became a syncretic and perennialist Sufi order...

January 18, 1935) is an American occultist, known for his book Voudon Gnostic Workbook (1988), a 615-page compendium of various occult lessons and research...

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In Sethian Gnosticism, Astaphaios is an archon. In On the Origin of the World, he is one of the three sons of Yaldabaoth, with the other two being Yao...

reports that the Gnostics formed a compound Ἰαωθ (Iaoth) with the last syllable of Sabaoth. He also reports that the Valentinian gnostics use Ἰαῶ (Iao);...

"magical Aeon" that may last for perhaps as little as 2,000 years. In many Gnostic systems, the various emanations of God, who is also known by such names...

Zostrianos is a Sethian Gnostic text. It is the first tractate of two in Codex VIII of the Nag Hammadi library. It takes up 132 of the 140 pages in the...

 1–20. (also in The Phenomenon of Life) "The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics," The Journal of Religion, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 1962), pp. 262–273. "Myth...

In regards to the Gospel, Epiphanius stated, "Some of them (i.e. of the Gnostics) there are who vaunt the possession of a certain fictitious, far-fetched...

the "principalities and powers", and that he was the beginning of the Gnostics. The Law, according to him, was not of God, but of "the sinister power"...

proceeds to explain and argue against the Gnostics Monoimus, Tatian, and Hermogenes, before digressing from the Gnostic theme to refute the practices of the...

Spirit, also known as the Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians, is a Sethian Gnostic text found in Codices III and IV of the Nag Hammadi library. The text describes...

movement, opposed to innovation and preaching a religion for a non-clerical gnostic elite rather than the masses." Unlike the Baháʼí Faith, which adopted a...

cross Iron Age religions and later gnosticism and neo-paganism. An ancient pagan symbol of the sun, adopted by gnostics, neopagans and occultists. Supreme...

Synod of Antioch AD 264–269), from gnostic partialism (homoousious was used to explain the emanations). In the gnostic sense, it implied that the divine...

ISBN 978-1585428748. Horowitz, Mitch (2019). "The New Age and Gnosticism: Terms of Commonality". Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies. 4 (2): 191–215. doi:10.1163/2451859X-12340073...

'one of the most productive contemporary gnostics' […] Caruana has had an extensive relationship with gnostic sources that manifests itself in publications...

commentary made on John by the Gnostics Ptolemy, Basilides and Heracleon. In the quote below Irenaeus argues against the gnostic heresy from his book Against...

Lot (Lut), emphasizing homosexual transgression and disobedience to God. Gnostic texts, in contrast, present the destruction as a consequence of spiritual...

pagan antiquity are identified with Noah and his descendants. An important Gnostic text, the Apocryphon of John, reports that the chief archon caused the...

to the status of dhimmis (such as Hindus, Christians, Jews, Samaritans, Gnostics, Mandeans, and Zoroastrians) were inferior to the status of Muslims in...

continued to write plays and poetry, including "Hymn to Pan", and the Gnostic Mass, a Thelemic ritual that became a key part of O.T.O. liturgy. Churton...

The Neo-Luciferian Church is a Luciferian Gnostic organisation with roots in Western esotericism, Thelema, and magic. The Neo-Luciferian Church began...

The Simonians were a Gnostic sect of the 2nd century which regarded Simon Magus as its founder and traced its doctrines, known as Simonianism, back to...

Sophia, also known as the Sophian Fellowship or simply The Fellowship, is a Gnostic church organization based in the United States. The name Ecclesia Pistis...

The Academy in Athens Middle Platonism Neoplatonism Neoplatonism and Gnosticism Neoplatonism and Christianity Platonism in Islamic philosophy Platonism...

with a trumpet to his lips, ready to announce the Day of Judgment. In Gnostic tradition, Raphael is represented on the Ophite Diagram. Raphael is an...

Epiphanius embarks on his account of the 60 Christian heresies, from assorted gnostics to the various trinitarian heresies of the fourth century, closing with...

a mysterious-sounding, foreign name". Hecate is also referenced in the Gnostic text Pistis Sophia. In the earliest written source mentioning Hecate, Hesiod...

Apart from this, the province also boasts numerous learned scholars, gnostics, several national poets such as Mowlana Baba Mazeed, Khajeh Abdol Raheem...

the future, the older generation suppressing the next generation. The Gnostic text Pistis Sophia (3rd–4th century) references the name Cronus, portraying...

artist collective in New York City associated with the First New York Gnostic Lyceum Temple. The husband-and-wife team of Richard Oviet Tyler and Dorothea...

may have been influenced by Manichaeanism, Gnosticism, or Platonism; however, unlike many Manichaean or Gnostic sects, they eschewed asceticism and did not...

branches Jain schools and branches Jewish religious movements List of Gnostic sects List of religions and spiritual traditions Mansions of Rastafari...

2013. 2013c."Traces of the Competition Between the Platonizing Sethian Gnostics and Plotinus' Circle: The Case of Zostrianos 44—46," in M. P. Marsola and...

resemblances to certain Gnostic sects, no Gnostic sect held a positive depiction of Cain or encouraged sins. In none of the known Gnostic sources has Cain ever...

Prophecy Rape Serpents Sex Slavery Violence Warfare Women Perspectives Gnostic Islamic Quranic Inerrancy Infallibility Criticism of the Bible Biblical...

Contender, a gnostic book discovered in the Nag Hammadi library Acts of Thomas, another gnostic text Apocalypse of Thomas, a Christian gnostic apocalypse...

excluded himself. In his Against Heresies, Irenaeus conveys that some Gnostics believed the story to be metaphorical, with the centurion being merely...

of the ghulat have at times been compared to those of the late antique gnostics, but the extent of this similarity has also been questioned. Some ghulat...

divine and human, many Gnostic sects considered Christ purely divine, his human body being a mere illusion (see Docetism). Many Gnostics saw matter as evil...

Like the gnostics, the Knights of Seth believe that there is a true God and a false one. The latter is known as the demiurge. According to gnostic tradition...

the female sexual impulse and the liberated woman. In the creed of the Gnostic Mass she is also identified with Mother Earth, in her most fertile sense...

the source of all wickedness and who leads humanity astray. The ancient Gnostic text known as the Secret Book of John refers to the supreme female principle...

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a syncretic re-interpretation of the fundamental pagan "godman" by the Gnostics, who were the original sect of Christianity. The book has been negatively...

framed Christian dogmas. A similar view is also shared by some Christian Gnostics, ancient and modern. Throughout much of Blavatsky's public life her work...

2007, vol. 14 pp. 132–134. Also his Major Trends, p. 69, and his Jewish Gnosticism, pp.43, 91. Scholem dismissed this hypothesis as 'without merit'. Philip...

strong docetic themes, but is not considered in modern scholarship to be Gnostic. The feast day of Saint John in the Roman Catholic Church, which calls...

in Jewish messianism of the Second Temple period. A collection of early Gnostic scripts dating on or before the 4th century, discovered in 1945 and known...

Mystery of Prayer: The Ascension of the Wayfarers and the Prayer of the Gnostics. His seminary teaching often focused on the importance of religion to practical...

transports a small American town into an alternative version of the US run by Gnostics, who are engaged in a bitter war with the "Spanish" in Mexico (the chief...

Serial Experiments Lain is a Japanese anime television series created and co-produced by Yasuyuki Ueda, written by Chiaki J. Konaka and directed by Ryūtarō...

ouroboros was adopted as a symbol by Gnostic Christians and chapter 136 of the Pistis Sophia, an early Gnostic text, describes "a great dragon whose...

of a Mandaean gnostic. In Book 6 (also known as the "Book of Dinanukt") of the Right Ginza, Ruha makes a speech similar to the Gnostic poem The Thunder...

Zoroastrianism, Yazdânism, Uatsdin, Yarsanism, Manichaeism, and Yazidism. Gnosticism, including historical traditions of Mandaeism, which is still alive in...

[ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈʁɔʏs]; June 28, 1855 – October 28, 1923), also known by his neo-Gnostic bishop title of Carolus Albertus Theodorus Peregrinus, was a German occultist...

the angels. While falling short of actual worship of angels 3rd century Gnosticism developed heavily ideas concerning the archons. Celsus repeats the charge...

DuMont Buchverlag. Klimkeit, Hans-Joachim (1993). Gnosis on the Silk Road: Gnostic Texts from Central Asia. Trans. & presented by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. HarperSanFrancisco...

Christianization Relationship with Greek philosophy Esoteric systems Early alchemy Gnosticism Hermeticism Neoplatonism Hellenistic Judaism God-fearers Hypsistarians...

his own age due to his Gnostic influences, leading Russell to state Tatian "lived in the border between orthodox and Gnostic theology". Concerning the...

influenced by a diverse range of traditions, including Christianity, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Pythagoreanism.[page needed]...

The Eclipse of the Western Religious Tradition, notes that "Hubbard's gnostic leanings are evident in his account of human origins ... In Hubbard, ideas...

Baptist and the Last Gnostics: the Secret History of the Mandaeans. Watkins, 2016.(p155) Nasoraia, Brikha H.S. (2021). The Mandaean gnostic religion: worship...

of course preclude the opposite also being true). If nothing else, the Gnostics of the early centuries inhabited the same imaginative and spiritual universe...

Geheimgesellschaften bis an die Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert [Light and darkness: Gnostic-Theosophical and Freemason-occult secret societies to the turn of the 20th...

that iron oxide, contained in the stone, is an effective astringent. The Gnostics wore the stone as an amulet for longevity, for wealth and courage, to strengthen...

represents the God of Judaism and non-Gnostic Christianity, but he is considered an inferior creator deity by Gnostics. The text's description of the divine...

(2001). "The Creed of the Gnostic Catholic Church: an Examination". Mystery of Mystery: A Primer of Thelemic Ecclesiastical Gnosticism. Red Flame (Revised 2nd ed...

ISBN 978-0-313-08485-0. Jinn are an integral part of both traditional and Gnostic Islamic belief. William E. Burns (2022). They Believed That?: A Cultural...

sacrament of the Cathars. Cathars believed in original sin, and – like Gnostics – believed temporal pleasure to be sinful or unwise. The process of living...

fiction, psychological drama, postmodern and psychedelic imagery, and Gnostic symbolism. The live-action movie Æon Flux, loosely based upon the series...

Work True Will The Abyss Magick Qabalah Holy Guardian Angel Thoth Tarot Gnostic Mass The Aeon Methods Abrahadabra Night of Pan Liber Resh Crossing the...

computer; a painting of Katharine Hepburn with two letters by her; two ancient Gnostic amulets; an original Kodak camera; a scarf painted by Raymond Duncan; a...

the temptations of Christ and his ministry. The equivalent to kenosis in Gnostic literature is Christ's withdrawal of his own luminosity into himself, so...

divine worship and religious study within Christianity, Judaism, and Gnosticism. Several modern varieties of Aramaic are still spoken. The modern eastern...

wife of Apollophanes. The epistle seems to attack themes associated with Gnostic Christianity and docetism, albeit loosely. 3 Corinthians emphasizes the...

Michael Wiese Productions, 2005 (p.217). Eric G. Wilson, Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film, Bloomsbury, 2006 (p.123). Hartl, John (November 1, 1990)...

in its present shape from India, that true fountain head of gnostic iconography." (Gnostics, p. 218) In the third volume of the Secret Doctrine, published...

Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. According to the Gnostic scriptures recorded in the Holy Book of the Great Invisible Spirit, the...

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Wisdom also played a central role in Gnosticism, an esoteric movement that emerged in the first few centuries CE. Gnostics saw wisdom (Sophia) as a divine...

features. Yaghūth – A god of the era of the prophet Noah. Yaldabaoth (Gnostic) – Lion-headed serpent god. Werehyena Azeban Gef Ichneumon Kamaitachi Kushtaka...

Gnostics, Cathars, and, later, the Beguines, as well as several other groups that were sometimes "tortured and executed". Cathars, like the Gnostics who...

typically viewed as Gnostic texts; however, while many scholars take for granted the Gnostic character of the Gospel of Mary, the Gnostic beliefs concerning...

More generally, Gnostics cited material shared with proto-orthodox Christians in writings discovered at the Nag Hammadi library, so Gnostics using a particular...

an American author, lecturer and neo-Gnostic bishop. A lecturer and writer of books and articles about Gnosticism and Jungian psychology, Hoeller was also...

ouroboros was adopted as a symbol by Gnostic Christians and chapter 136 of the Pistis Sophia, an early Gnostic text, describes "a great dragon whose...

complex crises. QAnon further incorporates themes from early-Christian Gnosticism, particularly the idea that the true nature of the world is hidden and...

The Thirteenth Floor is a 1999 science fiction film written and directed by Josef Rusnak and produced by Roland Emmerich’s Centropolis Entertainment. Loosely...

challenges that the community faced in its context of the syncretistic Gnostic religions that were developing in Asia Minor. According to the epistle...

to the Gnostic Gospels, Jesus was merely a human prophet, not a demigod. Therefore, to change Jesus' image, Constantine destroyed the Gnostic Gospels...

Docetism Donatism Circumcellions Collyridianism Dualism Ebionites Euchites Gnosticism Manichaeism Paulicianism Priscillianism Naassenes Ophites Sethianism Valentinianism...

influenced other religious systems, including Second Temple Judaism, Gnosticism, Christianity, and Islam. In 2016, the first official Zoroastrian fire...

revolutionary political tendencies, which Voegelin interprets as modern Gnosticism. Brecht, Arnold (1953). "A New Science of Politics". Social Research....

treatise against the Gnostics and wanted to promote the view that truth is reached gradually, not immediately. Neoplatonism and Gnosticism Nymphaeum Lamberton...

The Treaty of Paris, also known as Treaty of Meaux, was signed on 12 April 1229 between Raymond VII of Toulouse and Louis IX of France in Meaux near Paris...

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some, this event is held to be more accidental than intentional. To other gnostics, these emanations were akin to the Sephirot of the Kabbalists and deliberate...

the Hyperboreans is often claimed. These theories draw influence from Gnosticism and Tantrism, building on the work of the Ahnenerbe. Within this racist...

known as "Against The Gnostics"). Because their belief was grounded in Platonic thought, the Neoplatonists rejected Gnosticism's vilification of Plato's...

Testament was absolutely rejected by most of the Gnostics. Even the so-called Judaeo-Christian Gnostics (Cerinthus), the Ebionite (Essenian) sect of the...

The Berlin Codex (also known as the Akhmim Codex and the Berlin Gnostic Codex, BG), given the accession number Papyrus Berolinensis 8502, is a Coptic...

(June 30, 2009). "The Secret Book of John". The Gnostic Bible. Shambhala. Retrieved 2022-01-28. "Gnosticism - Apocryphon of John". Encyclopædia Britannica...

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condemned in his First Letter to Timothy. Ascetic Gnostics categorically forbade marriage (which libertine Gnostics also did) and abstained from sexual intercourse...

Row, Publishers. New York, N.Y. 1962. p. 62. Sariel, Aviram. "Jonasian Gnosticism." Harvard Theological Review 116.1 (2023): 91-122. Alan Pratt (April 23...

pp. 10–11. ISBN 978-0-8028-0736-6. "Dead Sea Scrolls: Timetable". The Gnostic Society Library. Archived from the original on 16 August 2003. Retrieved...

literally means "soul, spirit, breath, life, or animating force". In the Gnostic narrative found in On the Origin of the World, Eros, during the universe's...

Christians as heretics. There were some contacts between Gnostics and Indians, e.g. Syrian gnostic theologian Bar Daisan describes in the 3rd century his...

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Chancellor's Fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh 2 May 2013 Gnosticism Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion,...

Platonists & Plotinists, the Stagyrites & Gamalielites, the Eclectics the Gnostics & Scholastics, Logos & Demi-urgos, Aeons & Daemons male & female, with...

Charge". WSJ. Retrieved 2025-07-15. "The identity trap and the dangers of 'gnostic liberalism'". The Hill. 2024. Archived from the original on 2024-10-07...

E. The Thunder, Perfect Mind is sometimes classified as an example of Gnostic literature, but some authors, such as George MacRae and Hal Taussig, argue...

theology Diversity in early Christian theology Adoptionism Arianism Docetism Gnosticism Marcionism Montanism Early Christianity Proto-orthodox Christianity Timeline...

experiments. The series, which is heavily influenced by philosophy and Gnosticism, features a combination of 2D digital cel animation, 3D computer modeling...

it, but some theologians and bishops have condemned it as heretical and gnostic in origin. Aerial toll houses are part of the particular judgment. The...

William King's The Gnostics and their remains (1864; 2nd rev. ed. 1887) became a major Anglophone reference point: he traced "Gnosticism" to "Indian speculative...

The Thought of Norea is a Sethian Gnostic text. It is the second of three treatises in Codex IX of the Nag Hammadi library texts, taking up pages 27–29...

history of Romanian culture at the University of Groningen. An expert in Gnosticism and Renaissance magic, he befriended, was encouraged by Mircea Eliade...

scandalous and dissolute lifestyles of the Catholic clergy. Their theology, Gnostic in many ways, was basically dualist. Several of their practices, especially...

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held that Jesus' parables are intended to make a single important point. Gnostics suggested that Jesus kept some of his teachings secret within the circle...

traditions and denominations, including proto-orthodoxy, Marcionites, Gnostics and the Jewish followers of Jesus. According to theologian James D. G....

the nature of true faith, and an anti-heretical thrust against other Gnostics. Pearson also looks at the entirety of the text and notes that its Christology...

rucha means "spirit", and writers in that language, both orthodox and Gnostic, used maternal images when speaking of the Holy Spirit. This imagery is...

chorus could be referring to the Seven Deadly Sins, the seven Archon of Gnosticism, or the seven names of God in the Old Testament. The song received positive...

The Marcosians were a Gnostic sect founded by Marcus in Lyon, France, and active in southern Europe from the second to the fourth century. Women held...

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variously described by scholars as (neo)-Platonists, Hermeticists, or Gnostics, but there is no firm evidence for any of these identifications. Apart...

called the Secret Book of James or the Apocryphal Epistle of James, is a Gnostic epistle. It is the second tractate in Codex I of the Nag Hammadi library...

its leaves, its seed is desire, and it blossoms in the darkness. In the Gnostic religion Manichaeism, the Tree of Life helped Adam obtain the knowledge...

L. Kugel, Rowan A. Greer Early Biblical interpretation 1986 p119 "The Gnostics are thought of as a perverse mirror image of the Great Church with their...

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century by Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon in his controversy with certain dualist Gnostics. Other church fathers such as Augustine also shaped and developed the doctrine...

Late Antiquity, Hermetism emerged in parallel with early Christianity, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, the Chaldaean Oracles, and late Orphic and Pythagorean...

We are introduced to Guy McPherson and Paul Kingsnorth, called "climate Gnostics" by Wallace-Wells, both of whom have dropped out of society to await the...

the Father as the creator of the world to combat the teachings of the Gnostics. Novatian also defended the unity of the godhead and humanity in Jesus...

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York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443. The Gnostic Bible (2003) (p. 810). New Seeds Books Mountain, Harry (May 1998). The...

September 1949) is a Dutch academic who is the Professor of Patristics and Gnostic Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, and at the University of Pretoria...

Χηνοβόσκιον). The "Nag Hammadi library", an important collection of 2nd-century Gnostic texts, was found at Jabal al-Ṭārif near Nag Hammadi in 1945. The city was...

apocalyptic imagery as death, loss, and destruction. Other influences include Gnosticism, Austin Osman Spare, and a variety of occult topics. His interest in Aleister...

Hence, it is possible that the text was written by the Simonian school of Gnostics. The text quotes copiously from the Old Testament prophets, from the New...

short for yaodong, a type of Chinese cave dwelling Yao (Gnosticism), the name of an archon in Gnostic scripture Yao (爻), the term for the marks used in the...

the Seven Seats (Thrones) and Virtues of the Kabbalists. In the early Gnostic text On the Origin of the World, the aeon named Sophia sends seven archangels...

The Books of Jeu are two Gnostic texts. Though independent works, both the First Book of Jeu and the Second Book of Jeu appear, in Sahidic Coptic, in...

title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of God. Set in California during the 1970s, the book features heavy...

found within the Gnostic manuscripts On the Origin of the World and the Secret Book of John. Manichaeism, which has been considered a Gnostic sect, echoes...

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Christ and Sophia, messengers of Gnosis of the True God. For example: Gnostics such as the Nasoræans believe the Pira Rabba is the source, origin, and...

Aldihisi (2008) compares Ur to Tiamat in Babylonian mythology and Samael in Gnostic literature. Shdum, also known as the "King of Darkness" Leviathan Nagaraja...

refer to: Cerdo (mythology), a Greek mythological figure Cerdo (gnostic), a Syrian gnostic of the 2nd Century AD Kedron of Alexandria, an early patriarch...

within Nocturne was designed by Kaneko, and ties into the teachings of Gnosticism and cosmology. dijeh (2016-10-31). "The other face of the Demon Artist...

within the premises of the Martinist Order, as well as his involvement in a Gnostic Church under the name Palingenius prompted the separation between Papus...

[citation needed] Shekhinah, often in plural, is also present in some gnostic writings written in Aramaic, such as the writings of the Manichaeans and...

Samael Aun Weor taught emanationism from his studies with the Kabbalah and Gnosticism. He mapped out a complex esoteric cosmology with matter flowing from different...

grossed ₹26 crore worldwide and emerged as a box-office flop. Thinnadu, a gnostic atheist tribal hunter, is exiled after a conflict among his tribe when...

The Kentaeans were a Gnostic religious group of Mesopotamia from around the 5th century AD. They were closely related to but distinct from the Mandaeans...

comparing Mary with a bag, likely unaware that he adopted a metaphor from the Gnostic theologian Valentinus (d. c. 180). According to Valentinus, Christ passed...

apologist and a polemicist against what he viewed as heresy, including Gnosticism. Tertullian was the first theologian to write in Latin, and so has been...

is that the word appears to derive from gnosis. Satie was involved in gnostic sects and movements at the time that he began to compose the Gnossiennes...

1038/112525a0. Horowitz, Mitch (2019). "The New Age and Gnosticism: Terms of Commonality". Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies. 4 (2): 191–215. doi:10.1163/2451859X-12340073...

In the formation of Christianity, various sectarian groups, labeled "gnostics" by their opponents, emphasized spiritual knowledge (gnosis) of the divine...

Swedish-language book distribution operation. Siitoin believed in neo-Gnosticism and Theosophy and combined these with antisemitism and Satanism. To him...

Ethiopia dating back to the time of Christ. Like the Rastafari, some modern Gnostic Christian sects have asserted that cannabis is the Tree of Life. Other...

empowerment. Through extensive study, Amos also wove in the stories of the Gnostic gospels and the removal of women from a position of power within the Christian...

devil as part of formulating an authentic faith in today's world. Gnostic and Gnostic-influenced religions postulate the idea that the material world is...

from Patriarch Euzois to Patriarch Laurence. July 11 – Bardaisan, Syriac gnostic (d. 222) Euzois, bishop of Byzantium Ilseong, Korean ruler of Silla Pius...

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the first half of the 20th century, several groups based on Islamic and Gnostic teachings combined with pseudohistorical colonial beliefs were established...

a literary language across Egypt in the period c. 325 – c. 800 AD. The Gnostic texts in the Nag Hammadi library are primarily written in the Sahidic dialect...

revelation. Scholem termed this element of the Spanish Kabbalah a "Jewish gnostic" motif, in the sense of dual powers in the divine realm of manifestation...

ISSN 0272-0965. Horowitz, M. (2019). "The New Age and Gnosticism: Terms of Commonality". Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies. 4 (2): 191–215. doi:10.1163/2451859x-12340073...

philosophy – German historical school – German idealism – German philosophy – Gnosticism – Greek philosophy Haskalah – Healthcare, philosophy of – Hedonism – Hegelianism...

strength. Urizen: reason and conventional society; a cruel god resembling the Gnostic Demiurge. Luvah: love, passion and emotive faculties; a Christ-like figure...

along with two counselors that assist him. An organization created by the Gnostic group known as the Cathars in 1167 called the Council of Saint-Félix organized...

Genealogy of Jesus, according to Luke 3:23–38. The Sethians were a Christian Gnostic sect who may date their existence to before Christianity. Their thinking...

the Apostles. Scholars typically consider it not Gnostic, but J. L. Sumney argues that it is a Gnostic work. It is a rare example of an early Christian...

doctoral dissertation was the concept of (Gnostic) Gnosis, based at large on the demythologization of Gnostic myths. He published a revised version of...

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of the Archons (also translated 'Reality of the Rulers'), an apocryphal gnostic treatise dated before 350 AD, Tartarus makes a brief appearance when Zōē...

Marsanes is a Sethian Gnostic text from the New Testament apocrypha. The only surviving copy comes from the Nag Hammadi library, albeit with 14 pages...

UFOs". Browne started working as a psychic in 1973. In 1986, she founded a Gnostic Christian church in Campbell, California, known as the Society of Novus...

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employed in various other spiritual or ceremonial traditions, including some Gnostic Churches, Freemasonry (especially in the consecration of new lodges), and...

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and the Fiction of Science: Collected Essays on SF Storytelling and the Gnostic Imagination. McFarland. 2009. pp. 41–42. "Novels: The Island of Doctor...

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seven angels who are considered primordial powers by the Ophites. In Gnosticism, Sariel is invoked for his protective powers. He is commemorated by the...

the "Messiah", the spiritual form of Jesus. Docetists are Christians or Gnostics who believed that Jesus' physical body was an illusion, as was his crucifixion;...

(one) sister. In the Apocryphon of John, a work belonging to Sethian Gnosticism, Abel is the offspring of Yaldaboath and Eve, who is placed over the elements...

argue instead that salvation is ultimately granted to all people. Multiple gnostic Christians, such as the Cathars, interpreted hell as a metaphor for this...

referring to this tradition. The Chaldean Oracles show an affinity with gnostic teachings of their time. They describe the transcendent First Paternal...

in this age the woman will be "equal" to the man.[full citation needed] Gnostic philosopher Samael Aun Weor declared 4 February 1962 to be the beginning...

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"MLO is a Chaos-Gnostic order, which seeks the true light of Lucifer through the study, development, and practice of all dark, gnostic and Satanic magical...

co-ed., The Gnostic World, 1st ed., Routledge, 2018, ISBN 978-1317201847. Historical recurrence Author biography, Garry W. Trompf, "Gnostic Islam: Transformations...

ISBN 9780511520587. Brakke, David (2010). "Imagining "Gnosticism" and Early Christianities". The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity...

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Valentine, 3rd century Christian saint Valentinus (Gnostic) (died c. 150), early Christian gnostic theologian Valentinus Paquay (1828–1905), Friar Minor...

medium of the restoration of the gnostic. …Hence, while some uses of apokatastasis appear to refer simply to the gnostic elect, by extension, they have...

Christian apologetics Christian countercult movement Christian heresy Gnosticism Orthodoxy Schism Sikh sects "orthodoxy." WordNet. US: Princeton University...

Miracles as Neo-Gnostic Scripture" in Gnosis: Journal of Gnostic Studies, Simon J. Joseph outlines the relationship between the Course and Gnostic thinking....

the dead to heaven or hell in the intermediary realm (Barzakh). In the Gnostic codex On the Origin of the World, the aeon named Sophia sends seven archangels...

played a significant part in India and Europe. However, speculations of a Gnostic-dualistic character are foreign to the original thought of the I Ching;...

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ISBN 978-971-91595-4-4. Philosophoumena IX.7 Pagels, Elaine (1979). The Gnostic Gospels. Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 108. Hippolytus. Refutation of all heresies...

covers a number of subjects, which include magic, noetics, gnostic logic, and logical gnosticism, among others. Gnosology has also been used, particularly...

Testament of Solomon is an album composed by John Zorn and performed by the Gnostic Trio (Bill Frisell, Carol Emanuel and Kenny Wollesen). It was recorded...

the statement down to form a monogram. The chaos magician then uses the gnostic state to "launch" or "charge" the sigil—essentially bypassing the conscious...

There are various names of God and many titles that refer to God, many of which enumerate the various qualities of a Supreme Being. The English word god...

doctrine, although this belief is documented in Gnostic groups as early as the Pistis Sophia. In that Gnostic work, Mary Magdalene (one of the disciples)...

(Greek σάρξ, flesh or hylic, from the Greek ὕλη, stuff, or matter) in Gnosticism describes the lowest level of human nature—the fleshly, instinctive level...

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known as "Against The Gnostics"). Due to their belief being grounded in Platonic thought, the neoplatonists rejected Gnosticism's vilification of Plato's...

powers.[citation needed] Simon Magus, a Gnostic who claimed to be an incarnation of God (as conceived by the Gnostics), reportedly had the ability to levitate...

toll house in Eastern Orthodox Christianity Coptic Apocalypse of Paul, a Gnostic text Morgan, Michael A. Sepher Ha-Razim: The Book of the Mysteries. Pseudepigrapha...

work on the nature of time and the different kinds of days experienced by gnostics The Astounding Phoenix regarding the Seal of Saints and the Sun of the...

The Epistle of Eugnostos or Eugnostos the Blessed is a Gnostic epistle found in Codices III and V of the Nag Hammadi library. Both copies seem to be a...

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