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    related to Gnosticism. Wikiquote has quotations related to Gnosticism. Look up Gnosticism in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Texts Gnostic Society Library –...
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  • Archon Aeon (Gnosticism) Luminary (Gnosticism) Francis T. Fallon "The Enthronement of Sabaoth" Brill Archive, 1978 p. 80 "Archons". Gnosticism Explained...
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  • The Monad in Gnosticism is an adaptation of concepts of the Monad in Greek philosophy to Christian gnostic belief systems. The term monad comes from the...
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  • Gnosticism in modern times (or Neo-Gnosticism) includes a variety of contemporary religious movements, stemming from Gnostic ideas and systems from ancient...
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  • 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...
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  • rather than accepting your situation. Aion (deity) Nous Archon (Gnosticism) Luminary (Gnosticism) Lit. "half-creator," occasionally referred to as Yaldabaoth...
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  • 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...
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  • identifications appears within Gnostic documents themselves, has not been proven. Aeon (Gnosticism) Monad (Gnosticism) Archon (Gnosticism) Rasimus, T. (2009). Paradise...
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  • There is significant scholarly debate around what Gnosticism is, and therefore what qualifies as a "Gnostic text." Prior to the discovery at Nag Hammadi,...
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  • Heresies Willis Barnstone, Marvin Meyer, The Gnostic Bible Williams, Michael (1996). Rethinking "Gnosticism": An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category...
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  • proposed that similarities existed between Buddhism and Gnosticism, a term deriving from the name Gnostics, which was given to a number of Christian sects. To...
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  • Pryse (1859-1942) for studies of Gnosticism. Stephan A. Hoeller, author and lecturer and a leading exponent of Gnosticism, became the director of studies...
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  • early followers. While Gnosticism was influenced by Middle Platonism, neoplatonists from the third century onward rejected Gnosticism. Nevertheless, Alexander...
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  • 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...
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  • Demiurge (category Demons in Gnosticism)
    creator of the evil world from Gnosticism. Gilles Quispel writes, "There is a direct link between ancient Gnosticism and Catharism. The Cathars held...
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  • in Gnostic systems, and it is necessary to distinguish the different forms in which it appeared at different stages in the development of Gnosticism. The...
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  • 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...
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  • The Gnostic Paul is a book by Elaine Pagels, a scholar of gnosticism and professor of religion at Princeton University. In the work, Pagels considers each...
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  • Proto-Gnosticism or pre-Gnosticism refers to movements similar to Gnosticism in the first few centuries of Christianity. Proto-Gnostics did not have the...
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    1894, Doinel abjured his Gnostic faith and converted to Roman Catholicism due to the Taxil hoax. He returned to Gnosticism five years later under the...
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    2022.. See also: "Sethian Gnosticism: A Literary History", Archived 2007-07-06 at the Wayback Machine in Nag Hammadi, Gnosticism and Early Christianity,...
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  • Ecclesia Pistis Sophia Gnostic Church of France Johannite Church Neo-Luciferian Church Gnosticism in modern times List of Gnostic sects This article includes...
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  • Enlightenment in Buddhism Gnossiennes Gnosticism in modern times Gnosiology Gnosis (chaos magic) Jnana Neoplatonism and Gnosticism Noema Noetic consciousness Noetics...
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  • the principal writer of the Italian or Western school of Valentinian Gnosticism, which was active in Rome, Italy, and Southern Gaul. Ptolemy's works have...
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  • Marcellians identified themselves as "gnostics", many modern scholars do not classify them as members of the sect of Gnosticism. Women played prominent roles...
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  • and/or Sethian Gnosticism. Neoplatonism and Gnosticism John D. Turner Knights of Seth (19th-century "Neo-Sethian" group) List of Gnostic sects Second Treatise...
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  • and Hippolytus of Rome wrote against Gnosticism. Because early church leaders encouraged the destruction of Gnostic texts, most evidence for the Valentinian...
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  • Biography of Late Antiquity 'Valentinian gnosticism ... differs essentially from dualism' (Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, 1978); 'a standard element in...
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  • The pneumatics ("spiritual", from Greek πνεῦμα, "spirit") were, in Gnosticism, the highest order of humans, the other two orders being psychics and hylics...
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    Eve (redirect from Eve (Gnosticism))
    Mary, mother of Jesus who is also sometimes called "the Second Eve". In Gnosticism, Eve is often seen as the embodiment of the supreme feminine principle...
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