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noun - a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element
The doctrines of certain pre-Christian pagan, Jewish, and early Christian sects that valued the revealed knowledge of God and of the origin and end of the human race as a means to attain redemption for the spiritual element in human beings and that distinguished the Demiurge from the unknowable Divine Being.
GNOSTICISM - Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: gnostikos, "having knowledge", from gnsis, knowledge) is a modern name for a variety of ancient religious ideas and...
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| Eclectic doctrines of heretical movement of second century Christian Church |
| Religious movement is coming stealthily to capture a saint |
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| Mar 8 2009 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Sep 19 2001 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Sep 19 2001 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
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| From the Greek, the name of this movement of the early Christian era means that its members had knowledge of God |
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| a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element considered heresy by Christian churches |
| a 2nd century religious movement whose followers believed that knowledge and a pure life could free people from the material world, which was created by an inferior god called a demiurge |
| A prominent heretical movement of the 2nd-century Christian Church, partly of pre-Christian origin. Gnostic doctrine taught that the world was created and ruled by a lesser divinity, the demiurge, and that Christ was an emissary of the remote supreme divine being, esoteric knowledge (gnosis) of whom enabled the redemption of the human spirit. |
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Gnosticism (from Ancient Greek: gnostikos, "having knowledge", from gnsis, knowledge) is a modern name for a variety of ancient religious ideas and systems, originating in Jewish-Christian milieus in the first and second century AD. These systems believed that the material world is created by an emanation of the highest God, trapping the divine spark within the human body. This divine spark could be liberated by gnosis. Some of the core teachings include the following:* All matter is evil, and the non-material, spirit-realm is good. * There is an unknowable God, who gave rise to many lesser spirit beings called Aeons. * One evil, lower spirit being is the creator who made the universe. * Gnosticism does not deal with "sin", only ignorance. * To achieve salvation, one needs to get in touch with secret knowledge.The Gnostic ideas and systems flourished in the Mediterranean world in the second century AD, in conjunction with and influenced by the early Christian movements and Middle Platonism. |