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Gnosticism is a collection of religious ideas and systems which coalesced in the late 1st century AD among Jewish and early Christian sects. These various groups emphasised personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above the orthodox teachings, traditions, and authority of religious institutions.
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See moreGnosis refers to knowledge based on personal experience or perception. In a religious context, gnosis is mystical or esoteric knowledge based on direct participation with the divine. In most Gnostic systems, the
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See moreThe origins of Gnosticism are obscure and still disputed. The proto-orthodox Christian groups called Gnostics a heresy of Christianity, but according to the modern scholars the theology's
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In many Gnostic systems, God is known as the Monad, the One. God is the high source of the pleroma, the region of light. The various emanations of...
See moreDillon notes that Gnosticism raises questions about the development of early Christianity.
Orthodoxy and heresy
The Christian heresiologists, most notably Irenaeus, regarded Gnosticism as a Christian heresy. Modern...
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The Syrian–Egyptian traditions postulate a remote, supreme Godhead, the Monad. From this highest divinity emanate lower divine beings, known as...
See moreJesus is identified by some Gnostics as an embodiment of the supreme being who became incarnate to bring gnōsis to the earth, while others
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See moreThree periods can be discerned in the development of Gnosticism:
• Late-first century and early second century: development of Gnostic ideas, contemporaneous with...
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