WebNeoplatonism is a strand of Platonic philosophy that emerged in the 3rd century AD against the background of Hellenistic philosophy and religion. The term does not encapsulate a set of ideas as much as a chain of thinkers. But there are some ideas that are common to it. For example, the monistic idea that all of reality can be derived from a single principle, "the …

Web諾斯底主義（英語： Gnosticism 字源於古希臘語： γνωστικός ，或稱靈知派和靈智派）的“諾斯底”一词在希臘語中意为“知識”，諾斯底是指在不同宗教運動及團體中的同一信念，這信念可能源自於史前時代，但卻於公元的首數個世紀活躍於地中海週圍與伸延至中亞地區。