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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Gnosticism

Gnosticism is a blanket term for various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools, which were most prominent in the first few centuries AD. It is also applied to modern revivals of these groups and, sometimes, by analogy to all religious movements based on secret knowledge gnosis, thus can lead to confusion. The occult nature of gnostic teaching (as seen from a modern viewpoint) and the fact that much of the material relating to the schools comprising Gnosticism has traditionally come from critiques by orthodo ...

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Gnosticism: Spiritual Dictionary on gnostic

gnostic: See gnosticism

(See also: gnostic, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

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Gnosticism: Spiritual Dictionary on Gnosticism

Gnosticism: A word derived from the Greek gnostikos, meaning one who has acquired gnosis or "knowledge" (literally, "one who knows"). Any of several Gnostic sects that flourished in the Mediterranean world during the time of Christ, particularly during the second and third centuries C.E. and for many centuries after. The two major branches of Gnosticism were Sethian or Jewish Gnosticism, and Valentinian or Christian Gnosticism.

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(See also: Gnosticism, Magic, Shamanism, Paganism, Wicca)

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia II - Demiurge - Gnosticism

Like Plato, Gnosticism also presents a distinction between the highest, unknowable "alien God" and the "creator" of the material - the Demiurge. However, in contrast to Plato, many systems of Gnostic thought present the Demiurge as antagonistic to the will of the Supreme Creator: this sort of Demiurge focusses solely on material reality and on the "sensuous soul". In this system, the Demiurge acts as a solution to the problem of evil. In the Apocryphon of John (in the Nag Hammadi library), the Demiurge has the name "Yaltabaoth", and proclaim ...

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Buddhism and the Roman world - Pandion embassy
Buddhism and the Roman world - Western knowledge of Buddhism
Buddhism and the Roman world - Buddhism and Gnosticism
Buddhism and the Roman world - Notes

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia II - Gnosticism - Gnosticism in modern times

Gnosticism has been treated at length by several modern authors, philosophers and psychologists: William Blake, the nineteenth century Romantic poet and artist, was according to some sources well-versed in the doctrines of the Gnostics, and his own personal mythology contains many points of cohesion with several Gnostic myths (for example, the Blakean figure of Urizen bears many resemblances to the Gnostic Demiurge). However, efforts to dub Blake a "Gnostic" have been complicated by the complex nature and extent of Blake's own m ...

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Æon - Ptolemaic and colorbasal æons

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Carpocrates

Carpocrates was the founder of an early Gnostic from the first half of the second century A.D. As with many Gnostic sects we know of the Carpocratians only through the writings of the Church Fathers, in the case of Carpocrates, principally Irenaeus of Lyons and Clement of Alexandria. As these writers strongly opposed Gnostic doctrine there is a considerable question of negative bias when using these sources. However, whilst the various references to the Carpocratians differ in some details, there is unanimity as to the libertinism of ...

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Carpocrates - The Secret Gospel of Mark

Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Monad Gnosticism

In many Gnostic systems (and heresiologies), God is known as the Monad, the One, The Absolute Aion teleos (The Perfect Æon), Bythos (Depth or Profundity, Βυθος), Proarkhe (Before the Beginning, προαρχη), and E Arkhe (The Beginning, η αρχη). God is the high source of the pleroma, the region of light. The various emanations of God are called æons. Within certain variations of Gnosticism, especially those inspired by Monoimus, the Monad was the highest God w ...

Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Luciferians

Luciferians describes three quite separate heterodox tendencies in opposition to the Roman Catholic Church. Luciferians - Spiritual Luciferianism. Created for the most part by an Internet-based group of people calling themselves Luciferians, the Luciferian philosophy has been created by the prophet, magician and remote viewer Aaron C. Donahue. Aaron, after travelling, searching and studying the occult, has dedicated his life and weekly Internet show to save the Earth and to assure permanance for humanity. L ...

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - VALIS

VALIS is a 1981 science fiction book by Philip K. Dick. The title is an acronym for Vast Active Living Intelligence System, Dick's gnostic vision of one aspect of God. VALIS is the first book in a trilogy that represents Dick's last major work before he died. VALIS - Plot summary. Radio Free Albemuth, Gnosticism VALIS - Horselover Fat. The main character in VALIS is Dick himself. He calls himself Horselover Fat, which is a tr ...

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Apelles gnostic

Little is known about Apelles (mid-2nd century). He was a disciple of Marcion, probably at Rome, but left (or was expelled from) the Marcionite society. Tertullian tells us (De praescriptione haereticorum 30) that this was because he had become intimate with a woman named Philumena who claimed to be possessed by an angel, who gave her 'revelations' which Apelles read out in public. He then went to Alexandria, where he developed his doctrine, a modified Marcionism, which (according to Tertullian) admitted that Christ possessed true human flesh but continued to den ...

Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Aeon

The Latin word aeon, also spelled eon or æon, means "forever" or "for eternity". It is derived from the Greek word αίών (aion), which at one point meant "a period of existence" or "life". In geology, the word eon quantitatively refers to a period of time of 1,000,000,000 years. However, geologists refer to the period in which animals evolved into abundance as the Phanerozoic Eon, which has only lasted 545 million years, to the present day. Aeon - In philosophy and mys ...

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Aeon - In Gnosticism

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Gnostic Mass

Aleister Crowley wrote The Gnostic Mass—technically called Liber XV or "Book 15"—in 1913 while travelling in Moscow. In many ways it is similar in structure to the Mass of the Roman Catholic Church. However, the comparison ends there, as the Gnostic Mass is a celebration of the principles of Thelema. The ceremony calls for five officers: a priest, a priestess, a deacon, and two acolytes, called “children”. The end of the ritual culminates in the consumation of the eucharist, which is a glass of wine and the host, called a Cake of Light, after which the congregant proclaims � ...

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Archon

Archon (Gr. αρχων, pl. αρχοντες) is a Greek word that means "ruler" or the like, though it is frequently encountered as the title of some specific public office. In form the word is simply the masculine participle of the verb stem αρχο-, derived from the same root that appears in words such as monarch and hierarchy. In the early literary period of ancient Greece the chief magistrates of various Greek city states were called Archons. The term was also used throughout Greek history in a more general sense, ra ...

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - Gnosis

The word gnosis (from the Greek word for knowledge, γνώσις) has several uses. Gnosis - Classical meanings. Among the gnostics, gnosis was first and foremost a matter of self acquaintance which was the goal of enlightenment. Later, Valentinius, more usually called Valentinus, taught that gnosis was the privileged "knowledge of the heart" or "insight" about the spiritual nature of the cosmos, that brought about salvation to the pneumatics - people who believed they could achie ...

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - New Testament apocrypha

The category of New Testament apocrypha reminds the modern reader of the wide range of responses that were engendered in interpreting the message of Jesus of Nazareth during the first several centuries of the Common Era, as mainstream Christianity emerged. Obedient Christians were warned away from these works now termed apocryphal, many of which were vigorously suppressed and survive only as fragments. In the process of determining the Biblical canon, a large number of works were excluded from the New Testament. These New Te ...

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Gnosticism: Encyclopedia - John the Baptist

John the Baptist (also called John the Baptizer or Yahya the Baptizer) is regarded as a prophet by at least three religions: Christianity, Islam, and Mandaeanism. According to the Gospel of Luke 1:36 (NRSV)[1], he was a relative of Jesus. That he was a prophet is asserted by the Synoptic Gospels and the Qur'an (see also prophets of Islam). He is also commonly referred to as John the Forerunner/Precursor because he was the forerunner of Christ (Tiphshut). Isaiah 40:3-5 is commonly read as a prophecy of John. Muslim ...