haeresis "the heresy called Learned (gnostic)". The origins of Gnosticism are obscure and still disputed. Gnosticism is largely influenced by platonism...
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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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that would later characterize Gnostic systems for their treatment of the Monad or One (see Neoplatonism and Gnosticism). For a long time, legend persisted...
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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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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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rather than accepting your situation. Aion (deity) Nous Archon (Gnosticism) Luminary (Gnosticism) Lit. "half-creator," occasionally referred to as Yaldabaoth...
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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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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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Pseudo-Gnosticism is a term used for groups which have been labelled Gnostic, either by their contemporaries or modern historians even when the accuracy...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Ecclesia Pistis Sophia Gnostic Church of France Johannite Church Neo-Luciferian Church Gnosticism in modern times List of Gnostic sects Mandi (Mandaeism)...
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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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Gnosis (redirect from The Gnostics in the Early Christian Era)
Enlightenment in Buddhism Gnossiennes Gnosticism in modern times Gnosiology Gnosis (chaos magic) Jnana Neoplatonism and Gnosticism Noema Noetic consciousness Noetics...
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Nag Hammadi library (redirect from Gnostic Gospels)
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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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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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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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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Biography of Late Antiquity 'Valentinian gnosticism ... differs essentially from dualism' (Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, 1978); 'a standard element in...
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definitions of gnosticism to the texts discovered at Nag Hammadi. The main points of the book are that there is no established definition of "gnosticism" by people...
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Sethianism (redirect from Sethian Gnosticism)
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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Valentinianism (redirect from Valentinian gnosticism)
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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