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| | Gnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Gnosticism holds that the world is controlled by evil archons, one of whom is the demiurge, the deity of the Old Testament who holds the human spirit captive. | | | Gnostic myth recounts that Sophia (Greek, literally meaning "wisdom"), the Demiurge's mother and a partial aspect of the divine Pleroma or "Fullness", desired to create something apart from the divine totality, and without the receipt of divine assent. | | | Gnosticism is a historical term for various mystical initiatory religions, sects and knowledge schools that were most active in the first few centuries A.D. around the Mediterranean and extending into central Asia. |
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| | Religious Movements Homepage: Gnosticism |
| | However, in Non-Christian Gnosticism it could be Seth (from the Bible), Zostrianos (a form of the prophet from the Persian religion Zoroastrianism), or a mythological entity (Gnosticism). | | | Hoeller's gnostic "church celebrates the Holy Eucharist every Sunday and Holy Days." (Elwood and Partin: 95) Their ceremonies and vestments are similar to the Roman Catholics, but the language uses Gnostic terminology. | | | The contents of the Nag Hammadi codices illuminate the beliefs of the Gnostics. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gnosticism |
| | Gnostics were "people who knew", and their knowledge at once constituted them a superior class of beings, whose present and future status was essentially different from that of those who, for whatever reason, did not know. | | | This Mandaean religion is so unmistakably a form of Gnosticism that it seems beyond doubt that Gnosticism existed independent of, and anterior to, Christianity. | | | Similar things are said of Mithraism and neo-Platonism as against the religion of Jesus Christ. |
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| | Gnosticism |
| | Gnosticism is, depending upon one's point of view, either an alternative type of Christianity, true Christianity, a generic term for Pagan mystery religions contemporary with the beginnings of Christianity, or a precursor to the Western World's major religions. | | | All Christian Gnostics were persecuted as heretics by the Catholic Church. | | | Gnosticism lends itself to confusion (and sometimes unbridled speculation) partly owing to its antiquity, partly to the secret nature of its teachings, and partly because, as a religion, it never became an "organized" religion in the sense that other belief systems did. |
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| | GNOSTICISM - ANCIENT AND MODERN |
| | Gnostics believe that they have secret knowledge about God, humanity and the rest of the universe of which the general population was unaware. | | | Its beliefs are currently experiencing a rebirth throughout the world, triggered in part by the discovery of an ancient Gnostic library at Nag Hammadi, Egypt in the 1940s, and the finding of the Gospel of Judas at El Minya, Egypt, in the 1970s. | | | Gnosticism is a philosophical and religious movement which started in pre-Christian times. |
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| | What Is a Gnostic? |
| | Gnosticism, Panton wrote, had surfaced in the twentieth century in the forms of Theosophy, Christian Science, some forms of spiritualism, and in what was called the "New Theology," which had been introduced primarily by German writers on religion. | | | The Gnostics posited an original spiritual unity that came to be split into a plurality. | | | The scholars proposed restricting the use of the term "Gnosticism" to certain second-century "heretical" movements, while the broader term "gnosis" was to be used to refer to "knowledge of the divine mysteries for an elite." While a useful attempt, it did not manage to clear up the confusion. |
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| | Gnosticism |
| | Gnosticism, is a philosophical and religious movement prominent in the Greco-Roman world in the 2nd century AD. | | | The origins of the Gnostic world view have been sought by scholars in the dualism of Iranian religion, the allegorical Idealism of the Middle Platonic philosophers, and the apocalypticism of certain Jewish mystics. | | | While Gnosticism drew from and influenced in turn many traditional religions, its effect was most clearly felt on nascent Christianity, in which it led to the formation of the canon, creed, and episcopal organization. |
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| | Ecclesia Gnostica in Nova Albion: Gnosticism 101 |
| | Sophia is as close as a Gnostic comes to ascribing a human personality to God. | | | This cannot be said of all neo-gnosticism or the neo-gnostic churches extant. | | | Because this religion emphasized personal revelatory experience and rejected Faith, it was a threat to the conformist orthodoxy which was taking shape in the Christian Church. |
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http://egina.blogspot.com/2004/12/gnosticism-101.html
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| | Gnosticism |
| | One of the main things which separated the Gnostics from orthodox Christians was the mysticism of their beliefs. | | | In the Gnostic version of creation of the world the Spirit of God is referred to as the Wisdom of God or Sophia who is also a feminine creative force. | | | The Gnostics took Jesus' answer to his disciple Solame's question, "How long will death reign?" literally when he responded, "As long as you women bear children." Also to disobey the laws of the Demiurge, who was evil himself, was justified to the Gnostics. |
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http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/g/gnosticism.html
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| | Gnosticism |
| | The Gnostics made a clear distinction between the god of the Old Testament and the god of the New Testament. | | | In some Gnostics sects they did emphasize the connection of women to sexuality, and sexuality had to be avoided as much as possible because it belongs to the realm of the Demiurg, who hinders the evolution of man’s soul. | | | I have studied several religions and esoteric teachings, but Gnosticism is the one that really appealed to me. Gnostics were very tolerant in their belief systems, they did not create a dominating religious institution, and they favored mystic experience. |
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http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/gnosticism.htm
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| | Gnosticism |
| | Gnosticism affirmed that originally all reality was spiritual. | | | The name Gnosticism derives from the Greek word gnoses, which means "knowledge." According to the Gnostics, they possessed a special, mystical knowledge reserved for those with true understanding. | | | During the times of the apostles Gnosticism was in embryo stage, and apostle Paul wrote the book of Colossians to defend this kind of heresy that was creeping into the Church. |
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| | Gnosticism (Rexroth) |
| | Gnostic angelology influenced Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite, and through him the whole Catholic and popular mythology of the organization of heaven. | | | The mysterious deity of the Templars or the erotic revels of the witches or the ceremonies of the Masons or Rosicrucians, all are aspects of a special heterodoxy that began with Gnosticism. | | | Furthermore, what the Gnostics projected onto the screen of their profound ignorance as a picture of the universe was in reality a picture of their own minds. |
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http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/essays/gnosticism.htm
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| | The Gnostic World View: A Brief Summary of Gnosticism |
| | Gnostics do not look to salvation from sin (original or other), but rather from the ignorance of which sin is a consequence. | | | Gnostics have always held that divinity is immanent within the human spirit, although it is not limited to it. | | | The Gnostic world view is experiential, it is based on a certain kind of spiritual experience of Gnosis. |
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http://www.webcom.com/~gnosis/gnintro.htm
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| | gnosticism |
| | The word "gnosticism" comes from the Greek word "gnosis" which means "knowledge." There were many groups that were Gnostic and it isn't possible to easily describe the nuances of each variant of Gnostic doctrines. | | | Whichever the case, the error of gnosticism had affected the culture and church of the time and possibly even a earned a mention in 1 John 4. | | | Nevertheless, the Gnostics laid claim to Jesus as a great teacher of theirs and as such requires some attention. |
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http://www.carm.org/heresy/gnosticism.htm
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| | Gnosticism |
| | The first obvious and profound difference between the ancient Gnostic belief system reflected in the story of the Pearl, and the orthodox beliefs of most other Christians, is the proposition that our souls are of divine origin and existed in a divine state before they "fell" to earth. | | | Gnosticism is hardly unique among ancestors of orthodox Christianity in having been turned out of the family of Christ& "true" followers. | | | Gnosticism also shares key characteristics with mystical Judaism, even Buddhism. |
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| | Gnostics, Gnostic Gospels, & Gnosticism |
| | Some Gnostic documents are the Gospel of Truth, the Letter to Rheginus, Treatise on the Three Natures, Apocalypse of Adam, the Gospel of Matthias, Gospel of Philip, Acts of Peter, and Acts of Thomas. | | | The Gnostics believed that they were privy to a secret knowledge about the divine, hence the name. | | | Some scholars have theorized that Gnosticism has its roots in pre-Christian religions, instead of being merely an offshoot of Christianity. |
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http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/gnostics.html
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| | DANGEROUS GNOSTICISM ON THE RISE |
| | The entertaining movies are not harmful in themselves emphasizes Aguilar, but they are "signs" of the "atheistic religion" and "alternative spirituality" of gnosticism. | | | If the material world and the human body are seen as evil and knowledge of truth is given only to an elite few, then the sacredness of human life and of family life must naturally be endangered by gnostics who hold political and other power. | | | Part of that secret knowledge, supposedly given only to a few "spiritual" people, is that only spirit is good and "Everything material, like man's body, is foul and evil". |
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| | Technorati Tag: Gnosticism |
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