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Gnosticism

Early Christian and Jewish religious systems

Gnosticism

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Gnosticism is a collection of different religious and philosophical ideas and systems that fully developed by the mid-second century among sects of early Christianity and other faiths. It is not a singular, homogeneous tradition or religion, but an umbrella term used by modern scholars to describe different groups and beliefs that shared certain characteristics. These diverse Gnostic groups generally emphasized personal spiritual knowledge (gnosis) above the authority, traditions, and proto-orthodox teachings of organized religious institutions. The Gnostic worldview typically distinguished between a hidden, uncorrupted supreme being and an inherently corrupt or flawed demiurge (identified and equivalent with Yahweh in the Hebrew Bible, via the Apocryphon of John), responsible for creating material reality and the observable universe. Gnostics held this material existence to be corrupted and believed the principal element of salvation was direct knowledge of your own divine origin, attained...

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